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Your GPU history

jackass3_16

jackass3_16

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Was thinking about all of the GPUs I've had over the years, so put together a list going right back to the first graphics card I can remember owning. I've not listed the specific brands, as I can't remember a lot of them.

Would be interested to see other people's histories.

My list (oldest to newest):

S3 Virge DX
3DFX Voodoo Banshee
ATI Rage 128
Nvidia Geforce 256 DDR
Nvidia TNT2 m64 (lol 2nd machine)
Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200
ATI Radeon 9600 XT
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (flashed to XT)
ATI Radeon x1900 XT
Nvidia Geforce 8500 GT
ATI Radeon 5770
Nvidia GTX 260 OC
AMD 7870 Ghz Edition
AMD R9 390 Strix OC
AMD R9 Fury Nano
AMD 7870 LE/XT (Temporary stop-gap)
Nvidia GTX 1080
 
7800GT
8800GS
8800GTS 640MB
8800GT
HD 4870
GTX 460 768MB
HD 6870
HD 7950 Boost
R9 290
GTX 970
GTX 980
RX 480

Started PC gaming in 2008/2009 so that was when I bought my first card I think, up until my latest one bought last week.
 
Laptop - Nvidia GeForce4 Go 440
Desktop - ATI X700
Desktop - Nvidia 6800GTX
Desktop - Nvidia 7800GTX
Desktop - Nvidia 8800GTX
Laptop - ATI 4670
Desktop - ATI 5870 - CURRENT
Laptop - Nvidia 680M - CURRENT
Desktop - Nvidia 1070 *SOON*

I swapped and changed between Laptop gaming and Desktop gaming, I am at the moment moving back to Desktop.
 
NVIDIA TNT2 32MB
ATI Radeon 7000
ATI Radeon 9800 XT
ATI Radeon X1900 XTX
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 512 SLI
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 SLI
NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
 
S3 Virge
3DFX 1
Riva TNT
Riva TNT2
Geforce 2mx
Geforce 3
Radeon X800 XL
8800 GTS
Laptop HD5450 (or something like that)
GTX 970
GTX 1070
 
I honestly cant remember the first card I had in my first system with a GPU. I know it was 1gb card with an HDMI that played GTA 4 on pretty high settings at the time..

after that it was
Msi gts 4502gb ( still got going to put it into a system for my nephew )
Msi TF 7950 OC edition ( this has been sold to a mate then got it back and now in my sons rig )

Gainward GTX 970 Phantom ( now in my mates system )
Asus GTX 970 DirectCU II OC Strix ( currently in mine. hoping to upgrade to the 1070 then this will go into my lads rig )
 
On return to gaming in around 2007.

NV 7950 GT, worked for 3 weeks, returned to EVGA, replaced with 8800GTS!

8800 GTS - Ran insanely hot and loud. Good performance though.

GTX 260 NV Gainward - Ditto.

AMD HD Sapphire 7850 2GB - Best card so far, quiet, cool and top class performance for the £164 I paid for it. Died after 4 years of solid service.

RX Sapphire 380 4GB - Had this for several months, even better than the 7850, only paid £150, excellent card at 1080p despite being an age old card. I think it's basically a 7870 or 7970.
 
S3 Virge DX
ATi Rage II
ATI Rage II + Voodoo 1
Voodoo 3 2000
Voodoo 3 3000
Matrox Millennium G400 Maxx
Geforce 256 DDR
Voodoo 5 5500
ATi Radeon 8500
ATi Radeon 9700
ATi Radeon 9600
ATi Radeon 9800
ATi Radeon X800GTO (Unlocked to X850XT)
NVidia GTX6600
NVidia GT8800 (SLi)
AMD Radeon R9 270X
AMD Radeon R9 290 (flashed to 290X)
AMD Radeon R9 290X (Crossfire)
 
Brace for it:

Trident 512K
Cirrus Logic 1MB
S3 Virge 2MB
S3 Virge 4MB
Matrox Millenium G200 8MB (was ****, so went straight back and got)
Diamond nVidia Riva 128ZX 4MB (with a...)
Diamond Monster Voodoo 4MB (Jaw droppingly awesome! Quake 2 with colours! That green smoke in the vent shaft in Unreal! WOW!)
Creative Voodoo Banshee 16MB
Voodoo 3 2000 16MB
Hercules GeForce 2MX 32MB
Inno3d GeForce 2 Pro 64MB
ATi 8500LE 64MB (drivers were utter **** so)
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 **** though)
Powercolor 9800 Non-Pro 128MB (flashed to Pro)
Club3d X800 Pro 256MB (flashed to XT)
Sapphire X850 XTX 256MB
nVidia 7800GT 256MB
nVidia 7800GT 256MB (in SLi, 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 (which I sold for a big profit)
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!, so downgraded)
ATi HD5770 1GB (Vapor-X, for quietness, and better overclocking)
Palit GTX460 1GB (which was ridiculously loud, so returned for...)
MSI GTX460 1GB Cyclone
Gigabyte GTX480SE 1.5GB (which was far too hot and loud for my liking so...)
MSI GTX560 1GB TFII
MSI HD7850 2GB TFIII (which was amazing, and overclocked like a champion!)
Sapphire HD7870 XT 2GB (Tahiti LE card, again great OC'er sat at 1200/6000 on stock while being very quiet)
XFX HD 7870 DD 2GB (Tahiti LE, in crossfire with the above card)
Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC 4GB (1100/5200, brilliant card that's still going strong today)
 
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Shortest list :P

Cannot remeber one as it came standard in my PC at the time.
HD4850 - AMD
GTX470 - Twin frozr
R9 290 - MSI Gaming edition
GTX 1080 - Gigabyte G1
 
S3 Virge DX
Matrox M3D PowerVR
Voodoo 2
Geforce 2MX
6600 GT
7900 GS
9600 GT
9800 GTX+
5830 (dead on arrival, bought from a competitor sold as "new" when it was obviously an open box return)
6770
GTX 660 (current card)
GTX 960 4GB (returned after a week due to coil whine and a weird sounding fan)

My favourite was the 9600 GT, it had a huge Arctic Cooling Accelero S2 heatsink and ran completely passive, while still staying at low temperatures.
 
Radeon X800xt (~2004)
Nvidia 7900GS (~2006)
Nvidia 8800GTX (12 months later SLI'd) (~2007)
Nvidia 8800GTX SLI (~2008)
Radeon ASUS 5870V2 (bad upgrade imo) (~ May 2010)
Nvidia EVGA 470 GTX (swap from previous card - overclocked like a boss - watercooled) (~2011)
Radeon XFX r9 290 (unlocked to X - watercooled, originally a miner card) (~2013)
 
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Matrox Mistique (4mb PCI) [I still have this card. Last used about 5 years ago to set up a headless terminal, but with boards no longer having PCI it will be binned soon]
3dfx Voodoo 1 (4mb) (Gainward?)
3dfx Voodoo 2 (8mb, not 12 I think)
Briefly Voodoo2 sli.​
Nvidia Gforce2Mx (32mb) (Palit?)
Nvidia Gorce4ti 4200 (128mb)
ATI 9800 All in wonder. Bought when the 9800 was getting on a bit. My worst card purchase?
Nvidia 6600GT (256mb)
ATI 4850 (512mb) Single slot reference board. Worst cooler I've ever bought.
ATI 5850 (1GB) Another terrible reference cooler.
Briefly 5850 crossfire​
AMD 7970 GHz (3GB) (Gigabyte)
AMD 280x (Power cooler) Crossfire
280x having ditched crossfire.​

Strange how I cant remember half the brands of the cards. Its embarrassing how I've not learnt over the years that crossfire/sli = bad. But sometimes you need a speed boost right that moment for just 1 multiplayer game you are playing.
 
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Wow, ppl had so many GPU's.

GeForce 2 MX
...
MSI GTX 560 Ti
Asus GTX 970 Strix
MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X

Happy with all those cards. Did not have any problems.
 
Not many, only started building my own PC in 2015 aside from the small X800XL years back.

2005-2006: X800L (Replaced OEM card)
2006 - 2014 - Intel Laptop iGPU's
2014- 2015 - Laptop GTX 660M
2015-2016 - 3 x Titan X
2016 - current 3 x GTX 1080's

Secondary HTPC built in 2015 and still in use had the Fury X, Fury and now settled on Nano.
 
WildRAID said:
Wow, ppl had so many GPU's.
Click to expand...

That was back when PC graphics were changing leaps and bounds at a ridiculous pace, there were new features and DX versions seemingly every few months. It was a crazy time.

Radox-0 said:
Not many, only started building my own PC in 2015 aside from the small X800XL years back.

2005-2006: X800L (Replaced OEM card)
2006 - 2014 - Intel Laptop iGPU's
2014- 2015 - Laptop GTX 660M
2015-2016 - 3 x Titan X
2016 - current 3 x GTX 1080's

Secondary HTPC built in 2015 and still in use had the Fury X, Fury and now settled on Nano.
Click to expand...

Blimey, you went all in after those lappy GPU's didn't you :D :eek:
 
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