Your GPU history?

[TommyT]

some of the card that i remember.

voodoo 2 sli
voodoo 3 3000
voodoo 3 2000
voodoo banshee
voodoo rush
voodoo 5 5500
ati fury maxx
ati radeon ve aka 7000
ati 7500
ati 9250
ati 9200
ari 9700 pro
tnt 2 m64
tnt 2 elsa
gf 2 mx 200
gf 2 mx 400
gf 2 ti vx
gf 4 ti 4400
gf mx 440
gf mx 460
gf fx 5200 64 bit
gf fx 5200 128 bit
gf 520
gf 430 oc
gf gtx 660
hd radeon 7950 oc that i used it now.

 

[Geofrancis]

i have owned a lot more than this but these are the cards i used in my pc : (in order)
S3 verge pci 2mb
FX5200 128mb
X800XT 256mb
X800GT AIW 128mb
X1900XT 256mb
X1900XT 512mb
HD3850 256mb
7600gs 256mb
HD4850 golden sample 512mb
HD4850 reference 512mb
9600gso 384mb
HD4870X2 2Gb
HD4850X2 1Gb
HD5850 1Gb
HD5970 2Gb

 

[Xenturion]

The "limited to PCI" days:
Radeon 7500
Radeon 9250SE

Finally, got AGP (Late in the game):
Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB (I think, eventually put an AC VGA Silencer on it)
Radeon X850XT
And stuck again, for years with AGP

PCIe:
2x HD 4870's
1x HD 4870X2 and 4870
2 GTX 480's

 

[BrooksyX]

Oh man this might be a struggle but I will give it a try to remember what I can.

Asus Geforce mx4000 128mb (rememberd I bougth this thinking it would be a monster card but sadly realized the 128mb meant nothing ha. replaced it with the 9600xt the following week)
Jetway Radeon 9600xt 64mb (Might have been my all time favorite. Got into PC gaming with this card. Doom 3, Call of Duty 2, Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike, and more)
Asus Radeon 9250 64mb (9600xt died)
Leadtek Geforce 8600gt 256mb
Visiontek Radeon 3850 512mb (CrossfireX)
Visiontek Radeon 3870 512mb (CrossfireX)
HIS Radeon 4870 512mb
2x MSI Radeon 4830 512mb (Crossfire)
EVGA Geforce 8800GTS 512mb
Powercolor Radeon 4650 512mb
EVGA Geforce 550ti 1gb
XFX Radeon 6870 1gb

 

[_JP_]

My record (these are cards I've actually used for long periods of time. I am not listing cards that have passed by my hands, for testing or temp. replacements):

Unknown RIVA TNT2 M64 32MB
PowerColor Radeon 9200 SE 128MB
XFX GeForce 6200 128MB
[(hp)] GeForce 8400M GS 128MB
PowerColor Radeon x1650 PRO 512MB
TOSHIBA Radeon Mobility HD 3470 256MB
Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 1GB

Own, but haven't used actively:

Sapphire Radeon HD 2600x2 XT

 

[HD64G]

In the same order:
ΤΝΤ 32
Geforce MX440
ATI 9600
ATI 1950pro
ATI 4850
ATI 5750

 

[syeef]

Palit GeForce4 MX 440
Asus GeForce 6200 GT
Gigabyte GeForce 8800GT OC
MSI GeForce GTX680 Twin Frozr III

 

[RCoon]

Asus Radeon X1500
XFX GT 7900
XFX GT 8600
XFX GTX 275
HIS Radeon 5750
MSI Radeon 6850
Gainward GTX 570
Gigabyte GTX 570 sli
Gainward GTX 570 sli (sold gigabyte)
XFX Radeon 7950
XFX Radeon 7950 xfire

 

[Mindweaver]

I know this has been done a bit before though I haven't seen a recent thread about what GPU's you have purchased over the years.

Comments and thoughts on specific ones are welcome.

I will start:

Voodoo 2 16MB
Inno3d Savage 2000 64MB (this lead me to buying the next in my list as although it had a "large" 64MB VRAM which as a noob fooled me it was piss poor at any kind of 3d gaming)
Geforce 4 mx400 64MB (played Splinter Cell beautifully!)
Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Geforce 4 Ti 4600
Geforce 5200
Geforce 5700
ATI Radeon 9800SE (unlocked to pro )
ATI X1600 pro (more of a side grade than an upgrade)
ATI X1950 pro (awesome card)
8800 GTS 320MB
ATI HD4850
ATI 4850 CrossfireX
ATI 4890
AMD HD5770
AMD HD5770 CrossfireX (great bang for buck performance)
GTX 470
GTX570
HD 7950


I would say I definately upgrade more nowadays than when I first got into PC gaming, it's probably once a year/every 10 months or so just to keep up with current tech more than neccesity

I'll have to work on my list, but seeing your Geforce 4 Ti 4200 brings back memories.. That card was kickass! I had picked up a Geforce ? mx 64mb something or another at bestbuy for $149 and it sucked at playing bf 1942.. So, one day when I got off work I when buy Walmart and I was in the electronics section and see a table full of discounted items and low and behold they had a Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128mb card setting there for $149.. My mouth dropped because I seen it at bestbuy for $199. I picked the Geforce 4 Ti 4200 up and walked up to the register and the guy scanned the box and BAM it rang up for $110 dollar! I asked the guy is that right because the box says $149 and the guy says yep the price dropped again today I haven't had time to put a new sticker on it. I handed him my card and headed home. I installed it and at the time I had a athlon 1600xp over clocked to a athlon 1700xp with 1gb of ram. It blew my MX card out of the water! BF 1942 played like a dream. The next card to give me that kind of a jump in performance was my ATI 9700 pro! Aww if only we could get GPU's to give us a jump in performance like that..

 

[Durvelle27]

ATi/AMD:

Rage 128 Pro

HD 3650

HD 3850

HD 4670

HD 4770

HD 4870

HD 5770

HD 6850

HD 6950

HD 7950


Nvidia:

8400 GS

8800 GT

9600 GSO

9800 GT

Geforce 210

GT 240

GT 440

GTX 560

GTX 560 Ti

 

[MightyMission]

the ones in machines I've used for over a few months are:
GeForce 5800XT
Radeon X1900
GeForce 7300LE
GTX 470
GTX 470 (SLI) <- they performed well when frozen until the heating/cooling cycle eventually killed both
GTX 8800 Ultra
Radeon 6670
Radeon 7950
GTX 580 (I bought this from CEX,then the same day got a 680 for cheaper so I took this back without even firing it up!)
GTX 680
There were plenty more infinitely forgettable GPU's but these ones stay in the mind for whatever reasons..

 

[saknid]

1st one was
POV Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT 1GB (Is good and doing good with games like Modern Warfare 3, Black Ops 1, NFS Run)

2nd is
POV GTX 680 TGT Ultra Charged (4GB) ( I am Happy)

 

[jaggerwild]

Started with a
5500 Ultra
2 X EVGA 6800 Ultra
2 X Radeon 3870 X2
2 X Radeon 4870 X 2
currently own
3 X 9800 GT
3 X 9800 GTX+
2 XPNY580GTX

2 X.3870 X2
1 4870 X2
3 X 5770
2 X 5850
2 X 6950 XFX
2 X 7970
1 4890 XFX

I have a video card library, member of HWBot team.

 

[misato]

nVIDIA GeForce 2 Tornado (was happy it ran Max Payne 1 smoothly)
nVIDIA GeForce 6300LE (was supposed to be an upgrade but was crap)
nVIDIA GeForce 7600GS (for me a classic)
nVIDIA GeForce 8500GT
nVIDIA GeForce 9600GT (RMA for my 8500GT that died)
ATI HD4850 (best card I had...until BF3 came out)
ATI HD7950
nVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 (RMA for my HD7950 that died...somehow I'm glad that it did)

 

[TRINITAS]

In chronogical order:

Matrox Mystique MGA PCI 4 Mo (1995-1997) with Pentium MMX 200 Mhz
Intel Chipset Graphic i720 8 Mo (1997-2001) with Celeron 400 Mhz
Nvidia GeForce4 MX420 AGP 4x 64 Mo (2001-2003) with Athlon XP 2000+
ASUS Radeon 9250 AGP 4x 256 Mo with Athlon XP 2000+
ASUS GeForce FX5200 AGP 8x 128 Mo with Athlon XP 2000+
ASUS GeForce 7300 GT PCI-E 16x 256 Mo with Athlon 64 3000+
MSI GeForce 7800 GT PCI-E 16x 256 Mo (2006-2008) with Athlon 64 3200+
Zotac GeForce GTX260 Synergy Edition 896 Mo (2008-2013) with Phenom II X4 955 BE
eVGA GeForce GTX660 Ti Superclocked Edition 2048 Mo (2013-) with Phenom II X4 955 BE

 

[Ahhzz]

Not sure I can remember all of them thru the years, but I DO remember (and still have) my first Purchase: a Viper V550 16Mb card gone thru a couple until I made it to a pair of 7900GS's, A 9800 GT, and the 6950's I'm running right now.

 

[hastyboomalert]

Let's see.


Geforce 4 MX440 - was in my mom's computer that I spent hundreds of hours playing Warcraft 3 on

Geforce FX 5200 - was in my grandparent's computer that I used to play games on when I was 12

ATI Radeon 9800 pro - was my first legit card ever. I got it in a build by my uncle for my 13th birthday.

ATI Radeon X850 XT - got in next Christmas because I was very spoiled.

EVGA 9800 GT - got it in an ibuypower build for my 16th birthday.

Sapphire HD 5770 - don't remember the story behind this one, but it was probably just a year later (2009). the first time I bought my own graphics card

Sapphire HD 6870 - bought in 2010.. died on me, rma'd it and received another one that was broken out of the box! dangit sapphire.

EVGA GTX 580 - got a real job and built my first pc (2011)

EVGA GTX 670 - got it on black friday, could not resist the price! (~$319.99, GTX 670 FTW Sig 2), built a rig for my friend and gave him the 580 so he could finally game with the rest of my pals

 

[Keullo-e]

S3 Trio64 2MB PCI (2003, with P2 400)
ATI 3D Rage Pro 8MB AGP (2004, with P2 400)
GeForce2 MX 32MB AGP (2004 and later, with P2 400, P3 500, Athlon 1000 and A64 3000+)
GeForce4 MX440-8x 128MB AGP (2004, with P2 400)
Radeon 9250 128MB AGP (2005, with Athlon 1000)
GeForce4 Ti4200-8x 128MB AGP (2005-2006, with Athlon 1000, Duron 1800 and AthlonXP 2600+)
GeForce 6600GT 128MB AGP (2005 2006, with Athlon 1000 and Duron 1800)
Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB AGP (2006, with AthlonXP 2600+)
GeForce FX5600 256MB AGP (2006, with Athlon 1000)
GeForce4 Ti4600 128MB AGP (2006, with Athlon 1000)
Radeon X1800XL 256MB PCI-E (2006, with A64 3500+)
Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB AGP (2006, with A64 3000+)
Radeon 9800SE 128MB AGP (2006, with A64 3000+)
Radeon 9200SE 128MB AGP (2006, with A64 3000+)
GeForce4 Ti4200 64MB AGP (2007, with Opteron 144)
GeForce 6800LE 128MB AGP (2007, with Pentium D 805)
GeForce4 MX integrated (nForce2) (2007, with Duron 1800)
GeForce 6800GS 128bit 128MB AGP (2007, with P4 2533)
GeForce 6800 128MB AGP (2007, with P4 2533)
GeForce FX5600 Ultra 128MB AGP (2007, with P4 2533)
GeForce 6600 128MB AGP (2007, with P4 2533)
Radeon 9800SE 128MB AGP (2007-2008, with P4 2533)
Radeon X800XT PE 256MB AGP (2008, with Sempron 2800+)
GeForce 7300LE 64MB PCI-E (2008, with Celeron 420)
GeForce 6800GS 256MB PCI-E (2008, with E4300)
Matrox G400 32MB AGP (2008, with Athlon 1200)
GeForce2 MX 32MB AGP (2008, with P3 1000)
Radeon 9600XT 256MB AGP (2008, with P3 1000)
GeForce 7800GT 256MB PCI-E (2008, didn't even use this)
GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP (2008, with Athlon 1200)
GeForce FX5200 128MB PCI (2008, with Athlon 1200)
Radeon 9500 Pro 128MB AGP (2009, with AthlonXP 2600+)
GeForce 7600GT 256MB PCI-E (2009, with Celeron D 331)
Radeon HD3850 512MB PCI-E (2009, with Celeron D 331)
Radeon HD3870X2 1024MB PCI-E (2009, with E6400)
Radeon HD4890 1024MB PCI-E (2009, with E6400)
GeForce 8800GTS 320MB PCI-E (2009-2010, with E6400)
GeForce 8800GTS 640MB PCI-E (2009-2010, with E6400)
Radeon HD4850 512MB PCI-E (2010-2012, with Pentium D 935 most of the time)
GeForce 6800 Ultra 256MB AGP (2011, with AthlonXP 2400+)
GeForce 8800GT 512MB PCI-E (2011, with X6 1055T)
GeForce GTX470 1280MB PCI-E (2012 and the card I use right now with 965BE)
Radeon HD2600XT 512MB PCI-E (2012, just tested that it works and gave away to my friend)
GeForce 6200SE TC 64MB PCI-E (2012-2013 with Sempron 3000+)
GeForce 9600GT 512MB PCI-E (2012-2013 with Sempron 3000+)
GeForce GTS250 1024MB PCI-E (2012-2013 with Sempron 3000+)
GeForce GT240 1024MB PCI-E (2013, in my 2nd PC with A64 3500+)

 

[BiggieShady]

Matrox G400 32MB AGP (2008, with Athlon 1200)

ooh, haven't seen one of these for a while

 

[Mathragh]

Voodoo 2
Ati Radeon 9600pro
Geforce 6200 LE
Gefoce 6150 go
AMD mobility 4650
AMD mobility 5650
Geforce 8800GTX
Gefocee 8800GTX SLI
AMD HD 7950

 

[jihadjoe]

Hercules MDA
Trident VGA9000
S3 Trio64 512K
S3 Virge 3D 1MB
Asus V3400 TNT+TV 16MB
Asus V3800 TNT2 Ultra 32MB
Diamond Viper II Savage 2000
Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator GeForce DDR
ELSA Gladiac GeForce2 GTS
Gainward Golden Sample GeForce 4 Ti4200
ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (unlocked to 9700)
Palit GeForce 8800GT+ Sonic
(skipped a ton of stuff since everything then was a G92 rebadge)
Leadtek GTX670

 

[anoobarak]

GeForce 5500 FX 128MB 64bit
GeForce 7600 GT AGP 256MB
GeForce 8800 GTX 786MB
GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB
GeForce 8800 GT (bought dead for 15$~ ,frickin' baked in an oven, broke down twice afterwards)
Radeon HD 6950 2GB unlocked shaders (sold cuz went away for 6 months)
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 2GB

 

[Durvelle27]

Update


Added HD 7950

 

[Steve Kosh]

I have only been gaming on a computer for a short time. I started with a HD 4770 and bought another to put in crossfire. Ok performance, but now I have a HD 7850 I bought for $150 as Open Box. That was 3-4 months ago. I also bough a 3870 for $20 because I am slowly culminating all the parts for a retro build.

 

[Grnfinger]

FX5200
6600GT SLI
X1950XT
8800GTS 640
9800GT
3870X2
280GTX
4870X2
5770
6870 Crossfire
5970
7870 Crossfire
7870XT ( aka 7930 )