1993 Cirrus logic onboard 512K on my 386, couldnt do 256 colours, i dont think windows 3.0 supported it...
1993 some unknown onboard crud on my 486 sx 33, i think it was cirrus logic 512K.
1994 Cirrus logic 1mb ISA graphics card under win95 with 486sx 33, 256 colours in all its glory, DooM never looked so good.
<--- first ISA card here
1995 Trident 2mb under win95 with 486dx 33 very long. it was a 1mb but i pinched the chips off the cirrus and plonked them in the trident. finally got wrid of the judder in DooM 2.
<--- jump to Vesa Local Bus made here
1996 TeSeng Labs, Vesa Local Bus Graphics card!, HUUUUGE card, 2mb faster interface than ISA, on my dx 33.
1997 4mb s3Trio on my newly cobbled together dx2 66 now with PCI!!!
Quake = mmmmmm orgasms, still jerky though.
1997 4mb s3virge on the same system
1998 added a maxi 3d gamer 4mb card to it (poor mans orchid righteous 3D accelerator) which i picked up for £40, installed and proceeded to play a game that was only equalled in pleasure by aforementioned orgasms... UNREAL still very jerky due to cpu and 32mb ram though.
1999 RivaTnT 2 PCI, my first fully integrated 32mb 3D card, £60 notes well spent, plonked it into my newly cobbled together AMD K6 400mhz with 256mb ram! fantastic!
that was the year of StarTrek Armada.
<-- jump to AGP made here
2000 geforce 2MX400 32mb PCI not sure why i swapped, i dont think it was that much more powerful than the TnT.
2001 Geforce 4 MX440 64mb £39, one of the best cards ive had, did its job very well
2002 Geforce 4Ti 4400 the performance on this was astonishing, i picked it up for £40 from an auction site, it was my first true power card.
2003 Radeon 9600pro £115, owned it for about a week, signed up to here, you all told me i should have gotten the 9800pro, so i sold it for £110
2003 Radeon 9800pro,£180 truly one of my favourite cards of all time, i simply loved it, its still going strong in a friends PC right now
i bought BGA ramsinks and an Arctic cooler for it.
2005 6800NU 128mb, £80 from MM, didnt overclock well, only unlocked vertex shaders, terrible performer, flogged on auction site. worst card ive ever owned.
2005 X800GTO2 £165 ah, the supposedly "limited edition card" that OCUK sold to us, only for it not to be limited edition but for it to hang around like a bad smell with 2 other types of GTO2`s later being sold that were terrible clockers. even so, the card i got was from the first batch and was capable of X850XTPE speeds! as these cards had the same core and ram as an X850XT.
<---- jump to PCI-E made here
2006 X1800XT 512mb crossfire master, bought second hand of a member called welsh tom who is sadly no longer with us after he told a person to buy a part that ocuk do not stock, from his own shop. Good guy, and a good card, bought in feb 2006 for £240.
2006 7800GT, on loan. a stop gap card while mine was in RMA, a kind friend lent me it, good cards
2006 X1900XT FREE! my x1800XT went gah gah, ocuk lost it, i think it was last seen heading to Hungary, no ones quite sure. either way they kindly replaced it with the available matching stock, which was an X1900XT 512mb crossfire master which i will be keeping untill between march and may next year.
19 CARDS !! i win ! .... oh dear god how much money have i wasted
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