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What was your GPU upgrade path?

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Hope this is the right section.

I was just wondering about everyone's GPU history, what upgrade path have you taken over the years.

Mine would be:

7300LE (came in first own PC)

8800GTX :D

5970

7970 (then another a year later)

Now a R9 295x2.

So, what about everyone else?
 
We not have a similar thread to this a while back?

In recent memory...

7300gt
8500gt
9800gtx+
9800gtx+ sli
6950cf
7970
670
7970
460
7970cf
470
670
780
780 sli
 
Nvidia 7900gt in my first self built setup. Cant remember how long ago that was tbh. Now on sli gtx 780, though thinking of getting rid of them. But below is all ive owned of the top of my head.

6800 gt + sli
7900gt + sli
8800 gts 640 + sli
8800 gts 512
8800 gt
gtx 275 + sli
gtx 280
gtx 470 +sli
gtx 650 ti boost
gtx 670+ sli
gtx 780 + sli
 
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Some VESA local bus thing
Cirrus logic 2mb 2d card
Same card with voodoo 2
Voodoo banshee I think
Some Radeon card
GeForce ti300 or some such
9700 pro
X800xl
X1950 pro
X1900xt
7900gs sli
8800gtx
8800gt
Amd 3850 crossfire
Amd 4850
Amd 5850
6950 crossfire
7950 then crossfire
Gtx 670 sli
Gtx 780, then sli
R9 290 crossfire, the trifire

I might have missed some earlier ones...
 
From what I can remember..

nVidia GeForce 2 64MB
Saphire 9550 256MB
XFX 8800GT 512MB
ASUS 8800GT 512MB
ASUS 6950 2GB
MSI Gaming 280x 3GB
 
I think we've had this kind of thread before, but anyway, my selections have been :


Nvidia card of some sort (Diamond Viper 32mb?)

Nvidia 2 MX Tornado 32mb?

Hercules Prophet 64mb (Geforce 2 Ultra?)

Voodoo 5 5500 AGP 64mb

ATi 8500 (LE) 64mb

ATi 9800 SE 128mb

ATi X800 Pro Vivo 256mb

Nvidia 7800gtx 256mb

Nvidia 8800gtx 768mb

ATi 3450 256mb

ATi 4870 512mb

ATi 4870X2

ATi 4890 1gb

Nvidia 480gtx

Nvidia 570gtx 1.28gb

AMD 7970.


Came extremely close today to ordering my next. Still might. :)
 
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Some Trident 2MB thing
Some Matrox thing
3DFX Voodoo
Voodoo2
Voodoo2 SLI
Riva TNT2
Geforce 256 DDR
Geforce 2 Ultra
Geforce 3 Ti500
Geforce 4 Ti4600
Geforce 6800 Ultra
Geforce 7800GTX SLI
Geforce GTX260 Core216
Geforce GTX680
 
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I can't remember what I had exactly, but I rememered I used to have a 4000 series Nvidia card too. Wouldn't work in BF2 for some reason. Then was on to the 5000 series and had to get rid of that because Hitman Blood Money would crash every time you fire a gun!
 
From memory:

ATI 9800pro
Nv 6800 (gt or something, cant remember)
7800GTX
8800GTX (awesome card)
GTX 275 ( i think?)
GTX 480
SLI GTX 670's
 
Hmmm can't recall the earlier ones I had.

Nvidia 64mb (No idea on name)
Nvidia 128mb (No idea on name)
Nvidia 7600 GS
AMD 4850
AMD 4870
AMD 6950 2gb
AMD 7970
Nvidia 770 4gb
Nvidia 770 4gb SLI
AMD 290
AMD 7790 1gb (Spare)
Nvidia 780
 
Matrox 4mb , forgot the name
some voodoo card
Gforce4 4200Ti 64mb
Gforce 6600GT 256mb
Gforce 8800GTX 512mb
Radeon 7950
First crossfire 7950
R9 280X
next R9 290X or 295X
 
pgi947 said:
We not have a similar thread to this a while back?

In recent memory...

7300gt
8500gt
9800gtx+
9800gtx+ sli
6950cf
7970
670
7970
460
7970cf
470
670
780
780 sli
Click to expand...

We did but I will join again :)

Sapphire HD 7850 Dual-X 2GB
^That^ Crossfired with MSI Twin Frozr HD 7850 2GB
Reference R9 290

That is all for me, if it wasn't for crossfire being a issue and 2GB Vram limiting @1440p I would have kept the HD 7850's, they were awesome overclockers.
 
I know this thread pops up every year or two, but it's still fun dredging up through the memory! :)

Pace PMC 3D Edge - no idea on specs, bought it for the TV-out port
6600GT 128MB
HD2900 PRO 512MB
HD3870 512MB
HD4870 512MB
HD4870 512MB / 1GB Crossfire
HD4870 1GB Crossfire
HD5870 1GB
HD5870 1GB Crossfire
HD7970 3GB (reference, later fitted with an Accelero Xtreme)
HD7970 3GB Crossfire (Accelero Xtreme & Windforce)
HD7970 3GB Crossfire (Accelero Xtreme & Twin Frozr)
R9 290 4GB Crossfire (reference, later fitted with Accelero Hybrid II's)

If I include the other PCs I've got around the house, the list becomes a little more varied:
HD3200 (integrated)
HD5450
HD6450
HD5870
HD6870
GT440 x5 (separate LAN PCs)
GTX460 768MB
HD5770 x5
HD7850
 
Christ... OK Um...

FX5200
Radeon 9550
FX5500
6600GT
6800GT
Radeon HD3870
8800GTS
Radeon HD3870 Crossfire
Radeon HD4890
GTX480
GTX570
GTX660
GTX670
Radeon HD7970 GHz

All those were spread across just 3 CPU's - Pentium 4 Northwood 2.8GHz, AMD Athlon 64 6000+, Core i5 2500K. :p

In secondary system:

6600GT
Quadro FX580
Radeon HD5770
Radeon HD5850
GTX260 216
GTX460
GTX460 SLI
GTX570
GTX480

And a bunch of other crap in tertiary/temporary systems. :p
 
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S3 Virge DX
3DFX Voodoo Banshee
Geforce 256 SDR
Elsa Gladiac Geforce 2 Ultra
Geforce Ti 4600
ATI Radeon X800 Pro
Geforce 7800GT
Geforce 8800GT
Geforce GTX 295
Geforce GTX 580 x 2

Currently at longest time ever without a GPU (or CPU for that matter) upgrade :D
 
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