Geforce 3 was a revolutionary card thanks to shaders. I still remember how blown away I was when I first saw the 3D Mark 2001 "nature" demo, it looked like CGI movie to me. I had GF3ti200 128MB model (OC'ed above GF3 clocks) and compared to my previous card TNT2m64 32MB this thing was a monster. My framerate in quake 3 at 1600x1200x32 jumped from 5-10fps to around 70-100fps. Back then 2 years in GPU technology was like 10 years now, you could buy a new PC and soon it was obsolete :P. The Xbox console also had Geforce 3 and because of that developers started using shaders in pretty much every Xbox exclusive. Soon, Xbox games such as Splinter Cell, Enclave and Morrowind were being ported to the PC, raising the bar in terms of graphics. IMO splinter cell 1 still looks pleasing to my eyes despite 2 decades thanks to geforce 3 technology.
Indeed! I love this era of gaming. I think it was when games really became impressive with open worlds and in game CGI and what not. Thanks for your comment.
Excellent review. I never had any GF3's but only the GF2 GTS, and GF2 Ultra. Later owned a kick butt GF4 ti4200. Was longing for a GF3 ti500 back then, but never bought one...
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Wow the GF2 GTS and Ultra were amazing video cards at the time. In 2000 I bought a voodoo 5 and I kept thinking that it would be better if I had gotten the GF2 GTS, but it was like 100 dollars more expensive. GeForce 4 ti is a great series of video cards as well, I enjoy them very much, they are raw power beasts. I have a video of the GF 4 ti 4600, I keep looking for the 4200 and 4400 but they don't come up for sale very often down here. Have a great weekend, thanks for watching!
@@SUCRA for sure, I'd weary of doing that now - but I remember at the time people said some models of ti200s were just downclocked ti500s to fit the market gap. Lasted me a good amount of time that card, very fond of the Geforce 3
Killer video as always. Love the subject at hand but just have to commend the pacing, narration and composition. Top tier stuff! Never had the GeForce 3 myself so this was quite educational to say the least.
Great video , I have lots of Geforce 3 cards they come in all flavours and colours. I recommend anyone buying one to get the Geforce 3. all are likely to Overclock to Geforce 3 Ti 500 speeds , and if your experienced with soldering you can Resistor mod a Geforce 3 to Ti 500. All those people back in the day who got a good binned Ti 200 and ran it at Ti 500 speeds got there moneys worth, you don't see this kind of stuff today with graphics cards! Ps , my fav Geforce 3 card is Gainward GS Geforce 3 (Ruby red PCB and heatsink)
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I just love these video cards, they are pretty, functional, reliable, so good that it's rare I find one for sale down here. But yeah, thanks for watching, congrats on your collection, it's really cool.
great video again! i have a few GF3 cards and need to play around with them. i was a bit surprised to see the CPU at 100% in most games, but still the big brother wasn't hold back it.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I don't know what's up with the CPU use on Afterburner with the A64 754, I don't think that number is right. I have tested the 9600 pro and 9800 pro with good results on the last video, so there is lots of room for the GF3s. Thanks for watching!
Another great video, and excellent comparation i truly didn't know that Ti was inferior to regular GF3 ! Did not owned ever any of GF3 cards kind skipped that generation. I tested in Aquamark 3 ATI 9200 SE 128 mb, that i picked up yesterday, and it scored 909 ponts. Test system : P- IV - 2.9 GHZ Prescot 2x 512 GB DDD 400 MHZ MBO : Asus P5VDC-X This card came with this system i picked up for 10 euros.
@@SUCRA 5 euros + 5 euros postage, it was listed as PC and that is it, Also it came in funky cheep PC case that looks like canister with handle. Never ever had a 775 MBO with AGP and PCI-E and well i decide to pick it up. And another 9200 se came up, that card was value card in my country back in days. Thanks for content man its really good.
@@RaPtOr9600 Great buy! I have seen those motherboard but the ones I saw were not compatible with core 2 duos, only up to pentium 4s, so I didn't pull the trigger on those as my AGP A64 already is in that performance range. I'm glad you enjoy it man, it's my pleasure really. Have a great weekend.
@@SUCRA Sadly C2D support, really do not know why maybe because of DDR 1 and DDR 2 combo support ? But still until Athlon 64 x2 system come by or better motherboard this will do. You too enjoy weekend
Killing it mate, as per. I went from a GF2 GTS Pro to a 9700pro so never used one, except to test my recent gf3 purchase. Looking forward to using it in a build.
Quality content! Good to see that nVidia always released overpriced GPUs and if it wasn't for the competition we would be paying $600+ in videocard today! Also, I didn't remember ELSA as a videocard manufacturer.
This was the early days of Nvidia dominance. These GeForce cards were so awesome when they came out, and are the ancestors of today's modern RTX cards. It's amazing to see how much power Nvidia cards gained over the years, the technology was improving so fast. I had the privilege to try a GeForce 2 GTS a couple years ago and it was an amazing card for a Windows 98 rig. I'd love to play with one of these GeForce 3 series cards sometime. Awesome video man! 👍
Yes I thought these cards were really impressive. I wasn't expecting playing games at 1280x1024, but in period appropriate games it was no problem for them. Really cool, thanks for watching my friend.
@@dallesamllhals9161 by the time nVidia released the GF3 3dfx was like a bug in their windshield. It was a sad history but at least it looks like a clean defeat not like the Adlib - Creative shenanigans.
I remember being nuts to get my hands on a GeForce 3, as I had a pentium 3 866 128mb that year.... but my videocard was a viper II diamond ... so disappointing... but thats what I could buy as a 17year old ...
Oh yeah man those savage4 cards were pretty disappointing at the time. But they have such great box art and all in all they had an interesting proposition with the metal API. At one point I should make a video about that. But yeah, at that time I probably still had my V5 in a P3 600mhz. Anyway, thanks for watching, have a great weekend!
Intel Atom's x5 - z8300 HD Graphics scored the same as a GeForce 3 in 3D Mark 2001. Which means it should be able to play every game up to the year 2000 on the highest settings.
I feel the geforce3 series is the low key best 98se build card with that retro feel yet balanced. Not crazy overkill but balanced. The ti500 goes on the shelf and u oc the ti200 for everyday use. Ive had 3 ti500s that i have traded away which i now regret. But soon ill get another one.
Ah yes! GeForce 3 Ti500 = last time I've bought the best of the best of the best = Oct. 2001!? ..wasn't even that expensive(with inflation)...compared to now :-O EDIT: I used Win2KPro until 2008!
Are you sure, you didn't used 64-bit version? 128-bit version was for sure faster than Geforce 4 MX440. 64-bit FX5200 was not meant for games, it was lowend, and even 30% slower than regular one. It was cheapest possible GPU, so for office use. Lowest card from FX series, that was at least a bit meant for games, was FX5200 Ultra. anything lower was meant to be used as office card. FX 5200 had bad reputation because of idiots, that thinks, that when they buy lowest end of GPU, they can game actual games on it.... weird logic. If you want to game actual games, buy at least mid range card. They bough lowest of low-end, and then, were bitching it is slow and it's worst video card. They even bought 64-bit version... Actualy FX5200 128-bit, from good manufacturer, with good memory, was nice overclockable, supported newest technology, DX 8.1, and had vertex shader. So much better than Geforce MX440, for about same money, it was good card for low-end, you've got much more, than just year before in mid range. Don't understand people bashing FX5200, it was good card, when you consider history before.
@@warrax111 Yes, that was 64 bit version, but my Geforce 3 died so I just have that 64 bit version FX5200 somewhere at that time. Today I have 128 bit version of that card and its not that bad. People think the same with Intel IGP's and blaming them for performance trying at them way too new games. I know that described by you behavior, also people looked at amount of memory thinkink that card with more memory is faster like thinking about being faster 64 bit 5200 with 128 MB of memory than for example GF4Ti with 64 MB.
@@modernandretrogaming Yes, try to overclock FX5200 128-bit, and you'll see, it is faster than Geforce 4 MX460, and that's not bad from lowest of the pack card. Problem is, people expected to play late 2004 games on it, Doom 3 , Half-life 2 and Far Cry, but that was out of the league on these games. Luckily, I've found out, because I was influenced about these bashing FX5200 videos in the past, but those dudes used 64-bit version, what a noobs, lol. 128-bit version is on average 30% faster, and after overclocking, it's like 40-45% faster, and that's good for lowest of the card. If one could not afford even mid-range FX 5600, I would say, he got decent card for the money in mid 2003. Last years, it was much worse, what he's got as low-end. Like Geforce 4 MX420 or MX440 was much worse card, same for Geforce 4 MX4000. And same for Geforce 2 MX200. Lol, iin comparation with that, FX5200 128-bit was great card as low-end variant. And it was only 2 years newer.
I remember that when I had my OG GF3 and looked at entry level GPUs that came out year after year and no card was a worthy upgrade for it, if I wanted something really faster I had to bit the bullet and go to a really expensive card... So I keep using it with my Thunderbird 1.3, then with my Athlon XP 2.6 and retired it when I got my A64 3500 with PCI express and a 7800GT, so many years with that GF3, I was super happy with my new monster system and then the damn card stopped working and the warranty nightmare started... Let's just say I got f**k and had to made with a puny 7600GS for years 😂
That's the right way to do it! To use the parts to all their potential, I don't see a point in upgrading every year as some people do. I still use a 3gb 1060 in the editting rig and it works great. Sorry to hear that about your 7800gt! At this point and time I had the oposite mentality as I have today, and I swapped video cards constantly. So I owned a couple of versions of video cards during that era. 7800 is a great video card. Thanks for watching!
Geforce 3 was a revolutionary card thanks to shaders. I still remember how blown away I was when I first saw the 3D Mark 2001 "nature" demo, it looked like CGI movie to me. I had GF3ti200 128MB model (OC'ed above GF3 clocks) and compared to my previous card TNT2m64 32MB this thing was a monster. My framerate in quake 3 at 1600x1200x32 jumped from 5-10fps to around 70-100fps. Back then 2 years in GPU technology was like 10 years now, you could buy a new PC and soon it was obsolete :P.
The Xbox console also had Geforce 3 and because of that developers started using shaders in pretty much every Xbox exclusive. Soon, Xbox games such as Splinter Cell, Enclave and Morrowind were being ported to the PC, raising the bar in terms of graphics.
IMO splinter cell 1 still looks pleasing to my eyes despite 2 decades thanks to geforce 3 technology.
Indeed! I love this era of gaming. I think it was when games really became impressive with open worlds and in game CGI and what not. Thanks for your comment.
Excellent review. I never had any GF3's but only the GF2 GTS, and GF2 Ultra. Later owned a kick butt GF4 ti4200. Was longing for a GF3 ti500 back then, but never bought one...
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Wow the GF2 GTS and Ultra were amazing video cards at the time. In 2000 I bought a voodoo 5 and I kept thinking that it would be better if I had gotten the GF2 GTS, but it was like 100 dollars more expensive. GeForce 4 ti is a great series of video cards as well, I enjoy them very much, they are raw power beasts. I have a video of the GF 4 ti 4600, I keep looking for the 4200 and 4400 but they don't come up for sale very often down here. Have a great weekend, thanks for watching!
Nice one Sucra. Retro resolution video man! :)
It's not, lol. It's TH-cam fn with me. Thanks though.
@@SUCRA aye, it's done cooking now!
love the aesthetics of these cards
Me too buddy, the GF3 is such a beautiful card. Take a look at the hercules version, with the blue heatsinks, so pretty.
I used to have a Geforce3 Ti200, but it overclocked happily to Ti500 speeds :D
Oh I bet. I don't overclock my retro GPUs usually but it seems like this would be fine!
@@SUCRA for sure, I'd weary of doing that now - but I remember at the time people said some models of ti200s were just downclocked ti500s to fit the market gap. Lasted me a good amount of time that card, very fond of the Geforce 3
Another excellent comparison video!
Thank you my friend. One more to come next Friday and we are done with #GpuJune
Killer video as always. Love the subject at hand but just have to commend the pacing, narration and composition. Top tier stuff!
Never had the GeForce 3 myself so this was quite educational to say the least.
Thanks man, I'm glad you enjoyed it and I'm honored by the kind remarks. Thank you for watching. Have a great weekend and a great trip!
Oh the nostalgia. In college I picked up the GeForce 3 ti 200 on black friday at best buy for $100.
Good times!
Great video , I have lots of Geforce 3 cards they come in all flavours and colours. I recommend anyone buying one to get the Geforce 3. all are likely to Overclock to Geforce 3 Ti 500 speeds , and if your experienced with soldering you can Resistor mod a Geforce 3 to Ti 500.
All those people back in the day who got a good binned Ti 200 and ran it at Ti 500 speeds got there moneys worth, you don't see this kind of stuff today with graphics cards!
Ps , my fav Geforce 3 card is Gainward GS Geforce 3 (Ruby red PCB and heatsink)
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I just love these video cards, they are pretty, functional, reliable, so good that it's rare I find one for sale down here. But yeah, thanks for watching, congrats on your collection, it's really cool.
great video again! i have a few GF3 cards and need to play around with them. i was a bit surprised to see the CPU at 100% in most games, but still the big brother wasn't hold back it.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I don't know what's up with the CPU use on Afterburner with the A64 754, I don't think that number is right. I have tested the 9600 pro and 9800 pro with good results on the last video, so there is lots of room for the GF3s. Thanks for watching!
Nice video!
Thanks!
Another great video, and excellent comparation i truly didn't know that Ti was inferior to regular GF3 !
Did not owned ever any of GF3 cards kind skipped that generation.
I tested in Aquamark 3 ATI 9200 SE 128 mb, that i picked up yesterday, and it scored 909 ponts.
Test system :
P- IV - 2.9 GHZ Prescot
2x 512 GB DDD 400 MHZ
MBO : Asus P5VDC-X
This card came with this system i picked up for 10 euros.
Wow 10, bucks? Great deal you got there. That system can totally take a better video card, should be a lot of fun! Thanks for watching.
@@SUCRA
5 euros + 5 euros postage, it was listed as PC and that is it,
Also it came in funky cheep PC case that looks like canister with handle.
Never ever had a 775 MBO with AGP and PCI-E and well i decide to pick it up.
And another 9200 se came up, that card was value card in my country back in days.
Thanks for content man its really good.
@@RaPtOr9600 Great buy! I have seen those motherboard but the ones I saw were not compatible with core 2 duos, only up to pentium 4s, so I didn't pull the trigger on those as my AGP A64 already is in that performance range. I'm glad you enjoy it man, it's my pleasure really. Have a great weekend.
@@SUCRA
Sadly C2D support, really do not know why maybe because of DDR 1 and DDR 2 combo support ?
But still until Athlon 64 x2 system come by or better motherboard this will do.
You too enjoy weekend
Killing it mate, as per. I went from a GF2 GTS Pro to a 9700pro so never used one, except to test my recent gf3 purchase. Looking forward to using it in a build.
Oh, yeah, that was a good jump there. Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. Good luck on your build!
Quality content! Good to see that nVidia always released overpriced GPUs and if it wasn't for the competition we would be paying $600+ in videocard today! Also, I didn't remember ELSA as a videocard manufacturer.
Yeah man, absolutely. Definitely competition is fundamental. There used to be some cool video cards by Elsa. Thanks for watching!
This was the early days of Nvidia dominance. These GeForce cards were so awesome when they came out, and are the ancestors of today's modern RTX cards. It's amazing to see how much power Nvidia cards gained over the years, the technology was improving so fast. I had the privilege to try a GeForce 2 GTS a couple years ago and it was an amazing card for a Windows 98 rig. I'd love to play with one of these GeForce 3 series cards sometime. Awesome video man! 👍
Yes I thought these cards were really impressive. I wasn't expecting playing games at 1280x1024, but in period appropriate games it was no problem for them. Really cool, thanks for watching my friend.
"are the ancestors of today's modern RTX cards." = every bloody 'Green' GPU since early 2000s?
Huh? So 3dfx are for x86 3D gaming = nothing?
@@dallesamllhals9161 3dfx are not GeForce cards.
@@jikissgamer Tee-Hee! Tell that to thé FX-5000 series ;-P
@@dallesamllhals9161 by the time nVidia released the GF3 3dfx was like a bug in their windshield.
It was a sad history but at least it looks like a clean defeat not like the Adlib - Creative shenanigans.
Great series of cards. Reliable solid cards. Would have one today over a GeForce4 card. Decent performance and less chance of going bad.
Oh yeah, these puppies are reliable and don't require a lot of cooling, really nice series, thanks for watching!
I remember being nuts to get my hands on a GeForce 3, as I had a pentium 3 866 128mb that year.... but my videocard was a viper II diamond ... so disappointing... but thats what I could buy as a 17year old ...
Oh yeah man those savage4 cards were pretty disappointing at the time. But they have such great box art and all in all they had an interesting proposition with the metal API. At one point I should make a video about that. But yeah, at that time I probably still had my V5 in a P3 600mhz. Anyway, thanks for watching, have a great weekend!
Intel Atom's x5 - z8300 HD Graphics scored the same as a GeForce 3 in 3D Mark 2001. Which means it should be able to play every game up to the year 2000 on the highest settings.
Interesting!
I feel the geforce3 series is the low key best 98se build card with that retro feel yet balanced. Not crazy overkill but balanced. The ti500 goes on the shelf and u oc the ti200 for everyday use. Ive had 3 ti500s that i have traded away which i now regret. But soon ill get another one.
Good luck there, all of us have regrets like that, it's unfortunate but it's a part of the hobby. Thanks for watching.
Ah yes! GeForce 3 Ti500 = last time I've bought the best of the best of the best = Oct. 2001!? ..wasn't even that expensive(with inflation)...compared to now :-O
EDIT: I used Win2KPro until 2008!
Fun times, and what you got for the money was pretty incredible.
Such a great card, I used years ago GeForce 3 Ti200, that card was faster than FX5200 in games.
Agreed... Great cards.
Are you sure, you didn't used 64-bit version? 128-bit version was for sure faster than Geforce 4 MX440. 64-bit FX5200 was not meant for games, it was lowend, and even 30% slower than regular one. It was cheapest possible GPU, so for office use. Lowest card from FX series, that was at least a bit meant for games, was FX5200 Ultra. anything lower was meant to be used as office card. FX 5200 had bad reputation because of idiots, that thinks, that when they buy lowest end of GPU, they can game actual games on it.... weird logic. If you want to game actual games, buy at least mid range card. They bough lowest of low-end, and then, were bitching it is slow and it's worst video card. They even bought 64-bit version...
Actualy FX5200 128-bit, from good manufacturer, with good memory, was nice overclockable, supported newest technology, DX 8.1, and had vertex shader. So much better than Geforce MX440, for about same money, it was good card for low-end, you've got much more, than just year before in mid range. Don't understand people bashing FX5200, it was good card, when you consider history before.
@@warrax111 Yes, that was 64 bit version, but my Geforce 3 died so I just have that 64 bit version FX5200 somewhere at that time. Today I have 128 bit version of that card and its not that bad. People think the same with Intel IGP's and blaming them for performance trying at them way too new games. I know that described by you behavior, also people looked at amount of memory thinkink that card with more memory is faster like thinking about being faster 64 bit 5200 with 128 MB of memory than for example GF4Ti with 64 MB.
@@modernandretrogaming Yes, try to overclock FX5200 128-bit, and you'll see, it is faster than Geforce 4 MX460, and that's not bad from lowest of the pack card. Problem is, people expected to play late 2004 games on it, Doom 3 , Half-life 2 and Far Cry, but that was out of the league on these games. Luckily, I've found out, because I was influenced about these bashing FX5200 videos in the past, but those dudes used 64-bit version, what a noobs, lol.
128-bit version is on average 30% faster, and after overclocking, it's like 40-45% faster, and that's good for lowest of the card. If one could not afford even mid-range FX 5600, I would say, he got decent card for the money in mid 2003. Last years, it was much worse, what he's got as low-end. Like Geforce 4 MX420 or MX440 was much worse card, same for Geforce 4 MX4000. And same for Geforce 2 MX200. Lol, iin comparation with that, FX5200 128-bit was great card as low-end variant. And it was only 2 years newer.
Can you review a vga with tv encoder please?
I had the ti200, and my dumb self thought it was better than the Geforce 3 back then. LOL
It's a nice video card. Back then we didn't have so much information available on the web, so don't beat yourself up about it. Have a great weekend! 👍
I remember that when I had my OG GF3 and looked at entry level GPUs that came out year after year and no card was a worthy upgrade for it, if I wanted something really faster I had to bit the bullet and go to a really expensive card... So I keep using it with my Thunderbird 1.3, then with my Athlon XP 2.6 and retired it when I got my A64 3500 with PCI express and a 7800GT, so many years with that GF3, I was super happy with my new monster system and then the damn card stopped working and the warranty nightmare started... Let's just say I got f**k and had to made with a puny 7600GS for years 😂
That's the right way to do it! To use the parts to all their potential, I don't see a point in upgrading every year as some people do. I still use a 3gb 1060 in the editting rig and it works great. Sorry to hear that about your 7800gt! At this point and time I had the oposite mentality as I have today, and I swapped video cards constantly. So I owned a couple of versions of video cards during that era. 7800 is a great video card. Thanks for watching!
GF3 ti200 will clock to GF3 speed easy. ti500 is nearly impossible to even gf3. Its binned and maybe volted differently.
Yep, I wish I had one at hand.
show man!
Thanks man!