1. Matrox Millennium II 8MB - This was a great card, but caused weird problems and wouldn't give me 3D (this was on my Mac)
2. ATI XClaim 3D 8MB (Rage II? I don't remember/care) - I got fed up with the Matrox card and got this. I first saw hardware accelerated 3D on this card and it was beautiful, even if it was really, really slow.
3. Creative Labs 3D Blaster Banshee 16MB - This came with my new Gateway PII 450 system (I became an ex-Mac user then) and it was silky smooth (way better than 3D on the 603e 180MHz with the ATI card anyway).
4. ATI Rage 128 16MB - My friend recommended this card. I should have shot him. It wasn't that fast and has never worked right. It is possessed by Satan. I've tried it two times several years after I bought it on my Dual PIII 450 system and my Athlon 850 system and it hasn't worked right on either one. Works fine in my friend's system though. Ironic, ain't it?
5. Voodoo 3 2000 16MB - This card was great! I got wicked fast, great-looking 3D from this card. And, I got stability back again.
6. TNT2 Ultra 32MB - 32-bit, fast 3D, stability, and TV-out made this card great, although I think I paid too much for it (wasn't enough better than the Voodoo3 to justify it's high price).
7. Matrox Millennium G200 8MB - I tried to give up on games and almost succeeded. I bought this card because of Matrox's reputation for good 2D. It had really sharp 2D, but unfortunatly it was just too slow (the 2D at 1280x1024x24 wasn't nearly fast enough). I'm not sure if I ever got 3D working properly, but I didn't really care at the time.
8. Voodoo 5 5500 64MB - Being out of school for the summer made my brain relax a bit and I got back into 3D gaming. The TNT2 Ultra just wasn't fast enough to give me what I needed on my 19" monitor, so I bought a V5. This card is still plenty fast and really, really stable. I've had no problems with it.
I'm considering giving up 3D gaming again and getting a Matrox Millennium G450. The 2D and Dual-head features of this card should be great and I'm assuming it'll be faster (2D wise) than the G200. Keeping up with current capabilities of 3D accelerators is just too darned expensive.