Im scared!!

[sandmanx]

I can't resist...

I don't skip more than one generation. Here's the breakdown:

512k (Yes K - 1994 and consumer 3d was still ~2 years away) VGA that I don't remember manufacturer
2mb S3 Virge - The first true 3d capable card - man did it look great at the time, esp in Mechwarrior 2
4mb Riva128 - wasn't great until Nvidia release OpenGL capable driver
32mb Geforce2 GTS - best bang for the buck card I've bought - BB competitor pricematch (error at that) for $129 when they were $299
128mb Geforce Ti4600 - still using and barely showing its age
--Soon-- 256mb 6800GT (or 6800 if I can't take the wife into the extra $100 )

haha, good, I remember the pre-3d cards, had 3 of them.

256 or maybe 512K trident 8900 ISA card(1993) 386dx40
1MB Diamond Stealth 32 VESA(Anyone remember those long cards) 486dx2 66, 486dx4 100 and 5x86 133@150(my first overclock)
2MB Matrox Mystique(Had some real rudimentery 3d fucntionality with a few pack in games) p54-120@133, k6-200@225
4MB 3DFX VooDoo( I remmeber overclocking this card a few MHz, can't remember how much though p54-120@133, k6-200@225
8MB(I think) Matrox G400(Might have been a G200), which was faster than the voodoo in quake 2 k6-2 250@400
32MB Hercules TNT2 Ultra(I scored this for $50 when they were still considered quite fast, my friend dumped it for a GeForce DDR) Slot A Athlon 650, Duron 1GHz@1193
64MB GeForce3 ti200 Duron 1GHz@1193, XP 1600+@1800MHz, XP 2500+@2.4GHz

My X800pro is on the way to drop in my XP. You can also see by this list I stuck with AMD for quite a long time now. In fact, only intel procs I've ever owned are the 486dx2 66 and the p54-120.

 

[Davmx]

from 766mhz w/ voodoo 3 pci To 3.5 ghz and 9700 pro.. that is a freaking huge jump for me. I was really soooo happy playing farcry with all the eye candies on with fluid like framerates

 

[TheRapture]

Heh...going from integrated video on a Gateway Pentium 166 to a Voodoo1 (4mb memory) was.....insane. This was playing Quake back in the day, after playing GLQuake on that $300 card I almost fell out of my chair and got sick from the true 3d graphics...

 

[Gargoyle_Hunter]

My buddy still gets motion sick when he plays FPS on my machine. I love it

 

[Squishead]

I can't resist...

I don't skip more than one generation. Here's the breakdown:

2mb S3 Virge - The first true 3d capable card - man did it look great at the time, esp in Mechwarrior 2

Lucky bastard, I only had the 1mb version of the S3...what a pile of crap that was, haha...You should have seen it play Shogo: Mobile Armor Division back in 1998...yikes Thank goodness my VooDoo Banshee took care of those 4 fps and pounded them up to 23. Good ol' P200mmx w/ 32mb ram...powerhouse!

 

[Bomber]

5x86 133@150(my first overclock)

I had one of those "back in the day" as well. Had mine up at 160Mhz. Fast as hell...too bad a P1-100 crushed it.

Lucky bastard, I only had the 1mb version of the S3...what a pile of crap that was, haha...You should have seen it play Shogo: Mobile Armor Division back in 1998...yikes Thank goodness my VooDoo Banshee took care of those 4 fps and pounded them up to 23. Good ol' P200mmx w/ 32mb ram...powerhouse!

Shogo was such a cool and inovative game. Too bad Monolith never updated it with a modern graphics engine. Your post also reminded me that I forgot two cards.

It should look more like this:

512k (Yes K - 1994 and consumer 3d was still ~2 years away) VGA that I don't remember manufacturer
2mb S3 Virge - The first true 3d capable card - man did it look great at the time, esp in Mechwarrior 2
4mb Riva128 - wasn't great until Nvidia release OpenGL capable driver
32mb TNT Ultra - Hercules! man that was a great card
16mb Banshee and TNT2 Ultra (Creative Labs) in the wifes computer - not at the same time of course
32mb Geforce2 GTS - best bang for the buck card I've bought - BB competitor pricematch (error at that) for $129 when they were $299
128mb Geforce Ti4600 - still using and barely showing its age

 

[SmokeRngs]

Wow that's a HUGE jump. The Geforce FX 5200 is better than a Radeon 7000. Although not by much.

Actually, I'm not sure about that. It's a PCI 5200 and the 5200 was bad enough as it was.

 

[Akuma]

I'll soon be going from a PCI 9100 to a 6800GT.

I can't wait.

 

[adamfelker]

I went from a Compaq 200MMX with S3 Verge and Voodoo1 and 64MB Ram, to an Athlon 1000 with GeForce2 GTS and 256MB RAM. Talk about an eye-opening experience!

 

[theHinge]

OMFG!!! Went from V3 on P3 920(800oc) to 9700Pro in P4 3.22(2.8oc) - Zoinks!