Your GPU history

[Daedroth]

GeForce 6600GT

GeForce 8800GTX

GeForce GTX 580

[I am Redbeard]

Nvidia 8800GTS SLi (2008-2014)
EVGA GeForce 960 4GB (2015- ?)

Planning on either tossing another 960 4gb in or upgrading to a better card in the next year or so. Absolutely no complaints thus far, but, for the sake of technological retail therapy, if the wallet allows; consume.

[compl3x]

On 11/6/2015 at 5:53 AM, Javik said:

I can't remember the exact dates off the top of my head (of the cards I actually remember), but this is my history:

GeForce MX440 64MB
Radeon 9200 256MB
Radeon 9600 SE 128MB
GeForce 8600 GT 256MB
Radeon HD 4850 512MB
Radeon HD 5770 1GB
Radeon HD 6950 2GB
AMD R9 280x  3GB
 

Are you deliberately Team Red or are they just the cards you happened to buy because of price/availability etc.?

 

I really only recently had the money and interest to build my own gaming systems so:

ASUS GTX 770

 

GIGABYTE R9 390

 

Edit: btw, good topic idea, OP

[Noir Angel]

16 hours ago, compl3x said:

Are you deliberately Team Red or are they just the cards you happened to buy because of price/availability etc.?

 

I really only recently had the money and interest to build my own gaming systems so:

ASUS GTX 770

 

GIGABYTE R9 390

 

Edit: btw, good topic idea, OP

When I had my 8600GT and I upgraded to Vista, the repeated NVLDDMKM crash drove me up the wall, and I've not brought another nVidia card since. I currently support AMD because of the fact that they open source their software, and because of their strong OpenCL performance. When I brought my latest card I had a choice between the 280x and the GTX 770 and went with the 280x because of the extra gig of VRAM and the faster memory bus. So I'm not against buying nVidia cards, but I do definitely prefer AMD.

[wiretap]

My gaming PC graphics card history..

 

Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee

ELSA Gladiac GeForce 2 GTS

MSI GeForce 4 Ti 4600

XFX GeForce FX 5950 Ultra

XFX GeForce 7900GT

EVGA GeForce 8800 GTX

EVGA GeForce 295 GTX (2x in Quad-SLI) (ran too hot, multiple RMA's for overheating VRAM with artifacting and pixelation)

XFX Radeon HD 5870 (went to ATI because benchmarks looked promising for my SFF build, bastard card with coil whine, terrible drivers, never went back to ATI)

EVGA GeForce 580 GTX

EVGA GeForce 680 GTX

EVGA GeForce 980 GTX

next card.... nVidia Pascal (most likely a Titan series)

 

I think there may be a few that I missed in the earlier days.. I remember having an old PCI ATI card with a TV tuner built in.. and maybe a GeForce MX card.

 

Edited February 12, 2016 by wiretap

[MightyJordan]

The oldest one I can remember having is a PNY card from NVIDIA's GeForce FX 5xxx series; can't remember the exact one (might have been a 5200), but it did have this purple cyborg guy on the front...

 

Then I think after that was a PNY card from the 6xxx series; possibly a 6600GT.

 

Jumped up to an 8800GT after that; can't remember the brand, though (it came in a cheap Zoostorm PC and to date is still the only card to die on me).

 

After that one died on me, I made the jump over to AMD and got a Powercolor 5770.

 

After a couple of years, I upgraded to a VTX3D 7870 Black (Tahiti LE).

 

Held onto that one for about two-and-a-half years, then during Black Friday week last year, I bought my current card: an MSI GTX 970.

 

 

One thing I've definitely learnt in my experiences is to never cheap out and buy a card with a single fan. My 5770 and 7870 cards performed well at the time, and the drivers were rock-solid for me (I know, hard to believe), but they were so noisy and would regularly go above 90C on the modern games at the time.  

[Open Minded]

I really don't remember all of them, although I should, but I don't because of how many computers I've had and how long it's been since my 386SX-15.  Here's what I do remember from my main gaming rigs, excluding mobile:

 

-Some Diamond 3d card way back in the day

-(Hazy memories; can't recall)

-Ati 9600 AGP

-Nvidia 8600 GT

-Nvidia GTX 260

-Nvidia GTX 760

-Nvidia GTX 760 x2

 

I've owned a lot more than that, but they are lesser and/or older and I didn't use them as my main GPU for gaming.  Like right now I have a 4770k with a GTX 560 and GT 540 (number crunching rig) but am using my 2600k with SLI right now for gaming.  I've owned so many cards I really don't think about them unless it's going in my main rig.  Anyone feel me on that?

[redvamp128]

I don't remember dates either- but I have had ONboard first then upgraded to  S3TRI0

where I upped the memory ...

 

TNT2 M64 (which I still say is one of the better cards I had.... ran WIN2k GREAT and Played the Games at the time Good)

Geforce 256- (was a good upgrade when testing XP)

Geforce MX 400

Geforce FX 5200

Ati 7000

ATI 9000

---- and pretty much use onboard now because not enough time to really game anymore ---   (not in chronological order)

 

[inactive]

-Diamond Monster 3D (3DFX Voodoo) 4MB. i still have this collecting dust in my room somewhere. it's pretty much the first generation of graphics cards that where good for the PC to my knowledge. i remember first using this and feeling disappointed (if i recall correctly i think i paid $200 for it back around 1996-1997 area) but that was only because it took me a while to figure out you had to run it in OpenGL mode to actually use the graphics card and then Quake looked amazing as it was easily ahead of any consoles out at that time (which was pretty much N64/PS1 etc) and then i was quite happy with the purchase.

 

-3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 or 3000 models (i might have had a couple of these) which i think are 16MB (i think these where in use around 1999-ish if i recall correctly)

-Geforce 2 GTS 32MB (this came with the PC i ordered from Alienware in i think it was April 2001 which is the last PC i bought pre-built as after that i did everything myself.)

-Geforce 3 Ti200 64MB (this replaced the card above which i would estimate i got this probably around 2002-2003 but i don't know for sure without looking into it)

-Geforce 7900GT 256MB (got this in 2006 (when i built my first PC in i think March 2006))

-Radeon 5670 512MB (currently in use on my main PC which i swapped mobo/cpu/ram in May 2012 but this card i had i think since 2010 as i pretty much got it to play Mafia II either before or not long after i got the game.)

 

but nowadays... i probably won't upgrade my PC much simply because i rarely play games anymore and when i do it will likely be a game i played in the past which means my current PC (i3-2120 CPU/8GB RAM) is solid. ill probably eventually upgrade when it starts to suffer in general system performance but i suspect that will be at least 3-5 years from now as 8GB of RAM should be solid for many years for general system performance use.

[Luc2k]

No clue what my first PC had, the CPU was a Pentium II Klamath.

 

GeForce2 MX400

Palit GeForce 6200 - passively cooled

Palit GeForce 7600 GS 256MB - passively cooled

Sapphire Radeon HD 5770 512MB

MSI Radeon HD 5850 1GB

Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 1GB

Gigabyte Radeon R9 390 8GB

 

While I don't like Nvidia as a company, I always went for bang for buck for whatever budget I had at the time and sometimes burned myself (passively cooled 6200/7600 and 5770/7850 memory size).

[Raa]

nVidia since as long as I can remember!

[PGHammer]

In my case, it was Team Red until, oddly enough, my current GPU (refurbished GTX550Ti) broke the string - and that was a straight bang-for-buck purchase.  (But I was also the odd duck that tag-teamed an ATI AIW and a 3dfx Voodoo (the latter was upgraded to a Voodoo2 - specifically, a Monster 3D II in Rev. E) so I could have Glide and D3D 32-bit at need.  It didn't hurt that the AIW was also packing a cable-ready TV tuner.)