Post your GeForce upgrade path

Its suprising how many ppl didnt get a GeForce256

 

TNT Velocity 4400 First ever Nvidia card with Dell XPSR 450
Voodoo 5 5500 (Not more than 2 days, had problems installing card in case (Dell XPSR 450) due to power connector interfering with support bracket).
And finally Creative Labs Annihilator 2 Ge-Force 2 GTS (Current card).
Not sure about upgrade yet!. Using Linux as well as XP Pro and I need something that will work with both OSs'.

 

Voodoo 2
voodoo 3
geforce 3
9600pro
x800xt - on order

 

ATi Mach 32 4MB
ATi 3D Rage IIc 8MB
S3 Savage 4 Pro 32MB SDR
PowerVR KyroII 64MB SDR
Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB DDR

.. next Radeon 9800 XT or Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB *hopefully*

 

Spea Video7
Matrox Millenium G200 + Voodoo 2
Gainward Geforce 4 TI 4400 *GS* VIVO

thats it

 

on board xxxxx 8 mb vid card

Vodoo 2 12 mb
tnt 2
gforce2 mx
geforce 2 ultra 64mb

all this card in just 2 month.. xD

gforcefx5200
gforcefx5600xt
radeon 9800se
gforcefx 5900xt

Firsth, the fx5200.. so bad that exchanged it back... then, i bough a 5600ultra, but, the shop gived me a 5600xt, so i decided to give it back and save some more money to a better card (as the 5600 was CRAP, so i suposed the ultra to be +- the same .. ) then i went to gurus3d forum, and sow a lot of treads abaut the famous 9800se@9800pro ¡, so i bough a poercolor 9800se... with just 128 bit memory bus.. so, sold it to a friend (i lost the ticket, so was not able to give it back to the shop.. xD ) and then, finaly , 5900xt , all in just 2 month xD

Right now, whaiting until early july to see wich card of the new generation i am gonna buy.. ^^

 

voodoo2 magic II
gf4 mx440 64mb
fx 5200 128mb
9000pro 128mb
9600pro 128mb
ti4200 64mb, ti200 64mb and gainward gf2 (yes, 2) ti500 64mb
9500 128mb
albatron 5900xt, 9800se

 

i still have most of these cards

onboard intel
geforce 2mx
Chaintech geforce 4mx (fried it)
PNY geforce 4 ti 4200 64mb (fried it)
radeon 9500 pro (fried it with mountain dew)
geforce 4 mx (a different one)
geforce fx 5200
BFG geforce 4 ti 4200 64mb
PNY geforce 4 ti 4400 128mb

 

Trident PCI/ISA? SVGA? (Can't remember model, was on a Pentium 1, was just a little guy when I had this..)
GeForce 2 GTS 64 MB
GeForce 4 Ti4200 128 MB
Radeon 9600 Pro 128 MB
Radeon 9800 Pro 128 MB

All of those are in order, and my Trident rocked all , kind of sad though, never had any diamond voodoo cards

 

1.S3 Virge
2.8mb Creative Voodoo2
3.16mb 3DFX Voodoo3
4.32mb Creative GeForce 256 DDR
5.64mb Creative Ge-Force 2 Pro
6.128mb Gainward Ge-Force TI 4600
7.256mb Gainward Ge-Force FX 5900 Ultra

 

Realtek 256K

S3 Virge (2 or 4Mb?)

nVidia TNT 2 M64 (32Mb)

Elsa Gladiac GeForce 2 Ultra (64Mb DDR)

Galaxy Zeus GeForce 5900XT (128MB) - arriving next week.


The Realtek came with my 33MHx 486DX. The 486 was top of the range when I bought it, and it cost about £2,000 with a SoundBlaster Pro installed. I think it had a massive 20Mb hard drive too, and 4Mb of RAM which I upgraded to a whopping 20Mb.

The S3 Virge I bought from my mate for about a tenner or a fiver. I ran it on my Cyrix 266MHx (overclocked to a massive 299MHz). Finally I could see the extra graphics in Midtown Madness (bananas flying from the bins etc).

The TNT 2 came with my Packard Bell PC (Athlon 750). The card was slightly behind top of the range when I bought the system, for about £1,200.

I upgraded to the Elsa Gladiac GeForce 2 Ultra, and the difference was sweet. It was the top card when I bought it for about £235. It lasted me quite a while and it was well worth the money - the best gfx card I've ever bought.

After upgrading my system to an Athlon 1600XP (overclocked to 1800XP), I bought an FX 5200. I hardly noticed any difference between the GF 2 Ultra and this card. In banchmarks of course, I was able to get the results of the pixel shading tests. It cost me about £40.

If I remember, I'll post my thoughts about my newest card here when it arrives some day next week. I'm hoping for a very noticeable difference, and I'm also hoping to get my Elsa Relevator glasses working with the bloody thing!

 

ATI Rage II+ 4 MB
ATI Rage128 Magnum 32 MB
nVidia Geforce3 64 MB
ATI 9800 Pro 128 MB

 

heres mine


intel onboard 8 megs (sucked bad)

ati rage 16 meg (sucked)

3dfx voodoo 4 4500 32 meg (rocked)

Leadtek geforce 4 ti 4600 128 meg (was a powerhouse)

soon to be geforce 6800u (Leadtek or MSI)

 

-Some pos Diamond thing in my first P100
-ATI Rage pro onboard
-Asus TNT2 32meg
-Diamond Viper 770 32meg
-GeForce 2 MX400 64meg
-GeforceFX 5200 128meg
-GeforceFX 5700 Ultra 128meg

 

Only one other person that has responded had a Rendition based card? That's kind of surprising to me. I figured thier would be a few more. For it's time, the Rendition Verite 1000 offered the best bang for the buck.

 

well I was wondering same but its obvious.
When GF256 came out it was priced at what no other card was before that. People were not ready to pay that much money on gfx card and it took a while for concept of graphic card more expensive than your CPU+mobo to get into peoples head.

 

I was also wondering, am I the only person to have had a VESA LB graphics card on my 486.
This was on a Packard Bell 486DX2 66 Executive.

 

ATI Rage Fury Pro 16 Mb
G-force 256 32Mb
G-force 3 ti-200 64Mb
G-force FX 5900 128Mb (Gainward 1100)

 

Packard Bell 2mb Onboard Video
Voodoo Banshee 12 mb
Rage Fury Pro (first and ONLY ati card)
G2 mx 400 32mb
G2 Ti Ultra 64mb
Skipped G3
MSI Ti 4200 128
Gainward FX 5900 Ultra 1100 128mb
G5 6800 GT (soon)

 

I dont upgrade naerly as much as you guys.... in fact, i dont upgrade at all, i build a new computer each time. so:

ATI Rage 4MB 1996-1999

TNT2 Ultra 32MB 1999-2003

Geforce 4 ti4200 2003-present

It's all good... Only an unplyable new game makes me upgrade.
I only built a new pC when my TNT2 wouldn't play Splinter Cell.

Now I'm going to get 1GB ram to play far cry...