On 8/30/24 5:50 PM, bent fender wrote:
I will probably give it away when I buy an AMD card one but it still has to work until then and even beyond for a new owner (probably one of my grandchildren).
Lol, I still have a stack of basically all video cards I've bought from the VGA days, 1991 ish? Number-9 Video -- remember them?. All the ATI cards, all the Nvidia cards - back when they were made like tanks with killer graphics over the PCB and 1/2 lb. copper heat-sinks. One day I'll make a glass enclosure for then and relegate them to wall-art. Remember the VLB (Vesa Local-bus) interface. Actually more capable than PCI which won-the-day, but more expensive to build. (like VHS and BetaMax) I probably have 20-25 cards (3 kids worth for each generation of card). Last set of discards were the Nvidia 980GTX. This was the generation that finally sucked more power than I wanted to give for including them in general server boxes, etc.. I'm happy with the 560GTX there. My favorite cards are the old fanless ATI cards -- but now they cause a kernel-panic on reboot -- so they were retired. I don't game, so all I care about is the occasional stable video. My choice of video card is -- whatever is left over after the last upgrade done to the kids boxes (or whatever I like in the bone-pile :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.