List your GPU history?

[Isendar]

How many GPUs have you gone through your entire life? List em all here!

1. 3D Labs Permedia 2 (1-2 years)(Came with PowerSpec computer)
2. ATI All-In-Wonder Pro (1 year) (Because my dad thought a TV tuner card would be cool)
3. ATI Radeon 7000VE (1 year)
4. XFX Nvidia Geforce 2 MX440 (1-3 days) (Noticed a capacitor had been broken off b4 I used it) (Sold to friend he was happy)
5. BFG Tech Nvidia Geforce 2 MX440 (half a year)
6. 2x SLi (old version) 3DFX Voodoo 2's (PCI cards that add extra oomph to games) (half a year) (Combined with MX440)
7. BFG Tech Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 (1.5-2 years)
8. XFX Nvidia Geforce 7800GT (2 years)
9. Nvidia Geforce 8600m GT (Laptop R.I.P.) (3 years)
10. BFG Tech Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX+ OC (2 years)
11. PNY Nvidia Geforce 9800GTX+ (SLi'd to #10) (1 year)
12. ATI Radeon 6990m Cross-fire (Alienware M18x laptop) (1 month) (Current Laptop)
13. PNY Nvidia Geforce 560Ti OC2 (1 week)
14. PNY Nvidia Geforce 560Ti OC2 (SLi'd to #13) (Current setup) (1 day)

I've come a long way from the Permedia 2 which ran Unreal, Everquest, Rainbow 6, Knights and Merchants, Starcraft + Broodwars, Settlers 3, Sim City 2000, and more. My personal faves were the Radeon 7000VE (dual display FTW) (Biggest improvement since the Permedia 2 for back then), the 2 Voodoo 2's (enabled some graphics options in Diablo 2 that weren't available previously), and my 9800 GTX's (First time I can say I purchased a top of the line card. No the GX2 does not count). Worst card would be the FX5200 hands down. The MX440's could have been bad too but I didn't spend too much on them ($70) so I couldn't complain and I replaced them shortly with the FX5200. FX5200 barely hung onto most games (World of Warcraft).

[Rob D]

I am afraid I won't be able to list them all here, as I run through quite a few, but I can at least go to the beginning and the end. But yeah, my first PC was an Amstrad PC 1640 (8086 Processor, 1 Floppy, 20 Mbyte HDD, 640Kbyte Ram)

1. Build in Hercules (monochrome
2. Build in EGA (1 and 2 the same computer, only monochrome monitors used the Hercules Mode, while color monitors used the EGA mode)
3. Generic VGA
4. 3d FX Voodoo (I think)
5. GeForce2 MX
After that a various mix of slowly better ATI and GeForce cards until I settled on ATI and own currently:
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD6950

[Deleted]

1. Nvidea Geforce 2 (or something like that, was pretty pissed that my dad didnt buy the MX4. Was only like 12 at the time)
2. Nvidea Geforce 5700 LE
3. 2x MSI Nvidea Geforce 9600GT
4. Gigabyte Nvidea Geforce GTX 460

Pretty much only nvidea, and i got no clue why :P

[kailtas]

1. Nvidia 6600 something - Around the time of Oblivion release
2. Nvidia 7650 something - Couple months after oblivion release
3. Nvidia 9600 something - Replacement for a few months after my 7650 fried.
4. Nvidia GTX470 - Won at 3rd October last year in a SC2 tournament.

Reason i say something is because Nvidia used GT, GTS and GTX differently prior to the 200 series.

[Elim Garak]

1. Unknown Brand, Unknown Model 512KB ISA card
2. Trident 1MB VESA card
3. ASUS Riva TNT2 32MB AGP
4. ASUS Nvidia GeForce FX 5200 AGP
5. ASUS Nvidia GeForce 6600 AGP
6. ASUS Nvidia GeForce 8600 PCI-E
7. ASUS Nvidia GTS250 PCI-E
8. Palit Nvidia GTX560Ti 1GB PCI-E
9. Palit Nvidia GTX560Ti 1GB PCI-E 2xSLI (Current setup)

[Manakuski]

1. 2x Old Voodoo 2:s!
2. Geforce 2 Pro 32 Mb
3. Geforce 4 Ti4200 64Mb
4. Ati Radeon 9600 Pro
5. Nvidia Geforce 6600 (not a GT-version)
6. Nvidia Geforce 8800GT 512Mb
7. Ati Radeon 4850 1 GB
8. Nvidia Geforce 460GTX 1 GB
9. Nvidia Geforce 570GTX 1280Mb

Never had really a top of the line display card, i always had an outdated one. Currently i have an up to date one and i'm happy

[Vargur]

1. On-board (with Duron 1300) - 1-2yrs
2. FX5200 - 5 years
3. 7900GT - 3 yrs~
4. GTS250 - 1 yr
5. GTX560 - current

[Deleted]

1. Integrated Graphics - Half a year
2. ASUS Nvidia GeForce 8800 PCI-E x2 - 1 year
3. ZOTAC 1GB Nvidia GeForce 260 GTX PCI-E - 2 years
4. ASUS 1GB DirectCUll Nvidia 560 TI PCI-E - Current (2 months)

[Maruii]

1. 4850
2. 4850 xfire
3. 5870 O.c edition from Club3d
4 Msi lightning 6970 2gb 940 Mhz core clock
5. and current Msi lightning 6970 2gb 940 Mhz core clock Xfire.

Never had an nvidia card but thought of buying next time i find that i need to upgrade my system

[vesseblah]

Pulling these from memory, might have forgotten something or got order wrong. Only listing cards in my main computer, skipping 2nd or 3rd computers that were never in daily use.

01. some Hercules monochrome ISA card
02. some VGA ISA card
03. VGA ISA card + 3DFX Voodoo
04. Cirrus Logic 2MB VLB card + 3DFX Voodoo
05. Cirrus Logic 2MB VLB card + 3DFX Voodoo2 with 8MB ram
06. Nvidia Riva TNT 2 PCI card with 32MB ram
07. Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 400 with 64MB ram
08. ATI Radeon 7500 AIW AGP
09. Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 500 AGP with 128MB ram
10. Nvidia GeForce 8600GT PCIe with 256MB ram
11. ATI Radeon HD 4850 PCIe with 512MB ram
12. Nvidia GTX460 with PCIe 768MB ram

10-12 are still in use.

[Leanne]

1. nVidia GeForce 2 MX 200
2. nVidia GeForce 4 MX 440
3. nVidia GeForce FX 5700LE
4. nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS
5. nVidia GeForce GTX 285 (Inno3d)
6. nVidia GeForce GTX 580 (Palit)

[Zka]

I don't even have a clue of what do I have right now. It's probably some NVIDIA, that's all I know

[Calz]

1. ATI Sapphire Radeon X800SE 256MB
2. Can't remember :s
3. Nvidia XFX GeForce GTX 260 896MB
4. AMD XFX Radeon HD 6950 2GB

[Deleted]

1. Nvidia 8600GT
2. ATI HD4890
3. ATI HD6970
4. 2nd ATI hd6970 Xfired <3 currently running them

[Deleted]

1. ATi Radeon 7000 AGP 64mb.. ~ 2004+ (Would not run WoW, everything was just artifacs) - AMD Sempron 2400+ @ 1.7ghz
2. ATi Radeon 9250 AGP 128mb.. ~ 2006 + (First GPU i played WoW on) - AMD Sempron 2400+ @ 1.7ghz
3. nvidia geforce 6200 turbocache 256mb - ~ 2007-8 (DC when in dalaran always) - intel Pentium 4 presscott. 2.93ghz no HT
4. nvidia geforce GT 220 512mb ~ 2008-2010 (First GPU that Dalaran would run on with 5 fps) - intel Pentium 4 2.93ghz
5. nvidia geforce 9600GT 512mb ~ 2010-2011 - Athlon II x3 445 3.2ghz
6. AMD radeon 6870 1024mb.. ~ 2011 Q4 - Phenom II 955

I can remember having a shittier card than the Radeon 7000 though... just cant remember

[Deleted]

only ones i can remember are

ATI Raedon HD 4870
NVidia evga 560 TI


had others in older pcs before, but can not remember what they were.

[Lapetos]

On board something or another.
First ever thing I upgraded in a PC was going to...
Nvidia 6600
New Pre built PC from PC world 8600GT (Yes a mistake but new to PC's as mainly was console player)
Currently sat on a GTX260
Yes I need an upgrade, bought a thermaltake Case with a P35 Gigabyte Mobo + my previous CPU (Q6600 quad core OC to 3.4ghz).

I'm learning things before I go ahead and start on a project PC... Learnt most the basics so far!

[Barracks00]

They weren't really called GPU's until the first Geforce series came around, buuuut.. here's my video card history. I had two cards before #1, but I don't remember what they were.

1. Diamond Stealth 64 w/ 1mb ram upgrade
2. Matrox Millenium II
3. Monster 3D (Voodoo 1) ($200 new)
4. Riva TNT ($200 new)
5. Riva TNT2 ($250 new)
6. Geforce 2 MX
7. Geforce 3 Ti200
8. Radeon 9700 Pro ($300 new)
9. 6800 GS ($200 new)
10. 8800 GT ($200 new, I think)
11. GTX 275
12. GTX 560 ti

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

no idea what the Pentium 1 had
ati 9000
nvidia X700 (mobile) - laptop
nvidia 9800 GTX+ 512 MB
ATI HD 6970 2GB (will get soon, either the ASUS DCUII or the MSI TFIII lightning)

[DeltrusDisc]

1. Integrated graphics in a Windows 98 NT 1998 Gateway. (Powered games like Age of Empires and RCT. Computer crashed out in early 2005.)
2. Integrated graphics in a 2005 Dell desktop. x_x (Early 2005 through January 2009.)
3. Integrated graphics in an early 2009 Gateway desktop. (Probably less than a month or two, January of 2009.)
4. BFG Tech NVidia 9800 GT GeForce 1GB GDDR3 OC. (Lasted about a year and 4 months, bought in Jan or Feb 2009.)
5. PNY NVidia 9800 GT GeForce 1GB GDDR3 Green Edition. (Bought I believe in May 2010, such a waste, this is when I should have gotten a 460, used for about 1 year and 2 months, lives on in a friend's computer.)
6. MSI NVidia GTX 560 Ti 1GB GDDR5 Twin Frozr II. (My king-pin, bought in June 2011.)

I definitely took quite a jump, going from the NVidia 9xxx series all the way to the 5xx series. It was damned night and day difference, too!