Who remembers ATI?

The ATI HD4870 was my last ATI card, but my first major card (previous card was a GeForce 9600GSO, which I sold to someone on here). But yes, it was weird to then buy an AMD HD6870.
 
Darren said:
This thread amuses me, simply because I pretty much didn't know what ATI was until after they were already gone.
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My dad's always bought Nvidia cards. First GPU was a GeForce Ti 4200, then a GeForce 8400GS. The latter stuck around until my dad bought an iMac in 2009 (with some already outdated Radeon card), and I built my first rig in 2014 (AMD 860K / R9 280X).
 
My very first graphics card was an ATI Mach64 4MB VRAM, purchased in 1995. I've also owned a couple of Matrox Mystique cards. Since then I have switched back and forth between AMD and NVIDIA.
 
beers said:
Fixed that for you ;)
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I used to have two 6950s in Crossfire but when I installed my memory card reader a few months after I got the PC I made the rookie mistake of working on carpet... I had to take out the bottom 6950 card because it hovered over the USB header I needed, and where did I put the card at? I set it aside... on the carpet... while I worked. I put the carpet-card back in the PC and it made a noise then never worked again. So I only had one card after that but without two cards in crossfire I never really noticed any difference in performance at all so I'm not mad.
 
The VCR King said:
I used to have two 6950s in Crossfire but when I installed my memory card reader a few months after I got the PC I made the rookie mistake of working on carpet... I had to take out the bottom 6950 card because it hovered over the USB header I needed, and where did I put the card at? I set it aside... on the carpet... while I worked. I put the carpet-card back in the PC and it made a noise then never worked again. So I only had one card after that but without two cards in crossfire I never really noticed any difference in performance at all so I'm not mad.
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If you didn't notice a difference you weren't doing Crossfire right.
 
Darren said:
If you didn't notice a difference you weren't doing Crossfire right.
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In GPU-Z I remember it said Crossfire: On so I assumed it was working.

Laquer Head said:
Even though its AMD we are talking about, there should have been some degree of performance boost, slight though..
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Might have been slight, because I didn't notice any decrease after I killed the card. But remember, this is back in 2014 when I didn't know crap about computers (I mean for christ's sake I put a $300 component on CARPET!) and I've learned more since then. If this happened recently maybe I would have noticed a decrease but back then I didn't realize any difference.
 
The VCR King said:
In GPU-Z I remember it said Crossfire: On so I assumed it was working.


Might have been slight, because I didn't notice any decrease after I killed the card. But remember, this is back in 2016 when I didn't know crap about computers (I mean for christ's sake I put a $300 component on CARPET!) and I've learned more since then. If this happened recently maybe I would have noticed a decrease but back then I didn't realize any difference.
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I was more razzing @Darren .. but I've edited your post for you...it's like a 2 for 1 razzing!
 
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