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Your graphics card history tree?

PCI

Some unbranded FX5200 256mb
PNY 6200 256mb something..
Sparkle 8500 GT 512mb.

PCI-E

BFG 8800 GTS OC G92 512mb.
Sapphire 4870 512mb.
Sapphire + HIS 4870.
 
Onboard jobby with 1mb
onboard jobby with 2mb
Nvidia RIVA 128
ATI Rage Pro
GeForce 256
GeForce2 MMX
GeForce4 TI4800
ATI 9800 PRO
ATI x800
ATI x1950
Nvidia 8800gts
Nvidia 8800gtx
another 8800gtx for sli
another 8800gtx for tri sli
3 x 8800 ultras as i got them for cheap
2 x nvidia 9800gx2
3 x GTX 280 + 2 x 4870x2 in my second machine
 
ati rage128
geforce mx440
ati 1600pro
ati 1600xt
ati 9700
ati 9700pro
ati 9800pro
geforce 6800gt
geforce 6800ultra
ati x800pro
ati 1800xl
geforce 8800gts 320
ati 2900pro
geforce 8800GT
ati 4850
ati 4870
gefroce GTX260 (current)
 
MeatLoaf said:
Also had no end of cards, the forst i had in my first PC was a 2Mb Stelth card. Then i got a
Voodoo Rush 16Mb,
Voodoo 3 AGP,
Geforce 2 MX,
GF4 MX 440,
GF FX5200 128MB
GF FX5600 128MB
GF FX5900LX ( Modded to a FX5950 )
GF FX5900XT
RADEON 9800 PRO
GF6800 STD
GF6800GT AGP
GF6600GT PCI-E SLI
GF6800 ULTRA PCI-E
GF7800GT SLI
GF7600GT SLI
GF7900GT SLI
GF7900GS SLI
GF7900GTX
RADEON X1900XTX
GF7900GS
GF7300GT DDR3 SLI
GF8600GT SLI
GF8800GTS 320MB
GF6200TC -Sold the GTS to get a GT
GF8800GT 512MB

Yes i really have had SLI 7 times :D
Click to expand...

The list gets longer....

After the 8800GT 512 came...

GF8600GTS SLI
GF8800GTS 512MB
GF8800GTX
GF7300GS ( skint so sold the GTX :p )

Then got really skint so sold the PC :D

Then new pc with onboard Intel GMA950, replaced with an new mobo and then :

GF8800GS 384MB SLI
GF8800GTX ( Again lol )

Next i plan to add an 8600GT for physx. I had planned to use one of the 8800GS cards but it interferes with the SATA ports so need a shorter card

So thats 9 times now for SLI :p
 
Family PC (1024x768) went
Geforce 4 MX440 64mb
9600Pro 128mb (just to play my first real PC game, Battlefield 2)
HIS 9800Pro 256mb with kickass cooler

Then I got my own PC at 16 with 17" monitor (1280x1024) and pci-e so went
7300gt 256mb
x1800gto 256mb
HIS x1950 512mb with that kickass cooler again
Gecube 3870xt with a non standard cooler that didnt look cool and wasn't quiet so not kick ass
Then I got a nice 20" widescreen (1680x1050) and the AA hit on the 3 series was noticable
And thats where we are now, with my 4870 and Vortexx cooler, which kicks more ass cause its shiny and colourful!

And to think when I got the 9600pro I got my sister boyfriend to install it cause I didn't know what to do!!
 
Assorted crap onboard graphics.
TNT 64mb card (I think)
ATI Radeon 9000
ATI Radeon 9500 pro
ATI Radeon 9800 pro
ATI 1600XT
ATI 1900XTX
ATI 2900pro
Nvidia 8800GTS G92
Nvidia 9800GX2

Was not impressed with the 2900pro and I made the switch to Nvidia.

Dave
 
My tree is still small.. lol

GeForce 4 4200 Ti > RADEON 9800 Pro (but didn't work properly static must have popped it, so only lasted a day) > GeForce 4 4200 Ti > GeForce 8800GT SLI
 
AGP
- Old school onboard steam engine in AST family PC.
- VOODOO 1 with mechwarriar 2 :eek::eek::D
- ATI Radeon 7000, so powerful it created blackholes.
- 9800pro, died during ATITool overnight (my bad).
- X800XT, great workhorse for css, but cost me too much (£270).

PCI-E
- X1900XT, stunning card, plays crysis, and my main tf2 with ease.
- 8800GT (coming next week), with accelero will be a great £50 upgrade.

Also just bought, Warhead, Stalker, mass effect, bio shock, so have lots to keep me going.
 
Well the first PC I bought in 1999 was from Tiny and came with a Pentium 3 450mhz and a Riva TNT2. since then it's been home build machines.

nVidia TNT2
nVidia GeForce2 MX (Hercules)
nVidia GeForce Ti 4200 (PNY)
ATI 9800PRO (Sapphire)
ATI 1950PRO (Sapphire)


So, not gone too bad over the years and the biggest improvement was when i got the 9800pro. Holding out as long as possible before the 1950pro goes.
 
Onboard
Voodoo (cant rem which one)
Radeon 9800 pro 256mb
XFX 6800GT
Sapphire 7600GT
XFX 8800GTS 512mb Alpha Dog Edition
Powercolor 4870x2
 
matrox 4mb
power vr (returned)
3dfx voodoo 1
3dfx voodoo 3 2000
geforce 2 gts
geforce 4200ti
nvidia 5700 i think(returned...worse card ever!)
ati 9800pro
6600gt (returned not enough of an upgrade if any)
6800gt (best card i ever bought)
7800gt
8800gts(640)
ati 4850
 
onboard S3 savage DDR
Geforce TNT2 32mb
Geforce 4 64mb
Geforce 5900 128mb
Geforce 7900gs 128mb
Geforce 7950gt 256mb
 
Matrox Millennium Dual Head 32Mb
nVidia GeForce 256 64Mb (lasted a week)
nVidia GeForce 256 DDR 32Mb
nVidia GeForce 3 Ti 500
nVidia Geforce 4 Ti 4200
nVidia GeForce 6800GT AGP
nVidia GeForce 6800GT PCI Express
ATI Radeon HD 4870

I do remember the original Unreal running on the GF 256 DDR with great fondness - first time I'd seen HW accelerated lighting effects, marvellous...
 
nVidia Geforce fx5200 128mb AGP
ATI 9200se 256mb AGP
ATI 9800pro AGP
nVidia Geforce 6800nu AGP
nVidia 7800GS 512mb AGP (Gainward 7800gt thing)
ATI 1950pro 256mb PCI express
ATI HD4850 PCI express
 
Wierd, I was thinking about this the other day after recently just finishing a build, didnt know there was a thread until now.

Anyway my journey with gpu's began about 11 years ago when my dad bought me my first PC, it was just for me and setup in my room. So awesome i thought...and it was. I played a few games and didnt realise it had a 3D accelarator (wow) until i was messing about with the display settings in Jedi Knight. I thought it was so cool everything looked all smoothed out. Well that was it, after more poking round i discovered it was an ATI 3D Rage Pro 4MB. Right after that i spent my pocket money on a load of games that would only run with a 3D card, i remember Turok being one of them. ACE.

Time rolls by and at this time im more into grips with Windows 98 and how to reinstall the OS and swap out hardware. I remember Kingpin was due out during the summer (summer '99) but my graphics card couldnt play it very well at all. I was gutted when playing the demo and just knew it was time for an upgrade. So with 120 great british pounds in my skyrocket i went off down into town and bought myself a 3dfx Voodoo 3000 16MB. It wasnt too fantastic or anything but did the job for almost a year.

Once my first PC could no longer play games at playable framerates I got another off my parents for Christmas that came with an Nvidia Riva TNT 2 32MB and kept that for a couple of years but it didnt really cut much mustard as the system was a mid range spec so i bought yet another one a few years later with my own hard earned cash, this time it came bundled with a GeForce4 MX400, which was an absolute pile of pants (i didnt do much research into that one, d'oh!) and so soon upgraded to the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro. I loved this card and got more life out of it than any other to date.

Now onto a bit more modern stuff. I finally jumped onto the DIY bandwagon and built my next PC which had an ATI Radeon x850 Pro. It didnt last long though as it began to struggle pretty badly so i ended up swapping it out for an Nvidia 8800GT (one of the first models). I eventually donated that build to my dad when i built my recent rig this year that is equipped with an ATI Radeon HD3870 x2.
 
What a great thread :) I upgrade slowly, but got my first PC about 13 years ago (after my Amiga...) so there should be some history here :)

Cirrus Logic 4Mb graphics card, could do VGA and everything! (1995)
Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo 2 (not sure, 1997?)
Geforce 256 (1999)
Geforce 2 (2000)
Gainward Geforce 4600Ti "Golden Sample" (2002)
Geforce 6800 AGP (2005, now in my girlfriend's machine til she gets a PCI-E board)
BFG 8800GT OC2 (2007, first PCI-E card)
and the change to ATi, arrived this afternoon - Gainward 4870 Golden Sample, running at 780/1090Mhz :)
 
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