Your video card history!

Post up the video cards you've owned in your lifetime and maybe share if one of your video cards was extra special to you!

Radeon 9600XT - from my very first build
GeForce 6800GT - burnt out after 2 days. :(
GeForce MX440 - cheap card to hold me off until I returned the 6800gt
Radeon X850XT - replaced my burnt 6800gt
GeForce Go 8600M GT - got a gaming laptop, didn't really serve me well lol
Radeon X1600XT - x850xt starting artifacting, just a replacement
Radeon HD 4890 - What I'm using now on my latest build!

Soon: Radeon HD 6950 or GTX 560 ti

intel integrated on some old gateway

Geforce MX440 - allowed me to play GTA3 :D

ATI X800 SE 128mb - POS

ATI X800 256mb - allowed me to play oblivion, poorly

EVGA 8800 GTX - maxed every game around, but not at the best framerate. Was epic to finally see eye candy.

I now use a Sapphire 4870 1gb - Best deal ever @ $120

1998 machine:STB Velocity 128 8mb

2001machine: No idea :P

2004 machine ATI Mobilty Radeon 9000 32mb

2006 Machine: Intel GMA x3000 256mb (I know :P). It was actually worse than the radeon 9000 in some games. That wasn't the cards main purpose though. The computer was mainly used for word processing and a little Java Programming

2009 machine(current): Radeon 4650 1gb Overclocked

Next: Radeon HD6950

Integrated -> Voodoo 3 3000 -> Voodoo 5 5000 -> integrated -> Mobility Radeon 5000 series -> Palit GTX 460 1gb

2004: MX 420

2006: Integrated

2007: Integrated

2008: XFX 8600GT 256MB(God I should've coughed up that $50 more for a 8800GT, I probably would still be using one now)

2009: Sapphire HD 4850 512MB

I only have a short history.

1.) GeForce4 MX 4000 PCI (64MB!) - I was in high school at the time and broke and was gaming on some crap PC my parents picked up from Costco, which ran on Intel Integrated GFX. (Yuck) The card was NOT PCI-E, but PCI. My computer lacked an AGP port at the time =( Was able to run Tribes, CS, and Deux Ex at 40+ FPS @ 1028 x 768!

2.) ATI Radeon 9700 128 MB - The card that turned the tides for ATI! Great value and great performance. Great times with this card and HL2, Postal 2, CS ****c, WoW.

3.) GeForce 8600GT- M - This was a descrete GPU on my current laptop that I originally bought for college. The performance was crazy considering the time (2007) and the fact that was in a notebook. Fun times with AOE 3, Bioshock, CS: Source, HL2: Ep 1 and 2, Mass Effect, Mass Effect 2, and WoW. The card itself fried during a crazy hot summer of WoW, and I am no longer able to play any games on it.

4.) Radeon 5770 1GB - My current card. Great performance considering the price. Too bad its bottlenecked by my CPU.

MX440 - My first...

Geforce 5800 - dont remember alot about this

Geforce 6600GT - Still probably the best card I've ever had

Geforce 7900GS- Crazy overclocker

ATI x700 - For a laptop I had, it was meh at best

ATI x1600 - Another laptop, worse than x700

Geforce 8800GTS - Its between this and 6600GT for best card, still using it to this day :)

Geforce 9650M GT - Laptop thats brilliant, and it overclocks withoutincreasing the temp to far

GTX470 - Awesome so far, and overclocks really well for some reason.

512MB 8600 GT Overclocked - Pretty good, used to play Half-Life 2, CoD4, and Company of Heroes

480 GTX - My first high-end video card, loved it so far.

Future video card: No idea lol, 480 GTX is good for 2 to 3 years.

1. - Radeon 9200 (pff, you ppl and your MX 440)

2. - 6600gt

3. - 7600gt (this and the 6600gt were my fav. cards, alot of power for the price)

4. - 8800gt (first high-end card)

5. - Radeon 4890, my current card and still runs games fairly high so I doubt i'll upgrade anytime soon

I believe my first dedicated card was an S3 Virge of some type, but i wasn't the one who installed it, so i left it out

Before this I have no idea what my computers had in them. My parents had two desktops before this that I wasn't allowed to use very much.

GeForce 5200 FX 128mb - Came stock in a Dell, parents arn't serious about gaming

GeForce 7300 Go 128mb - Bought for me in a Dell laptop in 2006, not a serious gaming machine, the laptop was intened to do school work with 2GB of DDR2 and a Core Duo

Between these two cards I played most of my games on first a GameCube, then a Xbox 360, a PS2 and finally a PS3. All but the GameCube were eventually sold.

AMD 5850 1GB - Current card, bought it to be able to play games seriously.

Before this I have no idea what my computers had in them. My parents had two desktops before this that I wasn't allowed to use very much.

GeForce 5200 FX 128mb - Came stock in a Dell, parents arn't serious about gaming

GeForce 7300 Go 128mb - Bought for me in a Dell laptop in 2006, not a serious gaming machine, the laptop was intened to do school work with 2GB of DDR2 and a Core Duo

Between these two cards I played most of my games on first a GameCube, then a Xbox 360, and finally a PS3. All but the GameCube were eventually sold.

AMD 5850 1GB - Current card, bought it to be able to play games seriously.

middle-earth88

GeForce 2 ---> 8800GTX ---> 5870

That 32MB GeForce 2 got me through a lot of games surprisingly =P

going to list them in the way i got them in order.

2007-GeForce 8600GT 256MB 128bit

2009-Geforce 9800GT 512MB 256bit

2010-HD 4850 1GB 256bit

2010-Geforce GTX 460 1GB 256bit

2011-Geforce GTX 570 1.2GB 320bit

[QUOTE="middle-earth88"]

Before this I have no idea what my computers had in them. My parents had two desktops before this that I wasn't allowed to use very much.

GeForce 5200 FX 128mb - Came stock in a Dell, parents arn't serious about gaming

GeForce 7300 Go 128mb - Bought for me in a Dell laptop in 2006, not a serious gaming machine, the laptop was intened to do school work with 2GB of DDR2 and a Core Duo

Between these two cards I played most of my games on first a GameCube, then a Xbox 360, and finally a PS3. All but the GameCube were eventually sold.

AMD 5850 1GB - Current card, bought it to be able to play games seriously.

gmaster456

I didn't have a choice, Gamestop only would give me $10 for it.

1. Integrated

2. HD 4670m (laptop)

3. HD 6870 (current)

My first PC (Some HP off the shelf thing) - Intergrated Graphics, then put in a Nvidia FX 5200 128mb i think it was.

Second PC - Nvidia Geforce 256mb 6800GT

Current PC - 2x 512Mb Nvidia 8800GT

Radeon 9600, x850pro (on which i'm stuck for so long) and GTX 570 soon.silversix_

X600

X1650

GTX 260

SLI 470s

Matrox Mystique

TNT

TNT2

32mb Geforce 256 DDR

64mb Geforce 3

Radeon 9700 Pro

Radeon X800 Pro

640mb Geforce 8800 GTS

1GB GTX 460

Diamond stealth 2MB

Matrox mystique 2MB

Voodoo Rush 6MB

Voodoo3 16MB

ati rage 3d 16MB

radeon 7500 32MB

radeon 9700pro 64MB

radeon 9600pro 128MB

Geforce 6600GT 128MB

Radeon 4650 1GB

Radeon 6950 2GB

Geforce 4 MX 440

Geforce 6600GS

XFX 8600GT XXX SLI

9800GT SLI

4890 Crossfire

GTX 480 SLI

Nvidia Ti4400
Nvidia 6600GT
Ati 3650
Nvidia GTX295 (Burnt out)
Nivida GTX560Ti

[QUOTE="silversix_"]Radeon 9600, x850pro (on which i'm stuck for so long) and GTX 570 soon.gmaster456

nVidia RIVA TNT2

ATI Radeon 9250

nVidia 8800GTS G80

nVidia GTX580

Nvidia 7300 gs

Nvidia 8500 gt

Ati 4670

Ati 6950 (just got it today)

ati rage pro (donated)

bfg nvidia fx 5200 (died)

celestica radeon 9800xtx GE (gold edition) (donated)

diamond ati radeon x1250 (died)

evga 8400gs (died)

sapphire hd 2400pro (still use (in my folding box))

powercolor hd 3650 (sold)

sapphire hd 4670 (still own)

sapphire hd 4850 (in my brother's pc)

sapphire hd 5830 Call of Duty: modern warfare 2 edition (current)

my next card ive been contemplating.. i get some serious bread in a few days/1 week and ive been debating complementing my new phenom II x4 with a more current card such as say an hd 6870 ive also been tempted to try nvidia again with a decent priced gtx 295 co-op thats been on a shelf at a local retailer for BLOODY AGES (i dont care about dx11)

Nvidia TNT 2 16mb - family computer, a beast in its time, 1998

ATI Radeon x600 - my first computer, 2005

ATI Radeon x1950xt - upgrade to my first computer, 2006 or 7

ATI Radeon HD 5870 - my first custom built PC, 2009

Nvidia GTX 680?

Radeon 9800 Pro --First build/favorite card

ATi X800 XT -- All-In-Wonder, anyone remember these?

Radeon X1900 XTX

EVGA 8800 GTX -- blew after 1.5 yrs

GTX 260 --quickie replace from best buy, was playing a lot of xbox during this time

EVGA GTX 580 -- current build

Radeon 9800 Pro --First build/favorite card

ATi X800 XT -- All-In-Wonder, anyone remember these?

Radeon X1900 XTX

EVGA 8800 GTX -- blew after 1.5 yrs

GTX 260 --quickie replace from best buy, was playing a lot of xbox during this time

EVGA GTX 580 -- current build

jacobhazard1704

the all-in-wonder is returning.. check the hd 6000A series.. hd 6770 going backwards every one will be an all-in-wonder.. and if you cant wait sapphire set loose n hd 5570 A-I-W

Mobility radeon 9700 64mb...good times

geforce fx5800...dont remember much about it though...

2x7600gt, sli was a mess back then, and i was too young to get it to work properly, but still allowed me to play most stuff maxed at the time. Ahh, good ol 1280x1024 times, back when i thought antialiasing was crap.

G80 8800gts 640, I actually played crysis on this on very high, didnt even know what 'frame rate' means, result of this 'crysis therapy' as i like to call it is i can tolerate low frame rates even today.

gtx260 192sp hell of an overclocker, my first card after i knew what i was doing around computers, and i loved it.

HD5870 I used to love my 5870, despite the fan sounding like a petroleum operated fishing boat, would propably still have it but a chance came up to sell it for a great price and i got my current gtx580...i run furmark on it on cold days to warm up the room, but the game performance is absolutely extreme.

FX 5600 PCI

7900GS 256mb

8800GTS 512

Next 6990 or stay loyal with 590 depends who comes out on top.

radeon 9200 -->bought back in 2003 for my first custom build pc

geforce 240 GT --> bought last year summer, great card

ATI 4770--> bought 2010 september, great card and excellent OC

Going way back to the summer of '97...

- Some kind of 2mb VESA card
- 3dfx Voodoo³ 2000 AGP
- GeForce 440MX
- GeForce FX5200
- GeForce 6200
- Radeon 9600XT
- GeForce 6600GT
- GeForce 7800GS
- GeForce 9800GTX+

if i go by my first build, i only had 2 cards. an 8600 gt and now i have a 5770. i'm getting a gtx 560 ti soon though. on the computer that everyone used to use, it had a geforce 5500 until my dad bought a 7600. but i don't know which one is in the computer my brother uses now, i don't feel like checking. we also have this really old ati card but i don't know which one it is.

nVidia 6600GT

nVidia 8800GTS

ATI HD5870 - main monitor + (nVidia 250GTS - PhysX / TV)

Geforce 4 MX440
Ati Radeon x1600 Pro
Nvidia 9800M GTS on gateway laptop
Gigabyte GTX 460

X1600 or something like that lol.

8800GT

GTX285

GTX460

GTX460 SLi

GTX580

In 3-4 months SLI time :)

X1600 or something like that lol.

8800GT

GTX285

GTX460

GTX460 SLi

GTX580

In 3-4 months SLI time :)

Serbiann

Why would you go from GTX 285 to a GTX 460 or SLI'ed 460's to a GTX 580?

Primary PC - 1mb SVGA(1996) / 3DFX Voodoo 1 4mb (1997) / Nvidia Geforce 3 Ti200 (2001) / ATI Radeon HD4890 Vapor-X (2009)

Secondary PC - Nvidia Geforce 6200 TC (2005) / Nvidia Geforce 8600 GTS (2007) (broke after 1 year :() / Nvidia Geforce 9500 GT (2008) / ATI Radeon HD5670 (2010)