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Your graphics card history tree?

Remember having a 1mb card in my first escom p60 computer. Then upgrading that with a Matrox from the first computer fair i went too and had a voodoo add in card for 3d. Then tended to move between ati and Nivida cards drpending on who offered the best option at the time
 
Voodoo 2
Voodoo 3
Geforce 3 ti
8800 gtx
Geforce 460
Amd 6970 x2 crossfire
Gtx 580 X2 SLI
Gtx 680 Classified
Gtx 780
Amd r9 290 x2 crossfire (returned due to issues)
Gtx 780 ti classified (pre order)
 
Voodoo 2 and some 3d card (i can remember been a kid and getting gifted these by my brother back in the days who himself was a pc enthusiast before he got the mac disease, the good old days of ignition racing game)
Gts 250
GTs 450
GTX 560 ti
amd 7950 hd
gtx 670 ftw
and now r9 290 -)
 
MjFrosty said:
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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EVGA 780Ti SC Tri SLi :)
 
ATI Rage pro (whatever card it was, can't remember!)
Voodoo 2
Geforce 2 256
ATI 9500
Geforce 7 7800GTX
Geforce 7 7900GTX (3 broke! Worst card ever)
Geforce 7 7950GX2
Bought another 7950GX2 a few months later.
ATI 4870X2
AMD 5970
AMD 6990
AMD 7990

Detecting a bit of a theme at the end :p
 
Geforce 2 Ti - hand me down from a friend
Geforce 4400 Ti - bought 2nd hand from the local lan centre
Radeon 9600 XT - bought but lasted 2 months as my Q-TEC PSU killed it :(
9800 GT - Sold not long after for the latter
Radeon HD4890 - in a box under my bed ready for my GFs build
Radeon HD6970 - bought from the MM from a lovely chap :-)
 
Kei said:
All of this is spread across roughly 20 years.

Cirrus logic CL-GD5428 ISA - 386SX 25
S3 Trio64V + extra ram. (which allowed you to move up from 16-bit high colour to 24-bit true colour IIRC) - Cyrix 686 166MHz.
3DFx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI - Cyrix 686 166MHz
3DFx Voodoo 3 3000 TV AGP -Cyrix 686 MII 333MHz
ATi Radeon DDR 64mb AGP - AMD Duron 800
ATi Radeon 9800XT + zalman ZM-80D and ZM-OP1 fan AGP - Athlon XP 2500+
ATi Radeon x850XT PE + zalman VF700-cu PCIe - Athlon 64 3700+
ATi Radeon HD3870 + VF700 - Phenom II X4 955
AMD Radeon HD6950 Toxic 2GB + Aquagratix block - Phenom II
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nVidia Geforce GTX780 + EK Titan block - Still using the phenom II
 
I had...

Riva TNT 2
5200fx
Intel GMA 950 :(
8600GT
9800GTX+
4890
4890xfire overheating driver death explosion doom
7870
7970

On the side i have also had in chronological order in some of my random pcs or laptops: 7600GS
9300m GS
6600GT
3850x2
4870x2
4850
5470m
460GTX
650GTS

Quite a few then! My face has been the 4890 xfire, when it works it was fantastico
 
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