Your GPU progression?

rendition verite v2100
voodoo 3 2000
tnt2 m64
geforce 2 mx
geforce 4 mx 440
geforce 4 ti 4200
radeon 9800 np
7800gt
8800gt
4850 crossfire
5870
6870 crossfire
7970
 
Black Magic Voodoo 2 - 12 MB
Voodoo 3 3000
Geforce 2MX 400
Geforce 3 Vanilla
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon X800XL
Radeon 4850
Radeon 5850
 
TNT2 32MB
Radeon 9000 PRO 128MB
Radeon HD 6870 1GB CrossFire
GTX 670 4GB 4-way SLI
 
Mine's not too lengthy or impressively old (meant as a compliment :D )

Some ATI 128mb card (from Dell OEM)
Visiontek Radeon x1600 Pro
ATI Radeon HD 3450 (from Dell OEM)
BFG 9800 GTX+ OC (when I started getting knowlegeable about PCs)
EVGA Fermi GTX 470 SC (used in first DIY build, will either keep as backup or sell)
EVGA GTX GTX 680 SC Signature 2 (overkill :D )
 
ATI Radeon 9500
nVidia GeForce 7600
nVidia GeForce 9600 GS
AMD Radeon 6870
nVidia GeForce GTX 670
 
Voodoo 2 12MB + ATI Rage 128
Radeon LE (flashed bios to make it a normal Radeon DDR)
GeForce 4400Ti
GeForce 6800 GT
2 x Radeon 4850 Crossfire X
Radeon 4890 (later added another for Crossfire X)
Radeon 6970
 
Geforce FX5600 - 128mb
ATI x800 Pro - 256mb
Geforce 7800 GT - 256mb
Geforce 8800 GTS - 640mb
Geforce 8800 GTS SLI - 640mb
AMD HD 6950 - 2gb
 
Trident 3D Image something or other
GeForce MX 440
GeForce FX 5700
Radeon 9600 Pro 128mb
Radeon 9600 Pro 256mb
Radeon All-In-Wonder 9800 Pro
Radeon 9800 Pro
GeForce 6600 GT
GeForce 7800 GTX
Radeon X1600
Radeon HD 3850
GTX 285
GTX 285 SLI
GTX 295 Quad-SLI
Radeon HD5970 QuadFire
Radeon HD5870
Radeon HD4870 Crossfire
GTX 480 SLI
GTX 680
 
Trident
ati rage
Intel integrated
5200
6200
7900 GTX
8800 Ultra
GTX 275
GTX 275 SLI
GTX 470 SLI
 
ATI 7600 something
ATI 9800 XT
ATI 1900 XT
8800 GTS
4870 Crossfired
5970
GTX 580
7950 Crossfired
 
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hmm

Diamond Multimedia ATI Radeon 9250 128MB DDR
Voodoo 3 3000
ATI 9800pro
Ati 1600Xt
Nvidia 260
Ati 4870
Amd 6870
Amd 6870 crossfire
Gigabyte Amd 7870 Crossfire

not a terribly long list of cards. In my personal rig, Played with many more cards.
 
Geforce 2 MX
Geforce 4 MX 440
Geforce 4 TI 4400
Radeon 9800 XT
Geforce 7800 GTX SLI
Geforce 8800 GTX SLI
Radeon 5850
Geforce GTX 670

I think that's right.
 
nice mental exercise...
ATI Rage Pro 128
ATI 8500
Nvidia 6800
ATI HIS IceQ 1800GTO (i think)
Nvidia 8800GT
And now running an ATI 6890 (i think.. this is what happens when you work/play more than you tinker around)
 
Hmmm fun topic! Lets see from what I can remember:

nVidia Geforce 2 MX 32MB
nVidia Geforce 4 MX 64MB
ATI 9250
ATI 9600SE
ATI 9600Pro
ATI 9700Pro
ATI 9800Pro
ATI 9800XT
ATI X800Pro
ATI X850XT Platinum Edition
ATI 1950Pro AGP (my last AGP card)
Nvidia 8600GT
Nvidia 9600GT
Nvidia 8800GS
ATI 4850
ATI 4870
ATI 4890 Crossfire
AMD 6870
Nvidia GTX 480
Nvidia GTX 580

I can't think of anything I'm missing...I've had other cards but they were either never used (traded or sold) or I used them for like a week or two...most of those were just variations though (like a Asus card to a Gigabyte one for better overclocking/cooling/etc).

Looking at my list goes to show how well trading and buying used can be...I think from the Geforce 2 all the way up to the ~8800GS were all acquired via trading or from selling my old stuff for new/used stuff. Wasn't until the 4850, I believe, that I actually bought it new using money from my job at the time.

THANK YOU FS/FT EVERYWHERE ON ALL FORUMS! :D
 
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Mach 64
STB Velocity 128 with Diamond Monster 3d II 8MB
Voodoo 3 3000 PCI
ATI Radeon
Sapphire 9500 np soft modded to 9700
X800XT PE
Asus directCU 5800TOP
 
3DFX Voodoo1-1996
Riva TNT2-1999
ATI Radeon 9700 pro-2002
Nvidia 8800gts 640mb sli-2006
Nvidia gtx570-2011
Nvidia gtx680 sli-2012
 
How do you guys remember all video card names from 90's? I bought Voodoos and Matrox but forgot all of its model names. Good memorization!
 
TNT2 16MB
Geforce2 MX
Geforce 5900XT
ATI 9800Pro
6800NU
6800GT
6800NU (unlocked)
8800GTS 640MB
7900GS
8800GTS 320MB
550Ti
 
Onboard
AMD HD 4650
AMD HD 5770
AMD HD 6870
AMD HD 6870 CF
AMD HD 6870 CF + GTS450
GTX 580 + AMD HD 5670
GTX 680 + AMD HD 7970
 
MOS Technology VIC-II
Riva TNT2 16MB
GeForce 4 MX 440
Radeon X800 Pro
GeForce 8800GT
Radeon HD 6870
 
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I've been using computer since 1998 don't remember owning a video card until '07 when I bought a 8500 GT

8500 GT
9800 GT
downgrade to 8600 GT due t0 failure
 
ATI Rage Pro
Nvidia gForce FX (Not sure on model)
Nvidia 7900 GTX
ATI 4870 X2
ATI 6970
ATI 6970 (2 in Crossfire)
 
Trident Cant remember
Hercules Cant remember ISA + VESA monster card
ATI 3D Rage Pro Mach 64
nVidia TnT2 Vanta LT
nVidia GeForce 2 MX200
nVidia GeForce 2 GTS
nVidia GeForce 3 TI 200
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
ATI Radeon 9800 SE
ATI Radeon 9600 XT
nVidia GeForce 6800
nVidia Geforce 6800 GT
nVidia GeForce 6600
ATI Radeon X1900XT
ATI Radeon X1900XTX
ATI Radeon X700 Pro
ATI Radeon HD 4850
ATI Radeon HD 6970
 
VooDoo 3DFX(it was 1998... don't remember specifics)

GTX 560ti
GTX 680

Yes.... I had the most disgusting PC Gaming gap in the history of mankind.
 
XFX 6600GT
XFX 6800
eVGA 9600GT
eVGA GTX 260 Core 216
XFX 6870
MSI TF3 560ti 448
 
1) Onboard video (computer from DSL provider)

3) nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra

5) dual EVGA 580GTX
6) triple EVGA 580GTX (build underway)

I don't upgrade often. There are gaps because I don't remember what I had at the time.
 
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2003: Nvidia 5600
2004: Nvidia 6800gt
2008: Nvidia 8800gts (512mb)
201X: ???

Man, seems like I'm an nvidia fanboy. The first purchase was just stupid because I didn't know anything about computers at the time (ATI 9600 > Nvidia 5600), and was told to go with Nvidia, but the subsequent two were just good deals I happened upon.

Even 4.5 years later, my 8800gts can play most games at medium quality with good FPS, but more recently it's been starting to show signs of age. Haven't been into gaming too much because of school and lack of interest / excitement in recently released titles. I've been snatching up deals on steam sales for the last 4 years and only playing every odd one or two. I keep telling myself I'm going to wait to buy a new rig until HL3 comes out... but I have a feeling that might never happen.
 
TNT2
Geforce2 MX400
Radeon 850(???)
Radeon 1800XT
Geforce 66000GT
Geforce 7900GS
Geforce 8600GT
Geforce 9800GT
Geforce 460GTX

Wow, I didn't think I upgraded my video that much.
 
3dfx Voodoo1 PCI
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP
Nvidia Geforce3 (I forget which model)
Nvidia Geforce4 Ti 4600
ATi AIW Radeon 9200 Pro (<3 that card at the time)
Geforce 7900 GX2 (Watercooled to boot)
Geforce 8800 GTS (G80-512mb version)
AMD Radeon 5850 (then later on added a second card for my first CFX)
AMD Radeon 6970 (2x CFX)
AMD Radeon 7970 (Tri-fire, buggy as hell drivers)
Geforce GTX 680 (Current, 2x)
 
GeForce 2 MX400
GeForce 4 Ti
GeForce 6800 GT
7800 GTX
HD 4870 1GB
HD 7970(my second PC)
Currently GTX 680 Lightning, will be getting a second 680 this coming month.
 
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My first was some old ATI RAGE card in a laptop from 2000 (8m of VRAM etc) very good at the time I must say but I kept it until 2005 so man, what a huge leap forward it was when I moved on!

Late 2005: Nvidia GeForce 6200 TC (shared memory and all that BS, had bought some shitty OEM computer because I didn't know any better at the time)

Early 2006: 6600 GT (loved it! finally a real GPU)

Late 2007(around the same time as Crysis release) : ATI Radeon HD3850 (made me ragequit from ATI because of the drivers, probably for a long time if not forever)

So a few months later, in mid 2008:
MSI 8800 GTS 512 off ebay, amazing card (cool, quiet, factory oc'd and can still run many games decently tbh) I've kept it until 2010 where I felt it was about time to upgrade.

However I did something stupid that I deeply regret, I bought a GTX 275 while the GTX 460 was coming a month later. The first thing is that I didn't notice a "big" difference between my 8800 GTS 512 and my GTX 275 (no, I was not severely CPU limited but it was nothing like between 6600 GT and 8800 GTS 512 or HD3850) the second thing is that I didn't have dx11 and we all know how bad dx10 is. So I was left with playing in dx9 like with my 8800, talk about an upgrade. It was a custom Twintech card which ran very cool and very quiet (some Artic Cooling triple fan) but I didn't check the TDP and woah, my UPS made me realize (by whining under heavy load) that I had just bought a stupidly power hungry card.

So now, I'm going for a GTX 670 next monday (Gigabyte one), better performance, better TDP, more VRAM, dx11... sounds like a real upgrade to me :)
 
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Many old cards I had in prebuilt computers before I started building my own.

XFX GeForce 9600GSO 768MB was the first card I bought
when a capacitor blew on it I got a free upgrade to a...
XFX ATI Radeon HD 4770
this card just went up on me this weekend and im currently processing an RMA for whatever they will give me, but bought a...
EVGA GTX 570 1280MB a few months ago off of FS/T here and it's been night & day
 
I usually skip over releases of newer GPU's. I never had a GTX480 :) I won't buy a GTX6**.
 
1Meg trident something (didn't do 3d but worked properly unlike the next two cards)
S3 Trio (did nothing right)
ATi Rage Pro (buggy as hell drivers)
Nvidia TNT2 (surprisingly both solid and fast)
Geforce 2 Pro
Radeon 9500, softmod and O/Ced to 9700 specs
Radeon 850XT
Geforce 8800GTS
Geforce GTX 460
Geforce GTX 460 x2 (surprisingly still running everything at 1080, pretty and fast).

Every one of these I overclocked to it's maximum potential (for the rage pro that was a 0Mhz overclock). I haven't had a need for more graphics processing after I picked up the second 460 (for $140). It's amazing how compatible SLi is now.
 
Mine I think were:

3DFX Voodoo 3500 TV out with pod.
(?) GF256
(?) GF2 Ultra.
(?) GF3 Ti 200
Creative FX5900 Ultra.
GF6800 Ultra.
BFG GF7800GTX OC
BFG 9600 GT
Gigabyte 4870X2 (x2 for CF)
Gigabyte 6870 OC (x2 for CF)
 
My first card was an ATI Graphics Solution Plus 128K RAM (Hercules Clone).
It was in my 1987 IBM XT 4.7 MHz (8MHz in turbo mode) Clone. That computer was fully loaded with 640K RAM and a 20MB hard drive.
It still works! I can't believe a 25 year old hard drive would last so long.

Then I got the ATI VGA Wonder. You could actually flip the card over to use ISA 8 bit or 16 bit. Of course I had to upgrade my 12" monochrome monitor to a 14" color one to go with it.

My next computer had a 2D card which I upgraded to a Diamond Stealth 3D card, That Descent game looked good. It's too bad the card had 3D capability but no 3D acceleration.
Then I got the 3dfx Monster 3D Voodoo 1. I couldn't believe how good Quake 1 looked in MiniGL.

After that:
Atrend 3dfx Voodoo 2 8 MB PCI
3dfx Voodoo 3 1000 8 MB AGP
Leadtek GeForce 2 Pro AGP
Gainward GeForce 4 TI 4200 128 MB AGP
ATI X800 XL AGP 256 MB
EVGA 7900 GTO 512 MB PCIE
Visiontek 4870 512 MB
XFX 6950 2 GB
 
GeForce Ti4200
Radeon 9800 Pro
Radeon x850 Pro
ATi x1950 Pro
ATi 3870
2x ATi 3870
3x ATi 3870
ATi 4850
ATi 4870x2
2x AMD 5850
AMD 6950 2GB
AMD 7970
2x AMD 7970
2x AMD 7970 + 9800GT for Physx
 
Started gaming in 1984. :) Drawing green lines in DOS codes on a tiny 10'' monitor was sooo hot!

Voodoo andf Matrox were my first dedicated GPUs. Then every Nvidia cards until the 8800 Ultra. Then I made the switch to AMD.

Now using in my 3 LAN gaming computers at home:

-4X 7970 Quad-Fire
-2X 7970 Crossfire
-2X GTX 690 Quad-SLI coming next week (was using 2X 7950 in that one)
 
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