Post your Video Card history.

Seven Eleven said:

could be. CGA was even before 286. on PC XT which had screaming Intel 8088 cpu running at 4.77 MHz plus optional 8087 math coprocessor)

Hey, I had one of those.

In whatever order I can remember:

- IBM monochrome adapter (no graphics)
- IBM CGA
- Tandy CGA in my flaky 1000
- Tandy EGA
- Tandy VGA

Then I smartened up...

- Trident 4MB
- A couple of Virge S3 cards
- Nvidia MX440 64MB
- An ATI AGP I can't remember the number of
- Radeon 3450 x2 in Xfire
- Radeon 4670 that slays all of the above put together.

Good thing, cuz I ran out of slots.

Mellon Head said:

In whatever order I can remember:

- IBM monochrome adapter (no graphics)
- IBM CGA
- Tandy CGA in my flaky 1000
- Tandy EGA
- Tandy VGA

lol i had Tandy with built in adapter too. then it was veery advanced tech

blackroseMD1 said:

Can't really remember before the 7300LE...those were my "party" days. Hopefully upgrading to something big and beefy next month. Thinking about going ATI since my mobo supports crossfire, and not SLI...not sure yet though. Heard to much about driver issues with ATI.

i'm nVidia man gone ATi myself. so far no driver problems whatsoever. just started playing GTAIV with everything on highest settings. looks amazing.

Let's see here...

Cirrus Logic 2MB PCI
Riva 128 4MB AGP 2x
TNT2 Vanta 16MB AGP 2x
GeForce 4 Ti 4200 128MB AGP 4x
GeForce 6200 GT 256MB PCI
GeForce 8400 GS 512MB PCI
GeForce 9600 GSO 512 512MB PCI-E 2.0 x16

Seven Eleven said:

lol i had Tandy with built in adapter too. then it was veery advanced tech

If by "veery advanced" you mean limited and overly expensive, then I agree completely.

Mellon Head said:

If by "veery advanced" you mean limited and overly expensive, then I agree completely.

yeah something like 3DFX Voodoo

blackroseMD1 said:

Hmm...I might just make the leap then, as long as I can find a really beefy HDMI card. Thanks for letting me know about the drivers.

np. for me major selling points were power consumption and dx11 support.

-OLD HP Pavilion-
ATI Rage 3D II+ PCI (4MB)
3dfx Voodoo2 12MB PCI (This was an accelerator - daisy-chained off the ATI Rage 3D II+ via a VGA cable.)

-2003 Dell Dimension 4550-
ATI Radeon 9700 TX 128MB 4xAGP
ATI Radeon X850 Pro 256MB 8xAGP (replaced 9700)

-2004 Dell Inspiron 8600-
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo 128MB

-2007 Custom Build-
GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB (died for unknown reasons, wasn't OC'd)
GeForce GTX 285 1024MB (added Spring Break '09)

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