How many graphics cards have you owned ?

[Julian Richards]

Let me see.

S3 trio 62 2meg (came with P120 which I paid $2400) when changed over from
Amigas
TNT2 M64 $250 which rocked. Brought it to play games
GeForce2MX400 $400 Had to buy when started playing Rainbow six.
GeForce4MX460 $380 needed an upgrade and this was 2 years ago. Still can't
justify a change. Card runs nicely over 600mhz with a 9.6Gb/sec andwidth.


So that was 7 years. total of $1030NZ which is about US$600 in 7 years.
Not bad. Some people pay that for one card.

I was a very late swap over from Amiga. I've only just changed my
first PC card (8500) for the 9800SE. Due to my computer history, my
processors will always be AMD and never Intel and due the customer
loyalty that comes with an ex-Amiga owner, I've had Radeon, liked
Radeon and now would never consider changing. (I know the nvidia group
won't agree with me but that's how it is).
--

Julian Richards
julian-richards "at" ntlworld.com

XP Home
L7S7A2 motherboard
Powercolor 9800 SE 8 pipelines with Omega drivers
1 GB RAM
10 GB + 80 GB HDs
CD+DVD/CDRW drives

 

[Taipan]

Ok this will be fun list all the PC graphics you ever bought and price paid
/ year (if you have those details) I start obviously;

Hmm, I honestly can't remember most prices..

* Matrox Mystique (came with PC when I moved from Amiga - ~1997)
* PowerVR PCX2 (1997)
* Orchid Righteous Voodoo 8Mb (1998)
* Diamond Monster 2 Voodoo II (x2 in SLI) 12mb (1999) - £100 for both from
a friend when he upgraded.
* 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 16Mb (2000)
* ATI Radeon 8500 LE 64Mb (2002) - built into a new Evesham PC
* ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128Mb (2003) - £310 local store

 

[Rockin Ronnie]

You've also missed a whole bunch of eye candy with those cards so the
savings had a cost - visuals. It's the same idea comparing a 36" TV to a
42" Plasma.

Here's my list:

1 MB (no idea about brand - 286/12 MHz system) - 1990
S3 Virge IIRC - (build in P166 system) - 1996
Voodoo2 upgrade - $150 or $200 cannot recall 1997
TNT2 - $200
V3 3000 - $200
V5 5500 - $300
GF ti500 - $330
GF4 Ti4400 - used - $100
GF FX 5900 Ultra (new machine $400).

Total cost ~$1800 in 7+ years (won't count the old built in cards).
Assuming my 5900 is used for 18 months that's about $200/year for video
hardware - not too shabby.

Trident 256K - ISA came with Laser computer - 1993
Cirrus Logic - 1meg ISA - 1995
S3 Trio 1MB - ? - 1996
Diamond Viper 4 meg AGP - $200CDN - Nov 1997 - stored
S3 Savage Pro 32 meg - $120CDN - 1999 - still using in second computer
Diamond Monster Voodoo II - 8 meg (3DFX onl;y) - won in a contest - in a box
somewhere
Sapphire Radeon 7500 - $200CDN - 2001 - sold!
ATI Radeon 9600Pro - $238CDN - Aug 2003

Ron

 

[Thomas Andrén]

1986 C=64 onboard video
1988 Amiga 500, 4096 color, onboard video
1992 Amiga 4000/030, AGA onboard video
1995 Cirrus Logic 5428 Vesa Local Bus
1995 Trident 1MB ISA (Used for testing hardware only)
1996 Cirrus Logic 5430
1997 Matrox G200
1997 Matrox Mystique G220
1997 Acer 486 laptop, unknown onboard video
1998? Matrox G400 (I really liked 2D quality on Matrox)
1998 Compal 486 laptop, unknown onboard video
1998 Chips & Technologies, Toshiba 470CDT laptop, onboard video
1998 Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo 1 (Still have it in retail box)
1999 Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo 2 (Still have it in retail box)
2000? ASUS TNT 2 Ultra Deluxe (Still have it in retail box)
2001 Amiga 500, 4096 color, onboard video (got this one for free)
2001 ASUS Geforce 2 GTS
2001 S3 Trio 64 1MB (backup server)
2001 S3 Trio 64 V+ 2MB (changed in backup server)
2001 Got 2 extra S3 Trio 64 V+ 2MB from work (Used for testing hardware
only)
2001 ATI Xpert (Used for testing hardware only)
2002 Geforce 4 mx 440
2002 Geforce 4 mx 440 Go, Inspiron 8200 laptop
2002 Another cheap Chaintech Geforce Geforce 4 mx 440 (server)
2002 Geforce 2 Pro (Kids computer)
2002 Geforce 4 mx 420 (Wife computer)
2002 XBox Geforce 3 onboard video
2003 Intel Xtreme onboard video, Dell GX270
2003 Club 3D ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

Now i know where my money went......

/Thomas A/

 

[J. Clarke]

Ok this will be fun list all the PC graphics you ever bought and price
paid / year (if you have those details) I start obviously;

Tseng Labs ET4000 1MB ISA 1993 (came with my first PC 486 cost £ 1200)
S3 Vision 964 Diamond Stealth 2MB VRAM 1995 £ 250 PCI 2D Only (local
supplier)
3DFX 3D Monster Voodoo 2 8MB PCI 3D only (linked to Diamond 2D card 1998 £
170 (local supplier)
nvidia TNT2 Non Ultra OEM 16MB AGP 1999 £ 110 (trade price local supplier)
nvidia Geforce DDR 32MB AGP 2000 £ 130 (overclockers.co.uk)
3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 AGP £ 70 2000 (dabs.com) for 2nd PC
nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 32MB AGP £ 70 2001 (dabs.com) for 2nd PC
nvidia Geforce 2 GTS 32MB AGP £ 70 2001 (dabs.com) entry level gfx for new
built PC replacing one sold with the Geforce DDR
nvidia Geforce 2 MX 200 32MB AGP £ 25 2002 (dabs.com) to run in a server
nvidia Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB AGP £ 65 2003 (uk.adverts.computer) my
current card
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB AGP £ 130 2004 eBay.com (to replace current card
which will go into 2nd PC)

TCO £ 1090 ($1918) graphics budget over 9 years.

Interesting question--I'm not going to try to remember the year, and I'm
sure I'm leaving some out:

H-89 built in (not sure if that counts--the H-89 was an H19 terminal with a
Z-80 logic board added).
Apricot F10 proprietary (I forget what chip it uses)
Zenith 150 built-in (CGA compatible)
IBM Monochrome (the original that said "Black and White")
Hercules Ramfont
ATI EGA Wonder
Some kind of no-name Chinese Hercules clone--actually worked pretty well
TI Travelmate 2000 built in (IIRC it was an S3 of some variety--nice little
machine in its day--some jackass stole it the day after it died the death
<snicker>)
ATI VGA Wonder
ATI All-In-Wonder (the original)
Several IBM VGAs built into PS/2s.
ATI All-In-Wonder 128 (IIRC)
Several Mach32s of various kinds
Canopus TNT2
Voodoo 2
Matrox G400 Marvel (shoulda gotten a G200 instead)
Matrox G200
Geforce 256
Radeon All-In-Wonder
a couple of Radeons of various descriptions
All-In-Wonder 8500DV
Several ATI chips built into server boards
IBM Thinkpad 770 built in (S3 IIRC)
Intel 810 built-in
Radeon 9800 Pro

 

[Mart]

Ok this will be fun list all the PC graphics you ever bought and price paid
/ year (if you have those details) I start obviously;

Tseng Labs ET4000 1MB ISA 1993 (came with my first PC 486 cost £ 1200)
S3 Vision 964 Diamond Stealth 2MB VRAM 1995 £ 250 PCI 2D Only (local
supplier)
3DFX 3D Monster Voodoo 2 8MB PCI 3D only (linked to Diamond 2D card 1998 £
170 (local supplier)
nvidia TNT2 Non Ultra OEM 16MB AGP 1999 £ 110 (trade price local supplier)
nvidia Geforce DDR 32MB AGP 2000 £ 130 (overclockers.co.uk)
3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 AGP £ 70 2000 (dabs.com) for 2nd PC
nvidia Geforce 2 MX 400 32MB AGP £ 70 2001 (dabs.com) for 2nd PC
nvidia Geforce 2 GTS 32MB AGP £ 70 2001 (dabs.com) entry level gfx for new
built PC replacing one sold with the Geforce DDR
nvidia Geforce 2 MX 200 32MB AGP £ 25 2002 (dabs.com) to run in a server
nvidia Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB AGP £ 65 2003 (uk.adverts.computer) my current
card
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB AGP £ 130 2004 eBay.com (to replace current card
which will go into 2nd PC)

TCO £ 1090 ($1918) graphics budget over 9 years.

ATI Rage Pro (came with my PC, 1999)
Riva TNT2 Ultra
Geforce 2 GTS
Gladiac 920 Geforce 3
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (bought last year)

 

[Tiny Tim]

Ok this will be fun list all the PC graphics you ever bought and price paid
/ year (if you have those details) I start obviously;

Ok, my line-up:

Miro with 2 mb of Vram in my original PC in 1995
Matrox Mystique - only accellerated Tombraider I (somewhat) i think
Voodoo I - Quake I @ 640x480x16 - Wow!
Creative TNT 1 - can't remember why
2 x Voodoo 2 (SLI) - expensive, but very very good (only with these 2 could
the original Unreal (not Tournament) be played decently at its release
(1024x768x16, only Glide worked reasonably i think).
Asus Gforce 2 GTS - good card
MSI Gforce 4400 - good card
ASUS 9800 XT - i really, really hope this card will play HL2 and Doom3 @
1280x1024 with some kind of AA and AF.

Total spent: >2500<3000 US dollars

 

[Thomas]

Ok this will be fun list all the PC graphics you ever bought and
price paid / year (if you have those details) I start obviously;

Holland, so really they shoudl be guilder / euro prices, but i converted to
dollar

1) onboard s3 card, on a Digital 486-DX-33 mainboard, with 512 KB VRAM I
upgraded to 1 MB in two weeks, i think, so i could get a higher resolution.
No idea what the cost was
2) onboard Sis 64 bit vid-card, on a P75 mainboard. Shared mem...
3) S3 Virge DX card, 2 MB (60 ns EDO), with upgrade option. (never could
find mem, though) 80 dollar ( :-(( )
4) Tseng Labs 6000 4 MB free
5) Diamond FireGL card with 4 MB 40 dollar
6) Voodoo 1 4MB upgrade 50 dollar
7) Voodoo Banshee 16 MB 40 dollar
8) TNT2 Pro 32 MB (2ndhand) 60 dollar
9) Geforce 1 DDR (2 weeks) 45 dollar
10) Geforce 2 GTS (2ndhand) 75 dollar
11) Club3D Ati Radeon 8500 LE 128 MB (2ndhand) 150 dollar
12) Connect3D ATI Radeon 9500 NP 128 MB (running in 9700 mode) 179 dollar
13) ATI Rage 3D PCI 4 MB 5 dollar (for my OLD dual P2 machine)
14) Matrox G100 PCI 4 MB 5 dollar
15) Voodoo 3 3000 PCI 16 MB 20 dollar

And probly i forgot one here or there ;-)

Thomas.

 

[Thomas]

15) Voodoo 3 3000 PCI 16 MB 20 dollar

And probly i forgot one here or there ;-)

hmm my three laptops, for one ;-)

Thomas

 

[James Grabowski]

Hi,

fun post. . .

So due to the fact I sold my cards on after a period of use, and was given a
couple, I make that a net total of £396.00 spent on graphics cards over a
period of 8 or 9 years!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy sh*t I almost can't believe that
My friend recently blew £400.00 on a 256MB FX5900 (lol!).
--

I'm even cheaper

1992 built in graphics on a IBM XT - free
1995 isa trident graphics card in a 386 - free
1996 pci ati mach64 (1mb) in a 386 - free
1998 pci ati mach64 (2mb) in a 386 - free - this one is still in use as
a router.
1998 agp ati rage'98 (4mb) in a PII 266mhz - £1200 for the whole
machine.
1999 Voodoo 2 (12mb) - £70
2001 Nvidia geforce 2mx400 (64mb) to go with a new 1 gig duron - £50
2003 Another voodoo 2 (12mb) - £5 on ebay - I wanted to try sli and
still use them to run glide.
2003 Ati Radeon 8500 (64mb) - £30 on ebay to go with a xp1700

All the free stuff came from local businesses who were throwing them
out. Total spend of around £300. Not bad for over 10 years of pc's and I
still use most of them.

 

[Jason Ash]

My vid cards:

Diamond Stealth ISA 1MB, ~$150 / 1984-85ish
Diamond Stealth 3000 (Virge/VX) 2MB, ~$175 / 1988-89ish
Diamond Voodoo 2 ~$150 / 1991-92ish, connected to the Stealth 3K
3DFX Voodoo3 3000 (PCI, not AGP) ~$200 / 1994-95ish
ATI Radeon 32MB DDR AGP ~$200 / 1999ish
ATI Radeon 8500 ~$250 / 2001ish
ATI Radeon 9700Pro ~$400 / 2003ish (still in my PC)

Take all dates with a grain of salt, I could be way off. I do recall the
ISA card at the top went into my parents Packard Bell 486SX/20, and I
nearly wrecked a PCI Diamond card I bought first, as the PB didn't *have*
a PCI slot.... Luckily I called PB support before I tried muscling the
card in....

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[Darthy]

I was a very late swap over from Amiga. I've only just changed my
first PC card (8500) for the 9800SE. Due to my computer history, my
processors will always be AMD and never Intel and due the customer
loyalty that comes with an ex-Amiga owner, I've had Radeon, liked
Radeon and now would never consider changing. (I know the nvidia group
won't agree with me but that's how it is).

LOL.... still have my Amiga 1000 x2 and Amiga 3000. But I've use
Cyrix (excellent 486 CPUs), Intel and AMD... But I plan to stay with
AMD for a long time - unless they bomb out to Intel.

So... you're in to A's (Amiga - Amd - ATI)

 

[BelaLvgosi]

Ok, my line-up:

Matrox Mystique - only accellerated Tombraider I (somewhat) i think

And plenty of other games at decent framerates. Plus 2d performance was very
good in dos games.

2 x Voodoo 2 (SLI) - expensive, but very very good

As I posted before, these were amazing, I had two CL 12mb, wich gave me
years of k6 200mhz at maximum detail in 1024x768, gl (glide wrap) was very
fast using a 3rd party driver I don't remember the name (correction, Wicked
Gl!, wich worked very well on v3 cards too), much better visual quality and
fps than built in q3 support. When the v3500 came out, it still had less
polygon processing power (333 vs 300) altough it made nice bump mapping and
so on, it lacked the same raw power as the almighty SLI. The funny part, was
that 3dfx at their site said the v2000 was faster than a SLI rofl. Anyway,
unlike most people say, you could already do 1024 with only one 12mb, but
you had to turn off z-buffer, some polygons looked ugly that way (I remember
bad "spray" effects on NF3). Oh and yeah, not only unreal 1 (wich only had
reflections in Glide mode, remember mirrored ground? ), but the first
tournament ran perfectly too. I miss those.

 

[neopolaris]

To put down ALL the vids I've had would be ludicrious. Here are my current
cards:
Gainward Golden Sample 128MB GeForce3 ti200
Gainward Golden Sample 64MB GeForce3 ti200
Chaintech 128MB GeForce4 ti4200
ATI 64MB 8500

 

[Rick]

Lets see, a couple I can't remember and then...
1) Oak 256K SVGA - $150.00
- Not really SVGA, had the .047 chipset (could do 256 colors and 640x480,
but not at the same time)
- What really hurt was the $240.00 for the 2MB of memory!
- Would not run Links 386... argghhhh!
2) A Trident SGVA 512KB - Price?
3) A few more of the above cards (Similar)...
4) ATI Mach 32
5) ATI Mach 64
6) ATI Rage I
7) Matrox Millenium
7) ATI Rage IIc All-In-Wonder - $365.00
- Almost cured me of paying premium for video cards.
8) 2ea Matrox Millenium II
9) ATI Rage 128
10) ATI Rage 128 All-In-Wonder
11) Nvidia TNT (Diamond Multimedia I think) - $125.00 used
12) 3DFX Voodoo II - $75.00 used
13) Nvidia TNT2 Ultra - $250.00
14) Geforce II GTS 64MB (Hercules Prophet) - $350.00 used
15) ATI Radeon 7500 (Sapphire) $150.00
16) ATI Radeon 9500 Pro Sapphire) $250.00

That's all I can remember off the top of my head. I built a lot of computers
and keep a few in the house at any one time. The prices that I remember are
displayed in Canadian dollars.

bye, Rick

 

[MasterChief]

i dont know the exact order anymore

geforce fx5600

/tom

can anyone say a few words about this card?

 

[John Hall]

Hercules monochrome graphics adapter 1989
ATI VGA Wonder card 1991
ATI Mach 8 1993
ATI Mach 32 1994
ATI Xpert at Play or Work? 1997
Voodo 1 1998
Voodo 2 1999
Second Voodoo 2 running in SLI with the other one 1999
Voodoo 3 2000
Voodoo 5 2001
Geforce 3 classic 2002
ATI 9800 non pro, flashed to pro 2003

I have spent way too much money over the years on this stuff, but I love
hardware!

JK

 

[Kevin Miller]

can anyone say a few words about this card?

Not as good as my 9800XT, but then again, not as expensive.

I had the FX5600 Ultra model.

Kevin Miller

"The avalanche has already started;
it is too late for the pebbles to vote."

 

[Northern Light]

IBM compatible CGA
Trident VGA
Diamond Multimedia with Tseng Labs
Matrox Millenium II
Diamond Multimedia S3
3Dfx Voodoo3 3000
Nvidia TNT
Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO
Radeon 8500
Nvidia GeForce3 Ti 500
Nvidia GeForce4 Ti 4600
Radeon 9200 Pro (for a "backup" card)
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon 9800 Pro (current card)

i'm looking forward to the 420 and hope it will have a significant
performance increase over the 9800 Pro.