Do you remember your first graphics card?

I remember my first one was a Geforce MX400 and I almost fell for upgrading to an FX5200.
 
I didn't have gfx card in my first machine. It was Atari 65XE with tape recorder. My first PC was using some integrated chipset, and first standalone GFX Card was S3 Virge, paired with Voodoo2
 
It was a Riva TNT card... I was scared to open my pc to install the sucker. I was so jealous when my roomate got his two voodoo's in his system. Quake 2 looked sooo good. Then I got my TNT and the graphics blew his away.
 
First proper GPU was Matrox Mystique 220 as 2D card connected to Matrox M3d Power VR 3D card!

Quake II was great with the Power VR mode!! LOL those were the days and i'm not even old :)
 
Apple II was my first computer back in 1983... It didn't have an option for graphic card.
Then in 1989, I've bought a spiffy new IBM AT 80286 @ 6Mhz! And I've bought it with breath-taking high tech Hercules VGA graphics card capable of 640x480 in 256 colors!!!! Everybody told me it was way too powerful for anything back then :p
 
My very first computer had dedicated graphics but I cannot remember what it had in it, I just remember playing Driver 1 a lot on it. My next two were integraded and my third was also integrated but I upgraded it with a 64MB PCI ATI All-in-Wonder VE since it had no AGP slot. I just upgraded to it so I could play Halo CE. My next was a 5700 Ultra, then a 6600GT, a 7900GTO, and finally an ATI 4850. I don't have a very long history of video cards.
 
IBM VGA, went from EGA suckness to VGA glory. Wing Commander looked sweet.
 
Voodoo 3 2000 AGP


shortly after that I got the Voodoo 3 3500. Still have both and they still work.
 
My first graphics card was a Voodoo 3 3000 then after that i got the Voodoo 5 5500 :) i loved the voodoo series, damn you nVidia!
I still somewhere have a Geforce 256 knoking about :D
 
Their were family and school computers i had access to when i was around 5, but i didnt get my first custom rig till i was about 15, and this was an amd k-5 16mb ram if i recall, 33.6 baud :O (screaming fast then) with a trident 1mb card, i have the card laying around somewhere, it played quake beautifully which i got with the machine like right when the game came out of it that tells you how old i am :O. I was also into original doom when it came out :p. Old timer here for sure. My biggest purchase was probably radeon 9800 pro the day it came out, i loved that card so much then.
 
1st graphics card was some noname brand CGA card in my IBM XT Clone 10Mhz.
1st 3D graphics card was a Voodoo Diamond Monster 3D.
 
First Computer: 1MB Trident True Color in a 486
First videocard purchased: Creative Labs Graphics Blaster Extreme 8MB with Promedia 2 chipset from 3D Labs
Best Videocard Ever Purchased: 640MB 8800GTS (Which I now run in SLI to this day)
 
First card i bought Voodoo2 1000 (still have it and the box) it handled Quake2 and original Everquest like a dream. Then upgraded to voodoo 3 3000 (computer took a lightning hit and fried all cards including the 3000 and my sound blaster live X-gamer). Hit up CompUSA the next day and picked up a brand new radeon ATI AIW 7000 with 64mb ddr i think it cost near 250 bucks at the time, also got another x-gamer for around a 100.

Since then ive gone through countless upgrades but i'll never forget those first few cards.
 
I bought a Voodoo3 3000 AGP in 1999 at the local Hastings alongside Kingpin. I also remember tearing apart our state of the art (at the time) Sony Vaio PC to install it, and the subsequent discipline by my parental units :D
 
My first videocard was Cirrus Logic SVGA chip with one megabyte of video memory and was VESA compatible. That was in 1994, and it took until 1996 until it was outdated!! :D

What every happened to those days??????

Cirrus Logic -> ATI Rage Pro Turbo II -> FX5200 Ultra -> 9800XT -> X850XTPE -> X1950XTX -> 8800GTX -> 2 HD4850's in Crossfire.
 
Ah, the Vérité 1000. Those were the days, 1996. vQuake, mmmmm.
 
My first PC was a Pentium 120Mhz with 32 megs of ram (upgrade) and a 6x cd rom! It had a lame onboard videocard so I eventually added a 4mb Monster Voodoo card, the original. Man did Mechwarrior and Quake look good!!! Especially after I bought the overdrive processor that took me up to 180Mhz... weeee! After that was an 8mb Voodoo 2 add-on card. Now we were gaming at 800x600...woohoo!. Then came a change from an add-in card to an Xentor 32 TNT2 made by Guillomet (Still dont know how to pronounce that). Then I had the first version of the Radeon 32. That card rocked in its' time. Somewhere around this time I got a 8500 All-in-Wonder, which was great for multimedia - gaming, not so much. Then I hopped ship again and got a Geforce Ti-4400, with a huge aluminum heatsink and dual fan combo that completely covered the card. I sold it to a friend and believe it or not he is still using it to this day! Then I think the whole world was blown away by the Radeon 9700 Pro. Followed by the 9800 Pro.... which just about brings us to "modern" times. I replaced that with an Nvidia 512mb 8800 GTS, which was just recently replaced by a new 4870 card. I also have a media machine setup running a 9600 All-in-Wonder 256mb card.

Man.... I'm starting to feel old!!!!! Yikes! :cool:
 
I still have my first pc given down to me from my aunty. A Pentium S 90MHZ, 24MB EDO ram, 2 x CD Rom Drive and a Cirrus Logic 1MB Video card. <<
 
my 9500 pro (~$130) (i believe the 9500 pro had dx8 and 9500 didnt) lasted my FOREVER...

Then a 6800gs XFX XXX ($130) which lasted me FOREVER...

and now an 8800gt for $80, just to play fallout 3 and get some filters on tf2...

cheap and happy!
 
sanitarium16 said:
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.
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Mine was Creative Riva TnT2 with 32mb. Those were the days when first Geforce came out and I didnt had enough budget to grab Geforce. Those cards were killers at that time.
 
3Dfx Voodoo 3 > Radeon 9600 Pro > Radeon 9800 Pro > Radeon X1300 (Died few months after) > Nvidia 6800 Ultra (Still going strong in my second PC) > Nvidia 7600GT (Later on added a second card for SLi) > Radeon HD3870 (Died) > Nvidia 9800GTX > and hopefully, a 280 GTX in few days.
 
My first video card that I purchased was a Diamond Stealth 24. It was the first card that did 24-bit color for me.
 
nvidia geforce 2 GTS? came with my dell dimension 8100 back in Aug. 2000 (first computer)
 
voodoo 2>kyro 2>geforce 256>4400>6800>7900>8800>4850 (first ati card ever).

I remember playing nfs 3 with voodoo 2 in sli :)
 
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