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Nvidia Riva TNT1...16mb?...or 32mb?
i still have it actually
got a shit ton of much older cards, but i bought those later off ebay for my misguided plans to build a Beowulf cluster of old P2 machines. lmao...technology sure makes us look stupid sometimes.
As for the thread, the first add-in card I remember is a Matrox Mystique, the first 3D card.
I had one of those also - as far as I remember, it didn't do a damn thing. I clearly remember some Vesa Local Bus card - can't recall what that was. I also had some Trident chips and an old Tseng Labs ET3000 - but I don't think they were cards just chips on the MB.
My first real 3d card was a Matrox Mystique. I believe it was the 2 or 4 meg version. It came with Scorched Earth, Demolition Derby (2?), and Mechwarrior 2. They were all enhanced editions that only worked with that card.
Too bad the card sucked for everything else.
Yeah, ditto... Before the Mystique, I had a hard time remembering a older add-in card and I assumed it's a onboard graphics or some crappy 2d card. Maybe a ET3000 as well.
The main thing I remember about the Mystique is that it included Mechwarriors and it's a blast. However, back then, it's hard to find a 3d game since most is proprietary or OpenGL (in the realm of expensive cards).
VESA (ya know that 3.5 mile slot) i want to say it was a trident card. 800x600 w/ 512k memory, w/ sockets for the 1 meg upgrade. When i hit 1024x768 32 bit w/ that 1 meg, WATCH OUT !!!!
This was in a 486dx33 btw
First "3D" card was a Quantum 3D Voodoo Banshee, got rid of that POS and went with 2x Canopus Pure 3D IIs
I had a Diamond Voodoo. GLQuake was amazing with that card.
My first video card purchase was a Trident 8900 1meg S-VGA 16bit ISA card which I bought in the late 80's. Was capable of displaying 64k colors on my 20 MHz 386 based PC! (Made the soft porn back then look soooo much better) Woot!
1st one worth mentioning was a Voodoo Rush.
Ti 4400- in my first complete build
9500pro -9800pro- 6800 NU unlocked & overclocked nicely
x1900xt- paid too much, but damn Oblivion laughed at my 6800, worth every penny.
The 4400 is the only one that ever died, the rest are still kicking in friends and family computers.
First PC we had was a TI 99-4/a. That hooked up to a tv monitor, but boy did I love munchman and parsec. That was my father's first PC, but became my PC when he bought a Panasonic 8086.
I don't remember what the card was, but it was a VGA card in a Panasonic 8086, with dual floppy drives, a 20GB HD, 8mhz processor (where the turbo button was important, as XT's were half that speed). Inherited it from my father when he upgraded to a 386 (so probably 87, I was only 8 years old at the time, remember downloading all sorts of stuff with procomm and dialing into bbs, ahh duke nuken, commander keen and the like, it was a sad day when Wolfenstein 3D came out and required a 286, we could get it to run on XTs but it was too slow to be really enjoyable, even in a shrunken window)
I then remember the family having some machine with a permedia2 based card, but don't remember if it was a 486 or a pentium. Pentium might make more sense due to AGP. I don't remember what card the 486 had, but it had a VL-bus card, also we bought a 7 disc scsi cd changer (1x drive). Used Corel scsi drivers with it.
my first machine I paid for myself came with a Matrox G200 (P2-400 for college). After that it goes Radeon 9700 Pro (in P2-400 and carried over to a Tiger MP/MPX build) -> Nvidia 7900GS (bought for a Q6600 build) -> Nvidia 8800GT (upgrade for Q6600 build), but the original machine (TI and Panasonic) are still the best. Remember installing turbo assembler, turbo pascal and turbo C on it. We had Forth interpreter for the TI, as well as loads of software. "OLD DSK1 forever!"
intel i740
Not that old a card compared to where some of us started, but that's an interesting first video card since those weren't all that popular.
this was my first real add in card, unless you consider those "Frys" Trident 2mb pci cards or onboard.
The Voodoo Rush sucked. Its' 2D was terrible and it's 3D wasn't a match for the regular Voodoo card. The Voodoo Banshee was a far better endeavor.