Your Video Card Upgrade Ladder

1 Meg generic card
Voodoo Rush
Voodoo 2
Voodoo 3
nVidia Vanta
Geforce 2
Geforce 3 3200Ti
Geforce 4 4200Ti
ATI 9800 Pro
ATI 9800 XT
Geforce 6800GT

Next PC would have an nVidia 8800 GTS 640 Megs or an ATI 2900XT 512 Megs
 
Voodoo 5 5500 PCI
GeForce 4 MX440 PCI
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro AGP
PNY Verto GeForce 6800 GT AGP
Evga GeForce 8800 GTX

I am rollin' now.:D :cool:
 
geforce 256 agp pro by asus
voodoo 5 5500 pci
sis 128mb agp (forget chipset name)
ati 8500le agp
ati 97000np agp
ati 9800xt agp
6800gtoc agp
8800 gts pci-e
 
riva tnt2 agp
geforce 256 agp
geforce mx440 agp
geforce fx5200 agp
geforce 6600 agp
ati x1950pro pci

now for that new computer build... either a stopgap pcie or a 8800gtx
 
Diamond FireGL Pro 1000 with upgraded 8mb of ram :)
Diamond 3DFX Voodoo Banshee
Asus TNT2 Ultra Deluxe
Hercules GeForce
GeForce 2 GTS
Gainward GeForce 3 GS
Gainward GeForce 3 Ti500 GS
Asus FX5900 Ultra
BFG 6800 GT
eVGA 7800 GTX
 
I'm only going back to my 8088.

Onboard CGA graphics in my 8088. For you youngins out there CGA = 4 colors. Ahhh memories....
Upgraded the 8088 to either VGA or SVGA ISA card. Can't remember for sure and I didn't know anything about computers yet.
Next up was the onboard video in my Packard Hell 486 (Hey, my parents were still buying them!).
Then a Packard Hell Pentium 75. Again, whatever it came with onboard.
Added a Diamond Monster II Voodoo card to it. Dunno how much memory.

Now we reach the point when I started to understand what all those funny numbers and letters meant.
Gateway P2-350 w/onboard 8MB Riva 128
P2-350 @ 466 w/ATI Rage 128, then Rage Fury MAXX, returned that and got a GeForce 256.
P3-550 @ 590 w/GeForce 256, then GeForce DDR
The GeForce DDR went on to live in a Celeron 466 @ 580, then an Athlon 800 @ 920.
Athlon 1200 @ 1400 w/GeForce 2 Pro. 64MB, I think?
Various T-Birds with my Ti4200
Barton 2500 with a 6600GT
Next was a 7800GTX that lived with an A64 3200, then an X2 3800+

Currently got an 8800GTS 640MB with my E6420.
 
3D Rage Pro =/> Riva TNT =/> Voodoo 3 2000 =/> GeForce 3 Ti200 =/> Radeon 9600 Mobile =/> Radeon 9800 Pro =/> GeForce 8800GTX

The 8800GTX isn't mine yet, but that's what I'm going to be getting for my new build, I think. Yeah, I got my mileage out of a few of those cards.
 
Visiontek Geforce 2 MX200 > Mad Dog Geforce 4 Ti4200 > Connect 3D X700 Pro > Asus Geforce 6600 > HIS X1650 XT iSilence II

It's weird really. I got the Ti4200 and X700 Pro in a pretty short period of time. I wasted money switching quickly because I was just learning how to build a computer. I thought I would keep my machine with the X700 Pro but I moved and sold it. I ended up getting the Geforce 6600 in a motherboard bundle but I knew it was temporary. Now, it's in my backup machine.

The X1650 XT is certainly the most powerful thing I've experienced. But, it's passively cooled too which I really like. :)
 
Starting with my Am386DX-40 (my Windows 95 beta box)
Cirrus Logic GD05420 1 MB

Then I migrated to a Pentium-166 MMX in 1997 (and started a string of ATI-based primary graphics cards): Generic ATI 3D Rage (whitebox at that)-> Built By ATI original All-In-Wonder-> All-In-Wonder Pro-> All-In-Wonder 128->All-In-Wonder Radeon (this particular odd duck was the AIW Radeon 7200 S2 with the faster memory of the non-AIW version)-> AIW 8500DV (the last AIW to be factory-clocked slower than the non-AIW counterpart; this card currently serves as a spare)-> AIW 9700 Pro (which has been finally retired after one replacement under warranty and nearly five years of combined hard service)-> ATI Radeon X1650 Pro 512 MB DDR2. Amazingly, except for the AIW 9700 Pro that failed (and was replaced under warranty), not one of my string of ATI cards failed for any reason, and, except for the 8500DV (which I mentioned is currently serving as a spare), all left me in perfect working order!
 
Integrated Dell Graphics < FX5200 < X1800XT < 8800GTS < X1800XT < 8800GTS

Thats how it went for me.
 
Matrox Mellenium II < Canpus Riva TNT 16mb < Asus 6800 Geforce 32mb < Geforce II < Asus 4600Ti geforce4 < eVga 6800GT < and now eVga 8800 GTS.

Out of the cards I have owned, the 6800GT was the best. (at the time) All the games I played ran great at deceint resolutions, even with AA. No major driver issuse.

Now that I upgraded to a 8800 there seems to be so many issuse with the drivers. I dislike the new control panel - and it crashes every time I try to change a the quality settings for UT2004.

I almost wish I picked up a AMD 2900 XT.
 
S3 Trio 2MB
Cirrus Logic 4MB
Matrox Millennium 8MB + 3DFX VooDoo2 12MB
Nvidia Riva TNT 16MB
Nvidia Riva TNT2 32MB
Radeon 7000VE 64MB
Radeon 7500 64MB
NVidia Geforce 2Ti4200 128MB
Radeon 9800Pro 128MB
Radeon X800Pro 256MB
Radeon X1950Pro

...i miss the voodoo2 :(
 
I started a bit late in the game....

Riva TNT2 32MB
Geforce2 64MB
Radeon 9000 128MB
Geforce3 Ti200 128MB
Radeon 9600XT 256
Radeon x800Pro vivio (modded to xtpe first day I had it)
Radeon x800XL 256 (moved to pci-e)
Geforce 7900GTX
Added a second 7900GTX for SLi
And now finally my lovely 8800GTS 640

EDIT - there was a pre-Riva TNT card in there as well in a machine that I got as a handmedown, but I cant be bothered to dig out that old box to find out what it was.
 
Commodore VIC-II (C64)
Amiga ECS chipset (Amiga 500+)
Amiga AGA chipset (Amiga 1200)
S3 virge 2mb PCI
creative 3d blaster(? i forget) 3Dlabs Permedia2 4mb PCI
unbranded Voodoo1 4mb
Hercules Terminator Beast S3 savage 8mb (one of the earliest)
3Dfx Voodoo3 2000 16mb
Diamond Viper II Z200 S3 Savage 2000 16mb (should have learned my lesson with the first savage)
Sparkle GeForce2MX 32mb
Sparkle Geforce4ti 4200 128mb
Gainward GS GeforceFX5900xt 128mb
Leadtek Geforce 6800LE 128mb (everything unlocked and overclocked) the biggest bargain ever until i killed it raising the core voltage
XFX Geforce 6800LE 128mb (suffered the same fate as the last one, i never learn)
Abit RX800guru Radeon X800 256mb
 
3dfx Voodoo 2 12mb - PCI
ATi Radeon 7200 32mb - PCI
MSI GeForce 4200 128mb - AGP
ATi X850PRO (XT flash) 258mb - AGP
eVGA GeForce 7950GT 256mb - PCIe
ATi X850XT 256mb - PCIe [for secondary comp]
 
Voodoo 2 in SLI with i810 intergrated > GF2 mx? > 9500 NP didnt unlock > 9800 SE did unlock > one 6600GT then 2 in SLI > 7600GS for the slience > 7900 GS > TNT 2 >.> then next card is a 8800GTS 320 meg. After that who knows I hope the ATI die shrink does all it can and more I want cheap VGA !
 
In correct order!
Cirrus Logic 1MB
ATi XPert98 (Rage) 8MB
MX420 64MB
Trident 1MB
MX440 64MB
ATi Rage 32MB
S3 Integrated 2MB
Matrox Mystique 8MB
Voodoo II SLI 12MB
Intel i810 Integrated 4MB
MX440 PCI 64MB
FX5900Ultra 256MB (what I have now :(...currently at 140C!! visit my help thread!)
 
S3 Onboard (SiS 540 MoBo) - 2001
Voodoo 3 (SiS 540 MoBo) - 2002
ProSavage8 3D Onboard (ASRock K7VM2) - 2003
Radeon 9200 (MSI KT6V MoBo) - 2005
8800 GTS 320 - 2007

There is no scientific explanation on how I was actually able to play games before 2007.
 
Creative labs graphics blaster extreme (Permedia 2) 4 Mb
Diamond Monster Fusion Vodoo Banshee 16Mb
3dfx Vodoo 3 3000 16mb (pci)
Geforce 2 mx 400 64 mb (agp)
Geforce 4 mx 440 64 mb (used for a bout a month until....)
Albatron Geforce 4 ti4600 128mb
MSI 9800Pro 128mb
Sapphire x800GTO 256Mb (agp)
Sapphire x1800xt 256mb
 
FX 5200 128MB
9800 Pro 128MB
X800 Pro 256Mb
X850XT 256MB
X1800XL 256 MB
X1900XT 512 MB
8800 GTS Superclocked 640 MB
 
Onboard graphics (back in the 166 MHZ CPU days),
ATI Rage 8mb I think
Radeon 8500LE 128mb
Geforce 6800GT
Geforce 8800GTS

Intend to keep the 8800GTS for 3-4 years (probably adding a second in the future)
 
2d random card ----> intel i810 ----> Geforce 3 ti 200 deluxe (so i had those badass goggles that plugged into the :D ) ----> Geforce 7800 GTX 512mb
 
I can't remember any of my video cards from the old days in my 286/386/486/k6-2/cyrix/k6-3 days except a diamond stealth and a voodoo 2 sli setup. I mostly played mud, so didn't have many graphics cards then. Only really played commander keen, wolfenstein 3d, doom, and duke nukem the originals/3d that actually had any graphics at all.

But I got out of computers ever since my thunderbird setup.

Just built mine again May 15th or so, and thus far looks like this:

XFX 7900GS>EVGA 7900GT SLI>8800GTS 320MB
 
s3virge
riva tnt2 32mb
geforce 2 MX
geforce 4 ti4200
ATI 9600 XT
Geforce 6600 GT
Geforce 7600 GT OC
2x Geforce 7600 GT OC - SLI
Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB
 
Riva TNT 32
Sparkle Geforce 4 MX440
Gainward Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Hercules 9700 Pro
MSI 6800 GT
Leadtek 7800 GT
GIgabyte X1800XT 512mb
MSI 8800 GTS OC 640mb
So far so Good....
 
First off on my old Amiga
AGA Chipset --> BlizzardVision Permidia 2 (with a special25mhz mini pci attachment to the Blizzard PowerPC/68040 25mhz accelerator card)

Horrendous waste of money, I think the only games I ever played that used it where the PPC Quake port, and Wipeout 2 and I think it cost more in 2001 than a 8800 Ultra costs now.

Then I got a PC and it was:
Voodoo 3 2000 --> Gigabyte Geforce 2MX --> MSI Geforce 4200Ti --> MSI Geforce 5700 Ultra --> Gigabyte Geforce 7800GTX --> Gigabyte Geforce 7800GTX SLi --> EVGA Geforce 8800 GTS 640

Yeah, all NVidia except the first one, it's not that I'm a fan-boi, it's just that up to the 5700 I wasn't that technical and went for 'better the devil you know' (and the boxes looked good) then the 7800/8800 when I did some proper research where the best cards at the time I was looking.
 
Trident on board
2 mb ati
diamond monster 3d
stb velocity riva tnt
radeon 8500
msi geforce 6600gt
bfg 8800gts oc2 320mb
 
Intel Oboard (2mb)
Intel AGP Card (8mb)
Nvidia mx 440
ATI 9200se
Nvidia 6800GT AGP
NVdia 6800GT PCI E SLI
Nvidia 7900GT's SLI
Nvidia 7900GTX's SLi
 
Forgive my newness. lol

Integrated GeForce 6100 > ZOGIS GeForce 7100 GS

Although if you count the family computer it would be more like this:

Voodoo 3(I think) > Integrated Geforce 6100 > ZOGIS GeForce 7100 GS
 
a few old graphic cards, can't remember starting from Intel DX2/66. Cirrus Logic anyone?
...
Matrox Millennium( I think)
riva tnt
geforce 1
ATI 8500
geforce mx420
Ati 9800 Pro 128MB
nVidia 8800GTS 320MB
 
ATI Mach64
S3 Savage 4
ATI Radeon 9000 pro
ATIRadeon 9600 pro
ATI Radeon 9800 XT
Nvidia 6800 GT
Nvidia 7900 GT
ATI x1950 XTX

I could make the list a bit bigger with the temp / replacement cards i've owned, but that's the general main line of cards i've owned. ;)
 
5200LE > 5200FX > 5600FX > 5700fx ultra > 6800gt > 7800gt > 9200se > 9600 > x800xl

Had to sell a few of my systems to pay rent, hence the downgrades.
 
permedia 2 8MB
geforce 2 mx 200 64mb
geforce 4 ti 4200 64mb 300$ cdn
9700pro 128mb 375$ cdn
x800xt pe 300$ cdn
7900gto 280$ cdn
 
Geforce 4 ti4800se
radeon 9600 pro 128
Geforce 6600GT (returned after a week)
Geforce 6800le (got a good deal on this right after buying the 6600GT)
dual 6800XTs in SLI
dual 6800GTs in SLI
8800GTS 320

and a while back i picked up a pci-e 6800nu to fill up a secondary machine, and last year a 6600GT for my lil bro's comp, and i am perhaps looking to pick up a cheap ass 6600GT for spare purposses, and purchased two GF 6100 based boards, one for my dads new machine, one for the house server

yeah im a whore for Geforce 6 series hardware :D not counting any integrated stuff im at 8 GF6 series cards purchased by me
 
TNT2 (Gone)
Radeon 9600XT (Hanging around)
Radeon X850XT PE (current)
Next is possibly 8800GTX OC next month.
 
Didn't start messing with computers until a couple of years ago, so mine has gone like this:

x300se > x600pro > 6800gt > 7950gt

The ATI cards were/are in a Dell that is my family's computer, while the other two were/are in my personal build. I'd like to put my now retired 6800gt into the Dell so my sisters can really play The Sims hardcore, but I'm afraid the little baby 300w psu won't handle it.
 
S3
Creative Voodoo 2 16mb <---- I still have this!
TnT 2 32mb
Asus TI4200 64MB
BFG FX5900 128MB
BFG 6800 GT 256MB
BFG 8800GTS 640MB
 
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