Post your videocard history.

[Silverforce11]

Matrox & ATI cards (from my 286 - 486), S3 Virge, Rendition Verite (my first true 3D card, it was better than the Voodoo), 3dfx Banshee, NV TNT2, NV Geforce 2, NV Geforce 4 TI, Radeon, Radeon 8500, Radeon 9700 Pro, Radeon 850XT, NV 8800 GTS, NV 8800 GT SLI, Radeon 4870, current setup.

Waiting for BF3 to release, then build a new eyeinfinity rig.

 

[Vdubchaos]

TI 4200
ATI 9600 pro
ATI 800xl
Nvidia 7900gt OC
Nvidia 9600gt (or some crap)
ATI 4870 512mb
Nvidia 460 Hawk

 

[StinkyPinky]

Voodoo / some random 2d card
Voodoo 2 / some 8mb Intel card
Voodoo 2 SLI / intel card
Geforce 2
Geforce 4 ti4200 64mb
Radeon 9600xt (i think)
Geforce 7600GT
Geforce 8800GT
Radeon 5850

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

what would be more interesting is if we listed the prices, or even remembered the prices, lol

Well, I remember most of them, but I just asked daddy to buy the first few

 

[werd]

s3 virge
3dfx voodoo3 2000 pci
nv geforce3 ti200
nv geforce4 ti4400
ati radeon 9700 p
nv 6800 gt (last agp card)
nv 7800 gtx512 oc (impulse buy, shouldve returned)
nv gtx 260 c216
nv gtx 480 (briefly, i returned it too expensive to keep)
ati hd 6950 2gb @6970

 

[blckgrffn]

Voodoo 2 12 MB!!!!! - OMG $$$
Geforce 2 MX onboard - original nForce in a beige Falcon Northwest Talon system
8500 64 MB - $130 new clearance @ BB - different drivers for different games! Things have gotten much better since 2003, right?
9500 Pro 64 MB - $130 new clearance @ BB, used for almost 2 years!
9800 Pro 128 MB - $80 used, Doom 3 caused me to sell it after about three months.
6800 128 MB - NewEgg, not sure - It rocked Doom3, which I hated and only used as performance benchmark.
6800U 256 MB - $400 (!!!), NewEgg
5900U 256 MB - $50 John Deere Swap Sheet (was in college and realized that I couldn't afford the entire rig the 6800U was in )
6600 256 MB - NewEgg, Passively cooled, ~$100 I think
7800 GT 256 MB - $345 new on launch day!
6800 GT 256 MB - ~$200 fs/ft (sold it later for $170, was defective on delivery, had to eat $170 loss )
6800 256 MB - ~$100 NewEgg
7900 GTO 512 MB - ~$230 NewEgg - used for almost a year!
3870 512 MB - $130 clearance @ BB (full circle!)
4830 512 MB - $70 fs/ft - used for almost two years!
4830 512 MB (xfire) - $60 fs/ft
5870 1GB - $200 Newegg

I got married and card purchases slowed down To be clear, this is only my main rig listing... Pretty sure there was an x800xt PE in there somewhere, I just don't remember where, exactly

 

[bryanW1995]

Reason # 23,712 why marriage should only be entered into with the utmost caution...

 

[blckgrffn]

Reason # 23,712 why marriage should only be entered into with the utmost caution...

Indeed! I am have been using the same motherboard for over three years! The horror!



There are perks... somedays

 

[blotto]

S3 Virge 2mb
Orchid 3Dfx Voodoo 1 4mb
Creative TNT 16mb
Geforce 256 SDR 32mb
Radeon LE 32mb
Radeon 8500 64mb
Radeon 9600xt 128mb
Geforce 6600GT 128mb
Geforce 6800GT 128mb
Geforce 8600GTS 256mb
Geforce 8800GT 512mb
Radeon 4850 512mb
Radeon 5750 512mb
Radeon 5870 1gb

 

[Topweasel]

Listing only those that have been used for primary desktop.

Creative 16MB TNT2
Creative 32MB TNT2
Creative Geforce DDR 32MB
Asus Geforce2 GTS Deluxe 32MB
Creative Geforce 2 Ultra 64MB
ATI Radeon 8500 AIW 64MB
ATI Radeon 9800XT 256MB
BFG Geforce 7800GTX 256MB
EVGA Geforce 7900GT 256MB
EVGA Geforce 8800GT 512MB
MSI Radeon 4870 1GB

 

[Emultra]

Gainward GeForce 2
Asus 6600GT
Asus 7600GT
MSI Hawk GTX 460
(soon to be, +1 Hawk for SLI)

 

[lifeblood]

Hmm, I'm trying to do my list but I can't remember what video card my TRS-80 had. If we count only x86 PC's, anyone remember what the Compaq Luggable used?

 

[Martimus]

Hmm, I'm trying to do my list but I can't remember what video card my TRS-80 had. If we count only x86 PC's, anyone remember what the Compaq Luggable used?

I had one of those (Compaq Luggable). It had a Hercules CGA video card if I recall correctly. I know it was CGA, not sure whatever brand made it though.

Mine had a 10MB HDD, with 640kB of RAM, along with two 5.25" floppy drives. The processor was an 8088.

 

[dlamb2471]

Quick observation on trends...most of the long timers all started on 3DFX (how couldn't you?). Most everyone avoided ATI until the 9000 series. And thankfully most everyone avoided the Nvidia 5000 series.

 

[AdamK47]

Trident 512KB
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3x GTX 580s in 3-way SLI

 

[QuantumPion]

EGA (286)
VGA (286 - biggest upgrade ever! )
Various 2d cards, can't remember them specifically
Matrox Millennium
Voodoo 1
Voodoo 2
Voodoo 3
Geforce
Geforce 2 Ultra
Geforce Ti4200
Geforce 5900 (worst one ever)
Geforce 6800 GT
Geforce 7900 GT
Geforce 8800 GTX (most expensive ever, also biggest performance increase)
Geforce 285 GTX
Radeon 5870 (water-cooled. Plagued by constant driver problems. Can't wait to go back to Nvidia ASAP with next gen card)

 

[magomago]

s3 savage 4 32 meg 80 USD
geforce2 gts-v 32meg 50 USD
geforfce4mx 64meg 60 USD (only b/c i wanted s video out)
geforce4 ti4800 128meg 100 USD
geforce 7600gt 200 USD (AGP version)
geforce 7900gs 130 USD (woot deal)
geforce 8800gt 65 USD used
2x gtx460 90USD each

dang i didn't realize i'm a nv fanboy...but almost every card i recommended to others has been ati/amd

 

[nismotigerwvu]

in the 3d era....
rage pro
voodoo 2 (later SLI'd)
radeon 8500
radeon 9800 pro
x850xt
4850

 

[Idontcare]

I'd be doing good if I could just remember the relative ordering and years of when I owned cards by a given vendor (matrox/NV/ATI)...am just amazed at you guys that can actually remember the specific make and model of your cards going back however far in history.

 

[sandorski]

Just remembered I had a Diamond Viper Savage 2000 in between the Voodoo2 and Voodoo5 5500, IIRC. The best Video Card ever made....that only worked properly for 2 Games, UT and Q3.

 

[jiffylube1024]

I'm another chronic upgrader/tinkerer. Here's what I can remember:

Voodoo 3 16GB AGP
ATI Radeon DDR
ATI Radeon 7500
ATI Radeon 8500 - bought new, ~$110. Was a steal at the time. Driver updates over its life gave it like 30% more performance, or more.
MSI GeForce 3 Ti 200 - bought it brand new, retail. Paid something like $200-250.
GeForce 4 Ti 4200 - bought used off AT. forget price.
GeForce 4 Ti 4800SE
ATI 9700 Pro
ATI 9800 Pro
ATI X800 XT - bought new near launch like $250+.
ATI X850 XT PE
ATI X1900 XT
Nvidia 6600GT (yes, a downgrade - stopped gaming for a bit)
Nvidia 7800GT
Nvidia 7900GT
Nvidia 8800GT - bought new near launch like $250+.
Sapphire ATI 3870 - bought used, ~$100
ATI 4850 - bought used, ~$150
ATI 5770 - traded for it. Stopgap card, ended up wanting more power.
Gigabyte GTX 460 768MB - bought brand new at launch, $190 Canadian after rebate plus tax. ~$215 tax in. Sold it for $135 6 months later because I got a good deal on a 6870.
Sapphire ATI 6870 - bought used, ~$200


I'm definitely leaving some out, but this is off the top of my head, just by remembering and looking at lists of ATI and Nvidia present and past GPU's.

 

[pandemonium]

Well, this should be interesting since I have a hard time remembering what I did yesterday. I had to employ the assistance of Newegg History to get this together - haha.

Rage 128 (my very first build; lasted 4 years)
OEM Radeon 9800 SE 128MB (used for 3 years, then my backup. borrowed to a friend who is still using this card 8 years after I bought it!)
EVGA GeForce 6600GT 128MB (lasted 1 year then died)
EVGA GeForce 6600GT 128MB (lasted 2 years then died)
2x MSI HD4830 1GB (2 years current, 1 is being sent in for RMA)

 

[Anarchist420]

My parents' 2nd PC came with an nvidia Riva 128 (STB velocity before STB was acquired by 3dfx) chipset and Turok looked so shitty and unfiltered that it literally made me cry. Due to that, my parents agreed to add a 3Dfx (later 3dfx, with a lower-case "d") Voodoo2 chipset (Diamond Monster 3D II 8 MB). We had that setup for four years from 5/98 to 3/02.

In 2002, I got a Hypersonic PC of my own with an ATi 9700 Pro. However, I was the only person in the world who hated the 9700 Pro, so I upgraded to a Geforce FX 5900 Ultra the following spring (2003), then in the late spring/early summer 04 I upgraded to a 6800 GT (evga board). By late 06, the HSF was too clogged up with dust, so my parents bought me a Biohazard PC in late 06 with 2 8800 GTXs, and something in that died after I had it for less than 2 months. 8 months, after that, I decided to build my own, which included an 8800GT that died, followed by another 8800 GT that also died with the whole system, presumably since I was an amateur builder at the time and didn't really build it right (it was always pretty unstable). About a year after that, in 9/2009, built a second PC, and it's been workly perfectly fine 1.5 years now, as I learned from my mistakes after fooling with/building my first. I started with a 9800 GTX+ (eVGA, reference) and now have a GTX 460 768MB (Asus, reference).

Since I only have a Socket AM2+ mobo and that's limited to AMD 45nm processors, I'm considering upgrading to SB, but I'm not going to upgrade anything else. I'd be fine if I could find an 8GB kit of really low latency DDR2 RAM and if AMD had a 32nm Phenom II X4 (3.2 GHz cores) with ~3 GHz L3 cache that fit into an AM2+ mobo, but they don't, so I'm thinking about upgrading to SB.

 

[wwswimming]

not built, but bought -
1985, original IBM PC, must have had MGP card
1988, 286 with 10 MB RAM & $4000 video card with Z-buffer running
a highly functional 3D-solid modelling ap named "Aries" ... highly
functional as in, you could build industrial strength models and bill
customers for the work. had to work hard for that system.


1990, 286 with MGP card or VGA, can't remember
1990, 386 with VGA card, Windows 3
...etc.

need more coffee to answer this question.

 

[bryanW1995]

s3 savage 4 32 meg 80 USD
geforce2 gts-v 32meg 50 USD
geforfce4mx 64meg 60 USD (only b/c i wanted s video out)
geforce4 ti4800 128meg 100 USD
geforce 7600gt 200 USD (AGP version)
geforce 7900gs 130 USD (woot deal)
geforce 8800gt 65 USD used
2x gtx460 90USD each

dang i didn't realize i'm a nv fanboy...but almost every card i recommended to others has been ati/amd

thanks for the reminder, I had an s3 savage 4 as well. Amazing what you forget when you get older!