oh I love these threads...
1. Hercules 512Kb VLB
2. Diamond Stealth 2mb PCI
3. Diamond Stealth 4mb PCI + Diamond Monster Voodoo Graphics 4mb PCI
4. ATI Expert@Play 4mb AGP + STB Blackmagic 12mb PCI Voodoo 2 x2 in SLI
5. Guillimot Phoenix 16mb AGP Voodoo Banshee (still kept V2 SLI running alongside)
6. 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 16mb AGP
7. 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 16mb AGP (TV Tuner included)
8. ATI Radeon (original) ViVo 64mb AGP
9. Asus V8200 Geforce 3 64mb AGP
10. MSI Geforce 4 Ti 4400 128mb AGP
11. ATI Radeon 9700 All in Wonder 128mb AGP
12. ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 256mb AGP (R360 core, flashed to XT)
13. ATI Radeon 9800 XT 256mb AGP (actual retail XT)
14. XFX Geforce 6800GT 128mb PCIe
15. BFG Geforce 7800GT 256mb PCIe
16. EVGA Geforce 7950GT 512mb PCIe
17. EVGA Geforce 8800GTS 320mb PCIe
18. EVGA Geforce 8800GTS 640mb PCIe
19. BFG Geforce 9800GT 512mb PCIe
20. ATI Radeon 4870 512mb PCIe
21. ATI Radeon 5870 1024mb PCIe x2 in Crossfire
22. EVGA Geforce GTX 580 Black Ops Ed. 1.5Gb PCIe
23. EVGA Geforce GTX 680 2Gb PCIe
24. EVGA Geforce GTX 660 Ti PCIe (temp card, 2 months)
25. Gigabyte Aorus GTX 1080 Ti 11Gb PCIe
26. PNY RTX 3090 24Gb XLR8 Epic-X
List leaves out dozens of side video cards that were below spec of the time but came and went from the junk pile. The junk pile seemed to provide endless spare parts for many years until I cleaned it out eventually.
We could follow this up with a CPUs list too? Kinda like so :P
1. IBM 486DX 40mhz (Hercules 512kb VLB)
2. AMD 486DX4 100mhz (Diamond Stealth 2mb PCI)
3. Cyrix 686 PR150 120mhz (same video card)
4. Cyrix 686MX PR200 183mhz (same video card)
5. AMD K6 233mhz (Diamond Stealth + Diamond Monster Voodoo 1)
6. AMD K6-2 300mhz (same video setup)
7. AMD K6-2 400mhz CXT core (ATI Expert@Play + Voodoo 2 SLI)
8. AMD K6-3 450mhz (swapped out Expert@Play for Voodoo Banshee, kept Voodoo 2 SLI)
9. Intel Pentium 3 550mhz (hyper short lived, sold it fast)
10. AMD Athlon 500mhz OC to 700mhz (Voodoo 3 3000)
11. AMD Athlon 700mhz OC to 900mhz (Voodoo 3 3500)
12. AMD Athlon 900mhz skt A OC 1.1Ghz (Radeon 64mb ViVo)
13. AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz OC to 1.33Ghz (Geforce 3)
14. AMD Athlon MP 1.2Ghz x2 (same video)
15. AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.53Ghz (Geforce 4 Ti 4400)
16. AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2.0Ghz (Radeon 9700 AIW)
17. AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8Ghz (same video)
18. AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0Ghz (Radeon 9800 Pro to XT flash, and retail XT)
19. AMD Athlon X2 4400+ 2.2Ghz (Geforce 6800GT)
20. Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
[email protected] OC (Geforce 7800GT and 7950GT)
21. Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 G0
[email protected] OC (Geforce 7950GT to both 8800GTS versions)
22. Intel Core i7 920
[email protected] OC (Geforce 9800GT, Radeon 4870)
23. Intel Core i7 2600K
[email protected] OC (Radeon 5870 Crossfire, Geforce GTX 580 and GTX 680/660 Ti temp)
24. Intel Core i7 7700K 4.6Ghz (GTX 1080 Ti, soon to be replaced by RTX 3090)
That feels more complete...