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Post your videocard history.

dennilfloss

dennilfloss

Past Lifer 1957-2014 In Memoriam
Only for the systems you've built though. I know we get these rather often but they're fun to read.^_^

Mine.🙂

Diamond Viper 770 nonUltra TNT2
ATI Radeon DDR 64
Sapphire Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB
Sapphire Radeon 1900XTX
Extreme PC SI Radeon HD3870 Extreme XXX
Diamond Radeon 4870 1GB

Next upgrade probably around Christmas if needed for Skyrim.^_^
 
3DFX Voodo 2(Most eye opening experience on a PC for me)
Matrox G400
Nvidia GF2 MX
Nvidia GF3 Ti250
Nvidia GF4 Ti4600
Nvidia 5900
ATI 9600 AIW(worst card ever, even worse than the G400 which is saying something)
Nvidia 6800 GT
Nvidia 8800 GTS 640(great card)
ATI 4850
Nvidia GTX 470
 
Trident ISA
Trident VESA
S3 Trio64
S3 Virge DX
Tseng Labs ET6000 + Canopus Pure3D II
Canopus Spectra 2500 RivaTNT
Creative RivaTNT2 Ultra
Creative GeForce 256
ABIT GeForce2 MX (don't ask)
Leadtek WinFast GeForce4 Ti4400
Sapphire 9800 Pro
Mobile Radeon 9600 (switched to eMachine m6805)
PowerColor X800GTO (unlocked)
ATi X1900XT
PNY 8800GTS 320MB
VisionTek 4850 512MB
HiS 4890
Sapphire 6950 2GB @ 6970
 
FX5200 I think (I didn't know anything back then)
Leadtek 6600GT
XFX & Leadtek7600 GT (2 systems)
Leadtek 8800GTS 320 (sold)
Leadtek 8800 GTS 640
Palit HD4850 (sold)
Powercolor HD4870
Powercolor HD6950 2GB unlocked
 
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Voodoo 2
TNT2
ATI 8500
ATI 9700
NV 6800 GT
ATI 1950 Pro
ATI 3650M
NV 4600m GT
ATI 4870's

I really liked most of them at the time, the 8500 was probably my least favorite.
 
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Might be some gaps and some missing. There is also a RIVA PCI TNT card in here somewhere i still have along with a Matrox 4MB that i used to use in emergencies:

ATi Rage Fury 32
ASUS GeForce SDR-32
AtI Radeon DDR-64 (R7000)
ATI Mobility Radeon DDR-16
ATI Radeon 8500
ATI 9800pro>xt
ATI x850xt>PE
VisionTek 2900XT
Sapphire 2900pro
BFG 8800-GTS 640M
8800-GTX
Visiontek HD 2900XT
VisionTek HD 4870-x2
HD 4870-512M
HD 4870-1GB
GTX 280
GT 8200 M
Galaxy GT 210
Galaxy GT 430
Galaxy GTX 450 (2; 1 reference)
Galaxy GTX 460 (3; 1 Galaxy 768M ver. - 1 1GB EVGA FTW)
GTX 480 reference
Galaxy GTX 480 SOC
EVGA GTX 550 Ti
GTX 560 Ti (2)
GTX 570
GTX 580 (2)
GTX 590
HD 5870 (2) (Diamond/reference)
HD 5750 & HD 5770 on loan for evaluation
HD 6850
HD 6870 (2)
HD 6950
HD 6970
HD 6990
HD xxxx
 
Don't recall all of them, but...

ATI Graphics Solution--CGA Graphics on a Monochrome TTL Monitor!
Forgettable era Vidcards
short stint with a Number Nine card
Virge DX + STB Blackmagic 12mb Voodoo2
Voodoo 5 5500
ATI 8500LE
HIS 9600 Pro
ATI 9800 Pro-just looked at it for Brand, couldn't find one, but damn it's small 😀 )
ATI x800xl
Nvidia(Brand?) 7900GS
Gigabyte Radeon 512mb 4850
XFX Radeon 5870
 
diamond stealth 3d 2000 (s3) *, played all the great dos mode games
diamond viper v550 (riva tnt), wasted my life with mechwarrior3
matrox millenium g400, lasted me up to counterstrike 1.5
elsa gladiac (geforce2 gts) *, played everything when win98se didnt blue screen
bba radeon 9800 pro, got rid of it quick too hot
bfg 6800gt *, turned it into ultra so i could play doom3
evga 7950gt, first pcie card
asus 4850 top
msi 4870x2 oc, first taste of the high end
xfx 5850, his 5850, first taste of CF
evga gt240, htpc
evga gtx580 blackops, evga gtx580 blackops, hey what the hell why not

*my longest lasting cards. the gf2 was in use until 2006 when the fan broke.

borrowed for long periods while my main cards were broken:
oem pci card (for testing when the agp port/card were faulty)
stb black magic 3d (voodoo 2), just so i could play glide games
quantum obsidian x-24 (voodoo2)
diamond viper v770 ultra (riva tnt2 ultra)
3dfx voodoo3 3000 tv (voodoo3), yay i could finally play descent3
oem geforce3, borrowed from cousin so i could play thief2. boy what a headache
oem geforce4 ti 4200, swapped with my friend in the apartment downstairs so he could play doom3
oem geforce4 mx400, darn thing is still going in my dad's computer now
 
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STB lightning (2D only)
Diamond Monster 3D (3dfx) - most amazing card ever
voodoo banshee (don't remember brand) - longest lasting card
voodoo2 (don't remember brand)
Geforce 4400ti
Geforce 6600GT AGP
Geforce 7800GTX
Geforce 8800GTS 320
Geforce 8800GTS 512 - step up from gts320
Geforce GTX 260 216 - 2nd longest lasting card
Geforce GTX 465 - got it incredibly cheap and overclocks like a champ
 
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Non-3d VGA/VESA card
Matrox "something" with 8MB RAM, maybe MGA or Mystique, PCI
AGP Voodoo 3500 (To play quake 3 arena and tribes 2)
Geforce 2 Pro (Hercules)/Radeon LE in separate computers
Gainward Geforce 3 (GTS?)
Radeon 9800 XT (warcraft 3 days)
Radeon something or other- don't really remember, I didn't care too much for performance, just bought a card because I damaged my 9800 due to bending it to remove ram, dumb idea.
Radeon 3870/Geforce 8800 GT Age of Conan inspired me to upgrade, tried both cards are different times.
Radeon 4850
Radeon 5770 (not really an upgrade, but the 4850 was noisey and hot and this was almost the same performance for games I played)
Radeon 5850 (currently still using this one)
 
ANTIC Video Processor (Atari 800XL)
ATI Mach 32 /w 2MB DRAM
ATI Rage 128
3dfx Voodoo 2 12MB
nVidia Geforce4 MX 440
nVidia Geforce 6800 GS (unlocked to 16 pipes)
nVidia Geforce 8800 GTS (320MB)
ATI Radeon 4850
ATI Radeon 5850
 
ATI RAGE 128
Nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 64MB
Geforce 4 ti4600
Geforce FX5900Ultra
Geforce 7800GT
ATI HD3870 (x3)
ATI HD4850
ATI HD4850x2
ATI HD6950 (ordered today)
 
Diamond Stealth 2Mb
Matrox G400 Dual Head
Gainward GeForce 3 Ti200 Golden Sample
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro
ATI All In Wonder 9800 Pro
ATI All In Wonder X800XT
(cards in sig)
 
Riva TNT2
Radeon 7200
GeForce 3 Ti200
GeForce 4 Ti4200
Radeon 9700 Pro
GeForce 5900
GeForce 6800 GT
Radeon X800XL AIW
GeForce 7300
GeForce 7800 GTX (SLI)
GeForce 7800 GS OC
Radeon X1800XT
Radeon X1800XT Crossfire Edition
GeForce 7900 GT (SLI)
EVGA GeForce 7800GTX KO (SLI)
GeForce 7900 GTX (SLI)
Radeon X1900XTX
GeForce 7950GX2
GeForce 8800 GTX
GeForce 8800 GT (SLI)
Radeon 3870 X2
GeForce 8800 GTS 512
GeForce 9800 GT 512
GeForce 9800GX2
Radeon 4850
Radeon 4870
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon 4870 X2
GeForce GTX 280 (SLI)
Radeon 5870
GeForce GTX 275
GeForce GTX 470 (SLI)
GeForce GTX 580
 
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Voodoo2 8mb (SLI)
Riva TNT (Used with voodoo2 SLI)
Riva TNT2 (also used with voodoo2 SLI)
Voodoo 3 3000
Savage 2000
GeForce256
Geforce3 Ti200
Geforce4 Ti4200
GeForce FX5850 Ultra
Radeon 9800XT
GeForce 6800 Ultra AGP
GeForce 7800GTX
GeForce 7950GX2
GeForce 8800 GTX
GeForce 9800GX2
Radeon 4870X2 (Tri-Fire with 4870)
Radeon 5870
Radeon 5970
Radeon 6970 (Crossfire)
 
Wow I'm special

3dfx Voodoo 3
ATI x850 xt
Nvidia 8600GT
AMD Radeon 5850HD

Not many people are gonna beat my short list.
 
Trident 512k (0.5mb)
ATI All-in-Wonder (can't remember the model but it was '96)
nV Geforce 2 MX400
ATI 9600XT
ATI X800XL
ATI X800GTO2(unlocked 😀)
ATI X1800XL
NV 8800GTS 640
NV 8800GT
ATI 4870 1GB
NV GTX460 1GB
ATI 6950 2GB

And actually I have a Voodoo 5 (the dual chip one) but bought that fairly recently to build a retro system...but haven't had the time to do it.
 
I used to have a few friends help with PC builds so I don't recall the specific models but since I started building my own:

ati x800xt PE
ati x1800xt
ati x1900xtx
nvidia 8800GTX
nvidia gtx260 (current)
 
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