Since Kyle is getting all wet-eyed with nostalgia, I remember when I got HL2. The source bundle came with my 9600 pro. HOLY FUCK that card was a monster. I never actually played HL2 until like 10 years later. The rest of my life was all about Counter-Strike Source. The 9600 pro was so baller I tossed all my Nvidia cards. For some reason Toms hardware has them ranked with the 4k Nvidia series, but frankly I didn't see a decent performance boost from Nvidia until the 5700 series and even then I wasn't impressed. My main rig had a 9800 pro and all my Lan boxes had 9600 pros or 9700s.



Then I went back to all Nvidia when they came out with the 8800GTs. My problem with in Nvidia as noted in the sig is those mutherfuckers just kept rebadging the same core all the way through to the 250GT I believe. Just endless rebadges.



The problem with the 8800s and that era is I could always unlock the firmware and overclock my cards to get the exact same speeds as the higher tiers.



I bought a bunch of those PNY 9600 GSO 768? I need to go look. Its the one you could unlock to 9800 Ultra speeds.



Then Ati sucked until the 280x which was pretty fucking awesome.



(Its the G92 I think)