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Your graphics card history tree?

silversurfer said:
Im an old Amiga owner but I had quit for pc by '93. So was the BlizzardVisionPPC a big deal for games or video processing, slotted into the HDD bay on the left ?


Have you considered the idea of selling for said silly price then trying for Vega. Miners will prefer the lower watt 480 I think
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Nah, will keep the 480. It's a great card & no doubt will last me many years. Or at least until the next or next but one set of AMD gfx cards come out hehe. Plus, I'm only on an i7-860, so anything higher would be even more overkill ;)

There wasn't a lot for the PPC cards, but what there was was "omg, the difference!!". I'd gone from a Blizzard1230/IV accelerator to a 603ePPC+68040 & the BlizzardVisionPPC gfx card & it was insanely smooth what it could do. Quake on max everything was a nerdgasm haha.

Playing with gfx software suddenly became smooth sailing, even the 68k version of Elastic Dreams was smooth & the PPC version was amazing & a half :D

From what I recall (long time ago so can't be sure) you had to install the PPC gfx card into a PPC accelerator, so needed both. May be wrong though, memory is going ;)

This shows a rough view of them.

http://8bitplus.co.uk/projects/amiga-1200-desktop-upgrade-version-2-2011/

I had one of those huge EyetechEZ towers with everything open & installed, so was much easier :D


Aaaah, good times.
 
Diamond 3dfx Voodoo 2 12MB with ATI Rage 2D card of some description
Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS
Nvidia Geforce 2 Ti
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB
ATI (AMD) Radeon 4870 X2 2GB
AMD Radeon 6970 2GB
Nvidia Geforce GTX 690 4GB
Sapphire Tri-X AMD Radeon R9 390X 8GB
Palit Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 Gamerock Premium Edition 8GB
 
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Some 2D piece of junk that came with a P60 Packard Bell + Orchid Righteous 3DFX
Voodoo 3
GeForce 2 GTS
Radeon 9700 Pro
GeForce 8800 GTS
Radeon 6950
GeForce 680
GeForce 1070

There were some painfully long stretches between upgrades but, now that I'm an adult, I can waste money how and when I want. A 1080Ti is next on the cards (paid for in half by selling the Zotac 1070 Extreme).
 
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Cirus Logic (lots)
Orchid Kelvin 64
Matrox G200
PowerVR (lasted a day and went back)
Orchid Voodoo 4mb
Creative 8mb Voodoo 2
Unbranded 12mb Voodoo 2 - sli
Geforce 2 (can't remember which)
Geforce 3 Ti 500
Asus X800 XT PE
Geforce 280
Geforce 480
AMD 7970
AMD Fury Pro
Evga 1080Ti

Probably the odd ATI card missing in there too, feel old now!
 
Not in any particular order....

9700 pro
9800 pro
x800xt
x1950
6870 1gb
8800gt
gtx 580
7950
gtx 670
7970
gtx 780
gtx 960 4gb
fury pro
gtx 1070
rx 480
gtx 1080ti :p

Had a few more ati/amd cards than nvidia but I have no real preference.
 
Trident (can't remember which)
Cirrus Logic 5465 AGP + Orchid Righteous Voodoo
ATI Rage + Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 12MB
Pallit Geforce 2mx
Gainward Geforce 4 4200
Leadtek Geforce 5900lx
Geforce 6800
Gainward Geforce 7800GS+ AGP
Sapphire Radeon 4850
Asus GTX 480 Reference
MSI GTX 970 4G
MSI GTX 1080 X
 
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In the 3D realm it probably goes something like the following but I can't remember what 2D card I'd have had paired with the Voodoo's. Matrox maybe?

Voodoo
Voodoo 2
GeForce
GeForce 2
-- Can't remember, probably a few nvidia cards, I think the 6950 below was my first ATI/Radeon --
HIS ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X
HIS HD 7950 IceQ BOOST 3072MB
The above 7950 crossfired with a second hand Tri-X 7950
Sapphire Radeon Fury X
Sapphire Radeon RX VEGA 64 XTX
 
Cant remember the order but something like this

Geforce 4 something
PNY FX 5700 ultra
PNY FX 5900 xt
Gainward 7800 GS
XFX 9600 GT x 2
XFX HD 6870
Sapphire HD 7950
EVGA 1060 6gb
Gigabyte RX 580 8gb
Sapphire RX Vega 64
 
Impossible to remember them all. It would be literally a novel, I upgrade far too often.

First 3 cards though, which basically had to last a full two years before I got a new one, were TNT2, Geforce 4MX, and X800SE I think.

Last three cards have been GTX980Ti, GTX1070 and GTX1080Ti :)
 
Ati 9600xt
Nvidia 6800gt
Ati x800xt
Nvidia 9800pro
Ati 4890
Ati 4890 crossfire
Ati 5850
AMD 7970 (Great card overclocked like a dream)
AMD 7970 crossfire
AMD 290
AMD 290 crossfire
Nvidia 980ti (great overclocker)
 
Voodoo (can't remember which one)
7800GT
Ati 3870
R9 290 (One of the fans literally fell off)
R9 390
Soon 1080Ti

I actually still have the 7800GT and the 3870 in the garage in my old builds
 
Gtx 580
Ocuk tech labs 7970
Evga 780sc

Thinking about making a monitor jump from 144mhz 1080p to 1440p, so next card may depend on this move.
Never had a preference with AMD or NVIDIA
 
My first "GPU" was an onboard ATi Rage Pro 8mb on our family PC from 1998.

That quickly got upgraded to a Voodoo 3 3000 then:

nVidia GeForce 3 Ti200 (128mb variant!)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
nVidia 8800GTX
ATI Radedon HD 5870
nVidia 750Ti (Stop gap - I needed a GPU with a displayport 1.2 connection and didn't want to buy a 780ti with the 9 series imminent at the time)
nVidia 980Ti hybrid

I usually go for the best card available at the time and upgrade infrequently. My next upgrade will likely be a 1180Ti or whatever it will be called.
 
1994 -96 - some ATI card I just can't remember the name of. In a Dell 3086 / 4086 - Doom worked OK. On 10 floppy discs.

1997 - Orchid Righteous 3dfx voodoo 2 - with a whole 12mb of Vram in a Mesh Computer (Ah. The days before the internet and browsing Computer Shopper every week or month or whatever and drooling over the latest high end Mesh)

Can't remember what went on inbetween but

2004 - An FX 56007D with 256mb in a Poweroid PC - Pentium P4

2007- An EVGA 7800 256mb (bought from OC.UK) in the same machine

2008 - Business called so a DellXPS420 Q6600 with an 8800GT 512mb for a bit of gaming

2009 - Palit Geforce GTX260 Sonic - 896mb

2010= MSI GTX 570 - 1280mb

2012 - Gigabyte Windforce GTX670 OC - 2048mb (built my first PC - i5 2500k - and I'm still using it today!)

2015 - Gigabyte G1 gaming GTX 970 - 4000mb (ish!)

2017 - Gigabyte G1 gaming GTX1070 - 8000mb ( I've owned a Dell U2711 since 2012 - only now can I max out games at 1440... 5 years later..)
 
This looks like an interesting thread worth resurrecting.

For me:

Voodoo Banshee 16 MB
GeForce 2 MX 400 32 MB
GeForce 2 PRO 64 MB
GeForce 6800 GT 256 MB
Radeon X1950 PRO 512 MB
Radeon X2900 XT 512 MB
GeForce 9600M GT 512 MB
Radeon 7700 2 GB x 2 in Crossfire
GeForce GTX 970 x 1
GeForce GTX 970 x 2 in SLI
GeForce GTX 970 x 1 again
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti
Radeon RX 550 2 GB

One dirty list. Looks like I have a nasty track record of buying too cheaply, being disappointed, and upgrading almost immediately. Also got burnt by SLI and FreeSync compatibility*. Now biding my time with an RX 550 mostly just to keep a display on my screen.

*Sort of
 
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