Thanks to everyone that's been watching and enjoying this video! Just a heads up, I only now realized that on the Serious Sam: The Second Encounter performance graph at 12:11, the Radeon DDR 64MB should say 36.1 fps, not 31.6. I do strive for accuracy so this difference is important to me, and I feel the need to clear that up. Don't forget you can check out our Pixel TALK Discord server for free, and chat with myself, Modzy from Cutting-Edge Retro, and Mike from F2FTech as well as hundreds of other members! discord.gg/m6xyBeD
@lilyounggamer4 жыл бұрын
background music name?
@PixelPipes4 жыл бұрын
The opening? It's the title music track to the 1997 Frogger remake by Hasbro Interactive
@KretinoSantino4 жыл бұрын
Main problem of benchmark is timeperiod. Literally, at time ATI Radeon came out, GeForce 256 was on it's way out. GF2 ultra came out just days after Radeon 64MB DDR and did double or even triple FPS in the most important game of that period - Quake 3 Arena. And just like today, 20 years ago fanboys from losing camps tried to bend reality.
@PixelPipes4 жыл бұрын
Indeed. I mainly included them for fun.
@lilyounggamer4 жыл бұрын
@@PixelPipes when is your next vid coming out?
@GTXDash4 жыл бұрын
The Geforce 256 was my first 3D accelerater. I didn't realize back then just how historically important that card would be. I still have it and it is currently framed and on my wall for display
@1pcfred4 жыл бұрын
I had a 3dfx Voodoo passthrough card. I have no idea where that card is now.
@Fpvfixit4 жыл бұрын
i had tnt 2 but threw it away
@klimbimbel64464 жыл бұрын
My first 3D card was the Elsa Erazer TNT2 32 MB :D
@leditsz1434 жыл бұрын
nice
@bigfutus4 жыл бұрын
I had Riva 128 + Voodoo 1 and i wanted GF256 badly, but when i had finally the money, there was GF2 GTS already. Mine had the stupidest name ever, Creative Labs 3D Blaster Annihilator 2 :D
@CiroAMD4 жыл бұрын
So happy you are back!
@lazaredz66854 жыл бұрын
I was just thinking the other day "Ah man, I hope he didn't quit". Glad to see that was wrong.
@Web7204 жыл бұрын
Or worse...
@lazaredz66854 жыл бұрын
@@Web720 ... that also
@joeyvdm14 жыл бұрын
Welcome back bud. Whats it been? 10 months or so? Never mind, awesome to have you back, and with the OG Geforce and all. You da man👍
@danielsavodan96644 жыл бұрын
Glad to see that you are back mate, I was worried that you were not coming back.
@NainKaigo4 жыл бұрын
I remember my first 3D accelerator. It was a 3dfx Voodoo by Diamond put into an IBM Aptiva. My brother and I saved every penny from our summer job to buy it. That first upgrade began a lifelong journey in tech. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
@GdotWdot3 жыл бұрын
Back when my older brother was buying our first PC in the late 90s, he got a defective Diamond-branded TNT for free. It didn't work with its dedicated drivers, only reference ones and while it almost didn't crash in Windows 98, in Windows Me it brought the system down so hard it caused file system corruption every single time. Still, getting a free GPU back when an up-to-date computer locally cost 8 months of wages meant you couldn't really complain.
@thpe96072 жыл бұрын
That parallax effect of display settings on top of the Windows background at 8:21. 🤌
@AshtonCoolman4 жыл бұрын
Whoa you're back! Nice to see you making videos again. A lot of us RETRO people deal with everything from ISA VGA to GTX 8800 series cards. Do you have plans on making 2D and early 3D (Riva 128/TNT/Geforce2) era content?
@PixelPipes4 жыл бұрын
Nothing is off the table!
@PJBonoVox4 жыл бұрын
Dude the amount of effort it must have taken to do all these benchmarks on cards that no-one will ever use is a commendable labour of love. Keep it up!
@Urban_Flux4 жыл бұрын
ah my first ever graphics card, the TNT2..... happy days, still got it somewhere haha
@noth6064 жыл бұрын
Phil Underhill plenty of people still use older hardware for various purposes from low end desktop computing to retro gaming. I would say for most people using a TNT2 Ultra of GeForce 256 a lot would probably be a bad thing as they are rare to find in working condition and expensive these days. I don't have those specific cards in my own collection but I do have a Voodoo 2 12mb and a Voodoo 5 that I definitely will be using when I get to that specific build. For the proper Quake experience of course :-). I have various retro setups with complete era correct hardware that I play games on but usually I set one up and play it for a few weeks to scratch the itch of playing some specific game and then I move on to something else until the itch for a game from that specific era hits again.
@tycho70063 жыл бұрын
@@noth606 That sounds cool! I'm hoping to put together a high end late 90s or year 2000 gaming PC build with a Voodoo 3 some day for some classic games that are kind of a pain to run on modern hardware and for that nostalgic feel
@thedeadhp4 жыл бұрын
YESSSSS PIXEL PIPES WE MISSED YOU
@bleeb13472 жыл бұрын
I remember when I bought this card! You didn’t cover how a simple software mod allowed you to install Quadro drivers and you got a hefty bump in OpenGL performance.
@RETROHardware4 жыл бұрын
Good to see you back in action.
@registrazioniduemillaotton60304 жыл бұрын
we want crossover episode!!!
@wiliusundefined86664 жыл бұрын
I'm super glad, you're finally back! I really missed you! BTW, I really enjoyed this video. One can clearly see, that you put a lot of effort into your videos. Your videos are beyond awesome. You definitely deserve more subscribers. I'm very pleased. Thank you sir!
@LeeMc0073 жыл бұрын
Hi, thanks for your video on the Geforce 256, you really do deserve more subs, there is some excellent material on your channel, keep them coming, the retro scene is growing all the time. Although I've seen this before I came back to it as I recently nabbed a 256 DDR card off everyone's favourite auction site for pence (badly listed) and other than a good clean and get the fan working again it's been great fun to play with, my collection is getting quite extensive now (though obviously not anything like your own) but is mostly earlier stuff from 96-03 era(the best era....of course), need to concentrate more on the ATI stuff now as that is lagging behind, I'll probably sell some of the cards I've got more than one of to fund that exercise. Thanks again, great retro channel.
@LeeMc0073 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, my first 3d accelerator was a Creative 3D Blaster PCI (Verite) which upgraded my Spackard Bell p100 system from the terrible Cirrus Logic on board graphics haha
@kai9904 жыл бұрын
Great Video! Love how you actually talk about the card and its specs rather than just comparing benchmarks and talking about those.
@fhaarkas4 жыл бұрын
What a great trip down the memory lane. You earn a new sub.
@alexandar6664 жыл бұрын
I had one. Chagned out a Riva TNT. Brings back wonderful memories
@yuri42814 жыл бұрын
It was very exciting to see an update from you in my subscriptions and this video didn’t disappoint. I don’t know of anyone else who covers vintage pc gaming hardware with the style and quality that you do. Thank you for sharing.
@Stermy57HW4 жыл бұрын
Great one man! Welcome back! In terms of raw power Radeon win hands down. This performance gap was present even on later gpu. Only in 2006 with G80 nvidia takes the first place.
@RiasatSalminSami4 жыл бұрын
Nice you are back! I love your gpu videos.
@willl45754 жыл бұрын
Hey man, great to see you making a video again thx I look forward to more, your channel is awesome and pretty unique ! Take care
@vBDKv2 жыл бұрын
3Dfx blew my mind. I bought a Matrox Mystique which was fine, but when I saw my classmate play Quake on a 3Dfx card, it just blew my mind. Everything was running butter smooth, even more so compared to my Matrox. I stuck with my first 3Dfx for quite a while, then finally upgrading to a 3Dfx Banshee which did not require a 2D card at all. Amazing :p I honestly cannot remember my first Geforce card, but it was probably the 256.
@soylentgreenb4 жыл бұрын
I don't remember it that way. The first "3D" games were essentially grid based dungeon crawler/mazes with line drawings from the 4 cardinal directions, where you moved in discrete steps (e.g. wizardry 1). Then came 3D line drawings with free look (e.g. Elite), while dungeon crawlers moved on to texturing the fixed perspective mazes. Then came untextured polygon 3D graphics; e.g. stunt car 3d, hunter, star glider, space rogue. Then came proper textured 3D with games like ultima underworld; while action games like wolfenstein 3D moved to the 2.5D you mentioned for speed. But wolfenstein 3D was inspired to use textures by an early ultima underworld demo; carmack thought he could do it much faster with a simple raycasting and column scaling engine by skipping elevation differences, slopes, off-angle walls, level-over-level geometry, ceiling textures, floor textures, looking upwards and downwards, jumping, falling, swimming, sloped walls etc. that were all in Ultima underworld and yes he could do that, and it was the right choice for a shooter, but he was not first. What ultima underworld lacked however was a proper perspective correct texturing routine. That was too expensive for a 386 because of the texture divide. It first used a tile based system to do high level culling. After culling it generated all the polygons and transformed their vertices into view space. For each polygon being drawn they chose on the fly an algorithm based on distance and normal direction, an iffy approximations like affine texture mapping.
@TheGhost5704 жыл бұрын
thats nuts you were still able to find the cards and all the info on those cards good Job!
@SteelSkin6674 жыл бұрын
The Geforce DDR was only released two months after the Geforce 256, and the Radeon 7000 a mere 6 months after the GF256. It's amazing how fast technology progressed at the time.
@deviantv1ral4 жыл бұрын
No kidding, we just got a voodoo 3 maybe been a year and my brother told me about the geforce. When I got to the store geforce 2 was out.
@gordonfreeman3204 жыл бұрын
Awesome video. Love your content.
@Hanneth2 жыл бұрын
The fun part about the GeForce 256 cards is the later drivers tried to detect your CPU and speed and would disable hardware T&L if it determined your CPU would handle it faster. This was reported by nVidia, not discovered. It did this mostly because if you pushed the Texture Units and T&L engine hard the card would overheat. It would lie to the programs saying that you were still using hardware T&L. Apparently this did not work with some CPUs at there are people saying that the herdware T&L is holding back performance on their Pentium 4 CPUs. The solution to this was to install 3D-Analyze 2.36, which would do the same thing the driver was supposed to be doing. Basically, the CPUs coming out at the same times at the GeForce 256 were fast enough to process everything and the T&L faster than the onboard T&L could transform polygons. The GeForce 2 didn't have the overheating problem, and had a much more efficient T&L engine.
@PixelPipes2 жыл бұрын
Interesting. I haven't heard about this.
@kirbyswarp4 жыл бұрын
Production quality through the roof. Welcome back.
@metti1364 жыл бұрын
Saab ❤
@kinbbink64354 жыл бұрын
Amazing return to the channel mate, well done!
@ching-chenhuang81194 жыл бұрын
Good to see you back!!!
@santiagoibarra11374 жыл бұрын
I watched quite few videos about the GeForce 256, but yours it's the best BY FAR. I'm so happy to discover this channel, subbed!
@kallamamran4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the nostalgic journey!
@eljavisaenz4 жыл бұрын
so well explained man!!! thnx for your hard work
@ghanz844 жыл бұрын
Geforce SDR was the 1st graphic card I bought. I remember overclocking my Gigabyte variant to 150mhz (GPU) & 200mhz (VRam). Great card which I eventually replaced with a Radeon 8500 64mb 2 years later.
@mystical44424 жыл бұрын
Glad to see you uploading again.
@Ivan-pr7ku4 жыл бұрын
A curious fact about GeForce 256 T&L capability is that it was only possible to accelerate one light source (out of 8 supported in hardware, following the OGL standard specs). The rest of the light sources were serialized and this can be observed in one of the feature tests in 3DMark 2001.
@Shmey4 жыл бұрын
I actually had one of these. I also fired up the GeForce demo suite (on my Athlon200GE, for grins) I had downloaded MANY years ago. I have no idea where this card is now. It probably went to Goodwill about 12 years ago in one of my old computers. I do still have my system with my VooDoo Rush and AWE32 (ISA slot, no less) in a storage shed in my hometown. That one uses a mouse and keyboard that predates PS/2. Brings back memories.
@chrismisc78564 жыл бұрын
Great video! I'm 37 and when I was a teen I worked at a local computer chain when these cards came out. As shown, the upgrade to a GeForce GPU was huge. Even better when the DDR option was released and we sold a TON of them. For the record, back in the day the TNT and TNT2 were great cards as well. My first GPU was a 3DFX VooDoo Banshee 16GB :-)
@kustu4 жыл бұрын
16GB? Lol I think you meant 16MB.
@PistigriloXP4 жыл бұрын
Please, don’t stop making these incredible videos! Your work is awesome! Now I’d love to see a similar video talking about the first Radeon. Ok, you already showed us its performance, but I’d love to hear from you about the architecture like you did with GeForce here.
@PixelPipes4 жыл бұрын
That was the first video I did under PixelPipes! It's a little cringy compared to my newer videos. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fpWsl5Z_dq9_i8k
@JoseSanchez-xj3xn4 жыл бұрын
I just discovered your channel recently, and you punch well above your weight class for content quality and research. Looking forward to the day you have 100k subs and beyond!
@Bsodman4 жыл бұрын
Nice to have you back
@virtualtools_30214 жыл бұрын
Glad you are back :D
@stingymcduck54504 жыл бұрын
As a kid, GeForce cards were mythical animals here in my country, you couldn't find one anywhere. When I finally found one (a Geforce2 MX, oh man!) I was so excited to get it, only to learn the hard way about bottlenecking. In those days I had a K6-2 450Mhz and the performance I got from that card wasnt better than the performance I got from my old Trident Blade 3D. But that only happened on Direct3D games, because openGL games like Quake 2 or MDK 2 saw a massive boost, even allowing me to use antialiasing, another magic trick that could get rid of pixels (ok, you gotta understand, it was the 90s, everything was new and impressive those days).
@walterw82233 жыл бұрын
Got a new PC late 1999, with the fastest consumer graphics card ever, Riva TNT 2 Ultra. A few weeks later Geforce 256 released, and soon after the DDR version. While there is really never a perfect time to buy new PC-hardware, some times sure are better than others.
@mauriciochacon2 жыл бұрын
The funny thing is that i remember everyone saying that GPUs with t&l would require less cpu power, to this day that is a lie, you need always a good great cpu to avoid bottlenecks
@SargeantRho3 жыл бұрын
thanks for the informative video! i was curious about the beginning of gpu era!
@Quietruck4 жыл бұрын
Good to see you back Nathan.
@mszymcza4 жыл бұрын
Glad you're back
@Carstuff1114 жыл бұрын
It is great to see you back to making videos! I love watching these show down type videos of older hardware, and what these old graphics cards can really do when they have more than enough CPU to back them :)
@foxxy462139 ай бұрын
Makes you think if these can do so much more with a modern CPU imagine what a modern GPU could do with a CPU from 20y later in the future.
@SubOxyde4 жыл бұрын
I just discovered you and was a bit disheartened that I saw you weren't still making videos. I am extremely delighted to be wrong about that now. Absolutely love your content! Keep at it man!
@FalconFour4 жыл бұрын
“None choked harder than the TNT2 Ultra, which screamed the entire time for the sweet release of death.” 12:40 Smashed that sub button 😂
@mondskiez3094 жыл бұрын
Remember seeing the Nvidia Geforce 256 on a magazine in 2000 and I was drooling over its claimed power, coming from a Riva TNT user myself.. Oh what happy days of old indeed..
@Disobeyedtoast4 жыл бұрын
I just found you yesterday and today you upload a video for the first time in 10 months! Incredible timing!
@honshitsu2 жыл бұрын
Had one, not only made a big difference in games but in softwares as 3dsmax and softimage
@soniclab-cnc4 жыл бұрын
I had a couple of these. It was pretty awesome back then.
@KevinSills7 күн бұрын
I love your videos, I always learn something new, and for an old guy like me these videos are pure gold. I bought my first computer in 1997, added a Monster 3D card a month later, and the rest is history. I upgraded video cards, and computers; but, eventually I could not play my old games on the newer hardware I had as by then had a high end computer running Windows 10. I could have used emulators; but, I wanted old hardware instead. I now have two Windows 98 PC's, and one Windows XP PC. I collected alot of games, on the Windows 98 machines I run a Geforce FX5200 card, on the other a Quadro FX1100, both utilize nGlide. I'm 63 now and I'll enjoy this hobby until the day I die! LOL :)
@PixelPipes6 күн бұрын
I mean hell, that's all it's really about! That's awesome that you're keeping it going
@FullyBuffered4 жыл бұрын
Dude, 73K views!! Congrats, it's well deserved! :D
@PixelPipes4 жыл бұрын
Thanks man!
@snetmotnosrorb39464 жыл бұрын
104 226 at the end of 17 May :)
@cassandralyris49184 жыл бұрын
Great to see you back. I was really surprised by the notification. The video was a fun romp down memory lane too.
@NSAspyvans9 ай бұрын
something I just recently found out the Reality Co-Processor(GPU) in the N64 does Transformation and Lighting. crazy right
@TerenceA725 ай бұрын
I remember when GPU meant Geometry Processing Unit not just as a general term for a 'Graphics Card' I was saying to a friend a while back how the terms use had changed but couldn't find much online about it at the time (I didn't exactly deep dive lol), nice to see a vid confirming I'm not totally crazy haha
@GP-qb9hi4 жыл бұрын
My first GPU was a S3 Trio, followed by a TNT2... next was GeForce 2 Ti.... years later I got myself a 256 as a historical reminder. I still have it on my shelf.
@Sevapcici4 жыл бұрын
Remember not being able to play the first CoD back then, because I had a TNT2 which didn't support Hardware T&L. :(
@leathernluv4 жыл бұрын
Just the way I remembered it all. Fun video!
@jcfb14704 жыл бұрын
Surprised to see a new video from you. Welcome back!
@PointlessGameBugs4 жыл бұрын
Finally, KZbin recommendations for once worked an delivered me this gem. Subbed!
@TheColdbrews3 жыл бұрын
Yeah the GeForce 256 was pretty amazing when it came out. I got it for unreal tournament.
@timdahl4 жыл бұрын
Cool vid! I still remember my first discreet card, the Geforce4 MX 440!
@LastOneLeft994 жыл бұрын
I upgraded from a Voodoo 3 2000 to the GeForce DDR. Amazing leap. I had a monitor that went up to 1600x1200 and some games were playable at that resolution but 1024x768 was the sweet spot. I think my GeForce DDR would OC from 120 to 140
@daehxxiD4 жыл бұрын
So glad to see you are back! Your videos are extremely entertaining and make me feel like a little kid again, perusing all the different tech and gaming magazines and reading about all the cool stuff that is about to come out. The Geforce 256 was actually the first real GPU (haha) I got for myself. Even though I actually wanted a Voodoo all the time, my local shop talked me into it as he said it was "the future"; guess he was right!
@schtive814 жыл бұрын
I bought an ASUS Geforce 256 "V6600" with 32MB of RAM back in 1999, when it was new. I really had no idea what I wanted and asked the clerk what the "best current one" was... and he pointed me to the Geforce 256. It was pricey, but I had the disposable income. I was a teenager at the time. I took it home and installed it myself. The card really impressed me. I still have it too. But might not be working correctly.
@Warp10TV4 жыл бұрын
Wow! I remember that time very well. This card was a monster. I had Voodoo Banshee 16Mb 3dfx 🙂
@emp.splash4 жыл бұрын
Loved the video! Provides context and a bit of history to this card, and the suite of benchmarks includes some great titles from that era. Also, gotta say, I'm surprised to see that Radeon DDR 64MB doing so well in the tests.
@PixelPipes4 жыл бұрын
Love the Radeon, but unfortunately its competition in 2000 was the GeForce2 GTS, and against that it was handily outmatched.
@emp.splash4 жыл бұрын
@@PixelPipes Yeah, noticed that after looking it up and stumbling upon an older video of yours.
@fishsauce22214 жыл бұрын
I have a functioning (at least when I last turned it off) 3dfx card in my possession. It is one of those accelerator cards that sit between the screen card and the screen. You connect a vga cable between the screen card and the accelerator card and insert the screen vga cable in to the accelerator card. I never really noticed any acceleration but more games did work and could be played. And Quake 1, that takes me back. Quake 1 was just a dream to play. Played it so many times. I dont know where the computer is though. Really hope my mom havent thrown it away.
@theangel5404 жыл бұрын
Glad to have hear "SGI" on another retro video. When OpenGL already have hardwares who can handle all floating points operations, transformations, at this era ... SGI reality engine... Max impact... Infinite reality... SGI V12 GPU... And on X86 before NV10 with intergraph Realizm cards (less fillrate but with optionals geometry accelerators ... Lynx 3/4 etc). There is another world behind DirectX at this time named OpenGL ^_^
@Tangobaldy4 жыл бұрын
Shame this video was filmed on a potato cam to demonstrate graphics 😜🥔🥔🥔 but on a serious note are you software zooming in when your panning across the video cards? The 30fps looks fuzzy.
@Z0ku4 жыл бұрын
Great documentary about the history/start of the GPU! Good work, keep it coming!
@lemagreengreen4 жыл бұрын
I remember this card coming out at a time people were still clinging onto their Voodoo2's (often SLI) and Voodoo3's and it was pretty much the signal that Nvidia were going to be the way to go in the future. Many had already ditched the 3dfx cards for a TNT2Ultra since they came in AGP flavour and the Geforce 256 was definitely the card to suddenly own if you could afford yet another upgrade - felt like we did nothing but upgrade in the late 90s! I clung onto the TNT2Ultra until the Geforce2 GTS came out, it was a big jump in performance.
@DFX2KX4 жыл бұрын
I remember walking into a Maximum PC sometime around 2000-2001, And Voodoo3 cards where stacked on the wall, but the Nvidia stuff was behind glass, with the newest card (I recall it being the Geforce 2, not sure which version exactly) being set up high like it was some sort of shrine. Mom quipped that she bet it was expensive, to which I confirmed that it was worth more then the IBM Aptiva I had at the time, monitor, keyboard, *working* zip drive and all.
@GraveUypo4 жыл бұрын
i went from a voodoo2, to voodoo2 sli (when my brother bought his geforce2 gts) then geforce 2 gts. honestly, the pair of voodoo 2s were still more than adequate at the time. all i played was unreal tournament and even a single voodoo2 ran that great paired with my 700mhz atlhon, only in 16 bits and 640x480. the pair of voodoos allowed me to go to 800x600 (even 1024x768, but that had some image quality degradation that i can't remember exactly but i prefered 800x600 because of it) and the geforce let me get 1280x960
@armorgeddon4 жыл бұрын
GeForce 256 was a joke for how much they cost plus they ran unstable on Super Socket 7 platforms by my experience. You also could not play any Glide-only game. Seriously until GeForce 2 you were much better of with 3dfx hardware in practice. GeForce 2 you could say was on par with V5 in regards to that. 3dfx's next gen would've had T&L also, so Nvidia being "the future" was not clear at all. Only the death of Glide was for sure since D3D became good enough.
@antgrsimos4 жыл бұрын
Congrats great flashback. I lived that era... and beyond. I think the next leap from nv was 8800GTX.
@MikeStavola4 жыл бұрын
yay! you're back!
@lronMan884 жыл бұрын
You’re back! 💪🏻😁 Man your content is real high quality. It’s like a time machine back to my childhood 😅 Keep up this awesome content, everything is perfect, voice, video editing and so on, hope to see more content next days 😄
@3DGECASE4 жыл бұрын
Interesting to see NFS:PU as a benchmark. I've only ever seen a single benchmark comparison with that game, on some German site's 2007 article of Voodoo 5 6000 benchmarks, on a page that is not accessible from the main article (not in the the dropdown menu of pages, and clicking next on the previous page skips the NFS page). I needed that page to confirm that my Radeon 9250 (cutdown from the 8500 that they used) could run the game, as my GF6800GT refuses to under Win98.
@donkmeister4 жыл бұрын
In the UK the original GeForce came out without much in the way of fanfare by modern standards. There weren't loads of magazine (ha, remember them?) articles leading up to the release, it just sort of... appeared. Before that, the 3DFX Voodoo 2 was king, but all of a sudden, there in the pricelists, was this new "GPU" that cost three times (!) what a Voodoo 2 did but came from the second-place manufacturer. Those ads describing what a GPU does came a little later, and really started to drive interest in what this new card could do. The first time I saw a GeForce 256 in action was when my brother could stand it no longer and plonked one on his credit card. Amazing! At the time those 3D demos looked "almost" photo-realistic.
@no_dissasemble4 жыл бұрын
Finally a new video, Thank you.
@Arivia14 жыл бұрын
So glad you’re back! Hope you’re well and doing okay.
@mrtwinky2007 Жыл бұрын
KZbin removed my like for the second time so i've readded it again
@PearComputingDevices4 жыл бұрын
I have the Quadro version of this card, and for playing old games... especially ms-dos titles it's fantastic. Since it's low profile the card fits well in my Optiplex gx 270, I've also upgraded the cpu to a P4 3.0 with a full 800 mhz quad pumped FSB. Ironically around the time this unit was released I was running an AMD Athlon 3200+ on a rock solid Nvidia Nforce 2 motherboard by MSI. That dual channel ram would run it's built in video every bit as fast as a standard Geforce 4mx 440. Especially when overclocked. It was a good era of hardware.
@dave4shmups4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating video! Thanks for making it!
@AlbertoMontesSoto4 жыл бұрын
as a side note... Radeons had memory compression tricks... zbuffer if I remember well
@PixelPipes4 жыл бұрын
Yep! They definitely have an advantage.
@colin_actually4 жыл бұрын
I had a Geforce 256 DDR to go along with my 700Mhz Athlon. Ah, what a rig that was! Fond memories.
@infinity2z3r074 жыл бұрын
First of all, awesome video. Late 90s/early 2000s really was the golden age of PC gaming. Also I actually just started playing slavezero. Had no idea there was a benchmark!
@PixelPipes4 жыл бұрын
The "benchmark" is just letting the intro of the game run while recording the fps with FRAPS or MSI Afterburner. Works quite well! (aside from the 1% lows being misread)
@RolanTheBrave4 жыл бұрын
I had a geforce 256 when it first came out! I had to wait a while for my pc to be built, as the company had to wait for delivery, it was so new.
@RolanTheBrave4 жыл бұрын
The pc also had a first gen athlon, at a whopping 600mhz
@LastOneLeft994 жыл бұрын
I went from the Voodoo 3 2000 to the GeForce DDR. Playing at 1600x1200 blew my mind
@matel855 Жыл бұрын
yeah, I remember back then my gf 256 was good enough for playing modern games until 2004 without shaders, its revolutionary for sure, but playing on voodoo 1 in 97 or on voodoo2 sli in 98 was most special period in 3d accelerated pc gaming history
@dirkmirk7674 жыл бұрын
Good to see you back man, I was getting a bit worried that you out of the youtube space! Keep em coming!
@revnto7k4 жыл бұрын
Very cool video. Brings back memories.. Good memories! This was the glory days of PC building and tweaking for sure. I had a TNT2 Ultra, then a GeForce DDR, Then a GeForce2 GTS.. I went ATi for a while after that, and back to nVidia. I am back to AMD graphics again. Ah good times. Thanks for the effort, great way to spend 15 mins!
@elmariachi513311 ай бұрын
A professional 80s/90s game coder could make games on current hardware, that we are likely to see in times of the Playstation 7 with current developers' qualities.
@qubex4 жыл бұрын
I had a GLINT and later a 3DFX Voodoo. I never had a GeForce card because later on I got an ATI Rage Fury. By now all those things are toys.
@roger.monitor4 жыл бұрын
It's good to see you back, great review !
@ericsalidbar16934 жыл бұрын
great work! Definitely earned my sub!
@PatrickChapmanuk4 жыл бұрын
Yes I had the Geforce 64MB card in 2000. Loved playing Serious Sam 2