Post your videocard history.

[Farmer]

Not too many for me. I could not name the video cards I had in my systems prior to my circa 1999 Pentium III. I know I consciously made the choice not to purchase a Riva TNT, so the first one I'll list is right around when the term "GPU" became popularized (Geforce 256 era).

Creative nVidia Geforce 256 Ultra AGP (32MB)
3dfx Voodoo2 PCI (12MB)
ATI Radeon 9800 XT AGP (256MB)
Sapphire Radeon X1950XT PCI-E (512MB)
Sapphire Radeon HD4870 PCI-E (1GB)
MSI Geforce GTX560Ti PCI-E (1GB)

 

[Dark Shroud]

I don't know what were in my family's PCs from the 80s, my father wouldn't let me open them up.

I don't recall my next ones beyond them being
S3
3DFX

ATI Rage Pro 2 4mb AGP 2x IGP with duel 56k pipelines.
EVGA FX 5200 256mb PCI (newb mistake)
EVGA FX 5400 128mb PCI (Gift)
ATI x300 SE 128mb PCI-Ex 1.0
Sapphire x1950 Pro 512mb PCI-Ex 1.0
Sapphire HD 4670 1GB DDR3
Sapphire HD 6970 2GB DDR5

I also have a AGP TNT2 Pro floating around that I took from a hand me down PC. Someone walked off with my Matrox card.

 

[lavaheadache]

I have had every highend card out, well probably 75% percent of them since the first 3dfx cards.

 

[palladium]

Riva TNT2 -> ??? (fell out of the loop - but mostly Intel GMAs) -> FX 5200 -> GTX 280 (current) -> likely HD6950/6970CF, hopefully in the next 8 - 10 weeks.

 

[alcoholbob]

S3 Savage 4MB
Geforce 256 DDR 32MB
Geforce 4 Ti 4400
Radeon 9800 SE
Geforce 7800 GT
Geforce 8800 GT
Nvidia GTX 285
ATI 5870
Nvidia GTX 580
ATI 6970 CF

 

[KevinH]

Diamond Virge
Voodoo 2
Riva Tnt 2
Geforce 1
Geforce 2
Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Ati X800 Pro
Geforce 8800 GT for the last 3.5 years. Still manages to play modern games (albeit, not at max settings but still looks good enough for me). SC2 runs great on it as did ME2/DAO.

 

[Slugbait]

Funny how a couple of people started by listing video accelerators as video cards.

My first Frankenstein had a Matrox Millenium II plus an Orchid Voodoo Graphics card.
Next was a Matrox Marvel G200 plus Diamond Voodoo II in SLI.

After that, my list is a little longer than nitromullet's, but minus ATi.

 

[SolMiester]

In order
Diamond S3 viper?
Voodoo Banshee w\ 2 x Voodoo 2 SLI
GF 256
GF4 4600Ti
GF2 Go
GF 6600GT
X1950pro
GF 9600GT

 

[Tattare]

I dont remember them all.

The one I remember pretty well was a elsa award winner something.
I traded some guy a 56k us robotics external modem for it from a old forum. voodoo 3d? for my 300a celery system. That card rocked!

 

[iGas]

VGA Wonder
Mach32 (roughtly $700 CAD, most expensive graphic card that I ever paid)
Diamond (something can't remember exactly)
Rage I
Millenium II
Trident S3 Virge
Riva 128
Radeon 9600 Pro
X1650 Pro
GTX 460

 

[TurtleCrusher]

ATI 3d RAGE 16MB AGP
Several IGP's
Matrox Millenium?
Voodoo 2 AGP
Geforce 2 AGP (2)
Geforce 3 AGP
Geforce Ti-4200 AGP
Radeon 9250se 32mb AGP
Radeon 9550se 64mb AGP (Overclocked to 500mhz from 250mhz stock with a basic case fan attached!)
Geforce 5500 256mb 128-bit PCI
Radeon x1550 256mb PCI-E
Radeon x1650 512mb PCI-E
Radeon x1650 pro 512mb PCI-E
Geforce 7600gt 512mb PCI-E
Radeon 3450 256mb PCI-E
Geforce 8800GTS 320mb PCI-E
Radeon 3850 512mb PCI-E
Radeon 4830 512mb PCI-E
Radeon 6870 1GB PCI-E

As far as I can remember, that's what it is. I had a discrete card in my Pentium 90mhz. I also has discrete cards in my Tandy 2000 and my Athlon 1700+ system. Don't remember now

I'm 22! This shouldnt be that hard!

 

[iGas]

ATI 3d RAGE 16MB AGP
Several IGP's
Matrox Millenium?
Voodoo 2 AGP
Geforce 2 AGP (2)
Geforce 3 AGP
Geforce Ti-4200 AGP
Radeon 9250se 32mb AGP
Radeon 9550se 64mb AGP (Overclocked to 500mhz from 250mhz stock with a basic case fan attached!)
Geforce 5500 256mb 128-bit PCI
Radeon x1550 256mb PCI-E
Radeon x1650 512mb PCI-E
Radeon x1650 pro 512mb PCI-E
Geforce 7600gt 512mb PCI-E
Radeon 3450 256mb PCI-E
Geforce 8800GTS 320mb PCI-E
Radeon 3850 512mb PCI-E
Radeon 4830 512mb PCI-E
Radeon 6870 1GB PCI-E

As far as I can remember, that's what it is. I had a discrete card in my Pentium 90mhz. I also has discrete cards in my Tandy 2000 and my Athlon 1700+ system. Don't remember now

I'm 22! This shouldnt be that hard!

My 386 had the VGA Wonder ISA
The 486 66DX2 CPU was $1,100 CAD, and the Mach32 VLB with the whopping 2 megs of rams were $700 CAD (circa 1991/92).

 

[TurtleCrusher]

My 386 had the VGA Wonder ISA
The 486 66DX2 CPU was $1,100 CAD, and the Mach32 VLB with the whopping 2 megs of rams were $700 CAD (circa 1991/92).

I was 3-4 at the time!

Parts cost so much back then!

 

[MentalIlness]

Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
GeForce MX400 PCI
ATI 9600
ATI 9800 Pro
ATI X800 Pro
Connect 3D X1800 XL
EVGA 7600 GT CO
HIS X1900 GT
EVGA 8800GTS 640
BFG 7900 GTX OC
HIS HD 3870
EVGA 9800 GTX
AMD HD6870 x 2

 

[Destiny]

From the looks of ALL these lists... I can come to the conclusion that the GPU industry is not much affected by the economy?! Including several recessions from the looks of the model numbers of the cards I see on all the lists! Correct me if my opinion is wrong...

 

[cusideabelincoln]

Not many people are gonna beat my short list.

Radeon 7500 All-in-wonder
Radeon 9600 Pro
Radeon X800 GT
Radeon HD 3850

I've picked up several other cards for my family, but these are the ones I've used for myself.

 

[Borealis7]

oh this again...

S3 Virge 4MB
Ati Rage Pro II 4MB + Creative VooDoo2 4MB
ELSA Geforce2 GTS 32MB (bitchin' card!)
SiS FX661 IGP
ATI Radeon X850XT 256MB
GeCube Radon X1950Pro 256MB
BFG Geforce 8800GTS 512MB (died, no bake attempted)
MSI Radeon HD4850 512MB
Current: Sapphire HD5850 flashed with 5870 bios and O/Ced

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

GeForce MX 200
? tried MX 500
ATI 9800 Pro (still have)
? tried X 850 XT
ATI 1900 XTX (still have)
HD 3870
HD 4870
2x HD 5870 (one left)
GTX 480

 

[Jacky60]

3dfx Voodoo 2 SLI
Riva TNT2
Geforce
3dfx Voodoo3
Geforce 2 GTS
Geforce 2 Ultra
Geforce 3
ATI Rage Fury Max
Matrox G400
Kyro 2 64mb
ATI Radeon
Geforce TI 4600
Radeon 9700 Pro
ATI x850XTPE
Radeon 9800 Pro
Nvidia 7800 512mb GTX
BFG 8800 GTX O/C
Radeon 4870
Radeon 4890 (2)
Radeon 5970
Radeon 5870
Radeon 6990 (2)

 

[GaiaHunter]

Riva TNT2
Geforce 2 MX
Geforce 4 Ti4200
Radeon 9500 pro
Geforce 6 6800nu AGP
Geforce 6 6800 GT PCIE
Geforce 7 7600 GT AGP
Geforce 7 7900 GT
Radeon 4850
Radeon 6850

 

[Ancalagon44]

Who has had the largest performance increase from one card to another? I went from a Radeon 9600XT 256mb to a GeForce 8800GTS 640. The GeForce was ridiculously fast compared to the Radeon. I think it was 3 generations ahead.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

No one else had a Tseng Labs card?!

 

[GaiaHunter]

Who has had the largest performance increase from one card to another? I went from a Radeon 9600XT 256mb to a GeForce 8800GTS 640. The GeForce was ridiculously fast compared to the Radeon. I think it was 3 generations ahead.

Riva TNT 2 -> GF4 ti4200 (I bought that GF2 MX at the same time as the GF4 for a second machine) was probably my biggest "wow" moment.

 

[MegaWorks]

ATI Xpert 98 (RAGE PRO)
ATI Rage Fury MAXX (Rage 128 Pro x2)
nVidia TNT2 M64
ASUS Geforce 2 GTS
Sapphire Radeon 9500 Pro
ATI Radeon X800 Pro
Sapphire Radeon X1600 XT
ATI Radeon X1800 XT
VisionTek Radeon HD 3870 CrossFire
HIS Radeon HD 4850 CrossFire
XFX Geforce 9800 GT x 2
XFX Geforce 9800 GT SLI
XFX GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Black Edition
XFX Radeon HD 5770
XFX Radeon HD 6970

 

[dawp]

cirrus logic CL-GD5434 onboard chip with 1 meg of memory expanded to 2
s3 virge
tnt2
hercules 9700 pro
xfx 6800gt
my current xfx hd4870x2