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Your History of GPUs

A bunch of very, very bad integrated GPUS on my first computers, followed by a Nvidia Gefore 7500 LE (Lame Edition, it was fairly poor sadly came on a PC my dad got me from PC world) When I built my first PC i used a 1gb 5770 originally but when it was faulty swapped it for a 1gb 9800GT was next, much better card gamed reasonably well on it till earlier this year. Now I have MSI Twin Frozr II 560ti 1gb and can play anything on high settings will SLI it later most likely.
 
if i remember correctly...
Gforce 2 64MB
Geforce FX5200 128MB (Boo)
Geforce 6600GT
Radeon X800XT 256MB?
Radeon X1800XT 512MB
Geforce 8800GT 640MB (Some kind of BFG OC2 version)
Radeon 4870 1GB
Radeon 5850
Radeon 5850 Crossfire
 
I wish it was even possible to remember all of them.

First graphics card I bought specifically to increase quality of games (for things like, X-Wing and Doom 1) was a Diamond 32 VLB (vesa local bus, omg! not even all motherboards had VLB slots at the time heh) for about 120 quid at trade prices (145ish retail). The ONLY memorable card to top it at the time, was the original Matrox Millenium that people were buying for use with autocad (the DOS version).


I remember also my:

Orchid Righteous 3D (4mb voodoo 1, 2mb was for framebuffer, 2mb was for texturing - was 165 quid when it came out if memory serves me)

Matrox Mystique

Diamond FireGL (64? a Permedia 2 chip based opengl graphics accelerator)

Creative Labs Voodoo 2 12mb x2 in SLI (200 quid a pop, think I bought some for my brothers on their birthday too, and loaned a mate the cash for one because if he bought it and his wife noticed a lump sum payment on a computer for that amount, she'd have killed him.. he paid me back in bi-weekly installments heh).

Matrox G400 (imported this bastage from Canada directly from Matrox and got hit with insane import duty rates)

Nvidia Ti4600 (bought 2, one for each machine I was running)

Nvidia FX5750 (from here onward, bought 1 card at a time and old machine got hand-me-downs whenever I upgraded - also a bit of a budget card this time, compared to the previous Ti's which were premium cards of their time)

Nv 8800 GTX

Nv 460 GTX (pretty good hand-me-down to have right now methinks!)

Nv 580 GTX 3GB - to satisfy my stereo3d urges


I reckon on having forgotten some older cards from the batch, these were the most noteworthy. The FireGL card I remember was just to have non-Glide based hardware acceleration of games like Quake, because Glide used a form of compression on the textures that was quite lossy. I don't think I really stuck with the card that long in the end, but it had some impressive moments.
 
Not a massive list really.

Nvidia TNT2 M64 32MB (came with prebuilt machine)
Nvidia Geforce2 MX 32MB
Club3D ATI 9500 Pro 128MB AGP
Asus HD3650 512MB Passive AGP
Sapphire ATI HD4890 1GB Vapor-x
Asus HD6950 2GB

Gradually spent more and more on cards. At the start it was less than £100, then £150 and finally £220, although I've also spent on aftermarket coolers.
 
Geforce 5200 (loved that card, made me play demanding games on my 600mhz pc)
ATI X300
ATI X800GTO
ATI X1800GTO
ATI 2400 HD
ATI 6950 2gb is my next card :)
 
right here goes think these are right

tnt2 m64
geforce 4 mx440 (that i never got to work)
X200m (laptop graphics, didnt own a desktop for a good 4 years or more)
HD 3650 512mb
Hd4870x2
GTX460 768Mb
HD6970 2Gb
 
Main rig:
voodoo 3
geforce 3 ti 200
geforce 4 mx
fx5900 ultra
fx5950 ultra
9800pro
6800GT
x800XT PE
7800gtx Sli
x1950xt
8800gtx
8800gt sli
gtx260
gtx460
gtx570

Htpc:
HD3450
gtx8400
HD5450
 
My oldest cards were S3, Cirrus Logic and Diamond I'm sure, so a few years or so back. Had a mix of ISA/VLB/PCI based boards, so that tells you how long ago this was :) Might have had a Matrox too.

I was young back then, I remember cutting the memory off a Cirrus I think it was card, to put into an identical Cirrus card which had expandable memory. Took it to a whopping 1 or 2MB mem...and more staggeringly it worked!!


Most I've ever spent on a card was a brand new X1900XT just after they came out for £270. That said it did last me a good 2-3 years. Great card, as was the 9800Pro it replaced.
 
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I can't remember the earlier graphics card but the ones I do remember were the:

ATI 800XT
ATI 1900XT
ATI 2000XT
Nvidia 8800 GTX
ATI 4870x2 failed during warranty
ATI 5850
Nvidia 480 GTX
Nvidia 580 GTX
 
S3 Virge
Power VR
Voodo 3
Voodo 5
ATI Radeon 7000
Geforce 2 Ultra
Geforce 3 TI
Geforce 4 4600
Geforce 5900
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
Nvidia 6600GT
Nvida 6800 Ultra
Nvidia 7800GT's SLI
Nvidia 8800 GTX
Nvidia 8800 Ultra
Nvidia 9800GX2
ATI Radeon 4870's in X-Fire
Nvidia GTX280's SLI
ATI Radeon 5870
Nvidia GTX480
Nvidia GTX460's in SLI
Nvidia GTX580

I think thats it
 
9600 GSO 1.5gb (yes, I know...)
HD 5850 1gb Xfire
HD 6950 2gb Xfire
Soon to be GTX 580 1.5gb Watercooled :)
 
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