I thought it would be interesting if we started a post about VGA cards that we used in the past as some people collect these now i guess .. it's so cool to see where hardware has came from to present day and it always seems no matter how powerful the cards become we never really enjoyed them very long before something like Crysis hit the market..
 
 
This is my EVGA 8800GT SC that i bought on release date and me not wanting to wait for aftermarket cooling modded mine useing a cooler that was made for the 7800GTX card.. the cooler also seen life on my 7900GT before the 8800GT .. with this cooler and some Antec 5 the card could reach 745Mhz core and has also been bios flashed to the 8800GT SSC and still runs perfect today.
 

my first guy- 

If I remember correctly, this was my very first card that I bought:

i can't believe i paid over 500$ for a xfx 7800gtx which one of my buddies still uses till this day.

jeffro66

i can't believe i paid over 500$ for a xfx 7800gtx which one of my buddies still uses till this day.

...and that was 5 years ago. Cards today are still $500+    :P

fanboy

I can't remember what a 7800GTX even looks like anymore lol..

Looks like this:
 
         

ohhh the 7800GTX shiny! :o

I had a Matrox Millenium back in the DOS days. I used a 3dfx Voodoo 3000 for a while. I played Quake 3 using that card. Somewhere after that I had a Geforce Ti 4600 which was a fairly expensive card back then. I don't remember if it was an EVGA card or not. After that I went with 2x 6800GT card from EVGA. I remember these cards running really hot while playing AoE 2 but they otherwise performed great for the time. Then I bought 2x EVGA 8800GT cards which I later upgraded with the Akimbo coolers. These were great cards for gaming and ran very cool with the upgraded cooler. I still have most of these cards somewhere.

Thats the 512Mb model .. the cooler on my 8800GT SC is from the 7800GT 256Mb model i think or maybe not.. but the picture you linked reminds me of my 7900GTO's i had in Sli..

I can get pictures of my old FX 5900XT as my father in-law still runs it every day..

Here's a textual representation of my first to current cards.
 
1 - Mono video card on our first PC; the IBM 8086
 
2 - Cirrus Logic (1 MB)
 
3 - ATI Xpert @ Play 2000 (4 MB)
 
4 - 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000
  
5 - Geforce2 Ti 
  
6 - Hercules Geforce4 Ti 
  
7 - BFG 6800 GT 
  
8 - Geforce 7800GS 
  
9 - XFX Geforce 7950GT Extreme
(my first higher-end GPU with a passive cooler)
 
  
10 - BFG 8800 Ultra (SLI)
 
11 - XFX GTX 280 XXX
 
12 - EVGA GTX 480 Superclocked (current)

all the video cards I owned.

1. 16MB Guilemont Maxi Gamer Phoenix Voodoo Banshee


2. 32MB MSI Starforce 815 Geforce 2 GTS
 

3. 128MB Chaintech Geforce 4 TI-4200 Gold Edition


4. 128MB ATI Radeon 9600 XT


5. 256MB BFG 6800 GT OC (Mine was the dual fan Blue Led version)


6. 320MB EVGA 8800 GTS ACS3


7. 512MB BFG 9600 GT OC


8. 896MB EVGA GTX 260 Core 216


9. 2 x 512MB Zotac GTS 250's

My first cards were 2 3DFX Voodoo 2 in (SLI of the old days).

Here is a pic not mine:

BTW I think I was 5 or 6 at this time I have been building computers since I could walk, I thank my dad!

 

S3 Trio64V+
2mb

My first video card (my dad bought it for me in 1996 i think)
We upgraded memory to 4MB!

The first one i ever bought. Geforce 2 MX400 Still have it sitting around in a box.

Well the first card that was mine personally was a 1) GTX 285, later stepped up to a GTX 295, and now I have an MSI 8800 GT sitting on my desk 'cause I can't attach the cooler.