Do you remember your first graphics card?

Bdbtoys said:
It was the best 2D/3D solution at the time (not quite as good as a Voodoo1 but close)... Remember it was out before the Voodoo 2's and quite a bit before the Banshee.
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I was referring more to the cards' game compatibility problems which were numerous at the time. I owned a Voodoo Rush for about two weeks and I returned it. The thing was crap.
 
Dan_D said:
I was referring more to the cards' game compatibility problems which were numerous at the time. I owned a Voodoo Rush for about two weeks and I returned it. The thing was crap.
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I guess I had different results... I used it for a year or so and it was a pretty good card (1st set of drivers were a bit flaky but they got better shortly thereafter)... then dropped in 2 Voodoo2's in and kept upgrading ever since.

You must have hated it really bad for you to pick it out of all the previous card mentioned (including the 16 color ones) :D
 
canopus 3d- man that card sucked. driver support was the worst I'd ever seen. May it rest in pieces and never rise again.
 
RAY16 said:
My graphics card history from the beginning to my current card goes like this:

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That is close to my own, save for the last two...

eVGA GeForce4 MX440 64MB AGP
PNY Verto GeForce FX 5200 AGP
ATI RADEON 9800XT 256MB DDR AGP
MSI 8800GT 512MB PCI-E
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technically whatever was in my 90mhz pentium was my first graphics card.. But the first installable gpu was an ATi 7500 pci. I only needed it for Ghost Recon (needed 16mb of graphics memory). It had a whopping 64mb! I thought it was a good card and upgraded to a 9200 128mb assuming that it would run better from the memory. I then upgraded to a 5200 256mb because.. well.. it had more memory.

I started surfing hardforums around then and got a 9600xt once I was able to make educated decisions about cards.
 
From mid 90s to current...

S3 Virge PCI
ATI Rage 128 Pro AGP / 3DFX Voodoo3 3500 AGP (2 machines, same time period)
ATI Radeon 64MB DDR AGP
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB AGP
ATI Radeon X800XT 256MB AGP / ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 (2 machines, same time period)
Nvidia 8800 GTX 768MB PCIe / Nvidia GeForce GO 6600 (2 machines, same time period)
Nvidia 8800 GTX 768MB PCIe SLI
 
S3 Virge Deccelerator.

Then I got my Very first real voodoo1 video card....boy quake2 was never the same.
 
Trident 2MB ISA. If we're talking with actual 3D rendering ability then it'd be a Matrox G200.
 
Cirrus Logic 1MB integrated (don't remember model)

Actual card would be 8mb ATi xPert98 AGP 2x.
 
Bop said:
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
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That's exactly what I had...started with the Trident and upgraded. :)
 
KaptainKhaos said:
i fondly remember my 1st 3d graphics card, a Diamond Monster 3d 4mb pci card, first 2d card was probably a Trident as well. Seeing QuakeGL the first time was just so awesome, it was a major attraction at the 1st lan party i attended with it. Funny to think that this is where it all started :)

Link to Diamond Vga cards with images http://82.114.193.227/vga/rservice.php?akce=tisk&cisloclanku=2007080002
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QuakeGL ah yes so many of us started right then and there
 
The first video card I owned was whatever was inside the Apple 2E :)

The first ever video card that I actually went out and paid for on my own was a Matrox card around 1994. I got it to play tie fighter lol. Was it called the Matrox Impression? I think so. I later bought another Matrox G200 card to team up with my Voodoo 1 3dfx card (Diamond Monster 3d).
 
Diamond Viper II vioded warenty on Gateway 500 Mhz PIII box a month after i got it to put the card in,

Geforce 4 MX, later in same machine.

Geforce FX 5500 LE in first gameing machine i built \

Radeon X1650 Pro AGP 512 in the last machine i built boy do i ever need a new card
 
Yeah yes the Matrox g200, still remember my first voodoo card too. Took Q2 to a whole 'nother level
 
ATI AIW Radeon 32mb DDR first, in storage
ATI Radeon 128mb 9700pro 2nd, dead
ATI AIW Radeon 128mb 9600xt 3rd for htpc, dead
ATI Radeon 9600xt 128mb 4th, mame machine
NV 6200 128mb 5th, in server
XFX NV 7600gt fatality 256mb 6th, in storage
EVGA NV 9600gt 512mb 7th, new htpc
EVGA NV 9800gt 512mb 8th main pc
 
Here's my video card history with years included (as accurately as I can remember).

1988: Tecmar 256 kB VGA ISA
1990: Boca Research 512 kB SVGA ISA
1992: Diamond Stealth 32 1 MB VLB (ET4000/W32)
1994: Diamond Stealth 64 2 MB PCI (S3 Vision 964)
1996: added 3D card: Orchid Righteous (Voodoo1) 4 MB PCI
1997: Matrox Millenium 4 MB PCI + Orchid Righteous
1998/1: Replaced Orchid with Creative Labs Voodoo2 8 MB PCI
1998/2: Matrox G200 8 MB AGP
1998/3: Creative Labs Riva TNT 16 MB AGP
1999: Creative Labs Riva TNT2 Ultra 16 MB AGP
2000/1: Creative Labs GeForce 256 DDR 32 MB AGP
2000/2: Creative Labs GeForce 2 Pro 32 MB AGP
2001: Hercules GeForce 3 64 MB AGP
2002: PNY GeForce 4 Ti4600 128 MB AGP
2003: Club 3D Radeon 9700 128 MB AGP
2004: Connect 3D Radeon X800 XT PE 256 MB AGP
2006/1: Connect 3D Radeon X1900 XT 512 MB PCI-E
2006/2: Gainward GeForce 7950GX2 2x256 MB PCI-E (why did I ever buy this:rolleyes:)
2006/3: Gainward GeForce 8800GTX 768 MB PCI-E
2008/1: XFX GeForce 9800GX2 2x512 MB PCI-E (didn't learn my lesson with 7950GX2:rolleyes:)
2008/2: Asus GeForce 280 GTX 1024 MB PCI-E
 
2MB Matrox Millennium PCI in a P166 16MB RAM, 3GB HD which was upgraded to
Diamond Stealth III S540 32MB
 
matrox millennium > Voodoo2 > Voodoo3 3000 > GeForce4 Ti > GeForce fx5200 > ATI Radeon 9600 > GeForce 6600gt > GeForce 8800gts 512
 
mlaine said:
Here's my video card history with years included (as accurately as I can remember).

1988: Tecmar 256 kB VGA ISA
1990: Boca Research 512 kB SVGA ISA
1992: Diamond Stealth 32 1 MB VLB (ET4000/W32)
1994: Diamond Stealth 64 2 MB PCI (S3 Vision 964)
1996: added 3D card: Orchid Righteous (Voodoo1) 4 MB PCI
1997: Matrox Millenium 4 MB PCI + Orchid Righteous
1998/1: Replaced Orchid with Creative Labs Voodoo2 8 MB PCI
1998/2: Matrox G200 8 MB AGP
1998/3: Creative Labs Riva TNT 16 MB AGP
1999: Creative Labs Riva TNT2 Ultra 16 MB AGP
2000/1: Creative Labs GeForce 256 DDR 32 MB AGP
2000/2: Creative Labs GeForce 2 Pro 32 MB AGP
2001: Hercules GeForce 3 64 MB AGP
2002: PNY GeForce 4 Ti4600 128 MB AGP
2003: Club 3D Radeon 9700 128 MB AGP
2004: Connect 3D Radeon X800 XT PE 256 MB AGP
2006/1: Connect 3D Radeon X1900 XT 512 MB PCI-E
2006/2: Gainward GeForce 7950GX2 2x256 MB PCI-E (why did I ever buy this:rolleyes:)
2006/3: Gainward GeForce 8800GTX 768 MB PCI-E
2008/1: XFX GeForce 9800GX2 2x512 MB PCI-E (didn't learn my lesson with 7950GX2:rolleyes:)
2008/2: Asus GeForce 280 GTX 1024 MB PCI-E
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Wow nice list, but I will agree with you from 1998 and on with the card choices though. I went the Geforce 2 MX route instead of the Geforce 256 road.
 
Intel celeron 333mhz

128mb ram

Diamond Monster Fusion 16mb video ram

voodoo 3d accelerator
 
in 2000 had a Dell PIII machine with a Geforce2 MX440
Replaced that with a ATI Radeon 9000 Pro

In 2004 built a machine with a Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro
Replaced it in 2005 with a Sapphire Radeon X800XT and moved the 9800 Pro to a new machine.

Now I have my Nvidia Go 7400 with me in my laptop :(
 
4 meg voodoo

seeing through the water on gl quake has not been really matched in excitement for me since!
 
A Diamond Monster 3D II was my first card.
It was the amazing Voodoo 2 by 3dfx and had 8mb of memory. I never got a chance to run SLi with it and I have no idea where the card went.

We have definitely come a very long way since then.
 
The video card in my first system was a Trident TVGA8900 1MB card. My first 3D card was an Orchid Righteous 3D (Voodoo 1) that came about six years later.
 
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