My personal video card history

ATI Mach 64 (in a Dell)
S3 Virge (in a Dell)
Voodoo 3 3500 ($200)
ATI Rage 128 ($200)
ATI Radeon 64MB DDR ($275)
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro ($300)
ATI Radeon X800XT ($450)
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX ($575)
(added a second for SLI) ($250)
(now have a third in a second machine) ($75)
 
Geforce MX 400
ATI Radeon 9000 $100?
Geforce eVGA 6800GS $220?
Geforce eVGA 7800GT $250?
Geforce eVGA 8800GTS 320MB SLI $250 each
Geforce eVGA 8800GTX $575 (returned when 8800gt came out)
Geforce eVGA 8800GT SLI $280 each
Geforce eVGA 9800GTX SLI (stepup) $100 each
Geforce eVGA GTX 280 $375
Total: $2250
I may have wasted a bit of money.. I did sell most cards for a decent return at least
 
Thats very impressive... and expensive?
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For me? Well, here is my list:

First one was some onboard video chip on my first machine (Hewlett-Packard)
Matrox Millennium 4MB
S3 Card (Cannot remember specifically)
nVidia GeForce 2 GTS 32 MB (Nearly got the Voodoo 5 5500)
nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200 64 MB
ATi Radeon 9800 XT 128 MB
nVidia GeForce 7 7800 GS 256 MB (My last AGP card)
nVidia GeForce 8400M GT 256 MB (On my laptop)
nVidia GeForce 280 GTX 1 GB (My current card :D)
 
Geforce 256 - I think that's what it was called
GF 5900xt
regressed to ati 9600xt
and now my current 7600gt
 
voodoo 5500
ati radeon 9600 pro
nvidia 7800 gs
 
12mb onboard with my P3
ATI 7000 pci 64mb
ATI 9200 128mb
Nvidia 5200 256mb
ATI 9600xt
ATI x800pro
ATI x850pro
Nvidia 6800
ATI x800xt
ATI x1900gt
Nvidia 7600gt SLI
Nvidia 8800gts 320mb
 
S3 Virge (the name leapt out at me from other posts and brought back bad memories of a Packard Bell)

3D Blaster Voodoo 2 12MB (my first line off the mirror of PC upgrading...)

3D Blaster Voodoo 2 12MB #2 for SLI (that was my birthday and Christmas present combined one year... oy)

Diamond Viper V770 Ultra 32MB AGP (somewhere in here the upgrade impetus was to be able to play Trespasser well... ah memories. Hint: rebar + velociraptors = physics fail gold)

3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 64MB AGP (Whoo T-Buffer's gonna rule! Oh wait, the company's gone. Sh*t.)

Visiontek Xtacy GeForce 4 Ti 4600 128MB AGP (freshman year of college, financial aid refund put to use)

BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB AGP (what I'm sitting on now, one week away from upgrading to... :confused:)
 
ATI Rage 3d for Mac
Voodoo 3 2000 PCI flashed with Mac bios
TNT 2 M64 32mb
Geforce 2 GTS 32mb (my first $300 card)
Geforce 4200Ti 128mb
ATI 9600XT
Geforce 7800GT
Geforce 8800GT
 
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