Do you remember your first graphics card?

pci 256gmbfx5500gt oc for an old 128mb ram ~1ghz celly hp pavilion i wanna say i bought it for 120$ from comp usa and now an x850xt
 
GeForce 4 MX420 64MB inside a Dell Dimension 4550. It cost me $70 in, I think, 2001. Before that I had integrated graphics in a beige Dell desktop. The reason that I got into PC gaming so late is that I used to be a console gamer.
 
My funnest card was the Voodoo 1 daisy chained to my VGA card playing Quake till 5am! Man those were the days....Oh to be young again!
 
Sure I remember.

Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 4MB - circa 1996.

Used it on my first PC I built - a Cyrix 686 P200+ cpu, 32MB of EDO Ram, 2.5GB Toshiba HDD, M-Tech R-534G motherboard, Cirrus Logic 33.6 modem, AT case, AT keyboard, PS2 3 button mouse, 8X CDROM, 1.44 Teac floppy.

I played Mechwarrior 3D like a bat out of hell.

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nVidia MX 440 PCI back when I lived in Israel.. it was around 100 dollars if I remember right
 
My first dedicated card was an Intel i740 :)

Before that was some discrete 8mb sgram onboard video on a packard bell
Pentium 166mhz MMX
24MB EDO RAM
3.2 gig
16x cdrom
33.6k modem
 
My first video was on-board Cirrus Logic 512K SVGA. It ran games like Sim City 2000, Transport Tycoon and The Seventh Guest just fine.

My first "3D" card was a Diamond Stealth 2000 4MB, which used S3 ViRGE. It was crap...even the native games, like Terminal Velocity and Actua Soccer were too damn slow.

My first "real 3D" card was a Rendition Verite 2200 4MB, from Hercules. Now that was a piece of work, almost the same performance as Voodoo Graphics for $100! It had some amazingly annoying quirks, but it worked. I played so many hours of Quake on that sucker, it was sick, and people were so jealous of my high-resolution and filtering :)
 
My first Graphics card for my computer was a Picasso II card for my Amiga 3000. I think that card was $599 back in 94/95.
 
This is definitely for some of the older folks. I'm only 14 and have only been building for 3 and a half years. But my first video card was a Radeon 9200 128mb. It did the job pretty well. Then it was a 9600Pro 256mb. Currently, I have a X1650Pro 256mb.
 
1996-S3 Trio 1MB 16bit, in the family computer.

1997-Added a 3D Orchid Righteous (3dfx Voodoo) the first one to give the PC 3D graphics. I think it was only 8MB if I remember correctly, and was an add on card to the dedicated display card, and made a wonderful clack noise when switching over to 3D and back again.

1999-Nvidia Geforce 256 Pro, phoned the company up to place the order and they said "well we have the normal Geforce 256 or this same model called the 256 Pro, dunno what is so special about it but they are going fast", good thing I bought that one, it's still working in my dads old system (which was my previous AMD 700 first build ever).
 
3dfx Voodoo3 3000 AGP!!!!! 16MB of VRAM!!!! It came with the first Unreal, insane for the time. Those were the days!
 
First comp/video card that was actually mine was given to me.

It was an HP with a 1.1GHz Celly, 128MB of RAM, 40GB HD, and a CD burner.
Was later upgraded to 512mb of RAM and a PCI Geforce 2 32mb.
 
onboard SiS 8MB > Voodoo2 12MB > RIVA TNT2 64MB > GeForce 256 > Radeon 8500 > Radeon 9700 Pro > Radeon 9800 Pro > Radeon X1800XL > Radeon HD 3870
 
Some S3 Virge card though I don't remember the model name, though I remember it had 2MB of RAM without DirectX 3D support in it.

Second was a NVIDIA TNT2 32MB which I thought was okay at first, then the damn card started having problems and died one day.

Third is a Radeon 9250 128MB. It was good and I sold it.

Fourth was a Radeon 9600 Pro, the card was defected so I replaced it with a Radeon 9600XT which I'm still using, I have two computers.

Fifth is a GeForce 6500 which I thought was crap.

Sixth is a Radeon x1600 Pro which I liked at first, then I started having problems with the newer drivers so I also sold it and brought a GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB which I'm still using and I'm quite happy with it.

So as you can see I've been switching from NVIDIA to ATI and back to NVIDIA these last few years.
 
my first card was a voodoo 3 and I bought it at compusa with soundblaster live 5.1. On my 56k dialup i was able to run TFC with like 120ping..thought I was the man at the time. I was in 8th grade lol
 
My first card was inside of a Sony Vaio. It was a 32mb card. However, I was completely unaware of it until my pc started acting up and I took it apart.

The card that I do consider my OFFICIAL first card, is the X800XT All In Wonder [agp 8x] card.

Still have it too! See sig below!! :)
 
Trident PCI 4MB / some ATI Mach video cards > Diamond Stealth III S540 > nVidia Riva TNT2 Vanta > Onboard Intel video for awhile> Radeon 9800 pro > Regular 6800 & x800pro > x1600pro agp > x1650pro > 8800GTS 512> And 9800GTX soon :D
 
Nvidia 440 mx 64mb, then a 6800nu 128 mb, then ati x1950 pro 512, Now ati 3870 512mb.
 
My first was a Hercules MGA clone. Woot for 1-bit "color" depth. :p Then I later got a Plantronics compatible color video card capable of displaying 16 colors at once. Then later I got on the EGA and VGA trains. I still have my old ATI EGA Wonder with TV out.

My first 3D card was a Yamaha-based Western Digital Tasmania 3D (still have it), and first "real" 3D card was a Rendition V2100-based Diamond Stealth II S220 about 11 years ago.
 
I believe it was a Creative 3D Blaster Banshee with a huge 16meg ram. Awesome card.

anyway in terms of GPU histroty it goes something like this

Blaster Banshee 16M > NVidia MX440 64M > ATI X800 Pro > NVidia 9800GTX

The 1st 2 are family PC's, the second 2 are my own. The family one still has the MX440 but I'm donating the X800 next week or so since I just bought a new rig with that 9800GTX which I'm just waiting on the mobo for. The PC that had the X800 will become a windows home server box and so can do without the power consumption and heat that card generates.
 
Voodoo3 baby. I probably still have it somewhere in my closet. That card was a champ. I had to upgrade for CS though.....to an ATi something or the other.
 
the first one I bought was a 5700LE. The first computer we had was a mac classic with that was monochromatic black and white,

The funny thing is I work in a small computer shop and we still put these old graphics cards you guys reminisce about in the computers we sell, mostly Geforce 2s and 4s but I've also used voodoo2, ATI Rage Pro, and a bunch of other cards that I can't identify. they do a good job of taking the load off the rest of the computer which is important with the limited RAM we install on most systems.
 
Ogilvy said:
Kyro II 3D Prophet 4000XT 32MB $79.99 at BestBuy.

I probably got ripped off...but it ran Quake 3 nicely. :p
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Same for me, but it was $200 and I live in Canada, as well as I bought it near when they had just come out.

I later returned it, and got a 3D Prophet 9000 PCI 64mb card. Which ran every game much better.

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I just remember it was a 1MB with a option to add more memory thru ram chips. I dont remember the actual name of it.
 
Probably integrated (I was a kid and didn't know things like that). I played Rebel Assault and Wing Commander on it.
 
I remember mine, some "trident" card, forget the details, paired with my powerful 75mhz Pentium Pro, blazing speeds I tell ya ~_~. I still have my Voodoo5 5500 agp around in an old rig. Great card for its time.
 
The 1st computer that I owned was a PC Clone 286 with full 640Kb of RAM. Cost around $2000.00.

It had a 16Kb IBM CGA graphics card. From Wikipedia:

The standard IBM CGA graphics card is equipped with 16 kilobytes of video memory, and can be connected either to a NTSC-compatible monitor or TV via an RCA jack, or to a dedicated RGBI CRT monitor. Based around the Motorola MC6845 display controller, the CGA card features several graphics and text modes. The highest resolution of any mode is 640×200, and the highest color depth supported is 4-bit (16 colors).
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My 2nd computer that I owned was a E4300 with 2Gb of Ram. Cost around $2000.00.

It had 2 XFX 7600GTs in SLI ;)
 
GeForce 2 32Meg -> Ati Radeon 9200se -> Nvidia 7150 onboard GFX -> Nvidia 8800GT 512
 
Old Skool
Diamond Viper 2 think i had a stealth card before it though from prebuilt.

Viper was firt card i ever bought though
 
ATI Rage 3D came onboard, then we added a Diamond Moster 3D (3Dfx ftw) card and I was an avid PC gamer ever since. Nothing beat Mechwarrior 2 with a Voodoo chip.
 
3DFX Voodoo, Diamond Voodoo 2 8MB, Creative TNT2, Creative 3D Blaster Annihilator Pro 32MB, Asus GeForce Ti200 64MB, ATI 9600XT 128MB, XFX 6800GT 256MB, eVGA 7800GTX 256MB, eVGA 7800GTX 512MB, ATI X1900XTX, Sapphire X1950XT, eVGA 8800GTX
To be continued!
 
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.
 
After the Kyro II, I had a 256-bit Predator 64 MB based on the SiS 315 / 301 VPU chipset.

The SiS 301 chip had excellent TV-out clarity. I played Red Faction on my living room 32" inch TV.

I knew nothing about video cards then. I probably could have a had Geforce 3 or 4 or Radeon 8500...something much better. But I thought this card was the tops.

Buy.com still has a card based on this chipset in their catalog...

http://www.buy.com/prod/pine-3d-pha...-w-tv-out-rca-s-video/q/loc/101/10317049.html
 
I don't even remember what was in my 386 SX 16 or my 486 SX 20, but my Pentium 200MHz had an ATI Mach64 1MB, I went from that to a P3-500 @ 667MHz and an TNT2 Ultra 32MB. Talk about a drastic upgrade.
 
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