Video Card History

this has been done nearly monthly.....:eek:

It's depressing to think of the money spent these things.
 
ATi Radeon
9600XT 128MB DDR (AGP) (September 2004 - June 2005)
X1350 256MB DDR2 (AGP) (June 2005 - October 2006)
X1600 Pro 512MB DDR2 (PCI-E) (this card is still used to this day as an emergency back up card.)
Saphire X1950 Pro 512MB GDDR3 (AGP) (October 2006 - December 2007)
Saphire HD 3870 512MB GDDR4 (PCI-E) (December 2007 - September 2008)

nVIDIA
EVGA 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 (September 2008 - January 2009)
EVGA 9600 GT 512MB GDDR3 (August 2009 - August 2010) [used as PhysX]
EVGA 9800 GT 1GB GDDR3 (January 2009 - February 2009)
EVGA GTX 260 Core 216 896MB GDDR3 (February 2009 - April 2009)
EVGA GTX 275 896MB GDDR3 (April 2009 - August 2010)
EVGA GTX 460 1GB GDDR5 (Current)
 
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The ones I remember:

Voodoo 3 2000
ATI 9500 Pro
Nvidia Geforce 6800
Nvidia Geforce 7900 GS
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GT

Interesting how long I've had each card and how long I've had the 8800 GT. Something like two years now I think. Its finally getting long in the tooth so an upgrade is imminent. Hopefully AMD doesn't price gouge too much on the 6xxx series (I doubt it though with no immediate competition).
 
Cards that I have purchased/owned.

Voodoo ??? some variation
Geforce 2 MX
Radeon 7000
Radeon 9600xt
Radeon 9800pro
Radeon X800gto
Radeon X1650pro
Radeon X2400pro
Radeon X2600xt
Radeon 4870
 
Yeah this has been done many times... still fun though :D

Out of laziness and old age, I am just going to post my first video card...

Tseng Labs ET4000
 
In order of ownership

Matrox Millennium II PCI - Included in my very first PC purchased by my dad.
ATI Rage Pro 4MB AGP - Included in a purchased Dell Pentium II PC
Nvidia Vanta 8MB AGP - Included in a purchased Gateway AMD Athlon
Nvidia Geforce 256 Leadtek - (My FIRST self purchased GPU)
Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 - Purchased for a second AMD system I had.
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro R360 - Sapphire
Nvidia Geforce 7900GT OC - BFG
Nvidia Gerorce 8800GTS - EVGA
Nvidia Geforce 280 GTX - EVGA
Nvidia Geforce GTX 470 - MSI
 
Let's see...for my main gaming rig...

Some crap I don't remember... followed by:

Trident (Don't recall the model.)
ATI Mach64 2MB
Some Matrox (?) thing plus Voodoo 2 SLI.
Nvidia TNT2 Ultra 32MB
Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti500
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX
Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX
Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 (2-Way SLI)
 
Only a few...

Nvidia Geforce MX 440
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
EVGA Nvidia Geforce 7900GS
EVGA Nvidia Geforce 8800GT
EVGA Nvidia Geforce GTX 460
 
Timeline’s a little murky on this part:

Some kind of Trident chip
Tseng ET3000
Tseng ET4000
Some kind of Vesa Local Bus card

From here out it is solid:

Matrox Millenium
Matrox Mystique
3dfx Voodoo 1 (Diamond Monster 3D)
3dfx Voodoo 2 (Diamond Monster 3d II) (actually 2 of them in SLI)
Nvidia Riva TNT (Diamond Viper V550)
Nvidia Riva TNT2 (Diamond Viper V770)
Nvidia GeForce 256 DDR
Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS
Nvidia GeForce 3
Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 500
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4200
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600
Ati Radeon 9700 Pro (Ati)
Ati Radeon 9800XT (Gexcube)
Nvidia 6800GT (EVGA)
Nvidia 7800GT (EVGA)
Nvidia 7800GTX
Radeon X1900XT (Sapphire)
Nvidia 8800GTS 640 (EVGA)
Nvidia 8800GTS 512 (EVGA)
Nvidia GTX 260 (EVGA)
Nvidia GTX 285 (XFX)
Nvidia GTX 480 (Gigabyte)
 
Generic Trident ISA (1991)
ATI 3D Xpression ISA (1995)
Generic ATI Rage card and Creative Labs 3D Blaster Voodoo2 (1998)
Voodoo3-2000 (1999)
Voodoo5-5500 AGP (2000)
Hercules Kyro 3D Prophet 4500 (2001)
Nvidia GF4-Ti4200 (2002)
ATI Radeon 9800 Non Pro (2003)
ATI Radeon X1950 XT (2006)
ATI Radeon HD3850 (2007)
ATI Radeon HD4890 (2009)

and my next card will probably be an ATI series 6 of some sort coming out in October.
 
  • 1988: Some EGA in the family PC
    It could run leisure suit larry and pacman. nuff said.​
  • 1995: S3-Trio32
    Trying to get DOS games to run in Window 95 with VESA-drivers! Great memories. Not.​
  • 1998: S220 (Rendition Verite 2100)
    To this day I don't know why I bought it, because I didn't play any 3D games. I think I heard somewhere it made your games BETTER! :rolleyes:​
  • 1998: S220 + Voodoo Graphics
    Great because it was my first real 3D-card. But it was too slow for Unreal​
  • 1998: S3-Virge DX + Voodoo2
    S220 had too many VESA problems and I wanted a faster Voodoo​
  • 1999: S3-Virge DX + Voodoo2-SLI
    Needed a second Voodoo2 to play Unreal at 1024x768 and I was NOT disappointed! V2-SLI finally retired when I got Windows-XP​
  • 1999: Riva TNT + Voodoo2-SLI
    TNT was great, but actually it was a waste of money, because my Voodoo2-SLI was faster. Probably bought it because it had 32bit color.​
  • 2000: Voodoo3 3000 AGP
    This was an even bigger waste of money. Voodoo2-SLI was just as fast. I think I must have wanted a 16Mb Glide card​
  • 2000: Geforce 2 MX + Voodoo2 SLI
    Payed far too much for it, because two months later I bought the card I really wanted, the Voodoo5. But it's still working in my niece's PC!​
  • 2000: Voodoo5 5500 AGP
    Most expensive card I ever bought, but also one of the best. Glide + 32bit color + anti-aliasing. Heaven. Still use it in my win98 PC​
  • 2002: Abit Geforce4 Ti-4200 64Mb + Voodoo2-SLI
    It died after only four months. Warranty replaced with:​
  • 2002: MSI Geforce4 Ti-4200 64Mb + Voodoo2-SLI
    One of the best cards I ever owned​
  • 2004: Radeon 9800Pro 128Mb
    Fast and great AA. Had a whiny fan though. Replaced it with a Silencer cooler. Not long after that the card died. Put the old fan back on and (;)) warranty replaced with:​
  • 2004: Geforce 6800LE
    DOA. Worst card ever. Machine just would not boot with it. Got my money back.​
  • 2004: MSI Geforce4 Ti-4200 64Mb
    So I put my good old 4200 back in​
  • 2004: Geforce 6600GT AGP
    Replacement for the dead 9800Pro. About the same performance if I remember correctly.​
  • 2006: Geforce 7800GS AGP
    Last AGP card. Used it until my Pentium 4 died. Turbine engine fan.​
  • 2007: Geforce 8600GT
    Bought it thinking I didn't need more performance. I was wrong. Big disappointment. Demoted it to 'backup-card' and bought:​
  • 2008: Radeon HD3870
    Maybe the best card I ever owned. Silent and ran everything​
  • 2010: Geforce GTX460-1GB
    My new card. 8xAA in every game, unbelievable.​
 
TNT2 Ultra 2000
Nvidia 4200ti (for like a day) 2002
ATI 9700 2002 or 2003
Nvidia 7600GS 2007
ATI 4850 512MB 2008
 
  • Guillermot Voodoo Banshee
  • VisionTek GeForce256 DDR
  • Creative GeForce2 GTS 64MB
  • Creative GeForce2 Ultra
  • VisionTek GeForce 3 Ti 200
  • Sapphire 9500 NP
  • ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
  • eVGA GeForce 6800 GT
  • eVGA GeForce 7800 GT
  • XFX GeForce 7900 GT
  • Sapphire X1900 XT
  • MSI GeForce 8800 GT
  • PowerColor Radeon HD 4850 512MB
  • eVGA GeForce GTX 460 768MB
 
Riva128
Geforce4 MX
Geforce FX 5200
Radeon X800 PRO
Geforce 8800GTS 320
Geforce 460GTX
 
SuicidalGoat said:
Do you guys often keep your cards for spare PC or sell them/trade them off?
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I usually keep 1 around. But most of the time I sell them off. I have like a spare 5650 laying around incase I need a vid card, which is good because 1 GPU died on my buddies 5970 and he is using my 5650 while he RMAs.
 
Let's see if I remember what i wrote before...

Out of the ones I've personally owned for more than a month (otherwise, the list would be way too long):

Oak 256 kilobyte VGA, 16 bit ISA video card
Diamond Speedstar Pro 24X (Cirrus Logic 5428-based) VLB card, 1 MB
ATi Winturbo PCI (2 MB VRAM, uses ATi's excellent Mach64 chipset)
STB Velocity 3D (4 MB EDO VRAM, 4 MB EDO DRAM, S3 Virge VX chipset)
Matrox Millenium II (8 MB WRAM)
Matrox Millenium G200 (16 MB SDRAM) AGP
Added a Diamond Monster II 3D (12 MB version)
3dfx Voodoo 3 16 MB AGP
ATi Rage Fury (32 MB, Rage 128 chipset, excellent gaming card for its time) AGP
Diamond Viper II Ultra (16 MB TNT2 Ultra chipset) AGP
PNY GeForce2 GTS (32 MB) AGP
PNY GeForce3 Ti200 (64 MB) AGP
Some unknown brand of GeForce4 Ti4200 AGP
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro AGP
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro AGP
BFG GeForce 6600 GT (128 MB) AGP
PNY GeForce 6800 AGP (non ultra)
BFG GeForce 7900 GS PCI-e
Sapphire Radeon 1950 GT PCI-e
added another 1950 GT for Crossfire mode
MSI GeForce 8800 GTS (G.92) 512 MB
MSI GeForce 260 GTX

Thus, I have no loyalty to one brand or the other; I simply look for the best bang / buck possible.

On another note, I am probably one of the very few people here who have ever owned a Mediavision Thunder and Lightning audio / video card... This card combined the Mediavision Thunderboard sound card, with a rudimentary graphics chip. Not too bad of a performer at its time...
 
Voodoo II 8mb
Voodoo II 12mb SLI
Ati Rage Fury
Riva TNT2 Ultra
Geforce 2 MX
Geforce 2 MX 440
Geforce 4 4200
ATi Radeon 9700 PRO
ATi Radeon 9800 PRO XT 256
ATi Radeon X1950 XT 512
Geforce 8800 GT 512
Intel Mobility GMA X3100
Geforce 8400m GS
Geforce 8800 GS SLI
Geforce GTX 260 896mb
Ati Radeon Mobility X2300
Ati Radeon HD 4850
Ati Radeon HD 4890 1GB
 
ati rage 2 4mb
3dfx voodoo3 3000 16mb
gf2 mx 32mb
gf4 mx 64mb
gf4 ti4200 64mb
gf4 ti4680 128mb
ati 9700aiw 128mb
6800gt 256mb
8800gts 512mb (died and RMA'd to BFG just when they went under)
gtx 260 216sp 55nm (replacement for 8800)


(all from memory)
 
Radeon X700Pro (was upgrade to a pre-built AGP slot)

From there I built my own and have used in the same build:

Radeon X1800XT 256MB
Radeon X1900XT 256MB

Then I downgraded and so began my list of Nvidia cards:

7600GT
7900GS
7900GT
8800GT
8800GTS G92/512MB
GTX 260 216/896MB (at this since Dec 08)

There will be no more upgrading until I build a new system, which probably won't be for at least another year thanks to the longevity of the Q6600. Some of my $3 Yate Loons are starting to rattle though, so I at least have to replace those soon. :p
 
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ATI Rage IIc
MATROX DUAL dead 450
nVidia TNT 2 Model 64
ATI RADEON 7500
ATI RADEON 9200
ATI RADEON 9800 PRO(BIOS MODDED TO 256MB 9800-XT)
ATI RADEON X850-XT(BIOS MODDED TO BEYOND PLATINUM)
FX-5200(SUCKED HARD!!)
LEADTEK Winfast nVidia 6600(BOIS MODDED BEYOND 6600 ULTRA)
ASUS EN7950-GT(512MB)
eVGA 8800-GTS
eVGA 8800-U:TRA
ASUS EN8800ULTRTA
 
There was one of these threads, but it was a really long time ago in 07. Copied my list from that thread and updated :)

MDA display adapter - ISA (8086 era)

*took a break from PCs and went back to Atari, then Apple for a bit*

-Paradise MCGA card with 256k - ISA (386SX era)
-ATI SVGA Wonder with 512k - ISA (386DX era)
-ATI VGA 1024 with 1MB - ISA (486DX era)
-ATI Mach32 (2MB I think) - VLB (486DX era - woot! a processor direct slot on PC!)
-Diamond Weitek 9000 - VLB (486DX era)
-Matrox Millenium 8MB - PCI (Pentium era)
-Diamond Edge NV1 (Pentium era)
-3DFX Voodoo 2 12MB (back to Matrox for 2D)
-3DFX Voodoo 2 12MB (went SLI - woot!)
-Diamond S3 Virge 3000 (searching for single card solution - S3 didnt do it)
-3D Blaster Annihilator (Rendition) (Pentium era - desperate for single card at that time)
-Diamond Viper Riva 128 - AGP (Pentium 2 era)
-Diamond Viper TNT - AGP (Pentium 2 era)
-Diamond Viper TNT2 - AGP (Pentium 2 era)
-Fire GL 1000 (wanted to see what a Permedia card was like)
-GeForce 256
-GeForce 2 GTS
-GeForce 2 ultra
-GeForce 3 ultra
-ATI 9700 Pro
-GeForce 6800GT
-ATI X800XL
-ATI X850XT
-GeForce 7800GTX - PCI-E
-ATI X1900XTX - PCI-E
-GeForce 8800GTX SLI
-GeForce GTX280 SLI
-GeForce 9800GT (for PhysX)
-GeForce GTX480 SLI

Also... Voodoo 5000 PCI for Amiga 4000 and ATI Radeon 7000 AGP and 9600 AGP for Mac G4 and G5 respectively
 
i had some cards before agp, but i dont remember them too tough.
ati rage something 4mb
diamond voodoo
canopus tnt
obsidian x24 2x voodoo2 12mb on 1 card (i used this for a couple more years as it was great for unreal)
canopus tnt2
diamond r770 tnt2 ultra
g256 ddr
leadtek geforce 2 (worst brand ever - deserve their own thread)
leadtek gforce 3 ti500
pny 4200
gainward golden sample 4800 (8x agp version of the 4600)
9700pro
9800pro
9800xt
6800gt
x850xt (my first pcie card)
7800gt sli
7900gt sli
7900 gto (7950 gto?) sli
8800 gts 640 sli
8800 gt g92 sli
9800gx2 quad sli
4870
4850x2
4890 crossfire
5850 cf
gtx470 sli
 
In the computers that I have built myself, not including family computers from when I was younger...
GeForce 4 mx440 AGP
GeForce FX5200 128mb AGP
GeForce FX5200 256mb AGP
GeForce 7300GT AGP
ATI 9600pro AGP
GeForce 7600GS PCI-e
ATI X1950Pro XGE PCI-e
GeForce 8800GTS 384mb
GeForce GTS250 512mb
ATI Radeon 4850 512mb
ATI Radeon 4890 1gb
GeForce 9800GT 512mb
(Current) GeForce 9800GX2 1gb
 
Main Rig mainstays:
- STB Horizon 1MB PCI (shelf)
- Diamond Stealth S220 4MB (dead)
- 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 16MB PCI (sold)
- Abit Ti4200 64MB AGP4X (shelf)
- GeCube R9550 128MB AGP8X (in use)
- EVGA 6800GS 256MB PCIE (shelf)
- BFG 8800GTS 512MB (sold)
- BFG GTX260-216 OC 896MB (in use)
- EVGA GTX460 1GB (current)

Spare Rig maintstays:
- Abit 9550Guru 128MB AGP8X (in use)
- EVGA 6600GT AGP8X (in use)
- EVGA 6800GS 256MB PCIE (sold)
- XFX 8600GT 256MB PCIE (sold)
- EVGA 8800GS 384MB (sold)
- BFG GTS250 1GB (sold)
- EVGA GTX460 768MB (current)

Cards that didn't stick around long:
- EVGA 6800GS 256MB AGP8X (RMA)
- HIS HD3870 512MB PCIE (sold)
- EVGA 8800GT 512MB (sold)
- EVGA 9800GT 512MB (sold)
- EVGA 9800GTX+ 512MB (sold)
- HIS HD4870 1GB (sold)
- EVGA GTX260-216 896MB (RMA)
- EVGA GTX275 896MB (sold)
- EVGA GTX285 1GB (sold)
- EVGA GTX480 1.5GB (sold)
 
Trident 1mb SVGA
Matrox Mystique (MotoRacer!!)
Voodooo 1 Orchid (MotoRacer even better!!!)
Voodoo 2 Diamond 8mb SLI
Voodoo 3 3000
Asus Geforce 256 (w/Goggles)
Voodoo5 5500
Geforce Ti 4400 (MSI)
Geforce FX5900 (BFG)
Geforce 6800GT
Geforce 6800GT SLI
Geforce 7800GT
Geforce 7800GT SLI
ATI X1900XTX
ATI 4850
ATI 4870
 
I do not go crazy updating my cards I seem to hold to them for a while . I usually go 2-3 years before full rebuild.


Nvidia TNT
GeForce 3
ATI 9700 Pro
ATI 850 XT
7900 GTO
8800 GTS 640mb
GTX 260
and currently GTX 470 SLI
 
My cards in my main system over the years:


1993: Trident 8900C ISA 512KB (slowest card ever)
1994: Diamond Speedstar 64 ISA 1MB (Cirrus Logic CL5434) (5x faster than the Trident)
1995: Orchid Kelvin 64 VLB 2MB (CL5434)
1996: Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI 2MB (S3 ViRGE) (3D Decelerator)
1997: Diamond Monster 3D 3dfx Voodoo 4MB (sold) + Stealth 3D 2000
1998: Creative 3D Blaster Voodoo2 8MB (dead) + Matrox Millennium II PCI 4MB (dead)
1998: Voodoo2 + ATi All-in-Wonder Pro AGP 8MB (dead)
2001: PowerColor Geforce 2 GTS 32MB (dead)
2003: Albatron Geforce 4 Ti4200 AGP8X 128MB (sold)
2004: Built by ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB (dead)
2006: Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 PCIe 256MB @ X850 XT
2008: Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 XT PCIe 256MB DDR2 (spare, 800/DDR2-1000)
2008: Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB (dead)
2009: Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 1GB (current)
 
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1997: S3 Virge
1998: 3Dfx Voodoo2 (Amazingly still works) + Matrox Millennium II AGP
2000: Geforce 2 GTS (with Athlon 1Ghz!!! Most powerful PC ever at that time)
2003: Geforce FX 5900 Ultra
2006: Geforce 7800 GTX
2009: Radeon HD 5870
2012: ??
 
S3 Virge PCI
S3 Virge PCI + Apocalypse 3d/3dx PowerVR
S3 Virge PCI + 3dfx Voodoo2
Manli Riva TNT2 M64 AGP
Aopen Geforce FX5200 128-bit AGP
MSI RX9800 Radeon 9800 Pro (R360) AGP
Sparkle Geforce 6600GT AGP
XpertVision Geforce 7600GS Sonic PCI-E
Powercolor Radeon X1950 Pro SCS3 PCI-E
Powercolor Radeon HD 3870 PCI-E
Powercolor Radeon HD 4870 1GB PCI-E
Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 PCI-E
 
  • 1994: Hercules Stingray

    Had color issues, apparently a known problem with those cards, got RMAd for...

  • 1994: ATI Mach64 1Mb

    Good card. Runs 1024x768 with 256 colors, though needed a TSR for VESA.

  • 1998: Ati 3Dcharger 4MB

    Good 2D, worthless 3D. I got X-wing Alliance working in OpenGL, but software mode was faster.

  • 1999: Voodoo 3 2000 16MB

    I remember thinking "16 MB WOW", as it was almost as much as I had in the system. Before getting this I actually did a good bit of research. Reading articles, forum posts, and reviews, and so on, the only thing I didn't check on was 3DFX's financial status.

  • 2002: Geforce4 MX 440 64MB

    Bought it because the V3 tended to freeze in Win2K and 3DFX wasn't going to fix that anytime soon, but shortly after getting it I stumbled on working fan made V3 drivers.

    It was anyway a good card, it didn't have pixel shades but it played Doom 3, Halo and a variety of other games just fine. I tested the games out on later GPUs of mine but the added effects was hardly noticeable. The one exception was FarCry, which was the first game I tried that put shaders to use for more than just subtle shine.

    Farcry on a GF4mx
    Farcry on a 6600TD

  • 2006: Geforce6 6600TD 128MB

    I got a game as a present, but it didn't run on the GF4mx. Went to the closest retailer and bought this for a good bit more than it was worth. However the game was excellent, reawakened my interest in PC gaming and I upgraded my system to...

  • 2006: ATI x1300 PCIe 256MB

    Oddly enough Outrun 2006 runs better on this card than any other I've owned. I got the card for free, which was one of the reasons I upgraded my system, sadly it was extremely noisy. The fan speed could not be controlled and the card wasn't good enough to bother changing the fan so I got a...

  • 2006: GeForce 8600GT 256MB

    Nice card, but I was hungry for more performance so I sold it and got a...

  • 2007: Geforce 9600GT 512MB

    Hardly a top of the line card, but it is passively cooled and performs decently on today's games. I'm considering upgrading to a 460GTX, but I'm not sure if I game enough to justify it. However Crysis 2 might force my hand, no way I'm playing that no my xbox.

I'm amazed that I remember all this. If only I could remember birthdays as easily as I can recall the name of some GPU I've long gotten rid off.
 
Vodoo 3 3000
Hercules Geforce 2 GTS
Abit Geforce 3 Ti200
Leadtek Geforce 4 Ti4400
ATI Radeon 9800pro
Saphire Radeon x800XL
EVGA Geforce 8800GTS 640
EVGA Geforce 275GTX
 
voodoo banshee 16mb (originally sold as a blaster banshee but drivers changed it to voodoo banshee)
radeon 7500
radeon 8500
radeon 9200
radeon 9500
radeon 9600PRO (soft modded to a 9700)
radeon 9800XT(soft modded to pro)
radeon 9800PRO(got it after i killed the XT overclocking)
Nvidia TI-4200(cant remember what order it goes in this list but it sucked ass and ran hot as hell)
radeon x1550PRO (sucked ass took it back 3 days later and got the x1650PRO)
radeon x1650PRO (replaced my motherboard with a DFI LP UT NF3 250Gb which didnt support ATI cards so its sat collecting dust after only 3 months of use)
radeon x1950PRO AGP(card absolutley sucked ass.. PCI-e to AGP bridge gimped it so bad that my x1650 out performed it)
Nvidia 6200 AGP(used on the dfi board)
Nvidia 7300GT PCI-E (soft modded to a 7600GT)
Nvidia 8800GT
Nvidia GTX 260 (borrowed from a fellow [H] member for about 8 months, awesome card but wouldnt buy one)
2x Nvidia 8800GS's (backwards upgrade i know but i fold and the power usage to PPD ratio's worth it)

theres also a radeon HD2400pro and HD2600pro that goes in that list some where that were used in my HTPC years ago..

as you can tell from the list i was a big ATI person up until the x series came out but plan to go back with the release of the 6870 or 6970(what ever the hell they decide to call it)..
 
Might as well add mine

1995: Onboard Cirrus Logic SVGA 512K
1997: Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 4MB (so pissed when I found out how crappy this was in 3D games)
1998: Hercules Thriller 3D 4MB (Rendition v2200). 2D performance sucked, but 3D was pretty good. Drivers were perpetually buggy. This was my first card that supported OpenGL.
1999: STB Velocity 4200 16MB (Riva TnT). What an amazing card, this thing whipped every game I threw at it until Quake 3. Was my first AGP card.
2000: Matrox G400 MAX 32MB. This card was amazing because it had excellent 2D quality and top-notch 32-bit performance.
2002: ATI Radeon 8500 64MB. Bought this card specifically to play RtCW and Battlefield 1942.
2004: XFX GeForce 6600GT 128MB. My last AGP card. Bought this on release day because it was so amazing. Got it for Half-Life 2, and it continued to serve me well in Battlefield 2.
2006: XFX GeForce 7900GT 256MB. My first PCIe card, and probably my most expensive video card ever ($300). I did get a solid 2 years out of my purchase, so I got my money's worth.
2008: Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MB. This baby was a steal for $200! It managed to keep up with games like Fallout 3 and even BFBC2 two years after purchase!
2010: Sparkle GeForce GTX 460 1GB.
 
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