• h6a@beehaw.org
        6·
        11 months ago

        Damn, I hope you got a good payout. The logo is for a taiwanese foundry called Silicon Integrated Systems; they used to make very cheap chipsets and stuff like that.

      • h6a@beehaw.org
        3·
        11 months ago

        My first “multimedia” computer back in '99 had an integrated SiS VGA card, with an amazing 8MB video RAM.

        Before that, my computer was a keyboard-only monochrome 386 with windows 3.1

        Yes, my back is killing me but my knees are surprisingly ok.

    • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
      4·
      11 months ago

      There was a 15 minute window where the 735 was the best Socket A chipset on the market.

      Unfortunately, they couldn’t get past cheapo ECS mainboards.

    • ChrysanthemumIndica@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      11 months ago

      Thank you for the memory! The first “retail” card I ever purchased (from a small town computer shop), literally just said AGP Graphics Adapter on the box… and inside was a delightfully generic SiS board, with which I had many fun hours.

  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
    15·
    11 months ago

    I love being 46 and in relatively good health. I remember ATI and nothing aches (งツ)ว

  • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    11 months ago

    ATI 9800 pro held a special place in my heart. If I remember correctly it’s what I played half life 2 on.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 months ago

      IIRC that was the ideal GPU to play Half-life 2. My 9700m could not keep up. I was only 16 at the time, so I fell for the lies from the DELL salesman when I was buying my first gaming machine for that game. He told me that mobile GPUs are almost as good as desktop GPUs, and that the 9700m was almost as good as the 9800 desktop card. It was not.

      Barely got 30 FPS on medium, and I couldn’t run it at the laptop’s native resolution of 1900x1200. Had to settle for 1280x800 and the crappy upscaling of the time.

      I worked my ass off an entire summer for that stupid brick of a laptop (it was a first gen XPS, BTW), and it couldn’t even do 60 FPS in the latest games. I was betrayed so hard by that purchase that I learned how to build my own PCs so I’d never have to settle for an overpriced “gaming” laptop ever again.

      • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        Oh jeez. Fuck that salesman. :( That’s an awful thing to do to a kid. Money comes so hard at that age.

        I had a self build and a decent CRT at the time so scaling wasn’t an issue but I remember how horrible it was in those days on LCDs. It actually put me off moving from the CRT for a long time.

        I definitely overclocked that card and it was really good for that even on the stock cooler but I do vaguely remember it struggling with HL2. I can’t remember what CPU I had so that could have been the bottleneck.

  • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
    12·
    11 months ago

    Mid 40s and the two weeks my buddy lent me his voodoo 2, which was CPU-INDEPENDENT, were some of the best times I had playing FF7 on my DX4. I should have my prostate checked.

  • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
    12·
    11 months ago

    I remember the Voodoo brand cards, so not only do my back and knees hurt, but I should probably start getting my prostate checked.