Do you remember your first graphics card?

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sanitarium16

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Got my first computer in 1995. Gateway 2000. Pentium 75mhz. 8MB of ram. 500MB hard drive, 14.4k modem, 1mb Trio 64 video card. Upgraded it a year later to a Matrox mistique 220 with 4MB video ram. Those were the days.... Then in 1998 I got a Dell Dimension XPS R400, P2 400mhz, 128MB PC-100 Ram, 10GB 7,200RPM hard drive, Turtle beach montego A3D sound, 4MB Riva 128 video. Then upgraded it to a STB Velocity 4400 16MB TNT, then to a Creative Labs 32MB TNT2. Then in other computers had a Geforce 256 with 32mb sdram. Then the Geforce 2GTS to a Radeon 9700Pro to a 9800Pro then a 7900GT and now to a 8800gt and thats been the history of my video cards. Its funny i never had to upgrade as much. The 9800 pro lasted me years and could play any game i threw at it....now we have crysis which NO video card can play maxed.
 
Kyro II 3D Prophet 4000XT 32MB $79.99 at BestBuy.

I probably got ripped off...but it ran Quake 3 nicely. :p
 
the first pc that i had built had a 5700LE

then the 1st that i myself built had a 6600.

Now 8800gts
 
Dell Diminsion L800r with onboard video, upgraded to a GeForce4 from best buy. then i built my first custom rig with a ATI X800 XL, downgraded to a X1900XTX, and now i got duece 8800GTS's
 
Shady240 said:
Dell Diminsion L800r with onboard video, upgraded to a GeForce4 from best buy. then i built my first custom rig with a ATI X800 XL, downgraded to a X1900XTX, and now i got duece 8800GTS's
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X800 XL > X1900XTX ?
 
Ogilvy said:
X800 XL > X1900XTX ?
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yeah, the X800 XL never gave me any problems, handled everything like a gem, was nice and quiet, as for the X1900XTX....worst card i ever owned, had some many problems with it, true it couldve just been a bad card, but when I'd play CSS or even Duke Nukem 3D it sounded like i had a harrier flying around in my room....id have random screen blackouts, one of the DVI ports would die, then pretend to be jebus and come back to life only to die again, it would mess up its drivers....just a horrible experience altogther.
 
definitely had a bad card. x1900xtx was the best product of its day. first card i can remember: diamond stealth 64.
 
First computer that was mine was a Pentium 60 with 8 MB of RAM, 420 MB hard drive, and a Cirrus Logic VESA video card with 1 MB of RAM. It ran Quake pretty well at 320 x 200 resolution, but choked at 640 x 480. I was still very impressed at the time. Before that I used my dad's 386 16 MHz with 1.64 MB RAM, 40 MB hard drive, and some unknown but probably very shitty graphics card. Then in '98 I finally joined the 3D revolution with my new PII-450 with 128 MB RAM, 60 GB hard drive, and nVidia Riva TNT and gaming bliss was mine.
 
voodoo 3 PCI for around $100 in 1999 for my Compaq computer. New build in 2005 with an X800 XL (excellent card), and recently upgraded to a 9600GT.
 
ELSA Gladiac 32mb ,was a kick ass card at its time when people had the same problems with playing Quake 3 as we have today playing Crysis.
 
ARK Logic Explorer Multimedia VideoPro 64 with 1mb VRAM. Which got upgraded to a 2Mb cirrus logic something-or-other... 3D acceleration wasnt even in existence back then until the voodoo cards came out.

Came with my first-ever computer. P133 with 16mb simm ram, 1gb HD, 28.8 modem, and one of those mile long ISA Soundblaster AWE32 soundcards with the 30pin simm expansion slots.
 
Trident 4MB!

First "3D" card was a Quantum 3D Voodoo Banshee, got rid of that POS and went with 2x Canopus Pure 3D IIs :D
 
first every computer was an Apple LC580, then I went to a P3 500 with a 16mb Ati Rage Pro 128, Dell Dimension 4600 P4 2.66 FX5200, My first homebuilt computer was a P4 Prescott 550 with an ATI X700, Then I went to a AMD 3200+ with a 7800GT and now I'm running a Opty 170 with a 8800GTS(G80) on a ATi chipset no less.


Apple -> ATi Rage Pro -> FX5200 -> X700 -> 7800GT ->8800GTS
 
my very first vid card was an Hercules, don´t remember the model, it was monochromatic and it was installed in a XT so pretty old stuff, i was also very young, so i don´t remember well.

But my first 3D card was a Diamond Viper v330 Riva 128 4MB AGP
the card that started it all !!!
 
MSI FX 5900 Ultra

I got into computers when I hit high school, though my parents owned the since the 80's I never really had one of my "own."
 
Midway through my progression of cards my 9800Pro took a dump and I didn't have the cash to make an improvement so I ended up with a x700pro :(. Prior to my TNT2 all my computers were software rendered.

Riva TNT2 16MB -> PNY Geforce Ti4200 64MB -> ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB -> ATi Radeon X700Pro 256MB -> EVGA Geforce 7800GS 256MB-> EVGA Geforce 8800GTS 512MB
 
First graphics card was some 256K ISA deal on our 386... This was back in 95/96, bro & I were behind the times. It was really our first computer ever. Though the card did have some acceleration, when my friend who lived down the street also got a 386 we compared cards & ours ran Raptor: Call of the Shadow faster.

As for the first 3D card we got, it was a ATI XPERT98(Rage Pro) card. It had 8MB of ram. We had it in a P166 w/ 16MB of ram. This was a big upgrade, but Windows98 ran dog slow on it with only the 16MB of ram & we couldn't really use it. Either way it sucked as a graphics card anyways, GLQuake would stutter & it did not support proper alpha blending... Sad really... Spent like $90 on it which was a lot of money for us at the time. Was probably a bad investment.

Let's just say the E2160 @ 3Ghz, 8800GT & 4GB of ram are amazingly faster.
 
My first PC (that belonged to me) was a K6-2 400mhz, 192mb of ram, 8gb hard drive and an ATI Rago Pro Turbo.
 
Ah the good old days
First computer was a dell dimension 3000 with an ATi Rage XL, which got upgraded eventually to an xfx Geforce 4800, then to an FX5500, and then integrated POS for a bit unfortunately then to now with an MSI 9600GT OC

ATi Rage XL > 4800 > FX5500 > igp > 9600GT
 
my first ever PC was a 400MHz Celeron that had an 8MB Matrox video card, somehow it died and my dad bought me a 16MB card i can't remember the name of, but i was so excited because it was a 3D Accelerator and i would be able to play games! a few months after getting that it died and i ended up shelling out nearly $100 for one of the lower end GeForce 4s

then i ended up with a S754 2800+ build, with an ATI 9200 SE, what a piece of crap, bought myself a 6800GS AGP version and was able to unlock the extra pipelines and OC it to past 6800GT speeds.

a few years later i did an AM2 build and bought myself an X1950 Pro used that for a couple months before giving to my brother and buying an 8800GTS 320MB, used that for ~6-8 months, and then bought myself an 8800GTS 512MB and im currently in the process of stepping up to a 9800GTX (why not, its only costing me ~$25)

8MB Matrox something or other > 16MB card i cant remember for the life of me > GeForce 4, 9200SE > 6800GS >x1950 Pro > 8800GTS 320MB > 8800GTS 512MB > 9800GTX
 
Monster Voodoo 2 12mb, which I bought with my first ever paycheck. I never thought about this until now, but $250 translates into a lot of Dairy Queen hours; I must've really liked games back then :p
 
Ogilvy said:
Kyro II 3D Prophet 4000XT 32MB $79.99 at BestBuy.

I probably got ripped off...but it ran Quake 3 nicely. :p
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go go KYRO!!!!! :D

my first grapics card was a cirrus logic with 2mb of dram (not vram) with vesa local bus interface.. wooo. I think I upgraded to a diamond stealth with 4mb of dram.. I got a voodoo I when it came out though, for my pentium 75 system... 'spensive as it was for the time.. it rocked so much.. tomb raider and quake looked super nice. woot.
 
ati 9200 :p not a great card to start with but it served me well until 9600 then 7800gs and at last 8800gts :D
 
The first computer that was truly mine was an AMD K6 166with 32mb of RAM... It had, um... A Diamond Stealth something or other... I think it had a whopping 4mb o' RAM.

Soooo... The first video card I ever purchased was a VooDoo4 AGP, which coincided with my upgrade to a K6-2 333 that I immediately OC'd to 380 (woohoo! The big improvement was going from 66mhz FSB to 100mhz.) I remember being floored that I could play Quake 3... The real stunner was I went straight rom Doom 2 to Quake 3! I soon thereafter traded it for a Radeon 7000 32mb. A little over 2 years ago I purchased a 6600GT, which I replaced with a 7600GT, which I sold about a year ago and replaced with my current card, a Radeon X1950XT 256mb. Whee.
 
Man I can't remember what the VIC 20 or Commodore 64 had in them:D
My first real card was maybe matrox or cirrus logic SVGA PCI card w 1MB or something like that.Man I can't remember now I'm really curious what I had exactly. Anyone know where I can find a graphics card time line listed by company?
 
ValidusX said:
Man I can't remember what the VIC 20 or Commodore 64 had in them:D
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Does that count too? Was the term "graphics acceleration" even coined around that time? Wonder if the Commodore Amiga had some form of gfx acceleration, some awesome 3D games there. :D
 
I think that's refered to as a "frame buffer".. but these are technically all frame buffers, but those were just enough hardware to display the screen and that's it.
 
Celeron 300A@450mhz (yeah baby), 32MB of RAM, 4MB integrated video card (upgraded later to VooDoo Rush 8MB), and Seagate 2GB HDD.

First loaded game was GTA.
 
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