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List your cards , Memory lane time

486 33@50 Mhz. with a Tseng 4000
486DX2 66@80 with a Cirrus Logic 2MB overclocked via the Bus
166MMX@200 Cirrus/TNT + Orchid Righteous 3D
Terminator
Pentium 60 TNT/Virge
Matrox Millenium
G200
Pentium Pro 180@233 Voodoo 1 + Voodoo 2
P180 ( Hot chip ) TNT2
Rage 3D
Geforce 256
Pentium II 233/300/333/400 Geforce GTS
Pentium 3 500/550/750 Geforce 3ti
Pentium 3 [email protected] Radeon 8500, Geforce 4
AMD Slots & sockets 500-800 (Slot)
Tbirds 1Gigs - 1.4
AMD XP & MP's 1.4 - 2.2
9700,
9700Pro,
9800,
9800Pro
Pentium 4 1.6, 1.8, 2.0
5800
5900
P95
AMD 64 2800 - 3700
AMD X2 4200-4800
Opteron 147/148 160 & 170
7800 256 & 512
X1900 XT & XT-X
X1900 GT
X1800 XT
7900GTO SLI
8800GTX

Probably still missed loads out but suffice to say I have had everything! LOL.
 
Some 086 PC I played Loom on - integrated graphics
Pentium P90 Laptop - It managed Doom II and C&C!
Pentium III 500MHz with TNT2 (biggest jump from the P90)
Pentium III 600MHz with TNT2 (RMA upgrade)
Athlon 2000XP Palomino with Geforce 4 MX 440
" " " with Geforce 4 Ti4200
Athlon 2800XP Barton with 6600GT
" " " with MX440 (integrated gfx after my 6600GT blew)
" " " with 6800GS (subsequently modded to GT/Ultra speeds)
 
And i thought i spent a serious amount of money of computer gear... ^^ (to most people above lol) :eek:

Started with an...

XFX Geforce 5500 256mb AGP

ATI Radeon 9800Pro Ultimate 128mb AGP (£111)

ATI Radeon 9800XT 256mb AGP (£120)

BFG 6800GS 256mb but memory was buggered up or something and got graphical glitches left, right and centre. (AGP)

HIS ATI Radeon 850XTPE 256mb AGP (£330 :eek: )

ATI Connect3D X1800XT 256mb (PCIE) current card, and its awesome! :cool:

I used an AMD Athlon 64 3400+ (S754) which came with a pre-built PC for everycard, until I decided to build my own... and I got the 4000+ and used the X850 and X1800 with that...
 
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I really should just have a copy of this list saved somewhere. :)

1mb Cirrus Logic Trident
4mb S3 Virge
16mb Voodoo Banshee
32mb Geforce 2 GTS
32mb Radeon 9200se
4mb Voodoo (bought on the cheap for an old PC as an add-in and never used)
256mb 6800gt (still my current card)
128mb Radeon 9700pro AIW (bought for a second system that is now sold)

I haven't included various cards that I have been given for occasional use in other systems but that spans about 12 years worth of computing so I haven't spent all that much compared to some. :)
 
MX440 (noob days)
Geforce 3 Ti 500
Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Geforce 4 Ti 4600
Geforce 4 Ti 4800
Geforce 5 5900Ultra
ATI 9600 Pro
ATI 9700 Pro
ATI 9800 Pro
Geforce 6800 NU
Geforce 6800 GT
Geforce 6800 Ultra
ATI X800Pro
ATI X800XT
ATI X850XT
ATI X1800XT (two of these)
Geforce 7900GTO
 
AMD Athlon xp-m 1.5ghz 1800+

Radeon 9550 128mb(died :/)
Radeon 9550 256mb(Sold )

AMD Athlon64 4800x2

7600gt (Sold)
x1950xtx(Died?)
8800gtx(current)

ATI cards hate me..
 
Trident 512K - Mmmmmmmm 256 Colours! And Wolfenstein!

Cirus Logic 1Mb - Woo 16bit! And Doom!

S3 ViRGE 2Mb ('The Video Decelerator') - A 3D acceleration card so bad it was actually faster to render 3D using your CPU.

S3 ViRGE 4Mb - Woo blue water in Tomb Raider 2! (16Bit 3D)

Matrox Millenium 8Mb - Only had it for a day, wouldn't work with my crappy MSI mobo that didn't do AGP propperly, so took it back and got a...

Diamond nVidia Riva128 4Mb - My first propper working 3D accelerator, but it never got used as one as I bought...

Diamond Monster Voodoo 4Mb - ...at the same time, and it was AWESOME, Unreal looked amazing, Quake 2 with coloured lighting, HalfLife at 640x480 16bit... it was great!

Creative Voodoo Banshee 16Mb - Superb card, about the same speed as a Voodoo2, but with 2D capability as well, played Mechwarrior3 great :D

Voodoo3 2000 16Mb - Bought the same day Quake3Areana came out, and it rocked!

Hercules Prophet GeForce2MX 32Mb - 32Bit, TnL, and at a good price, a graphical milestone.

Inno3D GeForce2Pro 64Mb - My MX died, so it was only fair to get something better! But then, DX8 appeared, along with these things called 'Pixel Shaders'....

ATi R8500LE 64Mb - Superfast card, could run that lovely Nature test on 3Dmark when no one else could! But the drivers were apalling and as such it didn't last long before being replaced with...

Inno3D GeForce3 Ti200 64Mb - Super solid card, great drivers, played RTCW and MOHAA lovely!

ATi R9000Pro 64Mb - Wanted to see how far ATi had progressed. Nice card nothing special.

Creative GeForce4 4200 64Mb - An absolute bargain, got it on a super special offer an annother e-tailer for about half the price of everywhere else, it was great!

ATi R9500Pro 128Mb - 8 Pixel Pipelines, superfast shaders, at a budget price! Amazing card.

nVidia FX5800 128Mb - I was fortunate in that I didn't get the 'Leafblower' version, I got the 2nd revision cooler, and it was much quieter (reletivly speaking), blindingly fast in DX8 (which 99% of stuff still was then), but its poor DX9 performance meant it eventually went, and I downgraded to a...

ATi R9600Pro 128Mb - ...as a stopgap. Then I got offered an XT that was going to cost me nothing to change so it was replaced with...

ATi R9600XT 128Mb - ...which was an amazing clocker. Then the 9800's became reasonably priced and it was replaced with...

nVidia FX5900XT 128Mb - ...as they were flashing to FX5950Ultras, but it was dire, so it was replaced with...

ATi R9800Pro 128Mb - The god of cards in its day, superfast at DX9. Then I got the money together for an entire system overhaul and so, it was replaced with the new...

ATi X800Pro 256Mb - ...Which cost me an arm and a leg on the day of release and is the single most expensive card I have ever bought (never again). Flashed to an XTPE. My last AGP card.

ATi X850XTPE 256Mb PCI-E - Moved to PCI-E and got the top of the line ATi card at the time, at a bargain price 2nd hand from these very forums ;)

nVidia 7800GT 256Mb - Moved to an SLi mobo, and changed to the reasonably priced 7800GT in preparation of adding in a second.

nVidia 7800GT 256MB (x2) - Got a second card and went SLi and it was great, cheeper than getting a top end card, and just as fast in everything!

ATi x1900XTX 512Mb - My most recent card, moved to Core2Duo, not really any good clocking SLi mobo's (i680 wasn't out and I wouldn't pay £200 for a mobo anyway), so sold my SLi setup and got this reasonably priced X1900XTX from the BST forum when everyone was going 8800 mad :p
 
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god, I had a 2 meg card with 4 expansion dips (what were they called???) in it.
in my pentium.

the onboard ran into it, and then back out again :)

sure I played sin on it :)

so from that.

ati rage...oh my god
geforce 2mx
geforce 3 (ti200???)
geforce 4 4600
x800 pro. and still on it :) saving for a new machine now.
 
First PC - ?????? ill find out later

Second PC - Nvidia MX400 64mb

Then a X1800XT in my X2 rig.

Now a X1950XTX in my Core 2 rig.

Soon it will be a 8xxx when Vista is out after like a month or two. If I have the money.
 
ATI Rage Pro

Added 2 x 12MB Diamond Monster 3D II SLI

ATI Rage 128 Pro

nVidia TNT

nVidia TNT2 Ultra 32MB

Hercules Prophet 4500 (Kyro II)

Voodoo 5 5500 AGP

Radeon 9800 Pro

Radeon X800XT

Radeon X1800XT (current)

Next....probably 8800GTX....

/checks bank account/

maybe not just yet :(
 
First PC had a #9 pci card in it, can't remember the model no. but it had like 2mb of vram. 2nd card was a Matrox Millenium, followed by a Matrox Millenium 2. Added a Righteous Orchid Voodoo 1 to that which lasted me ages. Eventually swapped out for a Diamond Stealth TNT, then a Creative Labs TNT2. Next an Asus Gefore Ti500. Followed by a Gainward 6800Ultra. Finally a BFG 8800GTX.
 
386 / vga card

500mhz celeron / intel 810 integrated

athlon 1.4ghz tbird / geforce 4 mx440

athlon xp 2000+ / geforce 4 ti4200

athlon xp 3000+ barton / radeon 9800 pro

athlon64 3500+ winchester / radeon 9800 pro

core2duo E6600 @ 3.6ghz / radeon x1950xtx - current
 
Thanks for all the replies , made some interesting reading there and reminded me of a few cards I forgot myself like my Creative TNT2 Ultra , also makes ya realise how much we all spend on computer hardware :rolleyes: , glad to see everybody switches from ati to nvidia and vice versa depending on what the best or best value cards are that are out at the time.(ie no fanboys :D )

good reading cheers :)

Doh just re-read my post and I put Sega Rally and meant Screamer Rally(sega rally was poop and not 3d accelerated) ;)
 
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hardware :rolleyes: , glad to see everybody switches from ati to nvidia and vice versa depending on what the best or best value cards are that are out at the time.(ie no fanboys :D )
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I think you'll find I am a fanboy :)
 
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