I had a Rage something back in 1996 (with 4mb and worse 3d acceleration than software mode).

Then I had a Voodoo2 with 8mb and only 16bit colors (I mean, the previous one had 24bit, I was so let down by the fact that games and even some cinematics, looked waaaay worse in the color department).

Then I had an nForce2 mother, with a GeForce 2 onboard (less powerful than the actual GeForce 2 but it was ok).

Then I had a GeForce 5200 (reaaaal crap that one).

Then an ATI 3650 which was a beast.

Then an ATI 3430 which is when I jumped ship from desktop to laptops (moving on my own and had almost no space).

---first console since the NES (a PS3)

Intel HD4000... enough said, I was done with "hardcore" gaming.

---second console since the NES (a 3DS)
---third console (a Switch)

And now and M1 whatever the GPU is called (which with a Mac I pretty much said goodbye to gaming in general haha).

Since Sapphire is just a tagged on name (Like 'Great Value' slapped on Walmart's foods) the actual type i never remembered but only the Sapphire which didn't say much.

So no it wasn't intentional. Though you're right it would have been funnier :)

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/what_was_your_sequence_of_gpus_owned/post36

Check my previous post.
ATI is long gone and is now part of AMD Radeon Group. Geforce was nVidia consumer line of GPU's since forever and since they are business rivals from AMD, I took your post as funny post. And it was, even as a honest mistake :P

You probably have a nVidia geforce (GTX) 1050Ti, not that the right name matters anyway.

Been a long time. lol I started with a 3DFX Voodoo 3 in a new Compaq around 1999. I think I was playing AVP and DIABLO. I was out of PC gaming for many years due to college and work, but the next card was a GeForce 9600 GT. I really believe I bought it just to play Oblivion tbh. After that, I was M.I.A again for a few years. In 2020, I upgraded to a 1660 Ti which was to play everything at 1080p 60fps. I then got into the ray tracing hysteria and upgraded 6 months later to the 3060 Ti. I, of course, played everything at max settings 1080p at around 120fps. Then, I wanted that 4k goodness. lol Thus, I insisted on getting a 3080. Needless to say, I don't play at 4k because I became a jaded graphics whore and refuse to turn anything down. Ultimately, I'm playing at 1440p 100 fps max settings. Now the sad part. I'm legally blind. I should stick to 1080p, but people are silly.

iknowwhyyouhavethese machines


Because tinkering is fun!

It is, yes. An ancient netbook that has a much-too-cramped keyboard and won't power on isn't of much use beyond recycling though. I already have one that works (and where the keyboard is only almost unusable), and that one is effectively a portable SSH terminal as it's too slow to do much of anything else.

Depends. Even very slow machines can have purpose, either as a file server or do programming on (Text editing requires VERRRRY little power). I also saw a thing on the first machines to run BASIC and someone wrote something akin to rouge, and where transfer rates were slow but the updates it needed on ASCII screens was small enough it was near instant even for the very limited specs at the time.

hell older netbook could probably run the old emulated 8bit machines just fine (Atari, Apple, Commodore, etc) for that retro fun.

I've been doing PC Gaming forever, since 1995.
But, I didn't get a real dedicated video card in my PC 'til like early 2000's.

So, to go way back....

Compaq Desktop:
- RIVA TNT card (came inside the PC equipped with this)
- GeForce 2 MX 400 on my Compaq desktop (upgraded).

"Charlie PC" desktop:
- GeForce 6600 in my "Charlie PC" (order this PC w/ this inside)
- GeForce 8800 GT in my "Charlie PC" (this replaced the 6600)

2011 "Custom PC":
- 1gb GTX 560 Ti in my 2011 Custom PC (original video card that I put in there).
- 4gb GTX 960 in my 2011 Custom PC (replaced previous card)
- "4gb" GTX 970 in my 2011 Custom PC (replaced previous card & this is still is in that working PC)

CyberPower Custom PC:
- 8gb RTX 3070 in my current CyberPower PC

Different Laptops:
- Acer Nitro laptop loaded with a 4gb GTX 960m (this laptop still works & is still active)
- SC16 laptop loaded with a 6gb GTX 1060 (RIP to this laptop, which died last year in August 2021).

Until 2002/3/4-ish (VGA times)
Parents PC's:
From the BBC micro to a variety of custom builds and laptops up until the early 2000's
No idea what was in them, I'm guessing it was some VGA or super VGA card, no 3D cards at all just software rendering.
Played a variety of games from the late 80's to late 90's on a variety of machines, I didn't really know anything about the specs, just that the last one had a 2GB HDD of which maybe 900mb was usable space for me after compressing the drive and it ran Windows 98.

2002/3/4-ish (FX5000 series to FX6000 AGP cards)
My first PC that was actually mine: First system with a graphics card too, a Geforce, it was either FX5200, FX5600 or FX5700 I can't remember which, just that is was AGP and red and when I upgraded the fan was covered in soot and feeling proud of how hard it had worked. I upgraded it at some to a FX6000 series of some kind that was less memorable.
Was a Pentium 4 system with originaly 512MB of RAM that I upgraded to 1GB. Machine seemed stupidly powerful when I got it compared to what I'd used before, but it eventually developed a lot of problems. It was also the only machine I've watercooled, by filling cans with water and putting them on top of the case. You may scoff, but it actually made a difference.

Played a bunch of my older games but also things like the Total War's, Doom3, Morrowind, etc. Made it as far as Oblivion and Fallout 3 with this but it really struggled with that. The system eventually died enough that I couldn't log into windows at all and rather than try to fix it I built myself a new system, one to my own spec.

2009 Onwards (GTX260>GTX460>GTX260>GTX760>GTX970>Vega64)
Built my own PC:
Was a monster when first built in mid-09 had a i7-920, 12GB of DDR3 and a GTX 260.
Later upgraded to a GTX460 but it died after I turned every setting in Farcry 2 to max to see what would happen so I went back to the GTX260 until that began to die, then went to a GTX760 then to a GTX970 as well as an upgrade to the rest of the system around the same time to a i7-4790k and 16GB of RAM.
Most recently I upgraded to a Vega64.
System's a bit of a ship of Theseus at this point, pretty much everything except the case has been replaced at some point or other, plays most things but struggles with the latest and greatest titles like Cyberpunk.

Had a rig with a Radeon 9800 back in college, but then stuck to console gaming and laptop gaming with integrated graphics since then.

2001 to 2003 - Win98 desktop - 2Mb Cirrus Logic CL5446 and a Diamond Monster 12Mb 3dFX Voodoo 2
The games I loved on this combo was Unreal and Unreal Tournament.
UT, 16 bots deathmatch, with the UT4Ever and NukeDeath mods, for Redeemers only tournament with UT4E, and the NukeDeath for blast radius and mass shrapnel on player or bot death. That could choke the system to a standstill.

2003 to 2004 - Win98 desktop - 64Mb Nvidia GeForce 2 MX400
Unreal Tournament 2003
Only had it for a year, and only one UT2003 artmap made the card, make the game a slideshow, DM2019 for UT2003.
DM2019 is known as the Blade Runner map, and there's 3 versions of DM2019 that I know of and have copies of, and a 4th that I've only heard of. DM2019 for UT, DM2019 for UT2003, and the unfinished DM2019 for UT2004. There's also supposedly a DM2019 for Unreal, but I've never seen or heard of a download of that anywhere.

2004 to 2009 - WinXP desktop - ASUS V9480/TVD - 128Mb GeForce 4 Ti 4800se
The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, and The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion with the mod Oldblivion. Got Morrowind with this card, which I bought as a system upgrade in preparation for UT2004. I ended up spending far more time playing Morrowind and Oblivion, than UT2004.
What this card hated, Oblivion with the mod Oldblivion, in the Imperial City. Those city maps in Oblivion are a system killer because of how poorly they were done. It didn't matter if you have Oldblivion on an older card like I had, or Oblivion on a then current top of the line bleeding edge. The Imperial City was abysmal for performance.
This card would be the only GPU card I needed to replace the heatsink and fan for, as the ASUS factory fan died in 2006, so the non standard ASUS setup was replaced by a ThermalTake Extreme Giant III.

2008 to current notebook - Lenovo 3000 N200 - 128Mb Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 (notebook mobile GeForce FX5300)
Grand Theft Auto Vice City was the game I loved playing on this notebook in WinXP
TrackMania Nations Forever, and Need For Speed Underground 2. Both games had to have the details turned down to make them playable.

2009 to 2017 - Win7 desktop - ASUS EN9600GT/HTDI/1G - 1Gb Nvidia GT9600
Favourite games, The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call Of Pripyat, needs detail turned down from max. The card wasn't quite strong enough to run this game at max detail.

2012 to 2021 netbook - Toshiba NB550D - AMD C60 APU with 128Mb ATI Raedon 6290 built in
TrackMania Nations Forever (TMNF). Not powerful enough to run the game at max detail, and it was the only game I put on the netbook.

2017 to current - Win8.1 desktop - Gigabyte GV-N105TOC-4G - 4Gb Nvidia GTX1050Ti OC
Favourite games, The Elder Scrolls III Morrowind, The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion, and Surviving Mars
WWISE games, ASTRONEER, and No man's Sky, can't run at max detail.

2018 to current - Linux desktop - ASUS GTX750Ti PH-2GD5 - 2Gb Nvidia GTX750Ti
Haven't done much gaming on it, and the older games I did put on it, UT2004 and TMNF, it handed both at max detail without coming close to even starting to break a sweat.

2019 to current notebook - Lenovo IdeaPad C340 15IWL - 4Gb Nvidia MX230
Only games on this notebook are, Universe Sandbox, and The Outer Limits, and both have to have detail turned down.

1989: Intel 80086 + MCGA Graphics - Frustrating, few games supported it.
--- The Secret of Monkey Island, Eye of the Beholder 2, King's Quest, Police Quest 2, ...

1993: Cyrix Cx486S-33 - Don't remember, something S3 I think.
--- Indiana Jones 3 & 4, Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island 2, Gabriel Knight, Quest for Glory 1 VGA, Dune, Dune 2, ...

1998: Pentium II 333 - Matrox Millennium G200 AGP 8MB
--- Warcraft 2, Blade Runner, C&C Red Alert, Ultima Underworld 2, X-COM Apocalypse, ...

2002: AMD Athlon XP 1700+ - Nvidia GeForce2 MX200, GeForce4 Ti 4200
--- Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Planescape Torment, System Shock 2, Deus Ex, Warcraft III, ...

2006: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ - Nvidia GeForce 7800 GT, 8800 GT
--- Half Life 2, Secret Files: Tunguska, Mass Effect, KOTOR, ...

2010: Intel Core2 Duo E8400 - Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT, GTX 275
--- Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age 2, Star Craft 2, XCOM, ...

2016: Intel i7 6700 - Nvidia GeForce GTX 770, GTX 970, RTX 3060 Ti
--- The Witcher 1&2, Mass Effect 2&3, Batman Arkham Asylum & City, The Force Unleashed 1 & 2, Control, ...

( --- just a selection of games from that period)

The first discrete 3D card was a miro3D card that needed an external link via my video card (S3). The card was a great intro to 3dfx, but the cable was really loose and could pop out almost as soon as I sneezed. Came with a really long case with Descent 2 + a few other games and a dedicated sound card, among others.

Think it had the Voodoo (Rush) chip and this was the only 3dfx card I ever had, and what a blast I had while it lasted several years.

ATI Rage 128MB <-- "Inherited" a Compaq computer with that card in it but other than taking it out and storing it as a backup I never used this much.

(There was also a S3D ViRGE card in there somewhere but I don't remember exactly. A bit hazy late 90's...)

Nvidia GeForce 256 <-- THE game changer card (and the first to be called a GPU) with hardware support for T&L.

GeForce 4 Ti4400

GeForce 9800 GT

Radeon 5770

Nvidia GeForce 570m

Wasn't exactly blown away with nVidia past 2010-2012 (especially on Linux and price) and since I don't need to play the latest and hardest of the games, I used AMD IGPs/APUs exclusive for many years until my current one when Doom 2016 came; Radeon RX 480. Haven't had any trouble running any games so far, though, its 4GB is starting to be a bit of a bottleneck.

Anyone remember the Savage 4? (spelling?). Had many ATI and Nvidia cards since then. Currently 1050ti. Never been into high end cards. But many a time either the card blew or the AGP/video slot on mobo's would just die....I love ATI cards but since the last one died (fanless at that too) i gave up on them