Ummm.... I have a couple 4-drawer filing cabinets full of video cards (bare cards) and a few boxed cards.

Dude, I don't even know and I'm not going to try and count.
I feel like it's too many though. 😶

I have a few, not as many as you but it's a nice little collection 😀

ISA/VLB cards

• Paradise Autoswitch 2 EGA
• bit-design EGA (Chips & Technologies chipset)
• Cirrus Logic CL-GD5422 VGA
• Another Cirrus Logic VGA (don't know which one exactly, and I'm too lazy to open up the computer that it's in right now)
• Tseng Labs ET4000/w32 VLB card

AGP cards

• ATI Rage 128 32 MB

PCIe cards

• GeForce 8600 GT
• GeForce 8800 GTS (512 MB variant)
• GeForce GT 710
• GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

I have enough to build 45 more systems... is that too many?

Here are video cards and 3D accelerators I currently have, quite a collection too. 😉

PCI cards:

• Trident TGUI-9680 1 MB
• AOpen PT75 Plus II (S3 ViRGE/GX 4 MB EDO RAM)
• Another S3 ViRGE/GX with 2 MB SGRAM manufactured by Compaq
• 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics 4 MB
• Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446 2 MB
• Trident 3DImàge 9750 4 MB
• STB PowerGraph 64 Video (S3 Trio64V+ 2 MB)
• S3 Trio3D/2X 8 MB SDRAM
• 3Dfx Voodoo2 12 MB

AGP:

• ATI 3D Rage IIc 4 MB
• ATI Radeon 9250 256 MB
• nVidia TNT2 Pro 16 MB (Compaq OEM)
• S3 Trio2D/2X 4 MB SGRAM
• nVidia GeForce2 GTS 32 MB
• nVidia GeForce3 Ti 200 64 MB
• nVidia GeForce4 MX440 64 MB
• nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8x 128 MB

PCIe:

• ATI Radeon x550 256 MB
• ATI Radeon x1050 256 MB
• nVidia GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB
• nVidia GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB

Edit (May 23 2023): Updated the list. The GeForce GTX 1070 card died 🙁.

Edit #2 (Jan 21 2024): Updated this list once again to add a GeForce3 Ti 200 card.

Edit #3: The GeForce3 Ti 200 suddenly started to randomly fail.

I have about 30. From EGA cards up to DX11 GeForce/Radeons.

I have a few more than you do. I'll leave it at that. I already know I have a problem.

Grem Five wrote on 2021-10-28, 22:07:

I have enough to build 45 more systems... is that too many?

Not unless you also have the rest of the parts to build 45 more systems.

I have well over 500. I stopped counting at around 200 😀 I have 11 comic book storage boxes full (those boxes are strong enough to stand on), and shelves of boxed cards.

Something like 10 Video cards under the same definition as VDU, not necessarily graphics cards because a couple of them are mono text. Probably 20+ "VGA" cards capable of VGA and 30 or so GPUs capable of 3D acceleration (of which 4 or 5 are not also VGA cards because they don't have 2D output)

Let's see what I remember
2xMDA IBM with parallel.
1x IBM CGA
1xHerc/mono mini
1x Graphics wonder,
1x offbrand EGA
1x MDA/CGA/EGA 2nd tier manufacturer not recalling.
1x EGA Wonder
Okay that's only 8 I guess, maybe more around.

1x VGA wonder
2x some oak/WD crap
4-6 TVGA8900
2x TVGA9000
1x Mach 32
1x Mach 64
3x GL5429
1xGL5434
1xGL5430 PCI
2 x TGUI 9680
2x basic trio
thinking there's another 2 PCI 2D one or two MB that aren't S3, CL or Trident but can't bring them to mind.

Then 3D
Virge GX 4MB
2x Riva128
2xRage II crappy
2 or 3 Rage II okay-er, pluses or C rev.
2 Rage XC/XL
2 rage pro
1 Permedia 2
1 Number 9 revolution IV
1 Rendition verite
1 i740
3 SiS 6326
3 Rage 128
2 Power VR 3dx Apocalypse (no 2D)
2 V2 12MB
1 voodoo banshee
1 v3 PCI
2 TNT2
2 riva tnt
1 GF1 ??
2 GF2MX400
2 GF3
2 GF4 TI4200
2x Radeon 7000ish
1x Radeon 7500
Hiding on me, not recently confirmed are some dualhead matrox g200?? ti4600 which I think had issues, 2 V3 3000 AGP, 1 V3 PCI, 1 Diamond Monster 3DII 8MB, possibly a TTR-II, GF8800
2x Rad 8500
2x 9000 series
2x 9600 series
3x GF6200 PCI
1x 7400GT PCIe
1x7600
1x7900GS
1x9400GT
3x9600GT
1x gt280 in pieces, might try reflow
3x x300/600 series
1x HD2600
2x HD3450
1x HD4650
2x HD4870
1x5830
2x5850
2x6450
2x6850
3?x 6870
SiS Xabre 200
SiS 315
and some newer stuff I dunno.

I've got too many cards but still always one too few.

debs3759 wrote on 2021-10-29, 02:50:

I have well over 500. I stopped counting at around 200 😀 I have 11 comic book storage boxes full (those boxes are strong enough to stand on), and shelves of boxed cards.

Where do you store all this? I write from an 80 sqm apartment in Hong Kong. The struggle to store (and hide) is a constant concern 😜

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-10-29, 03:29:

Let's see what I remember

Key words I feel!

Way too many random pci video cards 🤣

Probably hundreds - but no idea really 🤣

30 or so are boxed. The rest are bare cards (ISA, VLB, PCI, AGP, PCI-e) and 99% should be in working condition.

I have around 45 retro display cards from before 2010 or so. Nowadays I keep a spreadsheet list of all my retro junk after I bought a Geforce 7800 GT and later realized that I already had one in storage 😁 Well I guess redundancy is good.

Not that many actually

ELSA Winner 1000 T2D
Diamond stealth 64
No name s3 trio 64 v2
Tseng labs Et6000
Tseng labs Et6100
Diamond multimedia voodoo 1
Creative ct6670 voodoo 2
Another voodoo 2 forgot the brand though.
Achitech rendition verite spider 2200
Canopus spectra geforce 256 ddr
Nec 3dpcengine

Matrox millennium g450
Geforce 2 gts of some sort
Another gf2 gts
Number 9 sr9 i think?
Gerorce gts 8800

Gulleimot voodoo 1 but its dead so I dunno if that counts

Current daily driver pc uses a 1080ti cause I dont think I can probably afford anything better for a while.

About 20 to 25 from old ISA to PCI-E. Should make a list sometime.
When does this get pathological? Does feel as too many already...

Seriously, what is it that makes one collecting (stop: I'm not collecting, am I? These little guys found their way to me on their own. I swear.) way too much of this stuff? Nostalgia, collecting mania, compulsive hoarding, because you can...?
What do you (we) do with all that? Use it regularly or at least from time to time or just store it in some old boxes on a dark shelv? What is the sense behind that?

I have a collection of ISA and VLB cards. But I like all the rest too as VGA cards don't take much space. So I don't care how many I've got. I got more problems with AT/ATX cases and full computers and also CRT monitors that take a lot of space...

Truth be told I don't use anything much...

100+, currently doing an inventory of all my collection so don't know exactly

But still missing some rare/pricey ones 😒
- Any TIGA card
- IBM PGC
- IBM 8514/A
- 3DFX VooDoo 4/5
- NEC PowerVR (first ones)
- Any MCA/EISA card
- Any Nvidia NV1 based card