I love these videos about old tech! Looking and moving forward is always important in tech, but celebrating the older, simpler and obsolete is the best way (in my opinion) the best way to celebrate progress itself.
"Pretty freakin cool... when it worked" My exact sentiment after having 3x 290X for a couple years. I went to single 1080ti and doubt I'll ever do multicard again.
Same here. My first and only time with SLI was 2xGTX Titan SLI, the very first generation of Titans, Kepler core with 2688SP and 6GB 384-bit VRAM. I had an 2560x1600 monitor (DELL U3011) at the time, and that was one of very few options I had to run it comfortably (normal GTX780 only had 3GB VRAM, and 780Ti, which afaik had 6GB variations, were not released yet - they saw the light roughly the same time as Titan Black with full uncut 2880SP, which also made me rage so hard... well, that's a topic for another long story), and boy did I have my share of troubles. Starting from accidental BSODs in a couple games like Metro 2033, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and some more, to just plain absence of SLI profiles for some somewhat demanding games and loads of other random issues (didn't see any of that frame stuttering, though). This went on until I upgraded to an EVGA GTX1080, which run almost as good, if not better, but everywhere and without troubles. Then I had to change my monitor to 3840x2160 BenQ SW271 cuz my good old Dell kicked the bucket, and had to opt for ASUS Strix RTX 2080Ti due to lack of GPU performance, which I sold three weeks ago for $800, and now I am struggling with that good old 1080, waiting for uncut GA104 3070Ti/Super with full 3072(6144fp32) shader units.
That 2:03 "Pretty cool!" WordArt Font from Microsoft Word 2000 reminds me of me doing my school homework back in the days and struggeling with the decision of which of those WordArt presets and ClipArt images would be the sickest to make my ugly homework look lit af :D
I remember having three GTS250oc cards in triple SLI. Lol Then I had a GTX480 that caused global warming all by itself. Lmao Then I had a GTX750Ti. Now I have a GTX1080Ti, my first graphics card that was actually good at producing graphics. :D
It'd be pretty awesome to see y'all do this for the evolution of PhysX too. I remember back when the concept of a dedicated physics card became a Major Thing, and some of the screenshots magazines were pushing showing the difference in graphics settings you could have in a game just by shunting the physics processing over onto its own dedicated card, and it'd be nice to see if those first-gen or even second-gen dedicated-physics boosters really were all that and a bag of chips.
I'm working on an SLI vid me self, DUAL 8800 ULTRASSSSS - just got it together today, I think Linus is stealing my ideas :) Good video, I didn't know what OEM meant, now I know :-P
I'm sure I did too without realizing it. Watched like 10 different how to guides when I did it 2 years ago just to make sure. I'm sure an LTT video was one.
That looks like a DFI Lanparty UT nF4 board, which was my first motherboard! One thing about it that I liked was the jumpers to switch into SLI mode, where a lot of other motherboards of that time had daughterboards that had to be turned around to put the motherboard into SLI mode. I even had that case, repainted in red, with a large side window and several added fan holes. It's like looking at a blast from the past.
My first dedicated card was a Canopus 3DFX card back in 1997-98? I remember getting it to work in DOS and the spinning 3DFX logo was a sign of success :D. Oh the feels
I remember the days of running my x2 9800 card. It was SLI that was on a single card. Still had all the pains of getting SLI to run on whatever game you wanted, but man when it worked, IT WORKED. Many LAN parties were saved by the utilization of that cards power. Thanks for a nostalgia trip back to my younger years!
Hah! I had that motherboard. The DFI Lanparty UT Expert SLI ! Amazing motherboard. I could overclock my Opteron 165 to 3ghz on air with that thing! Back in 2005! SLI is a gimmick nowadays. Unless you're playing crazy res and don't mind having more problems than you know what to do with, stick with single GPU. The fact you couldn't use the VRAM on the 2nd card just makes it kinda stupid as well IMO
"The fact you couldn't use the VRAM on the 2nd card just makes it kinda stupid as well IMO" It's not as stupid as it's just a result of how the technology works, since both cards are rendering same scene, it's clearly essential for both of them to have loaded same textures as it is impossible for the GPU of first card to access the textures on the other card with proper speed. Even if you can do it through SLI link, it would be just a shred of a bandwidth you have directly between GPU and memory.
Actually, I picked up 2 DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D motherboards a few months ago because they were cheap ($35 cad for both). Both came with Opteron 165. They both work, but one has an issue with the first pcie slot. lol
Little recommendation : put the audio transmitter in your backpocket. It looks like you keep checking your phone every 10 seconds. Drives me mad bingewatching your vids! :-)
I stand corrected! @Linus: You're a f*** millionaire! Get a slave-drone to do that job for you!! Are we allowed to say slave again..? Just wondering. This is not triggering SJW, this is a work-around for something driving me nuts!
He wants to stay one, too. Sometimes by being cheap where its easy. Remember, these days a Fortune 500 company stays a Fortune 500 company by not spending any money. So why not do the same? ;)
The good old DFI LanParty boards, how I miss them... I had a RDX200 with two Ati X1800´s in Crossfire. Anyone else was on dfi-street forums these days?
@@Tc4ify dual gpu setups always have been a pita. No matter if nvdia or ati, only a few games really profited from the additional rendering power. For an X1800 or X1900 Crossfire setup you even needed a special "mastercard". For benchmarking 3dMark06 it was heaven though ;) I remember overclocking the crap out of my X1800s to run the built in F.E.A.R. benchmark till it artifacted all over the place. Those were the times... No power limits, no clock limits, you could literally fry the card(s).
Is Linus reaching for his phone (in his right jeans pocket) or just scratching himself every few frames??!! (maybe he has a attached button for his teleprompter there?!!) - its hard to ignore once you start noticing it!!!
He does it in every single 'to camera' video. It is very f**king annoying. I think it is the sound recorder device he has touch every few seconds. Wish he would stop!
I think (and this is a theory) that it's the autocue, and he is flipping a screen to the next part of the script. Why it's not adapted to be done by pressing a button with his foot is beyond me though.
I still own PCI-Express version of GeForce 6800 Ultra with the famous mermaid together with a briefcase box and everything it came from the factory. I remember how crazy it was to have a two-slot graphics cars at the time. Before that the only card like that was a GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, but it was an AGP card. When the GeForce 6 series came out all the models were available for AGP slot for compatibility or PCI-E slot for new builds. Barely anybody upgrading at the time stuck with AGP, everybody knew that PCI-E was here to stay and people changed graphic cards together with motherboards. From 2001-2007 were the crazy times when so many new technologies were coming up that your computer was outdated in half a year since you bought it. From generation to generation of graphics cards and processors the performance literally doubled.
I actually prerfer SLI. This is my first SLI build, and I haven't looked back. I'm running two 1080TIs (bought used on craigslist, each for around 500). My graphics score in Firestrike is 50k...The setup decimates a single RTX 2080TI and RTX Titan by a long shot, for hundreds less.
My first SLI system had a pair of Leadtek 7600 GT cards. I had them running on an A-Bit KN8 SLI mobo. For those that can recall, AMD was first to release NF4 chipset boards that supported SLI. It was pretty badass.
My first decent GFX card generation! 2 6600GT's in SLI. The scaling we found (CS:S Zombie Horde mod crew) was yeah dependent on the games but with playing mostly Counter Strike: Source it hammered! Kids these days who weren't around then and compare it to today's SLI will see all these flaws but don't recognize it was for the time a bad ass and brilliant experience when it wasn't finicky. Which in my experience was the vast majority of the time. And yes it played Crysis xD
STB didn't have quality? All the Voodoo cards made after the buyout were built so well only the best companies like Matrox or Diamond could compete quality-wise
the dumb ass making the video said they didn't have quality. But anyone who was living during that time and followed the 3dfx voodoo line knows they where the best graphics card to buy period. Nvidia sucked ass.
Well, that’s a bit of a lie, the TNT 2 ultra was a brilliant card, and wasn’t limited to 1024x768 and worked with all games unlike the Voodoo cards, and there is no denying that the first Geforce kicked everyone’s ass!
munxcorp, Jessie James Voodoo 5 cards, nVidia needed to produce them by law, releasing them 2 years to late, promoting their own 5th generation favoring the less good OpenGL card. T&l hardware acceleration gen cards moved the market overnight, killing all Open GL developing.
XFX 6800GT XXX Alpha Dog's were my first NVIDIA SLI setup. Running on a Q9550 with XFX 790i Ultra SLI motherboard. My very first SLI setup was a Pentium 2 450Mhz on Asus P2B with a 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee & 2 x 3Dfx Voodoo 2 3D acclerators in SLI. It was amazing technology at the time, but im glad we've reached a point where we have massive cards that can do the job. The title support was extremely hit or miss.
Damn... BFG... My first Nvidia card was a BFG 7800 GT when I was 15. I remember standing in CompUSA in the early 00's looking at all the expensive AGP x4/x8 GPU's and saving up holiday/chore money to buy one after like a year ;_;
I still have both the Voodoo 2 and the first GeForce. As much as I liked the Voodoo, the GeForce was a game changer. We went from 4 MD EDO RAM to 32 (?) MB DDR memory within such a short time. Also the new AGP bus and the superior GPU. The Voodoo came at a time when CPUs had around 100 to 300 MHz. A couple of years later CPU frequency had doubled and 1 GHz was just around the corner. So much stuff happened in just a couple of years in the PC market. First CD-ROM was introduced and then CD-R / RW. Also USB came around. First only to get rid of your old parallel and serial ports used for printers and modem. But it was like switching from horseback riding to driving cars. From the beginning of the 90s to the end of the 90s the PC had fundamentally evolved. Heck, even Windows changed from 9x to a NT/2000 based system for the home user. And that was the time when for most people the PC was the only device for home compute. No smartphone, no tablet, etc.
We used to call them “video cards”. I still remember how glorious it was going from software graphics to OpenGL for the first time back in the late 90s.
I loved crossfire. My first build was $1000 AUD for the box and $1380 for the monitor and shipping. 6 months later I got another ATI HD4850 for $150 off eBay and doubled my frame rate in COD4. Also two matching graphics cards looks super badass. Did the same thing later, with a 7870 and it sucks that I can't right now with a GTX 980. I had top, bottom and side fans and the bottom card would be 70 degrees, the top would be 82.
I had a P532SLI with a pair of 7800 GT's and I loved it. Half Life 2, Doom 3, Fear it did every game I played with zero issues if there was an SLI profile which was fine as Nvidia was releasing drivers every 2 weeks or so (unlike ATI's every 18 month schedule) so you were covered. The ptice difference between a GT and a GTX especially on launch day was large and for a little more money I got a lot more frames per second. When the board caught fire I replaced it with a P6N Diamond and it worked even better. But yes a driver update with new SLI profile were key.
a game that came out 3 years later, not to mention said game was so ahead of its time we didn't saw a PC able to run it on max setting till another 3 more years
I like how on screen definitions for the acronyms at the beginning were included. You should do that for all acronyms used in the videos. SO many different acronyms are used ESPECIALLY in IT (I work in software development, it seems like a new acronym is used and/or created everyday at work...), and it can be frustrating when you don't remember just one of them, since you bassically become lost on what is being discussed when you don't know one. Just an idea. :)
Wow! And I mean WOW! I had that exact! Case up to about 2 years ago I gave it away with some older parts for a friend that had no PC my wife hated it! It was so heavy pretty much made from galvanized steel lol or 8th in. Sheet metal. Loved that case man lol
Much more informative than the first one you guys did... I remember when they had SLI profiles rounded out enough to the point that getting 2x EVGA 9800 GT's made more sense than the 8800GTS. Didn't work in every game *cough* Quake Live, SC2 *cough* , but it worked well enough in others to validate having 2 cheaper (and smaller) cards over having the larger and louder older card. And yeah, even 2x 9800 GT's still had trouble with Crysis so i'm surprised that the 2 cards you gents assembled had even gotten it to run ok. Great video
At the time there were a lot of boutique system builders using a modified version of that case or its siblings. The original is from the Antec Performance Plus series, this model being the PLUS660 AMG. I still have the big brother version, the PLUS1080 AMG. They were fantastic cases when they came out (2002), I got my 1080AMG in 2003, and I still use it for one of my computers.
It's funny you mention the lower/upper split. The first rig I ever build had 2 SLI 8600GTs and I vividly remember showing my friends an odd line horizontally across the screen when gaming - it didn't particularly stand out, but if you looked for it, it was noticeable. My frame rates were good and everything was smooth, but once I noticed it... It was sometimes hard to ignore.... Anyone else experience/remember this? lol
My current setup core 2 duo e7600 6 gb DDR2 Ram (667 Mhz) NVidia Quadro NVS 290 (I know it's a bottleneck) 1 TB At 7200 RPM 300 Watt Atx PSU And suprisingly windows 10
I remember back in the day when 120mm fans costed an arm and a leg. So when we got cases that had let's say 3 80mm fans installed we would go to a c&c shop and have them cut 2-3 120mm fan holes so we could get better cooling.
I had the taller version of that case and the same Bullet hole stickers!, people back then thought i had actual holes in my case until they looked closer. :-)
If the video outputing card is called “Master Card” shouldn’t the second one be called Visa?
Only when there wasn't a profile for a game because MC and Visa don't work together.
American Express next?
American Express would be more accurate since you need to be pretty well off to afford the second card.
ha
English sli will be called Santander then
SLI Optimized games: "Orange box, the"
Interesting...
I love these videos about old tech! Looking and moving forward is always important in tech, but celebrating the older, simpler and obsolete is the best way (in my opinion) the best way to celebrate progress itself.
Side-door-mounted fans FTW, so much nostalgia !!
I have one... On my ANTEC ONE HUNDRED...
I got one on my fx4300 pc
Is this nlt a thing anymore ? I left gaming 10 years ago and my case had still a side fan lol
E G not really mate as the cases stopped coming with side mounts (mid to high range cases that is)
@@Gave-rf1hr any reasons for leaving, or did u just get bored
Can it run....oh wait, he already answered!
Oof
Reconfigure B B But mom
Curse you for posting this before me
I was typing it out as he answered it.
Can it run away?
"Pretty freakin cool... when it worked"
My exact sentiment after having 3x 290X for a couple years. I went to single 1080ti and doubt I'll ever do multicard again.
Same here. My first and only time with SLI was 2xGTX Titan SLI, the very first generation of Titans, Kepler core with 2688SP and 6GB 384-bit VRAM. I had an 2560x1600 monitor (DELL U3011) at the time, and that was one of very few options I had to run it comfortably (normal GTX780 only had 3GB VRAM, and 780Ti, which afaik had 6GB variations, were not released yet - they saw the light roughly the same time as Titan Black with full uncut 2880SP, which also made me rage so hard... well, that's a topic for another long story), and boy did I have my share of troubles. Starting from accidental BSODs in a couple games like Metro 2033, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter and some more, to just plain absence of SLI profiles for some somewhat demanding games and loads of other random issues (didn't see any of that frame stuttering, though). This went on until I upgraded to an EVGA GTX1080, which run almost as good, if not better, but everywhere and without troubles.
Then I had to change my monitor to 3840x2160 BenQ SW271 cuz my good old Dell kicked the bucket, and had to opt for ASUS Strix RTX 2080Ti due to lack of GPU performance, which I sold three weeks ago for $800, and now I am struggling with that good old 1080, waiting for uncut GA104 3070Ti/Super with full 3072(6144fp32) shader units.
That 2:03 "Pretty cool!" WordArt Font from Microsoft Word 2000 reminds me of me doing my school homework back in the days and struggeling with the decision of which of those WordArt presets and ClipArt images would be the sickest to make my ugly homework look lit af :D
Cornelius Diefenthal I had a teacher who would half anyone’s marks if they used word art or clipart.
That's some heckin' relatable words you just did
WordArt was cool until people discovered FlamingText
The good old days~~
The simpler days.
I remember having three GTS250oc cards in triple SLI. Lol
Then I had a GTX480 that caused global warming all by itself. Lmao
Then I had a GTX750Ti.
Now I have a GTX1080Ti, my first graphics card that was actually good at producing graphics. :D
Salty Steel lol, my GTX 580 would warm the room and I only had one, that is still the hottest card I have owned including sli setups.
u can save some gas and fry eggs/steak every time u play with the 480.
1080ti First time you got more than 60fps and then you shit your pants out of excitement I bet
my 1070 heats my room
the gtx295 is more than stupid temperature wise
It'd be pretty awesome to see y'all do this for the evolution of PhysX too. I remember back when the concept of a dedicated physics card became a Major Thing, and some of the screenshots magazines were pushing showing the difference in graphics settings you could have in a game just by shunting the physics processing over onto its own dedicated card, and it'd be nice to see if those first-gen or even second-gen dedicated-physics boosters really were all that and a bag of chips.
How about AMD/ATi first Crossfire for next?
He wants it to work.
@@dhomini7140 my dfi LanParty RDX200 (first board with ati chipset) worked like a charm, if 3dMark06 was the only game you were playing.
4:52. Wait, this isn't JayzTwoCents
I'm working on an SLI vid me self, DUAL 8800 ULTRASSSSS - just got it together today, I think Linus is stealing my ideas :)
Good video, I didn't know what OEM meant, now I know :-P
RIP Tunnelbear :(
Why? is Tunnelbear dead?
Worse. Acquired by McAfee.
animaegray whaaaaat
F
Holy fuck noooooo
That case is fabulously tacky.
lol I have the same case
what is the name of the case? did that ak47 window come standard?
SaintedPlacebo no that's not standard, he's got a modded case. And idk the name of the case, i bought a custom built pc, and it came with that case.
2004 was a hell of a time
I remember my first SLI rig. It was not cheap, but considering doing an SLI rig now is just insane!
One of my favorite vids as of late. Really interesting stuff, thank you Linus and team
Your channel helped me to build my first computer! THX!
Same
I'm sure I did too without realizing it. Watched like 10 different how to guides when I did it 2 years ago just to make sure. I'm sure an LTT video was one.
Same xd I used so much time watching tutorials on youtube beforehand that I didn't need any help while building the system.
I watched techsource vids to build mine
That's really cool! Well done on taking the risk
The best card of all time is the 8800 GTX Ultra.
Yes! I remember this 10 or more yeara ago
8800gt. Couldn't be beat for the money.
It's about time!
RandomFlatShowsvideos it's about money
But can it run cr*** oh... hi actually tried it!
That looks like a DFI Lanparty UT nF4 board, which was my first motherboard! One thing about it that I liked was the jumpers to switch into SLI mode, where a lot of other motherboards of that time had daughterboards that had to be turned around to put the motherboard into SLI mode. I even had that case, repainted in red, with a large side window and several added fan holes. It's like looking at a blast from the past.
that scrolling list of games made me uncomfortable
Glad it's not just me. "SLOW THAT SCROLL you're giving me a headache!"
3:06 OMG that "LanParty" SLI connector is a thing of beauty.
That case screams “yeah, I play Counter Strike 1.6”
My first dedicated card was a Canopus 3DFX card back in 1997-98? I remember getting it to work in DOS and the spinning 3DFX logo was a sign of success :D. Oh the feels
Linus: I will be giving away computers.
5,4mil people: hahahahah a good one
5.4 mil computers
Dont lose hope
I remember the days of running my x2 9800 card. It was SLI that was on a single card. Still had all the pains of getting SLI to run on whatever game you wanted, but man when it worked, IT WORKED. Many LAN parties were saved by the utilization of that cards power. Thanks for a nostalgia trip back to my younger years!
Hey linus, could you make a video on explaining console dev kits?
SGUB CLUB yeah I'd like that too.
This above^
yeah...that would be really helpful!
Nice video! I loved the history and performance of old tech! It all sucks now, but without it we wouldn't be where we're at today.
When I see that handle on the case side panel I immediately know it's Antec.
Chieftec used the same handle, well they were pretty much the same case, probably built in the same factory.
Hah! I had that motherboard. The DFI Lanparty UT Expert SLI ! Amazing motherboard. I could overclock my Opteron 165 to 3ghz on air with that thing! Back in 2005!
SLI is a gimmick nowadays. Unless you're playing crazy res and don't mind having more problems than you know what to do with, stick with single GPU. The fact you couldn't use the VRAM on the 2nd card just makes it kinda stupid as well IMO
TDS Loved my DFI Motherboard!
"The fact you couldn't use the VRAM on the 2nd card just makes it kinda stupid as well IMO"
It's not as stupid as it's just a result of how the technology works, since both cards are rendering same scene, it's clearly essential for both of them to have loaded same textures as it is impossible for the GPU of first card to access the textures on the other card with proper speed. Even if you can do it through SLI link, it would be just a shred of a bandwidth you have directly between GPU and memory.
I had it too!
Actually, I picked up 2 DFI Lanparty UT nF4 Ultra-D motherboards a few months ago because they were cheap ($35 cad for both). Both came with Opteron 165. They both work, but one has an issue with the first pcie slot. lol
Was it toaster certified?
There was a "3GHz club" back in the day on the dfi-street forums.
Is that a (Diamond Flower Inc) DFI LanParty motherboard? OmG 😢 the memories
I just got a dfi lan party motherboard too😂
"I loved those stickers very long ago..." 🗨🤩💾
Little recommendation : put the audio transmitter in your backpocket. It looks like you keep checking your phone every 10 seconds. Drives me mad bingewatching your vids! :-)
It's actually the remote for the teleprompter.
...And yes, it drives me nuts too.
I stand corrected! @Linus: You're a f*** millionaire! Get a slave-drone to do that job for you!! Are we allowed to say slave again..? Just wondering. This is not triggering SJW, this is a work-around for something driving me nuts!
He wants to stay one, too. Sometimes by being cheap where its easy.
Remember, these days a Fortune 500 company stays a Fortune 500 company by not spending any money.
So why not do the same? ;)
Just get a pedal for this. Looks like they are stuck with this button in Linus' crotch area.. Very annoying
i thought i was the only one distracted by this
The good old DFI LanParty boards, how I miss them... I had a RDX200 with two Ati X1800´s in Crossfire.
Anyone else was on dfi-street forums these days?
Wasn't crossfire before 1950XTX notoriously bad?
@@Tc4ify dual gpu setups always have been a pita. No matter if nvdia or ati, only a few games really profited from the additional rendering power. For an X1800 or X1900 Crossfire setup you even needed a special "mastercard".
For benchmarking 3dMark06 it was heaven though ;)
I remember overclocking the crap out of my X1800s to run the built in F.E.A.R. benchmark till it artifacted all over the place. Those were the times... No power limits, no clock limits, you could literally fry the card(s).
Linus should get a foot pedal! I got super distracted every time I noticed him moving the script forward.
(Awesome vid still)
Yeah, seriously it looks like he's trying to pull up his pants or some shit.
that bothered me for years, now i barely notice it.
I love these retrospectives, fantastic job!
Is Linus reaching for his phone (in his right jeans pocket) or just scratching himself every few frames??!! (maybe he has a attached button for his teleprompter there?!!) - its hard to ignore once you start noticing it!!!
Sikandar Khan at what time in the video?
Look closely mate, he does it throughout the video - watch his right hand...
He does it in every single 'to camera' video. It is very f**king annoying. I think it is the sound recorder device he has touch every few seconds. Wish he would stop!
I think (and this is a theory) that it's the autocue, and he is flipping a screen to the next part of the script. Why it's not adapted to be done by pressing a button with his foot is beyond me though.
It’s to advance the TelePrompTer screen
I still own PCI-Express version of GeForce 6800 Ultra with the famous mermaid together with a briefcase box and everything it came from the factory. I remember how crazy it was to have a two-slot graphics cars at the time. Before that the only card like that was a GeForce FX 5950 Ultra, but it was an AGP card. When the GeForce 6 series came out all the models were available for AGP slot for compatibility or PCI-E slot for new builds. Barely anybody upgrading at the time stuck with AGP, everybody knew that PCI-E was here to stay and people changed graphic cards together with motherboards. From 2001-2007 were the crazy times when so many new technologies were coming up that your computer was outdated in half a year since you bought it. From generation to generation of graphics cards and processors the performance literally doubled.
Umm Déjà vu?!?!?
I actually prerfer SLI. This is my first SLI build, and I haven't looked back. I'm running two 1080TIs (bought used on craigslist, each for around 500). My graphics score in Firestrike is 50k...The setup decimates a single RTX 2080TI and RTX Titan by a long shot, for hundreds less.
Ahhhh yas the good days. I remember when my 9800GT was the golden child:)
At any point in time I'm a few shots of vodka away from going on ebay and building my own tri-sli 9800 gtx+ rig.
So much envy.
@@theclinger I have a 9800 gtx+ in my old Win XP machine and I can't count how many times I've been shocked at how well it performed.
More tech-history/early 2000s nostalgia vids plox!
Do crossfire!
Yes!
please
Forget Crossfire. Let's see dual Rage Fury MAXX cards...
My first SLI system had a pair of Leadtek 7600 GT cards. I had them running on an A-Bit KN8 SLI mobo. For those that can recall, AMD was first to release NF4 chipset boards that supported SLI. It was pretty badass.
*UNREAL* Aw heck yeaaaa
YO. You've got awesome art stuff.
don mind me
Thank you
i was playing unreal gold eariler today
My first decent GFX card generation! 2 6600GT's in SLI. The scaling we found (CS:S Zombie Horde mod crew) was yeah dependent on the games but with playing mostly Counter Strike: Source it hammered! Kids these days who weren't around then and compare it to today's SLI will see all these flaws but don't recognize it was for the time a bad ass and brilliant experience when it wasn't finicky. Which in my experience was the vast majority of the time. And yes it played Crysis xD
not in my sub box lol, but I got that notification
Thats what its for, because RUclips is incompetent!
I agree
This is the most interesting video LTT has produced in ages. Now do one for present-day SLI.
Wait are those Ben-10 graphics cards?
Lazy Only the best for Linus. XFX ones too!
ThyBonesConsumed they still do... Just that now is not that cringie
In those days an sli certified gaming machine doubled as a space heater on those cold winter nights. 😊
STB didn't have quality? All the Voodoo cards made after the buyout were built so well only the best companies like Matrox or Diamond could compete quality-wise
munxcorp says who?
the dumb ass making the video said they didn't have quality. But anyone who was living during that time and followed the 3dfx voodoo line knows they where the best graphics card to buy period. Nvidia sucked ass.
Well, that’s a bit of a lie, the TNT 2 ultra was a brilliant card, and wasn’t limited to 1024x768 and worked with all games unlike the Voodoo cards, and there is no denying that the first Geforce kicked everyone’s ass!
munxcorp,
Jessie James
Voodoo 5 cards, nVidia needed to produce them by law, releasing them 2 years to late, promoting their own 5th generation favoring the less good OpenGL card. T&l hardware acceleration gen cards moved the market overnight, killing all Open GL developing.
Please make more videos like this. These retrospectives are great.
Hi random person scrolling down...I just wanted to tell you : I hope you will get the gpu you wanted :)
IKH TV I don't want one so achieved.
got 1080ti sli; im happy
am7ha7 DAAMN ..lucky you ....and im here just dreaming about a single 1080ti
XFX 6800GT XXX Alpha Dog's were my first NVIDIA SLI setup. Running on a Q9550 with XFX 790i Ultra SLI motherboard.
My very first SLI setup was a Pentium 2 450Mhz on Asus P2B with a 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee & 2 x 3Dfx Voodoo 2 3D acclerators in SLI.
It was amazing technology at the time, but im glad we've reached a point where we have massive cards that can do the job.
The title support was extremely hit or miss.
This is good for bitcoin.
dude
An unpopular Justin y comment
I've ran SLI in every system I've ever built since it's introduction. It's never been better!!
But can it run Crysis 2?
I watch a lot of RUclips videos, and you sir by far have one of the best intros to each video. Had to pause the video to comment that, lol.
Damn... BFG... My first Nvidia card was a BFG 7800 GT when I was 15. I remember standing in CompUSA in the early 00's looking at all the expensive AGP x4/x8 GPU's and saving up holiday/chore money to buy one after like a year ;_;
Brandon A. Like 3dfx, bfg made stupid business decisions and killed themselves
the BFG warranty I will never forget! Such a great brand. A lot of my BFG stuff still works. I still have my BFG 6800GT.@@charleswp71
I still have both the Voodoo 2 and the first GeForce. As much as I liked the Voodoo, the GeForce was a game changer. We went from 4 MD EDO RAM to 32 (?) MB DDR memory within such a short time. Also the new AGP bus and the superior GPU. The Voodoo came at a time when CPUs had around 100 to 300 MHz. A couple of years later CPU frequency had doubled and 1 GHz was just around the corner. So much stuff happened in just a couple of years in the PC market. First CD-ROM was introduced and then CD-R / RW. Also USB came around. First only to get rid of your old parallel and serial ports used for printers and modem. But it was like switching from horseback riding to driving cars. From the beginning of the 90s to the end of the 90s the PC had fundamentally evolved. Heck, even Windows changed from 9x to a NT/2000 based system for the home user. And that was the time when for most people the PC was the only device for home compute. No smartphone, no tablet, etc.
LAN quake 2 on my riva tnt2 baby!!!
I love the case aesthetics of that time period. Bullet hole stickers are a bonus!
We used to call them “video cards”. I still remember how glorious it was going from software graphics to OpenGL for the first time back in the late 90s.
I loved crossfire. My first build was $1000 AUD for the box and $1380 for the monitor and shipping. 6 months later I got another ATI HD4850 for $150 off eBay and doubled my frame rate in COD4. Also two matching graphics cards looks super badass. Did the same thing later, with a 7870 and it sucks that I can't right now with a GTX 980. I had top, bottom and side fans and the bottom card would be 70 degrees, the top would be 82.
85 degrees heat seems normal for a graphic card thats running a game at its best ? i think ?
I had a P532SLI with a pair of 7800 GT's and I loved it. Half Life 2, Doom 3, Fear it did every game I played with zero issues if there was an SLI profile which was fine as Nvidia was releasing drivers every 2 weeks or so (unlike ATI's every 18 month schedule) so you were covered. The ptice difference between a GT and a GTX especially on launch day was large and for a little more money I got a lot more frames per second. When the board caught fire I replaced it with a P6N Diamond and it worked even better. But yes a driver update with new SLI profile were key.
Time for an AMD history lesson. Also, a comparison between CrossfireX and SLI
Roosevelt Jones And let's not forget the original CrossFire.
SLI was better than CFX. Nowadays they are both crap.
a game that came out 3 years later, not to mention said game was so ahead of its time we didn't saw a PC able to run it on max setting till another 3 more years
Looks like something the Borg from Star Trek made.
0:18 ahhh the nostalgia. Having a card for every purpose. There should totally be a PS2 port in the top spot connecting to a PS2 header lol.
ATI X1900XTX CrossfireX video incoming? I sure hope so.
A comparison between x8/x8 and x16/x16 pcie crossfire. The comparison I´m still waiting for today.
I like how on screen definitions for the acronyms at the beginning were included. You should do that for all acronyms used in the videos. SO many different acronyms are used ESPECIALLY in IT (I work in software development, it seems like a new acronym is used and/or created everyday at work...), and it can be frustrating when you don't remember just one of them, since you bassically become lost on what is being discussed when you don't know one. Just an idea. :)
I had a voodoo 5 card and it was amazing
Wow! And I mean WOW! I had that exact! Case up to about 2 years ago I gave it away with some older parts for a friend that had no PC my wife hated it! It was so heavy pretty much made from galvanized steel lol or 8th in. Sheet metal. Loved that case man lol
Ah the good ole days of Doom 3, UT2004, FEAR, and Crysis!
TheHvk
nVidia, Linus is promoting them, changing history!
Why you noobs need this Linus bullshit talk? Need promoted items?
9700 pro
aaaaand Half Life 2!
halo?
I think these good old days were a little earlier. Voodoo 2 is still the 90's. Long before those games yet Voodoo 2 SLI can run Potato Doom 3!
how time flies. I couldn't believe that it has passed almost 15 years.
Linus digressed. He's turning into Jay.
50cent Linus, Hip Hop skills, the racing, Nissan Z driver too? Jay's Garage? Leno?
I didn't realize only Jay could digress :P
atleast not as much as michael vsauce
God damnit. Someone pointed out his hand going into his pocket every few seconds and now I can’t unsee it. Lol.
Jorge Diaz i think its to change the script on an off camera monitor
Ghost Yahiro oh yeah I know but I never noticed it before and now that someone pointed it out I can’t not notice. lol
3:45 I can't fcking believe GTA IV came out in 2008... Still an amazing game lmao
Nice! My first gaming computer had an Athlon 3800+ and two 6600 GTs in SLI. I can't believe how old that tech looks now.
You're young, mine was a AMD K6-2 cpu and nVidia Riva TNT2 video card.
*DELL OPTIPLEX?!*
That's no OptiPlex, boy! NO OPTIPLEX!!
It's an Antec Performance Plus 660 with a modded side and top panel, and the stock fan brackets removed.
Bob McCoy lol
I see you watch Rick and Morty
Bob McCoy
only DELL XPS systems did nForce SLi or other SLi expansion slots.
Much more informative than the first one you guys did... I remember when they had SLI profiles rounded out enough to the point that getting 2x EVGA 9800 GT's made more sense than the 8800GTS. Didn't work in every game *cough* Quake Live, SC2 *cough* , but it worked well enough in others to validate having 2 cheaper (and smaller) cards over having the larger and louder older card. And yeah, even 2x 9800 GT's still had trouble with Crysis so i'm surprised that the 2 cards you gents assembled had even gotten it to run ok.
Great video
At 8:42, just replace "second card" with "RTX" and it all makes sense lol.
Oof
Damn.. I could've hooked you guys up with a decent FX-57.
We just couldn't ever get rid of that rig; it earned a spot on the wall.
they made SLI to play pacman
I remember building a theoretical rig using GT8800s with SLI. Such a throwback. Cool
Dude, I have that case but in grey.... Solid grey... Noice
It was the OLD Alienware case, I had the same color with door version.
Just made me realize I'm old :(
There were a lot of generic cases that looked like that if I remember.
At the time there were a lot of boutique system builders using a modified version of that case or its siblings. The original is from the Antec Performance Plus series, this model being the PLUS660 AMG. I still have the big brother version, the PLUS1080 AMG. They were fantastic cases when they came out (2002), I got my 1080AMG in 2003, and I still use it for one of my computers.
CSJ I had a Antec just like that but it had a door covering the drive bays, loved that case
Same but mine is black, like the one in the video.
It's funny you mention the lower/upper split. The first rig I ever build had 2 SLI 8600GTs and I vividly remember showing my friends an odd line horizontally across the screen when gaming - it didn't particularly stand out, but if you looked for it, it was noticeable. My frame rates were good and everything was smooth, but once I noticed it... It was sometimes hard to ignore....
Anyone else experience/remember this? lol
My realy old setup.... 😍
Cpu: AMD fx 55.
Motherboard: an8 sli deluxe.
Ram: 2gb a-data.
Gpu: 2x 6800ultra.
So f*king Nice old setup. ^_^
My current setup
core 2 duo e7600
6 gb DDR2 Ram (667 Mhz)
NVidia Quadro NVS 290
(I know it's a bottleneck)
1 TB At 7200 RPM
300 Watt Atx PSU
And suprisingly windows 10
My current setup
CPU: Intel i5 5500
Motherboard:*will update once I double check*
Ram:g.skill ripjaws x. 2 2gb 1600mhz
Gpu: ghost XFX R7950 5gb (black edition)
My one is old af
I5 3470
GPU-1650 super the only new thing
16gb adata 1600mhz ddr3
Crucial 1tb ssd
Samsung 870 evo ssd 1tb
Corsair 550watt
My setup:
CPU:Intel Pentium G4600
RAM:16GB DDR4 2400 mhz
GPU:MSI RX 480 8GB
PSU: Corsair 450 Watt
120GB M.2 SSD & 500GB 7200RPM HDD
Windows 10 pro
My setup:
CPU i9 9900k
GPU RTX 2060 SUPER
1tb Hdd
1tb crucial nvme ssd
Mobo: Asus ROG Strix Z390H
750W Power supply
32GB RAM
I remember back in the day when 120mm fans costed an arm and a leg. So when we got cases that had let's say 3 80mm fans installed we would go to a c&c shop and have them cut 2-3 120mm fan holes so we could get better cooling.
I'm old enough to correctly guess the first nvidia SLI capable card was the 6800 ........
You made me nostalgic when you showed my old monster, the bfg 7900gtx :)
ATI first Crossfire then next PLZ!!!!!!!
lol, I remember running x850xt crossfire, was a fun time to be into computers!
3:39 So many great games on this list, games today don't measure up
I wanted to command will it run crysis :(
I had the taller version of that case and the same Bullet hole stickers!, people back then thought i had actual holes in my case until they looked closer. :-)
I have a feeling that i've seen this video before...
Am I going insane?
stop.
had sli the year it came out, I never had the problems you speak of,and i went sli with 3 other set ups through the 2000's.
But can it run Crysis 2 200x155 pixels ultra settings?
My build in 2005:
Opteron 165
DFI LanParty nforce4
Geforce FX 5900
This video gave me flashbacks of trying that SLI mod with a mechanical pencil lmao
Should have used a good old Hb wooden pencil