Was thinking yesterday how mine graphics card tree evolved in all those years of pc gaming and would like to see other persons graphics card history so here it goes.
When i got the pc in 1996 i don't think there was any gpu in it then i asked my parents to buy me 3dfx VooDoo2 12mb Core: 90mhz memory 90 mhz Memory Bandwidth : 0.7 GB/sec i think it was something like that well it played quake 2 good
Then i got TNT i think It was tnt 2 im not really sure but i remember it had 64mb
was playing quake 3 on it diablo2
then i was some leap to get geforce 4 mx 440 i think i still have it for some reason 128 mb ram i think i was fascinated with graphics
at that time
After that for some reason i switched to Ati Radeon x700 it lasted me long while really long and i was happy but then more demanding games came out and it was really struggling but i still waited for promised super kick ass card r600.....
Got 1650xt just to last me till r600(2900) for few months, ok card i guess played every game good + cheap
So R600(hd2900xt) came out everyone was so confused in the beginning was it better then gtx or not well eventually it was not better but i still bought it (expected more from that card ended up bit disappointed)
And Present today im changing hd2900xt to new 8800gts long since i did have nvidia hope they bring me good times and performance
GPU History tree :
Voodoo2
TNT2
Geforce mx440
x700
1650xt
hd2900xt
3870cf
8800gts g92
4870 1 gig
260 soc
6970
770 4 gig
970 ref
980 ref
980ti ref
680 lightning
kfa 1080 gtx exoc
ASUS 3080 10g
So whats your history tree ?
edit: added cards
When i got the pc in 1996 i don't think there was any gpu in it then i asked my parents to buy me 3dfx VooDoo2 12mb Core: 90mhz memory 90 mhz Memory Bandwidth : 0.7 GB/sec i think it was something like that well it played quake 2 good
Then i got TNT i think It was tnt 2 im not really sure but i remember it had 64mb
was playing quake 3 on it diablo2
then i was some leap to get geforce 4 mx 440 i think i still have it for some reason 128 mb ram i think i was fascinated with graphics
at that timeAfter that for some reason i switched to Ati Radeon x700 it lasted me long while really long and i was happy but then more demanding games came out and it was really struggling but i still waited for promised super kick ass card r600.....
Got 1650xt just to last me till r600(2900) for few months, ok card i guess played every game good + cheap
So R600(hd2900xt) came out everyone was so confused in the beginning was it better then gtx or not well eventually it was not better but i still bought it (expected more from that card ended up bit disappointed)
And Present today im changing hd2900xt to new 8800gts long since i did have nvidia hope they bring me good times and performance
GPU History tree :
Voodoo2
TNT2
Geforce mx440
x700
1650xt
hd2900xt
3870cf
8800gts g92
4870 1 gig
260 soc
6970
770 4 gig
970 ref
980 ref
980ti ref
680 lightning
kfa 1080 gtx exoc
ASUS 3080 10g
So whats your history tree ?
edit: added cards
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,You do however remember your first & that was a monster 4mb Righteous Orchid 3DFx linked to a 2mb ATI something or other, Ooo how we drooled at Quake running in Glide
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