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What was your GPU upgrade path?

For me it was
Hd5770
Gtx460
Hd5870
Hd7870xt
HD 7950 xfx
Cf Hd7950 ice qs
Cf 280x soon to be underwater to stop the itch.
As you can see they're mostly side grades with minimal increase in some.
 
Unknown onboard card
GeForce 2 MX
GeForce FX 5600 256mb
GeForce 6600LE (:o)
GeForce 6800GS AGP
Geforce 8600GT GDDR3
AMD Radeon 3870 512mb GDDR4
AMD Radeon 5750 1024mb
Optimus Nvidia GeForce 660m 2048mb + Intel HD 1000 (cpu upgrade raised this to HD 4000)
 
Onboard gpu :)
GeForce 2 MX (Can't remember so long ago)
ATI 9800 Pro (Went bang)
HD 3870 (Went ot family with system)
HD 5850 (Went to family with system)
HD 7970 (Sold)
R9 290 (Fitted)

GTX 560 Ti (Sold on with i5 system)
GTX 650 Ti (Donated)
GTX 750 Ti (Sold)
GTX 770 (Boxed)
GTX 780 (Fitted)

ion
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GT 510M (Sold as fitted to laptop)
GT 520M (Sold as fitted to laptop)
GT 540M (Sold as fitted to laptop)
GT 555M (Sold as fitted to laptop)
GTX 660M (Laptop went bang)
GT 650M (Still going)
GTX 680M (Still going)
 
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/cracks knuckles

Trident 512K
Cirrus Logic 1MB
S3 Virge 4MB
S3 Virge 8MB
Matrox Millenium G200 8MB (was horrible, so went straight back and got)
Diamond nVidia Riva 128ZX 4MB (with a...)
Diamond Monster Voodoo 4MB (amazing! Quake2 with coloured lighting... Unreal with that green smoke tunnel... oh my!)
Creative Voodoo Banshee 16MB (served my MechWarrior 3 days well!)
Voodoo 3 2000 16MB
Hercules GeForce 2MX 32MB
Inno3d GeForce 2 Pro 64MB
ATi 8500LE 64MB (drivers were utterly awful so returned it and got)
GeForce 3 Ti200 64MB
Creative GeForce 4 Ti4200 64MB
Powercolor ATi 9000Pro 64MB
Sapphire ATi 9500Pro 128MB
nVidia FX5800 Ultra 128MB
Sapphire ATi 9600Pro 128MB
ASUS ATi 9600XT 128MB (was a monster overclocker)
MSI GeForce FX5900 XT (as they were flashing to FX5950 Ultra's! Was a bag of turd though)
Powercolor 9800 Non-Pro 128MB (flashed to Pro)
Club3d X800 Pro 256MB (flashed to XT, silly expensive card! £280 at the time.)
Sapphire X850 XTX 256MB
nVidia 7800GT 256MB
nVidia 7800GT 256MB (in SLi with accelero coolers, awesome setup)
ATi X1900XTX 512MB
nVidia 8800GTS 640MB (monster!)
nVidia 8800GTX 768MB
ATi 3870X2 1GB (but was too loud, and driver issues)
HIS 3870 512MB (for Tri-Fire, but was terrible due to drivers)
nVidia 8800GTX 768MB (again, but then sold for a good chunk and downgraded to...)
nVidia 8800GTS 512MB
nVidia 9800GTX 512MB
ATi HD4850 512MB
ATi HD4850 512MB (in crossfire, great setup)
nVidia GTX260 896MB (sold before price drops, then re-bought cheaper)
nVidia GTX260 896MB
ATi HD5770 1GB
ATi HD5770 1GB (in crossfire, which I barely used as there were no games I wanted to play at the time!, so downgraded)
ATi HD5770 1GB (Vapor-X, for quietness, and better overclocking)
nVidia GTX460 1GB
nVidia GTX480 1.5GB (tooooo loud!!!)
nVidia GTX560Ti 1GB (lovely card!)
ATi HD6850 1GB
ATi HD6850 1GB (in crossfire)
ATi HD7850 2GB (epic overclocker! 50% OC)
ATi 7870XT 2GB (another epic OC'er)
ATi R9 290 4GB


Probably a few I've forgotten in there.
 
IIRC:

Tridant 256kb VGA
Tridant 512kb SVGA
S3 Virge GX2 4MB
Voodooo 2 12MB
Riva TNT2 32MB
PowerVR Kyro 2 64MB
Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB
Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB
Geforce 6800 GT 256MB
Radeon HD3850X2 1GB
Geforce 8800GTX 768MB
Radeon HD4890 1GB
Geforce 9800GX2 1GB
Geforce GTX260 896MB
Geforce GTX460 1GB
Radeon HD7850 2GB
Radeon HD7950 3GB
Geforce GTX670 2GB
Geforce GTX680 2GB
Geforce GTX780 3GB

The are a few missing from second PCs and LAN rigs, I think HD5870, R280X, R290 and some more.
 
This list is mostly correct, probibly missed a few out...

IBM 286/386 Various Mono / CGA / EVGA / VGA Adapaters
S3 Virge
Voodoo 2
S3 Savage4
GeForce 2 MX
GeForce 4 MX
GeForce FX 5200
Radeon 9800 SE
GeForce 7200 GS
GeForce 8950 GX2
GeForce 9800 GTX
GTX 295 (Good card, Custom water cooled, had the longest than any other GPU)
GTX 580 (Had sli for a while but too hot)
GTX 690 (Too expensive / short lived)
GTX 780 Ti (Best card card yet AIO Watercooled)
 
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Some intel integrated thing (945 GMA possibly)
8600m GT
HD6870
HD6870 x2
HD 7950
HD 7950 x2
HD 7950 x3

Also currently have a macbook with a GMA950.
 
Geforce Go440
MX440
TI4200
9500 PRO
9600XT
X300SE
6200
6600LE
6600GT
6800LE X2
7300GT
7600GT
7900GS
X1900GT
8500GT
8800GTS 512MB
9300 IGP
HD3870 GDDR4
HD4830
HD5670 GDDR5
HD5850
HD6450
HD6870
HD6530D
HD7850
GTX650TI Boost 2GB
GTX660
 
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