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Your graphics card history tree?

TNT2
Geforce 2MX (Great card but really struggled with some heavier games like Max Payne. No where near enough VRAM.
3DFX 3300 - 16MB - offered amazing performance in Glide and you wouldn't of even known it was there.
Geforce 3Ti200 - Along with the Ti500, fastest card for the time. Amazing performance.
Geforce 4 MX400 - This was an interlude, and basically a Geforce 2 MX on steroids. Absolute piece of ****.
Geforce Ti4200 -
Geforce Ti4600 - This along with the 4200 is the single best GPU ever made. Flawless operation and seriously quick piece of hardware.
Radeon 9600 Pro - Great card for the money.
Tyan 9600 Pro - Ramped up version of the 9600 Pro with aftermarket cooler. Great card.
Radeon 9700 Pro - Hands down the best video card ever made.
Radeon 9700 XT - Extention of the best video card ever made.
Radeon 9800 Pro - Offered little in the way of performance over the 9700 Pro considering price.
Radeon X800 Pro - Fantastic performance over previous generation
Radeon X1950 Pro Crossfire - Amazing value compared with it's better counterparts.
Geforce 5600 Ultra - Ran hot, loud. Fast but had numerous driver issues
Geforce 6800 Ultra PCI-E SLI - Amazing performance but very loud operation. lack of SLi profiles and heat issues
Geforce 7800GTX SLi - Great card, quiet operation.
Geforce 7900GTX SLi - very good cards, fairly high TDP for the time. Needed a lot power to run in 2 card config.
Geforce 7950GTX - Hot.
Radeon 2900 Pro - Didn't have it for long.
Radeon 3870X2 - Good card performer with a reasonable price tag. Didn't scale well in a lot of games.
Radeon HD4870 - Can't remember
Geforce 8800 GTX - Great card, offered unprecedented performance for the time (It did play Crysis ;) )
Geforce 8800GT SLi - a cooler quieter counterpart of the GTX and almost as quick. Very well priced too.
Geforce 9800GTX SLi - Can't remember much about this card.
AMD ATi 5870 Crossfire - Worst experience with a GPU I've ever had. Hardware level throttling issues never addressed, poor scaling.
AMD ATi 6870 Crossfire - Massive improvement over the 5XXXX. Great value
Geforce 280GTX - Fast.
Geforce 295GTX Fast and hot. Power hungry
Geforce 480 GTX SLi - Amazing performance - ran very hot. Reference cooler was junk
Geforce 580 GTX SLi - Improvement on 4** series, much cooler and faster to boot. Notibly low amount of VRAM for timeframe
AMD 6990 - Hot, poor scaling in a lot of games. Huge TDP
Geforce 680 GTX SLi - Great performer.
Geforce Classified 4GB 680 GTX SLi - faster than reference and 4GB for multiple monitor config
Geforce Titan Tri SLi - Fast, huge amount of VRAM. GPU Boost 2.0 can become a hindrance on air.


There might even be a few I'm forgetting there...I've certainly done the rounds :( lol
 
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Voodoo 3
nVidia GeForce 256 DDR
Voodoo 5
ATi Radeon 9600
nVidia FX5*** (forget which)
nVidia 6600GT
nVidia 9300GT
ATi HD3870 (Sapphire Atomic HD3870)
ATi HD4870
nVidia GTX470
nVidia GTX580 (ASUS Matrix Platinum)
AMD 7970 (ASUS Matrix Platinum)
2x AMD 7970 (2x ASUS Matrix Platinum in Crossfire)
nVidia GTX690
 
ATI X800 Pro
ATI X1900 XTX
Nvidia 8800 GTX
Nvidia 9800 GTX
AMD HD 4870
AMD HD 4890
AMD HD 5850
AMD HD 5870
AMD 6870
AMD 6970
AMD 6990
AMD 7970
GTX 480 SLI
Nvidia Titan
Nvidia GTX 660 SLI
HD 7950 Crossfire
Nvidia GTX 780
 
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Some old stuff I can't remeber (late 90's)
Fx5200
X300
X700 (I think?)
9800GTX+
9800GTX+ SLI
6950 CF
6950
7970
6950
670
7970
GTX460
7970 CF
7970
7970 CF
GTX470
GTX670
GTX670
GTX780
 
^^ That's made me feel better, my list is also huge lol.

ATI X800 Pro
ATI X1900 XTX
Nvidia 8800 GTX
Nvidia 9800 GTX
AMD HD 4870
AMD HD 4890
AMD HD 5850
AMD HD 5870
AMD 6870
AMD 6970
AMD 6990
AMD 7970
GTX 480 SLI
Nvidia Titan
Nvidia GTX 660 SLI
HD 7950 Crossfire
Nvidia GTX 780
 
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Lots of cards in prebuilt PCs

8800GTX SLI

GTX 295 Quad SLI

HD 5970 Quad fire

GTX 590 Quad SLI

GTX 690 Quad SLI

HD 7970 Cross fire

GTX Titan Quad SLI

R9 290X Quad fire when available.
 
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Hmm, i think its like this.

Some 2 or 4mb gfx card in a 386 i think or somit i duno i think it verge card or somit.
geforce 2 200 for 25 quid i think, it didnt help homeworld which is what i bought it for.
geforce 2 400 i think and still no good.
voodoo 3 2000 pci, this did help but cost a wopping 79 quid or so.
geforce 4 ti 4200 (mint card for the time iirc) for free from a mate.
geforce asus 6800 GE 256mb (pretty good card at the time)
ati x1950 pro i think is what i got next it was agp
i think i got a amd card around this time a ati x3850 agp, the last best agp card but it was pap and drivers were terrible and aa never would work when forcing it in games compared to nvidia working in that way. Also this cost a hell of a lot as it was the last agp card i think which was about 170 quid iirc. Madness i know but i didnt wana upgrade to a pci-e setup at the time. :/
Think i went to a nvidia gta 260 ti or somit, nice card.
Then i think it was a 2nd hand 460.
Then a second hand 570.
Now a new 670 for 160 quid from ocuk during that barking mad deal for the msi pe cards. So far quite pleased with this. :)

Sry for the messy list.
 
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In order

Some onboard Radeon 3xxx series
Radeon HD 4350
Radeon HD 5670
Radeon HD 5850
Radeon HD 6970
GTX 480
GTX 560 Ti 448 (downsized to ITX at the time and wanted something that fits)
Radeon HD 7950
GTX 650 Ti

and finally, GTX 480 again. (got it for £60, can't complain)

If I wasn't so trigger happy and stuck with what I had instead of buying and selling all the time, I'd be still using my i5 760 + 6970 rig.

If I counted my laptops, add Quadro 2000M between 7950 and GTX 650 Ti.

Out of all the cards I've owned, I still have my GTX 480 (in use), GTX 650 Ti and 5670 are sitting there, waiting to be used one day. (I have enough spare parts lying around to build 2 gaming capable (depends on how you define capable) PCs consisting of i3 540 + GT 650 Ti and 1st gen Phenom X4 + 5670, but I'm way too lazy to get around to it.)
 
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I only really got into PCs within the last few years so my history wont be that extensive but anyways my firt pc was bought prebuilt and had an amd phenom 9950 black edition with an asus m2n68-vm mobo with the integrated nvidia graphics, after a little while I started to get into pc gaming and decided to buy a HIS 5670 for here, was a good price and I was just easing into it, then after a bit of it I decided I wasnted to build my own rig ( the one in my sig ) boughy myself a HIS boost 7950 around last summer then this summer decided to drop in a second one just for good measure - so their it is, nice thread idea btw.
 
Christ this is going back a while:

Integrated ati rage
Voodoo 3 2000 pci
Geforce 256 ddr
Voodoo 5 5500
Geforce 2 gts
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9500
Radeon x800xt-pe
Geforce 6800gt
Radeon x1900xtx (crossfire)
Geforce 8800gts 640
Radeon 2900xt 512
Geforce 8800gtx KO edition
Radeon 2900xt 1 gig (crossfire)
Geforce 8800 ultra KO
Radeon 3870x2 (quadfire)
Radeon 4870x2
Geforce gtx295x2 (sli)
amd 6970 (crossfire)
amd 6990 (trifire)

And out of ALL those cards the biggest "wow" moment was going from integrated ati rage to voodoo 3 2000 pci, nothing since that has come close to impressing me as much because I know what to expect and at the time of buying the voodoo 3 200 I wasn't sure how much of a difference there would be.
 
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I feel like a newbie compared to all of the previous posts.

Integrated stuff
Geforce 8600GT
Radeon 4650
Radeon 5770
XFIRE Radeon 5770
Radeon 5850
Radeon 6790
Radeon 6950
Radeon 7950
XFIRE Radeon 7950
Radeon R9 290X (soon I hope, on pre-order)
 
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