Tell Your PC Graphics History + CPU at the time

[Buk]

Late 70's - TRS80 Model 1, monochrome
Early 80's - TRS80 Model 3, still monochrome
Mid 80's - IBM AT, still monochrome (at work, when they decided it was obsolete I carried it home)
Late '98 - P2-350 w/Diamond G460 (Intel 740) 8 meg
'99 - Voodoo 2 12 meg
'00 - C300A @ 450 then C366@550 w/ Voodoo 3 3K
'01 - C533A @ 800 w/ V3-3k
'02 - P4-1.5 Willamette w/ GF2-GTS 32 meg
now - P4-1.6A @ 2.13 w/ GF2-GTS 32 meg

Need a better vid card and can't decide between GF4 or Radeon.......................

 

[CrackRabbit]

94-96 486SX-33 Cirrus Logic 54xx
96-99 K6-166 Paradise Pipeline 64, Hercules Stingray 3d (Voodoo Rush board)
99-01 Celery 400 Voodoo3 2000, Diamond Viper 770 Ultra got the last one on the shelves of these when they were still new
01 Athlon 600 3d Prophet 4000
01 Athlon 1ghz Hercules 3d Prophet DDR,Radeon 64 DDR, Radeon LE
02 Duron 800 Nforce Intigrated Video

 

[murphy55d]

AMD k6 166 or 150 I forget exactly which, with some kinda crappy onboard video.

moved to a P2 350 with a 16MB Voodoo Banshee from Creative

Eventually upgraded the Banshee to an ELSA GF2 MX

Upgraded entire system except for graphics card

now using system listed in my sig, T-Bird 1.4 with a GeForce 3 Ti200.

 

[StattlichPassat]

[1999] AMD K6-2 400MHz, ATI Xpert98 8MB AGP Rage128
[2000] AMD Athlon 700MHz, ATI All-In-Wonder 32MB AGP Rage128
[2001] AMD Athlon 1.2GHz, GeForce2 GTS/Pro 32MB AGP (current)

[late-2002] AMD Athlon XP 2000+, same graphics card (not a gamer)

 

[Ronin13]

1996: P133 with a Matrox Mystique 4Mb (my first PC, build this to play Diablo - and later: WarCraft II)

1999: PII 400 with a STB Velocity 4400 TNT 16Mb (for Half Life, Thief, System Shock 2, Homeworld, Baldur's Gate, Torment, etc.)

2001: Upgraded the TNT to a Creative Labs 3D Blaster GeForce2 GTS 32Mb (this is my current system, even though I'm still on a PII 400 it plays Max Payne, RTCW and Dungeon Siege with decent frame rates)

2002: P4 2.0A with a VisionTek GeForce4 Ti 4400 128Mb (the rig I will be building sometime this month...)

~R

 

[Acanthus]

AMD K6-2 450 & Integrated
Intel Pentium 3 550e@733 - Geforce 256
Intel Pentium 3 700e@933 - Geforce 256
Intel Pentium 3 700e@933 - Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
AMD Athlon AYHJA0 1400@1466 - Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
AMD Athlon AYHJA0 1400@1630 - Geforce 3 Ti500
Intel Pentium 4 2000@3000 - Geforce 3 Ti500
(Future rig) Intel Pentium 4 2000@3000 - NVIDIA Eclipse (fall)

 

[CrazySaint]

~89/90:
Atari 2600
Atari XE
IBM XT with 640k RAM+EGA color graphics
286 12MHz W/1MB RAM+VGA color graphics
I mostly played Commander Kelly and Duke Nukem (the original version, advertising over 1MB of graphics!)
I loved that box, it was solid as a rock and ran like a dream (believe it or not, I actually got videos to run on that sucker!) I squeezed all the life out of it, I could.
I finally boxed it up and put it in storage. I didn't get another computer for a few years.

1998:
Pionex PII-350 96MB of RAM, an 11GB HD, 17" monitor, and Intel i740 8MB AGP graphics.
Boy, was I happy to finally have a current PC! I was able to get decent frame rates on that setup on most games until sometime last year.
Exceptions were Q3 (which was way too dark for some reason) and UT (which would only run in a tiny window.

Late 2001:
Same setup as above, except I upgraded to 160MB of RAM, and bought a ATI Radeon LE 32MB DDR, tweaked & OC'd to retail Radeon 32MB specs.
Wow, what a difference that made in the newer games! I was finally able to run 3DMark2001, and get decent performance on Operation Flashpoint!
That's the setup I'm running right now.

Future (in the next month or two):
Athlon XP (Palomino, possible a TBred) 1800+
Atleast 256MB DDR RAM
Abit NV7-133R nForce 415-D board (most likely)
Maxtor DiamandMax D740X 60GB 7200 RPM HD (maybe the "Quiet Drive" version)
19" monitor
ATI Radeon LE 32MB DDR

I'll upgrade the video card when I find a game I want to play that won't run at acceptable FPS on my current card. That may happen this fall, when Raven Shield comes out.

 

[wfbberzerker]

1994) 66mhz with onboard graphics (forget brand)
1998) dell p3-500mhz and tnt2 (viper v770)
1999) upgrade video card to voodoo5 5500
2001) 1.3ghz athlon w/ radeon LE
2002) upgrade video card to radeon 8500

 

[Degenerate]

<< Mines reeaaaalllly short: >>



Mine's even shorter.
a 486 DX 100. with god knows what...
A 166mhz laptop with Neo Magic 128 XD
P3 600Mhz. DDR 256

 

[ObiDon]

I'll just stick to my primary system and PC compatibles to keep it short

Whatever is built onto Compaq Deskpro 3/25i (not sure on model) - Intel Overdrive DX2/50
SiS 6326 4MB - Cyrix PR150
SiS 6326 4MB - AMD K6-2/266
Matrox M3D (Power VR2) + SiS 6326 - AMD K6-2/266
Guillemot MaxiGamer 3D2 12MB + SiS 6326 - AMD K6-2/266
Voodoo 3 2000 (OCed almost to 3500TV speed) - AMD K6-2/266
Voodoo 3 2000 (OCed almost to 3500TV speed) - Celeron 400
Voodoo 3 2000 (OCed almost to 3500TV speed) - Celeron 366 @ 550
Voodoo 3 2000 (OCed almost to 3500TV speed) - Celeron 533 @ 952
MSI GF2 32MB (No OC) - Celeron 533 @ 952
MSI GF2 32MB (No OC) - Athlon XP 1500+ @ 1667 MHz

Note that although I despised the SiS 6326 I STILL got rid of the Cyrix first. WTF is with a processor needing a patch just to run a game DEMO??? :|

 

[dowxp]

i forget dates since i upgrade every 3-6 months

TNT2 M64, P3 733@803
GF2 MX, P3 700@933
Radeon 64 ES, Dual 700@933
GF2GTS-V 32mb, AthlonXP 1700@1900 [shortlived, 2 weeks] P4 1.6 @ 2.65

i only play cs. which i just quit yesterday..

 

[DeathByDuke]

Wow, never imagined this to grow so big and so quickly! Many thanks to everyone.... it's just interesting as you'll agree, things like this as it'll also spur your own memories (like when my PC died in UT and i thought the O/C V3 2000 had copped it, when it was a system fan!-god, that was one HELL of a heart attack!) Keep Them Coming!!

 

[RichieZ]

ATI Rage Pro / PII 266
TNT 1/ PII 266
Voodoo 3 2000 PCI / PII 266
Voodoo 3 2000 PCI / PIII 550E@791
Geforce 256 SDR / PIII 500E@791
Geforce 2 GTS / PIII 550E@791
Geforce 2 GTS / PIII 700E@933
Geforce 2 Ultra / PIII700E@933

Current
Geforce 2 Ultra / Athlon 1.2@1.4
also laptop:
S3 Savage IX / P3 700

 

[Pabster]

I wish I could remember 'em all!

You guys are lightweights. I still remember the thrill of a 512K (yes, K, not MB) VESA local bus card. I believe it was a Trident or similiar. Of course, that was ages ago.

In "modern" times, everything from a 1MB Trident to a GF4 Ti4600, with the exception of Matrox. I did play with several of their cards, but never owned one in any of my personal rigs. Perhaps "Parhelia" will entice me, eh?

 

[Ganryu]

2002 - Athlon XP 1600 + Leadtek GF4 Ti4400
2001 - Athlon XP 1600 + Leadtek GF3 Ti500
2000 - Pentium 3 800 + Hercules GF2 MX
1999 - Celeron 466 + Voodoo 3 2000
1998 - Pentium 2 300 + Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo 1 + Matrox Millenium II
1997 - Pentium Pro 200 + Matrox Millenium
1996 - Pentium 133 + Matrox Millenium
1994 - Pentium 90 + Ati Pro Turbo
1992 - 486/33 + Ati Graphics Ultra
1989 - 386SX/16 + built in IBM VGA
1987 - 8086 + Tandy 1000 Built in Graphics (sort of like EGA)

 

[WilsonTung]

1999: Pentium III Katmai 450 MHz and nVidia TNT 16 MB
2001->Present: Pentium III CuMine 750 MHz and ATI Radeon 32 MB DDR

 

[Dennis Travis]

Hard to remember them all but here goes a try anyway!

286/16 with 1 Meg RAM, ELT Motherboard, first Hecurles Mono Card later 1 Meg Trident ISA.
386/25 with 4 Megs RAM, Trident ISA accelerator with 1 Meg Ram.
386/40 with 4 Megs RAM and Trident ISA accelerator with 2 Megs RAM.
486/33 with 8 Megs RAM and same Trident ISA accelerator with 2 Megs Ram.
486/DX2-66 with 16 Megs RAM and Diamond Stealth VLB with 2 Megs RAM
486/Dx4-100 with 32 Megs RAM and same Diamond Stealth VLB.
Pentium 75 with 64 Megs RAM with Diamond Stealth 3d 2000 with 4 Megs ram PCI.
Pentium 133 with 64 Megs RAM, MSI MB with Diamond Stealth 3d 2000 with 4 Megs ram PCI.
AMD K6/233 with Tekram MB, 64 Megs ram and Diamond Stealth 3d 2000 PCI.
AMD K6/2-300 with FIC 503+ MB, 128 Megs RAM and Diamond Stealth 3d 4000 AGP.
AMD K6/2-350 with MSI 5169 MB, 128 Megs RAM and Voodoo III 4000 AGP.
Celeron 366 on Abit BM6 with 256 Megs RAM, Voodoo III 2000 AGP.
Intel Copermine 700 on Asus CuBX with 768 Megs RAM and ATI Raedon 7000 with 32 Megs DDR Ram AGP.
Intel Copermine 633 on MSI 6309 V5 with 768 Megs RAM and Voodoo III 2000 AGP.

There is more but it's hard to remeber it all.

 

[acidvoodoo]

1996: pentium 133, 16mb edo ram, ati 2mb thing-quake ran so cool
1997:still pentium 133, 48mb edo ram, ati thing
1998entium 200 mmx, 48mb edo ram, ati thing
1999: amd k6-2 450, 128mb sdram, voodoo 3 2000 agp
2002(yester day): amd athlon 1900 xp, 512mb ddr, hercules 8500le 64mb

 

[NesuD]

8088 using some sort of hercules adapter way back when

p 133 with an s3 trio 64
p 133 s3 virge dx
p200 s3 virge dx/voodoo graphics card
k6 266 s3 virge dx/voodoo graphics card
k6 2 450 trident 3dimage 985/voodoo2
k6 2 450 voodoo3 3000
athlon 550 voodoo3 3000
athlon 550 Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 gts
Athlon 800 Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 gts
Athlon 1.4 gig Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 gts
Athlon 800 Geforce2mx (current kids box)
Athlon 1.4 gig msi Geforce3 ti 200 (current personal box)

 

[CrazySaint]

FWIW, I decided to go with a Seagate Barracuda IV 60GB drive, instead of a Maxtor dive in my new box.

 

[GT578]

i486SX 33mhz with Cirrus Logic 54XX 1MB onboard VLB. 1993
i486SX 33mhz upgraded w/ Intel DX4100mhz overdrive...same vid.(1996)
Cyrix 6x86 P166+ with STB Lightspeed 128 2.25MDRAM (1996)
PII233mhz with SIS6326 4MB(1998)
PII333mhz with ATI All-in-Wonder PRO(RAGE PRO Turbo) 8MB AGP(1998)
PII300@450mhz(SL2W8) with same ATI.(1999)
PII300@450mhz with Voodoo3 3500TV (1999)
Celeron 366@578 with Voodoo3 3500TV (1999)
Celeron 550@901 with Voodoo3 3500TV (2000)
AMD Athlon 850mhz with ATI Radeon LE @191/191.......haven't had need to upgrade from this yet.

 

[Maggotry]

Early 90's:
onboard video - 286

Mid 90's:
onboard video (2MB) - 75MHz Pentium. I'm ashamed to admit it, but it was a......a......a.......Packard Bell

99?:
TNT2 Ultra - 500MHz slot PIII

01:
GF2 Ultra - 1GHz T-Bird - Mine
GF2 GTS - 1GHz PIII - Wife's

02:
GF4 Ti 4600 - 1.2GHz T-Bird - Mine
Radeon 8500 - 1GHz PIII - Wife's

 

[Steppy76]

Let's see

1. 1986 A Leading Edge 8086 with built in monochrome/CGA graphics(a toggle switch on the back flipped between the two modes)

2. 1988 IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 with built in VGA graphics

3. 1992 486/dx 33 with 1 meg Trident SVGA(isa)(486 dx/4 100 OD chip 1994)

4. 1995 Pentium 100 with 2 meg Trident SVGA(PCI)

5. 1996 P100 with 3D Blaster PCI(Rendition Verite 1000 chip)
(Pentium 166MMX OD chip 1997)

6. 1998 PII 233(Celeron 400 3 months later) with a 4 meg Xpert@Play(Rage Pro chipset)

7. 1999 Cele 400 with a 32 meg TNT2 Ultra

8. 2000 P3 500 with a Radeon 32 DDR

9 2001 P3 866(Replaced with XP 1600+ later in the year)

10 2002 Radeon 32 replaced with Radeon 8500 64 Meg retail

 

[DeathByDuke]

This IS definitely the biggest thread i'd ever created...
thanks, keep them coming!

 

[BlackOmen]

386sx-33 w/ ISA Cirrus Logic VGA
486SLC2-33 w/ VLB generic SVGA
Cyrix 6x86 with Trident 9680
Duron 700 with voodoo3
Duron 700 with Geforce2 Pro

Soon to be a faster tbird and quite possibly the new matrox graphics board