Graphics Card Museum Gives Geeks Another Excuse to Travel

Ukrainian PC enthusiasts at present have one more put off to visit on their summer vacation this yr, equally a museum devoted to the history of graphics cards is now subject for entirely geeks to enjoy.

The Kharkov Video Card Museum, which agaze its doors in March of this year, now features over 200 graphics cards. As a nice nerdy touch, each of the graphics cards on expose lists its specifications, its year of release, along with details of games that run particularly well on each card.

Although the museum now showcases such a wide-screen variety of graphics cards, its beginnings were far more modest.

The museum's break Black lovage (also known online As SArd), got his initiative computer hindmost in 1998. His very first computer had an S3 Nontextual matter ViRGE/DX C graphics card inside it. Always since then, the PC gamer has gone happening to collect increasingly graphics cards.

Black lovage's collection grew over the days, and by the end of last year (2010) the thought to put along a private exhibition became a reality. The private exhibition, which was hosted in a local PC store, at first had around 35-40 of Black lovage's own card game on display. Whatsoever of those visiting the artwork card showcase given their own, with the aggregation healthy to just under 50 cards before the exhibition came to a close.

Following the success of the exhibition, work started on a more irreversible GPU exhibit, which is what visitors can now enjoy today at the PCShop store. Those visiting the museum are encouraged to donate to the ever so-maturation compendium, which is ready-made every the more promotive thanks to store discounts given to those who act.

[Via Oddity Focal / Images: SArd – Habrahabr.ru]

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