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skipsneeky2

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May 21, 2011
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6200le agp lol i know i was playing bf2 only at that time:p
6800ultra agp
7800gs copper heatsink
7900gt agp
8800gts 512mb
gtx280
gtx295
gtx580

every card after the 7900gt was evga all the way and before that bfg i miss bfg as a company their cool little logos on the box always excited me when i made a card purchase:p was like a kid in the candy store when i picked up that 7900gt seeing it thru the box
 

you2

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Apr 2, 2002
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I have no clue; I know at one time I had a s3 or something or other with 4 or 8 or so whopping mb of memory; and I remember have two Voodoo3 2000; one pci and one agp. The one that was pci ended up in my freebsd box when I upgraded to something with better 3d support (the voodoo card had great 2d support and was wonderfully fast in the bsd box). I had a 9800 at one point but there was something between the 9800 and the voodoo; maybe it was a ti4200 (used in a kt333) and now I have a 7300gs (which I dislike) in the linux box (gave up on freebsd after 10 years) and I used an x1800xt for a couple of years in the game box but then upgraded to a 8800 g92; and for $100 less than I paid for the x1800xt I picked up a 6950 2gb for the windows 7 box and that's where I am now.
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So I think it went something like
victor 9000 (800x400 monochrome) 1983
mac something or other (the original cube; lousy machine) 1985?
pc clone 286 (no clue what it had) 1986
s3 (dos/bsd dual boot p100) 1995
voodoo3 or maybe it was tnt then voodoo 3 (windows 95-later freebsd)
then a second voodoo3 for my sister pc
4200 (windows 98)
9800 (windows 98 - upgraded to xp)
7300gs (linux)
x1800xt (windows xp)
8800 g92 (windows xp)
6950 (windows 7)
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Hum. I'm sure i had one other video card in there but maybe the voodoo 3 lasted longer than I thought; it was a wicked card for the time; no I'm sure it was replaced by something in the windows box and then i used it to upgrade the s3 in my bsd box; hum. Oh well.
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Anyone need an ancient s3 ?
 
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VeryCharBroiled

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Oct 6, 2008
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paradise ega card with 256k. did vga resolution (640x480) to a 14" NEC multisync. ran it in a columbia 8088 with an AST 6 pack card and a 30 meg RLL drive. and a soundblaster 8 bit ISA card.. real sound!!

couldnt list the rest if I tried. a few dozen, literally. right now 2 SLId GTX 285s in the game rig, HD4850 in the day to day rig, HD3870 in the HTPC.
 

ViperV990

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May 20, 2000
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Diamond Monster 3D II 8MB
Matrox Millenium G200
Voodoo Banshee
TNT2 non-Ultra
GeForce DDR
GeForce 4 Ti 4400
Radeon 9500 Pro
Radeon 9700 non-Pro
GeForce 6800 GT
GeForce 8800 GTS 320
Radeon HD 4870 1GB
Radeon HD 5870 1GB
 

Dadofamunky

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Jan 4, 2005
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I had the first ever ATI frame buffer card; it cost $600 (this was 25 years ago or so, can't EVEN remember what it was called). I had a succession of S3 "accelerator" cards for several years when I was writing computer reviews for small magazines and started getting review cards constantly. For a long time I never cared about video cards except as a 2D frame buffer. Then, not too long ago, I started getting more powerful 3D cards:

Diamond Stealth
NVidia 6800 Ultra (majorly sucked for the money I spent)
NVidia 7800GT
NVidia 7900GT
NVidia 9600GT
ATI 4850
to what is in my sig.
 

cebalrai

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May 18, 2011
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Nvidia Ti 4200
Nvidia fx 5500 (this card was a dawg)
Nvidia 6600 GT
Nvidia 7600 GS
Nvidia 8800 GTX w/SLI on a laptop
Radeon HD 5770 1 GB
 

tnt3k

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May 2, 2011
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nvidia 6600gt 256mb i forgot what brand... i think it started with a S
BFG nvidia 8800gts g92 512mb
PNY nvidia gtx460
Gigabyte nvidia gtx560ti