Your GPU progression?

Biostar 7600GT SLi (!)

Galaxy 8800GT 512MB

Sapphire 4870 1GB

no reason to upgrade at the moment
 
2005: bfg fx 5500
2007: xfx 6800gt
2009: pny gtx 275
2011: ?
 
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S3 Trio
3dfx Voodoo (Orchid Righteous)
3dfx Voodoo Banshee
nVidia GeForce 256 Pro
nVidia Geforce 2 MX
ATi 9700 Pro
ATi 9800 Pro
ATi X700
ATi X800
nVidia GeForce 260GTX x2 SLi
nVidia 460m (on the laptop).
 
Nvidia fx 5200
7900GS
9500GT
9800GT
GTX 260
GTX 285 2GB

Put the FX 5200 in my P4 2.4 HT rig when I was only 11 years old, was the very first rig I built.
 
Some ATi trying to replace onboard graphic to play Redneck Rampage
Voodoo 2
Voodoo 3 3500
GeForce 2 GTS
GeForce 4 Ti 4200
Radeon 9500 pro
Radeon 9700 Pro
Geforce 6800
Geforce 6800GT
 
Onboard graphics
9600 gso 512
GTS 250
GTX 460 786
Then a downgrade to a GT 240
 
Voodoo2
Voodoo3/TNT2
GeForce 2
GeForce Ti4600
GeForce FX 5000 something
GeForce 6600GT?
GeForce 8800GTS 640MB

Radeon HD4870 1GB
Radeon HD5870 1GB
Radeon HD5870 1GB Crossfire

I think I still have all but the Voodoo cards around my house somewhere...
 
ATI 2mb
Matrox Mystique 4mb
Diamond Viper V330 PCI + Canopus Pure3D 6mb
Voodoo2 SLI
Asus GeForce 256 32mb
Asus GeForce 2 GTS
Hercules GeForce 3
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
ATI X800 XT PE
ATI Radeon X1900XT in CrossFire
ATI Radeon HD 5770
ATI Radeon HD 5870 (current)

this sums up about 13 years of upgrades.
 
Parabellum said:
ATI 2mb
Matrox Mystique 4mb
Diamond Viper V330 PCI + Canopus Pure3D 6mb
Voodoo2 SLI
Asus GeForce 256 32mb
Asus GeForce 2 GTS
Hercules GeForce 3
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
ATI X800 XT PE
ATI Radeon X1900XT in CrossFire
ATI Radeon HD 5770
ATI Radeon HD 5870 (current)

this sums up about 13 years of upgrades.
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I remember being sooooo jealous of the guys with Voodoo2 SLI setups back in the day. lmao
 
Sure i'm missing some, but here goes:

486 with ATI ISA graphics card of some sort
ATI pci card
voodoo 1
voodoo 2
voodoo 2 sli
geforce ddr
geforce 2
geforce 3
radeon 9800 pro
radeon x1900xt
geforce 6800 gt sli
geforce 7800 gtx sli
geforce 8800 gtx sli
geforce 260 sli
geforce 480
geforce 580
 
GeForce MX420 (was in a rig my 'rents got; didn't know or care what it was until Battlefield 2 and Act of War loomed)
eVGA GeForce 6800 Ultra
eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 640mb Superclocked
eVGA GeForce 8800GTS 640mb Superclocked + GeForce 8800GTS 640mb SSC in SLI
eVGA GeForce 8800GTS SSC
eVGA GeForce GTX 280
Galaxy GeForce GTX 580

I just haven't ever hit ATi when they've been on a good cycle, lol. I had no reason to get an x1xxx or 7xxx which was my best shot at going ATi. GTX 580 was the second best shot, but for me nVidia won this round with GPGPU and ambient occlusion (driver panel AO I have found is something I just can't live without in some games- Mass Effect 1 is a prime example).
 
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I remember being sooooo jealous of the guys with Voodoo2 SLI setups back in the day. lmao
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Ahaha, yeah, those were the days. I remember i paid almost 500$ for these two cards. This was with a Pentium II 300 "SL2W8" overclocked to 450 Mhz. This sounds little but considering that the 450 MHz was three times more expensive as the 300 MHz, I was soooo proud of that setup hehe
 
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Ahaha, yeah, those were the days. I remember i paid almost 500$ for these two cards. This was with a Pentium II 300 "SL2W8" overclocked to 450 Mhz. This sounds little but considering that the 450 MHz was three times more expensive as the 300 MHz, I was soooo proud of that setup hehe
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Haha! My dad and I were playing a game called MotorHead back then. It was a racing game that was almost completely dependent on your fps for the cars to have grip. Such an absurd idea right now, but I remember all the fastest guys ran Voodoo2 SLI.
 
This is just the GPUs from my main rigs starting in 1992 -- lots of other video cards in my wife's computer and servers over time.

You can see that I'm a big NVIDIA fan. Nobody seems to come close with driver quality, particularly OpenGL/Linux support.

Old school Trident board ??MB
S3 Trio ??MB
Herculus Voodoo Rush 2+4MB -> Performed so much worse than what 3dfx promised that I never bought another 3dfx product
NVIDIA RIVA 128 4MB -> Great fps, horrible image quality
NVIDIA TNT 16MB -> First 32-bit color card
NVIDIA TNT 2 Ultra ??MB
NVIDIA Geforce 256
NVIDIA Geforce 2 GTS 32MB
NVIDIA Geforce 3
NVIDIA Ti4200 64MB
NVIDIA 6800 128MB
NVIDIA 7800GT -> 7900GT (7800 died on me and I RMA'd a replacement)
NVIDIA 8800GT 512MB
NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB
 
ATI Mach 64
S3 Virge
Riva 128
Riva TNT
Voodoo2 X 2
Geforce 2 GTS
ATI 9200
ATI 9500
ATI 9600
ATI FireGL Z
ATI FireGL X
Nvidia 6600GT
ATI FireGL 3400
Nvidia 7600GS
Nvidia Quadro 1700
Nvidia Quadro 3400
Nvidia GTX465
ATI 6850
 
TNT2 Ultra 2000
Nvidia Ti4200 (for like a day, was hot as hell) 2003
ATI 9700 2003
Nvidia 7600GS (never got to use it, wife took the computer when she divorced me) 2007
ATI 4850 512MB (has overheated in most 3d games I've played, been playing older games because of this. Currently on its way back to ASUS and will be a great backup card once ASUS fixes it) 2008
ATI 6950 2GB Hoping for 9700PRO performance levels with my 30" monitor, gonna have a lot of gaming fun. 2011
 
ATI 9800
Nvidia 6800 GT
ATI X800XT
Nvidia 7950 GT
Nvidia 8800 GTS
Nvidia 9800 GTX
Nvidia 280 GTX
Nvidia 295 GTX (RMA 3 times -- I'll never buy a dual-GPU card again :mad:)
Nvidia 285 GTX
ATI 5870 Crossfire
ATI 6970 Crossfire (ordered today :D)
 
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Radeon 8500LE
Radeon 9800XT
Radeon X800XT
GeForce 8800GTS
GeForce GTX480 SLI(Just received today :))
 
Voodoo 2 SLI
Voodoo 5
GeForce fx 5200
Radeon 3650
Radeon 4670
Radeon 5770 Xfire
XFX HD5870 1gb
ASUS Matrix ROG 5870 2gb
 
Cirrus Logic ISA video card in my old ass 486 SX (which I still have)
S3 Virge
ATI 128 something something
ATI Rage IIc
Nvidia Riva TNT
Nvidia Riva TNT 2
Voodoo 3 3000
Nvidia Vanta? M64 POS
Original Radeon
Geforce 2
Geforce 3 TI500
Geforce 4 TI4600
Radeon 9600XT
Radeon X1300XT
Radeon HD3870
Radeon HD4770
Radeon HD5750
Geforce GTX275
Radeon HD5830

I've probably owned at least 100 different video cards, those are just the ones from my main rig.
 
mx440se
6800GT
6800U WB
7600GT
7800GTX
7900GS Sli
7900GTX
8800GTX
8800GTS 320
8800GT Sli
9800GT akimbo Sli
4890
GTX 260 core 216 SLi
GTX 260 core 216 tri SLi
GTX 465 sli
GTX 480
GTX 460 768MB
GTX 470 SLi
 
Nvidia riva 128
nvidia tnt
Geforce 2 gts
Radeon 9700 pro
radeon 9800 pro
Geforce 7900gt
geforce 8800gt
Geforce gtx gtx295
Geforce gtx 570
 
Rage 128 Pro (earliest I can remember)
Radeon 7500
Radeon 9600 Pro
Radeon x800xl
Radeon x1400 Mobility --- Geforce 8800 GT (started branching into multiple rigs for dev purposes here...)
Geforce 9600GSO --- Geforce 260M --- Radeon 5770 x2
Geforce 260M --- Radeon 5770 --- Radeon 6970
 
I am trying to remember...

Nvidia GeForce ti4200 128mb - (forgot about that one)

ATI x800XL 128MB

Nvidia 7300LE ?

Nvidia 9600GSO 768MB

Nvidia 9500GT 512MB

Nvidia GTX460 768MB

I think thats about it for me so far.
 
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Love these threads! I have owned more video cards then I can remember on my various secondary rigs, but these stand out as the ones I used the longest.

1. Diamond Speedstar Pro on my 486-66.
2. Matrox Mystique 2MB on my P200.
3. Voodoo 3 16MB on my K6-2 350. Long live 3dfx!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. Geforce 2 32MB on my P3 1GHz.
5. Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB on my 1st Athlon XP rig.
6. Radeon 9700 Pro on my 2nd Athlon XP (what an awesome card).
7. Geforce 6800GT on my 2nd Athlon XP rig.
8. Geforce 7950GT on my 1st Core 2 rig.
9. Geforce 9800GT on my 1st Core 2 rig.
10. Geforce 9600GSO on my current POS Core 2 rig.
11. Geforce GTS 250 on my current POS Core 2 rig.

As you can see, I like Nvidia.....but that 9700 is still probably one of the most impressive cards ever made! I remember being completely blown away by that card and wish I still had it for my current Athlon XP / Nforce 1 rig that is in my shop! :cool:
 
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X1950XTX
HD4850
HD5770
2x6950's (on the way)

I've honestly been wanting to go Nvidia but the option of 6950 CF won me over.
 
here we go again lol

Cirrus Logic 5424
Cirrus Logic 5428
S3 Trio 64
S3 Virge3d
Rendition Vertite 2200
ATi Radeon LE
ATi Radeon 8500
ATi Radeon 9500 Pro
ATi Radeon 1800XL (was in use until the machine died)
ATI Radeon 1950XT (still in use)
ATi Radeon 3870 (Still in use)
ATi Radeon 4870 (Still in use)
 
1. ISA card, do not remember specifics...
2. PCI card, do not remember specifics...
3. ATI Rage, do not remember the exact model, but I would guess is was either a Pro or 128 GL.
4. Voodoo 3 3000
5. GeForce2 MX (400, I think...)
6. GeForce4 Ti 4800
7. Radeon 9700 Pro
8. Radeon X800 XT
9. GeForce 8800 GTX
10. GeForce 460 GTX 1GB
11. GeForce 460 GTX 1GB SLI
 
It started, when I built my first own pc back in 1997. Can't remember if I had anything between the original GeForce and the GF4, but here goes:

nVidia Riva128
nVidia Riva128 + Voodoo 2
nVidia GeForce 256 DDR
nVidia GeForce 4 4600TI
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
nVidia 8600 GT
nVidia 8800GTX
ATI Radeon HD4890
nVidia GTX 570

Worst card: The Riva128 bar none! Direct3D was terrible in Unreal and OpenGL was crap in Quake II. Thus the Voodoo 2 came to the rescue with Glide.

Best card: The 9700 Pro. Man, you got so much improvement in performance, features and IQ in one upgrade. The most superb graphics card of all time. The 8800GTX was a positive surprise too.

Most meh: Well, I got the HD4890 as a stop gap when the 8800GTX crapped out, but it was very meh in comparision. The upgrade to the 8600 GT didn't make my jaws hit the floor either! :eek:
 
EGA graphics card on Zenith 286
Tseng Labs ET 4000
S3 Trio 64+
S3 Virge + Voodoo
Riva 128
TNT
GeForce 256
GeForce 3
Radeon 9600
800XT PE
8800 GT
 
cirrus logic chip (286, 386, 486)
diamond voodoo 8MB
riva TNT
riva TNT2
Hercules 256 DDR (nvidia)
PNY GeForce 4 4800 Ti
6800 GT PCI-e
EVGA 8800 GTX SLI
EVGA 260 GT (216)
EVGA 570 GTX
 
Matrox Crap, TI 4200, FX 5700Le, X600, 7800GT, x1900gt, 7900GTO, x1950xt, 8800GTS 512mb, 4870 512mb, 4850 Crossfire, 5870 1gb, 6870 1gb.

Soon to be owner of 6950 or 6970 Crossfire. I'm sure I forgot some somewhere.

My first few GPU's were always hand me downs. The first one I ever bought new was the 7800GT.
 
ATI 9250
crappy nvidia laptop graphics for a few years
some ati mobility radeon graphics for another few years
EVGA GTX 460 (sold)
EVGA GX470 (sold)
XFX 5870 Crossfire
took a while to find a setup I was happy with with my current build, but I'm more than impressed with how the 5870's are holding up
 
Fun thread! I just did the CPU one that imitates this one, so I had to come over and share:

3Dfx Voodoo Banshee
GeForce2 MX400
GeForce4 Ti4400
GeForce FX 5200
GeForce 6600 GT
GeForce 8600 GT
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216
GeForce GTX 470

Phew, hadn't thought of those old GPUs in a long while. Good memories!
 
(anything cards before the 8600 were Macintosh only)
8600
9800
Intel intregrated (was a macbook)
4850
5770
6970
6970CFX
555m
5870m CFX
6870m
7970m
 
6600
8600 gt
8800 gtx
gtx 260 sli
5870
6950
7970
6950 again...

gains weren't enough to keep the 7970--albeit, the card is a beast.
 
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