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The best graphics card ever

ATI Radeon X1950Pro - yer had the AGP version

Picked one up for £60 in its day and it ran Lost planet decently@ 800x 600

ha ha
 
Excluding Amiga and some interesting x286/x486 integrated.... :rolleyes:

Radeon 7500
GeForce FX5200
GeForce FX5600
GeForce FX5900XT
GeForce 6800
GeForce 7800GT
Radeon X1900XT (512MB)
GeForce 8800GTX
Radeon 2900XT (temp. downgrade :eek:)
GeForce 8800GTX OC

For me, the 7800GT rocked for FEAR....and I really liked the 1900XT too.....but the 8800GTX is quite simply the fave as - even now ! - still holds up in most
 
Riva TNT Ultra
GeForce 1
X800XT PE
HD4850
CF HD4850 :)

I loved my x800 the best. Very attached to it. It gave me the most wow factor out of all these cards.
 
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Heres my list of graphics cards ive owned starting from when I was about 12

Cirrus Logic somethingorother - Dog **** It could only run stuff like Doom, Heretic, Duke Nukem 3D
SiS 6326 - Again, pathetically poor graphics card, couldn't even manage proper Direct 3D support, and had no OpenGL support. Forced to play Half Life in software mode.
nVidia Riva TNT2 M64 - Truely amazing graphics card. Payed £90 in 1998 and I was amazed at the performance in Half Life. Could only manage 16 bit in UT99 though. At the time, my best mate had a Voodoo 3 2000, and I began to wish I bought one of those instead.
nVidia Geforce 2 MX400 - Again, at the time, was an awesome budget card, and was perfect for me at the time.
nVidia Geforce 4 Ti4400 - £160 in 2002. The first card I actually researched and chose based on what games I was playing at the time. Loved it, and was worth every penny.
nVidia Geforce 6800NU - None-Ultra version, and the first card I bought from ocUK back in 2004. Amazing performance. Payed about £160 i think, not certin though.
ATI Radeon X1950Pro 256MB - Bought in 2006 as I needed something better for WoW and Counter-Strike source. RMA'd it, and got the 512MB version in exchange. Payed £140. First PCI-E card I owned.
nVidia Geforce 8800GTS 512MB - Current card. Absolutely awesome, and still plays everything I throw at it, perfectly. Even at 1920x1200. £165 from the MM here on ocUK, back in early 2008.

Thats pretty much it. No plans to upgrade as of yet.
 
nvidea riva tnt 2 32mb
nvidea geforce 4 Ti4400 64MB
ATI 9200 128MB
ATI 9250 256MB
ATI 9600XT 256MB
ATI 1900XTX 512MB - bloody awesome card!! loved it. used to run even UT3 maxed out!! used to run at 100oC before i cleaned out the wad of dust it had for a cooler. haha
ATI 3870 512MB
2x ATI 3870's in xfire
ATI 3870x2 1024MB
ATI 4870 512MB
ATI 4870x2 2048MB - love this card! so quick xD
 
I loved my PCI FX5200 as I had a Dimension 2400 with no AGP. :D

I remember it cost me just short of £100 at the time.
 
Voodoo2 12Mb

Radeon 9700Pro

8800GTX

These three are the best cards ever IMO in terms of lengevity for me. Other cards I'd had pale in comparison.
 
Dunno about the best, but certainly one of the most influential was the 6600GT. It offered decent graphics at a decent price; redefined what you should expect from a mid-range card.
 
Mine was the 9600pro, first venture into PC gaming, couldn't afford the 9800. Think I paid around £180 for that!
Have to say my 8800GTS320 has served me very well (overclocked to almost GTX speeds), only got rid of it because I bought a larger monitor, otherwise it'd still be going. Lot of mileage for the money on the 8800 series. Time will tell if the new GTX2xx are the same.
 
Had tons of cards like most. My best cards were:

Voodoo2 - In SLI they were awesome. The satisfying 'click' of the Righteous 3D firing up rocked :D
Riva TNT (NV4) - Oh gosh, hello thar nvidia. Hugely powerful and a hot running chip.
Geforce 2 GTS - Good all rounder with a ton of grunt.
ATI 9700 Pro - This was probably the biggest wake up call to the GPU world for a while. Scared and beat the pants off NV's FX series back then. I moved from a top end GF4 Ti to the 9700 and was blown away.
PoV 8800 GTX - Currently sitting in this rig and quite the powerhouse. Has lasted quite a while and served me well on a 3.7GHz E6600.

My biggest FAIL had to be the PowerVR board. It was the only competitor to 3Dfx back then and could render a lot better. Sadly it required more programming effort to get into and by then 3Dfx had a way better marketing team. Ultimate Race sucked nubbins too.

I've had this in my pictures directory for years :D

voodoo68000.jpg
 
voodoo 1 orchid righteous- awsome
Click to expand...

I got one of those shortly after release, for some ludicrous price. Righteous 3D was what it said on the box, and it delivered. Although when I bought it, the only things that used it were a patched version of Quake and the "tower" demo that came with the card :) Come to think of it, I'm not sure that the hardware 3D version of Quake was available at the time. The card was so awesome that when a friend came round and I showed him what it could do, he immediately drove off and bought one. Without asking how much it cost.

S3 ViRGE afterwards...oh dear. Wish I'd read reviews before buying it rather than afterwards. The well-justified phrase "3D decelerator" would have put me off.

I had a Voodoo2 afterwards, but that wasn't so dramatic an improvement as Voodoo was over software rendering on a 486DX-33.

TNT2 Ultra after that, which was a great card. Had that for ages, great value for money.

I had a GeForce FX5200 at one point, for a few days...oh my, that was crap. I really should have learnt the lesson about not reading reviews before buying.

Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB. Brilliant card, which I fitted with an Arctic cooling VGA silencer. It's still working today - I got it out of my box of old bits just last month because someone I knew wanted an AGP card for their father's PC. So I gave them that one.

GeForce 7800GT, which was defective. OcUK dealt with that, so I bought a Leadtek 7900GT (which had just come out). Which I'm still using today, though it's a bit past it now. Clocks to 550/850 with a Zalman on it, wound down to silence on a fan controller. Overclocked a lot, used a lot and still working perfectly. Very expensive at the time (~£250), but it's proved to be good value in the long run.

Best ever...the Orchid Righteous 3D. It would be silly now, but at the time it was mind-boggling.

Next up, I think, will be a Radeon 4870. I'm looking at a 22" 1680x1050 monitor, so I'd need something with a bit of grunt.

EDIT:

I'm going to have to sue Loque for emotional trauma. Their post has reminded me that I once owned an SiS6326 card, a dreadful waste of money that I had managed to forget :)
 
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Voodoo 1
Geforce Ti4200
ATI 9700/9800
Geforce 8800 GTX

Those have been ones I've owned that have been a big leap over previous tech.
 
you guys have a good memory :D

videologic powervr neon 250 (1997) 4mb
first card i can remember buying. got this card just as 3d card were first being introduced, doh

matrox millennium g400 (1999) 32mb
bump mapping was its big feature

*the memory void*

asus radeon 9800xt (Oct 2003) agp 256mb
this card expired when the memory modules were ripped off it in an unfortunate modding experiment :p one of my favourite cards for sure

gigabyte 6800gt (2004) agp 128mb
part of a shuttle silent setup, large heatsink/no fan

asus en7900gt top (2006) pcix 256mb
cant recall why this one didnt last too long. maybe it was the king kong picture on the card :p

xfx 8800gts (nov 2006) pcix 640mb
current and best ;)
 
Can't even remember most of mine so.. the ones I remember are:

Geforce Ti4400
Radeon 9800 XT - Beast of a card, HL2 voucher anyone? :P
Radeon 1950 XTX
Geforce 8800 GTS - Best one so far in terms of value
 
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