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I can remember growing up my Dad purchased a new Pentium 133, this must have been around 1995/1996. It was absolutely cutting edge machine at the time and had a
by bigger_cheese 8y ago
I can remember growing up my Dad purchased a new Pentium 133, this must have been around 1995/1996. It was absolutely cutting edge machine at the time and had a "S3 trio" PCI card in it. I have vague memories of playing Quake on it and being blown away at the graphics. A few years later 3dFX Glide cards were cutting edge for gaming.
I started university around that time stopped following gaming/computer hardware scene but really felt to me like Nvidia came from absolutely nowhere.
- IrishJourno 8y agoThe big "wow, things have changed" moment for me was back when I saw Nividia put up a giant booth/pavilion at CES, not by the computer or gaming folks, but in the automative hall (which had previously been something of a sideshow to the main CES halls).
- agumonkey 8y agoI spent all my money on a nv3 chip. It was so fast that it made games easy. I was used to precompute mentally every move because of low fps and lag. It probably also changed how physics were simulated in old games (lower time resolution probably introduced wilder results). nvidia felt like an odd company, it was small and unknown, unlike Ati or Matrox. But their chip were cheap and competitive with champion 3dfx. Still impressive how they stretched markets from toys to the highest sophistication.
- carroccio 8y ago3dfx with vga passthrough were the real life changers thanks to advanced texture rendering. Still poly were not anti-aliased. It was a real paradigm change and captured a majority (>80%) of the market. If you remember the game Turok with and without Voodoo you lived that days :)
- MrBuddyCasino 8y agoThat was a huge improvement, unmatched by anything that came after. Maybe the move to multi-core cpus comes close.