Video card History

TNT2
GeForce 2
GeForce 3 Ti
GeForce 4 Ti
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256
ATI Radeon X850 Pro
Back to the 9800 Pro with a 7800GS CO on the way :D
 
Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 32mb
Nvidia Geforce 4 MX420 64mb
Nvidia FX5200 128mb
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
ATI Radeon X800 Pro 256mb
ATI Radeon X850 XT 256mb
ATI Radeon X1800 XL 256mb
ATI Radeon X1900 XT 512mb
 
nVidia Vanta 16mb AGP card
nVidia GeForce MX 440
ATI 9800 Pro<---Best card EVER!!!!!!!!!
nVidia 6800 GT
 
Integrated Graphics on Dell 2400
ATI Radeon 128mb PCI
GeForce Fx 5200 agp 128mb
Nvidia GeForce 7800gs agp 256mb
 
Orginal imac w/ whatever it had in it
Ti 4600
6800gt (dead :()
6600gt

looking forward to 2007 for a system upgrade.
 
Diamond Monster Voodoo ISA
-Castle Wolfenstein 3D & TIE Fighter, Final Doom
Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 12MB x2 (original SLI-Monster Fusion) ISA Still have it with the dongle cable
-used for Quake 1&2 and original Halflife, Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2
Diamond Monster Banshee PCI 16Mb <--ridiculous driver issues..
-ReVolt, Homeworld, Rogue Squadron, Blood 1&2
nVidia Riva TNT 2 64
-I barely remember this card Starfleet Academy, Jedi Knight 2
nVidia GeForce BFG FX5500 PCI
-Doom 3 ran great on this actually
XFX 7800 GT Extreme Editions (SLI)
-current

I always relate cards with the games of the period for some reason..helps me remember
 
- Some onboard video thing (played Bioforge well enough!)
- 3DFX Voodoo1 (Orchid Righteous? It was so far back I can't remember but Quake1 was sweet and kicked it all off for me)
- 3DFX Voodoo2 (Again I think Orchid Righteous)
- 3DFX Voodoo3, 3000 (3DFX themselves)
- Nvidia Geforce2, GTS 64 (Hercules)
- Nvidia Geforce4 Ti4600 (Some french company that screwed it up in 2D mode, swapped it for the next below, thank god)
- ATI 9700PRO, (Sapphire, (3.5 years this card has lasted me, awesome!)
- ATI X1800XT, (Sapphire, impatience got me so a stop gap for the ones below)
- ATI X1900CF & X1900XTX (Connect3D, the biggest upgrade for me to date, say no more ;) )
 
I will start with my first 3d accelerator.

Righteous Voodoo Card (Orchid?) 8mb
2xDiamond's Voodoo 2 cards (12mb each)
Matrox Millenium (went through 2 generations)
(some add on card that was a small chipset... forget name)
creative labs Geforce1
creative labs Geforce2 (forget name)
creative labs Geforce3
my geforce4 was a Leadtek Ti4400
my gerforce5 was a FX5200 (for backup machine)
my first geforce6 (6800 128mb) was a BFG OC
my geforce6 was a leadtek a440 (6800gt) that recently died - video out corrupted even on powerup - fans work - card is cool - all outputs distorted)
my geforce7 will be XFX 7600GT (256mb)

next up will probably be a 7900GT once I move the AMD64/7600GT system to backup machine position
 
-S3 virge 2meg
-S3 virge 4meg (the worlds most pointless upgrade)
-S3 virge 4meg + Voodoo 1 4meg
-Voodoo Banshee PCI
-Voodoo Banshee PCI + 2x Voodoo 2 12meg (realised the Banshee was a dog)
-Voodoo 3 2000 PCI (died)
-ATI RAGE 128 PRO VIVO
-Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
-Matrox G400Max
-Voodoo 4 4500 AGP (was uber cheap, should have kept the G400)
-Voodoo 4 5500 PCI (mac version, reflashed the bios, bought from PC world for £39 when they were selling the PC version for £200)
-Kyro II (got to love the under dog)
-Geforce 3 TI 200
-Geforce 4 TI 4200
-Geforce FX 5200 ultra (doh!)
-Geforce FX 5700 ultra (bought after playing UT 2004 on the above)
-Geforce FX 5900 ultra (bought after the above died)
-ATI X800 Pro (Review sample I refused to give back as I had no other Graphics card)
-Geforce 6600 PCI Express
-Geforce 7600GT PCI Express
 
Trident 4MB
Quantum 3D Raven (Voodoo Banshee)
Creative Graphics Blaster Riva TNT
Canopus Pure 3D II Voodoo 2s in SLi
Creative 3D Blaster GeForce DDR
Creative 3D Blaster Geforce 2 GTS
PNY GeForce 3 Ti500
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro
XFX 6800GT
BFG 6800 Ultra OCs in SLi
XFX 7800 GTX OC Editions in SLi
BFG 7900 GTX OCs in SLi
 
ATI Rage Pro 8MB PCI
Nvidia GeForce 4 MX 420 PCI
Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 AGP 8X
ATI Powercolor Radeon 9800 Pro
Nvidia eVGA 6800 GS(525/1200)
 
-->old system
p4 2.0ghz
1gig pc 3200
40gig hd
5700le
6800gs (returned)
--> new system
x2 4200+
2gigs pc 3200
250gig hd
tv tuner
7600gt in mail
 
Onboard 2mb crap
geforce2 mx400 64mb pci
geforce 4 ti4400 128mb agp
9800 pro 128mb 256bit
6800gt agp 256mb
7900gt pci-e
 
AGP 2x (or 4x can't remember) Rage
S3 integrated graphics
AGP 8x Geforce FX5500
PCI-E 6600GT
PCI-E 6800GS
 
voodoo 1
voodoo2 8mb
voodoo2 12mb x 2 sli (still have)
obsidian 24mb voodoo2 sli on 1 card
tnt canopus non reference card
tnt2 canopus non reference card
tnt2 ultra diamond v770
geforce ddr prob leadtek
geforce 2 prob leadtek http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=2283795
geforce 3 t1 200 guillemot/hercules http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=3359251
geforce 3 ti 500 gainward golden shower
geforce 4200 pny and about 4 other brands(mostly herc and gainward)http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5766384
geforce 4400 pny was a 4600 with 4400 hs/f, bios and packaging http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6376518
geforce 4800 8xagp version of 4600 probably pny http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6337028
9700 pro bb ati http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6394818
fx5900 something prob xfx http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=6818175
9800 pro bb ati (w/ very early amd64 clawhammer 1/04) http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=7456158
9800 pro aiw bb ati http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8424782
6800gt agp leadtek http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8502464
x850xt pcie connect3d http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8690764
7800gt evga
7800gt evga x2 sli http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1330113
7900gt x2 sli evga co sc http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=236296

in the last 15 months (jan 05) i have gone from the 6800gt to the 7900gt sli. a fairly decent jump in video performance.

whenever i buy new vid card the previous one would be demoted to my secondary pc, my terciary pc has 2x evga 6600 gt sli that i bought very cheap.
 
3dFX Voodoo2 x 2 (in SLI)
Nvidia TNT 2
GeForce 2 MX400
GeForce4 MX440
Radeon 9100 AIW
Radeon 9600 PRO
Radeon 9800 PRO

Then I got my laptop a year ago and got rid of my desktops.

I am planning on building a new system with my federal tax return though, so for future purchases I plan on getting some variation of a 7800
 
Voodoo Banshee
GeForce256 DDR
GeForce2 GTS 64MB
GeForce2 Ultra
GeForce3 TI 200
Radeon 9500 NP
Radeon 9800 Pro
GeForce 6800 GT
GeForce 7800 GT
GeForce 7900 GT
 
Not as impressive as some

S3Virge
Radeon 64MB DDR
Geforce4 4200
Geforce 2 MX (Integrated)
Geforce 4 MX400
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon 9200 SE
Radeon X200 (integrated)
Geforce 6800GT

I had a few laptops from work along the way with various terrible integrated solutions. Anyone ever heard of a neomagic chip from a Thinkpad 630? It'd play UT w/ direct3d only in windowed mode.
 
gf3 ti200
matrox tv card i forget which one
aiw 8500
aiw 9000
aiw 9700
aiw 9800
aiw x600 pcie
6800 ultra
7800 gtx
 
Riva TNT2 Pro 32MB coupled with a P3 667EB
Asus v7700 Geforce2 GTS 32MB DDR with a P3 667EB
Radeon 9200Pro with a P3 667EB
XFX Geforce 4 Ti-4600 128MB with an AMD 2500+ Barton
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB with a P4 3.2c Northwood
evga 7800GT 256MB DDR3 with an AMD FX-53
 
Paradise 128
S3 Trio64V
S3 ViRGE 3D
Diamond EDGE 3D (nVidia NV1 GPU)
nVidia Riva 128
Leadtek nVidia Geforce DDR
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP
Visiontek nVidia Geforce 2MX
Visiontek nVidia Geforce 3 Ti500
BBA Radeon 8500
BBA Radeon 9700 Pro
BBA Radeon 9800 Pro
BBA Radeon X800 Pro VIVO (flashed to XTPE)
eVGA nVidia Geforce 7800GT
 
01 Asus Geforce 2 mx400
02 Upgraded to Geforce 4 ti4200
04 Built new pc with XFX Geforce 6800 gt
 
rage tnt2
viper v550
MX 200
MX440
TI 4800se
FX5200
FX5700le
FX5900
radeon 9550
radeon 9700pro
radeon 9800pro
radeon 9800se flashed to pro
6600GT
x800vanilla
X850xtpe
7600GT
 
2mb generic pos
8mb voodoo rush or something
3dfx voodoo 12mb
3dfx voodoo 12mb w/SLI <----------w00t! My only SLI setup evAR!
GF2 something
Asus GF4 Ti4600
PNY 6800
BFG 7800GTXOC
BFG 7900GTXOC
 
My first couple video cards were crappy VGA cards that had absolutely no 3d accelleration. The following cards are what I have owned since my first "3d accelerated" card...

Diamond Stealth 3D (The sucktasticness of this card is overwhelming)
Diamond Monster 3D (3DFX Voodoo 1) + the above card (the Monster 3d is a daughter card)
Diamond Monster 2 (3DFX Voodoo 2)...I then upgraded to 2 Voodoo 2 cards in oldschool SLI
nVidia TNT
nVidia TNT 2
nVidia GeForce 256
nVidia GeForce 2
nVidia GeForce 3 Ti300
nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200
ATI Radeon 9700PRO
nVidia 6600 (for wifes rig)
nVidia 6800 GT
nVidia 7800 GT

I did OWN a Voodoo 3 card of some sort for about a week or so though I never actually installed it...I picked it up with a computer system I acquired and sold before I ever ran electricity through it.
 
Riva TNT
STB Blackmagic 3d Voodoo2
Creative Labs Geforce 256
Gainward Geforce 3 ti200
Sapphire Radeon 9700pro
BFG 6800gt
EVGA 7800gt
BFG 7900gtx
 
nVidia Geforce 2 mx200
nVidia Geforce 4 mx440
nVidia Geforce 5 fx5700 Ultra
Ati Radeon 9800xt <===Great Card
nVidia Geforce 6800gt
Next card in 2007 :D With a new Rig ;)
 
Matrox Millennium 4MB (or something close)
nVidia Riva TNT2 Vanta 8M (bah!)
3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP (Yay! w00t! 3DFX will never die!)
GeForce 3 Ti200 (Poor V5 couldn't run with the best anymore...)
GeForce 4 Ti4400 (Because I could)
ATI Radeon 7000 64M (Emergency purchase when above died and I was broke)
ATI Radeon 9500np (I PCB. bah!)
ATI Radeon 9700np (w00t, free video card!)
nVidia GeForce 7 7800GT (yeah, I waited quite a long time here)
 
Heres the upgrades I love seeing on these threads...

GeForce FX 5900Ultra
GeForce FX 5950Ultra

GeForce 7800GTX SLI
GeForce 7900GTX SLI

Radeon X1800 XFire
Radeon X1900 XFire

Radeon X800XT
Radeon X850XTPE

...Where do you people get money for upgrades like that... :p
 
Voodoo 2
Voodoo 4
Asus Geforce 2 GTS
Leadtek Geforce 4 4200TI
ATI X800pro ref Refurb (150 buckS)
 
Integrated Cirrus Logic 512K

Diamond Stealth 2000 4MB, PCI (S3 ViRGE)

Hercules Thriller 3D 4MB, PCI (Rendition v2200)

STB Velocity 4200 16MB, AGP (Nvidia Riva TNT)

Matrox G400 MAX 32MB, AGP

ATI Radeon 8500 64MB, AGP

XFX 6600 GT 128MB, AGP

XFX 7900 GT 256MB, PCIe
 
Voodoo 3 3000 pci
Voodoo 5 5500 pci
GeForce 2 mx
GeForce 3 (no ti )
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9700 pro (imho, the best card in terms of longevity of staying on top the longest)
Geforce 6800 GT
 
nVidia TNT
nVidia Geforce 256 DDR
nVidia Geforce 2 Ultra
nVidia Geforce 3
nVidia Geforce 4 ti4200
Ati Radeon 9800
nVidia 6800 GT
 
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