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Well, I'm gonna post as far back as I can remember...and my parents owned the first few of these. (I couldn't really buy a computer when I was 10...)

ATi Rage II something or other
Intel Extreme Graphics
Intel Extreme Graphics again (on my pos M305 notebook...)
eVGA Nvidia GeForce 7900GT-->Current...it makes me happy.
 
1. Trident **** 16mb (compaq desktop)
2. Geforce 2 Go 32mb
3. 6200 128mb (the jump was insane)
4. 7600gt 256mb pci-e
5. 8800gts 320mb (dont know why i didnt go mainstream this time)

also had an old hewlet packard from '95 but i dont know if it even qualified as a computer seeing as my cell phone has more power than that thing.
 
Voodoo 3dfX
GeForce 256
GeForceTi4600 (broked it with my big dumb gorilla hands 😳)
GeForceTi4400
Trident 16MB
GeForce "F$#@in' Xtreme!" 5900 XT
Radeon 9800
GeForce 6800 GTO (unlocked and OC'ed to Ultra)
Mobility 1300
GeForce 7800 GT 2X SLI
GeForce 7900 GT 2X SLI
Mobility 1800
Geforce 7900 GTO 2X SLI (EVGA Stepup)
GeForce 8800 GTX 2X SLI

Holy crap! That's a lot o' mula I done spent.

Almost all of them are still running in systems! Event the Geforce 256!
 
11. Geforce 4400
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Really? That one was pretty rare...how was it compared to the 4200Ti since I can't find any specs on it?

It was one step below the 4600... I think it had a slower clock on it. I loved that card because the value was so excellent--something like within 10% of top-of-the-line for 3/4 the price IIR. I think I picked it up for around $300 brand new (which is the price point I like to buy vid cards at :) )

Exactly. The 4400 had all the specs of the 4600, but ran around 20mhz slower. I seem to remember the 4600 running around $400 retail and the 4400 was around $250... so yea, great deal.
 
Matrox VGA 4MB
Diamond RIVA 128 (TNT2) 16MB
GeForce 2 MX 32MB
Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 (Kyro II) 64MB
GeForce 4 MX440 64MB
Radeon 9600PRO 128MB
Radeon 9800PRO 128MB
GeForce 6800GT OC 256MB

By summer: x2800PRO/XT or GeForce 8800GT/GTS
 
Heres all the graphics cards I've had,
Ati Rage Fury
Ati Radeon 7000
Ati Radeon 9700 Pro(All time fave, bought it when it first came out)
Nvidia Fx5200 (Horrible card, used it when my 9700 pro died as a placeholder)
Ati 9200(Hated the FX5200 so much, I put this in, doesn't make much sense looking back 😀 )
Ati X800 Pro(Died when my Power supply melted)
Ati X1300

Never realized I used that many ATI cards lol, and that FX5200 just reinforced that thinking I guess. I need to get an upgrade, this X1300 feels slower than the 9700 Pro.
 
Sticking to PC stuff.... (i.e. ignoring Atari 1040st, Commodore Amiga, etc.) In chronological order starting from 1989, as best as I can recall....

Hercules Monochrome 8bit ISA
CGA 8bit ISA
Paradise VGA 256k 16bit ISA
Trident 8900D 1MB 16bit ISA
Diamond Stealth VLB 1MB
STB Powergraph 128 2MB
Trident 9680 4MB PCI
S3 Trio64 4MB PCI
ATI Rage Mobility 4MB
* nVidia Riva TNT2 32MB AGP (EVGA)
nVidia Geforce2 MX200 32 MB AGP
nVidia Geforce2 MX400 64 MB AGP
ATI Rage II 3D PCI
nVidia Geforce MX420 64MB AGP
ATI Rage XL PCI
nVidia Geforce MX440 64MB AGP (Powercolor)
ATI Radeon 7500 32 MB AGP
nVidia Geforce FX5200 128 MB AGP
nVidia Geforce FX5600 128 MB AGP
*ATI 9200 64 MB AGP (FIC)
nVidia Geforce MX440 AGP 128MB
nVidia Geforce FX5200 128MB AGP silent passive cooling (EVGA)
ATI 9600xt 256 MB AGP (Diamond)
ATI 9600xt 128 MB AGP
* ATI 9800pro 256 MB AGP
==> converted to ATI 9800xt 256 MB with Arctic Cooler ATI silencer
* nVidia Geforce 6800gt 256MB AGP (EVGA)
nVidia Geforce 6600gt 128MB AGP (PNY)
* nVidia Geforce 6600gt 256MB AGP (MSI)
* ATI x850xt 256 MB AGP
ATI Radeon 7200 32 MB AGP
* nVidia Geforce 7600gs 256 MB PCI-E (PNY)
* nVidia Geforce 7600gs 256 MB PCI-E Silent Passive Cooling (EVGA)
* ATI x1950 pro 256 MB AGP (HIS)

* Cards currently in use

And some card were donations from friends, i.e. left over junk from helping them upgrade their machines. I'm sure I lost track of something, too many cards for too many machines.
 
1996 - Onboard IBM Aptiva, 2mb ATI Rage 128 (not sure about model #)
1999 - Onboard Dell L466c, 4mb probably Intel chipset
2000 - Voodoo 3 3000 16mb - $90
2001 - PowerColor Geforce 2 GTS Pro 64mb ~ $175
2003 - BFG Geforce 440MX 64mb (returned after 3 weeks) - $?, anything more than free was too much for this POS
2003 - BFG Geforce 4 TI4600 128mb - $230?
2005 - BFG Gefroce 5900XT (RMA'd the 4600 after the fan was dying) - FREE
2007 - Evga Geforce 8800 GTS 640mb (would have gone BFG <3, but was on a budget and Evga was $30 cheaper.) - $390
 
I was thing earlier how my nforce 2 based xp2500 system with a 9700 and 512 megs of memory was kick as back a few years ago, I spent many nights playing blades of darkness,max payne, and starlaner on that thing. My nephew now has a simiair system he has been adding to lately, xp2200,1gb memory, and a 6600 with 256 megs,, not a x2 but keeps him happy.
 
1. Nvidia vanta Lt 8mb
2. I have a rediculous amount of mid-late 90s graphics cards lying around. some are Diamond and some I've never heard of
2. Radeon 7000 64mb
3. Radeon 9600se 128mb
4. Radeon 9550 256mb
5. Nvidia 6200 integrated graphics (2 weeks)
6. Geforce 7900gt
7. plan to upgrade soon (8800 series?)
 
Too many to list......I have had intergrated and upgrade cards I bought second hand from some computer junk shop. My first real purchased card from a store was a....

1. Diamond 32mb stealth III S540...I think I had the PCI version.
2. Hercules Kyro II 64mb very decent card. first AGP card.
3. ATI 9100 64mb pretty good card. Close in power to the Ti's
4. Ti 4200 64mb and 128mb great over clockers.
5. 6200 128 mb was able to unlock to 8 pipes and over clock great.
6 6600GT nice card and fast but purchased it when it was really past its prime.
7. 6800 vanilla..still have it in a machine. Still works great.
8. X800GTO 256 unlocked and over clocked. Nice card.
9. Asus 7950GT 512mb very nice card and my first PCI-E card
10. PNY 7900GS 256 in my wifes computer. Nice card also PCI-E

Also had a few hand me downs from my brother. Ti 3 series and a Geforce 2. Lots of fun.............. :wink:
 
Oh--man, I can't remember anything clearly from that time. Honestly I never ever was a voodoo fan since I've never even seen one (except at a store, lol), so never knew what I missed. I hear they were the most awesomest cards on the planet at the time, though.

I notice nobody has mentioned Matrox cards or S3 Unichrome integrated graphics thus far...
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http://www.hwsw.hu/kepek/cikkek/323/voodoo5_5500AGP_1.jpg

I was a great buy, praticly new inside the box, for only 50€. Best card that 3dfx released for glide games ever.
 
the description for my vanta, which was mislabeled by compaq as a TNT2:

The NVIDIA Vanta™ is a low-cost, 128-bit TwiN Texel, highly integrated 3D graphics processor, designed specifically for value-conscious users.


mine was in a card?
 
Commodore 64 - whatever that video chip is...
Voodoo 2 - 8MB
Geforce 1 32MB
Geforce 2
Geforce 4 Ti 500 (?)
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon 9800 Pro (x2, one is still in my server)
Radeon X850 XT (bought a 24" monitor while I had this)
Geforce 7900 GT (upgrade to support 1920x1200 better)

6 Weeks later:

8800GTS 320MB (BFG OC Editioin)

Note: Using a rented Radeon 1950 Pro atm while my BFG is being RMA returned under warranty.
 
Rage 128 3D
Leadtek Geforce Ti4200 64Mb (great at the time - but died)
Sapphire Radeon 9600XT (worst thing I have ever owned)
EVGA Geforce 8800GTS 320Mb

That's not a lot of cards.

CPU:

Intel Celeron 400MHz (died within 3 months)
Intel Pentium II 350MHZ@400MHz
AMD 1.2GHz TB @75 degrees!
Athlon XP 2500+ Barton
Intel Core2 6300
 
Ok this list is going to be a little fuzzy, since im old and my memory fails me :wink:

1. S3 Virge (Had 3d in the name but oh how fooled i was.)
2. Ati Rage II (chose it for the name....)
3. VooDoo 2 3dfx
4. Riva Tnt 2 (a hand me down from a friend cause he felt sorry for me =))
5. Geforce 4 Ti 4200 (i think)
6. Ati x300(xl?) (just used it as a transition card between AGP and PCI-e, for a couple of weeks)
7. Ati x1600xt
8. nVidia 8800GTS 320MB (currently using and im satisfied, big upgrades ftw =)).

9. ? (Hopefully something fun, hehe)
 
I am gonna start with the best graphics chip ever.... in an 8 bit machine

VIC-II - Commodore 64

OK now moving on.... to the best in the late 80's / early 90's

OCS - Commodore Amiga 500
ECS - Commodore Amiga 3000

and now to the grafx I have used in x86 PC's ...

Voodoo 3 2000 (16 meg)
GeForce 256 (32 meg)
GeForce 2 (64 meg)
GeForce 4 TI4400 (128 megs)
GeForce 6600GT (128 megs)
GeForce 7600GT (256 megs) <--current

I got into the game late on my personal stuff -- used Amiga's exclusively at home up til 1999. Note no ATI stuff ... something about them struck me as bad. I would work on them at my shop and you would go to download drivers. It would take about 10 clicks just to get to them from ATI's site back then (1999 - 2003) ... maybe its better now. I also saw more blown ATI stuff come in than NVIDIA. and NVIDIA has served me well, so I will stay with them next upgrade.

Torgo
 
This and the CPU lineage are good threads! Makes me all nostalgic. Here goes...

ATI Rage 128
ATI All in Wonder 128
ATI 8500
ATI 9000 All In Wonder
ATI 9600
ATI 9600 All In Wonder
ATI 9600XT All In Wonder (currently in HTPC)
nVidia BFG 6800
nVidia EVGA 6800GT
nVidia PNY 6800GT Ultra
nVidia EVGA 7900GT (current gpu)

My next card will be a toss-up between the 8900 series and the R600, but waiting to see how the R600 benches and compares.
 
Funny, I'll do my best to remember.

1. Some old SIS with 1MB RAM, ISA slot
2. ATI Rage 128 with 16MB RAM, PCI slot (in my brother computer, mainly for internet browsing)
3. i810 (only for a brief period 😳 , altough my mother-in-law seems to be OK with it for internet browsing)
4. ATI Radeon 8500, 128MB, AGP 4X (about to replace my brother Rage 128 :wink: )
5. ATI Radeon 9800Pro, 128MB, AGP 8X (will go to my father with my old PC this upcoming week-end... for real)
6. Asus Radeon X1950Pro, 256MB, PCIe X16 (current one)

7. At the end of 2007, second refresh line of R600 or G80. The hard part for that one is gonna be to keep my income taxe return this long without spending it on more RAM or Intel 45nm line of CPU :twisted: .

I forgot, i910 on my Acer laptop.
 
256kb Trident ISA
2MB Crappy something Integrated
12MB Voodoo2 2000 PCI
16MB Voodoo3 3000 PCI
32MB TNT2 Vanta
64MB GeForce MX440 PCI
128MB ATI Radeon 9000 Pro AGP
256MB GeForce 7600GT PCIe
320MB GeForce 8800GTS PCIe <-current
 
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