Loved browsing this thread, takes me back. Thanks!
Grew up using Macs [IIcx IIsi Quadra660 LC475/476 Powermac9500] (Dad was in design/marketing), but my brother and I pooled our money and built our first PC in the mid 90's:
200mhz Pentium Pro i think, in a massive super tower. Pretty sure it had a Hercules video card in it or similar? Then a Voodoo2. Also have a Matrox Millenium or something like that, it was in this build at some point.
Next was a 500mhz P3 with a first gen Geforce256 (non-ddr because I couldn't find any and was totally jones'n to play some action quake).
Third PC went completely different direction: Thunderbird 1GHZ (?) with an ATI Radeon 9800.
Switched back to Intel with a P4 2.8GHZ, then on to a C2D E8400. These two had a whole bunch of GPU's in them, can't even remember them all. In no particular order because I'll surely get it wrong:
Geforce 6800GT(?), HD 4870, HD 5870, 8800GTX, probably something else I'm forgetting atm.
I saw the 6000 series Geforce a couple pages back and totally recognized that mermaid... nostalgia tweaked, thanks again.
[EDIT: Just spent about two hours perusing thread and only got through a few pages. You are a madman, this stuff is insane.]