| Year | Chip | Board | Model | Reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | nVidia | preBuilt PC (ABS) | Geforce 2Ti | Burned out |
| 04 | nVidia | MadDog | FX5200 | Lousy POS(Slower than 2Ti) |
| 05 | ATi | Sapphire | 9800 Pro | Burned out(bought second hand) |
| 07 | nVidia | MSi | 8600GTS | Gave away to friend |
| 08 | nVidia | BFG | 8800GT | Great card; sold after acquiring ↓ |
| 11 | nVidia | eVGA | GTX 460 | Still runs today; tremendous card |
| 14 | nVidia | eVGA | GTX 970 | Had upgrade itch, fit the bill |
| 16 | AMD | Sapphire | Fury Nitro | $200 card, better dP support |
| 17 | AMD | ? | VEGA | Sold Fury during mining craze, waiting for VEGA |
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My first was an EGA card, in my IBM XT it could show 64 colours but only 16 on the screen at any one time. God knows how many since. Highlights and oddities TNT2 was my first 3D card there was a PowerVR Kyro II in the early 2000’s
In recent years there have been both AMD and nVidia. I have no particular brand loyalty just choosing the best I can afford at the time.
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Mhm lets see
Nvidia Riva tnt 64pro 32mb
Geforce mx4x0 forgot name 64mb
Nvidia quadro xgl 750
A lot of integrated gpus in meanwhile, till amd 7560d
Rx 460 sapphire 2g
#nostalgia
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My second GPU (can’t remember the first one) was a Voodoo 3 3000. It got replaced by a Vodoo 5 5000 (or something like that, I’m not sure).
The next card was a Geforce 3, which got replaced by a Geforce 5 5600 Ultra.
This was my last desktop GPU for a while, since I switched to using notebooks, so here we go:
The first notebook had a Geforce 6 6800, and my second one had a Geforce GTX 260, but due to the fact that this card was the reason for a very high DPC latency I returned the notebook and got as replacement one with a 4870 which still works fine.
I also ordered a MBP which has a GTX 320 a while later.
After that, I switched back to desktop PC and decided to build a PC again:
This first GPU was a used Radeon 6870 I got from a friend of mine. But after a few months it broke. Since I was still within the card’s warranty I got my firend’s money back and proceeded to order a Gigabyte 7870oc. When Witcher 3 was released my 7870 seemed to struggle to much with it, which is why I ordered my MSI Radeon 390oc. This is the card im using now^^ (Actually I’m typing on my MBP, so in fact I’m using the 320… but I meant for gaming and stuff 
)
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I see you also are gaming on a giant MSI heatsink like I am. How do you even OC an R9 390?
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To be honest, after some undervolting (-35mV, I could push more if I wanted to) and replacing its thermal component it doesn’t get above 70°C when gaming. For example, it stays at 65° when playing Witcher 3. With Radeon Chill enabled, it stays below 60°C 
But yeah, at stock settings with its original thermal component it reached 80-95°C, even though it wasn’t even summer
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| Chip Designer | Partner | Model | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nvidia | EVGA | GTX 285 | Alive last I checked | Currently being used as a coaster. |
| Nvidia | EVGA | GTX 550 | Alive, gifted | Gave it away to a friend who had an 8120 but no GPU. |
| Nvidia | EVGA | GTX 660 ti | Alive | Currently in use in my work machine (i7-2600k, 32GB, itx board) |
| AMD | ASUS | R9 380X | Alive, sold | Sold this to a friend who was building an overwatch machine. Works perfectly for 1080p. |
| AMD | Sapphire | R9 Fury Nitro | Alive, problematic | In use in my main gaming rig, crashes at stock clock if not overvolted. Not sure if it’s GPU or PSU to blame. Going to RMA it one of these days. |
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Used in main pc in order:
9400 GT (might work), GT 620 (broke), GTX 650 Ti (sold), GTX 280 (works), R7 250 (works), R9 390x (sold), RX 560
Other cards not in use:
Ati Rage 128 Pro, Radeon x1300, Geforce 6600 LE, Geforce 7900 GT, Geforce 9600 GSO
all work.
Used in secondary computers:
Geforce 2 MX 400
Geforce 4 MX 440, ti 4200 or 4400 - not sure
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Shouldn’t the 390x be faster? Or did you sell it for temperature/power consumption reasons?
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I didn’t really need the power. 560 suits me just fine.
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Thanks for the info, I was just curious 
Radeon x1300 was potatoes.
Yeah, it was a fantastic card, and just barely fit inside my case lengh wise lol. I know I could have made huge $ selling to a miner on ebay but sold it to someone I know uses it to game instead.
Well yeah, I got it second hand for free and used it to test a motherboard once. Otherwise it hasn’t gotten any more use. also AGP lol.
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Yeah, can’t believe my parent’s paid $3K (including a $450 Monitor and a Printer) for a Dell computer that had an ATI Radeon X1300, oh well, at least it was paired with a Q6600.
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Well I couldn’t complain, it was a monumental upgrade from Windows 98, although it ran Vista…
Q6600 was a badass chip. I’ve still got mine somewhere, planning to frame it. That thing hit 3.2GHz on water.
Indeed it was, it got paired with an ATI X1300, which was never really a great card to begin with.
Really a shame. I don’t remember much about the ATI cards of that era. I was all team green back then.
More pictures! But this is the last batch for me.
3dfx Voodoo3 3500 - I do not know if “sexy” is the right word for this card. That AGP interface on the other hand… on video card from this era? Stylin’
This is the referenced Riva TNT2 Ultra that the Voodoo5 crushed. It is easy to see why. (No not really.)
Voodoo5 5500 - However, this dual fan design really is sexy.
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro - This must have been a huge performance leap, even with the cooling issues present.
HIS Radeon X1950 - Coming from the above, this card’s HSF makes sense.
ASUS Radeon HD 6870 - How…modern.
Asus Radeon R9 270
AMD RX 480 - Blower design? - Don’t give him that RX 480! Miners have ruined enough.
Gigabyte GeForce 750 Ti - It looks like GB just started putting that WindForce HSF on all of their cards for a while. That seems odd however because a 750Ti should not have output that much heat to really need it.
@Steinwerks
Okay that makes more sense now. Those naming schemes tho…
@DrewSaga
The performance for iGPUs has really skyrocketed but they can’t replace dedicated cards. Nice to see some people out there prefer ATI.
ATI Radeon X1300 - Was it PCI-E or AGP? The PCI-E model should have ran okay, even if an x1950 would have been a better fit with a Q6600.
MSI R9 390 - Why hello there ever popular MSI HSF. A new angle this time. It should be great at 1080p gaming tho.
Radeon R7 360 by ASUS - Midrange model. ASUS needs to work on their video card designs.
@Freaksmacker
But cross fire never yielded respectable performance until DX12/Vulkan! >.<! Check out Sniper’s Elite 4 for what modern multi-gpu configs are capable of. I think GamersNexus did some benchmarks on it.
Geforce 5500 AGP - DVI+VGA+svideo. Impressive I/O, although terrible performance.
XFX 9600 GSO - This card looked so pretty for it’s time compared to similar generation cards.
EVGA GeForce GTS 450 Superclocked - WHY would you SLI these? I don’t even…That just doesn’t even…
XFX 7750 - This seems like it should have been a single slot design, but XFX had to “mess with” the reference card. Also, Xfire, why.
XFX 7870 - Okay, crossfire makes sense for this one. Sell on ebay! Do not mention crossfire.
HIS Radeon R9-280X IceQ X2 Turbo - Not sure if this is the right design. A surprisingly sane design from HIS.
Sapphire 290x non-blower design - There was also a blower design for this model and a blue one.
Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Tri-X OC - Lol…
Nvidia GeForce 2Ti - Built-in dust is a “feature not a bug” courtesy of OEM prebuilds.
Mad Dog NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (upscaled) - Could not find a good img src for this. That dual-vga tho…fancy.
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
nVidia MSi 8600GTS - Hard to see, but has dual-dvi + svideo. And…a molex supplementary connector while also being pci-e!
BFG Tech NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT - Whatever happened to BFG?
EVGA GTX 970
- Was very pretty already shown above.
- Still very nice looking here.
- Had the best price/performance ratio of any high end card prior to release of 10xx series.
Sapphire Radeon R9 Fury Nitro - Huge HSF. Tiny PCB.
@PendragonUK I don’t even know how to locate a card that old: “EGA IBM XT 64”.
This site seemed maybe promising tho: http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/5150_5160/cards/5150_5160_cards.htm
What expansion interfaces are those? The oldest I know of is ISA.
No brand loyalty means making smarter decisions over time
@sinisa94
7560d is still integrated.
nvidia RIVA TNT2 M64
nVidia GeForce4 MX440-8X
NVIDIA Quadro4 XGL - Almost looks like a real GPU, except for not having external power.
Sapphire RX 460 OC 2gb - Sapphire’s RX 480: This card looks really pretty, rivaling the EVGA 970 even. The more I look at them, the more I am starting to really like Sapphire’s designs.
some gpus are shown above, so are not shown here.
Voodoo 3 3000, Vodoo 5 5000, Geforce 3
GeForce FX 5600 Ultra - That molex supplementary power connector takes me back…
Gigabyte Radeon 6870 - Dual six-pins.
Gigabyte Radeon 7870 OC
MSI Radeon R9 390X - Another angle for MSI’s popular HSF. This one has a backplate and 8+6 pin design.
EVGA GTX 285 - Blower design. Hideous. Coaster use approved.
EVGA did not make a non-ti model for this I think. I wish mine had not died 
EVGA GTX 660 ti - Blower Design - Not sure if this is the right one.
AMD Radeon R9 380X by ASUS - Pretty.
R9 Fury Nitro as above.
@dsdhfhd Without AIE partner info, I can’t really know if I have the right cards or not.
nVidia GeForce 9400 GT by EVGA - No extra power connector (+).
Zotac’s GeForce GT 620
GeForce 650 Ti by EVGA
EVGA GeForce GTX 280 - Coaster… please use as.
Radeon R7 250 by Sapphire - Nice design by Sapphire again.
PowerColor R9 390X - DEVIL - “Without AIE partner info, I can’t really know if I have the right cards or not.”
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 560 - Very nice design by GB but the card seems crippled by lack of I/O.
That 9600 GSO and the GeForce2 models are shown above.
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