Your Graphics Card History.....Again!
Well we had this thread before and I think lets get it going again from scratch as I myself am struggling to resist the 4850/70 series just out of pure curiosities sake!
So lets resurrect it and live out the memories of your graphics card history one more time
Including what happened to your cards and your High and Low points!
My History:
Guilliemont NVidia Riva TNT2 32MB AGP
3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
Leadtek Geforce 2 GTS 64MB
Inno 3D NVidia Geforce 3 Ti 200 128MB DDR
Inno 3D NVidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200 *Died Full Refund after 11months*
Powercolour ATi Radeon 9600pro *Sold on*
Powercolour ATi Radeon 9800pro (128bit) *Sold on*
Inno 3D NVidia 6800GT *Died after 3months*
Leadtek NVidia 6800LE *DOA*
Leadtek NVidia 6800LE Replacement *Sold on*
Sapphire ATi Radeon x1800xt 512MB *Died after 1year Full Refund*
NVidia 7600GT 128mb *Sold On*
NVidia 7900GS *Sold On*
ATi Radeon 1950pro *Recieved for Free by mistake
sold on*
NVidia 8800GTS 320MB *Died, replaced, sold on*
Sapphire ATi Radeon HD2600XT *Sold on*
GeCube ATi Radeon HD2600XT(Crossfire)
HiS ATi Radeon HD2900Pro *Flashed to XT, Sold On*
HiS ATi Radeon HD3870 *Died, Replaced, Sold on*
Inno 3D Geforce 8800GT *Died after 2 weeks, Refunded! Last card of Inno 3D variety*
EVGA Geforce 9800GTX *Current Card*
High Points
I would have to say for me personally I have 3 high points in my Graphical History Tree!
The
Voodoo 5 5500 just blew me out the water at the time and ran Quake 3 Arena so silkily smooth I loved it! However the card was quickly exposed as lacking the necessary features when Max Payne arrived which it ran terribly due to a lack of T&L! However it was awesome to have a dual GPU setup in my system, loved it! I still have the box and card to this day.
The
ATi Radeon x1800xt was another card which just blew me away! This was the main focal point of my brand new from scratch build where I got myself a pc which I was more than happy with! Probably my most successful build at the time and being at that high end of the performance market felt great, although the card was bested after its massive delays in around 3months time.
The
8800GTS 320MB was very much like the previous two in the way it established a giant leap in performance and tech from what I was using previously! I still await that feeling of massive changes in performance again and I'm hoping I will see this with the Next generation! I will probably upgrade eventually to the 4870x2 which will hopefully be a monster!
Low Points
My continued frustration with the reliability of many Inno3d branded cards I've had over the years! They just kept dieing on me before even the days that I was overclocking. I foolishly gave them another try with the 8800GT recently but they bit me again! So no longer will I seek out those cheap alternatives
When unfortunately
3DFX quickly died after my purchase of the
Voodoo 5 5500 This meant discontinued support even though the card itself was pretty good at what it did!
Sheer Luck
The
Ati Radeon x1950pro I recieved for free 2months after ordering it! I obviously got a refund after the card got lost somehow with the courier and all of a sudden the Royal Mail dropped the card off at my house randomly! I came home to a massive parcel and wondered what I had ordered haha! Was an amazing stroke of luck and was a damn nice card also!