Nice collection. I'm not much of a collector, but the cards that I hang on to are the more oddball cards. My keepers include later AGP cards like the 6800, or Dual GPU cards like the 7950gx2. Also, one-off cards with no lineage. The Diamond Stealth II G460 comes to mind.

I have lots of video cards from 80s forward (maybe 50 different cards or so) but it never occurred to me they would be something to collect.

Baoran wrote:

I have lots of video cards from 80s forward (maybe 50 different cards or so) but it never occurred to me they would be something to collect.

I will raise: Around 200 graphics cards 😵

Some have more, way more.... some have over 200 3dfx cards alone.

My counter shows over 400 cards total.
Plus a full box of various ISA and possibly VLB that are not so interesting for me and I never got around to check what is actually in there. 😵

havli wrote:

Plus a full box of various ISA and possibly VLB that are not so interesting for me and I never got around to check what is actually in there. 😵

So that's where all those ISA and VLB VGA cards I am trying to get a hold of are..

Heh.. If I really wanted to torture myself, I could go counting the cards I have. I kinda wonder if I have more video cards or more sound cards.

I am planning on getting rid of probably about 60-70% of the video cards I have.. I think and probably a large number of sound cards as well.

cyclone3d wrote:

Heh.. If I really wanted to torture myself, I could go counting the cards I have. I kinda wonder if I have more video cards or more sound cards.

I am planning on getting rid of probably about 60-70% of the video cards I have.. I think and probably a large number of sound cards as well.

Do give us a heads up if you live in Europe 😀

Nope.. Huntsville, AL USA as my info to the left says.

appiah4 wrote:

So that's where all those ISA and VLB VGA cards I am trying to get a hold of are..

Hah, there are not that many of them - the box is approximately 30x30x30 cm. 😀
Fellow collector decided to quit this hobby few years ago and gave me part of his collection. Besides this box mentioned, there were also various PCI, AGP and PCI-E video cards. Most of them I have already listed in my internal evidence and some of them (like this Riva 128ZX for example http://hw-museum.cz/vga/153/elsa-riva-128zx) are even scanned and uploaded to my website. At some point even those ISA cards will make it to my virtual museum...

cyclone3d wrote:

Nope.. Huntsville, AL USA as my info to the left says.

I don't suppose you have a Voodoo 5 agp yer just itchin to get rid of? I'm pretty close to you - Danville AL.
That or a geforce fx 5800/5900 agp - thanks to Phil's videos I'm obsessed with getting these!

I like to have a high-end or enthusiast card for about each era, so my collection isn't big and i can play whatever i want.
1.Cirrus Logic 5446 1mb for DOS
2.3DFX Voodoo 1 4mb
3.3DFX Voodoo 3000 AGP
4.Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti 4800
5.Nvidia GTX+ 9800 512mb
6.Radeon 5870 1gb
7.Nvidia 780 Ti 3gb

The problem is finding systems small enough to not take much space.

Jam wrote:

Hi, I'm listing my retro video cards here. I'd like you guys to refer me to which cards to collect at the moment from these eras […]
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Hi, I'm listing my retro video cards here. I'd like you guys to refer me to which cards to collect at the moment from these eras and what can be had for cheap that's quite cool. Anyways, here's what I've got currently
Theres a lot of generational gaps I'd love to fill, but I'd like to see what you guys think.
1998- ATi Rage Turbo AGP (Rage 3)
1999- nVidia Vanta (RivaTNT2) 16MB
1999- ATi Rage 128 Pro (Rage Theatre Chip)
1999- 3Dfx Voodoo 3 1000
1999- ATi Rage Fury MAXX
2000- nVidia GeForce 2 GTS 32MB
2001- SiS 315 (x2)
2002- ATi Radeon 9700 Pro All-In-Wonder
2003- ATi MAC Radeon 9800 Pro
2004- nVidia GeForce FX 5200 256MB
2004- ATi Radeon X850XT PCIe
2004- ATi Radeon 9250 (R200 Release, x2)
2005- ATi Radeon X1800XL All-In-Wonder
2008- nVidia GeForce 8600 GT
2008- ATi Radeon HD 4350 (1GB DDR2, PCIe)

No pics? 😜

buckeye wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

Nope.. Huntsville, AL USA as my info to the left says.

I don't suppose you have a Voodoo 5 agp yer just itchin to get rid of? I'm pretty close to you - Danville AL.
That or a geforce fx 5800/5900 agp - thanks to Phil's videos I'm obsessed with getting these!

Heh.. Nope on the V5-5500. Have one I bought new from CompUSA back in the day and I have another I bought as a spare a while back. I would trade for a PCI version though.

As for the FX 5800 /5900 AGP, I don't have either of those, but you can get a Quadro FX 2000 which is equivalent to the 5800 Ultra or a Quadro FX 3000 which is equivalent to the 5900 Ultra. And those are actually obtainable.

cyclone3d wrote:

buckeye wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

Nope.. Huntsville, AL USA as my info to the left says.

I don't suppose you have a Voodoo 5 agp yer just itchin to get rid of? I'm pretty close to you - Danville AL.
That or a geforce fx 5800/5900 agp - thanks to Phil's videos I'm obsessed with getting these!

Heh.. Nope on the V5-5500. Have one I bought new from CompUSA back in the day and I have another I bought as a spare a while back. I would trade for a PCI version though.

As for the FX 5800 /5900 AGP, I don't have either of those, but you can get a Quadro FX 2000 which is equivalent to the 5800 Ultra or a Quadro FX 3000 which is equivalent to the 5900 Ultra. And those are actually obtainable.

Yep, looking to go that route!

Probably going to make a nice, long updated post of this with photos. I've made huge acquisitions since then and lots to share!

It's always nice to see someone who makes a list of what they have. I didn't get to it yet... it's on my to-do list - make the damn inventory! 🤣

i would like to get a few missing from my timeline - I have a Riva 128 and a TNT2 ultra (needs repair), Geforce 2 MX400, but then the next i have is an FX5600, 6800GT, 7950GT OC, 8800GTS, 9800GTX+ ending the original naming scheme.

Geforce 1, 3 and 4 along with a TNT1 would be good to have. AFAIK i'm not missing out on any feature/tech implementation - the GF 2 MX400 has roughly the same stats of an original Geforce and then the FX5600 can do everything the GF3 and GF4 series does... i think.

foil_fresh wrote on 2020-06-23, 06:36:

i would like to get a few missing from my timeline - I have a Riva 128 and a TNT2 ultra (needs repair), Geforce 2 MX400, but then the next i have is an FX5600, 6800GT, 7950GT OC, 8800GTS, 9800GTX+ ending the original naming scheme.

Geforce 1, 3 and 4 along with a TNT1 would be good to have. AFAIK i'm not missing out on any feature/tech implementation - the GF 2 MX400 has roughly the same stats of an original Geforce and then the FX5600 can do everything the GF3 and GF4 series does... i think.

Yeah I've acquired gf256 and 3 as well as some other huge acquisitions though so an updated list is something I'd like to do.

Radeon 8500 NIB