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Your graphics card history tree?

4MB AGP card
Voodoo 3 3000 <- Started overclocking here
Radeon 8500 <- Started playing with modified Vbios here
Radeon 9800pro <- Started hardware modding here
Radeon x600 mobile
Radeon x700 desktop
Geforce 6800 Ultra
Radeon x1900gt
Geforce 88000GTS
Radeon HD3870
Radeon HD4850 (one then two) <- First two card setup
Geforce GTX 280
Radeon 4850 X2 (single card dual GPU)
HD 4770 (one and then two)
Geforce 9600M GT (MXM)
Radeon HD4650 Mobile (MXM)
Radeon HD5770 (one then two)
Radeon HD5670 (two)
Radeon HDD5830
Geforce GT 240M (MXM)
Geforce GTS 250M (MXM)
Radeon HD5850
Radeon HD5870
Radeon HD6770M (MXM)
Geforce GTX 560M (MXM)
Geforce GTX 570M (MXM)
Radeon HD7970M (MXM)
Geforce GTX 670M (MXM)
Geforce GTX 680M (MXM)
Geforce GTX 780M (MXM) (One then two)
Geforce GTX 980M (MXM) (Two)
Geforce Titan X
Radeon Fury ITX
Geforce GTX 1080M (MXM) (Two)
Geforce RTX 3070 Mobile (MXM)

I THINK that's all the discrete cards I have owned, I might have missed a couple.
 
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PowerVR
2x Voodoo2 in SLI
Voodoo 3 3000
Voodoo 5 5500
Geforce 2 MX
Geforce 3ti 500
Geforce 4ti 4600
ATI 9800 Pro (Changed Cooler)
ATI X800XT PE (Pencil Modded and water cooled)
Gainward 6800GT? (Weird last AGP Card that was at the time best AGP available but pretty rare, had more pipes from PCIE GTX card downgraded to AGP)

Took a break from PC Gaming for many years.....

GTX650ti
GTX750ti
GTX980 FE
Titan X (Maxwell)
GTX1080 FE
Titan X (Pascal)
RTX2080ti
RTX3090 FE
RTX4090 FE

CPU's
Pentium 2 233
Pentium 2 400
Pentium 3 1.4ghz
Pentium 4 1.4ghz (The short lived Rambus ones Willamette?)
Pentium 4 2ghz Same as above
Pentium 4 3.4ghz (Northwood)
i5-750 Clocked to 4ghz
i7-4790K
3950X
5950X

And just for fun....my console history which included fossils like Game and Watch and Puc Monster lol!

Crappy B&W Console played several takes on "Pong"
Commodore 64
Master System
Atari ST
Mega Drive
Super Famicom (Jap Import)
Neo Geo (Jap Import)
Atari Jaguar (US Import)
3DO (US Import)
Sega Saturn (Jap Import)
Playstation 1 (Jap Import)
Sega Saturn White (Jap Import)
Sega Dreamcast (Jap Import)
Playstation 2
 
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Time for an update (probably one or two others I can't remember):

Integrated
(someone gave me a used Voodoo card I never used it)
FX 5600
GTX 7900
X 800XT
HD 4080x2
HD 7950
R9 290
R9 390
FuryX
GTX 1080
GTX 1080ti
RTX 2080ti
(wanted 6800/6900XT, couldn't get one)
RTX 3090FE
RX 7900XTX Nitro
 
muon said:
Some owned at the same time.

x300se (first and only oem pc)
x800xl (best card on list, unlocked to x850xt and volt modded)
hd 3850 256
hd 3850 512
hd 2600xt (bought just to overclock till it broke because it was so efficient)
8600gts 256 (changing cards so often needed backup)
hd 4850
hd 4870
hd 4890
hd 5850 (twice)
hd 6850 (twice)
hd 6950 (flashed to 6970)
hd 7950
gtx 960
rx 480
gtx 1080

Just worked out that net cost of ownership of all cards (except first) under £1000 and I still have the last one.
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muon said:
May as well add to the list. A fun exercise. x800xl remains my favourite card.

gtx 1060 6gb
gtx 1070
gtx 1060 3gb
gtx 1080
rx 580
gtx 1080ti
5700xt (twice but still use one)
rx 5700
rtx 2080 ti (still use)
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Time to add 2+ years of more cards

RTX 3070
RX 6800 MBA
RTX 3060
RX 6700 XT
RTX 3060 Ti
RTX 3070 Ti
RX 6800 Red Devil
RTX 3080
RTX 4070 Ti
 
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Kirby Wurm said:
Some damn impressive lists here, mine stretches quite far back (1998) but is fairly humble.

integrated 8Mb ATI Rage Pro (I still remember the joy I felt when ATI released an OpenGL driver-I could finally play Quake 3...at low settings with vertex lighting :p)
3D Prophet Kyro 4000XT 32Mb (tile-based rendering FTW!)
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128Mb
Nvidia GeForce 6800GT 256Mb
ATI Radeon X1950 PRO 256Mb
ATI HD4870 512Mb
ATI Radeon HD5850 1Gb
Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 1.25Gb
NVidia GeForce GTX 680 2Gb

I'm thinking of returning to the red team with an R9 290X though I'll wait to see what the GTX 780 Ti offers.
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I can add the following in the last 10 years:

GTX 780
GTX 970 (RMA replacement for the above)
GTX 980 Ti
GTX 1080 Ti
6800 XT

Slowing down it seems, 5 cards in a decade vs 7 in the previous one.
 
ATI Rage something - I got this with a Packard Bell with Pentium 3 450Mhz PC
Voodoo3 3000 - I bought this when on holiday in Miami and brought it home
GeForce 3, Ti 200 - I owned this for one night, with PC and other parts on the floor I had to jump over my case when fitting, landed on the Geforce and broke a component off (my one and only GPU catastrophe)
Geforce - FX 5200
ATI 9800 Pro (bought this late as couldn't afford at the time, that's why FX 5200 preceded it)
X800XT PE
7600 GT OC (Had it for three weeks) https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/7600gt-vs-x1900xt.17793804/#post-10336489 stumbled on my own comment with a google search trying to remember the order of when I had the cards :D
X1900XT
2900 Pro -_-
8800GTX
4850 (flashed to 4870)
6950 (flashed to 6970)
SLI 680s (My MSI lightnings)
290X (the hoover)
GTX 1070
RTX 3080
 
1 mb Cirrus Logic VLB
Matrox Millenium - added ram upgrade for a tenner when they went EOL
Voodoo 1
Voodoo 2 - added a second when they dropped to fifty quid
8800GTS 320mb
HD4850 or 4870 - not sure, could dig it out the pile I suppose
GTX970
GTX1080
RTX2080ti
RTX3090
RTX4090
 
ATI Radeon 5770
Evga GTX 460 sc ee full 256 bit 32 rop
Evga GTX 660 Ti FTW signature 2
EVGA GTX 680 FTW
Gainward GTX 780 Ti FE
MSI GTX 970 SLI
MSI GTX 980
MSI GTX 980 Ti reference
EVGA GTX 980 Ti classified
ASUS Strix GTX 980 Ti
EVGA GTX 980 Ti Fe SLI
GIGABYTE 980 Ti waterforce
Gigabyte 980 Ti extreme
MSI GTX 1080
EVGA GTX 1080 Classified
EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FE
Titan Xp 2017
RTX 3060 Ti FE
RTX 3070 FE
RTX 2080 Ti FE
EVGA RTX 3080 FTW3 ULTRA
RTX 3090 FE - what a beaut this card is!
 
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Geforce 2 MX 400
Geforce 4 ti 4400
Radeon 9600pro
Radeon 9500pro (unlocked)
Radeon 9700pro
Radeon 9800pro
X800 XT PE
Geforce 6800GT
Radeon x1800
HD 2900 XT
Geforce 8800GT
Geforce 9600 GSO
GTX 460 x2 in Sli
Radeon 7850
Radeon 7970
GTX 970
GTX 1070
GTX 1080 ti
RTX 2080 ti
RTX 3080

I am sure I missed some. Radeon 9xxx series was fun.
 
Matrox Mystique
Voodoo Graphics 4MB
GeForce256 SDR
Radeon 9800Pro
GeForce 4200Ti
GeForce 6800GT
Radeon 280X
GeForce 1080Ti
GeForce 3080FE
 
Voodoo Rush
Voodoo 3 2000
Geforce 2 GTX
Geforce 4 Ti 4400
Radeon X800 <- My only AMD card.
Geforce 7950 GX2 <- Very silly card. Cooked itself after 18 months.
Geforce 9500 GT <- Temporary stand-in after the 7950 GX2 cooked itself.
GTX 285
GTX 480
GTX 680
GTX 980
GTX 980 Ti <- For a few months (got it virtually free, long story).
GTX 1080 Ti
RTX 2080 Ti
RTX 3090
RTX 4090
 
Wow theres a lot who have gone through a LOT of cards! My journey starts in 1995. I didn't upgrade that much (2.5-3 years average) but many of the cards i had were good and lasted well.

S3 Virge 1MB
+ Orchid Voodoo 4MB (The biggest WOW moment. Was completely obsolete within 2 years)
Matrox G200 + Creative Voodoo2 12MB
Nvidia Geforce 256 DDR
ATi Radeon 9700 PRO (Absolute beast for its time)
Nvidia 8800 GT
AMD 6950XT
AMD R9 280x
Nvidia 1060 6GB
AMD Vega 56
AMD RX5700 XT
 
3dfx voodoo 2
Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Ati Radeon 9800 Pro All in wonder - mind blowing performance plus hooked my ps2 its tv turner - Pro evolution soccer days...
Ati Radeon X850XT PE
Nvidia Geforce 7600 GT
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX - one of the best cards of its generation
HD Radeon 5850
HD Radeon 5850 (xfire)
Radeon 7970 GHz edition - one of the best cards I ever owned
Got married :D
RX580
Nvidia RTX 3060Ti - current
 
1985, 10 years old
ZX Spectrum+
Atari ST
Amiga 500
486 SX25
Voodoo something or other
AGP something or other
9600pro
9800pro
X800XT
RX-800 MSI
GTX-260 Gainward
GTX-470 Asus
GTX-580 Asus
GTX-970 Asus
GTX-1080Ti MSI
RTX-3090Ti MSI

Which one sticks in my memory the most, probably the 9600pro or 9800pro, one of them was a beast at the time if I remember correctly.
 
3dfx Voodoo Banshee
Radeon 9600Pro
GeForce 5900XT
GeForce 6800GT
GeForce 7800GT
Radeon X1900XT
GeForce 8800GT
Radeon HD4870
GTX460
GTX480
GTX670
GTX780
GTX980Ti
GTX1080Ti
RTX3080

Craazy flurry of six cards in four years from the 9600Pro to the 8800GT, and also four GTX cards in four years from the 460 to the 780. What was I thinking?

My 1080Ti lasted almost as long that on its own. Definitely not planning a return to those times of upgrade mania.
 
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