Graphics What graphics cards have you bought over the years?

Ones I have loved ( ) and lost:
VESA graphics (Fountain 486SX33)
ATI Rage
Riva TNT2
Creative Voodoo 2
Creative Voodoo 2 (SLI)
Matrox Mystique
Matrox Millenium G200
Hercules 3D Prophet Kyro 64Mb
Geforce MX200
Elsa Gladiac 511
Radeon AIW 8500
ECS Xabre 200
Hercules 9800SE AIW (x2)
ATI 9800pro
Gigabyte X800XT AGP

Still own:
Radeon 7000 PCI
ASUS 9800XT AGP
BFG 6800Ultra OC AGP
Asus GeForce 6600LE Silencer 256MB DDR PCI-Express
Sapphire X1800XT
Powercolor X1800Crossfire
HIS X1900XTX
Sapphire X1900Crossfire

Probably more older ones, but thats all I can think off at the moment

 

Lol so many of these cards are bringing back so many memories! Unsuprisingly lot's of old voodoo's. Surely the daddy of PC gaming!

As mentioned lot's of TNT's too. Sadly i couldn't afford one at the time

Also nice to see a few that had Matrox Milleniums. i didn't know much about PC's back then and thought it would be a good choice for gaming! Because it was expensive i suppose Although it did play the original Moto racer quite well in dx3 i think at the time.

What i DO see a lack of is Power VR cards. I really really wanted one around the same time i bought my voodoo 1 card but couldn't afford both. It was purely Ultimate Race that i wanted as it looked stunning. There was no 3dfx patch

 

5900ultra 5900, 9800pro 9800 9700 9700pro 9500NP mod 9700
6800gt 6800ultra agp and PCIE
x800 pro x800xt x800XTPE pcie and agp
X850XT X850XTPE pcie and agp
7800GT 7800GTX 256
7900GT 7900GTX
X1900XT X1800XT

cant remember the one before that

 

I think the 9700 s came out frist and man they were like 3 times the speed of a OCd to the max Ti 4600 the NV came out with the FX 5900 but the 9700pro pwnz it . The 9800 s cards were a refresh ment to compete with the Fx 5950 and ati still killed it.

youre right the 9800 is an amazing card. My buddy has an 9800 XT and it runs any game thrown at it at 1024x768 fairy well, its probally faster than my 6600 GT by a bit.

 

Wow 12 people that have replied have had a tnt great cards

 

Nvidia Geforce FX 5200
ATi Radeon 9800XT
2x Nvidia 6800GT OC
2x Nvidia 7800GT Extreme - Current
ATi X1400 Mobility - Current (Laptop)

Before those it was all integrated as far as I can remember.

 

Cirrus Logic something or other...
ATi Rage 128
ATi All-in-Wonder (I forget what chipset, but remember it was a pain in the rear. Driver problems)
GeForce 2 some MX version
GeForce 4 Ti4600
GeForce 6600GT

Sorry... bad memory

 

tnt32 thing
gainward ti4200
fx5700 ultra
leadtek 6800 soft modded
7900gt

interesting to see how often ppl upgrade

 

geforce 2mx (it rocked when i bought it)
x1800xt (also rocked)

 

lol
Voodoo 2 (12mb) SLI (i still have these in the cupboard!) Unreal 1024x768 lol
TNT2 Ultra
GeForce 440
GeForce FX5700
GeForce 6800GT

 

-ISA Some ancient Video 7 thing that went out with the ark
-AGP GeForce 4 MX440 @ 64mb
-AGP GeForce FX5200 @ 128mb
-AGP GeForce FX5800 @ 128mb (noisy little bugger)
-PCI-E GeForce FX 6200 @128mb w/Turbocache
-PCI-E Radeon X600 Pro

Yep, i'm leaving nVidia for graphics cards...using an nForce 4 mobo chipset tho. I have got a stack of PCI cards knocking around from all the pentium 1 / pentium 2 machines that have been given to me, or spoils taken from an upgrade (There's a 64mb TNT2 in there i think)

 

Geforce FX5200
Radeon 9200
Geforce 6600GT
Geforce 7900GT

Been upgrading every one or two years since 2001 when I got the FX5200.

 

ati (2d card) + 3dfx card -1997
Geforce 4mx - 2000ish
6600gt - 2004

As you may have guessed i dont really play games!

 

In order of history:
TNT2 (don't even remember model it was so long ago) in old-ass Pentum I IBM compy.
Geforce2 Mx (crappy version)
Radeon 7500
Radeon 9000
Geforce Ti4200
Radeon 9800Pro (still with me and my favourite)

 

Cards i have purchased over the years

Creative Blaster Banshee 16MB
MSI Geforce 2 MX 32MB
MSI Geforce 3 128MB
MSI Geforce 4 TI-4200 128MB
MSI RX9800 Raedon 9800 PRO 128MB
MSI Geforce FX 5200 128MB (FOR HTPC)
BFG Geforce 6600GT OC 128MB

 

card ive purchased
cant rember barnd but a geforce mx440 128mb
and now iam on a
ATI radeon 9800pro 128mb flashed to XT

 

First aftermarket card was a Tseng ET3000, 8bit ISA CGA Card for a 286

Worked Through many many cards to my Current one's, X800XT and 6600GT

Notable fave's through the years are:
Tseng ET3000
Matrox Mystique/Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D (Voodoo1) Combo
Voodoo3 3000 AGP
Voodoo Banshee
Radeon 9000 Pro

 

In the PC's I've owned:

Geforce4 MX440 64MB
Geforce4 Ti4200 64MB AGP 8x
Radeon 9800 non pro which was flashed to pro (128MB)
Radeon X800GTO 256MB (current card)

I've still got the Ti4200 - I'm going to keep it as it's a great piece of hardware history, and it's not worth it to me to sell it second hand anyway.

In our old P2 family PC it had an 8MB Hercules Terminator "Beast" or something in it.

Also had a 32MB Kyro II card in that machine at one point and a Geforce 2.

 

I've had

S3 Trio (2MB)
Matrox Millenium II (4MB)
+Orchard Righteous 3dfx (4MB)
+3dfx 2 (16MB)
3500 (3dfx) (16MB)
Geforce 2 MX440 (32MB)
Geforce FX 5600 (256MB)
Geforce FX 5950 Ultra (256MB)
Geforce 6800 GT (256MB)
2 * Geforce 7800GT SLI (256MB each)

That's about it.

 

OOOOWEEEEEEEE

Ive had loads over the years

ATI Rage pro
Banshe fx (somthing like that)
Nvidia TNT
Nvidia TNT2
Geforce 2 mx
Gefore 2 mx440
Geforce TI4200
Geforce 5200LE
Geforce 5900xt
Geforce 6600gt AGP
Geforce 6600gt PCI-X
Goforce 7800GTX

Come old cruddy things