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Please note date when I started this, a lot of cards would be added if I could remember them.

 

i was thinking, since the purchase of my latest vid card (to b delivered )how many cards ive owned.

can u guys remember all the cards u've brought. i'll start.

voodoo 2 ,8 meg of ram

voodoo 2 ,12 meg of ram (thought i could do the SLI ) wrong :angry:

voodoo 3, cant remember how much ram, i think 32

matrox millinum g 400 ,32 m o r (meg of ram ) good card

voodoo 5, 64 m o r. first card 2 talk about AA, could'ent do it thou.

nvidia G- force 3, 64 m o r , very good card 4 its time .

nvidia G-force 4 , 128 m o r , kinda think the 3 was better, o well

 

getting ugly it'ent it . :blink:

 

ati 9700 pro 128 m o r

4 weeks later

9800 pro 128 m o r very good card. (flashed bios ,it died )

9800xt 256 m o r still in use till 2marrow , bad a$$ card ;)

back 2 nvidia

6800gt 256 m o r jury still out on how good it is

 

on a personal note this will b the last card i'll ever buy :O

 

O K ! maybe not. :blink:

 

2 evga 7800 gt's in sli

2 evga 8800gxt in sli

MSI radeon 5970

 

I think that's it :thumbs-up:

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I personally haven't owned too many cards, but here goes:

 

64 MB S3 Savage 2000 (decent card actually, too bad the drivers stunk)

64 MB GF4 MX420 (not a bad card, didn't have a hardware dvd decoder, so on came the...)

64 MB Radeon 7000

128 MB Radeon 9000 Pro (which I promptly returned to the store, it sucked so bad)

64 MB GF3 ti500 (still love this card, can't bring myself to sell it, so it's in my wife's machine)

128 MB GF4 ti4600 (not too different from the GF3, just a little quicker)

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4mb S3 Virge VX PCI --- This card sucked horribly. S3's drivers were absolute CRAP. Came in my old P1 166mhz machine

2MB ATI Rage pro --- Sucked as well...got it for free. It had the add-on 2mb thing to make it a 4mb card.

Various Other 2mb matrox/S3 cards --- Had a bunch laying around...they all sucked, lol.

32mb TNT2 PCI --- Good card for the time, but mine had horrible overheating issues. Stock cooler wouldn't cut it, so I modded it with the HS of an old pentium 1.

32mb ATI Rage 128 Pro --- Pretty good card, but ATI's drivers sucked at this point in time. It has strange artifacts in some OpenGL games. But it has vivo and is still a pretty sweet card. It's still in use in my dad's box.

64mb Kyro II --- This thing rocked! It is perhaps my favorite card I owned...it was fast as heck, and had simply AMAZING image quality. (16-bit looked the same as 32-bit) The only downfall was that it didn't have Hardware T&L...once games like BF:1942 hit, I had to upgrade. I loved this card

64mb Radeon 7500 --- Another card that I loved. It was cheap (got it for 47 bucks) and it played pretty much everything at the time. Didn't overclock worth a flip, but the stock clocks were pretty high in the first place.

64mb Geforce2 MX PCI --- Yeah, we all had one. Good card, I use it for troubleshooting purposes since it's a pci card.

64mb Geforce 3 ti200 --- LOVED this card. Beautiful black pcb/silver cooler, and it overclocked to almost ti500 speeds. (230/500 is about the max) Currently resides in a friend's comp, and it plays doom III just fine.

128mb Geforce 4 Ti4200 --- Great card....I got it for my tbird rig from a friend. Another one that we all have somewhere in our house.

128mb Radeon 9700 (RIP) --- This card served me well. Flashed it to 9700 pro, ran it at 350/700 for a LONG time...one day it died. Rest in peace, my companion. I still keep the dead card around here, just because I loved it so much.

128mb Geforce FX5200 --- Yeah, it's not fast. It's not gorgeous. But it works well in my linux box/fileserver.

256mb Geforce FX5900xt --- My current main card. Flashed it to 5950U, and then oc'd it to 500/975. Fast as heck. Great card.

 

 

I think that's all of them...I probably missed some little ones in there somewhere. B)

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Matrox G400 Dual Head 32MB - Fantastic card, served it's purpose very well....still to this day in use in a PIII 800 :D

 

GeForce 3 Ti500 64MB - Mmm....yummy card!

 

ATI Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB - Same as ^ for me, but played KOTOR a bit better

 

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - What can I say other than, great! Right inside this very baby now :D

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Let's see what I can remember...

 

512K Paradise VGA, upgraded my CGA rig.. (That's K not M)

1MB Diamond Speedstar (Tseng 4000 chipset.. was awesome for its' time)

2MB Virge DX (Beta card, direct from s3)

4MB Virge VX (New, with VRAM.. oooh!)

16MB Monster something, Probably a voodoo2.. Creative Labs.

32MB GEForce2

64MB Radeon 9550 (In fileserver now)

64MB GEForce 3 ti500

128MB GEForce 4 ti4600 (still in my work machine)

128MB Radeon 9600 Pro Mobility (In current laptop)

128MB Radeon 9800 Pro

256MB Radeon 9800XT

256MB FX 5950 Ultra ViVo

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2MB Diamond Stealth PCI

64MB Radeon 7000 PCI

64MB GeForce 4 MX 440

64MB Radeon 9000

128MB Radeon 9200 SE

128MB GeForce FX 5600

128MB Radeon 9500 Pro

128MB Radeon 9600 Pro

128MB AIW Radeon 9600 Pro

256MB Radeon 9600 XT

128MB Radeon 9800 Pro

256MB Radeon 9800 XT

256MB GeForce 6800 GT

256MB Radeon X800 Pro VIVO - Flashed to 16 pipelines

256MB Radeon X800 XT Platinum

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do you REALLY want the list?

 

8mb ati Mach II

8mb riva 128

8mb rage pro

8mb rage pro II

8mb rage pro IIc

8mb all in wonder pro

16mb tnt2 (several)

16mb voodoo 3 3000

32mb tnt2

32mb tnt2 ultra

32mb savage 4

32mb savage pro

32mb geforce 256

32mb geforce2 mx

32mb geforce 2 gts

32mb radeon

64mb geforce 2 gts

64mb radeon

64mb radeon 8500

64mb geforce 2 mx 400

64mb geforce 4 mx 420

64mb geforce 4 mx 440

64mb geforce 3

64mb geforce 3 ti 200

64mb geforce 3 ti 500

64mb geforce 4 ti 4200

64mb radeon 8500 all in wonder dv

128mb geforce 4 ti 4200

128mb geforce 4 ti 4400

128mb geforce 4 ti 4600

128mb geforce 4 ti 4800

128mb radeon 8500 pro

128mb radeon 9000 pro

128mb radeon 9200

128mb radeon 9200se

128mb radeon 9600 pro

128mb radeon 9600 xt

128mb radeon 9600 xt all in wonder

128mb radeon 9600 all in wonder

128mb radeon 9500 pro

128mb radeon 9700 pro

128mb radeon 9800 pro

128mb radeon 9800 pro aiw

128mb geforce fx 5900

128mb radeon 8500 LE

128mb radeon x600xt

128mb geforce fx 5750

128mb geforce fx 5800 ultra

256mb radeon 9800 pro

256mb radeon 9800xt

256mb radeon x800 pro

256mb radeon x800 xt

256mb radeon x800 xt pe

256mb geforce 6800 ultra

 

 

and yes many of them were multiple cards of the same type.

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I've had a lot. Can't remeber them all

Some 256k ISA thing

Some integrated Cirrus Logic - with 512k that I upgraded to 1meg for a hundred bucks.

Hercules Dynamite 128/Video 2MB - was the X800XT-PE of it's time. Got it after reading the review in a late 1995 issue of PC gamer.

A bucket load of geforces (256 DDR - broke it, 2 pro, some MXes, Ti4600 -broke it, T4800, NO FXes/i realize s*** when I smell it)

A Hercules PowerVR Kyro II - good card for it's time.

Radeon 9500pro

Radeon 9500non-pro modded to 9700

Radeon 9800pro

MSI 6800GT -best card I ever had so far, broke it

Radeon X800Pro flashed to XT -broke it

Radeon X800Pro flashed to XT -broke it

PNY 6800GT - junk/defective

Gainward 6800GT SS - gets her tommarow, will probably survive till friday, hopefully longer

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i have had:

 

4mb sis 6358 (summit like that had it in a cele 400 in 98, its still running in my uncles computer lol! )

32mb TNT2 m64 ran half life brilliantly!

64mb Geforce2 mx400 - crap!

64mb Geforce4mx440 - quite good for a gf2 on steroids!

64mb GF4 Ti4200 - amazing card still have it boxed if anyone wants it!

256mb GF FX5900 Ultra vivo (msi) - good card but i wish i had got the 9800pro!

256mb GF 6800gt - My current graphics card! and absolute beast! :D :D

 

lol i have just realised i have never owned a ati card! odd that as I don't have anything against them, i just prefer nvidia!

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