What Video cards have you gone through since?

hamster

I'm sure this was asked before - but I would be curious to know what you guys had and have now in your PCs?

I'll start..

Desktop:
1Mb Tseng ET4000 (2d) (1993-1995)
4Mb S3 Trio (2d) (1995-1996)
Matrox Millennium (4Mb vram) - 2d - Excellent card (1996-1998)
4Mb Voodoo I (Orchid Righteous) - passthru 3D - GLQuake 640x480 (1997)
8Mb Voodoo II (Creative Blaster) - passthru 3D - 1024x768 (1998)
12Mb Voodoo III - 3200 - my first 2d/3d combined card (1999)
32Mb Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS (2000-2006) - My favourite long lasting friend
256Mb Nvidia 7600GT (what an upgrade - and already budget!) (2006+)

Laptop side:
Geforce 2Go (2003-2007+)

Grim.

Geforce2 (2002)
Ati 9200 (2003)
6800GT (2005)
7800GT (2006)
8800GTS 320 (2007)
8800 Ultra (2007)

uberpixie

first rig: Athlon 2400XP rig (2002)

Started off with a GF4200 64mb, this dies after 6 months.

Was swiftly replaced with a GF2 pro 64MB from the bargain bucket of PC in mint condition for 40 quid.

Eventually replaced with a Radeon 9800 128MB non pro. (2003)

2nd rig: Build an AMD 64 shuttle box and retained the radeon 9800.

Eventually replaced the 9800 with an X800XT PE around late 2004 to early 2005 (I think)


Present Rig: got a 8800GTS 320mb in August. Will see after Xmas if there is any sort of dacent jump in graphics cards, if not will drag the life out of it for another 6 months or so.

SeanW

1997-2001 Jaton video card, 1MB
2002-2006 nVidia GeForce 2 MX 400 64MB AGP
2006-Present nVidia GeForce 6800GB 256MB Pci-Ex16.

Not planning to upgrade it any time soon because I've yet to throw anyting at my 6800GS that it couldn't handle in its sleep, everything from old games to newer stuff like FarCry and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. all running nicely on my old LCD monitor @1024*768. If I end up with bundles of spare cash I may go the whole hog and build a new machine with quad-core processor, 8800GT or some of the newer ATI stuff, 1280*1024 monitor, Windows Vista etc, but I have no short term plans to do that.

TerrorFirmer

All in the order I've used them in a main desktop machine, and not including spare parts used in old PCs etc..used plenty of Fx5200's, 9600's, 9800's, etc in between main machines in older agp builds as well, and I've probably forgotten a few.....not to mention I've gone through a few Laptop cards too, Rage Mobility 16mb, Radeon X200, Go6400, Go7400, current Go8600GT...

Can't remember what used prior to 1998, some 2mb junk
TNT (1998-ish)
TNT2 (1999-2001)
Geforce 2 MX (2001-2002)
Geforce 4 MX (2002-2004)
X800SE (2004)
X800 (2004-2006)
7600GT (2006)
7600GS (2006)
X800Pro (2006)
X1950Pro (2006)
6200 (2006)
7900GS (2006)
Geforce 4 MX PCI (few days....horrific experience)
X1800XT (2007-current)
X300 (2007)
8400GS (2007)
8800GTS (2007)

By Christmas: 3870 Crossfire

astrofool

On just my main machine, and beginning with 1995 and a Pentium 75mhz (before that it was generic ISA/PCI VGA card):

OnBoard (can't remember the name, but I still remember being surprised to see it support in directx with it's own dll)
Tseng ET6000 (excellent 2D card, ran for many many years in this capacity)
Matrox Mystique (not as good 2D, but ran Tomb Raider 2 in 3D brilliantly)
Matrox G200 (first AGP card with a Pentium II 266mhz)
TNT
TNT2 Ultra
Geforce 2 GTS
Geforce 2 Pro (almost forgot this one)
Geforce 3 Ti 200
Geforce 4 Ti 4600
Radeon 9800XT
Geforce 6800 Ultra AGP
Geforce 6800 Ultra PCI-E
Radeon X1800XT
Geforce 8800GTS 640mb

I've pretty much been on the cutting edge all the way through (had my 8800GTS for over a year), my next card will likely be a Geforce 9, unless ATI/AMD get the finger out and don't go multi-GPU on one board (why ffs!?!).

Lord Deco

Cant remember the years lol....

TNT2 in the parents Dell for a year
Geforce 2 Mx400 needed the H+T for gta I think
Geforce 4 Ti 4200 best card ever,had it for 2 years
6600gt in 2005 sometime,still using it...
3850HD on the 18/12/07,wont open till christmas day

hamster

HavoK wrote: »

All in the order I've used them in a main desktop machine, and not including spare parts used in old PCs etc..used plenty of Fx5200's, 9600's, 9800's, etc in between main machines in older agp builds as well, and I've probably forgotten a few.....not to mention I've gone through a few Laptop cards too, Rage Mobility 16mb, Radeon X200, Go6400, Go7400, current Go8600GT...

Can't remember what used prior to 1998, some 2mb junk
TNT (1998-ish)
TNT2 (1999-2001)
Geforce 2 MX (2001-2002)
Geforce 4 MX (2002-2004)
X800SE (2004)
X800 (2004-2006)
7600GT (2006)
7600GS (2006)
X800Pro (2006)
X1950Pro (2006)
6200 (2006)
7900GS (2006)
Geforce 4 MX PCI (few days....horrific experience)
X1800XT (2007-current)
X300 (2007)
8400GS (2007)
8800GTS (2007)

By Christmas: 3870 Crossfire

Wow.. how did you chew through that lot havoc especially the 7600GT and 7600GS as they were so close... God I hope to not waste any more money on anymore 3D cards for awhile! Although I'm sure my 7600GT will be begging for an upgrade before long. The 8800GTS being especially tasty!

SouperComputer

ANTIC & GTIA
Blitter
Onboard CGA
Onboard VGA
S3 4MB
Rage 128 16MB
Matrox Millenium G450
GeForce 2
MX440
Ti4200
TNT2 (just about played GTA3 LOL)
9600pro
9800pro
FX5200
Another 9800pro
6800GT
Another 6800GT

Den_M

1997-1999 ATI Rage II 2mb(?)
1999-2002 Creative Voodoo 2 12mb
2003-2005 Geforce 4 64mb
2005-2006 Geforce 4 128mb (a friend gave me his after upgrading)
2006 ATI Radeon x500 256mb
Present ATI Radeon x1950 Pro 256mb

Not as long as some other lists but some cracking cards in there. I remember running Quake 2 for the first time with 3DFX and seeing all that lovely coloured lighting...

hamster

Den_M wrote: »

Not as long as some other lists but some cracking cards in there. I remember running Quake 2 for the first time with 3DFX and seeing all that lovely coloured lighting...

Yeah, I remember moving the view to stare a flickering red light or swirling effect and thinking that adds atmosphere! Funny I remember being relieved when I completed Quake2 and didn't ever play it again. I think I was Strogged-tired after so many levels of them. But, yep it was the first game I remember getting a hold of that was made with 3D acceleration in mind. Unreal was the next one with that Nali castle title screen (using that Creative Voodoo 2 12mb) .

Gonzo

Nvidia Riva (around 1998)
Voodoo 1 4mb
Voodoo 2 8mb
Geforce 1 32mb
Geforce 4 4600ti, 128mb
ATI X300, 128mb
Geforce 8800GTX, 768mb

my favourite 3d card moment was running the opening sequence of Unreal 1 for the first time the week it came out, seeing that castle and all the reflective textures/lighting.

Dorsanty

Matrox G200 8Meg (~1997) [expanded to 16Meg later on]
Voodoo 5 5500 64Meg (1999)
Geforce 4400 ti 128Meg (2002)
Geforce 7800 GT 256Meg (2005)

??? (2008)

Currently holding off on new machine / graphics until I see Nvidia's PCI-E 2.0 offerings. But I've already bought Crysis, and don't wanna play it till I have a machine worthy of it.

Creamy Goodness

TNT
voodoo 2
geforce 2
geforce 4 ti4200
ati 9800pro
ati x1900xtx (current)

PCs:

Paradise VGA chip in an old 286
Cirrus Logic 5422 1MB ISA in a 486, later "upgraded" to a 5428 1MB VLB
SiS 5597 4MB PCI onboard graphics in a Cyrix MII
TNT2 M64 32MB AGP 4x in a P3 but the board could only do 2x
GeForce2 MX 32MB AGP 4x in an Athlon XP
GeForce4 MX460 64MB AGP 4x in an Athlon 64, later upgraded to an FX5500 256MB AGP 8x
GeForce 8600GT 256MB PCIe in my current Core 2 Duo PC (replaced it after some compatibility issues)
GeForce 7600GT 256MB PCIe, which I have now

Laptops:

NeoMagic MagicGraph 256AV 2.5MB PCI in a Dell Latitude LS
Intel 855GM PCI onboard graphics in an Acer TravelMate 240
ATI Radeon X300 PCIe 128MB dedicated (no HyperMemory) in a Dell Inspiron 6000, which I still have

Anti

Ive been through so many im not even going to attempt to remember them all, let alone list them.