dark_phantom36
Limp Gawd
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Some random ISA one (I was 5), Some random PCI one (I was 7), STB Velocity 4400, Geforce 3, Radeon 9600, Radeon 9600xt, Geforce 6800gt AGP
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Your Video Card Upgrade Ladder
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(My original PC, bought in 1992, was a 486DX@33Mhz with 4MB ram & a 170MB HDD. Cost £1500 - around $2800 at current exchange rates. Allowing for inflation that's around $4300 in today's money 
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Anyhow:
A generic VESA card
Cirrus Logic VESA
The mighty Matrox Millenium - first PCI card
Voodoo1
Voodoo2 - both with the Matrox
TNT2 Ultra - first AGP card; the MaxiGamer Xentor 32 IIRC
GF2 GTS
The marvellous GF4 Ti4400 - a Creative model
GF6 6800GT
GF7 7800GT - first PCIe card
GF8 8800GTS 640MB
I'd have to say the Ti4400 was the best buy.
)Anyhow:
A generic VESA card
Cirrus Logic VESA
The mighty Matrox Millenium - first PCI card
Voodoo1
Voodoo2 - both with the Matrox
TNT2 Ultra - first AGP card; the MaxiGamer Xentor 32 IIRC
GF2 GTS
The marvellous GF4 Ti4400 - a Creative model
GF6 6800GT
GF7 7800GT - first PCIe card
GF8 8800GTS 640MB
I'd have to say the Ti4400 was the best buy.
Rhythmeister
Limp Gawd
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Onboard Geforce 4 (Nf2 board)
9600 Pro
9600 XT
9800 Pro (flashed to XT)
X1600 (agp)
X1650 Pro (pci-e)
X1650 XT (pci-e)
X1950 Pro (pci-e) WOOT!
9600 Pro
9600 XT
9800 Pro (flashed to XT)
X1600 (agp)
X1650 Pro (pci-e)
X1650 XT (pci-e)
X1950 Pro (pci-e) WOOT!
Excalibur55
Limp Gawd
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OK Here's mine...
1) Compaq integrated graphics
2) ATI Rage Pro 16mo
3) Sapphire ATI Radeon x550 128mo
1) Compaq integrated graphics
2) ATI Rage Pro 16mo
3) Sapphire ATI Radeon x550 128mo
evolucion8
Gawd
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S3 Trio 64+ with a whooping 2MB of vRAM and a Pentium 166MHz oced to 200MHz<<What a POS!!!!
ATi Rage 128 PRO with a Pentium 2 400MHz oced to 500MHz<<What a piece of junk.
GeForce 4 MX420 with a Pentium 4 2.53GHz which I returned to store cause of it suckeness <<Another piece of Junk, it was barely faster than my laptop's Mobility Radeon
ATi Mobility Radeon (M6) aka 7000 with a Pentium 3 Tualatin with 512KB L2 cache @ 1.13GHz << I was able to run Legacy of Kain 2 with all the eye candy loll, a card that didn't support FSAA due to it's 16MB VRAM and lack of support for Hardware Transform and Lightning.
ATi Radeon 9700 flashed to PRO with a Pentium 4 2.4B GHz<< The first card that allowed me to see the beautifulness of DX9 in games like TRAOD, Far Cry and Half Life 2.
ATi Radeon X800XT Flashed to Platinum Edition with a Pentium 4 3.4C Northwood, 2 years later I upgraded the CPU for a Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition << The first card with the wow factor in DX9 performance, allowed me to play with higher eye candy and FSAA in any game until 2 months ago when I replaced it with the current X1950XT
ATi Radeon X1950XT with a Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition, two months later I took it off and put a Pentium M 780<< The first vidcard came defective, the second one didn't gave me any issues and allowed me to further increase eye candy and finally being able to use FP HDR which looks quite nice (Barely better than the one implemented in the CS engine), it was holded back by my P4 EE 3.4GHz and that's why it didn't offered a huge performance improvement, so I changed of CPU to improve the situation a bit here.
ATi Rage 128 PRO with a Pentium 2 400MHz oced to 500MHz<<What a piece of junk.
GeForce 4 MX420 with a Pentium 4 2.53GHz which I returned to store cause of it suckeness <<Another piece of Junk, it was barely faster than my laptop's Mobility Radeon
ATi Mobility Radeon (M6) aka 7000 with a Pentium 3 Tualatin with 512KB L2 cache @ 1.13GHz << I was able to run Legacy of Kain 2 with all the eye candy loll, a card that didn't support FSAA due to it's 16MB VRAM and lack of support for Hardware Transform and Lightning.
ATi Radeon 9700 flashed to PRO with a Pentium 4 2.4B GHz<< The first card that allowed me to see the beautifulness of DX9 in games like TRAOD, Far Cry and Half Life 2.
ATi Radeon X800XT Flashed to Platinum Edition with a Pentium 4 3.4C Northwood, 2 years later I upgraded the CPU for a Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition << The first card with the wow factor in DX9 performance, allowed me to play with higher eye candy and FSAA in any game until 2 months ago when I replaced it with the current X1950XT
ATi Radeon X1950XT with a Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition, two months later I took it off and put a Pentium M 780<< The first vidcard came defective, the second one didn't gave me any issues and allowed me to further increase eye candy and finally being able to use FP HDR which looks quite nice (Barely better than the one implemented in the CS engine), it was holded back by my P4 EE 3.4GHz and that's why it didn't offered a huge performance improvement, so I changed of CPU to improve the situation a bit here.
Dangman
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- Nvidia GeForce MX 420 64MB AGP (2001 - 2002)
- ATI Radeon 9550SE 128MB AGP (2002- 2004)(Thought SE meant it would be faster than the regular 9550.LOL!)
- ATI Radeon 9800Pro 1208MB AGP (2004 to Jan. 2007)
- Nvidia GeForce 7900GS PCI-E (Jan 2007 to present)
- Future $200 DX10 card thats worth buying.
- ATI Radeon 9550SE 128MB AGP (2002- 2004)(Thought SE meant it would be faster than the regular 9550.LOL!)
- ATI Radeon 9800Pro 1208MB AGP (2004 to Jan. 2007)
- Nvidia GeForce 7900GS PCI-E (Jan 2007 to present)
- Future $200 DX10 card thats worth buying.
- unknown VESA card
-S3 Virge (the shame, the shame)
-3dfx Voodoo
-3dfx Voodoo 2
-3dfx Voodoo 3
-ATI Radeon 8500
-ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
-Accidentally destroyed 9800, back to 8500
-nVidia Geforce 8800 GTS
Radeon 8500 to 8800GTS . . . now that's an upgrade
-S3 Virge (the shame, the shame)
-3dfx Voodoo
-3dfx Voodoo 2
-3dfx Voodoo 3
-ATI Radeon 8500
-ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
-Accidentally destroyed 9800, back to 8500
-nVidia Geforce 8800 GTS
Radeon 8500 to 8800GTS . . . now that's an upgrade
dark_phantom36
Limp Gawd
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Add 8800gts320 to my previous list... should be here in less than a week.
Mac SE onboard
Mac SE/30 onboard + Radius se/30 video color card (24bit color in 1989 booya!)
PowerMac 6100/60AV onboard + AV card for the second monitor and TV in
Powermac 7200/120 PC Compatible onboard + ATI rage II for the PC card (with pentium 100 onboard etc...)
Switch to PC and AGP
AMD K6-2 400 Nvidia Riva TNT
after that it went like that but I don't remember which CPU had which card:
maker? Geforce 1
Gigabyte Geforce 2 GTS
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
ATI Radeon x800 XL
Switch to PCI-Express
BFG Nvidia 7800GT OC
Asus 8800GTX
And 9800GTX when they are released this fall =)
I also have an iMac with an Intel Core Duo with an ATI x1600 between that 7800 and that 8800 and still use it.
Mac SE/30 onboard + Radius se/30 video color card (24bit color in 1989 booya!)
PowerMac 6100/60AV onboard + AV card for the second monitor and TV in
Powermac 7200/120 PC Compatible onboard + ATI rage II for the PC card (with pentium 100 onboard etc...)
Switch to PC and AGP
AMD K6-2 400 Nvidia Riva TNT
after that it went like that but I don't remember which CPU had which card:
maker? Geforce 1
Gigabyte Geforce 2 GTS
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
ATI Radeon x800 XL
Switch to PCI-Express
BFG Nvidia 7800GT OC
Asus 8800GTX
And 9800GTX when they are released this fall =)
I also have an iMac with an Intel Core Duo with an ATI x1600 between that 7800 and that 8800 and still use it.