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Your graphics card history tree?

HeX said:
Trident 512K
Cirrus Logic 1MB
S3 Virge 4MB
S3 Virge 8MB
Matrox Millenium G200 8MB (was ****, so went straight back and got)
Diamond nVidia Riva 128ZX 4MB (with a...)
Diamond Monster Voodoo 4MB (Jaw droppingly awesome! Quake 2 with colours! That green smoke in the vent shaft in Unreal! WOW!)
Creative Voodoo Banshee 16MB
Voodoo 3 2000 16MB
Hercules GeForce 2MX 32MB
Inno3d GeForce 2 Pro 64MB
ATi 8500LE 64MB (drivers were utter **** so)
GeForce 3 Ti200 64MB
Creative GeForce 4 Ti4200 64MB
Powercolor ATi 9000Pro 64MB
Sapphire ATi 9500Pro 128MB
nVidia FX5800 Ultra 128MB
Sapphire ATi 9600Pro 128MB
ASUS ATi 9600XT 128MB (was a monster overclocker)
MSI GeForce FX5900 XT (as they were flashing to FX5950 Ultra's! Was a bag of turd though)
Powercolor 9800 Non-Pro 128MB (flashed to Pro)
Club3d X800 Pro 256MB (flashed to XT, most expensive card I have ever bought @ £280)
Sapphire X850 XTX 256MB
nVidia 7800GT 256MB
nVidia 7800GT 256MB (in SLi, awesome setup)
ATi X1900XTX 512MB
nVidia 8800GTS 640MB (monster!)
nVidia 8800GTX 768MB
ATi 3870X2 1GB (but was too loud, and driver issues)
HIS 3870 512MB (for Tri-Fire, but was terrible due to drivers)
nVidia 8800GTX 768MB (which I sold for a big profit)
nVidia 8800GTS 512MB
nVidia 9800GTX 512MB
ATi HD4850 512MB
ATi HD4850 512MB (in crossfire, great setup)
nVidia GTX260 896MB (sold before price drops, then rebought cheaper)
nVidia GTX260 896MB
ATi HD5770 1GB
ATi HD5770 1GB (in crossfire, which I barely used as there were no games!, so downgraded)
ATi HD5770 1GB (Vapor-X, for quietness, and better overclocking)
Palit GTX460 1GB (which was ridiculously loud, so returned for...)
MSI GTX460 1GB Cyclone
Gigabyte GTX480SE 1.5GB (which was far too hot and loud for my liking so...)
MSI GTX560 1GB TFII
MSI HD7850 2GB TFIII (which was amazing, and overclocked like a champion!)
Sapphire HD7870 XT 2GB (Tahiti LE card, again great OC'er sits at 1200/6000 on stock while being very quiet)
XFX HD 7870 DD 2GB (Tahiti LE, in crossfire with the above card, terrible cooler, being watercooled soon)


I like GPUs :D
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Update:

Sapphire 290 Tri-X OC 4GB
Gigabyte 1060 ITX OC 6GB
Sapphire Vega 64 Nitro+ 8GB
EVGA 2060 XC GAMING 6GB
 
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GeForce 2 MX200
Hercules 3D Prophet 3
Geforce 3 Ti 300
Geforce 4 Ti 4600
Tyan Tachyon 9600 Pro
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro
Sapphire Radeon X800 Pro
Sapphire X850XT
Sapphire Radeon X1800XT
XFX 6600
Connect 3D X1900XT
Asus X800XL
EVGA 8800GTS 320mb
Inno 8800GT 512mb
EVGA 8800GT 512mb
Inno 9600GT
Sapphire HD4850
EVGA GTX 260
Zotac GTX 285
Sapphire Radeon HD 5850
Zotac GTX 480
Gigabyte GXT 460
MSI GTX 470 Twin Frozr 2
KFA GTX 970 8Pack edition
Asus GTX 1070 Dual

Currently waiting on the RTX 2070S availability to settle down some more before my next upgrade.
 
Here are the ones I remember..

S3 Virge 4MB
Voodoo 2 12MB
Geforce 2MX
Geforce MX440
9800 Pro
X850XT PE
X1800XT
X1900XT
HD 2900 XT
HD 4870
HD 6870 1GB
R9 285
RX480
Vega 64

I thought I'd had more Nvidia cards but looks like I sway the AMD way! My upgrades have definitely slowed down as I've got older.
 
MX440
Ti 4600 (sort of)
9700Pro
X800 XT PE
X1900XT
3870
4870
5870
7970
390X
1080Ti

Pretty AMD dominated, though that's because the MX440 died on me within weeks and the Ti 4600 was DOA. Got a 9700 pro to replace it and never looked back.
 
Riva TNT2
GeForce 2 MX
GeForce 4 Ti4200
Radeon 9800 Pro
Radeon x800 Pro
Radeon x1950 Pro
Radeon HD4850

<10 year break>

RX 580
Vega 64
Radeon 5700
GeForce RTX 3070
 
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ATI 9[Something or other]
Nvidia 8600GT SLI
XFX ATI 5700
Sapphire: AMD 6950
Gigabyte WF3 OC: AMD 7870
Powercolor: AMD 7870XT (Tahiti LE)
Powercolor PCS+: AMD R9 290
Gigabyte WF OC: Nvidia GTX 970
Zotac Mini: Nvidia GTX 1060
MSI Quick Silver OC: Nvidia GTX 1070
ASRock 5700XT Challenger D OC
 
MX440
6600GT (with aftermarket cooler...40c )
7800GS (fastest ever AGP card if I rem right)
7950GT (passive cooling..worked well)
8800 GTS
6950/70 crossfire
980Ti
Vega 56
1070 (warranty replacement for the 980ti)
2070s
 
ati 3d rage II
+ orchid righteous voodoo fx
Creative riva tnt2 ultra
PowerVR Kyro 2 (forget who made it)
Geforce 4 ti 4600
Ati Radeon 9700
Ati X800
Ati X1800
Geforce 6800 GT
Geforce 8800 GTS
Radeon 7950
Geforce 980ti
Geforce 1080ti
Geforce 1080ti
Geforce 1080ti
Titan X Pascal
Radeon 7870 (2nd machine)
Geforce 1080ti
Geforce 2080ti

There will be some I forgot but... that's most of the memorable ones :) Madness at the end before the 2080ti upgrade as was hunting a unicorn (wanted 2100+ core). Next card? Probably big navi.
 
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sisonboard agp crap
Voodoo5
geforce 6200
9800pro
6600gt
8800gt
gtx260
gtx280 (260 broke ty evga, sold it)
4850 (stop gap for the x2's)
4870x2
5850
5970 cf
gtx680
gtx770 as 680 died (ty evga again lol)
gtx980 ( made me fall in love with pc gaming again)
gtx1080 ( fan temp sensor went squiff and ti had just dropped)
gtx1080 ti x13 different ones over 2 years
rtx2080 Ti
 
Didn't have many PCs as a youngster as they were so expensive so I have quite a limited history:

RIVA TNT2
Radeon 9800

<huge gap>

GTX 260 (might have been a 280, can't remember)

<another gap>

GTX 980Ti
GTX 1070
GTX 1660 Super (haven't really used this, was just used to diagnose a fault).
 
All of this is spread across 26 years.

Cirrus logic CL-GD5428 ISA - 386SX 25 (1994)
S3 Trio64V + extra ram. (allowed 24-bit colour vs only 16-bit IIRC) - Cyrix 686 166MHz (1996)
3DFx Voodoo 3 2000 PCI - Cyrix 6x86 166MHz (2000)
3DFx Voodoo 3 3000 TV AGP - Cyrix MII 333MHz (2001)
ATi Radeon 7500 64mb AGP - AMD Duron 800 (2002)
ATi Radeon 9800 pro AGP (flashed to XT) - Athlon XP 2500+ (2003)
ATi Radeon x850XT PE PCIe - Athlon 64 3700+ (2005)
ATi Radeon HD3870 - 3700+/Phenom II X4 955 (2008)
AMD Radeon HD6950 - PII X4 955 (2011)
nVidia Geforce GTX780 - PII X4 955/i7 4820K (2013) - Still in use today for cuda + physx
AMD Radeon Vega 56 - Ryzen Threadripper 1920x (2017)
 
Uriel said:
Let me think...

Onboard 2mb ATi Rage Pro, Voodoo3 3000, RadeonVE (or 7000), Onboard Geforce 4MX (shortest lived PC part ever - lasted 1 day - Geforce 4 my foot) Radeon 9500Pro, Geforce 6600GT, Geforce 6800GT, Radeon X1800XT, Geforce 8800GT.

If I had to pick favourites it's a tie between the Voodoo 3 and the 9500Pro. They both lasted me a couple of years before anything made me fancy an upgrade.
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Ooh. Thread revival. Since then Radeon HD4850, Geforce GTX 460, Geforce GTX 970. GTX 970 has been the longest lived but it's spent most of its like life paired with a quad core Phenom II. May be worth another upgrade now I have a Ryzen 7 2700x...
 
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