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Your graphics card history tree?

I went in the following order (with a lot of pointless upgrades might I add but meh)

Voodoo 2
Rage Pro Turbo AGP
Geforce MX440
Geforce 4 TI 4200
Radeon 9800 Pro
Geforce 6800GT
Geforce 7900GS
Radeon X1950XTX
Geforce 8800GTS 640
Radeon 2900 XT 512

Thats all I can think of tbh. :)
 
Onboard
GeForce Ti4200
GeForce 6600GT

That's my history. I tend to make very long and well thought out Investments. Im really considering blowing the £500 from the Bank I got on an 8800GT. Tasty.
 
Voodoo 3 2000 PCI (Amazing card, UT 1 was class with it :))
Geforce FX5200 PCI
Geforce 4 TI 4200 AGP
Onboard Radeon X200
Geforce 6600GT PCI-E
Geforce 8800GTS PCI-E
 
matrox mistique
voodoo 1
voodoo 2 loved this card still remember q2 and even made q1 look better
not sure if i had one between
gf1 16m
gf1 32m
gf2
gf3 ti200
9800 pro
x800 xl
8800 320
 
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'That's my history. I tend to make very long and well thought out Investments. Im really considering blowing the £500 from the Bank I got on an 8800GT. Tasty.'

You could probably get three at a good price!
 
TNT2
HIS 9700Pro 128mb (still have this baby in my media shuttle)
HIS 9800Pro 128mb ICEQ (still have it in one of my "loan out" PCs)
Sapphire 9800Pro 128mb with Arctic cooling silencer
Asus x800xt 256mb PCI-E (still using this today as its still playing counterstrike fine :D)

i also have a 5200 256mb and a 5500 256mb for AGP backups and a x550 for PCI-E backups :P

I would really like to update at the moment as its been more than long enough sinse i last did and the performance these days is certanly justifyed. to do so. no imediate rush though and i have a full system upgrade planned in 6 months anyway
 
Verite Rendition V1000 4mb 3D Card
Ati Rage Fury 16mb
Riva TnT 2 32Mb - But died after 2 days.. but i borrowed it from a mate :)
Voodoo 5 5500 64Mb (Long live 3dfx)
Geforce 2 Ultra 64mb
Geforce 4 Ti4200 128Mb
Geforce 6800 Nu 128Mb
Geforce 8700m 512Mb Laptop GPU

Not actually that many im glad to see..
 
In the space of 10 years:

S3 Trio 1MB (non-3D)
ATI Rage128 Pro 8MB
ATI Rage128 16MB (onboard!)
ATI Mobility Radeon 9600

In the space of 1 year!:

2 x GeForce 6800GTX (SLI)
GeForce 7800GTX
GeForce 8800GTX

Expensive and pointless looking back.
 
had some 1 meg card plus a 12mb 3d-fx !
nvidia onboard something
geforce 2 mx 64mb (mx-400?)
geforce 4 mx 128mb
geforce 4600 ti (improved my aqua mark from 7k to 17k !!!).... or was it 4k to 14k
geforce 6600gt
geforce 7600gt
ati x1950pro
ati 3850pro
 
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ATi 2MB 3DXpression (RageII chip) PCI
12MB Voodoo2 PCI
12MB Voodoo2 SLI
16MB Voodoo3 3000 PCI
32MB GeForce2 MX AGP
64MB GeForce3 TI 200 AGP
128MB Radeon 9600XT AGP
126MB GeForce 6800nu AGP
256MB GeForce 7900GS PCI-E
 
In 1997 I built a £2000+ new rig with a

ATi Xpert@Play (it was crap, in really fancy games like Incoming, it didn't render the sky properly, big square blocks everywhere ,crap drivers. It also didn't support OpenGL, so had to run Quake II in software mode until they came out with a sort of ATI Beta OpenGL compatible half-arsed driver. Then QuakeII would run in 3D mode, but with squares everywhere, and generally badly rendered - though it looked slightly better than software) ;)

But, back on topic

ATi Xpert@play (That was RageII as well I think)
Voodoo2 (combined with the Xpert@play, gaming BLISS!)
GeForce256
GeForce Ti4600 (yep, the Geforce 1 did last that well)
GeForce 6600GT
GeForce 7900GTO
GeForce 8800GT

Note how I'm loathed to return to ATi, after the disappointment of the Xpert@play ;) I'm also lazy, and am just used to Nvidia drivers, and, with the exception of the 8800 series, knowing which one is faster/slower, just by looking at the number, ie 8400/8600/8800 ;) That's ignoring recent GT/GTS type rereleases!

V1N.
 
I think mine goes something like this:

Something very old in my 286 not sure what it was now :S
Something very old in my 386 not sure what it was now :S
Something very old in my 486 not sure what it was now :S
4mb Onboard
32mb Geforce 2 AGP
64mb Onboard Intel Brand
128mb Radeon 9250 SE
256mb Radeon x550
256mb 7600GT
512mb 8800GT
 
This may take a while:

SIS Something or other with 4mb of ram
Riva TNT2 M64
Geforce 2 MX400
Geforce 4 MX440
Geforce 4 Ti4200
Geforce FX5200 (the Ti broke :()
Geforce FX5900Ultra
Geforce 6800GT
Geforce 7800GTX x 2 in SLI
ATI Radeon X800GTO2 (heavily modded and overclocked)
ATI Radeon X1800XT
Geforce 7800GTX (for about a week)
ATI Radeon X1800XT (same card as above)
Geforce 6800Ultra (heavily overclocked)
ATI X1900XT 512mb
Geforce 7600GT
Geforce 8800GTS 320mb
ATI Radeon X1900XT 256mb
ATI Radeon HD3850 256mb
ATI Radeon HD3850 512mb
Geforce 8800GTX :D

At the points where I went from a top end card down to a middle of tha range card is when I thought I was going to give up gaming but ended up wanting some of the new games out (hence my latest upgrade to a GTX lol)

I also have an extremely short attention span when it comes to graphics cards, I can get bored quite quickly hence my 'upgrade' from a HD 3850 256 to a HD 3850 512 - think of me as the resident guinea pig for testing graphics cards lol)
 
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