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A poll of graphics card history

Which video cards have you owned?


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Blacklash

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Complete list for the ATi side;

Rage 128 Pro
9700 Pro
9800 Pro
X800 Pro (returned it)
X800 XL
AIW X1800 XL
X1900 XT Crossfire
X1950 Pro Crossfire
HD 3850 Crossfire
HD 4850 1Gb Crossfire
HD 4870 X2 (returned that)
HD 4890 (tried Crossfire with it and returned the second card)
Current card is an HD 5870.

On the nVidia side I've owned;

GeForce 3 Ti 500
GeForce 4 Ti 4600
FX 5700 Ultra
6800 GT
7800 GT SLi
7950 GX2 (sold that)
8800 GTX (one of the most impressive cards I've owned and for the longest stretch)
8800 GT
Mixed GTX 260 Core 216 Tri-SLi (I put two Core 216 cards with the GTX 260 192SP card I bought at release)

I still have an old Voodoo 2 Card.

If you're wondering why I sometimes have cards close in power around the same time, I've owned up to three computers. I currently have two.
 
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My first display controller was a Hercules Graphics Card in a Franklin Ace 1000.

I don't recall everything that came after that, but here's what I remember:

Grayscale VGA board, c. 1990
Something with a Tseng chipset
Diamond Speedstar 24x (Western Digital WD90C31)
Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (S3-864/Trio64)
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 (S3-ViRGE)
Canopus Pure3D II (Voodoo2)
3dfx Voodoo2 (2x in SLI)
3dfx Voodoo3 2000 (PCI)
3Dlabs Oxygen VX1 AGP (GLINT R3)
3Dlabs Permedia 2V (PCI)
ATi budget board, probably an Xpert 128 (PCI)
Matrox G400 MAX (AGP)
3dfx Voodoo4 4500 (AGP)
Radeon 9800 Pro 128 (AGP)
Radeon X800 GTO (AGP)
Radeon X800 GT (AGP)
Radeon HD 3870 (PCI-E)
Radeon HD 4830 (PCI-E)
Radeon HD 4770 (PCI-E)

As a side note: In November 1997, Tom Pabst of Tom's Hardware wrote:
3Dfx is one of the few other computer hardware companies next to Intel, that doesn't have to worry about its future.
 
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3dfx voodoo 2
Nvidia FX5500
Nvidia 7600GT
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ATI 4870
ATI 5770
 

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The Radeon 9800 Pro and Radeon X850 XT should be in some kind of 'Graphics Card Hall of Fame'. :D
 

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The Radeon 9800 Pro and Radeon X850 XT should be in some kind of 'Graphics Card Hall of Fame'. :D

I have a Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb card (purchased new) still running great, now in my wife's PC and a Sapphire X800 XT PE (also bought new) nicely wrapped & boxed in the closet. Each one was a terrific card in it's day and can still run a game or two.

I must say that 9800 Pro is to-date my favorite card of all time .....;)

*+
 

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where is the voodoo cards? i mean it says graphic card history. might as well mention them all
 

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I still have 2 Geforce2 MX's lying around in a box somewhere but i think 1 of them might be dead last i checked....
 
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im actually running a fx5200 atm while i wait for the new laptop :laugh:
 

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I got a few 95-00 era Matrox cards too lol.

Matrox Millenium G200, what i think is a G400 & some other random PCI matrox

my dad use to nickem from work back when he worked in the Barclays Bank data center in london
 

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where is the voodoo cards? i mean it says graphic card history. might as well mention them all

Ohhh, lots of options in that one. Mid 90s were crazy. :eek:
 
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Here's my HUGE list :rolleyes: :

nVidia TNT2 M64
Powercolor ATI Radeon 9200 SE
XFX nVidia GeForce 6200 AGP
Powercolor ATI Radeon x1650 Pro AGP (in use)

My God, it's at times like this that I realize I'm a mid-range addict. :ohwell:
 

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Here's my HUGE list :rolleyes: :

nVidia TNT2 M64
Powercolor ATI Radeon 9200 SE
XFX nVidia GeForce 6200 AGP
Powercolor ATI Radeon x1650 Pro AGP (in use)

My God, it's at times like this that I realize I'm a mid-range addict. :ohwell:

not at all - it just means your totally skint or that midrange hardware reflects what you need your machine to do.
 
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:laugh:
I guess it's A that ends up defining me.
I seem to always end up with mid-range not because of what the PC has to do, but from what I have available to spend.
As I don't have very powerful hardware I never get big ambitions with games. I just end up playing the ol' favorites and not much of the new stuff.
 
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:laugh:
I guess it's A that ends up defining me.
I seem to always end up with mid-range not because of what the PC has to do, but from what I have available to spend.
As I don't have very powerful hardware I never get big ambitions with games. I just end up playing the ol' favorites and not much of the new stuff.

im different - the moment my paycheck comes in 80% of it instantly vanishes on pc hardware & i have to ration my food for the next few weeks
 

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I might as well put up my list again, in chronological order (yes, the Geforce 2 is more recent than the 4670):

Matrox Millenium, Rage 128, Rage Pro, Trident and so on and so on. I switched hardware so often I don't remember what I've had and don't. :p
Voodoo 2
TNT2 M64
Radeon 9000 128MB
Radeon 9600 Pro
Radeon x800GT
Radeon x1950 Pro
Intel Extreme 1/2
Radeon 9000 / Pro
Radeon 2600xt
Geforce 4 MX
Radeon HD4670
Geforce 2 MX
Radeon 9000 Pro
Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (see sig)
Radeon 3300 IGP (system specs)

I have a tendency to sell of my systems when I need cash for something else, then slowly rebuild them, hence the crazy "upgrade" paths (and during those periods I switch systems like crazy). :laugh:
 

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I have a tendency to sell of my systems when I need cash for something else, then slowly rebuild them, hence the crazy "upgrade" paths (and during those periods I switch systems like crazy). :laugh:

I usually have a friend who buys most of my hardware when i upgrade, he doesnt mind if its a generation old as its usually alot better then what he previously had. i recently sold him my superclocked 1gb 4870 - he only plays on a 19-20" screen

he was always begging me to sell one of my 4870s i was using in crossfire
 

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my very first card was a Diamond something...cant really remember but i'd guess a TNT card or whatever Nvidia had when it started. I would not run HL so i took it back and got a Voodoo 2, took that back and got a Voodoo 3, finally i could run some good games. lol.
Voodoo 5500 later till i got a TNT 2 mx, geforce 3 ti 500. by the time the 5 series came, i got a new one yearly till the past few years i now wait a couple generations.
 

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voted :toast;
 

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Video Card(s) ASUS Dual Radeon™ RX 6700 XT OC Edition
Storage Samsung 970 Evo 512GB SSD (Boot)|WD SN770 (Gaming)|2x 3TB Toshiba DT01ACA300|2x 2TB Crucial BX500
Display(s) LG GP850-B
Case Corsair 760T (White)
Audio Device(s) Yamaha RX-V573|Speakers: JBL Control One|Auna 300-CN|Wharfedale Diamond SW150
Power Supply Corsair AX760
Mouse Logitech G900
Keyboard Duckyshine Dead LED(s) III
Software Windows 10 Pro
Benchmark Scores (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
The Radeon 9800 Pro and Radeon X850 XT should be in some kind of 'Graphics Card Hall of Fame'. :D

there should be an old farts X850XT/XT PE club - I totally love my XT PE, it still works great and i can play L4D on it pretty well.
 

anonemus

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System Name Perpetual Upgrade Rig
Processor Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 @ 3.5Ghz
Motherboard Gigabyte G31M-S2C
Cooling Scythe Ninja Plus, rev. B
Memory 2x2GB Kingston KVR DDR2-800
Video Card(s) Powercolor HD4650 1GB DDR3
Storage WD Caviar Blue 320GB SATA
Display(s) Acer X233H 23" 1080p LCD
Case Thermaltake V3 Black Edition
Audio Device(s) onboard
Power Supply OCZ ModXStream-Pro 500W (soon: Antec TPN 650)
Software Windows XP Pro SP3 / Win 7 Ultimate 32-bit
FX5500
6600GT
7600GT
7900GS


X1600XT
X1900XT
HD4850
HD5850
 
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