It would be interesting to know what your graphics card history is!
Nvidia:
Geforce Go440
Geforce MX440
Geforce Ti4200
6200
6600LE
6600GT
6800LE unlocked to 16 pipelines and 6 vertex shaders(happy days!)
7600GT
7900GS
8500GT
8800GTS 512MB
ATI:
9500 PRO (lasted me around 2 years IIRC)
9600 PRO
X300SE
X1900GT
HD3870 GDDR4
HD4830
Some Intel and VIA motherboards with integrated graphics.
Edit!
The cards are not in order of ownership.
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 12-11-2009 at 01:15 AM.
Nvidia:
AGP FX5200 & 5700LE
PCI-e GTX 260 55nm
ATi:
AGP 9400
PCI-e X1950 Pr0 512MB edition
and countless onbaord ones...
Kalniel: "Nice review Tarinder - would it be possible to get a picture of the case when the components are installed (with the side off obviously)?"
CAT-THE-FIFTH: "The Antec 300 is a case which has an understated and clean appearance which many people like. Not everyone is into e-peen looking computers which look like a cross between the imagination of a hyperactive 10 year old and a Frog."
TKPeters: "Off to AVForum better Deal - £20+Vat for Free Shipping @ Scan"
for all intents it seems to be the same card minus some gays name on it and a shielded cover ? with OEM added to it - GoNz0.
1994 - Cirrus Logic 5400 Series 512k
1996/1997 - Trident 1MB ISA
1997 - Matrox Millennium II 4mb + Guillemont Voodoo2 12mb in 1998
1999 - Voodoo3 2000 16MB
1999 - Voodoo3 3000 16MB
1999/2000 - Matrox G400 32MB
2001/2002 - GeForce 2 GTS 32MB
2002 - Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB (AGP4x)
2005 - ATI x700 Pro 128MB
2005 - ATI x800GTO @ x850XT 256MB
2007 - ATI x1900xtx 512MB
2008 - Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512MB
2009 - Awaiting delivery of an XFX 4870 512mb.
Only lemons were the Trident 1MB (slower than the Cirrus logic, even if it could do 24bit colour) and the x700.
Last edited by noveltylamp; 12-11-2009 at 12:19 AM.
All NVidia so far:
TNT2 Model 64 32Mb
6600GT 128Mb (Died 27th December 2009)
7900GS 256Mb
8600M GS 512Mb (forgot about that in my laptop, does that count?)
GT220 512Mb (replaced the dead 6600GT)
Next card is likely going to be from ATi though as I'm highly tempted by the 5xxx cards for my planned new PC build next year
Last edited by =assassin=; 31-12-2009 at 11:40 PM. Reason: 6600GT Died
Can't say I remember the really old cards..
Some really old ATI card in the starcraft days
a TNT2
Voodoo2 that was given to me
Geforce 2
5200
6200?
6600
ATI 3850
Ati 9300SE
Nvidia 6600GT
Nvidia 7800GTX
Nvidia 7950 GX2 (lasted for about 1 week, as it kept overheating)
Ati X1950XTX (Probably my favourite card, solid, stable and still runs like a peach)
Nvidia 8800GT
ATI 3870X2
ATI 4870X2
As you can see I'm not much of fan boy, but I've got a soft spot for Ati and in particular their X2 cards
Last edited by shadowmaster; 10-12-2009 at 11:06 AM.
discounting integrated things i cant even remember and laptop graphics
voodoo1
voodoo2
s3 savage 4
geforce 2 mx
geforce 4200
geforce 5900xt
geforce 6600gt
geforce 7900gt
radeon 3850
radeon 3870
radeon 4850
VodkaOriginally Posted by Ephesians
VGA (ISA. It was a 286)
Cirrus Logic 5426 (VLB)
A truly ****ty 1MB Avance Logic card (PCI)
S3 Vision 968 (PCI) - my most expensive card - 400 quid (or was it 300? lots anyway). Then the Matrox millenium came out the month afterwards - much better and half the price. oh well.
..at the same time, a Creative Labs 12MB Voodoo2 card - first 3D acceleration
TNT1 32MB card (PCI)
Matrox G400 MAX (AGP) - fantastic card
FireGL 8800 (basically the workstation version of the Radeon 8500)
very briefly a PCI Radeon 9250 (PCI) - stupid ATI drivers couldn't run both a FireGL 8800 and the PCI card at the same time as each set of drivers had a different version of one file. muppets.
two 7600GT 'fatal1ty' PCI-e cards (bought because they're passive, not because of the stupid fatality branding)
8800GTX
Next : 5850/5870 probably, assuming they sort their driver issues out..
Also, in my home theatre system : Radeon 9200 (AGP), then Nvidia 6200 (AGP)
Overall the best cards were the G400MAX - worked with pretty much every OS (except BeOS), great image quality, not bad in games. Eventually sold it on ebay for a reasonable price years later.
S3 Vision 968. Basically this was a workstation card - certified drivers for all the CAD apps and every OS under the sun including NeXTStep. Never did get around to getting NeXTStep though. Still in use in my legacy games box - the TNT1 doesn't support the moving up and down of the screen in Ultima VII, but the S3 does.
7600GT has been pretty good, but nothing exciting really.
Last edited by Syllopsium; 12-11-2009 at 01:02 AM.
hd3870 gddr4??
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 12-11-2009 at 01:40 AM.
Talking purely about non-work machines:
Orchid Kelvin 64 ISA (awesome, in conjunction with a soundwave 32 and CD ROM!!)
3dfx Voodoo 2 (Quake 2 went from 20fps to 60 and coloured lighting!!)
nVidia TNT2 32 (meh.. cheap Dell option as I wasn't going to pay them over the odds.. so I soon got the following..)
nVidia Geforce 2 Ultra (Nice while it lasted. Died. Dell took to the computer back and replaced it with..)
nVidia Geforce 3 ti500 (Which was a suprise, given the 2 ultra wasn't from them. Oooo look at the water in Morrowind..)
ATI mobile radeon 7500 (Laptop.. actually very impressive, especially with the omega drivers)
nVidia Geforce FX5700 (full) (Wasn't as bad as everyone made out. V. cheap second hand buy.. shiney effects in NFS:Underground 2!! Transfered over into my current machine - yay for AGP + PCI-E motherboards)
nVidia Geforce 6800GT (okay.. now we're talking. A *proper* card. Did the new machine justice)
ATI Radeon 1950XT (Could not resist.. too much speed.. too low price! Fed up with horrible nVidia drivers for games of different ages)
AMD HD4870 (As the above x10!! Now CPU is a bottleneck in some cases, so free AA and AF!)
S3 Virge (this was in 1996 so god knows what variant!)
Riva TNT2
Voodoo Banshee *new entry* (thanks for the reminder dfour
Geforce 2 MX 64Mb
Geforce 3 Ti200 64mb - Refernece
Radeon 9800 SE All-in-wonder *new entry* (thanks for the reminder chuckskull
Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb - Fitted with Arctic Cooler / Refernece (had 2 of these in my time)
Geforce 6800 GT 256Mb - Reference
Geforce 7950 GT 256Mb - Reference
Radeon X800 GTO^2 256Mb (unlocked to X850XT PE) - Fitted with Arctic Cooler 5 or whatever the relevant number was
Radeon X1900 Pro 256Mb - Reference (died due to overheating VRMs)
Radeon X1950 XT 256Mb - Reference
Geforce 8800 GT 512Mb - Fitted with AC Accelero 2 and 1x 120mm Low RPM fan (and a second card with stock cooling)
Radeon 4870 512Mb - Reference
Radeon 4870 1Gb - Asus 'Dark Knight' 3rd party cooler
Edit: I've probably missed a one or two out from the early years. Sure I had a Geforce 4 MX at some point. I was also upgrading 3 machines concurrently a few years back and things get a bit confusing there! The list represents my main rig's cards over the years though from around 1996 to present (with a few second rig cards listed as well).
I've had my fair share of experience with both brands. Favour ATI (ever since I used the Radeon 9800 Pro and loaded homeworld 2!), but Nvidia got their AA together somewhere around the 7/8 series of cards so that won them some points.
Highlights along the way have been:
TNT2 + Freespace 2
9800 Pro + Homeworld 2 / Call of Duty
6800 GT + Battlefield 2
8800 GT + Crysis
Last edited by cptwhite_uk; 12-11-2009 at 12:35 PM.
1. Some Matrox 3D accelaration card with 4MB of memory! "Mystique" maybe?
2. 3DFx Voodoo 2
3. Geforce 6800GT
4. Geforce 8800GTS 512
5. Radeon HD5870
Last edited by GheeTsar; 27-04-2010 at 01:50 PM. Reason: New card bought
Matrox Millennium II
Matrox G400
GeForce 2 MX
Geforce 4
GeForce 7800GT
Geforce 8800GT
Radeon 4890
Hmmmm, my upgrade rate appears to be accelerating !
Society's to blame,
Or possibly Atari.
My frist card
Voodoo banshee Loved it it even came with a tv out to scart cable!
voodoo 3 2000 x2 1 agp and 1 pci
Matrox G400 (awesome gaming card for the moment with EMBM)
geforce 2 mx x2
geforce 2 GTS
geforce 4 mx200
original radeon 32 mb which I fried fitting heat ramsinks on with artic silver 1
radeon 8500
radeon 8500 LE
Radeon 9800 pro
radeon x800 pro modified to 16 pipe xt (agp)
radeon x800 pro (pci-e)
Radeon 1800xt x2 both faulty
radeon 1950 xt
radeon 3870x2 huge but awesome power
radeon 4650
radeon 4850
radeon 4890 current card.
Possibly upgrade to a 5870 when they sort out the supply problems.
I also have a 1 meg and 4 meg pci cards for trouble shooting and possibly more that I cant even remember.
I graduated to ATI as I loved the products and now there drivers.
ATI Rage II 2MB
Nvidia GF2MX 32MB
Nvidia GF4Ti4200 64MB
Nvidia 6800GT 256MB
ATI X1900XTX 512MB
Nvidia 8800GT 512MB
Nvidia GTX260-216 896MB
I don't think I'll change card until I upgrade my 1280x1024 17" LCD
Matrox Mystique 220
S3 Virge
Voodoo 3 2000
TNT2 M64
Radeon 7200
Radeon 9200
GeForce 6800 GT
GeForce 8600 GT
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