Post Your Graphics Card History Timeline

[TheGhost]

Saw this while Googling the Internet, and thought it should be brought here.

Here's my history of graphics cards:

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
ATI Radeon (PowerColor?) X600XT
nVidia BFG 7800GTX
nVidia BFG 8800GTX
(future: nVidia BFG 9800 GX2?)

[Random]

Dell integrated card
nvidia FX5700 pci card
Nvidia GeForce 8800 gts 320mb

[cheezdue]

ATI radeon 200 pro(cant remember the name)
Nvidia Geforce 6150 SE
(future maybe:Nvidia 7800)

[kenney001]

Radeon 7000 32mb
Radeon 9600pro (loved it)
Radeon X1950gt
Radeon x1950pro 512mb (free trade)
Radeon HD4750 (future)

[Pooky]

integrated radeon x300

radeon x1600 pro

radeon hd 3650

[Amit]

Pre-2003:

ATi Rage II

2003 to 2006:

Intel Extreme Graphics
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950

2006 to 2007:
Powercolor ATi Radeon X1600PRO PCI-E

2007 to 2008:
ATi Radeon X1950PRO PCI-E
Sapphire Atomic ATi RADEON HD 3870
[manufacturer] Ati Radeon HD 4850(maybe in the future)

[Patrickssj6]

Intel Integrated
6200 GS
7600 GT SE
8600 GT heavily overclocked (+200 on memory and +150 on gpu)

[alby]

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro (All In Wonder)
Nvidia 6800 GT
Nvidia 8800 GTX

[Xetsuei]

Voodoo 3
ATI Radeon 9200
PNY Nvidia Geforce 6800GS
Evga Nvidia Geforce 7600GS
Evga Nvidia Geforce 7950GT
Evga Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX ACS3
Evga Nvidia Geforce 8800GTX ACS3 x 2

[Phopojijo]

None (80286 DOS)
ATI RageII 2mb (Pentium 1)
GeForce 2 MX-400 (AMD T-Bird 1.3Ghz)
GeForce 5700 Ultra (AMD Barton)
GeForce 7900GT (Core 2)
GeForce 8800GT (When 7900 GT upped and died)

[SnaFuBAR]

ati radeon 9000 integrated 64mb (laptop)
ati x1050 128 mb
nvidia 7300
nvidia 8600 gts overclock 256mb
ati x2600xt 512mb

[Pyong Kawaguchi]

shit 4 mb
nvidia 6200
Nvidia 8300gs
Nvidia 8400gs
Nvidia 8600gts (not to distant future)

[itszutak]

Nvidia 7800 GTX
Nvidia 7800 GTX

This card has lasted me a while, and I'm not switching it out any time soon, unless nvidia picks up its slack.

[InnerGoat]

(future: nVidia BFG 9800 GX2?)get on aim sometime and i'll let you know what card to buy in a few weeks ;)


gainward gf2mx 100/200 64mb
chaintech gf4ti 4600
leadtek 6800gt
XFX 7900GT 256mb (died, RMA got 7950GT 512mb back)
BFG 8800GT 512
[check back in a few weeks]

other cards that were just temp cards or in other rigs,

some 4mb SiS thing.
Diamond viper v550 riva TNT 16mb
Asus gf3
ati 9600pro
ati 9800pro 128mb
Asus x1950 pro 256mb

:lol:

[Syuusuke]

Integrated Gfx (some generic one)
Some Voodoo one
ATI Rage Pro
Intel Integrated (the supposed extreme ones, whatever)
ATI Radeon 9200
Nvidia fx 5200
ATI Radeon 1600xt

Future
Most likely the new ATI one.

[JDMFSeanP]

Dell Integrated
Radeon x800 pro

LOL SELF OWN.

[Sel]

Some 1MB card from 1992 in my first computer

4MB ATI RAGE PRO in my 1998 computer

Nvidia FX 5200 in 2003

ATI X1100 (integrated) In my current computer.

[StankBacon]

geforce 2 gts (agp)
ati 9600 le (agp)
ati x1650pro (agp)
ati x1950gt (pcie)

[flibitijibibo]

Didn't have one until...
01-06: ATI Radeon Xpress 200M
06-08: nVidia GeForce 7950GX2
08-Present: EVGA nVidia GeForce 8800GT AKIMBO SSC

I'm currently trying to sell the 7950GX2. If anyone wants it, its $250 (plus shipping, I dunno how much that'll be). Only problem is, I don't have a box or anything for it. Anyone know what I should get to ship it? I know theres like, this special material/bag that I put the card in, but I dunno what it is/where to get it.

[SMASH]

ATI X300
ATI X1900xt

[Hotrod]

Past:
-Very old crappy card (our standards), don't remember what it was
-Some 32mb card
Now:
-ATI Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro 256 mb
Future:
-I'm still not sure, looking at the new ATI cards

[legionaire45]

Some ancient Intel, Via or SIS integrated shit on my first temp PC (after my mac died D:)

ATI 9600 Pro

Nvidia Geforce 6800 LE w/ Pipelines and shit unlocked and OC'ed to close to 6800 Ultra Speeds

ATI X800 XT or Pro (other comp)

Geforce 7600 GT

Geforce 8800 GTS G92

Geforce 8600 GT (Other comp)

[Abdurahman]

3dfx Voodoo 3 16mb, then a crappy SIS pci thing, then a ATI Mobility M4(laptop), then ATI Radeon Xpress 200, then ATI Radeon X800GTO 256mb (I loved that card.) Now I have a MSI Nvidia 8600GT OC. Works cool!

[DaneO'Roo]

Geforce MX440

Geforce 6600GT 128 Mb

Geforce 8600 GT 512 mb overclocked

[LlamaMaster]

Integrated shit, integrated shit. (radeon xpress 200) Both computers wouldn't take new cards.

[Bodzilla]

Mate i go all the way back to the Doom days.

I've been through alot.

[MNC]

1. Some kind of TNT Thunder&Lighting 32MB

2.ATI Radeon 9000 128MB

3. Nvidia Geforce FX5200 (Present)

4. Future ????

[Zeph]

1. My mother's old Apple which didn't have a real video card. Everything was text and it used a 5.25" floppy.
2. I didn't care enough about the computer to even know about the video card. It was pre-voodoo though.
3. Voodoo (1)
4. SLI'd Voodoo 1 (I called it piggybacking)
5. Voodoo 3 (surprisingly expensive)
6. 32 MB integrated Intel GPU on an old Athlon mobo.
7. All in Wonder 9800 Pro
8. GeForce Go mobility 7900 GS in my current notebook.

[Timo]

Nvidia 5200 FX
Nvidia 7600 GS

No longer planning on upgrading either. University is a lot more expensive than I initially thought :x

[Verdugo]

Integrated crap (I fucking win for getting a PC with no PCI-e or AGP slots:XD:)

Future: GeForce 8600 GT.

[ExAm]

PowerMac G4:
-GeForce 2 MX
-Radeon 9800 Pro Mac Edition

PC
-Radeon X1300XT
-GeForce 8800GT KO

[JunkfoodMan]

Voodoo 3
Intel GMA 915
nVidia 8800GT 512mb

Quite a big step up...

[klange]

1. GeForce 2
2. Some 64MB Radeon
3. GeForce 2 (again, "new" machine)
4. Intel Extreme Graphics (Got my first laptop)
5. Radeon X800 (in my desktop)
6. GMA 945 (Got my second laptop after the first died, I <3 my 945)
7. Moved x800 to server, back to GeForce 2 in other desktop.

[Dr Nick]

Intel Integrated something(could barely run Halo).
ATi Radeon X1300 Pro (256MB, 600/400 core/memory clocks)
Future(2 days from now): eVGA e-GeForce 9600GT SSC(512MB, 740/1950MHz core/memory clocks).

[Terin]

Integrated Graphics Card.
Integrated Graphics Card.
Integrated Graphics Card.
Nvidia Geforce 6200 LE 256MB

Fun stuff. D:

[klange]

Intel Integrated something(could barely run Halo)
Probably an Extreme, those things could barely render the OpenGL gears example without dying. The GMA line runs Halo on full settings with (for Halo on integrated graphics) a good framerate (17fps on fullscreen, 800x600 usually yields a constant 30.)

[Jelly]

nVidia MX400 - 64 MB
nVidia 6200 AGP - 256MB
ATi X1800XL All-In-Wonder - 256MB

Will be getting a new one eventually though.

[someone]

First PC:
-3DFX Voodoo 3

Second PC:
-Club3D Ati Radeon 9550 SE

Current PC:
-integrated Geforce 6100
-Asus Geforce 8600 GT

Future: Best bang for the Buck card

I'm planing to upgrade the current PC with a new motherboard, processor and RAM this summer (I still need to save some money).

[Amit]

Probably an Extreme, those things could barely render the OpenGL gears example without dying. The GMA line runs Halo on full settings with (for Halo on integrated graphics) a good framerate (17fps on fullscreen, 800x600 usually yields a constant 30.)

I ran Halo on a GMA 950 at 1280x1024 with everything turned up with 25-35 FPS. Not bad.

[Ki11a_FTW]

dell integrated card (Intel family chipset)
Integrated ATI X1050
ATI HD 2600 XT

[Varmint260]

Old integrated chipset in a Win95 computer

Intel 82845G in a Dell Dimension 2350

Radeon 9250 installed in same Dell

NVidia GeForce Go 6150 (current)

Future: A new computer isn't planned for the next couple of years

[Warsaw]

ATi Rage All-In-Wonder

Radeon 7000 64MB

GeForce 6600GT 128MB

GeForce 7800GT 256MB

Future: HD4870 X2 2GB

[paintballakid5]

Dell integrated 32mb

ATI 256mb 9250

and my new computer will have a 9600GT 512MB

[Wakeboy1337]

STB Velocity 4400
Ati rage 128 pci
STB Velocity 4400 again
ATI all in wonder Radeon 7500
ATI all in wonder Radeon 8500
ATI all in wonder Radeon 9600
Nvidia 8600 GT

Future? Nvidia 9600 or 9800

[Terin]

They sound too good to be true. Why is a 512mb 8800GT generally more expensive than a 512mb 9600GT? If that's just the retailers being idiots, then I'm definitely getting one of them.

[InnerGoat]

8800GT 512 is like 5-10% faster only, that's all. Both are great deals.

[randreach454]

Compaq from back in 95 with ? integrated.
HP with integrated intel 32mb
evga geforce mx440 pci
bfgtech 5200 pci
ATI 9600 AIW AGP
Sapphire Tech ATI x1600 256mb AGP-Overheating or something, caused massive BSODS
Visiontek HD2400 Pro Overclocked 256mb AGP-good card for the price I paid off Buy.com with a rebate(ended up payin 25$ :-P) but Visiontek sucks ass for anything, especially driver support.
Future:Uh once I get off the collecting unemployment train and get another full time job, a new computer with a pci-e slot at least if not pci-e2.0, so anything thats affordable and kicks ass...

[flibitijibibo]

8800GT 512 is like 5-10% faster only, that's all. Both are great deals.

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=544&card2=557

When you set the core clock to 720 and mem clock to 1000, the difference really shows. For these clocks, its the EVGA 8800GT AKIMBO SSC (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130335&nm_mc=OTC-d3alt1me&cm_mmc=OTC-d3alt1me-_-Video+Cards-_-EVGA-_-14130335) ($200) and the ASUS 9600 GT TOP/HDTI/512M (http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=2&l2=6&l3=651&l4=0&model=2133&modelmenu=1) ($140). IMO, the $60 is probably worth it.

[Cortexian]

nVidia GeForce 4 TI
nVidia GeForce 5200 FX
ATI All-In-Wonder X800
nVidia GeForce 8800 GTX
nVidia GeForce Go 6150 (Laptop)
nVidia GeForce 9600 GT (Dads PC, which is actually my old PC, upgraded a bit)

[SnaFuBAR]

Integrated ATI X1050
ATI HD 2600 XT
lol i had both of those. rock solid performers so far, both of them.

o/

[Sunray]

Desktops:
nVidia GeForce2 MX
ATI RAGE 128
ATI Radeon 9800pro 256Mb
Coming soon: ATI 3650 512Mb

Laptops:
Dell integrated 32mb
ATI radeon 9200M 64Mb
Coming soon: nVidia GeForce 8600M 256Mb

[Phobias]

nVidia 5500FX
6600gs (or something...)
^ died and went back to my 5500FX
7900GT 256mb

Future: HD4870 X2 2GB

[Snaver]

Nvidia 5200 FX 128mb
Nvidia 7950GT 256mb

Nvidia 9800 next perhaps??

[Tweek]

Voodoo Banshee (yeha bitch)
Geforce 5500 FX
Geforce 7950 GTX

[DrunkenSamus]

Nvidia Geforce MX 4000
ATI Radeon Xpress 200. :gonk:

Why me?

[InnerGoat]

oh you poor thing :(

[Amit]

ATI Radeon Xpress 200.

Can't you switch that out for a PCI-E card? Or do you have a laptop?

[DrunkenSamus]

Can't you switch that out for a PCI-E card? Or do you have a laptop?

Nah, it's a desktop. Also yes you can.

[Amit]

Nah, it's a desktop. Also yes you can.

Then that means Goat's pity has gone to waste D: