Thread 105578056

Post peak video card designs

>>105578056 (OP)
you seem like the kind of fucking retard whos tiny penis would get erect seeing 18" chrome wheels on a lada. what a cringe thread.

>>105578056 (OP)
Burning on the dance floor.

>>105578056 (OP)
>*Classic Batman TV Theme Intensifies*

>>105578148
The days of red rooster and woodscrews. whew

>>105578179
vtterly sovlfvl

>>105578179
Pixel shaders were a mistake. All we needed was more fillrate and tmus.

i remember being like 10 when this thing came out (the original titan) and never having money for it
it hasnt aged well but i think its design is very early 2010s-ish, it captures that era really well.

>>105578282
>, it captures that era really well
Its a generic blower you idiot, it captures every blower ever

perfection

unmoggable

>>105578082
>>105578148
>>105578282
When done well, blowers are peak. Especially understated designs like >>105578307 and my pic. The pro and/or workstation ones. Aside from minor color iterations, and sometimes a surface texture, they don't change much. They don't need to. They look timeless.

>>105578427
GPUs with kitschy decal imagery have a nostalgic soul to them, but I don't want it back. A pleasant memory, and deserve to remain they way.

>>105578318
But can it run Crysis?

>>105578449
Holy mother of SOVL, King Kong was also an amazing game that few people have played and is totally underrated.

really dig the look of the VII, it might have been kind of terrible but it's easily the nicest looking card of the last 5-ish years
>300W TDP, even on a flagship GPU, was considered comically high in 2019
how far we've fallen

>>105578524
You can force enable raytracing on linux on vega and vega vii and get playable performance.

>>105578524
The 50th anniversary edition is even sexier

>>105578668
No shit really?

>>105579010
He's lying. Unless he meant 1080p @ LOW settings.

>>105579018
>>>
Vega has Vulkan API, so technically you could "raytrace".

>>105578282
the titan is why gpus cost so much nowadays btw.

>>105579010
it might render at 720p 30hz

>>105579664
2nd best after my suggestion above>>105579654
good looking card for sure.

>>105578056 (OP)
Gainward's old Phantom designs had the heatsink in front of the fans, and the fans were removable via thumbscrews. The fans sat on a rail with a connector on the end so you could take them in and out super easily.
The first GPU I bought was a GTX 760 with this design.

>>105579738
id say thats second best now. very cool design.

Well this thread was full of intrigue and interesting conversation, well done guys

>>105579868
whats the first?

>>105579952
mine, obviously >>105579654
teehee

>>105579959
god even the card looks like a tranny

>>105579965
God*
bro, fuck off. im a proper bloke with proper growth. its the beat design, the best thermal results, best gaming results. if you think about axe wound trannies when you see colours you’re needing to get a grip. colour existed waaaaay before trannies

>>105579982
>im a proper bloke
lmao do brits really write like this? beyond cringe

>>105579010
yes it is possible, though you're looking at 6500xt levels of performance, Barely usable for games with light RT i would say.

>>105579214
What's the top connector for?

>two 256K VGA cards in SLI

>>105578159
>>105578082
>1.7%
>woodscrews
somebody call 911

>>105578179
A CHALLENGER APPEARS

>>105580576
If I remember correctly they were mostly used to loop through video coming from a dedicated capturing card

>>105578082
>integrated grill
kino

>>105579105
no it isn't, it was the 690
$999 RRP in 2012, $1400 after inflation. The first titan was the same RRP a year later and after inflation $25 less than the 690.

For me it's the GTX590

>>105579664
I had the 6800LE - solid copper block back and front. Was real disappointed when I couldn't flash it to a GT.
If you buy it used today it costs the same as when I bought it new.

>>105578302
>>105578427
HD 6000 series in general looks awesome but I like the reference blower without any stickers the most

Asus Nvidia 210 with the huge fucking cooler fins

>>105579010
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT6qbcKT7YY
VII is about 20-30% faster than the Vega 64 for gaming, so you could push 60fps with these settings

>>105578056 (OP)
Always thought the 9800 GX2 was pure sexxo

>>105578427
>>105578302
I still have a 6970, repasted it and cleaned it, I wonder if it will be worth anything in 10-20 years.

>>105579654
>claiming this is peak aesthetic
Hard pass

You wouldnt eat a videocard sandwich, would you?

>>105579654
what an ugly piece of shit.

>>105578056 (OP)
another one I really like the look of (I own one too)

>>105578056 (OP)
s e x o

I mean...

>>105578282
>i remember being like 10 when this thing came out
are you underage?

>>105578427
>unzips

Where are the waifu cards?

>>105594423
was a short lived era

>>105578082
old designs got nothing on current gen

>>105594445
new era is to put little plastic waifus inside your glass windowed pc case

>>105578056 (OP)
>>105578148

Here's my humble submission
the sapphire r9 fury nitro

>>105594614
my second submission is this blower monstrosity by HIS - I ran two of these for a year. Gorgeous GPUs but multi-gpu was shit.

>>105594591
wish I had one, hell of a card for the time

>>105594629
Still have my nano as collectors item

>425 bungholiomarks in 1998
Honestly surprised 3dfx didn't fold sooner with this thing on the market, but I guess most cases weren't big enough back then to fit it

>>105578082
Somebody call 911

>>105578082
smells delicious

>>105578082
here is my room heater, i miss it.

sparkle calibre 9600GSO

i went from unknown (some kind of pentium prebuil) to 8600 gts to 2x gtx 280 to gtx 770 to gtx 1080 to 9070 xt in just 25 years

>>105596433
oh wait yeah the first one was radeon 9600

>>105596433
and i think it was actually gtx 285 X2, not 280

>>105596426
if only it was real

Why has no one made a cylindrical GPU with a blower fan like this?
It would be very efficient.

>>105578056 (OP)
Biased because it was my first card (other than a Voodoo that got fried in 2 days), but that deep blue PCB and the reflective blue fan base are still so sexy to me

>>105598233
That one aside, I think fanless cards have the highest sexo potential

>>105580756
>retards are paying enterprise gpu prices for gaming cards
when did all go so wrong?