I decided to create a list of the video cards i used on different rigs through the years. For my surprise I remember all of them. Here is the list and if anyone else cares to share own experience please do LIST 1. Unknown video in IBM XT rig 2. Trident video card 512kb 3. Trident video card 1Mb 4. S3 Virge 5. S3 Virge + Voodoo 1 6. Voodoo Banshee 7. Geforce 2 MX 200 8. Geforce 4 MX 440 9. Geforce 5 5200 10.Geforce 5950 Ultra 11.Geforce 7300 GT 12.Geforce 8600 GT 13.Radeon 2900 GT 14.Radeon 4850 15.Radeon 5770 16.Radeon 5850 now upgrading So It is really an evolution, what do you think ?!c1:
Can't remember because I was 9 at the time playing Duke Nukem 3D on a Pentium 133 Mhz NVIDIA TNT 2 Ultra NVIDIA Geforce 3 Ti 500 NVIDIA Geforce 6800 GT NVIDIA Geforce 7800 GTX NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GTX NVIDIA Geforce 470 GTX Next buy will probably be a Geforce 770 or 780 GTX, the 680 is nice but not enough of an upgrade to warrent the €450
Some 1mb 2d thing TNT2 m64 4200ti (died) 9200se for like a week 9600 XT 6600 GT (died) X800 Pro 7900 GT 8800 GT GTX 275 GTX 560 Ti
Over the years I've had Single cards: 1. Rage 128 2. Voodoo 3 3. Geforce 4 420 4. SIS 315 Pro 5. Geforce 4 Ti 4200 6. Geforce 4 Ti 4600 7. Geforce FX 5700 (2, one for each rig I had at the time) 8. Geforce 6800GT 9. Geforce 7800GT (2, killed my 1st one with a badly mounted NV5 Silencer rev3) 10. Geforce 8800GT 12. Geforce GTX 260 Dual cards: 1. Geforce GTX 260 SLI 2. Geforce GTX 470 SLI 3. Geforce GTX 680 SLI
Let's see: 1998: STB Velocity 128 Riva somethingorother 2002: nVidia GeForce MX400 (prebuilt PC) 2003: nVidia GeForce MX440 (prebuilt PC) 2005: nVidia GeForce 6200 (replacement for the 440 in my old Athlon XP rig) 2008: nVidia GeForce 8800 GT (Palit one I believe) 2010: ATi Radeon HD 5970 (XFX Black Edition) + 3 x 5870s (all in various combinations, eventually settled back on the 5970) 2012: 2 x AMD Radeon HD 7970 in CFX.
From what I can remember: -Nvidia Geforce FX5200 128MB AGP -Asus ATi Radeon X800 Pro 256MB AGP -Asus ATi Radeon X850XT PE 256MB PCI-E -Sapphire ATi Radeon X1900XT 512MB (died) -Club3D ATi Radeon X1950XT 512MB (was sent to me after I rma'd the x1900xt) -XFX 8800GTS 320MB (lack of memory made me go to the 8800GTX) -Asus EN8800GTX 768MB (lasted me until 2 months ago) -MSI Geforce GTX680 2GB
About 20, from STB something VGA----->Prolink somecard VGA ------>ATI Rage II---etc etc etc etc---->6950
S3 Virge 2mb + 2mb upgrade That combined with Diamond Monster 3D (voodoo1) Nvidia Riva TNT (decided to skip the Voodoo banshee) Geforce 2MX Geforce 4MX Geforce 4 Ti (the proper shader rendering one), sold after a week time ATi Radeon 9700 (non pro, unlocked to pro) -> very good card Geforce 6 LE (unlocked to 12 shader units) -> very good card Geforce 7 7950 ATi 4850 (got rid of it fast) Nvidia 8800GTS 320MB (lack of vram) Nvidia GTX260 Nvidia GTX295 (waste of money?) Nvidia GTX480 (very good card) Nvidia GTX680 (haven't had it long enough to judge yet)
march, 1990 - CGA graphics card onboard 64kB (first computer Sinclair PC200 without monitor but text blurried lol because the fault was TV) july, 1993 - Trident (8900C?) (1MB, SVGA, ISA) but I can't remember what's right model. may, 1996 - Trident (9400CXi?) 2MB with up to 24-bit color (=16M colors) but fuzzy problem on both 16-bit and 24-bit while any object moving only july, 1999 - Intel I740 8MB christmas 2001 - GeForce 2 MX 400 64MB christmas 2003 - GeForce FX 5200 128MB december, 2004 - GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB AGP due to FX 5200 was slow november, 2006 - GeForce 7300LE PCI-e 512MB because 6800U was died but 7300LE is much slower than 6800U :thumbdown july, 2007 - GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB due to 7300LE very slow january, 2009 - GeForce 9800 GT 1GB due to 8800GTS died november 18, 2010 - current GeForce GTX 480 with 10-year warranty registered on-line only because 9800GT was only short (2-year) warranty next videocard - GTX 480 will be died (RMA) or Maxwell or upgrade only 2015 (after Maxwell?) due to crisis.
CGA graphics card - it's very probably. CGA has graphics 320x200 at 4 colors and text 40x25 at 16 colors and graphics 160x100(?) at 16 colors. And graphics up to 640x200 at 2 colors. GTX 560 Ti or 570 is good because it's impressive performance at heavy tessellation and has PhysX support.
matrox card Voodoo2 voodoo3 Voodoo banshee power VR TNT2 Geforce 3 Ti Geforce 440 FX 5700 PNY 6600gt Gainward 7800GS+ AGP same as 7900gtx pcie 7900gs AGP( got as rma for 7800gs+ but returned as slower with the money i upgraded to pcie and 8800gts 320 with change) EVGA 8800gts 320 EVGA 8800gts 512mb BFG 9800 GTX BFG 260gtx maxcore XFX 275gtx gigabyte 470GTX SOC still plays everything at 1080p so no need to upgrade yet still got the 260gtx and 275gtx 8800gts 320 in brother in laws PC 8800gts 512mb in sister in laws PC 9800gtx in father in laws PC
Last card Upgraded to Sapphire 7850! Perfectly satisfied at 1150/6000 at 1.116v - get 7950 performance with ease!!! Vantage score of 2600 / 3Dmark 11 7000 points!
1. ATI RAGE 128 Pro 2. Unknown GeForce (MX 2? 5k Series?) 2. ATI x1650 pro 3. ATI x1950 pro 4. ATI 3870 4.a. ATI 3850 (CrossfireX with 3870) 5. Asus DK-4870 5.a. ATI 4890 (CrossfireX with 4870) 6. 2x MSI 5770 (Crossfire) 6.a. 9600gt (Physx) 7. GTX 470
Cant remember all of the early ones by name, unfortunately. Cirrus logic S3 Trio 64 S3 Virge Nvidia Riva TNT Nvidia Riva TNT 2 Model 64 Nvidia GeForce2 MX400 Nvidia Geforce FX 5700LE ATI Radeon x700 pro Nvidia Geforce 6800 GT Nvidia Geforce 7800 GTX ATI Radeon x1950 pro Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS 640MB Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX (SLI) Nvidia Geforce GTX 280 (SLI) ATI Radeon 5770 Nvidia Geforce GTX 295 AMD Radeon HD 6970
-Onboard Intel - whatever it was that came with Pentium III mobos -Geforce 2 MX400 - first GPU for our Ghost Recon LANs *memories* -ATI x1600 256MB (about the time I got my first job) -ATI 2600XT 512MB -Nvidia 9600GT 512MB -ATI 4850 512MB -ATI 5770 1GB -Nvidia GTX 470 1280MB -Onboard Intel 2500K...
Well. But do you have read my post #10??? Your AMD-ATi is crap and bad because it isn't efficient at heavy tessellation and hasn't PhysX support. haha!
I have to say, you guys upgrade A LOT! For me it was just ATI 9200 64MB (still alive!) GeForce FX 5200 256MB (still alive!) GeForce GTX 550 Ti 1GB
