What's your 3d card history?

On 12/23/2005 4:56 AM Dean Jarratt brightened our day with:
From when I can remember actually buying 3rd party cards, I've been through
the following:-

ATI 3d Rage II + 3dfx Voodoo 2
Geforce 256 SDR
Geforce 4 4200Ti
Geforce FX5900XT
Geforce 6800GT
Geforce 7800GT x2 Sli

In '96 I had a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000
Orchid Righteous 3D Voodoo 1 (I always loved the name of this card)
Christmas 1997
3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 Christmas 1999
Visiontek GeForce 3 Ti500 11-23-2001
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 9-30-2003
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 6-27-2004
XFX GeForce 6800 3-30-2005


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"Dean Jarratt" wrote in message
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From when I can remember actually buying 3rd party cards, I've been
through
the following:-

ATI 3d Rage II + 3dfx Voodoo 2
Geforce 256 SDR
Geforce 4 4200Ti
Geforce FX5900XT
Geforce 6800GT
Geforce 7800GT x2 Sli


Voodoo I
Voodoo II (one of the verify first, my brother got a reference card)
3D rage II
Geforce MX440
Geforce 4 Ti 4200
Geforce 6600GT

"Dean Jarratt" wrote in message
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From when I can remember actually buying 3rd party cards, I've been
through
the following:-



Focusing on my main computer, and not counting some of the downgrades I was
forced to make in the late 1990s, this is my list (my memory is a bit rusty
in places)...

Generic 256K VGA ISA (June 1991 - with my first PC!)
ASI WinJet 1MB ISA (1994)
S3 Trio64 1MB PCI (1996)
S3 ViRGE 2MB (1997)
ATI Xpert XL 4MB PCI (1999)
ATI Xpert 98 8MB AGP (January 2000) (got it dirt cheap)
ATI Xpert 2000 32MB AGP (April 2000)
Asus GeForce2 MX 32MB AGP (April 2001)
MSI GeForce3 Ti500 64MB AGP (June 2002)
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB AGP (March 2003)
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB AGP (July 2003) (current card)

The 9800 Pro was a store warranty replacement for my 9700 Pro. I was given
a 9800 Pro by the store because the 9700 Pro was no longer available when I
made my warranty claim.

My second computer currently has a GeForceFX 5700 128MB AGP card (straight
5700).

I almost built a new computer this month but ultimately decided that my 9800
Pro and 2.8GHz P4 still does the job. I was going to buy a 7800GT, but will
now go back to my original plan and wait for the summer and see what Socket
M2 and G80/R580 have to offer. At least I have a nice shiny new Antec P160
case to house it all in when I do build!

I think your Hercules Dynamite Pro VL was actually the Dynamite Power VLB. I
had one of those, first video card I spent over $200 on. I used it on my old
Cyrix 5x86 120 rig. That system lasted me the longest unchanged (about 2
years, only the hard drive changed). It got me through Quake.

--
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"McGrandpa" wrote in message
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I forgot to list a few. Up there are listed the PCI and AGP flavors.
Below are the VLB flavor.
Hercules Dynamite Pro VL
Diamond Viper VL
Some S3 Virge VL card
This is just getting too old here

McG.

"NightSky 421" wrote in message
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S3 ViRGE 2MB (1997)



I believe that card was the DX version. I recall there also being a GX
version available, but I have no idea what the differences are now (not that
it matters at this point anyway!).

Cirrus logic 1 MB (came with first computer)
Trident 1 MB (ISA)
Cirrus Logic 1 MB 5428 (upgraded to 2MB later) Vesa Local Bus. Remember
those anyone?
Matrox Mystique (ISA)
SIS 6326 (4 Meg AGP)
Voodoo 2 (PCI)
Geforce2 MX (32 MB)
Geforce3 Ti200 (64 MB)
Geforce 4 Ti4200 (64 MB)
Geforce 6800 (128MB)

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"Dean Jarratt" wrote in message
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From when I can remember actually buying 3rd party cards, I've been
through
the following:-

ATI 3d Rage II + 3dfx Voodoo 2
Geforce 256 SDR
Geforce 4 4200Ti
Geforce FX5900XT
Geforce 6800GT
Geforce 7800GT x2 Sli

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:11:15 -0600, Larry Roberts
wrote:

My 3D cards are as follows:

1. Virge DX 4MB (It accellerated HyperBlade game, but that was it)
2. Rendition Verite 1000
3. added Matrox M3D (PowerVR) to Verite 1000
4. Rendition Verite 2200 (first AGP card)
5. added 3DFX Voodoo1 to Verite 2200
Banshee 16MB AGP (Forgot this one)
6. 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 (PC system was stolen shortly afterwards)
7. Nvidia TnT2 M64 + 3DFX Voodoo2 12MB SLI
8. ATI Rage Fury Maxx (replaced the TnT2 M64)
9. Nvidia GF2 MX400 64MB (held on to Voodoo2 SLI for a little while)
10. ATI Radeon 9000
11. Nvidia GF3 Ti200
12. Nvidia GF4 Ti4400
13. Nvidia 6600GT (current card)

"Dean Jarratt" wrote in message
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From when I can remember actually buying 3rd party cards, I've been
through
the following:-

ATI 3d Rage II + 3dfx Voodoo 2
Geforce 256 SDR
Geforce 4 4200Ti
Geforce FX5900XT
Geforce 6800GT
Geforce 7800GT x2 Sli
Cirrus Logic 4Mb
Diamond Monster 3D Voodoo1 with a Diamond Viper V330
Voodoo 3 3000
Geforce2 GTX
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9800 Pro
EVGA 7800 GTX

"pigdos" wrote in message
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I think your Hercules Dynamite Pro VL was actually the Dynamite Power VLB.
I had one of those, first video card I spent over $200 on. I used it on my
old Cyrix 5x86 120 rig. That system lasted me the longest unchanged (about
2 years, only the hard drive changed). It got me through Quake.

--
Doug
"McGrandpa" wrote in message
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I forgot to list a few. Up there are listed the PCI and AGP flavors.
Below are the VLB flavor.
Hercules Dynamite Pro VL
Diamond Viper VL
Some S3 Virge VL card
This is just getting too old here

McG.



I can take photos of the card, put it on the scanner etc. What I can't do
at the moment is run it. I may have one 486 VLB mobo still working. But
nothing set up yet to run. It has a chip with a Dynamite label on it.
Nothing on the card itself that says either Power or Pro, but it used to say
it in color on bootup. This Herc was my last VLB card. I made it a point
to wait for PCI to come out before I spent any more money. I bought this
one from a buddy of mine, it didn't come with the box. I can't remember
what games I was playing, but that I did get the card says I wanted my games
to go faster
McG.