Do you remember your first graphics card?

Mine was a Riva TnT and later added a 8mb Voodoo 3D card to it. Ah the good old days lol
 
Romir said:
4mb integrated ATI Rage3d.
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Wow!

Same as above. Built another PC before that but it was for work.

Matrox Millenium 4mb IIRC, which you could add an extra 4MB on the card.

Did not start '3D gaming' until I bought a TNT. :)
 
Voodoo2-->Riva TNT-->TNT2-->GeForce2 Ultra-->9700PRO-->9800PRO-->X800XL-->X1800XT-->8800GTX OC
 
My first add in video card was a Diamond Stealth S4 Extreme (or something like that). My first "real" video card was a Geforce 4 Ti4200.
 
First 3d card, Monster Voodoo1, with a whopping 4mb of onboard ram, made GLQuake1 look sick!!! And oh yes, I paid $250 for that bitch....:eek:
 
VIC-II in my C64 and right after that, the first "regular" GPU was an EGA wonder in my 286. After that was a 4 MB trident in my 486 and a rage pro turbo (boo) in my k6-2. After that, I bought discreet GPUs on my own and have had 8 of them in the interim starting with a radeon DDR for my athlon 800 box.
 
BronxBartoni said:
PNY 6800GT purchased from CompUSA, great card, lasted me over 2 years.
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I don't know what it is about PNY graphics cards but every single one I've ever tried died on me within a few weeks to a couple of months. I know PNY doesn't build the things but that's just how my luck has been with them. With BFG and EVGA I have rarely if ever had any problems.
 
Creative Labs 3DFX Banshee 16MB AGP 4X. That paired with my Celeron 300a overclocked to 450Mhz would get around 60fps @ 800 x 600 in Counter Strike Beta 7.1. CS_SIEGE FTW!
 
My first Graphic card was the S3 Trio 32/64 with 1MB that came with the PC i bought and my first 3D graphic card was a Creative Labs 3DFX Voodoo 1 with 4MB, classic :)
 
It was a 2MB card, I can't even remember the name :p
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Trident 1mb ISA in my 386DX40 cost me a fortune, followed By a VL bus version for Strike Commander on my 486 DX2-50 :D
 
Oh you mean 3D? Orchid Voodoo1,it was wallet meltingly expensive, they should have put me on commission for the number of fellow gamers I turned into customers
 
The first card I ever bought was a GeForce FX 5700 :p

I got into the pc game quite late haha
 
visiontek geforce 4 ti 4200 128 mb FTW!!!!!!!!! threw this baby in my gateway and jammed on some jedi outcast II for days@!!!! @ 60+ fps!!!!!!111111loooooool
 
First card was an ATI something or other...maybe a Rage? It was in an Acer PC that my dad got me.

First card I ever purchased for myself was a Voodoo 3 16. I couldn't wait to play some High Heat baseball on my new Voodoo card!
 
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not my photo but that's my card

I love this thing, I still have it. Someday when I get off my ass I want to mount it on a plaque and hang it on my wall.
 
Can't remember what was in that IBM PS/1 386SX-16 I first owned. My next box was a Gateway 2000 386DX-33 and it had a Diamond Speedstar Plus. Tseng ET4000 1MB ISA board.

This all assumes you don't count my Apple ][+ with 48K. ;)
 
I guess I'm in the younger crowd. My first card was a Geforce 4 MX440 64MB then....

ATI 9800Pro 128MB
ATI X800XL 256MB
Nvidia 9600GT 512MB
 
Dont remeber what it was but the video card had sockets for memory upgrade. The Mobo also had sockets for cache chips and co processor. Ordered the chips for about 8 bucks, the co-processor for not much more and boy did dos and windows 3.0 fly. Next computer was a Micron IBM clone. 4 megs of ram. I think the upgrade to 8 meg was between 200 and 300 $. Lots of fun with Autoexec.bat's Oh and that first 2x hp cd rom. I was in heaven.
 
First computer given to me.. I think it had a TNT2 in it.. Pentium 2.. I think that's about the right timeframe.
First one I built however had a Radeon 9200 Shitty Edition (SE) that died in about 3 months.
And when I first met my step sister (A week after buying all my parts, hadn't built it yet) she stepped in the middle of my open PC case and smashed in my proc and mobo. Well, nobody paid for it, I had to re-buy (14 y/o, 200 bucks is hard to come by..)
 
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