Post your line of graphics card purchases Redux !

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Intel Extreme Graphics 1.
6800Ultra.
No More Upgrades for Atleast a year and half! :) or say a year minimum.
 
I. Apple II plus ......onboard graphics. Gpu = unknown / Dont Remember

II) Sinclair ZX-80 m/c....onboard graphics Gpu = unknown / Dont Remember
8 bit ISA bus Series m/c's (Intel 8086 /8088 cpu series)
initially the os was CP /M ... Then IBMDOS was released.
MSDos came Later ....
till about a year ago i still had these os on 5 1/4 floppies ....
infact had all Dos versions upto 6.2 (or was it 6.3 ??)

1) CGA (Colour Graphics Adapter) - GPU = Dont Remember now but it had 8K Ram and 8K rom:)
Full Lenght card with a seperate graphic co-processor.;)
Lots of Discrete logic chips.

2) Cga , Gpu = Dont remember now ...but ram 16K:cool2:
medium sized card. partially integrated core. (meaning less number of discrete chips)

3) Cga = same specs as above ...but small size . highly integrated gpu with onchip bios.

4) MDA = (MonoChrome Display Adapter) ....an apt upgrade from above cards since it supported higher resolutions and refresh rates. .....full length.

By this time Intel 80286 cpu was released. it had 16 Bit Isa Bus support

1) EGA = Enhanced Graphics Adapter ...
Supported higher resolutions. had 48KB ~ 64KB (Kilo Byte)
Ram. Good refresh rates

2) VGA (Video Graphics Adapter) ...first true 640 x 480 support ...Whopee!!!
Gpu = I dont remember now but it was either Trident or Cirrus Logic gpu.

Vesa bus Introduced and later the pci bus introduced.
intel released 80386 and later 80486cpu (It was hyped / marketed as "MainFrame on a Chip" :ohyeah: )
Amd Had released their 80386 Compatible chip which ran at 40 Mhz ....a.k.a intel 's 80386 which ran at 33 mhz.

1) 2 ~ 3 vesa bus cards based on cirrus logic chips .....had 256 ~ 512 KB ram... later versions had 1 mb rams :clap:

Windows 3.1 and windows for workgroup operating system released ...GUI so ....

1) Bought my first high end graphics card. it was S3 Vision 964 pci bus card with 2 mb of Samsung Vram. (Special dual ported rams)
one of the highest Quality 2D / 3D card ever made. it was a gainward oem. bought it here in mumbai for 14K....
I still have it and sometimes use it to debug motherboards. and i have yet to see a better Picture Quality
for 2D. sadly the card did not support motion compensation hence moving images like movies was software rendered meaning too slow....

Pentium 1 Cpu Released ....Win95 released ...

1) S3 trio card purchased.

AGP1x bus released....

S3 , 3dfx , Trident , Cirrus logic, SIS , ATI were the main leading players at that time ...sadly except for ATI all the rest would vanish within the next 2 years ...atleast in graphic card market....nvidia was just rising ....
1) Bought cards from above mentioned co's except for 3dfx ...which was too costly ....They were the actual Developers of SLI Technology ....quite a craze then ...
Ram was in the region of 4 ~8 mb ....

AGP x 2 released ...Nvidia released their TNT cards and later TNT2...and put many co's out of graphics business ...

Nvidia relased gforce line of Gpu's.

1) Bought creative S3 Savage 4 gfx card for 8K !!!!

2) later Bought Nvidia Gforce1 based card Asus V6600. had 32 mb SGram. (Currently with TE Member Anish on Loan (to be returned) basis. Good picture quality. had bought it for 12.5K ....mumbai.

-----------------------To be Continued ------------
All of the above was purchased last century ...i.e. till December 1999.

E & OE ....especially chronological errors ...so kindly pardon me for any lapses.

phew ... i am tired (you might be too reading all this nostalgia ...)
 
intel extreme graphics I

intel extreme graphics II

Elsa Falcox 9800 Pro 256MB(still wt smone on TE I think)

Evga 6800 GT agp
 
LOL blade why do this again :P

S3 Virge 4MB
3dfx Voodoo 2 8MB
Asus NV TNT2 Pro 16MB
Gainward GF2 Pro 64MB Goldensample
Gainward GF4 Ti4200 Goldensample
ATI Radeon 9800 pro
ATI X800XT AIW
ATI X1900XTX

Edit:
Used these in office/college machine:

S3 Trio 3D 4MB
S3 Savage4 16MB
Riva TNT2 M64 32MB (Horrible card compared to the 16MB TNT2 pro)
GeForce 2MX 400 64MB
Gainward 5600 Ultra Goldensample
XFX 6600GT
EVGA 6800Ultra
ATI X1800XT (only for 3 days :P)
 
deejay said:
II) Sinclair ZX-80 m/c....onboard graphics Gpu = unknown / Dont Remember
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Heehee didn't see ur post earlier... my first machine was a zx spectrum with a z80-a chip. The zx-80 had 1kB of addresseable memory... the spectrum had 4 :P. This thingie used to connect to a TV and could only run basic programs stored on a tape recorder. Was a hell of a lot of fun writing stupid stuff for it. It had its own dialect of basic with some graphics functions. IIRC it did 4 tone grayscale graphics :).

1) 2 ~ 3 vesa bus cards based on cirrus logic chips .....had 256 ~ 512 KB ram... later versions had 1 mb rams :clap:

Windows 3.1 and windows for workgroup operating system released ...GUI so ....
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My first real PC was a 486 with 1MB of VRAM... Cirrus Logic 5446 PCI :P
 
ok here goes :-

s3 virge

voodoo 2

geforce 2

geforce4 mx440

radeon 9800 pro

geforce 6200tc

geforce 6600gt

aiw x1800xl

using onboard geforce 6100 now...:D
 
ok i will put as many as i can remember.

Some unknown PCI card.
Trident S3 1 MB AGP
Intel i740
Voodoo Rush
Voodoo 2
Velocity 100
voodoo 3 3000
Sis 6326 8MB
Voodoo 5 5500
Riva TNT
Riva TNT2 M64
Riva TNT2
GF 256
GF2 MX
GF 2 GTS
ATI radeon 7500
ATI radeon 8500
GF3 ti200
GF4 ti 4200
ATI Radeon 9700np
ATI radeon 9700pro
ATI radeon 9800XT
ATI radeon X800XTPE
GF FX 5900U
GF 6800GT AGP
GF 6800GT PCI express
GF 6600GT PCI express
GF 6200TC PCI express
ATI radeon X1900XT PCI express
 
Sis 4mb

Matrox something 8MB (to play nfs 4 :D)

Intel i740

S3 Savage 32 Mb

Geforce 4 Mx 440

Integrated 865 :P

Leadtek 5700u

BFG 6800u
 
S3 1MB PCI (still with me)

Riva TNT and TNT2

ASUS Geforce 256 DDR (V6800)

Geforce 2 GTS (dunno remember the manufacturer)

Onboard Geforce 2 and 4

ASUS Geforce4 MX 440 128MB

MSI Geforce4 MX440 64MB

ASUS Geforce 4 Ti4200 (V8420) My first expensive card :)

ASUS FX 5200 (V9520)

Gainward FX 5700 ULtra 128MB

MSI FX 5200 Ultra 128MB (still with me)

XFX FX 5200 256MB

XFX FX 5600 128MB

Onboard X300 (only ATi card till date i have used)

XFX 6200TC

XFX 6600GT 128MB (still with me)

XFX 7800GTX 256MB (Still with me)

and many more which i don't remember :D like card on my 486 and Pentium MMX and pentium 3 system .... actually that time i was not much into hardware ...... most of the cards were purchased by my brother and used by both of us :)
 
ohh.. i thot only newer cards r welcomed here .. :bleh btw when i was in class 6 i've owned a lots o cards .. slowly :) .. some 486 .. s3 then later in 9 pe 815e .. etc etc // :)
cant forget the windows 3.1x :D i loved playin cards on em as i knew only how to do tht and play paratrooper :bleh:.
 
Sis 6215c (Now, thats one real ancient card..:P )
Riva TNT2/M64
Geforce 2MX 200(Currently using..)
Geforce 6600GT (Currently using..)

There are the only ones i have bought 4 meself. Head spinning at seeing some of the lists above.. Sigh.. A near fortune on graphics cards alone??;)
 
Intel 815e
ATi Radeon 9500 pro
ATi Radeon 9800 pro
ATi Radeon X850XT PE (not purchased as such, but I've been using it for the past 6-7 months now)
 
Intel 810

S3 Savage

ATi Rage XL 8MB

Riva TNT2

GF2 32MB

FX5200 128MB

FX5700LE 256MB

GF 6800 128MB
 
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