How often do you upgrade?

[chookman]

Hey guys...

After reading a few posts around the forums i realised that alot of people are forever upgrading there systems to the next latest and greatest... and im not exception. I have to ask the question, how many different video cards have you owned along your upgrade path... ive listed here what i can remember for myself...

3DFX VooDoo2
Nvidia TNT2
Nvidia Geforce 256
Nvidia FX5200
ATi 9500Pro
Nvidia 6600GT
Nvidia 7900GS
Nvidia 7900GT

Im not an Nvidia Fanboi by any means but seems to be what works for me... although i love my 9500pro and hay with the upcomming nvidia possibly being named 9series i might be able to pass it off as being better by just calling it a 9500

 

[jaguarskx]

nVidia Riva 128
nVidia TNT2
Radeon 7500
nVidia GeForce 4200Ti
Radeon 9000Pro (inexpensive replacement for 4200Ti which suddenly died)
Radeon 9800Pro
AIW Radeon 9600XT (For my HTPC)
Radeon X1900XT

 

[Maziar]

XFX Geforce 4MX 440 64MB

XFXGeforce FX 5700LE 256

GAINWARDGeforce 7900GT 512 GOLDEN SAMPLE (It was a faulty card)

ASUS EN7900GTX 512

OCZ GEFORCE 8800GTX

 

[ausch30]

3DFX Voodoo 3
Nvidia Geforce FX5900 Ultra
Nvidia Geforce MX440
Radeon 9000 Pro
Nvidia 8800 GTX

 

[royalcrown]

sh.., how about this:
Trident 2 meg VLB, diamond stealth 2000 4 meg, matrox G200, Diamond S3 32 meg, geforce 256, 8500 le. I used older cards but did not own them. You young punks think old cards start at 32 megs...ha...lol how about 256K, or CGA, I used CGA a lot, and EGA was the shiyat and big money.

back then you could add more memory on some cards at 70 US a meg, like from 1 to 2 megs...

 

[royalcrown]

I forgot my geforce 3

 

[Mavranic]

ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
ATI Radeon X800 Pro
Nvidia Geforce 7900 GS
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX (to be ordered this thursday)

 

[lunyone]

Voodoo Banshee 8mb '97 ish
Voodoo 2000 16mb (I think) '99-00 ish
9600xt 128mb '03 ish
9800pro 128mb '04 ish
x1800xt 256mb '06

That's about it for me, not much $ to upgrade like the rest of you, since I have wife/kids/2 car payments/house/student loans....etc...etc....

 

[accu]

geforce 4mx
ati 9600se
8800gts640

 

[Wolfshadw]

All-Purpose Rig(s) Gaming Rig HTPC
S3 Virge
ATI Radeon 9200 NVidia Geforce 7800GS
ATI AIW X1800XL NVidia Geforce 8800GTX-640 ATI HD2600 Pro

 

[turboflame]

Integrated S3
Nvidia Geforce MX4000
ATI Radeon 9600se
ATI Radeon X1600pro
Nvidia 7600GT

I have no loyalties (though I was ticked at nvidia for making that MX4000, I mean WTF?)

 

[cy9394]

Some CGA card
ATI Mach 32 ISA
Some generic VESA card
Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 4MB w/ 3dfx Voodoo 2 8MB
GeForce 256
GeForce MX 420
ATI Radeon 9600
ATI AIW X800XT

 

[honestjohn_]

PCI & AGP
Diamond Stealth 64
Diamond Viper II Savage 2000
Diamond Viper V550 TNT
STB Velocicty Riva 128
Matrox Mystique 3D
Creative Labs Annihilator Geforce 2
PNY Geforce 3
Hercules Stingray / 3DFX Voodoo Rush
Hercules 3D Prophet (the first one)
ATI 9700 Pro
EVGA Geforce 5900 Ultra
ATI Radeon X800 Pro
EVGA Geforce 6800GT
ATI X800XT-PE
ATI X850XT-PE
Visiontek X1950 Pro
Sapphire X1950 Pro 512MB
Gainward Bliss 7800GS+ GLH 512MB
HIS ICEQ3 Turbo X1950 Pro 512MB Rev.1 (Had 2 bad ones)
XFX 7950 GT 512MB

PCI-E As of 3 weeks ago
MSI HD 2900 XT 512MB

I believe I missed a few AGP cards .....

 

[royalcrown]

So you've owned every card everymade then then...lol

PCI & AGP
Diamond Stealth 64
Diamond Viper II Savage 2000
Diamond Viper V550 TNT
STB Velocicty Riva 128
Matrox Mystique 3D
Creative Labs Annihilator Geforce 2
PNY Geforce 3
Hercules Stingray / 3DFX Voodoo Rush
Hercules 3D Prophet (the first one)
ATI 9700 Pro
EVGA Geforce 5900 Ultra
ATI Radeon X800 Pro
EVGA Geforce 6800GT
ATI X800XT-PE
ATI X850XT-PE
Visiontek X1950 Pro
Sapphire X1950 Pro 512MB
Gainward Bliss 7800GS+ GLH 512MB
HIS X1950 Pro AGP Rev.1 (Had 2 bad ones)
XFX 7950 GT 512MB

PCI-E As of 3 weeks ago
MSI HD 2900 XT 512MB

I believe I missed a few AGP cards .....

 

[royalcrown]

God those diamond savage cards (s3) sure sucked, looked good but SLOOW...I couldn't believe the geforce 256, I miss the wow factor.

Those 4 meg stealth 2000s sure did rock quake though, my buddy with the vodoo 2 and some 2 meg crap was pissed !

 

[honestjohn_]

So you've owned every card everymade then then...lol

No, somehow I missed most of the voodoo cards....Thank God. I could retire If I had half the money I blew on video cards and I'm just glad my kids aren't accustomed to wearing shoes.

Yeah and I agree regarding the Savage 2000. That and the Matrox Mystique were 2 of the worst buys I ever made.

 

[royalcrown]

Really the G200 was even worse, it got killed off and was slow, by the time the extra 8 meg chip was affordable even slower. It was EXPENSIVE too !

 

[onestar]

Royal Crown...I remember my first clone, an 8088 with MGA and an orange monitor. I thought it was something SPECIAL too!

Then, of course everything was DOS based and I remember my disdain for GUI which seemed to slow everything down. Autocad would crawl until Autodesk shipped the updates for it.

Oak Technologies ISA 16k
Trident CGA ISA 128k-512k
Trident VLB (several iterations)
ATI PCI several different ones
3DFX Voodoo2 AGP 8MB RAM (Woo-hoo)
Matrox G40
ATI 8500 - 9700
A6200 TDH
Many more than I care to remember

 

[sleepyhead]

I get a new system once every 8 years or so and upgrade my video card once inside that timeframe.

 

[honestjohn_]

Royal Crown...I remember my first clone, an 8088 with MGA and an orange monitor. I thought it was something SPECIAL too!

Then, of course everything was DOS based and I remember my disdain for GUI which seemed to slow everything down. Autocad would crawl until Autodesk shipped the updates for it.

Oak Technologies ISA 16k
Trident CGA ISA 128k-512k
Trident VLB (several iterations)
ATI PCI several different ones
3DFX Voodoo2 AGP 8MB RAM (Woo-hoo)
Matrox G40
ATI 8500 - 9700
A6200 TDH
Many more than I care to remember

Didn't want to go back that far on my list. CGA, EVGA....shudder. technically I guess my first Graphics Chip was a Cirrus Logic something my first PC used, which was actually a laptop. Amazing for it's time. Toshiba T-1000, Only 6 lbs., 512k RAM, 720KB floppy, with 768k flash ram with 128k used to bump the 512K to 640k, and the rest to be used as a massive 640K Internal Storage Drive. Almost forgot the gorgeous 11"x4" Magenta/Cyan LCD Non-backlit display.

 

[Onus]

I upgrade when something I'm running (or want to run) is or seems slow, or when the upgrade bug bites, providing there's room in my budget for it. I don't remember all the video cards I've owned, but they go back to an IBM CGA adapter in 1984, and include the ATI ?GA Wonder cards, the usual Tridents, TNTs, MX440, blah blah. I don't think I ever had a VLB video card, but I had a VLB disk controller that ROCKED. I'm currently on a 7900GS, which seems to be handling my needs just fine, but I don't play FPS titles much. I was thinking of trying Bioshock, but I'll probably skip it simply because I don't have time to waste on DRM issues.

 

[ooral]

voodoo3
voodoo4
riva tnt
geforce2
Radeon 8500
Hercules Radeon 9800xt
Gainward Bliss 7800GS (The one with 7900 chip)
2*8800 Gtx's (Now I've a new PC and 24")

Not too sure about the order the first 4 were actually in!

 

[marvelous211]

Owned by following order

CGA
EGA
VGA
Trident 9750
TNT1
Voodoo Banshee
Voodoo 3
Voodoo 5
Radeon 64 vivo
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9700 pro
Radeon 9800 pro
Geforce 6600
Radeon 850xt
Radeon 1900gt
Geforce 8600gts

 

[jwolf24601]

Intel 486/66 - Hercules
Pentium 133 - Trident, Upgraded to Matrox Mellinium
Pentium 2 333 - Diamond Stealth 32mb
AMD K6-2 350 - MX440 64mb
Pentium 3 800 - Gainward TI4200 64mb
Pentium 4 2.8 - Sapphire 9600 Pro 256mb
C2D E4300@2.7 - 8600gts 256mb

 

[chookman]

marvelous211:

Voodoo 5... Wow i dont think they solve 10 of those in the whole world did they lol


accu:

geforce 4mx > ati 9600se > 8800gts640... them some big jumps... bet you noticed the difference in each upgrade there.


There some unforgettable cards in those lists... and some that anyone who owned them would like to forgot lol. I think its almost time to stop calling them Radeons and Geforces as well come up with some new names maybe then we could go back to some find of naming system that has a direct relation to how they perform. Voodoo 1,2,3,4,5 was so much easier to understand than X1900xtx and 8800GTX ultra mega super awesomes.