Video card brand in your first PC?

What brand of video card was in your first PC (no onboard)

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hmmmm...Video: MOS Technology 6560 "VIC"
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came in a Commodore Vic 20...still have it...very early s/n: V0006018 made in the US.

probably considered "on board"...my bad

how about this one...
*1998 Compaq Presario / AMDK2 / ATI RagePro onboard , purchased to play Sierra's Grand Prix Legends

*added STB 3dfx Voodoo 2 PCI for sweet glide 3D

*RagePro didn't play well with Voodood card

*added Riva TNT PCI to drive Voodood card - worked steller

ha...in 1998 that stupid store bought pc had ATI- AMD , Riva-Nvidia , and 3dfx Voodoo in it...I still have it
 
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S3 Virge.

Played Descent with hardware acceleration.

1997.

AMD 200mhz
Sound Blaster AWE64
S3 Virge and shortly thereafter a Orchid Righteous 3D (3dfx card)
 
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The first computer that I owned had a Matrox Millennium. The first GPU that I purchased for myself would be a Blackmagic 3DFX Voodoo 2. The game that made me want to purchase that GPU was Unreal (y)
 
Well the first computer for me was a Tandy TRS-80.... What a POS...LOL! At least the Apple IIc had a never ending amount of good games! ;)
 
The first I can remember is some cirrus logic half meg card that was upgradeable to a full meg. Or was it a 1 mb card that could be upgraded to 2. And that mem upgrade was over $100. It could do 32bit color at a then massive 800x600, so I am guessing it may have had to be the latter.
My first real 3d card was a Voodoo Banshee, soon augmented by a pair of voodoo2 cards, Banshee being relegated to 2d only.
 
Not including the Apple ][ and Commodore Amigas I owned prior to buying a used PS/2 Model 30 in 1989 my first video card was an IBM 8514/A. The first PC I built was an AMD 386DX40 which I installed an ISA 512K ATI Wonder XL that I bought along with a Sound Blaster Pro 2 from the Base Exchange at Carswell AFB in 1991. I was doing some housecleaning a month or so back and found the folder I kept all the receipts and manuals for that first build. All those jumpers and DIP switches we had to deal with, such wonderful memories.
 
oldest i recall was Voodoo card but i know we had something before the Voodoo card. I remember bragging about it on CS betas back in the day with the newest 533MHz intel CPU or whatever. Was like 99 or 2000. I am sure we had something before that but that is the farthers i recall. I was like 11 back then lol
 
I couldn't remember the name of it but I remember people giving me a hard time for not spending more for the higher up model:

Here it is in all its glory :p.

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CGA and a Hercules monochrome card! Mode co40 or mode co80 to switch between the two! Dual monitors before it was cool ;)
 
Desktop - Matrox Millenium
Laptop - Trident Blade something or other
 
Amstrad CPC was my first "PC" followed by a NEC V20 based xt clone, with a CGA card.

The next leap for my family was a 486dx with a cirrus logic. My personal PC was a 386dx40 with a similar but faster VLB cirrus.
 
Low Budget = Trident?... these whippersnappers! When i started gaming trident was the only game in town to get that new fangled Super VGA image, you had to buy the card and 1MB expansion comprised of two ram chips that you installed yourself...

These young'ns need to learn to respect their elders -.-'

Edit: Actually when i started pc gaming, videocards wheren't a thing per se, way back in 1984... but i bet that you don't want to hear stories of cga, ega, vga into svga...
 
I had a Diamond 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee in a custom build 200mhz Pentium 1 with "mmx technology" as my first card. My second card was a Nvidia TNT2.
 
My first dedicated gpu I bought with my own money was a BFG 6800GT. Such a badass card, I was blown away the first time I fired up farcry and doom.
 
"Low-budget (Trident/ Cirrus Logic/ S3)" doesn't really count when the other options didn't exist.
 
Atari Antic & CTIA (I didn't get a GTIA machine to a good while later), then onto the Amiga, etc. I do not recall the video chipset names of the early 90s I used, but I do remember snatching up the original Voodoo 3D card not too long after. I still have a mint set of Voodoo II cards ready for my retro machine.
 
My First Video Card was ATI FireGL in Dell.. When I started to get into gaming with Crysis. The First one Yes that awhile back. I had to buy 8800 GT Nivida because the ATI Fire couldn't do Crysis. Imagine that...

From there on I went back into PC from Apple background. I have owned three PC but to actually build my own started after this DELL experience with 8800GT..

I went to XFX Nivida in SLI which was mind blowing for me. Although a lot of headaches since it wasn't perfect just yet. Now here I am running Classified set up 980GTX in SLI.. (No overclocking on my end).. Can't afford to spend the dough if it crashes and burns..
 
Oem generic EGA bought in Hong Kong flea market during Easter vacation. It upgraded my 8088 IBM PC from monochrome to glorious 16 colors! At the time, I also upgraded from an Amdek monochrome orange monitor to a NEC Multisync II color monitor. I remember going with my father to the IBM dealer to pickup the NEC. That thing was a beast, and was still running great when we threw it out and replaced it with an XGA Sony Trinitron.
 
I had a legendary S3, the world's first video decelerator. Enabling HW acceleration in Jedi Knight made it a lot slower. The ATI Rage also sucked ass.

Nothin screams POS quite like Compaq, Tandy, and Packard Bell.
 
My first PC was a 386 SX16 with a huge 50mb HD. Pretty sure they didn't have GPU's back then. When did GPU's start coming out for mainsteam PC's?

Probably an ATI board in the first one I had but I can't remember back that far.
 
Ye olde Trident 8900. It might have been the 1MB model, can't remember. I could run DOOM in low detail mode with one bar around the screen, probably because I had a 486SX/33 when the cool kids were rocking Intel DX/2 CPUs.
 
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Tseng ET3000AX.

Now I feel really old :p
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I''m not surpirised. Did noah use that gpu also? ahah.

No diss, I think its cool to watch so many tech items come out. Im just in my twenties.

I started with an Fx 5200 in the days of dial-up, Fawk!
jumped to the Fx 5950 Ultra which played UT2004 and similar pretty good. "M-m-ma-ma-Monstrr Kill!" Love live Unreal Tournament. :D
6800 gt was great for doom 3 and f.e.a.r.
7800 gs agp for free. awww yeah.
Pci-ex: gtx 260 for $65...
gtx 460 for $35 a couple years ago.
 
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