Your Video Card Upgrade Ladder

IBM Aptiva: Trio 32/64
AMD K6 3: Trio 32/64 > 9200SE > 9250SE
AMD 3200+: Radeon X300SE > Geforce 2 Onboard > Geforce 6600GT > Trio 32/64 (yep the same 1) > 7600GT XXX
 
Lots of onboard
Riva TNT2 M64 (Brand?)
Radeon 7000/7200/7500 (BBA)
GeForce3 (Brand?)
nForc2 IGP (GeForce4 MX, Shuttle)
Radeon 8500LE (Brand?)
GeForce4 Ti4200 (PNY)
GeForce FX5600 (PNY)
Radeon 9700 Pro (BBA)
Radeon 9800 Pro (BBA)
GeForce FX5950Ultra (Asus, Reference)
GeForce 6800 (PNY)
GeForce 6800GT (PNY)
GeForce 7800GT (eVGA)
GeForce 7900GTX (eVGA)
Radeon X1900GT (BBA)
 
Vodoo 3 PCI
GeForce 4 ti 4200 (died a ugly death)
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
ATI Radeon x600 Pro PCI-E (a downgrade to move to a pci-e system)
nVidia GeForce 6600 GT
ATI Radeon x800 XT
GeForce 7900 GTO
GeForce 8800 GTS
 
Something in the old Acer we bought in '93.
Geforce 2 TNT
9800pro 128mb
7900gs 256mb
 
Some DiamondMondster 3D thing with like.. 2 or 4mb o' VRam PCI -> VooDoo4 AGP -> Radeon 7000 32mb DDR AGP -> GF6600GT -> GF7600GT KO -> ATI Radeon X1950XT 256mb
 
edited because i remembered at least the brands of the older cards

Cirrus Logic 1mb ISA video card
ATI Mach32 2mb VLB
Matrox Millenium G450 (i believe it was 16mb) pci
Creative Savage4 Pro 32mb pci
Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 32mb agp
Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti200 64mb agp
Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 128mb agp
ATI x700 Pro 256mb agp
ATI x1600 Pro 256mb pci-e
ATI x1600 Pro 256mb Crossfire pci-e
Nvidia 7900 GS 256mb pci-e
Nvidia 8800 GTS 640mb pci-e

probably had one or two more, dont remember though
These were only the add-in cards I bought/upgraded to, don't remember all the built-in video units i had
 
GeForce 2 MX 32 mb>GeForce ti4200 128 mb>GeForce FX 5900 128 mb>GeForce 6600 256 mb>GeForce 7950gt 512 mb :D

EDIT: My brothers, I don't know much about his computers before the geforce 4 so that's where I'll start... GeForce ti4200 128 mb>GeForce FX 5600 256 mb>7600 GS 512 mb
 
ATI Radeon 9800
Nvidia Geforce 6800gt
ATI Radeon x1800xt
Nvidia 7900gtx
Nvidia 8800gtx
 
ok my first vid card was on a XT PC it was a monochromatic ISA 8 Bits Hercules
the some Trident 9280
another Trident 9680
then Diamond Viper 330 (Riva 128)
with that i put my first SLI setup, 2 Voodoo 2
then comes the TNT from
Canopus, a Spectra the ferrari of TNTs
then an GeForce DDR, GeForce 2 GTS, Geforce 3, Geforce 4 Ti4800, Geforce 5700 Ultra, then i switched teams and went ATI
Radeon 9800 Pro, a very nice card !!
then my second SLI setup
XFX Geforce 7800 GT OC
and now i´m waiting to the 8950 X2 for my first Quad SLI setup ! :D
 
Some VGA card
Matrox Mystique
TNT2
Geforce2 GTS
Geforce FX5200
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro with flash to XT
XFX Geforce 6800GT
Connect3d Radeon X1900XT 256MB

All the first cards were pretty spaced out since they were in family machines, but from the FX5200 onwards it's been me buying a new PC every 12 - 18 months, so the upgrades have accelerated.
 
cerebrex said:
All you newschoolers... I start BEFORE 3d acceleration.

Diamond Stealth 2000 Pro 4MB S3 Virge
Click to expand...

Technically, the S3 Virge was indeed, a 3D accelerator!

/me ducks the flying rotten tomatoes being hurled my way
 
Some Unknown S3 Graphics Contoller 8mb->GeForce 2MX 64MB PCI -> GeForce 3 PNY -> Radeon 9800 pro 128mb -> GeForce 7800GT -> Future (New ATi Card with DX10.1 support)
 
ATI Rage 3d
ATI Rage 128
ATI 9600xt
nVidia 6800nu
nVidia 7900gs
ATI x1950pro
 
ATi Mach32 VLB
S3 Trio64V+ PCI
Voodoo 1
Voodoo 2
Riva 128
TNT
TNT2 Ultra
GeForce2 GTS
GeForce4 Ti4600
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon X850XT
Radeon X1900XT
GeForce 8800 GTX
 
VLB:
#9 GXE-VL

ISA:
Cirrus Logic Card
ATI Graphics Ultra Pro (EISA, ATI 68875 RAMDAC)

PCI:
ATI Mach 64, 1 MB
ATI Xpert@Play 98, 8 MB
Diamond Monster 3D 3DFX Voodoo 1 (paired with the above)

AGP:
3DFX Voodoo 3 3000
A-Trend Riva TNT2 M64
Creative Annihilator Pro (GeForce 256 DDR)
Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS (GeForce 2 GTS, overclocked to GF2 Ultra speeds)
Hercules 3D Prophet III (GeForce 3, overclocked to GF3-TI 500 speeds)
Asus GeForce 4 Ti4400 (overclocked to Ti4600)
Built By ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (died a very horrible ESD death)
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 (BIOS flashed to 9800 Pro)
BFG GeForce 6800 Ultra OC

PCI Express:
None as of yet. =(
 
Some card that I don't even remember running Win95
GeForce2 GTS/Pro
Integrated Intel 915 chipset graphics (I didn't game for a while)
X1950Pro PCI-E

Yeah, I'm cheap, I probably won't be upgrading for a while.
 
Notebook:
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500
ATI MR 9000
Nvidia Go 5750
ATI MR 9600
ATI MR X700
Nvidia GeForce Go 7800GTX
ATI MR X700 (present day)

Desktop:
ATI 9800
Nvidia GeForce 6800GT
ATI X800XT
Nvidia GeForce SLI dual 8800 GTS (on order)
 
-ATi RageII 4MB
-3dfx Voodoo3 3000 16MB
-Asus GF2-MX 32MB
-Asus GF4-MX440 64MB
-Asus GF4-TI4200 128MB
-Asus GF-FX5700 256MB
-Asus GF-7600GS SILENT 256MB PCI-E

Why Asus you say? The best overclockers on the market! I must admit the biggest difference I saw was upgrading to my V3 lol
 
A bunch I can't remember
Matrox something
ati rage
voodoo 2
voodoo 5
Hercules 4500
Gainward geforce3 ti
eVGA geforce3 ti
Abit geforce4 ti
BFG 6800gt
XFX 7600gt
eVGA 7800gtx

Something like that. I know there's some that I missed.
 
Hmmm..... This is going to be a LOT of cards if I go back to my earliest PC roots. Lets see (might have forgotten a few - historical notes added where they might be interesting and brands added where I remember):

-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

Its funny to compare sound cards. I think I had, during the same stretch of time, an original Sound Blaster, an SB/16, a Diamond Monster Sound, an SB Pro, an SB Live, an AWE32, an Audigy and now an X-Fi. Sound definitely evolves more slowly :D
 
Voodoo Banshee
TNT
Geforce2 GTS
Geforce3 Ti 200
Geforce4 Ti 4200
Radeon 9800se
Radeon 9800pro
Radeon 9800xt
x800xl
7800GT
 
Working Setups:
============
1. Riva TNT2 Ultra (1999)
2. Intel Integrated Graphics (2001) => GeForce2 MX (2001) => GeForce 6200 (2006)
3. Radeon DDR 32MB (2001) => Radeon 9600 Pro EZ 256MB (2003)
4. Mobility Radeon X1300 HyperMemory (2006)
5. GeForce 7900GT 512MB (2006)
6. Radeon X600 XT 128MB (2006)

Not in Use:
=========
GeForce3 Ti500
GeForce4 Ti4200

1. 500MHz Pentium III, 256MB PC100 RAM
2. Barton 2600+, 512MB DDR-333 RAM
3. Barton 2600+, 1GB DDR-400 RAM
4. Yonah 1.83GHz, 2GB DDR2-533 RAM
5. Conroe E6600, 2GB DDR2-800 RAM
6. Pentium D 930, 1GB DDR2-667 RAM
 
Mine is more of a step ladder :D

GeForce MX4400 128 mb
GeForce FX550056mb
ATI X800XL
ATI X1950Pro

Short and sweet! :)
 
i love that this thread is still going....wouldn't mind seeing one that detailed how much people have spent on computers since they first got into it. I imagine i'd be up around $15000.
ati 9200
ati 9800 pro 256
sapphire x850 xt
sapphire x1950 xtx
ati x1950 xtx cf
 
Lets see here:

--Tandy CoCo 2 integrated graphics
--Apple IIGS integrated graphics
--Video 7 512k SVGA (integrated)
--Matorx Millenium II 2D /w 12MB Voodoo 2 3D
--Matorx Millenium II 2D /w 2x12MB Voodoo 2 3D
--3DFx Voodoo 3 3000 16MB
--nVidia GeForce 256 DDR 32MB
--nVidia GeForce 3 Ti 200 128MB
--ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB
--nVidia GeForce 7800GT 256MB
--nVidia GeForce 8800GTS 640MB

That's everything I've owned since I got started on computers. This is all for my primary computer, of course, which has the best video card. The others get hand me downs or chappies usually.
 
Some Unknown Onboard VGA with 256k
Tseng Labs ET4000 Integrated 1MB
Diamond Stealth 64 2MB PCI
Above in Tandem with a Diamond Monster 3D 4MB
ATi Rage 128 Pro 32MB AGP
Above with 2x Diamond Monster 3D II (12MB x 2)
TNT2 Ultra 32MB AGP
3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 64MB AGP
GeForce 2 Ultra 64Mb AGP
GeForce 3 Ti200 64MB AGP
Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB AGP
GeForce 6600 GT 128MB AGP
GeForce 7800GT 256MB PCI-E
Added another for SLi
GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB PCI-E
 
- 1 MB Cirrus Logic
- Intel 810 integrated
- GeForce Ti500
- Radeon 9800 Pro
- Radeon 9800 XT
- Radeon X800
- Radeon X850XT
- GeForce 7800 GT
- Radeon X1950XTX
- GeForce 8800GTS
 
Past:
ASUS 7100 Pro Geforce 2 MX-400

Present:
ATI Radeon X1950 Pro

Future Upgrades:
EVGA Geforce 8800 (8900) GTS
 
Vesa => S3 Virge => Creative TNT2 => Geforce 2MX400 => Ati 9800Pro= > X850XT Plat => 7900GS => 8800GTS
 
STB Velocity 128
Ati Rage 128 Pro
Ati All-In-Wonder 7500
Rosewill FX5200
MSi FX5600
MSi FX5900XT

And I'm still there... waiting for a system upgrade to go pcie.
 
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