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Ti200 - 6/10 (first graphics card allowed me to play games on my old gateway)
ATI 9700 NP (3 of them) - 8/10 (Great peforming card bad o/cer)
ATI 9100 - 7/10 i knew it was not a fast card but it serves its purpose well
ATI 9700 Pro - 10/10 (the card is 3 years old and can still run most games at max settings high res, it is also overclock to at least 9800 pro speeds depending on the need)
 
nVidia 128ZX - Came with a Dell 5/10
Diamond Voodoo 2 - 8/10 - added later as a suplement to my nVidia 128ZX
Creative Labs nVidia TNT2 Ultra 8/10
Hercules geForce2 GTS 64MB - 8/10
MSI geForce 3 - 8/10
PNY geForce 4 Ti4600 - 8/10
ATi 9800 Pro 128MB - 9/10
eVGA geForce 6800GT (Ultra Mod BIOS) - 10/10

Best card I've had so far is my current card, but it's also the first card I've volt modded , overclock the most, and has given me the best gaming experience, but then gaming experience only gets better with each new generation graphics card that come out.
 
ATI RagePro 8mb - 7/10 Onboard solution.. ugh worked for any 2d game i played...

nVidia TNT 32mb - 8/10 Old reliable! Anything dies I stick in this

ATI Radeon 8500 64mb- 10/10 Still works, still plays all games! Good buy. (still works even after i chiped the 1cm off a corner of the PCB LOL)

nVidia GeForce FX 5600 256mb - 5/10 Dead in 1 yr, didn't play that great with games

ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128mb - 6/10 Dead in 3 months, played games great when it was alive

nVidia GeForce 6800 128mb - 9/10 Great, but expensive.
 
ATI Rage 3D - 2/10 (came with my old PIII)
ATI Radeon 9800PRO - 5/10 (died of OC)
MSI Radeon 9800PRO - 3/10 (super crap stock HSF)
ASUS 9200SE - 4/10 (discovered it lagged like hell in Halo)
Gigabyte GeForceFX 5950 Ultra - 8/10 (I loved this card, beautiful dual-slot cooling)
ASUS V9980 Ultra - 4/10 (made funny noises in DX9 games)
Gigabyte RX800XTPE - 9/10 (my current card)

So far, my two best cards are both made by Gigabyte... Gigabyte - 10/10
 
Hmmm...

64MB 8500LE: 10/10. What can I say, this is by far the cheapest, most powerfull, most amazing card on the market. 30 dollars, and it outperforms/ties with a standard 9600 NP in some benches. Simply incredible. Plus it overclocks decent.

Radeon 9200 256. 2/10. Crap, crap, crap. Completely crap. I got it, expecting it to blow my 8500 LE out of the water. What do I get? LOWER scores, WORSE FPS, and I spent about 60 dollars MORE on this one. Ha. What a laugh.

BFG 6800 NP 9/10. Well, it did what I wanted it to, I wanted to triple my Aquamark score with the next card I got, and I forced this baby to do just that :-D. Excellent card, slightly expensive@300 retail :p. Comes with Farcry, so I guess that ?Makes up for it?
 
ATI Rage , good card at that time, games looked great 8/10
Nvidia TNT2 , ohh well those lovely days playing Blade of Darkness with a 1Ghz Athlon 8/10
Leadtek Gforce 3 TI 500, my first really expensive card still running strong 10/10
ATI Radeon 8500 , my Gforce3 was better, had some nasty ATI driver problems in those days 6/10
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro , really expensive buy , run way too hot and core died on me 7/10
Gainward Gforce4 TI 4400 , using this one right now in my gaming rig , unfortunatly has no DX 9 support but plays all my games well so far, will need to upgrade thought 9/10
 
Cool.

I was expecting a lot more upgrades from some people, most of the upgrades here, are pretty good jumps! :thup:
 
ATi Rage 8Meg 4/10 was ok but the drivers always messed up :(
Voodoo2 8Meg 10/10 loved it could play GTA3 when it shared the ATI Rage ram
TNT 16Meg 7/10 was ok nothing too good
Geforce 4 MX440 7/10 ^^^^
Geforce 4 Ti4200 8/10 was a fast card at the time i got it
ATi Radeon 9600pro 2/10 hated it
ATi Radeon 9700pro 10/10 i love it lol
 
asus mx440 - 5/10
? 8500LE - 4/10
sapphire 9000Pro - 5/10 so-so oc.
sapphire 9500 - 7/10 decent oc's.
Gainward GF2 Ti500 - 5/10 slow. avg oc.
PNY Ti200 - 7/10 decent oc's and gameplay
? MX4000 - sucked.
Chaintech Ti4200 - 8/10. great card...
PNY Ti4200 - 8.5/10 monster oc's.
Jaton Ti4200 - 6/10
MSI Ti4600 - 7/10 decent oc. good gameplay, tho.
MSI Ti4600 - 7/10...for $40 bucks.
BBA 9600Pro - 8/10 oc'd great.
P-color 9600Pro EZ - 6/10
P-color 9800SE - 7/10 oc'd good.
ASUS FX5200 - 4/10 my 440 was better.
eVGA 5700U - 8/10 oc'd great.
Albatron 5900XT - 8/10 oc'd great.
WinFast 5800 - 8/10 good oc'er...
XFX 6600GT - 8/10 good oc'er. great gameplay.
 
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Diamond Stealth 4MB (10/10) Its a clasic and still runs today if I ever need a backup card
3D Dimond Monster (?/10) Its been way to long since I remember this card
3D Dimond Monster 2 (?/10) Its been way to long since I remember this card
TNT (?/10) Its been way to long since I remember this card
TNT2 64mb (10/10) still runs alot of things
GF2MX400 (8/10) was a good OCer had it for 3 years til I sold my PIII-Duallie, and only card I could get to work with the system
GF4TI4400 128mb (10/10) was good back when it came out, still good overall card today
9600XT 128mb (10/10) runs stock will get to OCing it more later this year
9800Pro 128mb (8/10) was marginally good OCer on my system but ran everything I had
X800Pro 256mb (10/10) unlocked and ready to rumble, great card, great OC, and 16 pipes, what more could I ask for
 
:cry: I've never really had a graphics card. I went from onboard Intel i810 graphics 4mb (I couldn't even play Quake 3) to now S3 ProSavageDDR 32mb (can't even play HL2 whatsoever.) Well I do have some Ati Rage Pro somewhere in a comp given to me recently but it's not in use. I am hoping to get a 9700p for my birthday :) 8 days!!
 
Rage 3d 1/10 - Totally pooh, put me off Ati for a long while.
Matrox G400 Dual Head 7/10 - Great for Music production with 2 monitors
Creative Geforce 2 MX 4/10 - Mediocre
Creative Geforce 2 GTS 6/10 - Uninspiring
Inno3d Geforce 4 Ti 4400 8/10 - First card I oc'ed Loved it dearly.
Connect3d 9500 NP 10/10 - Modded to 9700 NP Oc'ed great.
Sapphire 9800 NP 8/10 - Modded to pro oc'ed pretty good
Sapphire 9800 Pro 7/10 - clocked worse than the Non-Pro so went in my shuttle.
HiS X800 Pro ViVo 9/10 - modded to XT PE, great card, memory didnt clock brilliantly.
Sapphire X850 XT PE -/- still waiting for a board to try it in.
 
SiS 530 OB GFX 4 MB (6/10) From my first PC, wouldn't play any games other than in software, although my K6-2 400 & 64 MB RAM beat my mates P2 266 :)

Orchid Righteous 3D 4 MB (8/10) Outdated even when I got it, but my first 3D card, and Mechwarrior 2, my first 3DFX Glide game! First play of Half Life Oooh non-pixely graphics.

3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 16 MB (8/10) Second hand from my brother when he got a mighty PIII machine, but it ran the 3000 bios, my first GFX card overclock and crystal clear Half Life at 1280x1024 and first play of Quake 3.

Creative Geforce 3 Ti 200 64 MB (9/10) DX 8.1 Wow! RTCW Wow! This card overclocked like a beast (and still does) and at the time the effects looked absolutely amazing. This was the first card I actually had the money to buy :)

Radeon 9500 128 MB (9.5/10) Modded perfectly to a 9700 and then overclocked to 9700 Pro, not perfect but almost, oh and it served me until my first plays of Doom 3 & Half Life 2.

Radeon 9800 SE 256 MB (7/10) Core modded to 9800 Pro but memory stuck as 128 bit, played Doom 3 pretty well.

Radeon 9800 SE AIW 128 MB (8/10) Not bad, modded to Pro OK but some artifacts, ooh but I like the twiddly controls and the remote.

6800 LE (?/10) Don't have it yet, but waiting to do my next softmod.

Cards not in my main PC---------------------------------------------------------->

Endless VGA cards
3D Rage Pro (6/10)
ATI Rage II C (5/10)
Quadro 2 MXR (8/10) For some bizzare reason gave ridiculous Q2 FPS
Geforce 2 MX 200 (6/10)
Geforce 2 MX 400 (6/10)
 
my card hist.

Trident 8900d 2mb (First card ever that i bought for my old 5x86-133mhz :) )
S3 Virge/VX 4mb
SiS 530 8mb AGP Card (POS!!!! couldnt even play ff8 :bang head )
ATi Rage 3D Pro II 8mb PCI (decent lil thing for my old K6-2 400)
Voodoo 2 12mb & Voodoo 2 8mb in SLI mode ( :) ahh memories)
Voodoo 3 3000 16mb AGP
Voodoo 4 4500 32mb PCI (yup big 3dfx fan here :) )
nVidia TNT2 32MB AGP (got things done, i love nVidia, however as it got older, some games chose to specifically not support its chipset :( )
ATi Radeon 8500 64mb AGP (bleh, did ok but card after not even a year started to die out on me and cause comp restarts alot! never even overclocked the thing)
nVidia/Leadtek FX5700LE 256mb AGP ( :D awsome card for the price, overclocks so nicely to 5700 ultra speeds at like half the price!)
and so far thats my history.
 
Geforce 4 MX 440 3/10 (It served its purpose and plays my sisters games fine)
BFG 5600 Ultra 6/10 (Still using it today)
PNY 6800NU 10/10 (Perfect card in my opinion, Unlocked fine and oced like a champ. To bad i fried it)
 
Voodoo 3 16mb
ATI 128 rage
GF 2 mx 400 32mb
BFG 5900Xt
Gainward 5900Xt
XFX 5600 256mb
Aopen 5500 128mb
 
256 MB ISA VGA was crap even for its time 3/10
1MB VLB S3 9245 (i think heh) very nice for its day 9/10
4MB STB Velocity PCI (later upgraded to 8 MB) my first true 3D card, 8/10
then I put in a 3DFX Voodoo 4MB add in card which really kicked butt 9/10
My next system started with an 8MB voodoo 2 which fairly quickly got upgraded to a pair of 12 mb voodoo 2 's in SLI mode 9/10
Eventually this same box ended up with with a voodoo 3 3500 16 mb 8/10 nvidia and ati were making some nice stuff by now and 3DFX was losing ground
I switched from there to a gf 2 MX 400 I think 32 MB...was nothin great 5/10
then to a TI 4200 128 MB was pretty good, but overpriced 8/10
and finally to what I have now a 256MB FX5500...give it a 8/10
 
Im missing some in there too, I just can't remember so they aren't even worth mentioning :p
 
Diamond Monster Voodoo II 12MB, 9/10: I still remember the first time firing up NFS III with that card installed, from then on I learned that onboard video is junk.
Geforce 3 Ti200, 8/10, Finally got back into computing, and my "new" computer had some SIS graphics chipset. Got the card cheap off ebay, ended up selling it to my brother to finance my next card.
Geforce 4 Ti4800SE: 7/10, card worked fine, not nearly as much of a jump in power that I felt when I first for the GF3, but I got it cheap since I was putting together my bros computer, he needed a card, and I figured I should get a new card, not him!
Geforce 6600GT(AGP), 9/10: I like this card a lot, except for how noisy it was, but that was easy to fix.
 
2mb Cirrus Logic 5446 - It got the 2D work done. (In fact, it just got used for an entire week in my MAIN rig when my ti4600 died on me! Life saver! Uses an AMD-built RAMDAC, btw....) 3/10

32mb Radeon 7200 PCI - My first 'gaming' quality card. It worked with me for many years. 7/10

128mb BFG Geforce 4 ti4600 - The best card I have ever owned, by far! 9/10

128mb ATi Radeon 9600XT - My replacement for the dead ti4600.... It's comparable. 9/10
 
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