Post your videocard history.

[bryanW1995]

voodoo 3
geforce 2 gts
geforce 4200
9800 pro
6600 gt *
7600 gt
7300 gt fanless *
x1950xt
3870
4850
gtx 260 core 216 *
gtx 460 768 *
gtx 260 "classic" *
9600 gso *


* = I'm still using it or still have (in the case of the 7300gt) in the closet as an emergency card. fan died 5 yrs ago or so on the 6600gt, that's what really started my whole "upgrade every 6-9 months" saga, but I eventually installed a new fan and it's ended up being my longest-running card.

 

[randomlinh]

S3 card.. can't remember exactly, but it touted awesome compression techniques to achieve higher quality textures.
TNT2
Gefore2
8800GT

next, probably the 6850 when I can nab it for under $150 without rebates.

 

[bryanW1995]

Wow I'm special

3dfx Voodoo 3
ATI x850 xt
Nvidia 8600GT
AMD Radeon 5850HD

Not many people are gonna beat my short list.

and it could have been even shorter since the 8600 gt wasn't much of an upgrade on the x850 xt, anyway. you must have been somewhat excited when that 5850hd showed up.

 

[etrigan420]

Mine's easy...

ATi Rage 128
Elsa Gladiac Geforce 2 Ultra
ATi Radeon 9700AIW
BFG 7800GTX
Asus ATi 4850...then later added another for crossfire
Asus 6870 Direct CU

I still have all of them except the Gladiac. The fan stopped spinning and it dieded. :'(

 

[legolasthearcher]

Trident VESA
Diamond Monster 3D
Diamond Monster 3D II
Creative GeForce 256
GeForce 4 Ti 4200
GeForce FX 5200 (What a crap card)
Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB
GeForce 8800GT 512MB
Radeon HD 6950 2GB

 

[SHAQ]

Nvidia only since 2003.

5900
6800GT
7800GTX
7800 512
7900GTX
8800GTS 640
8800GT
9800GX2
GTX 260 SLI
GTX 295
GTX 470 SLI

 

[nyker96]

voodoo 3
geforce 2 gts
geforce 4200 Ti
6600 gt *
7900 gs
8800GT
HD 4850
GTX460/768mb

 

[bryanW1995]

Mine's easy...

ATi Rage 128
Elsa Gladiac Geforce 2 Ultra
ATi Radeon 9700AIW
BFG 7800GTX
Asus ATi 4850...then later added another for crossfire
Asus 6870 Direct CU

I still have all of them except the Gladiac. The fan stopped spinning and it dieded. :'(

it's funny how on the older cards the fan was almost an afterthought. when my fan died on the 6600gt, it still ran ok unless I really pushed it. when I did that it still ran, but it started to artifact after awhile. these days when the fan dies your card will fry (at least if it's in sweden...)

 

[Cerb]

it's funny how on the older cards the fan was almost an afterthought. when my fan died on the 6600gt, it still ran ok unless I really pushed it. when I did that it still ran, but it started to artifact after awhile. these days when the fan dies your card will fry (at least if it's in sweden...)

I still have my fluid bearing Nidec Gamma 28 that I bought at RS to cool my Voodoo2! Still works like a charm, too. Most of the time, the video card will have many problems, and throttle itself, before it fries...at least today, assuming you don't have the wrong nVidia driver version .

 

[SZLiao214]

S3 Virge something
Geforce 2 gts
x700
7900gt (died)
3850
4870
Ati 6850 (died 2nd day i owned it)
470

 

[Concillian]

Hercules EGA something
Orchid VGA something (these were a LONG time ago, give me a break on not remembering model)
Tseng Labs ET4000
Tseng ET6000
^ coupled with Orchid branded 3Dfx Voodoo
^ Orchid 3Dfx Voodoo replaced under warrantee
3dlabs something? Or permedia 2? some company that didn't last long.
Riva TNT2
Geforce 256
Geforce 2
4200Ti
Geforce 5900 (major stinker)
9700 pro
x800XT
7800GT
4850
5770
waiting on 28nm.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Athlon 1GHz:

Whitebox TNT M64 c. fall, 2000. $30. Bad artifacting when playing most games.

Replaced GPU with Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 (Kyro II)

Upgraded to Athlon XP 2400+

Replaced GPU with Radeon 8500LE

Replaced GPU with Radeon 9600XT in 2004.

Built new LGA 775 system (lower-end Pentium D) in 2006 in order to get PCI-E.

PNY nVidia 7900GS 256MB

Upgraded CPU to Q6600 in 2007

Replaced 7900 with GTS 250 1GB when GPU died in December, 2009.

 

[mchammer187]

Elsa GeForce 2 GTS
ATI Radeon 8500
ATI Radeon 9700
ATI Radeon 9800
Nvidia Geforce 6800 GTO
BFG Geforce 7800 GTX OC
Gigabyte Geforce 8800 GTS

 

[sandorski]

Who has had the largest performance increase from one card to another? I went from a Radeon 9600XT 256mb to a GeForce 8800GTS 640. The GeForce was ridiculously fast compared to the Radeon. I think it was 3 generations ahead.

Virge dx--->Voodoo2

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

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

 

[JRW]

Might be forgetting a card or 2 but this is what I remember:

-Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo 1 (Most amazing / drastic PC upgrade, during a time when Quake 1 MP popularity was peaked and CRTs were the norm, Seeing Quake running on the voodoo card for the first time was jaw dropping)

-TNT 2 Ultra 32mb primary card + 2x Diamond Monster 3D II Voodoo2 24MB SLI (Amazing combo at the time, Reminds me of playing a lot of Descent 2 which ran better on the TNT2 due to TNT's strong D3D performance, Unreal ran superb on V2 SLI)

-Geforce 3 64mb

-Geforce 4 TI4200

-ATI 9800 Pro (My first and only ATI card, No real complaints it was a solid card)

-PNY Geforce 6800 GT 256MB

-EVGA Geforce 7800 GTX 512mb (Very solid card, had a 100mhz faster core & memory clockspeed vs. the 256mb models, I ran this card for years even skipping the Geforce 8 series.)

-EVGA Geforce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked

-EVGA Geforce GTX 480 (bought this during the 1st week of launch, it has been great so far and no problems with overheating)

 

[etrigan420]

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

I bought the Rage instore at a CompUSA, and honestly have no recollection of how much I paid for it.

Looking at old invoices...

9700AIW from Newegg 2/21/2003 for $389
BFG 7800GTX from MWave 1/28/2006 for $499 o)
Asus 4850 (the first one) from Newegg 6/27/2008 for $199.99
Asus 4850 (the second one) from ebay 4/18/09 for $73.00
Asus 6870 Direct CU from Newegg 3/9/2011 for $219.99 (-$20 MIR)

 

[bryanW1995]

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

Ha, I think that the most I paid was $225 for my 3870 on launch day, but I sold my x1950xt for ~ $100 at the same time so it didn't hurt so much. almost always seem to end up in the $150-$200 range other than that one time.

 

[Cerb]

Virge dx--->Voodoo2

Mechwarrior 2...running slower than with pure software rendering on a Virge. Ah, the good old days. I think Virge -> GF2 beats that jump, though.

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

Hmm...
Virge: $25 cash, of my dad's money.
Voodoo2: $209, shipped, and the first PC component I bought brand new with my own money.
GF2: $132 shipped.
GF4: $170 shipped.
Radeon 9x00: all about $170.
5900XT + ZM80 (yes, you read correctly, and no, it was not easy keeping it cool): around $210 shipped, maybe $215 (I ordered with many other things, and took advantage of Newegg shipping cost weirdness to save some money, so it's hard to pin down exactly).
7300GT: $38 shipped.
7800GT: actually, I made money on this one (7800GT SLI died after around 2.5 years, replaced it with a single card, then stress tested both cards and found one was A-OK, instead of just trashing them).
GTX 460: $230 shipped.

 

[Red Hawk]

*oblivion of integrated graphics*
Geforce 7300 GT
Mobility Radeon HD 5470
Geforce 9800 GT

 

[edm]

Diamond Viper TNT2 Ultra 32mb
geforce 2 gts
geforce 4 200 Ti
ATI 9700 PRO
ATI AIW x800 xt
GTX260

The tnt2 was the most I ever paid for a card. Since it was my first real build, I bought the latest and greatest at the time. I think it was around $400, maybe a little more. After seeing how fast it went from top of the line to middle of the pack, I've always bought a generation behind ever since.

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[sandorski]

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

hmm, I'll try to remember

ATI Graphics Solution $300ish(1988/9)
STB Blackmagic 12mb Voodoo 2 $280ish
Voodoo 5 5500 $190ish
9600 Pro $180ish
9800 Pro $180ish
x800xl $180ish
7900GS Free(friend hand me down)
4850 $150ish
5870 $239

 

[linje]

3DFX monster fusion
Riva tnt 2 ultra, X2
geforce 256, X2
Kyro 2, X2 (anyone remember these ?)
geforce 2 gtx?, X2
geforce 3 Ti somthing, X2
geforce 4 ti 4200, X4 had to send them all back to gainward for repairs.(anyone remember that mess?)
geforce 6600b gt, X4 (had to replace 4200's because of battlefiled 2)
geforce 7900gt, X2
geforce 8800gts 640mg, X2
geforce 9600gt, X2
geforce 9600gso
ati 4850, X2
ati 4870
ati 6850, X2

Lot's of video card's lol

 

[jfunk]

lol...this is probably screwed up, but off the top of my head.

1. A long list of nothing that ever mattered much as long as it wasn't a "windows accelerator"
2. Diamond Monster 3D (Voodoo1) - MW2 and QuakeWorld: OMFG!!!!
3. Intel i740
4. Radeon DDR 32
5. GF3 Ti200
6. Radeon 9700 Pro
7. 7800GT
8. 8800GT

I might have missed some in there. There were some TNT 1 & 2 cards and Voodoo2 cards in there that I used at work at a computer store but never personally owned back around that i740.

 

[nitromullet]

No one here (thats paid with their own money) has had all the high end cards I have except for Appopin and he's getting those cards for free.
I'll start from here
Evga GTX 260 216
Evga GTX 280
Sapphire 5850
Evga GTX 470
Sapphire 5870
Evga GTX 460 768mb
Evga GTX 460 1GB Sc external exhaust
MSI GTX 480
Reference Asus GTX 580
And current card is Asus direct 2 CU GTX 580
Also have a 9800gtx in a second rig.

Well, if we're gonna compare e-peen...

Evga GTX 260 216 - had the original 65nm and a GTX 275 55nm
Evga GTX 280 - had two in SLI
Sapphire 5850 - had a 5870
Evga GTX 470 - had two in SLI
Sapphire 5870 - had one
Evga GTX 460 768mb - mid range
Evga GTX 460 1GB Sc external exhaust - mid range
MSI GTX 480 - opted for GTX 470 SLI instead
Reference Asus GTX 580 - had two EVGA 580s, sold the second one NIB
And current card is Asus direct 2 CU GTX 580 - nice card
Also have a 9800gtx in a second rig. - had a 9800GX2

(I buy all my own cards too)