what was your video card history like?

Matrox G200 ~(1998?)
Voodoo 5 PCI
GF3 Ti 200
GF4 Ti 4800SE (aka higher clocked 4400)
Radeon 9500np -> Softmodded to 9700
6800GT
6800Ultra
7800GT
(2) 8800GT's
(2) 260GTX (core 216's)
(2) 460GTX ~(September 2010)
 
ATI rage 128 :D used this and the one below with a 750 MHz slot A athlon
Geforce 2 mx
radeon xpress 200 (used onboard for a few months)
evga 6600gt (died after about 3 1/2 years)
evga 8600gt
 
ATI Rage 128 (?) time frame fuzzy.

Diamond S3 Savage

3dfx Voodoo2

3dfx Voodoo5 5500 (Kept this running 2 years on hacked drivers after Nvidia cherry picked 3dfx and the company entered bankruptcy)

PNY Ti-4600 (Great chip, but the first one lasted 15 days, second 11 months. Last PNY product owned)

ATI 9700 (filled in for the Ti-4600's, now in a nephew's linux box)

XFX Geforce 6800 (Replaced the Voodoo5, was a solid card, assasinated it so wife agree it was time to upgrade)

ATI XT1950 (last ATI branded PCB card owned, still running today in a friend's box)

EVGA 8800 GTS (I keep this now as my emergency backup card. Great company)

XFX Alpha Dog 8800 GT (successor to the 6800, died of natural causes three weeks ago, honest :D ,didn't bother to try RMA.)

Sapphire 4870 - 1gb (moved to the No.2, to replace the dawg, I really love this card, but to be honest, it's not looking good for it's survival past tax time ;) )

Sparkle GTX460 - 1gb (my newest toy)

Still have the Voodoo5 in a box with an IBM XT, several sets of DOS and an old Wing Commander game for no discernable reason. :D
 
BFG 6200OC <- pretty decent upgrade from the integrated graphics I was running with my old p4.

Dell OEM 3450 <- came in a cheap dell; decent improvement from the 6200, but I had nothing but driver issues. I 'upgraded' to a 9500gt 3 days later.

BFG 9500gt <- Threw this into above cheap dell for an astounding upgrade (I could actually play modern games, yay!)

EVGA gtx 460 <- Gently installed this one into above cheap dell along with a corsair 400cx psu (not gently installed, the long stiff cables were a nightmare in that mATX case) for under 200$ (I hoard newegg coupons, yes) a few days after launch. I am pretty sure I could not stop shedding tears of joy over the VAST improvement.
 
Geforce4 MX 440
XFX 7800 GTX 256 (still in my closet... paid $499 new)
8800 GT
2x 8800GT's
GTX 260

aaaand that's it. I still can't believe I paid what I did for that 7800 GTX.
 
I used many cards
first was Hercules monochrome
tried Matrox - nice one back in the day
Viper550
then fell in love with Nvidia
now ATI is my fav.
 
Voodoo 2 12 Meg
TNT2 Ultra
Geforce 2 MX
Radeon 9000 pro
Radeon 9500 pro
Vanilla Geforce 6800 (unlocked)
Radeon X800XL
Geforce 8800GT
Geforce 8800GT SLI
Geforce GTX 275
Radeon 5850
 
Just started getting back into computers. My gaming rig has a 5870 and server has a 460.
 
Lets see...from earliest to latest.

BFG 6600GT
BFG 7800GT
2x BFG8800GTOC
Visiontek 5870 - As soon as it arrives. :)
 
TNT2
Voodoo 3500 with the VIVO pod
Geforce 5700
Radeon 2900 XT
Radeon 4870
GTX260
 
Voodoo 3500 TV Out + Pod...great card....and heavy pod..:D
GF 256
GF2 Ultra....loved that card on UT
GF3 Ti 200....bit of a downgrade I think.
GF FX5900 Ultra
GF6800 Ultra
GF7800GTX OC....BFG
2 x ATI 4870X2's
That's it so far.....
 
ATI 3d expression pc2tv
Diamond Monster 3d
Creative TNT
Voodoo3 3000
Geforce 2 MX
Geforce 3 (forgot which type)
Radeon x1500
Geforce 8600
Geforce 9600
Radeon 5770
 
radeon 9000
nvidia 4200 mobile
x300 mobility
x800xl
x850xt
x1800xl aiw
x1800xt
x1900
4850
5730 mobility.
 
voodoo 5500 -2001, $65
radeon 9600 pro -2003, $105
7800 gs -2006, $280
5850 crossfire -2010, $520
 
S3 cards back in the day heh.
3dfx Voodoo 1
3dfx Voodoo 2
TNT
TNT2
Geforce 3
Radeon 9700 Pro
Geforce 6800GT
X1900XT
8800GTS512
GTX285

Next card will either be a GTX580 or Radeon 6970, depending on what is the best price/performance card.
 
3dfx voodoo banshee
geforce 2 mx 400
geforce 4 mx 420 (Noob time, thought larger number was better...was wrong...shitty card)
radeon 9700 pro (First system I built...badass card for its time. Was like WOW)
geforce fx5800SE (9700pro died and I need a cheap replacement...bad decision lol)
radeon 9600 mobility 64MB (laptop phase...used my laptop from 2004 until 2007)
geforce 7300gt
geforce 7900gs
radeon 4670
radeon 4850
radeon 5770
 
geforce 4 mx 420 (Noob time, thought larger number was better...was wrong...shitty card)
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1. Radeon x800xl
2. Radeon x1900gt
3. Nvidia 8800gts g92

That's it haha :(
 
ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo AGP
TNT1
S3 Savage4
Radeon 64mb DDR VIVO SE
Radeon 9000 Pro
Radeon 9600 NP
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon x200 Mobility

Radeon 4830
Radeon 4870
Radeon 4870 CrossFire
GeForce GTX 285 SLI
Radeon 5970 + 5870 CFX
GTX 480 SLI
 
I think something like this..

I forget which Voodoo cards.
Geforce 4200 ti?
9800xt
x1800xt
3870
4870
2X 4870
 
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

(Same post from a duplicate thread :p)
 
Cant remember the name of ISA cards I had before TNT M64. But here my list.

Geforce TNT M64 (Lost)
Radeon 9500 pro (Failed to softmod to 9700) (Also still the biggest leap by far) (Sold)
Radeon 9700 AIW (Sold)
Radeon X1600 PRO (Sold and bought x850xt PE)
Sapphire X850XT PE AGP (Gave to friend because my new board don't support AGP. He was still using on board Intel chip for Guild Wars. :()
XFX Geforce 8800GT Alpha Dog (Died few days ago and waiting on RMA, hopefully a nice upgrade.)

X850 XT PE was the last card I even bother overclocking.
Never bought any of those for more than $180.
If the RMA replacement is not a big upgrade... Most likely will buy a new one next year. Long over due.
 
integrated -> 9800pro -> x800 pro -> 1950 cf -> 8800gtx -> 4870 x2 -> 5970 / 6870 cf
 
TNT Vanta, Geforce 2 MX 400, Geforce 3 Ti200, 9800 Pro, 6800GT, 7600GT (PCI-E!), 7950GT 512, 8800 GTS 512, GTX 280, GTX 460 1GB
 
I like reminiscing about my old video cards. Counting just "3D Accelerators":

1998: 4MB Diamond Monster Voodoo1
2000: 64MB Radeon (when it was just called "Radeon" with no # because this was the first)
2001: 64MB Radeon 8500
2004: 128MB 9600XT
2004: 256MB 9800Pro
2006: 512MB Radeon X1900XTX
2006: 512MB Radeon X1950XTX (Ran this and the prior one in Xfire... was not the wisest purchase)
2008: 1024MB Radeon HD 4870
2008: 2048MB Radeon HD 4870X2 (Replaced 4870 after a month... still using it couldn't be happier)
 
ATi Xpert@Play '98 8mb PCI
Visiontek GF2 GTS 32mb
PNY GF4 Ti4200 64mb
Gigabyte X800XT 256mb
XFX 8600GT 256mb
EVGA 8800GS 384mb
XFX HD5770 1gb
XFX HD5870 1gb

The 8600GT was probably my most underwhelming purchase. Sold it after just a few months. The 8800GS was a huge upgrade and lasted until I finally upgraded to a Dell 2209WA from an old Samsung 17" panel. I'm rocking a HD5870 now that should last for quite some time.
 
S3 trio?
Riva 128
Voodoo 2 12mb
Ati radeon 32mb
Radeon 9800pro
8800 gt
HD 5870
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Posted once before in older thread, but will add prices now. :)

Diamond Stealth II S220 - € 131,-
Voodoo 2-12MB No. 1 - € 300,-
Voodoo 2-12MB No. 2 - € 150,-
Riva TNT - € 116,-
Voodoo 3000 - € 137,-
Geforce 2MX - € 190,- (too much for what it was)
Voodoo 5500 - € 316,- (too much for a card without driver support)
Geforce Ti4200 - € 199,-
Geforce 6600GT - € 229,-
Geforce 7800GS - € 269,-
Geforce 8600GT - € 109,-
Radeon HD 3870 - € 159,-
Geforce GTX460 - € 200,-

Threw away € 450,- for voodoo 2-SLI. Crazy, just crazy! :eek:
 
TNT2 64MB
Kyro 2 64MB (Dumb purchase, I saw jaggies in my NBA Live 2000 so I bought it thinking it was going to fix it, basically same speed as my TNT)
Geforce 4 MX440 64MB (Crap card, fell for nVidias marketing)
Geforce 4 Ti-4200 128MB (Kickass card)
Geforce 7800GS 256MB (Fastest AGP videocard ever?)
Geforce 8800GTS 320MB (Hot as hell)
Geforce GTX285 1GB
Radeon HD5870 1GB (Sold)
Geforce GTX480 1.5GB (Sold)

Currently waiting for the Cayman or GTX580.
 
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Diamond Edge 3D 2200 2MB (Nvidia NV1 - first Nvidia 3D accelerator in 1996)
Diamond Stealth III S530 8MB (Savage S4+)
Geforce SDR 32MB
Radeon 7000 64MB (replaced the Geforce after it died from overheating when fan seized up)
Radeon 9250 128MB
Radeon X800XL 256MB
Radeon X1800XL 256MB
Radeon HD4650 512MB
Radeon HD4870 1GB
 
IGP
TNT2
GeForce 2 GTS
GeForce 4 Ti4600
ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
Intel IGP
Radeon HD 4670
Radeon HD 5770
Radeon HD 6870
 
6800 GT - First real dedicated card
7900 GT - First card with custom build
7900 GT SLI - Fun and performed good, but had some issues.
8800 GTS 512 G92 - Favorite card of all time due to its sheer power
4770 - Needed a smaller card for my mATX switch over
5770 - Good bump in performance, but still want more
 
radeon 32 MB T and L FTW
Radeon 9600
radeon 9800 pro
Radeon x800xt
Radeon x1800xt
Geforce 8800 GTX
Radeon HD 5770
 
ballpoint said:
I like reminiscing about my old video cards. Counting just "3D Accelerators":

1998: 4MB Diamond Monster Voodoo1
2000: 64MB Radeon (when it was just called "Radeon" with no # because this was the first)
2001: 64MB Radeon 8500
2004: 128MB 9600XT
2004: 256MB 9800Pro
2006: 512MB Radeon X1900XTX
2006: 512MB Radeon X1950XTX (Ran this and the prior one in Xfire... was not the wisest purchase)
2008: 1024MB Radeon HD 4870
2008: 2048MB Radeon HD 4870X2 (Replaced 4870 after a month... still using it couldn't be happier)
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Attaboy i also have a minor kink in my ATI Radeon Fetish with a purchse of a 8800 GTX >.>
 
Nvidia FX5200
Radeon 9200
GeForce 7300GT
GeForce 9600GT
GeForce GTX 460 (current atm but going in another system)
Radeon HD 6870 (just ordered, arriving soon)
 
Forceman said:
There's an older thread on this around somewhere - lot of responses there.

Here it is:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1546427&highlight=history
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This comes up every couple of months. Some people should really try the search feature. It works very well.

My response:

Diamond SpeedStar 24 Tseng Labs ET4000 ISA
ATI 512k VGA
Cirrus Logic CL-GD5420
Diamond SpeedStar 64 Cirrus Logic CL-GD5434 PCI
Diamond S3 Vision 964
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 S3-ViRGE PCI
Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 S3-ViRGE/DX PCI
Hercules 3DFX Voodoo Rush
NEC PowerVR
Diamond Monster 3D 3DFX Voodoo1 4MB PCI (combined with above)
Diamond Monster 3D II 3DFX Voodoo2 8MB PCI (combined with above)
Diamond Monster 3D II 3DFX Voodoo2 12MB PCI x2 (SLI) (combined with below)
Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro 3Dlabs Permedia2 AGP
Matrox G200 4MB AGP
Matrox G200 8MB AGP
3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 AGP
3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
Diamond Viper V330 nVidia Riva 128 AGP
Diamond Viper V550 nVidia Riva TNT AGP
Diamond Viper V770 nVidia Riva TNT2 Ultra AGP
Herecules Geforce 2 GTS 64MB AGP
Geforce 2 MX (Unknown brand)
PNY Geforce 3 Ti500
PNY Geforce 4 Ti4600
PNY Geforce 4 Ti4600 (To replace the above that I smoked while overclocking)
ATI Radeon 9600Pro
ATI Radeon X800Pro
PNY Geforce 6800GT AGP
ATI Radeon 7000 PCI 32MB
ATI Radeon X700Pro PCI-Express
PNY Geforce 6600GT
BFG Geforce 6600GT
EVGA Geforce 6800GT PCI-Express x2 (SLI)
BFG Geforce 7800GTX PCI-Express x2 (SLI)
BFG Geforce 7900GTX PCI-Express x2 (SLI)
Mad Dog Geforce FX 5200 Plus PCI 128MB (Sitting in a box)
ATI Radeon X1950XTX PCI-Express x2 (Crossfire)
ATI Radeon X1950Pro PCI-Express x2 (Crossfire)
BFG Technologies 8600GTS x2 (Separate systems, non-SLI)
EVGA Geforce 8800GTX x2 (SLI)
EVGA Geforce 8800GTX x3 (3-Way SLI)
EVGA Geforce 9800GX2 (Quad-SLI)
BFG Technologies Geforce GTX 280 OC x2 (SLI)
EVGA 8800GTS 320MB Superclocked (HTPC)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 CrossfireX (Sold both cards and went to GeForce GTX 280 OC 3-Way SLI)
BFG Technologies Geforce GTX 280 OC x3 (3-Way SLI)
EVGA 8800GT 512MB Superclocked (HTPC)
XFX Geforce GTX 280 XXX Edition (Server/Spare rig)
Diamond Multimedia ATI Radeon HD 5970 2GB
Galaxy GeForce GTX 580 1.5GB x2 (SLI)
Diamond Multimedia AMD Radeon HD 7970 x2 (CrossfireX)
Zotac NVIDIA GTX 680 4GB
EVGA NVIDIA GTX 680 4GB x2 (SLI)

I may be forgetting a few cards here or there. I'll add them later if I remember anymore.
 
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Nvidia GeForce FX5200 128MB AGP
ATI X1950XT 256MB PCI-E
ATI HD4850 512MB PCI-E
ATI HD4850X2 1GB (2x 1GB PCI-E)
ATI HD5870 1GB
 
Jesus H Chris, Dan.

Mine is basically...

ATI Radeon 7000
Inno3D GeForce 2 MX 400
nVidia GeForce 8800GTX
XFX Radeon 5770
 
voodoo2
geforce1
geforce2
geforce4 ti4200 - awesomesauce
nvidia 6800 gt
nvidia 8800 gts 320mb
nvidia gtx460


good times good times :D
 
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