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Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Otis1337, 29 Jun 2008.

  1. -EVRE-

    -EVRE- What's a Dremel?

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    Voodoo 3500, kept that thing from my k6-2 550 to my 1700+ (still have both! HA!!)
    MX430 with my Duron 750.... it can play WoW with 380mb of ram. 100%stable 180day uptime.
    9800 pro, from the 1700+ to my wicked barton that would OC to 2.5ghz
    6800GT *liquid cooled* AGP sold it =/ ... wished I had bought a PCIE version
    7800GT *liquid cooled* when I got my Opteron 170, still running strong!
    7800GT SLI *liquid cooled* Woohoo!
    8800GT In my Acer matx tower... bugger is always WAY too hot!
     
  2. wiak

    wiak What's a Dremel?

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    NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX 64MB DDR (still got it somewhere)
    NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti4800SE 128MB DDR (sold or i think it got it)
    ATi Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB DDR (sold)
    ATi Radeon X800 XT 256MB GDDR3 (sold)
    ATi Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 (sold)
    AMD ATi Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 (not in use)
    AMD ATi Radeon HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 (in use)
     
  3. Dizman

    Dizman What's a Dremel?

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    ATi Radeon 9800 XT (first and only build, gave it to my brother)
    NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT (macbook pro, in use and shiny new)
     
  4. bcuk

    bcuk What's a Dremel?

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    Started with an on board 2Mb ATi 3D Rage II+ and had a couple of add in cards, the

    Orchid Righteous 3D voodoo 4mb
    voodoo 2 12mb

    Then when i got a new mb it wasonto the big boys stuff

    Voodoo 3 3000 16mb

    geforce 2 mx 32mb

    geforce 3 ti 500 64mb

    radeon 9800 pro 128mb

    till todays now admitadley long in the tooth BFG geforce 7800 gtx 256mb

    those new 4870s are looking real tempting though.
     
  5. McGrego

    McGrego What's a Dremel?

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    nvidia fx 5200 ghetto modded overclocked with fx 5500 bios died in one of those crazy experiments
    nvidia 7900 gt overclocked and died while making an aftermaket home made cooler xD
    nvidia 8800 gts 320 mb still alive at a friends house
    nvidia go 7600 on my laptop
    nvidia 8800gt on my pc
    and maybe an ati hd 4850 will be replacing it

    i have the bad habit to modify things until they die but im learning from it xD
     
  6. BentAnat

    BentAnat Software Dev

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    Elsa Erazor (sp?) II Riva TNT
    Powercolor Radeon 7000
    NVidia GeForce FX 5200
    Asus Geforce 6800 (overclocked to "pro" speeds)
    MSI GeForce 7900GT (overclocked to beyond speeds of the XFX XXX edition - no modding (yet))

    and yes - i'm still running that (by now dated) card... the moment finances allow for more leeway, i'll think of upgrading/overhaulin'
     
  7. vallas

    vallas What's a Dremel?

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    Geforce mx 440 64 mb agp
    ati 9600 broke the memory chip on it with heatsink :(
    ati 9600 se from a friend
    geforce 6600 gt agp with zalman
    geforce 7600 gt agp with zalman
    geforce 8600 gts pcie with zalman
    geforce 9600 gt pcie with zalman
     
  8. Morgraath

    Morgraath What's a Dremel?

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    3dfx Voodoo3 3000 (oc from 166/166 to 205/205 )
    Geforce 2MX GS (oc from 200/166 to 240/235)
    Geforce 3 Ti200 GS (oc from 175/400 to 220/560)
    Radeon X800SE (oc from 425/400 to 520/550)
    Radeon X1800XT (oc from 621/747 to 681/828) considering replacing it with a HD4850 ..

    what, me running something at specs ... never :)
     
  9. glaeken

    glaeken Freeeeeeeze! I'm a cawp!

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    Lets see... pretty short list.
    Nvidia Riva TNT2 Pro - What a beast. Pretty good card, played all games just fine until about 2002. Had to upgrade to play AA
    Radeon 9000 Pro
    Radeon 9600XT
    Nvidia 6600GT
    Nvidia 8800GT
     
  10. Jipa

    Jipa Avoiding the "I guess.." since 2004

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    TNT
    Radeon 9200
    Geforce 6600
    Geforce 7600GT
    Another Geforce 7600GT
    And a third Geforce 7600GT
    8600GTS
    8800GT 1024 MB
    8800GTS
    9800GX2

    These are the cards that I've used for any extended period of time.. Currently using 8800GT 1 GB.
     
  11. Furymouse

    Furymouse Like connect 4 in dagger terms

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    Radeon 7000 pci ( now doing server duty )
    Radeon 9000 ( lent to friend who sold it :duh: )
    Radeon 9800 modded to pro
    Radeon 9800 also modded to pro ( second computer bought from friend )
    Radeon X1650 pro ( Still hanging in there AGP and all )
     
  12. roldski

    roldski waiting for MW5...

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    multi-i/o graphics card on ibm pc/xt clone
    cirrus logic (vesa) on cyrix 386 or 486
    s3 trio/virge (pci or isa - not sure) on intel 486dx2-66
    nvidia riva128 / nv1 (agp) on intel p2-233
    nvidia riva tnt2 m64 (agp) on amd k7-550
    nvidia geforce2 mx200 (agp) on amd k7-550
    nvidia geforce2 mx400 (agp) on athlonxp 2500+
    nvidia geforce 4 ti4200 (agp) on athlonxp 2500+
    ati radeon 9800se softmod to pro (agp) on athlonxp 2500+
    nvidia onboard 7050pv on athlonx2 3600+
    ati radeon x1900xt 512 on athlonx2 3600+
    nvidia geforce 8800gts 512 on athlonx2 3600+
     
  13. Xtrafresh

    Xtrafresh It never hurts to help

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    nvidia geforce2 mx400 (agp)
    ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
    Nvidia 8800 GTS 640 (still in use)

    It's probably going to be replaced with a 4870 when somebody mounts a decent cooler on it.
     
  14. Marmite

    Marmite Oldskooler

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    SVGA 256MB – In 386sx
    Cirrus VESA – In 386dx
    PCI Graphic Adapter! (That was the description on the advert) – In 486dx
    Matrox Mistique – In P133
    Orchid Righteous 3D 3DFX Add on card – In P133
    3DFX Voodoo 4500 32 Mb – In K62 500
    GeForce2 MX - In Athlon 2100+
    6600GT – In Athlon X2 3800
    7900GS - In Athlon X2 3800
    8800GT 320 - In Athlon X2 3800
     

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