NoxTek
The Geek Redneck
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Discounting various 2D video cards in the 808x, 286, 386, and 486 age I would say that the Diamond EDGE 3D was the first '3D accelerated' card I ever purchased.
What a turd it was too... used the very first consumer marketed 3D chip from Nvidia called the NV1. It relied heavily on rendering methods that would be considered non conventional in short order and as such only ran a few games. Had pack in games from SEGA like Virtua Fighter and even came with a SEGA Saturn controller and a daughterboard you could plug them into if memory serves.
Then after that would be the STB Velocity 128, which was based on the Nvidia Riva 128. You'd think a 3DFX Voodoo would have been in there somewhere, but no... I never owned a Voodoo card until near the end of it's life cycle when 3DFX bought STB and started pumping out their own branded cards.
What a turd it was too... used the very first consumer marketed 3D chip from Nvidia called the NV1. It relied heavily on rendering methods that would be considered non conventional in short order and as such only ran a few games. Had pack in games from SEGA like Virtua Fighter and even came with a SEGA Saturn controller and a daughterboard you could plug them into if memory serves.
Then after that would be the STB Velocity 128, which was based on the Nvidia Riva 128. You'd think a 3DFX Voodoo would have been in there somewhere, but no... I never owned a Voodoo card until near the end of it's life cycle when 3DFX bought STB and started pumping out their own branded cards.