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What is your GPU history

~1989-2000 Trident then S3 Graphics cards. 512kb to 2mb.
1998 3DFX Voodoo 2 12mb
2000 3DFX Banshee (downgrade!)
2000 Riva TnT 2 Ultra (borrowed)
2001 GF2 MX
2002 GF2 TI
???? GF3 TI
???? GF4800SE
???? GF6800
2005 GF6600GT
2005 GF6800GT
2007 GF8800GTS
2008 ATI 4870
2011 AMD 6870
2012 AMD 7970 (Still using now)
 
Let's see if I can remember them all, in order.

ATI Radeon 4350 - back in like 2009, it was barely any better than the onboard ATI graphics my motherboard had, I was a bit clueless back then haha.
ATI Radeon 5670 - Sometime in 2010.
ATI Radeon 5850 - 2011, OCUK had a deal going on for this, £150, decent value at the time.
AMD 6950 - late 2011/early 2012 I think.
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti - 2013
NvidiaGTX 480 - Got it for like under £80, sometime late 2013 I think.
Radeon R9 290 - bought this mainly for mining, I miss that card, kept my bedroom so warm, I got one with blower cooler and it ran at 90c the whole time. :D
Radeon R9 270 - Decided to downsize to mITX, got this to fit in my Silverstone SG05.

Then few years gap without a PC, except for that one time where I had a Gigabyte BRIX with AMD CPU + M275 GPU I think.

And currently, RX 560 (with 896 shaders, thanks AMD). - 2017.

Things would have turned out a lot differently if I kept that R9 290 and mined for a bit longer. :>
 
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early 1990s - A Hercules card I remember but the rest fades in memory.
1997 - S3 Virge 2mb
1997 - Orchid Righteous 3d (3dfx1, awesome microswitch "click!" when the 3d kicked in) - The first time I started GLQuake was probably the most jaw dropping moment of PC gaming for me. Before or since.
1998 Creative Blaster Voodoo 2 (3dfx2) in SLI for 3d.
1998 - Matrox Mystique (2d)
1999-2000(?) Riva TNT2 Ultra (Creative Blaster) (2d and 3d) for that new fangled Quake 3 ;), kept the Voodoos though. :)
I now lose track of years but not order -
Geforce 256mb and Voodoo2 SLI
Voodoo 5 5500, used in a secondary machine for a number of years.
Geforce 3 and Voodoo2 SLI
Geforce 4 ti 4200 and Voodoo2 SLI
ATI Radeon 9800 and Pro, finally dropped the Voodoos.
Geforce 5800LX (Secondary machine)
Radeon X800XT
Geforce 6800GTS
Radeon X1800XT
Geforce 8800GTS
ATI Radeon 4870
ATI Radeon 5850
Geforce 670 GTX
2013 - AMD Radeon R9 290
2017 - AMD Radeon RX580

Sometimes ran more than one machine for gaming (dual boxed in Dark Age on Camelot in the early 00's). Contrary to received wisdom of the internet and indeed this forum, I have never had an issue with ATI/AMD drivers, I have found Nvidia drivers much more troublesome (but then again I have never ran Crossfire). The most expensive single card I have ever bought was the Geforce 3 (it's an Asus version with lots of video connectivity, I think it was around £260ish, I could be wrong).
I only swapped out the R9 290 (it's an MSI Gaming version, allegedly quiet) as I got what I can only presume was a misprice on another site for the RX580 8GB (c.£102), it does seem to run noticeably faster but not by much, but it does run a helluva lot quieter when under load (Sapphire Pure RX580)!

PS. The Voodoo 5 and Voodoo2s are still boxed and in my loft, waiting for I don't know what... :)
 
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This is always fun to see. short list for me though:

3DFX Voodoo 2
Geforce FX 5900 Ultra (THAT blower noise!)
Geforce 6800 GT
Geforce GTX 970

Plan to build a new rig with a (hopefully) discounted 1080ti at the end of the year. That 6800 GT sits proudly on my shelf today. Doom 3 made me buy the FX 5900 Ultra - was £300 at the time i remember, top of the line, noisy as hell! Quite apt then. :D
 
From memory, I believe it was as follows (might be a few minor errors from memory, but should be correct overall):

Matrox Mystique 4MB (PCI) - 97 - 00
Matrox Marvel G200 16MB (8MB+8MB, PCI) - 00 - 02
ATi Radeon 7500 64MB (AGP) - 02 - 03
Ati Radeon 8500 128MB (AGP) - 03 - 04
ATi Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB (AGP) - 04 - 07
ATi All in Wonder 9800 128MB (AGP) - 04 - 06
ATI Radeon X850 XT PE 256MB (AGP) - 06 - Current
ATi Radeon 4870 1GB (PCIe) - 09 - 17
AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB (PCIe) - 12 - 18 (only card that died)
AMD Radeon HD 7750 1GB (PCIe) - 13 - Current
AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB (PCIe) - 18 - Current.

:: edit :: added years and better formatting.
 
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Someone gave me an old VooDoo card but I don't think I ever used it.
FX5600 (faulty, blew up PSU. Replaced)
FX5600
GTX 7900
X800XT
HD 4870x2
HD 7950
R9 290 (B-Grade, developed fault, replaced)
R9 290 (replacment, also faulty. Gave up)
R9 390
Fury X
GTX 1080
(7300GT)
(GT 430)
(RX 480)
GTX 1080ti

Kaapstad said:
HD 7970
GTX 960
RX 480
GTX 1060
Click to expand...

And the rest lol
 
Matrox Mystique (1997)
3DFX
GeForce2 GTS
GeForce4Ti
ATi Radeon 9500 (soft unlocked to 9800)
Nvidia 8800GT
AMD 7750 (current - only bought because the 8800GT broke)

I've probably forgotten one or two, but I never was big into gfx cards. The only time I had the top of the line was the GeForce2 GTS. £215 it cost. Quite a big difference to what a top card costs now.
 
Some garbage geforce 2 mx thing (pre 2000)
ATI Radeon 9700 (2002?)

- bit of a gap-

Gt540m (2013?... cheap n nasty laptop)
Gtx970 (2015)
Gtx1070 (2016)
Gtx1080ti (2018)
 
Some Voodoo card in a Pentium 3 machine that I can't remember.
Nvidia Inno3D GeForce FX 5700 LE 256Mb.
Nvidia PNY GeForce 6200 512Mb.
AMD HD 6850 1Gb.
AMD XFX 7970 3Gb.
AMD XFX 7970 crossfire.
Nvidia GeForce GT 730 (in a random old desktop for no real reason other that I wanted to see what it was capable of).
Nvidia Gigabyte G1 980ti 6Gb.
Nvidia Gigabyte G1 980ti SLI (sold after two months, I found SLI to be a waste of time these days). I sold that six months ago for £295 which was what others were selling them for. A couple of weeks ago I saw the same card go for £405...madness.

The sad thing is I still have all the other cards in working PCs. I just hate letting go of my desktops.
 
More or less my history more or less in historical order...

Voodoo 2
Voodoo 2 SLI
Voodoo 3
Geforce 2 MX440
GeForce 2 GTS
GeForce 3
GeForce 4200
GeForce 4600 Ultra
Ati X1950
GeForce FX 5200
GeForce FX 5600
GeForce 6800 LE
GeForce 6800 GT
GeForce 8800 GTS
GeForce GTX 260
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 580
GeForce GTX 580 SLI
GeForce GTX 1070
GeForce GTX 1070 SLI
GeForce GTX 1080Ti

Probably forgot a few others.
 
0.5mb Trident
4mb S3 virge or cirrus logic
Voodoo 2
Geforce 1 SDR
Geforce 2 MX 400
Radeon 9700 pro
Geforce 6800
Radeon x800 xtpe
Radeon 4850 512mb
Geforce GTX 460 1gb

I think this is the longest I've gone without upgrading. Don't play as much as I used to and have a PS4.

Am thinking about getting a gtx 1050, but not too fussed I play more on the ps4.
 
geforce fx 5500, i think in about 2003 or 2004.
(First build)
geforce 9500gt 1gb edition 2009 (2nd build)
MSI AMD 7850 1gb oc edition 2013 (2nd and current build)
MSI AMD R9 480 8gb 2016 (current build)
 
Of the cards I actually bought:
Radeon 7000 (Some pentium3 computer)
Nvidia FX5200 (Same pentium3 computer)
ATI X1950pro (Dell dimension in pentium 4)
Nvidia 8600m (Dell Vostro)
GTX460 1gb (refurbished from OcUK)
GTX1060 6gb last year.

I stil have that GTX460, not sure what to do with it tbh or if it's worth much these days.
 
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