How many graphics cards have you owned ?

Nick Le Lievre wrote:

 > 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



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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......

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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.


Nick Le Lievre wrote:
 > 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.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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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.

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"cowboyz" <me.RemoveThis@here.now> wrote in message
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 > 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.
 >
 >
 > Nick Le Lievre wrote:
  > > 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.
 >
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:40:18 +1300, "cowboyz" <me.RemoveThis@here.now> wrote:

 >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).
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"Joe M." <nospam RemoveThis @all.com> wrote in message
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 > 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.
 >
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 > Joe M.
 >
 > "cowboyz" <me RemoveThis @here.now> wrote in message
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  > > 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.
  > >
  > >
  > > Nick Le Lievre wrote:
   > > > 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.
  > >
  > >

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

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"J. Clarke" <jclarke RemoveThis @nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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 > Nick Le Lievre wrote:
 >
  > > 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;

2 mb rage pro onboard
8mb trident blade card - built into my own firts pcs motherboard
then upgraded that to a tnt2 ultra a few years back, cost £150 or
something - MAJOR improvement on onboard
then upgraded that and game the tnt2 to dad and got the geforce 4 mx 440 ive
got now which is oc'ed to 300 core 390 memory

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Just a hand full

Trident 9440 VLB
S3 Trio64V+ PCI
3dfx Voodoo1 PCI
3dfx Voodoo5 AGP
GeforceFX 5200 AGP
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Nick Le Lievre wrote:
 > 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)

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"Nick Le Lievre" <spamme.RemoveThis@thisaddress.com> wrote in message
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 > 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.

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Cirrus Logic 5465 (AGP) 4MB VRAM, Aug 1998, $105(NZ), kickass 2D
MSI FX5900 Ultra-VTD256, Aug 2003, $1160(NZ) Problem free and my favourite component, hence I loiter around
a.c.p.v.n.

Total $1265(NZ) The NZ$ against the US$ has moved a great deal over the years so a conversion is meaningless.

Tony.

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Nick Le Lievre wrote:
 > 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
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

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Thomas wrote:
 > 15) Voodoo 3 3000 PCI 16 MB 20 dollar
 >
 > And probly i forgot one here or there

hmm my three laptops, for one

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