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Post your GPU History

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XNice

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I always wanted to do this, and I'm interested to see what other people have had for video cards. I will start with my history.


1998 - 2006
AGP
Nvidia Riva TNT
Diamond Viper TNT2 Ultra
Creative Labs Geforce 2 GTS
OEM Geforce 3(non-ti)
Albatron Geforce 4 ti4200
Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
Ati Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb ->flashed to XT
Leadtek geforce 6800NU
Evga Geforce 6800GT ->oc'ed to Ultra

PCI-E
XFX Geforce 7800GT 256mb
Evga Geforce 7900GTO 512mb
 
Cirrus Logic CL5424 - 512K
ATI xpert@play (Rage Pro) - 4MB
NV TNT2 - 32MB
NV Gefore 3 Ti200 - 64MB
ATI 9500 - 128MB
Nvidia 7800GT - 256MB

I'm pretty sure I'm forgetting a couple but ah heck knows what they are.
 
In no particular order of ownership.

PCI
Diamond Monster 3d Voodoo 1
3DFx Voodoo2 8mb made by Creative Labs (eventually had two of them in SLI)
Riva TNT

AGP
Leadtek Riva TNT2
3DFx Voodoo3 3500
Leadtek Geforce256
Diamond S3 Savage 2000 :disgust:
Hercules GeForce3 Ti500
Inno3d GeForce 2 MX
Asus 5900 Ultra
Asus 9800XT
MSI 6800 Ultra

PCI Express
eVGA 7800GTX
XFX 7950GX2 570m XXX edition
eVGA 8800GTX (running now)
 
Denise, Fat Angus, Paula (Amiga days)
Cirrus Logic
S3 Virge
Voodoo1
Voodoo2
Voodoo3
Voodoo5
GeForce3
ATI 9700
GeForce7800 GTX OC

(I slowed down with computers since the Voodoo 5 days, only upgrade every few years)
 
S3 Virge
STB Velocity 128 (Nvidia Riva 128zx)
3DFx Voodoo Banshee
Diamond Monster3D II
Creative Riva TNT
Hercules TNT2 16mb
Matrox G400
3DFx Voodoo 3 3000
GeForce 2 GTS
GeForce 3
GeForce 4 Ti4400
ATI Radeon 9700np @ Pro
ATI Radeon X800XL
evga 7800GT SLI
Evga 7900GT
ATI Radeon X1900XTX
 
S3 Trio 64+ 2MB
S3 Virge
S3 Savage 2000
ATi Rage PRO 32MB
GeForce 3 Ti 500

Then I quit using computers for a while, then I reentered in 2002 and I bought the following:

ATi Mobility Radeon M6 (7500) 16MB
Radeon 9700 flashed to 9700 PRO
Radeon X800XT flashed to X800XT PE
 
geforce2 mx
radeon 9000pro
radeon 9800pro flashed to xt
radeon x800
radeon x800gto - 16 pipes @ xt pe clocks
radeon x1900xt
 
NVidia Riva TNT AGP on an old Compaq P4 that's still running at my parents house.
ATI RADEON 9600SE
Geforce 7800GS (AGP)

Hopefully I'll move to PCI-e in the near future 🙂
 
AGP:
BFG fx5500 OC
Rosewill FX5900XT
Apollo 6800NU (unlocked 16/6)
Leadtek 6800GT

PCIe:
XFX 6800GS XXX edition
Gigabyte 7800GT
eVGA 7900GT
 
TNT2 Ultra
GeForce 3 Ti200
Radeon 7500
GeForce 4 Ti4200
Radeon 9700 Pro
GeForce FX 5900
GeForce 6800GT
GeForce 7800GTX
GeForce 7800GTX SLI
Radeon X1800XT
Radeon X1800XT CrossFire (briefly)
GeForce 7900GTX
GeForce 7900GTX SLI
Radeon X1900XTX
GeForce 7950GX2
GeForce 8800GTX

...my favorite cards out of the bunch have been the 6800GT, X1900XTX, and the 8800GTX.
 
PCI
Diamond stealth 64 2mb
Matrox Mystique 220
Diamond monster 2 8mb (voodoo2)
Diamond monster 2 8 mb SLI

AGP
Geforc2 GTS 32Mb
Geforce4 4200Ti
Radeon 9800pro

PCIe
7800GTX
 
S3 Virge (4mb original baby!)
Rendition Verite (4mb)
Voodoo 2 8mb (sli)
Geforce 256 (Erazor X)
Geforce 3 ti200
Geforce 4 4200
Radeon 9600pro
Geforce 6800LE
Geforce 7900GS
 
Covering 1982-2006...

Historic:

Motorola 6845 - BBC Micro
OCS - Amiga 500

SPEA V7 - 486 (can't remember anything about this one except it was VLB)

Matrox Mystique G100 - P2-300 (broke this one recently when I was trying to plug the VGA cable back in with the machine on, and the card fell out of the slot :Q🙁:thumbsdown: )
Orchid Righteous Voodoo2 - P2-300 (still works :thumbsup: )

Current:

Galaxy 6800 - A64 3200
Mobility Radeon 9000 - P4 laptop

Edit: forgot the laptop, cheating I guess but my list is pretty threadbare otherwise! 😱
 
Originally posted by: nitromullet
TNT2 Ultra
GeForce 3 Ti200
Radeon 7500
GeForce 4 Ti4200
Radeon 9700 Pro
GeForce FX 5900
GeForce 6800GT
GeForce 7800GTX
GeForce 7800GTX SLI
Radeon X1800XT
Radeon X1800XT CrossFire (briefly)
GeForce 7900GTX
GeForce 7900GTX SLI
Radeon X1900XTX
GeForce 7950GX2
GeForce 8800GTX

...my favorite cards out of the bunch have been the 6800GT, X1900XTX, and the 8800GTX.
Click to expand...

Woah, that's a lotta cards 😀
 
PCI
3DFx Voodoo 2(sold)

AGP
All-In-Wonder 128 Pro(ATi Rage 128 Pro, dead)
Geforce2 MX200(still have)
Geforce4 MX400(still have)
Geforce5 FX5200(never used, still have)
Radeon 9700 Pro(still have)
Geforce 6800NU(unlocked, still have)

PCI-E
Radeon X1900XT(dead)
Geforce 7900GTO(current)

All cards from the Voodoo 2 to the FX5200 was passed on to me from my bro.
 
single Voodoo2 12mb
voodoo3 2000 pci
voodoo5 5500 agp
radeon 7200 32 mb ddr retail
radeon 9800 (now dead)


put the 7200 in the place of the dead 9800, would sooner have the voodoo5 in there, but can't on the P4 cpu mother board, wish I would have bought a voodoo5 pci instead of agp

will buy a new card soon, x800/x850 or maybe a 7600GT unsure, x1950 pro is too high priced right now
 
1992-Present
1992-1997 - Tseng 5000 (TLB Bus)
1997-1998 Matrox Millenium 3d(didnt do 3d oops)
1998-2000 Diamond 3dfx Voodo2 12MB
1999-2000 Matrox G400(yeah I had to still run the V2 because Matrox's drivers sucked ass)
2000-2002 Nvidia Geforce 2 MX(damn this was a nice stepup from my previous setup)
2002-2003 Nvidia GF3 200
2003 Nvidia GF4 4600
2003-2004 Nvidia 5900
2004-2006 Nvidia 6800GT
2006-Present Nvidia 8800GTS

 
I swear this thread already existed.

Anyways:

From what I can remember

Unknown
Ati Rage 64
3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 16 mb
Diamond Nvidia TNT2 32mb
Pine Geforce2 MX400 64 mb ( still living in my sisters pc )
Chaintech FX5200 256 mb ( HORRIBLE IDEA - still living in my dads pc)
BFG Geforce 6600GT 128 mb ( YEYYEYEYEYEYEY almost 2 years strong )

 
I wasn't sure or not but i checked with a quick search. The results in here are very interesting though.
 
Trident 3d 4mb
Cirrus Logic ?mb
S3 Virge 64
ATI AIW (first version)
Ati 3d rage
Voodoo 1
Voodoo Rush!
Tnt
Tnt2
Gforce2 GTs
Gforce4 TI 4200
Ati9600pro
GforceFX 5200
GforceFX 5500
Ati9800pro
AtiX600
AtiX800
Gforce 7600gt
 
Diamond Fire GL (came with my Dell in 1998)
Diamond Viper 770 Ultra (TNT2)
Creative GeForce 2 Ultra
Sapphire Radeon 9700 Pro
EVGA GeForce 6600GT
Sapphire X1950XT
 
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