Do you remember your first graphics card?

nösferatu;1032322403 said:
trident svga 1MB, on my very first pc, Intel Pentium 120 Mhz

Asus nVidia Riva TNT 16MB
Pixelview geForce2 MX400 32MB
Pixelview geForce4 Ti4200 64MB
Winfast geForce4 Ti4600 128MB
Winfast geForce4 Ti4200 128MB, AGP 8x
Asus ATi Radeon 9600XT 128MB
Winfast geForce 6600GT 128MB, Pci-e
MSI geForce 7900GT 256MB
Eagle 8800GT 512MB.

fyuh, that's a complete list.
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Ahh...the Ti 4200. I spent days getting it to work in Linux just so I could play Tux Racer.

There were no simple one-click install nvidia driver packages then. You had to compile and install packages yourself via command line....had to make sure you had all the right libraries installed.

What a pain in the ass just to watch a stupid penguin slide down a snow-hill collecting fish.
 
Ogilvy said:
Ahh...the Ti 4200.
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yes, i got two, just because i fooled someone to exchange his Winfast Ti4200 8x agp + some cash with my Winfast Ti4600 4x agp. but i still think it was not so evil, he was insisting to have more speed, even in a very slightly means, hehe.

Ogilvy said:
There were no simple one-click install nvidia driver packages then. You had to compile and install packages yourself via command line....had to make sure you had all the right libraries installed.

What a pain in the ass just to watch a stupid penguin slide down a snow-hill collecting fish.
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um...glad that nVidia detonator was indeed one-click solution for windows.
 
nösferatu;1032322529 said:
yes, i got two, just because i fooled someone to exchange his Winfast Ti4200 8x agp + some cash with my Winfast Ti4600 4x agp. but i still think it was not so evil, he was insisting to have more speed, even in a very slightly means, hehe.
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It's the same thing with the 9800 GTX. You can get the same performance with an overclocked 8800 GTS. And you pay 100 bucks more for it.


But I guess you couldn't tri-sli the Ti 4600 though, eh?
 
GeForce 4 Ti 4200
Sold it
Got it back like 4 years later when the lady wanted a new computer.:p
 
Cyrix P180 was first (don't remember if the card was integrated in that or not)

Then a packard bell that had a S3 Virge DX. First real 3d card? Voodoo 1, then lots of others... :cool:
 
something or other with 2mb VRAM. Got it with a Cyrix 166+
Soundesign sound card that I upgraded to a $250 AWE32 because soundesign wouldn't work in Ultima VII
I remember downgrading the HD from 1.6 to 1.2 GB because I thought there was no way anyone could use 1.6GB, lol.

Then I put an Orchid Righteous 3D in it and played Quake 1 demo. To this day nothing has blown me away as much as seeing Quake 1 in openGL 3D for the first time.
 
leSLIe said:
my old Riva 128 !!!

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I see your Riva128 and raise you an ATI EGA Wonder!

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I only got into computers like 3 or 4 years ago. I remember wanting to upgrade the graphics on my Dell 2400. It had intergrated gfx and only PCI slots. I went out to compusa and bought an ATI 9250. I fully believed that my dell was now a full on gaming machine. Hell I even upgraded the 256mb ram to 512mb :D. Shit was off the hook.

Oh how naive I was.
 
First card I got was a Hercules for the Olde Sperry PC clone 8088. Allowed me to play Flight Simulator I.

Later on, an S3 ViRGE > ATi Rage Pro > fx5200 > 6600gt agp > 7600gt pcie.

Guess it's about time for a new one....
 
Radeon 7500 64mb > Radeon 9200 128mb > Nvidia 5200 256mb > 9600xt 256mb > 6600gt > 6800 > x850 pro > 7600gt > 7600gt sli > x1900gt > 8800gts 320mb..

Next card purchase will be when the industry stops sidestepping.
8800gs/8800gts/8800gt/8800gtx/8800Ultra/9800gtx should have been..
8700gt/8800gs/8800gt/8800Ultra/8850.

Im sick of this shit.
 
Ogilvy said:
It's the same thing with the 9800 GTX. You can get the same performance with an overclocked 8800 GTS. And you pay 100 bucks more for it.


But I guess you couldn't tri-sli the Ti 4600 though, eh?
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meh, up 'till now, i don't bother sli/crossfire thing,
fyi, Ti4600 support hybrid sli with onboard geforce 256 DDR, if it exist :D
 
Orchid video card but I don't remember the exact model. Bought it in 1989-90 so......
 
3dfx voodoo3 2000 pci

what a can of worms that opened up. in a good way though
 
Orchid! Haven't heard of that name in a while :) I had a Cirrus Logic on my 2nd computer, an Intel 486 DX 33mhz! I remember I was very proud of the fact that it could run all my favorite games in 1992 (Wolfenstein 3D, Wing Commander 1/2, Star Control 2) without a hitch.

wrangler said:
Orchid video card but I don't remember the exact model. Bought it in 1989-90 so......
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My first card was an ATI Graphics Solution Plus 128K RAM (Hercules Clone) in my 1987 IBM XT 4.7 MHz (8MHz in turbo mode) Clone. That computer was fully loaded with 640K RAM and a 20MB hard drive. My father-in-law bought one at the same time and his is still working.
Then I got the ATI VGA Wonder for mine. You could actually flip the card over to use ISA 8 bit or 16 bit. Of course I had to upgrade my 12" monochrome monitor to a 14" color one to go with it.

His old XT was just sitting in his garage so I picked it up on July 10, 2012. It still works! I can't believe a 25 year old hard drive would last so long.

My next computer had a 2D card which I upgraded to a Diamond Stealth 3D card, wow that Descent game looked good. It's too bad the card had 3D capability but no 3D acceleration.
Then I got the 3dfx Monster 3D Voodoo 1. I couldn't believe how good Quake 1 looked in MiniGL.
After that:
Atrend 3dfx Voodoo 2 8 MB PCI
3dfx Voodoo 3 1000 8 MB AGP
Leadtek GeForce 2 Pro AGP
Gainward GeForce 4 TI 4200 128 MB AGP
ATI X800 XL AGP 256 MB
EVGA 7900 GTO 512 MB PCIE
Visiontek 4870 512 MB
XFX 6950 2 GB
 
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My first actual graphics *card* was an 8-bit ISA Paradise VGA card (from Western Digital). I put that in my first PC, which was a Commodore XT, which had Plantronics CGA/Hercules onboard, so that was my first graphics adapter for PC.

Let's just say I've gone through a LOT of videocards over the years :)

The first 3d card I had was a Matrox Mystique, followed by a PowerVR, then my first 'proper' card (as in, with fully functional D3D and OpenGL support) was a GeForce2 GTS.
 
Does a Sinclair ZX 81 count? No real vid card.
First removable vid card was an Oak Graphics ISA card in my 386sx16. I cant remeber if it was 256k or 1 mb
 
Voodoo 3 I believe... Don't REALLY remember though... It might be in that pile of 6-7 AGP cards in my closet... :D
 
I'm 18 now, in '01, '02, or '03 my dad helped me build my 1st rig(Nv FX 5200, 1.7ghz P4, 512MB PC2700 ram). lol.
 
Whatever the Pentium 133 had onboard lol, or the first actual "graphics card" was a GeForce2 MX from dell (and it still works).
 
Hofy said:
Does a Sinclair ZX 81 count? No real vid card.
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Yea I had one of those aswell :)
They didn't have any dedicated graphics hardware at all. The CPU had to update the screen.
The first 'dedicated' graphics hardware I had was my C64. It was way faster than the ZX81 overall, even though its CPU was much slower.
 
My first video card was a CGA card in my 286 12MHz computer, ISA bus and built by ATI

first 3D accelerator.. Voodoo 3 3000, AGP 16MB :D

currently using a X800 GTO, PCI-E 256MB
 
Geforce 3 Ti200, made by PNY.

Black PCB, silver aluminum heatsinks.

It was beautiful. :D
 
the first Vid-Card i installed was a voodoo2 into mum and dads brand new P2-350 PC100 system.

my first Vid-Card was a Chaintech GF3 as part of my brand new Thunderbird 1.2GHz DDR system.

happy times.
 
Used a laptop before finally building my 1st PC. My first video card was an ATI All-in-Wonder 4mb PCI (Rage II based). State of the art back then for that new fangle OS called Win95.
 
I don't remember any cards I had before a 32MB PCI TNT2; I upgraded to an AGP 9700 Pro the first few weeks it was released and have been using it until a few weeks ago when I died on me forcing me to purchase an AGP X1950 Pro. ;)

( TNT2 -> 9700 Pro -> X1950 Pro )


-R
 
Nvidia Riva 128 or TNT, I forget but I think it was a 128,...which I still have sitting around in a box stored away somewhere around here. It was in the first computer I upgraded and rebuilt basically, not the first one I used. First card in a system I built from the ground up was a GeForce 256 DDR.
 
What graphics card did my 486 have? I have no idea.

After that, I bought a PIII PC with a Voodoo 3 card.
Then a Geforce MX 440, Geforce FX 5200 and now an 8800 GTS SLi setup.

Quite a leap.
 
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