I had about 15 and felt bad so I sold a bunch. Now I have:

AMD 6800XT in my Main PC
Geforce 2070 Super which was an RMA warranty replacement for my dead 1070ti (which I upgraded to the 6800XT)
Geforce 780
Geforce 560ti 1GB
Geforce 8600GT
AGP Geforce 4 ti 4600
MX4 440 128bit 64mb
MX4 420 64bit 64mb but it has composite out
TNT2 Pro

ATI 4830 512mb
ATI 4670
ATI 4650
PCI-E X1950 XTX
AGP ATI 9600SE

Matrox G200 PCI (because it has DVI for capturing)
STB Lightspeed 128
ISA Trident 8900c (or something)

OK **** I actually still have loads, ehhh 🙁

Hmm...I never counted before. Let's see.

Hercules MDA
Generic Hercules Clone
IBM MGA
IBM CGA
IBM EGA 256K
IBM PGC
IBM VGA
Boca Research EGA
Western Digital PVGA 8-bit
Western Digital PVGA 16-bit
ATI EGA Wonder 800 (Surface mount)
ATI EGAWonder 800 (DIP version)
ATI VGA Wonder 16
ATi VGA Wonder XL
ATi 8514 Graphics Ultra 1meg
ATi Graphics Ultra Pro ISA 2meg
ATi Grahics Ultra Pro VLB 2meg (x2)
ATi Graphics Pro Turbo ISA 4meg
ATi Graphics Pro Turbo VLB 2meg
ATi Graphics Pro Turbo VLB 4mb
ATi Graphics Xpression VLB 2mb
Generic Cirrus Logic CL GD5429 VLB 2MB
ELSA Winner 1000ISA 2MB
Hercules Dynamite Power VLB 2MB
Hercules Terminator64 DRAM 2MB
Number Nine MotionFX 771 VLB 2MB
Number Nine Motion FX771 VLB 4MB
Diamond Stealth64 VRAM VLB 4MB
Diamond Stealth64 Video DRAM 2MB
Diamond Speedstar64 ISA 2MB
MicroLabs Trucolor/XL2 ISA 2MB
Paradise Bamahas64 VLB 2MB
Octek VL VGA 1000 VLB 2MB
2TheMax ARK1000 VLB 2MB
Cardex ET4000W32P VLB 2MB
Orchid Kelvin64 VLB 2MB
Jaton Trident 9440 VLB 2MB
Mediavision Pro Graphics 1024 VLB
SuperMac Spectrum/24 EISA 3MB
Compaq Qvision 1024/E 1MB

ATi Graphics Pro Turbo 1600 PCI 4MB
ATi 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV PCI 8MB
ATi 3D Pro Turbo PCI 4MB
ATi WinCharger PCI 1MB
STB Voodoo3 3000 AGP 16MB
STB Voodoo3 3000 PCI 16MB
STB Nitro3D PCI 4MB
Creative TNT1 PCI 16MB
Leadtek Winfast S680 PCI 4MB

49

I may have forgotten some. Not sure. I think a have a couple more AGP cards too, but they're too modern for me to remember what they are exactly.
I've had more cards in the past, but I sold off the ones that weren't interesting.

These are my 'classic' graphics cards (not counting the many cards I have for sale nor my two recent PCIe cards):

PCI
Diamond Voodoo2 12MB
Diamond Riva 128 4MB
PNY GeForce4 MX4000 64MB
Generic GeForce FX5500 256MB

AGP
Asus Riva 128 4MB
Elsa Riva 128ZX 4MB
Diamond Riva TNT2 32MB
Asus GeForce 256 32MB?
HP Quadro4 380XGL 64MB
Leadtek GeForce4 Ti 4600 128MB
AOpen GeForce FX5700 128MB?
MSI GeForce FX5900 128MB
Sparkle GeForce6 6600GT 128MB
Gigabyte Geforce6 6800 128MB

Total: 14 cards

not in use
24 AGP
11 ISA
1 OLB
22 PCI
17 PCIe
1 VLB
subtotal : 76

Well yes.
If one speaks strictly, VGAs are cards with ISA bus.
AGP are AGP, PCI graphics cards are PCI graphics cards.

Thus, after my clearout I have only two highly rare VGA cards left:
- Mylex GLI911
- Spea Mercury (the Spea Mercury are the only graphics cards that can do >= 100Hz refresh in all DOS text and graphics modes)

AGP cards:
- MX200
- GF 44oMX
- Vanta
- Quadro NVS280
- ATI Rage 128 Pro All-in-one
- ATI Radeon RV280
- Matrox G55

PCI cards:
- Trio 32V
- Virge DX
- Spea Mercury P64 and -V
- Quadro NVS280
- Mach 64
- Radeon HD4350
- SiS 6326
- ET6000

PCI-E:
- GF PCX 5750
the rest is not yet retro.
Most modern graphics card I have: Quadro K4000 in my main computer

Brawndo wrote on 2021-10-29, 01:32:

I already know I have a problem.

pixelatedscraps wrote on 2021-10-29, 14:51:

Oh good, we’re all completely bonkers in here then.

Me too 😿

Where's that guy who had several hundred Matrox cards?

ETA: My collections of Matrox video cards

Errius wrote on 2021-10-31, 21:01:

Where's that guy who had several hundred Matrox cards?

ETA: My collections of Matrox video cards

While there definitely is a guy out there somewhere with this many matrox cards, I can't help but wonder if that account wasn't a fake one, where someone just stole the photos off of another forums posts.

weedeewee wrote on 2021-10-31, 21:12:

Errius wrote on 2021-10-31, 21:01:

Where's that guy who had several hundred Matrox cards?

ETA: My collections of Matrox video cards

While there definitely is a guy out there somewhere with this many matrox cards, I can't help but wonder if that account wasn't a fake one, where someone just stole the photos off of another forums posts.

Perhaps..
Could also be that it was an older pic of an existing collection. Please keep in mind that even just sorting a collection this size in a way that you can have them all feature in a single pic is one heck of a job. I can imagine not wanting to bother doing this every few years if there's been few new additions.
Sure, it could be fake for all we know but at least this account introduced us to it so imo it's not even that harmful if it is indeed a fake (and even then, why even bother faking something like that anyway?).

The ones I can remember:
XFX RX5700XT Thicc II
XFX RX5700XT Thicc III
Sapphire RX5700XT Pulse
EVGA RTX3060 XC Gaming
EVGA RTX2070 Super Blower (Blower replaced with Arctic Accelero Xtreme IV for obvious reasons, 🤣)
MSI RTX3070 Gaming X Trio
Dell Radeon R7 250 2GB
Vision Tek Radeon HD7750 1GB
3x Nvidia GeForce 7800 GTX
Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Radeon 9600 AGP
Vision Tek Geforce 8400GS PCI 256MB
Asus GeForce 4 MX420 64MB
GeForce 3 Ti 500 (this model, not this card, was my card in college)
RIVA TNT2 M64 32MB
SiS 6326 AGP
2x AGP CAD cards of a model I don't recall from a lot of free 20+ year old workstations but they game in Windows and DOS too
Diamond Stealth II S220 PCI
Nvidia RIVA 128
Diamond Stealth 2MB PCI DRAM (the 4MB VRAM version was the card in the first PC I built in 1995. Built it around that card)
PNY GeForce FX5200
Boca CL-GD5429 VLB 1Mb
Fastware CL-GD4534 PCI 2MB
WD90C30-LR ISA 1MB
S3 Virge DX 86C325 2MB PCI
Trident TVGA9000 256kB ISA
ATI Rage 128 Pro GL AGP 16MB
ATI Fire MV 2200 PCI 64MB
2x Dell Radeon HD 6450 PCIe 1GB

I probably have a dozen more I just can't remember. I have a local shop that sells old video cards for as little as $5 and I am collecting so I can do some benchmark testing of late 2d cards through the first couple of generations of true modern GPUs, an example of which is the HD3850. This also doesn't include video cards in the half dozen laptops I own. 2 of those have 2d VGA accelerators, one has a Radeon iGPU and the others have modern 3d cards from within the last decade. Also, I have several old motherboards with integrated early 3D accelerators. I am pretty sure a couple of them have the SiS chip and one has Voodoo 3 graphics. Another has a S3 Virge chip.

Tetrium wrote on 2021-11-01, 05:02:

Sure, it could be fake for all we know but at least this account introduced us to it so imo it's not even that harmful if it is indeed a fake (and even then, why even bother faking something like that anyway?).

why do people post on facebook about 'their' hardware, when a bit of google fu reveals it's not their hardware?
I do agree on the reuse of old photos.
Wasn't there another guy with an insane amount of gfx cards , like in the thousands ?
I recall seeing a photo of all the nvidia cards he had laid out in the form of the nvidia logo with him at the center of it.

quite a few impressive collections here!

i have less than many, most working in systems already and almost all of them modest cards

of the ones not in systems there are several old 2d pci cards, essentially spares for the one PC that would use them! a few spare agp cards and a few older pcie cards

generally they are too expensive to collect!

weedeewee wrote on 2021-11-01, 08:17:

Tetrium wrote on 2021-11-01, 05:02:

Sure, it could be fake for all we know but at least this account introduced us to it so imo it's not even that harmful if it is indeed a fake (and even then, why even bother faking something like that anyway?).

why do people post on facebook about 'their' hardware, when a bit of google fu reveals it's not their hardware?

Is this true? O.0

Only reason I can think of is them doing that to artificially increase their status? (which to me seems really kinda silly, but with retro computing having become more 'hip' and knowing how sorry some people can be, I wouldn't be at all surprised)

I do agree on the reuse of old photos.
Wasn't there another guy with an insane amount of gfx cards , like in the thousands ?
I recall seeing a photo of all the nvidia cards he had laid out in the form of the nvidia logo with him at the center of it.

I don't think I ever seen that pic.
I tried googling it, but couldn't find it because google polluted the search results with too much irrelevant search results and I couldn't be bothered to wade through all that before my 1st coffee of today xD

I wonder if, at such a scale and in a single pic, individual graphics cards could still be discernable? 😜

Tetrium wrote on 2021-11-01, 11:44:

...

according to some it's for datamining the various groups of interest. those 'users' often have the same layout, posts and history of their accounts.
The one I've seen was on the vintage pc enthusiast group, or the retromicrocomputers, workstations etc.. group.
Some people started noticing and complaining and some mods even defended those fake accounts... very likely because it had a profile photo of a pretty woman.

the collector of gfx cards, I think I saw the photo or link on this forum... now to find it again sigh 🤣

Fixed that for you 😁 :
History of nVIDIA Graphics cards Vol. 2 GPU competition

bestemor wrote on 2021-11-01, 12:38:

Fixed that for you 😁 :
History of nVIDIA Graphics cards Vol. 2 GPU competition

Thank you !

bestemor wrote on 2021-11-01, 12:38:

Fixed that for you 😁 :
History of nVIDIA Graphics cards Vol. 2 GPU competition

Cheers! 😁

If I counted correctly, it's 16x38 rows making for an estimated total of 608 cards in the pic (I roughly swapped out the excess cards on the left with the holes left to the right).
That's very impressive!

weedeewee wrote on 2021-11-01, 11:53:

according to some it's for datamining the various groups of interest. those 'users' often have the same layout, posts and histor […]
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Tetrium wrote on 2021-11-01, 11:44:

...

according to some it's for datamining the various groups of interest. those 'users' often have the same layout, posts and history of their accounts.
The one I've seen was on the vintage pc enthusiast group, or the retromicrocomputers, workstations etc.. group.
Some people started noticing and complaining and some mods even defended those fake accounts... very likely because it had a profile photo of a pretty woman.

the collector of gfx cards, I think I saw the photo or link on this forum... now to find it again sigh 🤣

For datamining seems plausible. Kinda odd for mods defending those accounts but I can imagine you'd want to be really sure before, like, banning someone over this. Or could also be that those mods were corrupt in some way? Who knows 😜
What may be obvious to one person may not be obvious to someone else.

I remember years ago there was some weird website which apparently copied many threads from Vogons for some reason and had added some stuff to it which appeared like conclusions. Seems like all was done automatically and though I found it weird at the time, I didn't really bother with it after having spend some time analyzing it with a matter of amazement of why someone would even bother with this.

But anyway, this is going off-topic a bit so I suggest we go back to people with actual graphics card collections for now 😜

Tetrium wrote on 2021-11-01, 13:35:

For datamining seems plausible. Kinda odd for mods defending those accounts but I can imagine you'd want to be really sure befor […]
Show full quote

For datamining seems plausible. Kinda odd for mods defending those accounts but I can imagine you'd want to be really sure before, like, banning someone over this. Or could also be that those mods were corrupt in some way? Who knows 😜
What may be obvious to one person may not be obvious to someone else.

I remember years ago there was some weird website which apparently copied many threads from Vogons for some reason and had added some stuff to it which appeared like conclusions. Seems like all was done automatically and though I found it weird at the time, I didn't really bother with it after having spend some time analyzing it with a matter of amazement of why someone would even bother with this.

But anyway, this is going off-topic a bit so I suggest we go back to people with actual graphics card collections for now 😜

the mods didn't really care that people were posting photos of other peoples accomplishments and claiming it as their own. They mostly got annoyed when people started complaining of the practice.
Kinda understandable, though not a very likeable stance, by me.
and agreed on that last one. 😁

Over 100. Closer to 200 I think. 72 I have indexed in the DB which I've been building since May, but that's only ~1/3 of the cards I have...

weedeewee wrote on 2021-11-01, 13:43:

the mods didn't really care that people were posting photos of other peoples accomplishments and claiming it as their own. They […]
Show full quote

Tetrium wrote on 2021-11-01, 13:35:

For datamining seems plausible. Kinda odd for mods defending those accounts but I can imagine you'd want to be really sure befor […]
Show full quote

For datamining seems plausible. Kinda odd for mods defending those accounts but I can imagine you'd want to be really sure before, like, banning someone over this. Or could also be that those mods were corrupt in some way? Who knows 😜
What may be obvious to one person may not be obvious to someone else.

I remember years ago there was some weird website which apparently copied many threads from Vogons for some reason and had added some stuff to it which appeared like conclusions. Seems like all was done automatically and though I found it weird at the time, I didn't really bother with it after having spend some time analyzing it with a matter of amazement of why someone would even bother with this.

But anyway, this is going off-topic a bit so I suggest we go back to people with actual graphics card collections for now 😜

the mods didn't really care that people were posting photos of other peoples accomplishments and claiming it as their own. They mostly got annoyed when people started complaining of the practice.
Kinda understandable, though not a very likeable stance, by me.
and agreed on that last one. 😁

Personally I would have just swung the banhammer around, if only because letting this behavior continue invites more of the same behavior (and it opens the door more widely to even more unwanted behavior/worse behavior). Because from my perspective, there just isn't anything really positive that fakers add to a community and eventually it can be used to even skew a community completely like for instance hype up prices while making it seems legit etc. So yes, I would ban them. Ban them all!!!111 😁 😁 😁 😜

It's contagious 😁

Have about 100
Need to thin the ranks..

I used to hate being stuck without an AGP slot on my Slot 1 motherboard back in the day.. now I kinda like collecting PCI more 😁

Not often seen:

Diamond FireGL PCI 1000 (none pro)
Creative 3D Blaster PCI
Mpact 2 8MB PCI
Savage 2000 PCI
Trident Blade XP AGP
Neon 250 AGP TV
S3 S18 Nitro PCI-E
FX5600 64Bit PCI
FX5600 128Bit PCI
FX5700 128Bit PCI
Radeon 9100 PCI
Albatron 8600 GT PCI
Albatron AGP-8x to PCI-Express Bridge Card