As all the VGA cards I still use in my systems , which is also a large part of my VGA card collection that are these fellas:
Avenger M99:
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB 256Bit SDR Rev.A 2500 [In Practical 2x 32MB 128Bit SDR]Final Revision A, Week 25, Year 2000
the famous Voodoo5 5500 AGP from 3dfx interactive, although it arrived late it did offer the best image quality in all games when it's Rotated Grid Super Sampled FSAA x2 & x4 were used, also it's 2D Image quality was very close to that of ATi & Matrox VGA's, all thanks to it's high quality 2D/3D filters. The Voodoo5 5500 AGP uses an AGP x2 slot but runs at AGP x1 speeds, which is identical to a PCI Bus of 66Mhz.
Gradinko SMP 2000:
Matrox Parhelia AGP 256MB 256Bit DDR Rev.A 0105Final Revision A, Week 01, Year 2005
The Parhelia AGP 256 MB DDR was the card that had the hardware fix applied to it's TMU setup, this card was also more stable and faster than it's 128MB predecessor, The Matrox Parhelia was also the worlds VGA that had a 512Bit GPU onboard, which also was capable of doing Displacement mapping which gave Tessellation 1.0 it's fame and it was also the first VGA card in the world that was capable of driving three 19" Monitors @ 1280 x 1024 x32 in 2D & 3D giving it Surround Gaming, this tech was later used by NVIDIA as Surround Gaming 3D and ATI/AMD as EyeFinity.
The Parhelia has many things and technologies which most new gen VGA cards of today still take advantage of, this is one of the most innovative VGA cards ever created, just due to how far it was developed fro it s time which was 2002 for the 128MB Model and 2003 for the Refreshed 256MB model, as you can see this 256MB model also has a white 9 pin connector, with this you can connect a ribbon cable which you could connect to a Parhelia PCI-X 256B and drive up to Six 19" TFT's or CFRT's to 1280 x 1204 x32 and have Surround gaming with 6 screens or four 24" TFT's or CRT's that do 4x 1920 x 1200 x32 also with Surround gaming. Matrox was also due to this idea, the first of running 2D &3D apps as games on four to six monitors.
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI 64MB 256Bit SDR Rev.A1 2900 [in Practical 2x 32MB 128Bit SD-RAM]Second Final Revision A1, Week 29, Year 2000
The Voodoo5 5500 PCI is one of the most wanted V5 cards throughout the entire 3dfx community, these are greatly wanted due to their PCI interface that supports not only 33Mhz PCI 2.1 32Bit slots but they can also function with a 66Mhz Bus in a 64 Bit PCI slot set at 32Bit PCI mode with a 66Mhz Bus, this makes the 5500 PCI perform as good as a 5500 AGP, which makes the 5500 PCI very wanted just due to those advantages.
Stealth 2001:
Leadtek WinFast A250 Ultra TDH AGP 128MB 128Bit DDR Rev.A 0208 [NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti-4600 AGP 128MB 128Bit DDR]Final Revision A, Year 2002, Week 08
The GeForce4 Ti-4600 was NVIDIA's pride during the DirectX 8.1 era, it also had OpenGL 1.3 support and its performance was hard to beat, until the ATi Radeon 9700 Pro appeared. When the NV25 GPU was launched it was actually a NV20 on steroids, orsay a beefed up GeForce3 Ti500, some even said it was GeForce3 Ti done right and I have to admit the system I placed it in, surely brings this card to it's rights, especially when playing Quake III Arena for example, the Ti-4600 can still bring lots of fun with it, especially in games ranging from 1998 to 2004, never a bad thing to have around as for Leadtek's design, it is my favourite GeForce4 Ti-4600 made and I also had one in the same P4 setup which i used back in 2002 to 2004.
Sveta SMP 2004:
HIS ATi Radeon HD 3850 ICEQ3 Turbo AGP 512MB 256Bit GDDR3 Rev.A12 08062nd Final Revision A12, Year 2008, Week 06
This is a HD 3850 with the PCB & VPU from a HD 3870, only it's ram is that of a Highly OCed HD 3850 hence being 512MB 256Bit GDDR3 over 512MB 256Bit GDDR4. This is the most powerful AGP card ever made and it is also extremely rare and very hard to find, which is a true gem amongst my VGA card collection.
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh 64MB 256Bit SDR with PC Bios 1.18_LCD [in Practical 2x 32MB 128Bit SD-RAM]2nd Final Revision A2, Week 29, Year 2000
These are the most handy and best Voodoo5's to use, especially in new gen systems that still have PCI slots, I flashed it with a PC bis so I could take use of it's DVI-D under Windows, this is something the normal Voodoo5 5500 PCI did not have. These Macintosh variant are still greatly wanted throughout the entire 3dfx community due to their greater advantages as the DVI-D goes. This card like it's PC version which Gradinko SMP 2000 has, also supports a PCI bus of 33 & 66Mhz.
Firefox SMP 2006:
EVGA NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 PCI-E 1536MB 384Bit GDDR5 Rev.A3 21104th Final Revision A3, Week 21, Year 2010
The famous GTX 480from NVIDIA, the long awaited DX11 VGA card that arrived on the market after about 8 months of delays, due to the amount ofRevisions which were needed to sort out the main stability of this monster GPGPU it has onboard, the GF100-375-A3, formerly known as the G300-300-A0 or just GT300.
There were about four revisions of the GTX 480, being with the Rev.A0 0934, Rev.A1 0946, Rev.A2 0110 and later the Rev.A3 0710, the Rev.A3 is the fourth revision and this is also the reason why it took so long before the design to hit it's final stadium for mass production. The GTX 480 I have is the one from EVGA, which is to me the best brand alongside Zotac, Leadtek & Gainward.
EVGA Does give the best quality parts and awesome warranty system and as for their famous Backplates & High Flow brackets, this makes EVGA unique as others don't do this. These parts also make the GTX 480 look much neater and it is easier to handle also when needed for replacing or testing in an other system.
Blue-Leader SMP 2009:
2x EVGA GeForce GTX 680 SuperClocked Signature Edition PCI-E 2048MB 256Bit GDDR5 Rev.A2 1213 Top & Rev.A2 1219 Bottom 3rd Final Revisions A2, Years 2012 & Weeks 13 & 19
The Famous GTX 680 powered by the greatly successful NVIDIA GK104-400-A2 GPGPU, these cards which I have are my latest in my entire VGA card collection as they are the workforce for my main workstation a Dual Six-Core AMD OpteronDP 2435 D0. The GTX 680 is NVIDIA's first VGA card that is capable of doing NVIDIA's Surround Gaming 3D + a fourth monitor for 2D all on one card, it's TDP is also extremely low for such a high end product which is only 195 watts, which quite amazing! Each GK104-400-A2 has 1536 Kepler CUDA Cores, now these are not like your everyday Fermi CUDA Cores,, they perform best with high amounts instead of a few and at the same synchronical speed as the GPU's it's self, so they run slower than Frmi cores but they need to be in large numbers to perform, so basically if you'd have 1536 Fermi Cores at the same speed you'd most likely would be lots faster, tbut the power needed to feed them 1536 Fermi CUDA Cores would beyond 600Watts, so to stay within a good margin from the 300 watt TDP, NVIDIA designed Kepler to do just that, each Kepler CUDA Core uses far less power that any other CUDA Core used in all the previous generations, this way you have lots more cores with a much lower TDP and still much more performance than 512CUDA cores of a GTX 580 for example, Kepler was the perfect step ahead very close to what AMD does with their GPGPU's lots of cores at the same speed as the GPGPU and still beating the previous gen by a large margin.
And there you have it!
