4+ Years

Thats how long my old TI4200 has been in use. And still going strong. I did not plan on it lasting that long. Some year I'll have a new vid card. Whenever I have money again.

My FIRST 3D card was the original 4MB Voodoo. Then I upgraded to the Intel i740 (their first 3D card), which wasn't all that bad. Then I moved on to nVidia's RIVA 128.

I know, you don't care.

Started with a VLB Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (don't recall which S3 chip), Diamond Viper V330 Riva128, Diamond Viper V660 (still have I believe), onboard GeForce 2MX, Sapphire 9600XT, XFX 6600GT, eVGA 7600GT to my current Sapphire X1800XT.

Rage II
8mb Canopus 3d (Voodoo Rush I think)
32mb Rage 128
32mb Geforce2 MX
64mb Radeon 7500
64mb Radeon 8500 (bought used)
128mb Radeon 9700 PRO (bought used)
256mb Geforce 6800 Ultra (bought used)
256mb Radeon X1800 XL
512mb Radeon X1900 XTX


I still have my 9700 PRO in a secondary machine.

I'm pitting it against the X1950 PRO AGP in an upcoming review for reference.

I started with a Voodoo3 2000 16mb, Voodoo 5, ATI 32mb DDR, ATI 8500, TI4200, 9700 (Flashed to 9700pro), 9800 Pro, X800, X800XL, X1900XT, and finally 8800GTS.

The 9700 and the X1900XT are still my favorites. I have only had the 8800gts for 3 weeks and 1 week of that my PC has been down because I am waiting on my new ram. Final verdict to come...

GeForce 256 (Legend, bundled with my )
RIVA TNT 2
ATi 9000Pro AIW
GeForce 3 Ti 200 PRO !
GeForce FX5600 (Utter pile of wank)
X800XT (Current)

wow I feel old. Does anyone remember back in the day when CIRRUS LOGIC ruled with their gfx???

1) My first was a trident - something
2) a cirrus logic
3) think a intel 740 with 8mb
4) voodoo2 with 12mb worked with the 740.(quake 2 rocked!!!)
5) s3 (sucked btw, should bought riva tnt 2 but didn't had money)
6) nvidia Ti 300 with 128mb
7) Ati 9600 pro with 128mb
8) nvidia 6800 GS
9) probably an ATI X1950 pro (pci express) 256mb in a couple of weeks.

Where have you been? You don't have to buy a new card to come join us in the Graphics forums.

I had to upgrade the ti4200 in my kids rig because it can't run Flatout 2. Also the reason I haven't given BF2 or FL2 to some of my friends as they still run Ti4200's.

yeah i just put my ti4200 to rest a few weeks ago. good card.

1) Banshee 9850

then too many to list for the years in between.

my graphics history:
trident (IBM PS2)
S3 with 512 Kb (386 DX)
matrox (pentium 1 133Mhz)
voodoo 3 4500 (intel pentium 3 450 Mhz)
Kyro II (pentium 450 Mhz and Athlon XP 1800+)
Geforce 4 TI 4200 (athlon XP 1800+)
ATI 9550 (Athlon XP 2400+ and Athlon XP 2800+)
Geforce 4 TI 4600 MSI (Athlon XP2800+)
Geforce 4 TI 4600 gainward with zalman VF700 VIVO (Athlon64 3000+ Socket 754)
last one still going strong and sturdy! perfect for a occasional game of anarchy online

dam'n i love the multi-display support on my geforce 4 series

Sure. But I only listed my 3d cards... I don't even know if I can remember all of the 2d cards I had. S3's, Ati Mach 32s, Mach 64s, and Tridents mostly.

I had a Diamond Stealth. don't remember which one. Than I upgraded to the TI4200 64. The TI is Mad Dog.

I still have one of those, though it hasn't been used in ages. I wonder how little it's worth now...

GF2 MX440
GF4 TI4200
GF FX5700 Ultra
GF 6600GT
GF 7900GT

I know the list has nothing from ATI. Nothing against them, it's just force of habit as I've never had a problem with anything from Nvidia.

I skipped the entire GF3 and 4 generations all together because the onboard GF2 MX served my needs so well. I mostly played Half Life and TFC with it as well as Return To Castle Wolfenstein and the original Call of Duty. Believe it or not it played the latter two quite well at 8x6. It wasn't until I heard HL2 would be released that I knew I needed to upgrade. Interesting thing is that the board with the GF2 MX is still up and running quite nicely in a charity PC I built for someone. Even after I replaced the capacitors.