Which cards have you owned?

How many vid cards have you owned, and give them a rating out of 10.

Matrox G200 8mb- 6/10
Leadtek Geforce 2 Ti 64Mb 8/10
Gainward Geforce 4 TI4600- 10/10
Asus Radeon X800XT PE- 9/10

Thats my history.

The matrox was in my original PII 400mhz.

Bought the GF2, cause i couldn't play AvP 2 very well, was a great card, overclocked loads.

Got the Ti4600 free off a mate, it was kick ***.

Had X800 since summer, fast card, still, for the price, should do more, like make my dinner or somet.

TNT2 32MB 9/10 as it forced me to upgrade the rest of my pc
GF2mx400 64MB 6/10
GF4mx440se 64MB 4/10 "upgrade"from gf2 not much better
FX5200 128MB 5/10 lasted less than 4 months
Radeon 9500np 128MB 128bit 10/10 as it softmodded to 9500pro perfectly and lasted through 3 motherboards
Radeon 9800Pro 128MB 8/10 only because the upgrade from the 5200 to 9500pro was greater than 9500pro to 9800pro
GF6800nu 128MB 7/10 as it was able to open 16pipes/6vertex shaders but IQ is not up to the ATI cards that I have owned

I have also had a 4meg ati pci,4meg diamond stealthpci,and a sis 8meg agp but they are not worth even ranking

Creative Geforce 2 GTS (9/10) Still one of the best cards Ive ever owned
PNY 5200FX Ultra (1/10) Worst card ever
BBA 9800NP (7/10) It had Infineon RAM
BBA 9800PRO (6/10) Great RAM very poor core overclock
PNY 6800GT (8/10) Second best card ive ever owned

Matrox Mystique, 4/10, first hardware accelerator I ever had.

Voodoo 3000 AGP, 8/10, simply because it was such a big step up from the Matrox.

Asus FX5200 128/128, 2/10, it gets a 2 ONLY because it had DX9 support, was on the same level as my VD3000, but I could no longer play the games I liked that required a Glide compatible card. $100 for DX9 support, and no performance increase, a POS.

BFG FX5500 64/128 OC, -10/10, a complete and total POS. My 5200 buried it, at stock speeds. I owned it for less than an hour, immediate return.

Albatron ti4200P, 10/10, what a difference. My CPU(1100 Celery) is holding me back now, but I have new chips on the way, two 1.26's, and an 866, which should all OC nicely, even more improvement. Best card I've owned so far.

Geforce 3 Ultra
Geforce 4 MX 440
Geforce 4 Ti4600
Radeon 9500pro
Radoen X800 XT

ATI XPERT2000. Rock until I got RtCW which brought it to its knees 8/10
ATI 9500np. Still rocks. 10/10

8mb no name card, 6/10, met the needs and worked
geforce2 pro 32mb, 8/10, lasted well longer than it shouldve, mad overclocker (and core makes nice keychain now)
geforce fx5200nu 128mb, 8/10, got cheap, lasted well, oc'd well, handled games i could afford to buy
sapphire 9800se 128mb, 256bit, r360, softmodded to pro 10/10, good price, good oc, softmodded, runs current games very well

voodoo2 16mb & 12mb - 7/10 Lots better than onboard.
8mb tnt2 - 7/10 Worked great until me got greedy!
geforce2 mx - 8/10 OC really well.
9700pro - 10/10 need i say more. (also this was my upgrade from that geforce2mx)
BFG 6800 OC - 9/10 great card

ATI Rage 16MB 128 Pro - 8/10 because it ran all games for nearly 2 years: from Delta Force: Land Warrior to Civilisation III, and only Mafia brought it to its knees

GeForce MX440 64MB 4xAGP - 6/10 - I got this to play Mafia, and it played most games after. But on the games that worked on the Rage, I noticed little difference, and I needed an upgrade within a year.

ATI Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB - 8/10 - I got this when I finally knew something about computer hardware and video cards. Overclocked, it ran UT2004 and C&C Generals at max. settings/max. res. Struggled with Far Cry though

ATI MSI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB 256-bit - 9/10 because it overclocked great, stayed at mucher cooler temps than my passively-cooled 9600 Pro. It even ran HL2 at max. details/max. res (1280*1024 on my 17" LCD.) Only loses a mark because it is the loudest thing in my system!

In order of goodness.low to high.

Nvidia MX420 64mb
Nvidia FX5200 128mb
Nvidia MX440 64mb
Nvidia FX5600 ultra 128mb
ATI 9600XT 128mb
Nvidia FX5700 ultra 128mb
Nvidia FX5900XT 128mb
Nvidia 6600GT

I've owned a whole bunch of video cards (easily > 20) , but here are the major milestones:

Trident ISA (1/10, 1992) My first card, it came with my first ever PC - a 486DX 33. It sucked.

Cirrus Logic Vesa Local Bus (8/10, 1994) VLB was a major speed breakthrough over ISA. Games of the day such as X-Wing flew on my 486.


Matrox Millennium - the original (10/10, 1995) This was my first PCI card, paired with a Pentium 90Mhz. It was the king of the hill for a time, faster than any other video card. The problem was it lacked hardware 3d acceleration for games. I still own this card and run it in a Pentium 233Mhz.


Diamond Stealth S3 Virge (5/10, 1996) Slower than the Millennium in windows, the only redeeming quality was hardware acceleration. I still own this card and use it for when AGP flashing goes bad.


Geforce2 MX400 (4/10, 2001) My first AGP card, I ran it in a Duron 600Mhz. I expected more and got less, should have gone for a GT or GTS. I now use this card in a cheap PVR I put together.


Geforce4 Ti4600 (9/10, 2004) Just bought it a few months ago so I could play Doom3 on a budget rig and I absolutely love it. I still think the Millennium is the best card I've ever owned, but the fact that Ti's can still deliver the goods years after their release speaks volumes about how first-rate they are.

I have owned many of the regular old video cards but I will start with my 3D cards.

4MB Monster3d Voodoo card (9/10) This card was hot when it was out
2-12MB Creative Labs Voodoo2 SLI (9/10) Great cards
Obsidian 24MB Voodoo2 SLI on one card (10/10) Huge card owned Quake2
16MB Voodoo Banshee (7/10) This was in my off computer
16MB TNT2 (8/10) Nice for the price when it came out
Intel I740 (0/10) Piece of total crap
32MB GeForce (9/10)
Elsa Gladiac GeForce2 GTS (10/10) Incredible card
GeForce 3 TI200 OC'ed -> TI500 (9/10)
MSI GeForce 4 TI4200 (9/10) Loved this card
Radeon 9800 Pro (10/10) Still love this card

I have had a lot of video cards and most were due to the fact that my roomate had a great job and he loved upgrading which meant I got to buy the gently used cards for a fraction of the cost. I would say the most fun was that Obsidian Voodoo2 it was huge and ran at like 1000 degrees. Now where is my roomate when I need that 6800 Ultra.

ati 9800xt unmodded. lots of memories, my first card in my first build. terrible overclocker 8/10

ati x800 pro. 12 pipe, lots of fun playing the newest games. runs 660/615 at about 14K 3d03marks 10/10 for insane viperjohn modded fun

sapphire 8500le. woohoo $30 new and does a darn fine job in my workstation! 10/10

Xpert98
GeForce 2 MX200
GeForce FX5200
Radeon 9800pro
Geforce 4 Ti4800se

I had a couple more before the xpert one but don't remeber their name, I still have the xpert98. All of the cards there were bought after they were obsolete, the 9800pro is the only one that I got that isn't obsolete.

mX400
9100SE
Fx5200
6800GT

Integrated Trident Blade crap on 2 compaq's (5/10, the second one could run HL1 pretty well)
ti4600 in an alienware (9/10, served me well)
9800 pro 256mb (8/10, worked well)
fx5500 OC (4/10, crappy!)
9800XT (9/10, great card)

i want an x800xl

ATI Rage fury pro 128, 32mb (10/10) - Had this card since 98 and its still being used (by my cousin now, but still!)

AIW Radeon 7200 (9/10) - Was my next card, worked nicely for all the gamse I played

Geforce 4 mx440 (7/10) - Bad image quality ( I noticed differences compared to my ATI' cards), but was an excellent overclocker on both ram and core with JUST the stock heatsink (I had about 50mhz increase on ram and 120mhz on core)

AIW Radeon 9700 pro (8.5/10) - Bad oc'er, good image quality, plays all of todays game with at least an average fps of 40 with high settings

gf2mx400=5/10 didn't oc for anything
gf4ti4400 Golden Sample awesome card got a higher oc than my 4600-10/10
gf4ti4600 good coard.. oc'd ok. 8/10
gf6800 LE awesome card, oc's like MAD 10/10

In no particular order:
CGA graphics adapter, from 1984, still used, too low/old for a ranking;
Lots of integrated graphics 1/10;
Diamond Stealth Trio, not sure of model, 2MB RAM, 2/10;
Trident ISA Graphics adapter, 1/10;
Mad Dog Champion 32 PCI (SiS 305) with 32MB RAM, 4/10;
ATi Xpert 128 PCI (Rage 128) with 16MB RAM, 5/10;
evga GeForce FX5700LE w/ 256MB RAM, 7/10; 10/10 for my needs.

Yes, I know, I skipped a few generations with my new card (Xpert 128 to the 5700LE).

- Diamond stealth 4MB PCI (8 / 10)
- Onboard Intel Extreme Graphics 1, 16MB (3 / 10)
- Geforce 2 MX 200 32MB (6 / 10)
- Geforce 2 MX 400 64MB (7 / 10)
- Geforce 4 Ti 4200 128MB (10 / 10) (heavy overclocked & modded)
- Ati Radeon 9600XT 256MB (1 / 10)
- Ati Radeon 9800pro 128MB (10 / 10) (Flashed to XT & overclocked)

Yeah thats a one out of ten for the 9600XT. I bought one to replace my 4200 in late 2003, but the sapphire card died after 10 minutes of use. The Asus card they sent me as a replacement was DOA, but when i sent it back to them it got lost and i lost 180€