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Your GPU history?

Only including dedicated, not including various cards I found in a few scrap PCs.

ATI 9600SE - Came with the entire Valve catalog at the time plus HL2, got me into PC gaming.
ATI X850XT PE
Sapphire HD3850 - Sold
Diamond HD3850 XFire - sold
HIS HD3870 - Given away, dead
Sapphire HD4850 - Dead
Sapphire HD4850X2 - Faulty, returned
MSI 7300LE - Not sure where in the timeline this goes - dead
EVGA 9600GSO - Dedicated folder - sold
EVGA GTX 470 - Now dedicated folder
Zotac GTX 470 SLI - Ditto
EVGA GTS 250 - Dedicated folder
EVGA GTX 680
 
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Vanta
MX440(Remember I was suckered into buying it -_-)
Radeon 9000
5200
Radeon 9800 Pro
5800 Ultra
6600 GT
Radeon X850XT
6800 Ultra
Radeon X1250
Radeon 1600
Radeon X1900 XTX
7950 GT(The AGP version that always died)
Radeon 2900 GT
Radeon 3850
Radeon 3870
8800GS
8800GT
Radeon 4850
9600GSO(the shitty version)
Radeon 4890
Quadro 2500M(dead)
Quadro 1600M(still in my precision workstation)
Radeon 5450(still used in my HTPC =3)
9800GX2(died in a fiery beautiful blaze)
GTX260
Radeon 5850(dead and sold)
Radeon 6770(given away)
Quadro 4000(for work but)
Quadro 5000(replaced it)
GTX460
GTX570
some i can't remember -_- and some IGP's like the 4250 and intels crap back in the day.

The only cards I can find right now are the X1900, 8800GS, HD4890, and GTX260 though
 
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My main pc.

Voodoo 2
Voodoo 3
Voodoo 5
Nvidia ti4400
Ati 9700 pro
Ati x1950xtx
Amd hd6950

Others owned.

Varta
Rage 128
Geforce 2
Geforce 4 MX440
Geforce 3 ti500
Ati 8500
Ati 9600
Amd 6870
 
ATI Rage3D 128
Geforce 4 Ti 4200 - Had to RMA 2x
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro - Awesome
ATI Radeon X850 XTX- OC'ed Well
ATI Radeon X1950 XTX
ATI Radeon HD 2900 - Given to me as a Gift - Replaced fast with HD 3870
ATI Radeon HD 3870
ATI Radeon HD 4870 - Crossfire
ATI Radeon HD 6970

Each time I would sell to fund the next. I started to skip a Generation starting with the HD 2900. I don't count the HD 3870 because I was not suppose to buy it, but the HD 2900 Generation was sort of problematic, so I sold it. :D
 
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Cirrus Logic 2MB
Trident 3DMate? 4MB
Some SiS card
Voodoo 5500 AGP
AiW Radeon 32MB DDR, slight downgrade from 5500 but with DX7 support plus AiW functionality.
AiW8500DV, oced to 8500LE specs
AiW9600
AiWX800XT
X1950Pro AGP + Theather Pro 550 :D
HD3850 AGP
HD4650 AGP DDR3 (1GB VRAM, yuppie!)
HD4670 AGP + 2 Theather Pro 650 for gaming HTPC duties.
HD6770
HD6850
Geforce 7950GT AGP for a project
HD6950 + GT430 (Physx)
HD7750 + GT520 (Physx) for gaming HTPC duties
 
4200 Ti 3 yrs
X800XT 4 yrs
X1950Pro 2 yrs
GTS 250 2 yrs
7970 currently

While the best bang for buck wise have been the 4200 Ti and GTS 250, the 7970 seems to be currently best bang for buck in high end cards, esp at the $330 I paid for it. Doesn't OC too well (tested stable at 1075 so far), but it's still a lot of GPU power for little more than $300.
 
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Asus ATI X300 128MB
Integrated Nvidia 8200/9200 256MB chipset
HIS IceQ 4+ Turbo ATI Radeon 4870 1GB (this thing was the shit)
Sapphire ATI Radeon 5850 1GB
Galaxy GTX 670 2GB

I'm a simple man.
 
Fx5500
x1950xt
gtx260 sli
hd5870
gtx470
gtx680
 
ATI RAGE 2
Some old AGP Nvidia Card (I was 10 or something, I dont remember what it was, I just know it was made by XFX)
Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS
XFX GeForce 7600 GT
EVGA GeForce 9800GTX+
EVGA e-GeForce 9800GX2
ASUS GeForce 570 DCUII
2x EVGA Geforce 560 Ti
4x EVGA Geforce 580
Gigabyte Radeon 6950 2GB
Nvidia GeForce 650
 
Some old ATI card (1998) ish
ATI HD 5450 (OEM)
ASUS GTX 440 1GB GDDR5
Gigabyte Radeon HD 6950 2GB (From n3rdf1ght3r)
EVGA GTX 560 1GB GDDR5 SC
 
I will only say the GPUs that i've used on the MAIN PC.

GeForce 2 MX200 64MB
ATI Radeon 9550 Pro 128MB
Geforce FX 5500 128MB (9550 got busted and I ended up with this card)
ATI Radeon HD 3650 512MB (it was a very big jump and one of the happiest moments)
ATI Radeon HD 5850 1GB
AMD Radeon HD 6870 Toxic Edition 1GB (pretty much the same as 5850, just got it for a little expense)

Now I'm not an AMD fanboy, I've used Nvidia too in my other builds, It just happen that I had these cards on the MAIN PC :laugh:
 
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- All In Wonder Radeon 7500 64MB (Awesome at the time & came with a TV tuner)
- FX 5200 128MB (First time I saw shaders :P)
- X800Pro 256MB (Omfg massive performance increase)
- 8800GTS 320MB (Another massive performance increase although the memory held it back)
- HD4850 512MB (Great card & improvement over the 8800GTS but noisy as fuck)
- GTS 250 512MB (quieter replacement for the HD4850)
- HD4870 1GB (New Phenom rig & great card)
- HD5870 1GB (Sold Phenom rig & bought i7 & this is definitely my fav card ever)
- HD5970 2GB (Had a lot of $$$ at the time)
- HD5870 1GB (Back to this card cause drivers were to shit on HD5970)
- HD5870 1GB (Some crossfire action but ended up selling it due to lack of case cooling)
- HD5970 2GB (Yes bought another one at a gd price, thanks Random:toast: )
- GTX 480 1.5GB (I loved the design on this hot noisy beast, performed well too but ran to hot)
- GT 240 1GB (Just to hold me over as I was waiting for the HD6000 series cards & PhysX)
- HD6950 2GB (Probably my 2nd fav card, these were amazing in Crossfire)
- HD6950 2GB (Crossfire :) )
- HD4350 512MB (Backup card)
- HD6970 2GB (This card was loud as fuck but performed well)
- GTX 580 1.5GB (This is definitely my fav Nvidia card, everything about it I loved)
- HD7970 3GB (Another awesome AMD card, what can I say)
- HD7970 3GB (Sold the reference one & got a gigabyte windforce model for better cooling)
- GTX 670 2GB (Coil whine on the Gigabyte HD7970 so replaced it with this instead, great card)
- HD6970 2GB (Needed the $$ so sold the GTX 670 and got this cheap from a friend for now & I'm actually going to be selling this one soon for rly cheap, anyone interested PM me :toast: )

That's my vid card story ;)
 
Rage 3D
Geforce MX4000
Geforce 6200 TC
Radeon X850XT
Geforce 6800 Ultra SLI
Geforce 7600GT SLI
Geforce 7800GTX
Geforce 8600GT
Geforce 8800GTX
Radeon HD2600XT
Radeon HD2900XT
Radeon HD3850 Xfire
Radeon HD3870 Trifire
Radeon HD4870 Xfire
Geforce GTX260 Core 216
Geforce GTX275 SLI
Geforce GTX280 SLI
Radeon HD5870
Radeon HD6850
Geforce GTX580
Geforce GTX470 SLI
 
Cant remember the gpu when I had the 486DLC-33 but...after that was...

S3 Virge DX
ATi Xpert@work
Nvidia TNT
Matrox G400
ATi Radeon DDR 64
ATi 9700 Pro
ATi x1950 Pro (x3 but all DOA)
ATi HD 2900 XT (CF)
ATi HD 3870x2 (when 1 2900 died)
ATi 5970
DeviL13
 
FX 5500
9400GT
HD 4650
HD 4850
8800 Ultra SLi
GTS 250 Tri SLi
2GB 6950 Xfire
GT 640M GDDR5
HD 7950 (soon) :)
 
3D Blaster Savage 4 32MB
Palit nvidia Riva TNT2 M64 32MB
Gigabyte Radeon 7000 64MB
Xfx FX-5200 128MB
Xfx FX-5500 256MB
Sapphire X1950 Pro 256MB
Bfg 7950GT-OC 256MB
Sapphire HD4850 512MB
Xfx 8400GS
His HD5670 IceQ 1GB (saved for backup)
Sparkle GTX460-768
Point of View GTX-570 TGT UC (saved for backup)
Sappphire HD5830 Xtreme (2x CF)
Powercolor HD6790 (2x CF)
 
From what I can remember...I'm getting old...

Radeon 9500(Unlocked to 9700)
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon 9800SE(Unlocked to 9800Pro)
Radeon 9800 Pro(Flashed to 9800XT)
Radeon x800XL
Radeon X800GTO2(Unlocked to X850XT)
Geforce 7800GTX
Geforce 7800GTX SLI
Geforce 7600GT SLI
Geforce 7900GT SLI
Radeon x1300XT(Flashed to x1650Pro)
Radeon x1650Pro Crossfire
Radeon x1900GT
Radeon X1950GT(Flashed to x1950 Pro)
Geforce 8800GTS 512MB
Geforce 8800GTS 512MB SLI
Radeon HD4670
Radeon HD4890
Geforce 8800GS
Geforce 9600GSO SLI
Geforce 9800GTX
Geforce 9800GTX SLI
Geforce GTX260(55nm) SLI
Geforce GTX470
Geforce GTX470 + GTX465(Unlocked to GTX470) SLI
Geforce GTX670 4GB
 
1. Unknows 2MB ATI Card (in 1998)
2. Voodoo 8MB
3. Voodoo2 16MB
4. NV Riva TNT2 32MB
5. GeForce 2 MX
6. GeForce 2 GTS
7. Geforce 5 FX 5500
8. Geforce 7600
9. 9800GX2
10. GTX 580
11. GTX 670 SLI
 
9600 XT (wanted a 9800 XT but couldn't afford it)
6800 Ultra (power hog)
7600 GT
7800 GTX x2 (first time going with dual cards)
X800 XT AIW
X1800 XT x2 (Stupid dongle)
X1900 XT x2 (Stupid dongle)
2900 XT (What a let down:()
3870 x2 (first water cooled GPU's :))
4870 x2
GTX 295
GTX 275
GTX 470 x2
GTX 580 x2
HD 7970 x2
I might be missing some... Getting older and can't remember:)
I also have three HD 7770's for crunching
 
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Mx400
mx440
fx5500 256mb
8600gt 256mb
8800gt 512mb
8800m gtx 512mb
hd5970 2gb
670 4gb
 
Not that much, here is my list:

1. Nvidia Geforce 8400GS 1GB (By Jetway)
2. Nvidia Geforce 9800GT 1GB (By Palit)
3. ATI Radeon 5770 1GB (By Sapphire)
4. Nvidia Geforce GTX460 1GB (TGT Charged By Point Of View)
5. Nvidia Geforce GTX670 2GB (FTW By EVGA)
6. Nvidia Geforce GTX770 2GB (ACX SC By EVGA)
7. Nvidia Geforce GTX770 2GB (Titan Ref: Cooler SC By EVGA)

If Intel's Larrabee would have come out as a gaming card it would be in the list. Anything before that list was pretty much Intel's IGP and One VIA IGP
 
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CIRRUS LOGIC 5422 on board in a 1992? IBM 486sx25 :nutkick:
CIRRUS LOGIC GD5436 on board in a Compaq Deskpro Pentium 133 circa 1996?
Voodoo 1 Pine branded? in above machine
STB Velocity Riva128 AGP 4Mb
Matrox Milenium G200 AGP
Diamond Viper Ultra V770 TNT2 AGP
All in wonder 128
Diamond Voodoo Banshee AGP
Geforce 2 ti AGP
Radeon 9800 Pro Crucial AGP(had to reflash it to 9800 non pro due to overheating)
Sparkle 8800GT Pcie 512MB
9800GX2 EVGA Pcie
Radeon 6870 VTX3D 1Gb Pcie
 
nv 5700LE
nv 6800ULTRA
amd x1950GT
nv 6600GT
nv 9600GT
nv 9800GT
nv 9800GX2
amd 4850
amd 4850 xfire
amd 4870
amd 4870x2
nv GTX480
nv GTX580
nv GTX580SLI
 
ATI Rage 128 Pro
Radeon 7000
Geforce 2MX 400 (the screen went yellow on VGA port, but still works using TV as a monitor :D)
Geforce 4200Ti
Geforce FX5500
Radeon 9200
Radeon X1600 PRO (died, because it was overclocked 24/7 on a passive cooler)
Geforce 8600 GT
Geforce 9800 GT
Geforce 9800 GX2 (First GPU died, and then the whole card after a failed attempt to bake it)
Radeon HD 5770
Radeon HD 5870
 
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