How many graphic cards have you bought in your life?


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Trident ???

S3 ViRGE

Rage Pro

Voodoo 3 2000

Geforce 256

Geforce 2 GTS

Radeon 8500

Geforce 4 Ti 4200

Radeon 9600 SE

Radeon 9800 Pro

Geforce 6600 GT

Geforce 6800 GT

Geforce 7900 GT *2

Geforce 7950 GTX

Radeon 2900 XT *2

Geforce 8800 GTX

Interesting question.

Orchid Righteous 3D (4MB 3DFX Voodoo)

3DFX Vooodoo3 3000 AGP (Didn't fit xD Kept it anyway. So I also bought...)

3DFX Voodoo3 2000 PCI

NVIDIA GeForce FX5200 128MB AGP

ATI Radeon X1600 Pro 256MB AGP

And that's all. I moved onto laptops since then, but I still have some pretty decent dedicated graphics cards in those. No Intel GMA or basic ATI/NVIDIA graphics cards to be found here.

Number 9 Motion FX Reality 771 (What a weird name for a gfx card & not too great as I remember!)

Voodoo 1 MB (Paired with above)

2 x Voodoo 2's.

TNT2

Geforce 1

Geforce 2

Radeon 9500 Pro

Nvidia 6600 GT

Nvidia 7950 GT X2

ATI 4870

All I can remember anyway!

Texas Instruments TMS9928A (built into my first "computer", Adam by Colecovision in 1984)

Cirrus Logic something or another (built into AST computer bought in 1995)

Matrox Mystique (replaced the above listed onboard video card)

Diamond Monster 3d (voodoo I for 3d of course ?)

TNT2

GeForce3

GeForce 6800GT

GeForce 9800GTX (probably will be replaced with whatever nVidia comes out with next year)

GeForce 9400 (built into my HTPC Gigabyte mobo)

I am 21, I have had 4 videocards. I can't remember them all, i know one of them was an 4600 or something, I have my 8800GT now, and 2 between those.

And of course I am getting a new one this xmas. So 5.

IBM Aptiva with built-in graphics

bought a 3dfx voodoo 2 but returned it since I couldn't get it to work with my PC

Had a Compaq Presario that had an Nvidia Vanta LT 8MB

Sapphire Radeon x600pro - Fan died after about 2 years, but the card still works fine, currently in my parents computer

HIS Radeon 2600XT - Works fine currently in my PC

ASUS Radeon 5850 - On order, should arrive Dec 24th.

used a lot of random ones can't really remember previous to this.

Voodoo2

S3 Savage 3D

Geforce2 GTS

Radeon 9000

Radeon 9600XT

Radeon 9250

Radeon X850XT

Radeon HD 3870 [current in use]

9600GT [twice for other peoples systems]

only 3, cnt remember the names but my current one is ati 2900xt

Ouch, dude, you should upgrade asap.

I went a good almost two years without my PC working at all (was a Mac user and had just gotten the 360) but I know I have had...

ATi 9 something

Nvidia 5 something

Nvidia 5900 Ultra

Nvidia GTX 285

Honestly that 5900 ultra is what got me though most of my gaming and the one I used the longest. That really lasted me a decent amount of time, in fact my brother in law still has it.

My first ever card was XFX 6600 GT. Bought in november 2005 but died early due to overclocking.

Then i bought XFX 8600 GT in august 2007. It recently died due to age maybe. Most of the capacitors on the card blew up.

Now I am using XFX 9600GT. Its working fine so far. :p

You could easily RMA all of those because XFX has lifetime warranty.

You could easily RMA all of those because XFX has lifetime warranty.

But you have to have registered them within 30 days and they can't fail due to physical damage - e.g. if you blow a cap or burn the chip out whilst overclocking.

The word 'Lifetime warranty' has obviously not been understood here. It's the lifetime of the product on the market.

So once it's discontinued, so is your warranty. Though in some cases they may attach a few years warranty after the product leaves the market, but it'll be in the documentation.

ATI AIW 9700 PRO - died, replaced with below

ATI Radeon 9800 PRO - gave computer away

Sapphire ATI radeon x1900 - died, replaced with below

nvidia geforce 6800 - replaced with below

nvidia geforce 9800GTX+OC - in use today

Only 3

An ancient (even at the time I got it) 64MB Radeon 7500

A 256MB Geforce 6600 to replace a crap oem Radeon X300

And finally the one I'm using now a 512MB Sapphire Radeon HD 4850

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