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Behold, the NVIDIA 8800 GT.

>> No.10889123
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>>10888697
It is the graphics that powered my time with World of Warcraft. I really did like BFG Tech in those days, but I think my 8800GT was from eVGA paired with the parts in this pic. It was a good card that was inexpensive yet lasted for many years.

>> No.10889363

Bootleg-ass voodoo aesthetic

>> No.10889457

>>10888697
Truly the 1080 of ou're generation.

>> No.10889463

>>10888697
not retro

>> No.10889541

>>10889123
>copper fins and heatpipe on the motherboard
we need to bring this back, it's so much better than the giant iron blocks they slap on them nowadays. Hell I can just put 15+ year old aluminium heatsinks on the motherboard VMRs and it cools them better than the crap they put on them by default.

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>>10889123
based, I had the 8800gts 512 also.

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>>10889541
VRMs should have proper cooling and the large heatsinks should have enough surface area to dissipate the heat. What attracted me to that motherboard was the integrated Soundblaster chip on the lower left above the VIA chip, as I would have gotten something from Creative anyway.

>>10889601
Yeah, the 8800 cards were so good that they just repackaged them again for the 9000 line and hoped no one would notice.

>> No.10890128

>>10888697
geforce 8800 was incredible

>> No.10890157

>>10889463
Who made you the authority on what's retro?

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I was late to the party; my first dedicated GPU that I bought was a GTX 460

>> No.10890223

no win98 drivers so its garbage

>> No.10890525

>>10890157
You will immediately cease and not continue to access the site if you are under the age of 18.

>> No.10890558

>>10890525
But enough about you.

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I wanted a XFX 8600 GTS so bad, but my parents refused to buy one

>> No.10890630

There was nothing like buying one of these and playing CS:Source, HL2 and mods on max graphics.

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>>10888697
Ah yes, the Geforce 8800 series. The first GPU to introduce 100 degree temps as a standard feature.
How many of you guys ended up doing the oven trick on your cards? I did mine once, worked for another nine months after that.

>> No.10890747

>>10890119
shit, you had the 6800 also? So did I!
I did the pencil mod and got a free 6800 ultra out of it too!

>> No.10890751

>>10890648
yep, had to re-flow my card also. only did it once and it was good for a 6 months or so until i upgraded to a radeon 5870.