what was your video card history like?

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mine was intel built in
then moved to matrox1 something
then 3dfx banshee voodoo 2
then ati3 something rage something 1
then geforce2 geforce 3 gt gts geforce 4 gt gts
ati 8* 9* *xt* 1* hd*
then geforce 6800/ oc force 7800
geforce 8800/ gts
gtx 260
gtx 465
gtx470

moved from intel - matrox - 3dfx - ati - nvidia-
good times
less than 12 years
 
All of my video cards before the 3d era were quite forgettable, but here are my cards since the Voodoo era:

3dfx Voodoo1 with Matrox G200
3dfx Voodoo2 with Matrox G200
Riva TNT
Riva TNT2 Ultra
Geforce 2 series
Geforce 4 series (Ti4400 I believe)
ATI 9800 Pro
ATI X1800XL
Nvidia 8800 GTX
Nvidia GTX 280>step up to GTX 285
Nvidia GTX 460
 
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Winfast A250 (Geforce 4 ti4400)
Gigabyte Radeon 9600XT
PNY Geforce 6800GT
EVGA Geforce 9800GTX+
 
On board VGA on Intel motherboard circa 1995 or so
3DFX Voodoo 2
nVidia TnT2 Ultra
GeForce 256
GeForce 2 64gb
GeForce 3
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon 9800XT
Radeon X850 XT
Radeon X1800 XT
GeForce 6800 Ultra
GeForce 8800GTX
GeForce GTX 280
Radeon HD 5870

Soon to be Radeon HD 6970

I have used both nVidia and ATI cards, and been very happy with both. Just bought which ever card was the best performer that year, there is zero point in being a fanboy in technology built by some child labor Asian people in a Taiwanese factory, it's the same bullshit semiconductor parts at the end of the day.
 
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- 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500, my first long card.
- 6800 GT AGP (First serious card)
- 7600 GT PCI-E (First PCI-E card I believe), This and the above were brands I cant remember.
- 6200 TC (flashed to 6600 GT), with HIS-style cooler, my Shuttle system card when I had a Pentium-M system, can't remember brand.
- Sapphire Radeon X850 XT, my super celeron system card (4.5 GHz celeron yay!)
- 8800 GT (can't remember brand, G80 core I believe)
- Gecube Radeon X1600 Pro (broke it by dropping a screwdriver on one of the memory modules and cracking it).
- MSI 9600GSO G92 384 MB
- EVGA 8800GTS G92 512MB
- XFX HD 4850 512MB (after I broke my 8800GTS)
- Gigabyte 8800GT G92 256MB (when I noticed that my XFX card had some memory issues)
- Powercolor (I think) Radeon 4870x2 2GB (when the 8800GT started acting weird, has been my gaming card to date).

Interesting history, there might be more but I simply cannot remember them.
 
1. TNT2
2. GeForce 5600
3. GeForce 6800
4. GeForce 7800
5. AMD 4870 512MB
 
3/94 - 10/97 Trident 9000i 512k ISA
10/97 - 12/99 No computer :(
12/99 - 6/03 Savage4 32MB
6/03 - 4/04 Whatever was in my wife's laptop.
4/04 - 2/05 Intel Extreme Graphics 2
6/05 - 7/06 Radeon Xpress 200
7/06 - 1/08 Radeon X1900XT -512MB
1/08 - 9/08 GeForce MX-440 64MB
9/08 - 9/10 GeForce GTX 260
9/10 - ?? GeForce 8500GT
 
Voodoo 2
TNT 2
Geforce 2 Ultra
9800 XT
6800 GT
7800 GTX
8800 GT SLI
5870
 
In my Sig.

I tend to keep things a long while before upgrading, so while I have been on PCs since 486 days, I haven't had that many graphics cards.
 
ti 4200
7800gtx
9800gt
...

and soon to be 2 6850's!!! shyess.
 
I don't even remember what the names of the cards were when I was young, I just played on them. I started with a 6600 to a 7600 to a 4870 now with a 5730 mobile.
 
3DFX Voodoo 2
nVidia TnT2 Ultra
GeForce 2
GeForce 3
GeForce ti4200
Radeon 9700 Pro
GeForce 6800GT
GeForce 7800 GT SLI
GeForce 8800 GTS
Radeon 4870x2
Radeon HD 5870

Still trying to figure out my favorite card. Right now I am leaning towards the 9700 pro. At the time I was so happy with the performance. I remember being giddy at the notion that I could play Raven Shield at 1600x1200 on my massive 21inch CRT!
 
Something from Jaton 2MB VRAM ISA Bus on a 486 sx25
Something Trident Savage 4 MB VRAM ISA Bus
Something Trident Savage 8 MB PCI
Matrox G400 Dual Head AGP

Then the big jump:
Diamond Voodoo Banshee 16 MB AGP
3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGP (still have it somewhere)
Geforce 2 MX
GeForce 4 Ti 4400
GeForce 5900XT from Gainward. I still have it
GeForce 6800 from BFG (still using it)
ATI X300XT - my first PCI-E card
ATI X800XT - still using it
2 ATI 4870 1GB in Crossfire. - My main rig
 
whatever cirrus logic onboard graphics came with my packard bell...it had 1 mb of ram
riva tnt 2 ultra (creative labs)
some maxtrox card with 4MB ram for home file server
geforce 2 pro (msi)
geforce 4400 ti (msi)
ati radeon x800 xt (i think it was rosewood or rosewill)
geforce 7600 gt (msi)
 
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Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 S3-ViRGE PCI (Old Pentium 166mhz machine around 1996)- Had to look that one up.
Diamond Viper V330 nVidia Riva 128 AGP 4mb ram -(1998 P2 machine)
Diamond Monster2 3d card 12mb ram (addon card to the Viper a year later)
Asus Geforce1 card 32mb ram, first geforce series in the Pentium2 machine
Geforce 3 ti200 64mb card - I can't remember which manufacturer it was
Geforce 4 ti4800 ( 128mb alabtron IIRC)
Geforce 6 (6600) Gigabyte fanless card 256mb
Geforce 7 7950gt XFX fanless card 512mb
Radeon 5850 XFX card
 
nice thread.

Started back from almost day 1. I have used all the video cards already listed. Seems like yesterday when I got my 1st real 3d card from Voodoo with 4mb of RAM. WOOT.

I do have a bad habit of upgraded video cards (wife speaking there). And looking forward to new ATI 69xx or NVidia GTX 580. I usually only stay with the higher-end cards. Never bothered with midrange or lower. Also have 2 professional workstations at home. I do miss the older days when you could hack a driver to turn a GeForce to Quadro. Man...

Current

5970 2gb - 2 XFire
5970 4gb - 2 XFire
5870 2gb - 4 XFire (2 PCs)
480 GTX - 5 (3 in SLI and then other 2 in SLI)
470 GTX - 2 SLI
460 GTX - 4 SLI (2 PCs)


Workstation: use for CUDA and 3D modeling for work
1st running dual Quadro 5000s
2nd running dual Quadro 6000s - just upgraded last month :)
 
Here is my list just for my main PC (also owned/own a bunch of different cards for my other PCs).

  1. ATI Xpert 128 16MB PCI (still own)
  2. PNY? TNT2 16MB AGP (still own somewhere)
  3. ATi Radeon 7500 64MB AGP (sold)
  4. BFG GeForce Ti4200-8x 128MB AGP (sold)
  5. VisionTek GeForce Ti4600 128MB AGP (sold)
  6. ATi Radeon 9600XT 128MB AGP (died)
  7. eVGA GeForce 5700 Ultra 128MB AGP (died)
  8. Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB AGP (sold)
  9. eVGA GeForce FX 5900 SE 128MB AGP (still own)
  10. eVGA GeForce 7600 GS 256MB AGP (still own)
  11. Sapphire Radeon X1950Pro 256MB PCI-E (still own)
  12. Sapphire Radeon HD 2900 Pro 512MB PCI-E (still own)
  13. VisionTek Radeon HD 4870x2 2GB PCI-E (sold)
  14. eVGA GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB PCI-E (currently in use)

EDIT: Favorite card was the Radeon 7500 because it was the card I used to play MOH:AA, BF1942, and America's Army (which make up some of my favorite gaming memories).
 
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? TNT2
Creative Geforce 256 Annihilator Pro
? Geforce 2MX
? Geforce TI4200
? Geforce 6800LE
Gainward 7800GT GLH
nVidia GeForce 8600M GT (in a Dell Vostro 1500)
Sparkle passive 8800gt
Gainward GTX 460 GS - when it gets here in the mail :)
 
Geforce 2>Radeon 9800PRO>Radeon X850XT>8800GTX>9800GTX>9800GX2>4870 512MB> GTX 260 Core 216>4870x2
 
Nvidia Riva 128ZX
ATI Radeon 8500LE
ATI Radeon 9700PRO
ATI Radeon X850XT
ATI Radeon HD3870
ATI Radeon HD4830

and tomorrow I will have a GTX 260 *knock on wood* :)
 
S3 Virge
ECS onboard crap
Geforce MX440?
Gainward Geforce ti4200 Golden Sample
ATI 9600 XT
EVGA 6600GT
EVGA 7600GT
EVGA 7600GT SLI
EVGA 8800GTS 320MB
EVGA 8800GT 512MB
EVGA 8800GT 512MB SLI
EVGA 9800GTX + 8800GT Physx
EVGA GTX260 + 8800GT Physx
EVGA GTX260 (sold the 8800GT)
EVGA GTX460 SC EE
Considering putting my 9800GTX in as a Physx card to go along with the GTX460 i bought last weekend.
 
Geforce 2 MX 400
Geforce 3
Geforce 7600GS
Radeon X1300 Pro
Quadro FX 570M
Radeon HD 5750
Geforce GTX 460
Radeon HD 5750
 
TNT Riva 2 64mb was my first... then it was the Radeon 8500 with passive heat sink then after that i think it was the Geforce ti4200 and then Nvida 6600le by XFX with 256mb and passive heat sink. there were a few others live the VooDoo series and ect... but those were my favorites.
 
Let me see... If I can remember right:
Radeon 32MB DDRa year or so before...
Radeon 8400LE (128MB DDR) lasted me a while playing UT for the most part :D...
Nvidia 7600GT 512MB lasted me like 6 months before needing a upgrade
BFG Nvidia 8800GTS (G92) This thing was a great card! served me well for two and a half years
Gigabyte branded Nvidia 460GTX current/best yet :D
 
Voodoo
*Voodoo 3
*Diamod Viper 770
*Creative Labs Annihilator 2 Geforce 2
Geforce Ti 4200
Geforce 6600GT
Geforce 7800GT
Geforce 8800GT
Geforce 9800GT
Ati Radeon 4870 512
Ati Radeon 4870 1GB

* Favs
 
Speedo68 said:
nice thread.

Started back from almost day 1. I have used all the video cards already listed. Seems like yesterday when I got my 1st real 3d card from Voodoo with 4mb of RAM. WOOT.

I do have a bad habit of upgraded video cards (wife speaking there). And looking forward to new ATI 69xx or NVidia GTX 580. I usually only stay with the higher-end cards. Never bothered with midrange or lower. Also have 2 professional workstations at home. I do miss the older days when you could hack a driver to turn a GeForce to Quadro. Man...

Current

5970 2gb - 2 XFire
5970 4gb - 2 XFire
5870 2gb - 4 XFire (2 PCs)
480 GTX - 5 (3 in SLI and then other 2 in SLI)
470 GTX - 2 SLI
460 GTX - 4 SLI (2 PCs)


Workstation: use for CUDA and 3D modeling for work
1st running dual Quadro 5000s
2nd running dual Quadro 6000s - just upgraded last month :)
Click to expand...

thanks, but dude your setups are sick
stop it
:jealous:
 
vodoo 3 2500
tnt2 rage
msi 8500 GT
msi 8600GT(P.O.S)
ASUS Radeon 4870 512mb(flashed to asus top version)
ASUS Radeon 6870 1gb
used from windows 98 to XP to now windows 7(unfortunately lost alot of documents in process)
 
Went ahead and added prices I paid. Would be interesting to see how much everyone paid for their cards back when said card was the king...

Ti4600 $400
6600GT $289
8800GTS $330
8800GTX $110 (used)
XFX 5870 $400
 
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I try to keep all my cards to below 350
the most expensive card I purchased was 3 years ago the bfg tech 8800gts g92 through [h] promo
 
Ati Rage Fury MAXX
Geforce 2
Geforce 3 ti 200
Geforce fx5600
Radeon 9800
Radeon X800XL
Geforce 8800GTS 320
Geforce 9800GTX+

GTX 470 or 6870 coming soon...
 
Voodoo 1
TNT 2
GeForce 2 MX (220?)
GeForce 4 Ti4200
6800
7950GT
8800GT
GTX 275
 
Matrox (millenium ? not sure)
GeForce MX420 (not even a fan on there, and what would be today a southbridge heatsink on the chip :) )
6800GT
8600GS
9800GTX+
 
radeon 9500 non pro which successfully unlocked to 9700 performance
geforce 8700gt
stepped up to an 8800gts
geforce gtx 260
just ordered a gtx 470 today was a tough call between that and the 6870 given their close price.

I don't remember what, if anything, I had before the 9500 non pro.. I know I had a diamond s3 stealth something or other as my first card.
 
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Riva TNT2 Ultra
ATI Radeon 7000
ATI Radeon 9100
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
ATI Radeon x1600
ATI Radeon x1950XTX
ATI Radeon HD4850
ATI Radeon HD4870
ATI Radeon HD4870 Crossfire time
ATI Radeon HD5870
 
oh oh oh

mach 64
stb velocity 128 + monster 3d II 8mb (omg!! 8megs!!)
voodoo 3 3000 pci
radeon
radeon 9500 non pro (soft modded to 9700pro)
x800xt PE

then.. the big jump of.. (i got lazy and didn't upgrade my system at all lol)

5850 directCU top.
 
3dfx Monster 3D
(there might have been something else here)
TNT2
Geforce 2 MX
ATI 9700 Pro
8800 GT SSC @740mhz (for sale!)
Mobility 5850 on my Girlfriend's iMac and intel onboard graphics on my laptop... I will build a new system soon, probably around the 69xx line from ATI but perhaps with the next gen Nvidia card.
 
3dfx monster 3D in sli
tnt
geforce
geforce 5700 ultra,I think
ati 1950
ati 4850
gtx 275
gtx 460
 
Thread Deja Vu :D

Quickly off the top of my head (main rig):

ATI Mach64
S3 Savage4
3dfx Voodoo 3 2000
ATi Radeon 8500
Nvidia Geforce Ti 4600
ATi Radeon 9800 pro
Nvidia geforce 6800 ultra (most expensive card i've ever purchased)
ATI Radeon x1950xt
ATI Radeon 3850 (x1950 broke down)
ATI Radeon 4890
 
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