Crysis system requirements: "You got to have a 8800 GTS" "Well, I have a 8800 GTX, so I should be able to play Crysis at Ultra in 720p, right?" Crytek: "LOL NOPE"
Dunno if you've seen this article but I found it interesting. Shows just how much of a workload this game puts, and what performance to expect when upgrading from an older card.. 'But Can It Run Crysis? 10 Years Later' (Nov 13, 2017): www.tomshardware.co.uk/crysis-10-year-anniversary-benchmarks,review-34091.html
my 980ti gets barely 60 fps at 1440p ultra 11 years later lol. but god damn this game still looks amazing. to think that there were only 3 years between half life 2 and crysis is insane, there has never been such a huge jump ever since.
DistractedFace Check my Crysis content, what did these noobs cry, they were running it on gen 2 MX cards! 1000 000k hits, they all cry, so funny! GTX 8800 / GTX 9800 800 GTX was the only 1080p card, we needed then, $500 good product! Now we have Volta to get some 4k, not as good as they did back then, now they need $2000 for them. Investors.... Stay on 1080p, or go for Volta now? Getting 4k@120 < 200? $500 now, you get some old mid level 1070 card...... not the GV100 cards!!!!
12 years old and playing modern'ish games at 1080p >30fps. Even then I think it's only the limited vram holding it back. What a beast, not far behind xbox one.
Gray Fox The progression of graphics technology seems to be slowing. So yes, a 1080ti will be able to run games 12 years from now, likely just at lower settings.
Mantas Jurksa it was the first card with unified shaders instead of dedicated pixel and vertex shaders, which all generations since have followed. It was also absolutely unbeatable at the time.
i'd say it's fourth place behind the voodoo2, radeon 9700PRO and the geforce 2 series. the unified shaders thing was done first by the xbox 360 like a year before.
Not even close, I'd say RealityEngine from SGI is probably the largest leap in terms of features (not necessarily a "card", but...), including all sorts of tech not used in ordinary pcs until 2000s, like hardware TCL or anti aliasing (+some really crazy stuff for it's time like DoF or soft shadows). Through OpenGL usage it influenced development of abundance of other systems, like arcade boards, consoles and later pc. There are some other contenders though, like IBM MDA/CGA cards (+bunch of other standards like EGA, VGA), NV1 from Nvidia, VooDoo, GeForce 256/3.
I remember this card fondly. I just started getting into PC gaming in 2006. I remember thinking "Holy shit, this is the best card in the world" but that wow inducing performance also reflected in its price, so I settled on an 8600 gts.
i had both. the 8600GT was pretty beastly itself, for another entirely different reason: it was, by far, the best overclocking card i've ever owned. it did 52% overclock on memory AND core without changing voltages or modding anything. it was insane. it went from being garbage to being a little over half as fast as a 8800GT, which was more than fast enough for the time. but i still upgraded a few months later to a 8800gt, which i kept until 2011, when i got my HD6950 that i kept until late 2015. honestly i thought that was a better card than the 8800GT in general. certainly better value for me, because i sold it for the same price i bought it after 4 years of use.
@@GraveUypo I got a 8800gt in 2011 and used it until 2014, then went from 570 to now still being with my 1080. Although the 1080 is kind of showing its age now when it starts to lag in some titles at 1440p while im also watching youtube... Man I hate to buy a 3070 or something, but I quess I have to fork the cash and survive another 6-10 years with that card :D
Too bad my fried at around 2009 i think, started hiting 100+c during heavy load, no cleaning or thermal paste replacement could help it. I remember it fondly for the period it was still kicking, only game it had serious issues with was of course Crysis.
So ahead of its time 2x 8800 in SLI poorly runned crysis. And no, Crysis wasn't bad programmed. A card ahead of its time like you said should be able to run a game ahead of its time. Truly awesome were the GTX 295 and 590, those dual GPU monsters runned everything at ful specs for years after launch, and THAT is what a card ahead of its time do.
Marreta - As if SLI is a measurement of a good card. SLI has produced wildly varying results ever since it existed. Fact is that the 8800 GTX was a massive step up from previous generation cards, and ran games with ease. Crysis was released a year after the 8800 GTX and is an exception, because it was years ahead of its time. It was pretty much five years before single cards were available that could run it with the highest settings at 1600x1200 / 1920x1080 60 fps. Even today it doesn't perform that much better than many top titles. Also you overrate those multi-GPU cards. They were essentially SLI on a single card, and as such suffered similar performance problems when SLI wasn't well supported by a game. The GTX 295 wasn't so bad in that it generally outperformed the GTX 260 SLI for a similar price. However the GTX 590 was overpriced. You could pick up two GTX 570s for the same price or less, and they performed better. The GTX 590 was the beginning of the end for multi-GPU cards from Nvidia, and SLI has been on a downward slope for a while anyway.
I remember trying to play Bioshock off of a 7300LE SLI, and the installers from Cyberpower PC didn't even give me an SLI bridge on top of that, so at the time as a 16 year old kid buying his first PC I didn't know better. yeah it played so bad I bought a GTX 8800 GTS 384bit (640) I went from 3 FPS to 60-70 FPS on max settings 900P. It defiantly was a huge jump in technology, it came with Lost Planet, and this is where Microsoft gets you, because you couldn't play DX10 on XP you had to upgrade to Vista the worse OS of all time lol good times.
thehaxfactory Vista was only mocked by those who were really cemented in XP. I, personally, couldn't wait to get away from XP and all my family got Vista installed as well because it was a lot more user friendly than XP.
good to hear this was such a good GPU, I just found one the other day in the trash in my friends Apt. and it still works. Im not a gamer but im using it for animation and runs better than I thought it would, It usually takes about 20-30 mins for me to render one frame of a video but with the 8800 its down to 15 mins for the same render. pretty cool that its still usable in 2018.
performance suffers when GPU is the bottleneck. It has to do with modern titles and specifications rating system built into most sandbox titles overall fps suffers and makes for even worse 1% and 0.1%'s. native hardware is always best for benchmarking really old computer components specifically graphics cards. One more thing is if you want realistic performance from the 8800 GTX, performance fails within the amount of vram! Consider a drop to 720p at most.. I know the video is " tested in 2017" but 768MB's is really bullying that card!
Ahhh yes... The great 8800 GTX. It was late 2006 going to enter the awesome year of 2007. What a year opener for the GPU market that was. Photorealism games were already starting and taking shape thanks to this.
it was on a 8800GTX that the first version of octanerender was developed, and about 6 months after release development switched to a GTX280. The 8000 series were also the first CUDA capable cards ;)
I remember looking at this video card pretty much every day in late 2006 and early 2007, wishing I had the money to buy one! Then the Ultra came out and I was like "awww man, now I want THAT one...". The straw that broke the camel's back was when the Orange Box came out almost a year later, and I was getting such terrible performance in Portal with my dual 6600GT setup that I *needed* to upgrade. Luckily I waited just a bit more and managed to grab dual 8800 GT 512s for the same price as a GTX on the day they came out :D Cards I've had in my main gaming rig: MSI 6600GT SLI, Galaxy 8800GT SLI, Gainward GTX 275, Gainward GTX 580, Asus Mars GTX760X2, Asus Strix GTX 1080, and now a Titan Xp Galactic Empire edition
TravisDecks it's definitely the coolest PC component I've ever owned! Sometimes I wish I'd bought an Asus Strix 1080ti instead though :) cheaper and probably just as good performing
man i wanted one of those so bad back in 2007/2008, but my motherboard still had an AGP port and no pcie. so i had to settle with a hd3850 AGP to upgrade the horrid fx5800 my first PC had, played oblivion and need for speed most wanted for hundreds of hours, and later switched the entire system to a core2quad q6600 with a hd4790. damn i miss those days. i had some ridiculous tricked out thermaltake with blue lighting and like 9 HDD bays, with every HDD i could find crammed inside, and some huge prolimatech cooler that was probably a decade old by then lol. can't believe that was 10 years ago. now i'm on a 5820k and a 980ti, and the system is a total beast, but it's just not the same feeling. things are so polished nowadays.
I had two of these in sli back in the day.. and yeah crisis still lagged in certain areas. ha. Particularly that part where everything turns to ice in that cave after beating the korean boss. funny thing is, I still have the cards to this day in a cupboard full of old computer parts.
i remember gawking over this card as late as like 2012-2013 and always wanting one despite its age by then lol though im 16 years late to the party i finally own one!, they say dont meet your childhood heros, but honestly i was really impressed with this card it didnt live up to the dreams my young mind put it at, but its still everything i dreamed it would be back then.
I had Alpha dog 8800GTS with 320mb vram. I really loved this card back in the days. Even nvidia rebranded it under name of 9800GT lol. Great vid! Long live the King
Loved the 8800GTX! I ran 2 of them in SLI and it did me 6-7 years of gaming. They actually still run in a rig today. I had the Sparkle Calibre variants. Beastly cards.
i have a few PCs permanently set up in a room at my farm for playing older games. it's a bunch of core2duos with initially 8800GTs, 9600GTs and such. but most of the 8800GT died already either before i got to use them or after a few weeks of use. resurrected them and all but they keep dying again. so i ended up replacing most of them for other cards such as the much faster and ever more underutilized 5770 (since we mostly play quake 1, doom, starcraft and diablo, pretty much any card will do)
I actually still have this exact same card! Bought it brand new back when it first came out, and used it for many years before finally upgrading to a GTX 760, about one year after it was released.
Wow, this brings back the memories. I remember my 7950GX2 being a total beast. And then came the 8800 GTX/GTS. This is where I started to realize that being a PC gaming enthusiast was going to be an expensive ordeal. Also, the conspiracy theory that Paladins is an Overwatch knockoff has been objectively disproven. There's plenty of documentation and old posts about Paladins that go back way before Overwatch. Given, Overwatch was in production (as titan project MMO) before Paladins, but Paladins was in development as an competitive FPS game way before Overwatch was. With that being said, OVERWATCH FOR LIFE. But let's be real here.
The first PC I ever built had a 8800GTX... The feeling of unboxing that card and being amazed at the performance (for the day) was refreshed by this video, Thanks for the reminder!!!
Somehow I've stumbled upon this vid moments ago, and I have to say I was very pleased. Very detailed commentary, nice benchmarks, overall good information and your voice is quite soothing. Subscribed.
What a big change this card brought to me when I finally got it early 2008. This is what drew me to nVidia for good. I have had every nVidia GTX X80s after that and Tis when available except for the 9800 (i.e 216, 285, 480, 580, 680, 780 ti, 980 Ti). Now I have the EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3 and can't wait for the 1180 Ti to come out. The 8800 GTX to me was probably the biggest leap from previous generation. It's amazing to see the specs now and the 768 MB GDDR3. Not sure you could run anything with today's resolutions with that, but back then this was amazing.
The previous time I built a PC I had bought this video card, was so blown away by it's capabilities . Hadn't built a PC again until a decade later in 2016 and I went with a 1080 GTX, impressive hardware for sure, but I felt the 8800 was more badass at the time.
OxiClean You are right, it was a better product, back them they released the best chips for gamer's too, now you only get the cheap produced GP108 producs as 'high end' meant for gaming products. GTX 8800, Back then the only 1080p card, now they don't have any 4k@120 gaming products, needing $2000 for the next gen Volta. Waiting for a monitor, or keep the old resolutions...... 2016 are the best, not getting better now! Christmas, Samsung memory deal, NVlink for gamers, 24 GB combinations! GV108! Then we get screens too!
i had a 7900gt that went bad back in the day. I was probably 12 at the time. Was devastated, but sent the card back to BFG to see about getting it replaced. They sent back this very card, and to my surprise. Boy did this card kick ass at the time. Thanks for the vid, really bringin me back.
I remember when i actually got my first pc, it contained the nvidia geforce gt 210, it was on par with the 9400gt at the time. So basically when i started out with my pc, id game on that pc for years and never realized there was new gpus like gtx 400 series until i saw some xfire videos and asked some people how they max out left 4 dead. xD the dude had a gtx 480. And ran the game like butter. Now the 480 holds on so badly in games now. The time has went by so fast! Good times!
Bought it new, Christmas 2006 ... Sadly it doesn't work anymore as the card died a few years ago. After that I took the G80 GPU off the PCB and still to this day I carry it in my wallet.
Greg Lyris Nice, that is a big chip! Still have my dead card! Box too! XFX! white, geen box! Back then they were still able to sell good products to gamer's, now you only get the cheap produced GP108 chips!
the fact that this card came 12 years ago and can still handle todays gaming just tells you how much we have slowed down or how consoles have kept gaming lagging.
I remember playing Crysis on my father's pc in 2008. I didn't know anything about hardware back then and thought it was normal for games to run smoothly, not knowing he had this card. I loved playing games with this card, everything ran perfect.
I remember getting this card and going directly to play bioshock and oblivion at max settings. After some years of usage, it stopped working. However, there was a trick back in the day where you had to put it in the oven for some minutes so that it could work again, and it actually did. It worked for another year or so. Then I baked it again twice until it stopped working some months later.
Great channel dude, love this era of gaming as it has a lot of nostalgia for me personally, and the advancement from pixel pipelines to stream processors was arguably one of the most important advances in gpu tech. Great stuff
Man, for the time, I bet this was just jaw dropping. How did you get Crysis running? any tips? I can't get my PC to launch it, just a black screen and nothing that I looked up helped my. Great videos, new sub. :)
Thanks and it was🤩I had a hell of time getting it to work. Turns out my external capture card was the issue. Seems like a lot of people have this issue though. The GOG version seems to be a lot better than steams, as far as issues go.
AH but they are so professional, seriously, many games, info and stats. I really like that you give an exposition to old cards, really fun to watch and learn. You WILL get bigger, and I hope you keep it up!
I remember when me and my friend entered the office of the owner of this net cafe we frequented, to see his new 8800 GTX, and being dumbfounded when we found out he used it mostly to play Lineage 2
I was going to send my 6800GT (yes, it's an AGP card, that at the time cost me $600) from BFG to someone who appreciates old parts. Now I realize that I can just put it on a shelf as a decoration. I mean, the card, when I got it, performed perfectly, and even came with Painkiller. I think I'll make a little "shrine" to the time when I started PC gaming.
very nice bench i had both 8800GTX and the good old king NVIDIA 8800 ULTRA . if u have a 8800 Ultra can u repeat the bech with a 8800 ultra? would be nice. ;)
Man I had the 6600GT then went to a 7800GTX then the fabled 8800GTX (Sli). That was such a golden age in PC history......when modding your case actually required a dremel and a few cases to pull apart and Frankenstein together your master piece.
First and only time I shelled out the money for a top of the line GPU. Loved it but only lasted 2 years before it failed. Now a days I got for middle of the line x70 nvidia series.
2027 ( gtx 1080ti) long live the king
seriously though
@@KhromTX 980TI Kingpin held that crown for a long time
2022 : Long live GTX 660Ti the king before 980ti and 1080ti take the crown :-)
Rtx3090 long live the king
RTX 2080 Ti: Long live the king. (This one was the biggest and most radical leap in terms of technology since the 8800 GTX.)
Crysis system requirements: "You got to have a 8800 GTS"
"Well, I have a 8800 GTX, so I should be able to play Crysis at Ultra in 720p, right?"
Crytek: "LOL NOPE"
Dunno if you've seen this article but I found it interesting. Shows just how much of a workload this game puts, and what performance to expect when upgrading from an older card..
'But Can It Run Crysis? 10 Years Later' (Nov 13, 2017): www.tomshardware.co.uk/crysis-10-year-anniversary-benchmarks,review-34091.html
On Ultra?
I wonder if he was running 4xAA, Crysis on high/1080p should do better than 30fps.
my 980ti gets barely 60 fps at 1440p ultra 11 years later lol. but god damn this game still looks amazing. to think that there were only 3 years between half life 2 and crysis is insane, there has never been such a huge jump ever since.
DistractedFace
Check my Crysis content, what did these noobs cry, they were running it on gen 2 MX cards!
1000 000k hits, they all cry, so funny! GTX 8800 / GTX 9800
800 GTX was the only 1080p card, we needed then, $500 good product!
Now we have Volta to get some 4k, not as good as they did back then, now they need $2000 for them.
Investors....
Stay on 1080p, or go for Volta now? Getting 4k@120 < 200?
$500 now, you get some old mid level 1070 card...... not the GV100 cards!!!!
Crisis not a game but a question.
nan0 the answer mostly is doom
crysis'
12 years old and playing modern'ish games at 1080p >30fps. Even then I think it's only the limited vram holding it back. What a beast, not far behind xbox one.
i was shocked it could ran the games at all. I wonder if i buy a GTX 1080ti now , would it still run games 12yrs from now?
Gray Fox The progression of graphics technology seems to be slowing. So yes, a 1080ti will be able to run games 12 years from now, likely just at lower settings.
Gray Fox probably unless NVIDIA decides to screw you on the drivers
nVidia will definitely screw you on the drivers, if your card doesn't fail by then.
RX 580s will probably outperform the 1080ti by then lol
I had an 8600GT back in 2012, and it's amazing how well it still worked.
The 8800 GTX Ultra Alpha Dog Edition - or whatever was called by XFX - was my last GPU before I switched over to consoles. Good times.
same here one gtx 8800 ultra by xfx still have it and works in a pc below my desk , i have 3 pcs tho )
Perhaps the greatest and most important graphics card of all time? Perhaps!
That's gonna be 3DFX VooDoo or IBM monochrome adapter. 8800 GTX didn't cause anything very significant.
Mantas Jurksa it was the first card with unified shaders instead of dedicated pixel and vertex shaders, which all generations since have followed. It was also absolutely unbeatable at the time.
i'd say it's fourth place behind the voodoo2, radeon 9700PRO and the geforce 2 series.
the unified shaders thing was done first by the xbox 360 like a year before.
John Yeats In gpu history it was a frequent sight to see improvements like that. So it's not really that special
Not even close, I'd say RealityEngine from SGI is probably the largest leap in terms of features (not necessarily a "card", but...), including all sorts of tech not used in ordinary pcs until 2000s, like hardware TCL or anti aliasing (+some really crazy stuff for it's time like DoF or soft shadows). Through OpenGL usage it influenced development of abundance of other systems, like arcade boards, consoles and later pc.
There are some other contenders though, like IBM MDA/CGA cards (+bunch of other standards like EGA, VGA), NV1 from Nvidia, VooDoo, GeForce 256/3.
I remember this card fondly. I just started getting into PC gaming in 2006. I remember thinking "Holy shit, this is the best card in the world" but that wow inducing performance also reflected in its price, so I settled on an 8600 gts.
i had both. the 8600GT was pretty beastly itself, for another entirely different reason: it was, by far, the best overclocking card i've ever owned. it did 52% overclock on memory AND core without changing voltages or modding anything. it was insane. it went from being garbage to being a little over half as fast as a 8800GT, which was more than fast enough for the time. but i still upgraded a few months later to a 8800gt, which i kept until 2011, when i got my HD6950 that i kept until late 2015. honestly i thought that was a better card than the 8800GT in general. certainly better value for me, because i sold it for the same price i bought it after 4 years of use.
@@GraveUypo I got a 8800gt in 2011 and used it until 2014, then went from 570 to now still being with my 1080. Although the 1080 is kind of showing its age now when it starts to lag in some titles at 1440p while im also watching youtube... Man I hate to buy a 3070 or something, but I quess I have to fork the cash and survive another 6-10 years with that card :D
This 8800GTX was the thing which I seriously wanted when I was 13😂
Too bad my fried at around 2009 i think, started hiting 100+c during heavy load, no cleaning or thermal paste replacement could help it. I remember it fondly for the period it was still kicking, only game it had serious issues with was of course Crysis.
This card is amazing. An absolute beast. This was a card ahead of it's time. Way ahead.
So ahead of its time 2x 8800 in SLI poorly runned crysis. And no, Crysis wasn't bad programmed. A card ahead of its time like you said should be able to run a game ahead of its time. Truly awesome were the GTX 295 and 590, those dual GPU monsters runned everything at ful specs for years after launch, and THAT is what a card ahead of its time do.
Marreta - As if SLI is a measurement of a good card. SLI has produced wildly varying results ever since it existed. Fact is that the 8800 GTX was a massive step up from previous generation cards, and ran games with ease. Crysis was released a year after the 8800 GTX and is an exception, because it was years ahead of its time. It was pretty much five years before single cards were available that could run it with the highest settings at 1600x1200 / 1920x1080 60 fps. Even today it doesn't perform that much better than many top titles.
Also you overrate those multi-GPU cards. They were essentially SLI on a single card, and as such suffered similar performance problems when SLI wasn't well supported by a game. The GTX 295 wasn't so bad in that it generally outperformed the GTX 260 SLI for a similar price. However the GTX 590 was overpriced. You could pick up two GTX 570s for the same price or less, and they performed better. The GTX 590 was the beginning of the end for multi-GPU cards from Nvidia, and SLI has been on a downward slope for a while anyway.
Wish nvidia followed these ideas now
Marreta Your opinion is laughable if you truly think SLI means shit in comparing card's performances
dml! love your videos!
pretty impressive for a 2006 beast!
very impresssssive
And massive improvement NVIDIA ever did at the time for its generation
I'll never forget when I got this card. I went from 10 FPS in Wow to a solid 60. I had a large erection that day.
im gonna have that erection from 9 fps at lowest settings to 60-300 fps at ultra
Like me when I got my RX 550
I used a R5 230 for 3 years
Tell us the lore. How big was it?
I'm about to upgrade from a 650M SLI equivalent to 1070Ti in a couple of days. Erections will be had.
JarrodShadowsonng
I went from a 640M to a 960 4gb and i have no more clean pants
I bought this card in 2008 and my aim was running Crysis on Ultra and it did.
I had this exact card in my first ever gaming rig. Such a beast.
I remember trying to play Bioshock off of a 7300LE SLI, and the installers from Cyberpower PC didn't even give me an SLI bridge on top of that, so at the time as a 16 year old kid buying his first PC I didn't know better. yeah it played so bad I bought a GTX 8800 GTS 384bit (640) I went from 3 FPS to 60-70 FPS on max settings 900P. It defiantly was a huge jump in technology, it came with Lost Planet, and this is where Microsoft gets you, because you couldn't play DX10 on XP you had to upgrade to Vista the worse OS of all time lol good times.
thehaxfactory Vista was only mocked by those who were really cemented in XP. I, personally, couldn't wait to get away from XP and all my family got Vista installed as well because it was a lot more user friendly than XP.
good to hear this was such a good GPU, I just found one the other day in the trash in my friends Apt. and it still works.
Im not a gamer but im using it for animation and runs better than I thought it would, It usually takes about 20-30 mins for me to render one frame of a video but with the 8800 its down to 15 mins for the same render.
pretty cool that its still usable in 2018.
I still use this EXACT card in my rig today, still going strong in 2018. RIP BFG Tech.
The specs of the machine runnings this video are given at 4:46...
CPU: 5820K (released 2013)
RAM: DDR4 (released 2014)
GPU: 8800 GTX (released 2006)
Razor Edge Also at 2:16
F2F Tech how is ther direct x 11?
hitterRoof There isn’t. It’s up to DX10 only. If you’re referring to the OSD, Afterburner has a known bug with displaying the proper api.
5820k came out late 2014, I have one in my current system, I also had a 9800GT on my previous computer, it was awesome.
performance suffers when GPU is the bottleneck. It has to do with modern titles and specifications rating system built into most sandbox titles overall fps suffers and makes for even worse 1% and 0.1%'s. native hardware is always best for benchmarking really old computer components specifically graphics cards. One more thing is if you want realistic performance from the 8800 GTX, performance fails within the amount of vram! Consider a drop to 720p at most.. I know the video is " tested in 2017" but 768MB's is really bullying that card!
This thing still has something left in it...look at that..no wonder they call it legendary...
I agree. I reckon Cyris on medium would still kick ass.
Yea, i've used it from 2008-2015 😅 legend well said
Ahhh yes... The great 8800 GTX. It was late 2006 going to enter the awesome year of 2007. What a year opener for the GPU market that was. Photorealism games were already starting and taking shape thanks to this.
I had one and it caught on fire.
Hot damn
Because you did not care for it. Use fan curve programs, limit the FPS and it will last forever.
I loved my BFG 9600GT, lost it a couple years back. RIP.
I remember having this exact card when it came out, she was stellar, played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. SOC and the original PREY game at the time. Good stuff!
Just revived my 2006 pc with its trusty 8600 gt
I still have mine in the basement. I've been keeping it because it was so beastly back in the day, I want to frame it and hang it
it was on a 8800GTX that the first version of octanerender was developed, and about 6 months after release development switched to a GTX280. The 8000 series were also the first CUDA capable cards ;)
I bought this GPU to play Crysis back in 2007
I own that exact gts 250 with the crazy bald guy lol.
+Tact1cal Banana 😂
Bfg = bald frustrated guy
This card is a bloody veteran beast
I remember I went from a 7950 GT to a 8800GTX, what a jump that was.
I remember looking at this video card pretty much every day in late 2006 and early 2007, wishing I had the money to buy one! Then the Ultra came out and I was like "awww man, now I want THAT one...". The straw that broke the camel's back was when the Orange Box came out almost a year later, and I was getting such terrible performance in Portal with my dual 6600GT setup that I *needed* to upgrade. Luckily I waited just a bit more and managed to grab dual 8800 GT 512s for the same price as a GTX on the day they came out :D
Cards I've had in my main gaming rig: MSI 6600GT SLI, Galaxy 8800GT SLI, Gainward GTX 275, Gainward GTX 580, Asus Mars GTX760X2, Asus Strix GTX 1080, and now a Titan Xp Galactic Empire edition
Lucky man. You’ve owned some amazing cards 👍
Wish I had a titanxp galactic Empire edition, I'm a geek for star wars cx
TravisDecks it's definitely the coolest PC component I've ever owned! Sometimes I wish I'd bought an Asus Strix 1080ti instead though :) cheaper and probably just as good performing
Yeah as of right now I have a GTX 1080 , it's pretty good too
TravisDecks and I've had the same 1080p monitor through all those cards >
man i wanted one of those so bad back in 2007/2008, but my motherboard still had an AGP port and no pcie. so i had to settle with a hd3850 AGP to upgrade the horrid fx5800 my first PC had, played oblivion and need for speed most wanted for hundreds of hours, and later switched the entire system to a core2quad q6600 with a hd4790. damn i miss those days. i had some ridiculous tricked out thermaltake with blue lighting and like 9 HDD bays, with every HDD i could find crammed inside, and some huge prolimatech cooler that was probably a decade old by then lol. can't believe that was 10 years ago. now i'm on a 5820k and a 980ti, and the system is a total beast, but it's just not the same feeling. things are so polished nowadays.
who remembers the voodoo 5
I do. Wish I had some voodoo cards 😅
i have in my attic , voodoo 1 , 3 and 5 all wrapped up nicely , also i have a gtx 8800 ultra in a pc case under my desk made by XFX !
I bought mine (EVGA version) in 2007. Still using it. Still don't really give af about upgrading.
I had that same exact card! Thanks for the memories!
Patrick Mahan Glad I could bring some good ones back.
So I made the mistake of saying Paladins is a knock-off of Overwatch and evidently that’s not the case? My bad.
Even if you're wrong, it definitely does look like a knock off LOL!
It is a knock-off. Sadly Hi-Rez steals all their gaming ideas.
I'm not trying to defend them, but 'stealing' ideas is often a good thing.
Here we go again... Paladins was released before Overwatch.
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I had two of these in sli back in the day.. and yeah crisis still lagged in certain areas. ha. Particularly
that part where everything turns to ice in that cave after beating the korean boss.
funny thing is, I still have the cards to this day in a cupboard full of old computer parts.
i remember gawking over this card as late as like 2012-2013 and always wanting one despite its age by then lol
though im 16 years late to the party i finally own one!, they say dont meet your childhood heros, but honestly i was really impressed with this card it didnt live up to the dreams my young mind put it at, but its still everything i dreamed it would be back then.
I had SLI 8800 GTS 320mb and then got the hand me down 8800 GTX from my dad. It smashed Battlefield back then! So I was well impressed with BF4
I had my 8600 gt I loved that thing. I remember throwing battlefield 3 at it and it was no problem at all
I had Alpha dog 8800GTS with 320mb vram. I really loved this card back in the days. Even nvidia rebranded it under name of 9800GT lol. Great vid! Long live the King
Actually the 8800 GT G92 was the rebranded 9800 GT. The 320MB version was a cut down G80 chip.
I remember jumping from an 8600 GTX to a 9800. Man. What an improvement that was!
Loved the 8800GTX! I ran 2 of them in SLI and it did me 6-7 years of gaming. They actually still run in a rig today. I had the Sparkle Calibre variants. Beastly cards.
Nice. I have a calibre 7800 GS. Love that card
i have a few PCs permanently set up in a room at my farm for playing older games. it's a bunch of core2duos with initially 8800GTs, 9600GTs and such. but most of the 8800GT died already either before i got to use them or after a few weeks of use. resurrected them and all but they keep dying again. so i ended up replacing most of them for other cards such as the much faster and ever more underutilized 5770 (since we mostly play quake 1, doom, starcraft and diablo, pretty much any card will do)
My 8800GT didn't last that long either, i mean... it lasted me 3 years if i remember correctly
I actually still have this exact same card! Bought it brand new back when it first came out, and used it for many years before finally upgrading to a GTX 760, about one year after it was released.
Like who still has this graphic card
cone baciopicu i do in her box 🤣
Your grammar sucks
Has it? Yeah, Using it? No.
@@coldfusionstormgaming1808 Got 2 of them now,thinking on building a retro gaming PC with Dfi Lanparty board.
Wow, this brings back the memories. I remember my 7950GX2 being a total beast. And then came the 8800 GTX/GTS. This is where I started to realize that being a PC gaming enthusiast was going to be an expensive ordeal.
Also, the conspiracy theory that Paladins is an Overwatch knockoff has been objectively disproven. There's plenty of documentation and old posts about Paladins that go back way before Overwatch. Given, Overwatch was in production (as titan project MMO) before Paladins, but Paladins was in development as an competitive FPS game way before Overwatch was.
With that being said, OVERWATCH FOR LIFE. But let's be real here.
ahhhhhh the first GPU I've purchased that got me into the custom pc marking
The first PC I ever built had a 8800GTX... The feeling of unboxing that card and being amazed at the performance (for the day) was refreshed by this video, Thanks for the reminder!!!
Glad I could help bring back some good memories 👍
That Frieza Scream was gold :D for Final form pun u used :D
+MMPRMYSTERY I’m glad someone got it 😂
I am die hard DBZ fan ;P
+MMPRMYSTERY I love some DBZ myself 😎
I read this as i heard that freeza scream
Somehow I've stumbled upon this vid moments ago, and I have to say I was very pleased. Very detailed commentary, nice benchmarks, overall good information and your voice is quite soothing. Subscribed.
Still got 2 of them right here, bought for Crysis
same here one gtx 8800 ultra by xfx )
My dad had one of these back in 2007. Thing was a beast
Had the 8800 GTS up until it died... Good card, had to upgrade my 9800 Pro due to DX support, before that 9700 PRO... and before that MX 420
What a big change this card brought to me when I finally got it early 2008. This is what drew me to nVidia for good. I have had every nVidia GTX X80s after that and Tis when available except for the 9800 (i.e 216, 285, 480, 580, 680, 780 ti, 980 Ti). Now I have the EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3 and can't wait for the 1180 Ti to come out. The 8800 GTX to me was probably the biggest leap from previous generation. It's amazing to see the specs now and the 768 MB GDDR3. Not sure you could run anything with today's resolutions with that, but back then this was amazing.
The previous time I built a PC I had bought this video card, was so blown away by it's capabilities . Hadn't built a PC again until a decade later in 2016 and I went with a 1080 GTX, impressive hardware for sure, but I felt the 8800 was more badass at the time.
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You are right, it was a better product, back them they released the best chips for gamer's too, now you only get the cheap produced GP108 producs as 'high end' meant for gaming products.
GTX 8800, Back then the only 1080p card, now they don't have any 4k@120 gaming products, needing $2000 for the next gen Volta. Waiting for a monitor, or keep the old resolutions......
2016 are the best, not getting better now! Christmas, Samsung memory deal, NVlink for gamers, 24 GB combinations! GV108! Then we get screens too!
i had a 7900gt that went bad back in the day. I was probably 12 at the time. Was devastated, but sent the card back to BFG to see about getting it replaced. They sent back this very card, and to my surprise. Boy did this card kick ass at the time. Thanks for the vid, really bringin me back.
also the key to Crysis is shader on high. Everything else could be low, but shaders high made allth difference
I remember when i actually got my first pc, it contained the nvidia geforce gt 210, it was on par with the 9400gt at the time. So basically when i started out with my pc, id game on that pc for years and never realized there was new gpus like gtx 400 series until i saw some xfire videos and asked some people how they max out left 4 dead. xD the dude had a gtx 480. And ran the game like butter. Now the 480 holds on so badly in games now. The time has went by so fast! Good times!
Those were good times. You should check out my GTX 480 vs. 1440p video. The card holds up better than you might think.
I used to have a PNY 8800GT 512 megabyte back in 2008, absolutely loved it!
Bought it new, Christmas 2006 ... Sadly it doesn't work anymore as the card died a few years ago. After that I took the G80 GPU off the PCB and still to this day I carry it in my wallet.
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Nice, that is a big chip! Still have my dead card! Box too! XFX! white, geen box!
Back then they were still able to sell good products to gamer's, now you only get the cheap produced GP108 chips!
In my opinion the best video card ever made I have an 8800 Ultra purchase back in 2006 still works today in my old Dell XPS 600
the fact that this card came 12 years ago and can still handle todays gaming just tells you how much we have slowed down or how consoles have kept gaming lagging.
Nice 👍 Ministry album cover.
My first top of the line GPU. Bought it to play Oblivion better. I still have it tucked away in a closet. Can't bear to get rid of it.
I remember playing Crysis on my father's pc in 2008. I didn't know anything about hardware back then and thought it was normal for games to run smoothly, not knowing he had this card. I loved playing games with this card, everything ran perfect.
I had 2. My dad bought me for my Bday. And he made me return one because my neighbor said i didnt need it. :/
When In doubt...Crysis
2006. I was in HS and Runescape ruled my life.
This is a pretty good gpu and also giving me a good time.Gta v runs smoothly 1280×1024 normal settings at 40-50 fps :)
I remember getting this card and going directly to play bioshock and oblivion at max settings. After some years of usage, it stopped working. However, there was a trick back in the day where you had to put it in the oven for some minutes so that it could work again, and it actually did. It worked for another year or so. Then I baked it again twice until it stopped working some months later.
Stalker is a must play game. Especially SoC.
Back in the day, it was so expensive.. but it brings back memories 😁👍🏻
I had the 8800GT cause i was poor and it was like 3x cheaper, but was pretty close in perfs... God that was nice.
Same here. Did a video on that one too.
8800 gt is true legend i always wanted this card at old days but i cant now have a 1080ti
Great channel dude, love this era of gaming as it has a lot of nostalgia for me personally, and the advancement from pixel pipelines to stream processors was arguably one of the most important advances in gpu tech.
Great stuff
I definitely agree with you and I very much appreciate it. 👍
Cheers mate, been doing a binge watch of your vids, great stuff. Thanks for the response and keep up the great work!
Brilliant! Everything under 400 Series run good only on 720p :D
DanielC Yeah your right, but I wanted to flex some 8800 GTX muscles 💪
Dang, I remember running Crysis just fine back in the day on my 8800 GTS.
the STALKER series is the best series ever to come out and if you disagree with me you can fight me.
why fight? we stalkers should unite against the zone!
Cheeki Breeki..
Blyat cheeki breeki
Good video! it just shows that if your not a hardcore gamer (or poor like me) you don't need to be alway upgrading.
Crysis, not Sims 3
Had quite a laugh lol
that's still pretty damn impresive it aged well i guess i miss my 8600 gt lol
my 8800 gts 320MB is still kicking, gave it to a friend for playing 'source level' games on another computer for lan parties. Amazing gpus
man this card was a beast. It kept me going until upgrading to the GTX 560 Ti
high settings in crysis to "man up" hahaha that got me good!
All you think about is sex!
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Still have my XFX 8800GTX xXx Edition sadly its dead.. Still makes for a great wall display to show off.
Man, for the time, I bet this was just jaw dropping.
How did you get Crysis running? any tips? I can't get my PC to launch it, just a black screen and nothing that I looked up helped my.
Great videos, new sub. :)
Thanks and it was🤩I had a hell of time getting it to work. Turns out my external capture card was the issue. Seems like a lot of people have this issue though. The GOG version seems to be a lot better than steams, as far as issues go.
Welcome, I don't know how your channel is so small.... Thank you, I'll look into GOG's version :)
I take forever to make vids 😢. Thanks though.
AH but they are so professional, seriously, many games, info and stats. I really like that you give an exposition to old cards, really fun to watch and learn. You WILL get bigger, and I hope you keep it up!
Thanks. I’m trying. Work + busy life makes it hard.
I remember when me and my friend entered the office of the owner of this net cafe we frequented, to see his new 8800 GTX, and being dumbfounded when we found out he used it mostly to play Lineage 2
Very nice video man subbed!
Thank you.
i remember my IT guy giving me one of these so i could play bf2 with him. i had no idea that it was this good for its time!
If the 8800 GTX is the 429 boss of the GPU world, then the 427 cobra is the 8800 Ultra ( only car/pc guys will get the apples/oranges comparison ;-;)
Oh yeah 👍
I was going to send my 6800GT (yes, it's an AGP card, that at the time cost me $600) from BFG to someone who appreciates old parts. Now I realize that I can just put it on a shelf as a decoration. I mean, the card, when I got it, performed perfectly, and even came with Painkiller. I think I'll make a little "shrine" to the time when I started PC gaming.
Keep it and display it proudly. I have a couple, but I appreciate it 👍
very nice bench i had both 8800GTX and the good old king NVIDIA 8800 ULTRA . if u have a 8800 Ultra can u repeat the bech with a 8800 ultra? would be nice. ;)
I did bench the 8800 ultra. I have a stand alone video, but my most recent vid has a lot of cards on one chart.
F2F Tech thx got it
Man I had the 6600GT then went to a 7800GTX then the fabled 8800GTX (Sli). That was such a golden age in PC history......when modding your case actually required a dremel and a few cases to pull apart and Frankenstein together your master piece.
Heck ya. Those are some choice cards you’ve owned.
STALKER series are my favourite!!!
Brendon202 Venter aroshio brao! (In phonetic russian)
First and only time I shelled out the money for a top of the line GPU. Loved it but only lasted 2 years before it failed. Now a days I got for middle of the line x70 nvidia series.
ah, the time when GPUs still uses fancy sticker on its cover
R.I.P BFG...they had some awesome overclocked cards back in the day.
An 11 year old video card that's on par with "next gen" consoles!
I'll get my coat....
Paul Hardy more like current gen.
I had this exact card in my pc back in 2007. The memory failed on it a year and half later.
I still have that gpu!
i had this as new....oh those days. it was mad card in time....i would say the most legend GPU ever! even.
should perform some sli tets!
I’m thinking about it.