what was your video card history like?

Tseng something or other
3dfx Voodoo Banshee
GeForce2
GeForce3 Ti200
GeForce4 Ti4200
Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb
Radeon 4650
Radeon 5850
 
S3 Trio 'something'
GeForce 2 32 MB
GeForce 4 MX 128 MB
ATI x700 Pro 256 MB
ATI x1600 XT 256 MB
Nvidia 7600 GT 256 MB
Nvidia 8800 GTS 320 MB
ATI 4850 512 MB CrossfireX
ATI 5870 1 GB
 
Ati 9200
Ati 9600 pro
Ati 9800 pro 256mb
Ati X850 XT PE
Ati x1950 XTX --> crossfire x2
Ati 4870x2
Ati 4890
ugrading soon...

whoops forgot about my first agp card...Ati All in Wonder 128.
 
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tons of ancient built-in VGA
Matrox Millenium
old Diamond cards that were pre-3D
Orchid Voodoo 1 (still have it)
Diamond 3dfx Voodoo 2 (x2 SLI!!!)
a few ATi boards that had support dropped within 6 months that made me hate ATi for years
GeForce 2 MX
GeForce 3
*GeForce FX5950
*GeForce 7800GS AGP
ATi 3870HD AGP (for all of 3 days, then realized that ATi still can't release a mature product with good support)
*GeForce 8800GT (x2 SLI)
*GeForce 9800GTX
*GeForce GTX280 (x2 SLI)
*GeForce GTX275
*ATi 5870m (laptop)
*GeForce GTX480 (x2 SLI)

The ones marked (*) are still in-service in the house and being used almost every day...
 
WOW YOU GUYS REMEMBER ALL THAT?
I JUST REMEMBER THAT I USED
VOODOO 3
GEFORECE MX 440
RADEON 1900GT
GTX 460
 
Geforce 2 GTS 32mb
GeForce4 Ti4200
5900 Ultra
9800 Pro
6800 GT
7800 GTX SLI'd
8800 GT
GTX 260

Currently purchased a GTX 470 and 5870 to compare performance in BC2.
 
First card... humm long time ago but the ones I remember.

FX 5200
X600
Radeon 9800XT
X700
X1600XT
8800 GTS
HD 4890
HD 5850
 
You guys have old crappy cards. ;)

I started with a:
7600GT
7600GT SLI
8800GTX+7600GT
GTX280+7600GT
GTX280+9800GT
GTX280SLI
HD5870
GTX460+9800GT
GTX460SLI+9800GT

My HTPC:
GTS250

My Laptop:
Mobility HD5850.
 
didn't care
rage
rage maxx
matrox POS
geforce 256
geforce 2
geforce 3
geforce 4
radeon all in wonder 7500
all in wonder 8500
modded L-chip memory radeon(I forget which number)
x800xl 512mb
x1900xtx
radeon 4830
radeon 4850
radeon 5830
gonna get a 6970 when the price is right.

I had an nividia 5800 ultra hair dryer in ther somewhere, but I can't remember when, I only got the card for giggles and i wasn't all that fast when I got it.
 
Let's see, I believe it was:

Apple //C+ Integrated Video
-> then went to PC
Trident VGA ->
Number 9 Card ->
Diamond S3 Virge Video ->
3DFX Voodoo (original) ->
Diamond Viper nVidia Riva TNT ->
3DFX Voodo II Card (SLI, w00t!) ->
nVidia GeForce 256 ->
GeForce 2 Ti ->
GeForce 3 ->
ATi Radeon 9800 (worst drivers ever!) ->
GeForce FX ->
GeForce 6800 ->
GeForce 8600 GT ->
GeForce 9800 GTX ->
GeForce GTX 280 ->
...can't afford anything new yet :(
 
GeForce 5700 LE 128MB
GeForce 6600 GT 256MB
GeForce 8600 GT 512MB
GeForce 9600 GT 1GB SLI
GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MB
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 3-Way SLI
 
Trident vga
S3 Virge
Matrox Millennium 16mb agp
ATI 9200 (i think)
ATI 9800
Nvidia 5200
Nvidia 5900
Nvidia 7800gs agp
2 X 7600GT in SLi
2 X 7900gtx in SLi
ATI 2900 XT <----can you say " I'm cooking marsh mellows" on the exhaust?
2 X ATI 3870 X2 Crossfire<----meh, it was okay.
4 X 4850 in Crossfire <----big mistake, shut this shit down and gave them to my kids.
2 X 4870 in Crossfire <-----Best setup by far next to my current one.
2 X 4870 X2 in Crossfire <---- loved it but the heat in the case was horrible.
2 X Nvidia GTX 465's in SLi <-------Sucked ballz, way slower than my previous two setups.
ATI 5870 <----My favorite so far :D
 
Via SIS (Onboard)
Nvidia FX5500
Nvidia 6150LE (Onboard)
Nvidia 7600gt (Awesome upgrade from 6150LE)
Nvidia 8600gt
Nvidia 9800gt
Nvidia GTX 275
 
I'm only 19... in my desktops:
ATI Rage Pro 8MB
GeForce4 MX440 128MB
Radeon 8600 Pro 128MB (burnt it out trying to overclock)
GeForce 6600GT 128MB
GeForce 7600GT 256MB
GeForce 260GTX/192sp 768MB
 
Nvidia TNT2 Ultra 32mb
Nvidia Quadro 2 Pro 64mb
Nvidia Geforce FX 5600 Ultra 128mb
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb
Nvidia Quadro FX 3450
 
unknown onboard
ATI 9100IGP (onboard)
Nvidia 6600gt
Nvidia 7900gt
Nvidia 8800gts
ATI 5870
 
? 3DFX Voodoo 2
? ATi Rage 128 (Not sure about these two, was too young)

Nvidia Mx440
Nvidia Ti4200
Nvidia FX5600xt
Nvidia 7800GT
Nvidia 8800GTS 640
Nvidia 8800GT 512
ATi 5770
ATi 5830m (laptop)
 
ATI Radeon 9600 SE
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

Nvidia 6600 GT
Nvidia 7900 GS
Nvidia GTX 260 core 216
 
I have been building machines since 1991 or 1992 so I have had a dozen or so video cards to go with the 2 dozen or so CPUs in the same time however I could not remember many of the video cards.

Lets see.

In the early 1990s I believe I had 3 to 5 PCI based Matrox cards. Then an ATI Mach 64. Then a 5 to 7 nvidia AGP cards. Then 3 to 5 or so PCIe nVidia cards. For the last decade its been all nVidia since I use linux at least 50/50 and nVidia clearly has the best driver in linux.

Edit: I missed a couple of 3dfx voodoo cards.
 
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Didn't buy GPU's until I was 13.

Nvidia FX5200
ATI 9600XT
-I think I had a 6xxx series card here but not 100%-
Nvidia 7900GS
Nvidia 8800GT
Nvidia 9800GT (SLI'd w/ 8800GT)
Nvidia GTX 275
ATI 5870 1GB
ATI 5870 1GB (Crossfired)
 
3D...
Nvidia Riva128 (Diamond Viper 330) -- $150 when I was 14 so worth it!
3DFX Voodoo (Diamond Monster 3D and Canopus Pure 3D 6 MB!!! Still have it) -- Quake never looked the same
Nvidia TNT (Diamond)
3DFX Voodoo 2 (Creative)
Nvidia TNT2 (Diamond, STB)
Savage 4 (Creative Labs 3D Blaster -- their first foray in to graphics and it sucked)
3DFX (Voodoo 3)
Nvidia Geforce Gen 1-5 (Asus, BFG)
ATI 4850 Crossfire (Diamond)
ATI 5870 (Asus)

To crossfire 5870's or get the 5970.... have to wait and see!
 
Man !, I should have wrote it down what I have spend on history of video cards, but this is my best guess list below.

First ATI onboard on PC

Matrix ??

Nvidia TNT

Nvidia Riva128

3DFX Voodoo

3DFX Voodoo 2

PowerVR Add-on

3dfx Voodoo Banshee

1 or 2 Geforce FX5200 series

Geforce 6800

Geforce 7900 GTO

Geforce 260 GTX

Geforce 2 x 450 GTS SLI (currently)
 
1. 3dfX Voodoo 3 3000 (8 or 16MB dedicated I think) was my first gaming card.

Got into gaming a lot more as I grew up.....

2. $300 for an ATI 9700 Pro (ran stock from ATI)
Fan died after 2 years..... got a new $20 Vantec GPU fan from newegg to replace it.
Had lots of problems with my stock ATI version of the 9700 pro so I dislike ATI now.

3. Nvidia XFX 6600GT (traded for random crap)

4. Nvidia XFX 8600GT (traded for random crap)


Through my ~14 years of PC gaming.....wow, been a while. Time flies!
 
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Onboard iMac graphics
HIS ICEQ 7850
XFX Double D 7870 (price dropped to what I had just paid for the 7850 a week earlier, did a trade-in at Microcenter and got a price-match)
 
Dan_D said:
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)
EVGA NVIDIA GTX 780 x3 (3-Way SLI)
EVGA NVIDIA GTX 780Ti x3 (3-Way SLI)
ASUS Titan X x2 (SLI)

I may be forgetting a few cards here or there. I'll add them later if I remember anymore.
Click to expand...

Updated. :D
 
Used in main rigs:

3DFX Voodoo3 3000
3DFX Voodoo5 5500 *
ATi Radeon 9700
ATi Radeon x1900xt 256MB
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB **
ATi Radeon HD 4850 512MB **
AMD Radeon HD 7950 Boost

Used in HTPC:

ATi Radeon HD 5770

* marks the beginning of selecting and installing the card myself
** purchased not out of necessity, but of circumstance. 8800 was bought because I was offered a good deal for my x1900xt and the 8800 was a good price. 4850 was bought because the 8800 blew a MOSFET (wasn't overclocked) and I hadn't registered it with EVGA. Would be interesting to see what card I'd be using now had things gone differently during that time.
 
PNY Geforce 2MX 400 (PCI) (My foray into gaming)
XFX Geforce 4 MX4000 (PCI)
XFX Geforce 6600GT (AGP)
MSI Geforce 8500GT (Was replaced by an ASUS model, still works!)
HIS Radeon 4830
Geforce 8600GT (forget brand)
OEM Geforce GT230 (HP?)
MSI Geforce GTX750 (Gaming model, fantastic card)


Pretty sure thats the correct order.
 
Riva 128
3DFx Voodoo
3DFx Voodoo 2
3DFx Voodoo 5 5500
Geforce 4 Ti 4400
ATI X1800XT
2XATI 4850
2xAMD 6970
ATI 7970
 
Can't imagine anyone actually cares about any of this, but anyway:

ATi Rage LT Pro
Riva TNT2
Geforce 4 MX 420
Geforce 4 MX 440
ATi Radeon 9500 Pro
Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Geforce 6800 Ultra
Geforce 7800 GTX
Geforce M 7800 GS
ATi Radeon 4890
ATi Radeon 4890 X-Fire
Geforce GTX 670

Bought the 7800 GTX new for like $480 back in 2005, sold it later in 2007 for $25. Lesson learned.
 
Nvidia 6800GT
Nvidia 7800GT
Nvidia 7900GT
AMD 4850
AMD 5850
AMD 6950
AMD 6970
AMD 7950
AMD 290
Nvidia 970

A lot of my upgrades were small jumps, but most if not all of them i was able to either upgrade for free or for under $50
 
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