Get to know Viral Marketers through Hardware History.

[skipsneeky2]

6200le agp <this card got me into gaming and somewhat playing BF2 my first pc game.
7800gs agp
8800gts 512mb
gtx280 1gb
gtx295
gtx580 <this card and rig went poof due to pos thermaltake psu.
6790 <had this card less then a week
7850 <replaced 6790 with this
gtx650 non ti 1gb <got this cause the 7850 fried
gtx770 2gb

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I suppose the premise of the thread is, assuming people self-report honestly, members with heavily biased card histories are more likely to be viral marketers. Of course the whole thing is tongue-in-cheek but whatever.

Main rig progression:

Triton 2D something
Intel IGP 8200 something
Permedia Labs 3Dextreme
Geforce MX200
Geforce Ti 4600
Radeon 9800
Radeon X800
Geforce 7900
Radeon 4850 512mb
Radeon 5770 1Gb
Geforce 460Ti 1gb
Radeon 7950 3gb (current)

Secondary/Wifey's rig:

Geforce 7950 512Mb
Geforce 8200
Geforce 8800GTS 320Mb (beast of a card, SIMS3 like a boss nowadays)
Radeon 5770 (different than card above)

So there it is. Brown team ovah here!

 

[bononos]

Trident CGA isa
Trident 8xxx (or was it 9xxx?) VGA 512k isa (I finished x-wing1 with this)
Trident 9680 1Mb
S3 Virge
Creative Labs TNT2
Geforce MX2 (or was it 4?)
....

I can't remember what sort of bus (vlb/pci/agp?) and the vram size the last 2-3 cards had.

Edit-
I had a SB16 isa (first sound card) around the time of the Trident 8xxx.

 

[blackened23]

I hope you had a soundblaster AWE32 to complement those later cards.

(back when sound cards had meaningful and HUGE differences between each other. They still do, but not as much as they did before!)

 

[NIGELG]

This is a dumb thread title but I'll bite....

Geforce 4 MX 440....YUCK!!!

Built by Ati Radeon 9800 Pro

Geforce 6200 LE.......Yuck!!!

EVGA Geforce 8800 GTS

Powercolor Ati Radeon 4850

Sapphire Ati Radeon 5850

Sapphire AMD Radeon 7970 Dual X OC

 

[Meghan54]

Well, the answer to who the possible "viral marketers" may be isn't from looking at people's buying history, but by the reactions to the 290X release, seen in this thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2346519

Should be quite obvious once you read "43dB can cause hearing damage" and associated FUD.

 

[Keysplayr]

Well, the answer to who the possible "viral marketers" may be isn't from looking at people's buying history, but by the reactions to the 290X release, seen in this thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2346519

Should be quite obvious once you read "43dB can cause hearing damage" and associated FUD.

I hope to be hearing from you when the 780Ti launches. Then we can safely determine if you are as neutral as you claim to be.
I agree that there is tremendous FUD being spread. So tired of it from both sides.

 

[spat55]

This Rig is the first one I have had, only upgraded from one to two HD 7850s when I got a 1440p monitor, was using my TV before...

 

[jackstar7]

I hope to be hearing from you when the 780Ti launches. Then we can safely determine if you are as neutral as you claim to be.
I agree that there is tremendous FUD being spread. So tired of it from both sides.

It'll certainly be exciting if nV can put out a product and price it effectively to impact the market after now seeing what the 290X brings (both good and bad) and then see if the 290 (sans X) messes with nV's plans at all...

There's still plenty more to see before the market settles. But I think everyone should be pleased that all the cries of more than $700! for the 290X were all way off.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Everyone on this forum is a viral marketer, every single poster both past and present, including you. You just don't know it yet. :|

At least you understand the thread title.

The entire purpose of this thread is to point out how completely retarded anyone that calls someone a viral marketer on these forums is. If you post in VC&G you have been called a shill, or a viral marketer at some point in time. It's hilarious.

 

[ElFenix]

matrox millenium 4 mb wram + canopus voodoo 6 mb (overclocked!)
voodoo 2500 (played quake3 on that bad boy)
geforce 256 sdr
geforce 3 ti 200
radeon 9800 pro
radeon x800 pro (side-grade for first pci-e setup)
radeon x1900xt
radeon 4870
radeon 7950


the 4870 got pretty long in the tooth.


thinking about xfire with these blowout 7950s around.

 

[tonyfreak215]

Had something older, something paired with my Pentium 1 at 90mhz. I was clueless with computers at the time; I remember overclocking it and it hitting 100C before it shut down due to heat. It ran for 5 minutes without a cpu cooler one time; was pretty robust.

S3 Savage 3D-Pentium 3
Geforce 3 ti200-Pared with Athlon XP 3200
Ati HD3850-AGP-Same Athlon XP 3200
Ati HD4870-Q9550
Nvidia GTX 260 core 216-Q9550
AMD HD6970-Q9550, now currently in my i7.

 

[bigboxes]

Holy necro Pariah. Guess I missed this one when it was originally posted.

ATI Radeon 64 VIVO
ATI 9800 Pro (flashed to 9800 XT)
ATI X800 GTO
AMD HD 4890 OC
Nvidia GTX 970
Nvidia GTX 950 (in HTPC)

Had another Nvidia that was cheap. Kept it around to troubleshoot PCIe cards. I was still running AGP in my main rig at the time.

 

[casiofx]

Lets continue on:

S3 Savage 4
Geforce 2 MX400
Radeon 9000
Radeon 9800 Pro
(Then became console peasant)
Radeon HD5670
Radeon HD7870
Radeon R9 290
Geforce GTX1070

In between i've owned few of these too
Lappy hd3000
Lappy GT520M
HD5830 (not used by me)

Funny thing is, the happiest GPU i've ever got was the HD5670

 

[Jackie60]

To add to previous list
290 trifire
295x2 Quadfire
980Ti SLI
Titan XP SLI

 

[dogen1]

My first PC was a pentium 133 that I played Jedi Knight on. I have no idea if it had a 3D card, I probably played in software, which is pretty awesome.

GF 4 MX 440 - first real 3D card. played a lot of jedi outcast on this baby
Radeon 9200
GF FX 5500 iirc, it wasn't much faster, if at all
Radeon X800 Pro this was a HUGE upgrade
GF 7900 GS
GF 8800 GT - another huge upgrade
Radeon 4870 - Got it on a really good sale. Only lasted about a week, but it was fast
GF GTS 250 - Instead of a replacement I got my money back and bought this! What was I thinking??
GF GTX 460
GF GTX 560 TI bought this one used
GF GTX 660 The 560 was fine for everything I played.. don't know why I bought this
GF GTX 950 was having issues with the 660 so I bought this. underrated gpu for the time imo

 

[n0x1ous]

ATI:
X700
4670
4770
7970 CF
R9 290 CF
Fury X
RX 480

Nvidia:
8800 GTS 640 SLI
GTX 260 C216 Tri-SLI
GTX 480 SLI
GTX 670 SLI
GTX 780 SLI
GTX 980ti SLI

 

[Headfoot]

Some dumpy 2d card I cant remember (Matrox maybe?)
ATi 9700 Pro All In Wonder (awesome card which I kept forever)
8800 GTS 320mb SLI (shoulda gone 640, still this setup flew for a while. Got it to play Command and Conquer 3)
GTX 260
GTX 560 Ti
HD 7950
R9 290 -> R9 290 CF

 

[Phynaz]

Hercules:
Hercules Graphics Adapter

IBM:
CGA
EGA
8514
VGA

S3:
Number 9 968
Virge something

Tseng:
ET4000

3DFX:
Voodoo 1
Voodoo 2

ATI:
Rage 128
Rage Fury
Wonder
X850
47xx
5770
6850
7770
7850
9700

Nvidia:
TNT2
GTX 660
GTX 960
GTX 1070


Edit: Just found a 6850 on the shelf I had forgotten about.

 

[Det0x]

My self-bought GPU's for my main gaming rig:

Geforce 2 MX (400?)
Geforce 3 "something"
Geforce 4 "something"
Geforce GTX 6800 Ultra
Geforce 8800 GTS
Radeon 5870
Radeon 7970
Radeon 7970 1ghz edition
Geforce 980

Future Radeon Vega

Media computer:

Radeon 6670 iSilence

 

[PPB]

Cant remember the gpu on my PI MMX --> Cant remember the iGP used on the Pcchips mobo with soldered Athlon XP 2800+ --> FX5200 (yeah, worst buy in entire GPU history) --> HD 4670 --> HD5670 --> HD 5850 RMA'd to a 6850 --> 7950 boost --> 760 traded for that 7950 --> 960 --> RX 470.

 

[Snarf Snarf]

I can't remember what I had before my PC gaming sabbatical that lasted from XBox to 360. I do remember
3DFX Voodoo 2
NVidia TNT2
Long break or bad memory...
GTX 260
GTX 560ti
GTX 780
GTX 980ti

Something tells me it's time to buy some red

 

[thecoolnessrune]

PNY GeForce 4 MX 420
NVIDIA 8400M GS
AMD 5770

That's it. Never had the fortune growing up to buy expensive cards, and now that I'm an adult, I feel guilty anytime I play a video game. Want to break the habit, but there's a lot more things I want my money to go to first.

 

[master_shake_]

gaming rig gpu's

radeon 9200
radeon x1650
nvidia 8800 gt sli
nvidia 9800gtx+ 3 way sli
nvidia gtx 260 core 216 3 way sli
radeon hd 4890 crossfire
radeon hd 6870 crossfire
radeon hd 6970 crossfire
radeon hd 7970 crossfire
nvidia gtx 780 sli
nvidia gtx 980 sli

gpu's i've also owned.

5x gtx 670
2x gtx 680
gts 450
3x gtx 480
2x 8500gt
gt220
2x r9 280x
2x gtx 470
hd 5850
hd 5870

 

[NomanA]

This is a memory test.

Hercules CGA (Close to 30 years ago..!!)

Ahead VGA Wizard Deluxe (256k RAM - Saved for this card and VGA monitor for months) I think this was 1990 or 91. No one I knew at the time had a VGA monitor, and people would come look at Prince of Persia, Test Drive, Wing Commander, Links and some Access adventure games, and couldn't believe that PCs could do that.

Paradise VESA Local Bus graphic card (512KB)
TSeng ET4000 based graphic card
Matrox Millenium
Orchid Righteous 3D II (Voodoo2 12 MB version)
Dynamite TNT (nvidia Riva TNT)
Radeon 7200 DDR (32MB)
Radeon 8500 AIW (another PC) (64MB)
Radeon 9800 Pro
Radeon X1900XT
Geforce 8800GT
Geforce GT240
Radeon HD4850 (first 1GB card)
Radeon HD6950 (first 2GB card)
Radeon 7950 (first 3GB card)
Radeon 7950 (crossfire)
Geforce 970 (first 4GB card.. umm.. yeah)
Radeon R9 290
Radeon RX 470 8GB (first 8GB card)