AgentClassy
Member
Amd Radeon Sapphire 7970 OC
Built my PC almost a year and a half ago. Does the job perfectly
Built my PC almost a year and a half ago. Does the job perfectly
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My First PC Graphics Card
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gigantor21
Member
Radeon HD 4670.
Got it back in '09 for my shitty Athlon-based HP, and still managed to get SFIV running at 1080p/60fps. It also allowed me to play PS2 and Dreamcast games via emulator at semi-decent framerates for the first time ever. My view of console gaming never recovered from that.
ADANIEL1960
Neo Member
First one I chose for my own build - Leadtech winfast Geforce 256 DDR.
What great difference it made to Mechwarrior2 play.
About to upgrade again. Looking at Sapphire R9 280 OC 3GB.
Any other suggestions for the same money?
What great difference it made to Mechwarrior2 play.
About to upgrade again. Looking at Sapphire R9 280 OC 3GB.
Any other suggestions for the same money?
AmethystEnd
Member
My first ever graphics card was a Radeon 5770. Before that, all my laptops/desktops only had integrated graphics. Just recently got an entirely new system and this one has a GTX 760.
Snowblindvictim
Member
This card helped provide me with some truly great gaming memories.
cardsbasebal
Member
just finished my first build, so my first graphics card is a Asus DirectCU II R9 290X... Loving it so far
My first was a Radeon 6850. Ah, the feeling going from my crappy ATI "media" laptop to that was so sweet. Served me so well that I decided to go for another one and run a Crossfire set-up.
Seeing all of the older cards in this thread and people waxing lyrical about Half Life and the like makes me wish that I had kept up PC gaming through the 3D years. Alas, once my 7 year old self got his hands on an N64, I was a console gamer through and through up until starting university. Good to back on the winning team again!
Seeing all of the older cards in this thread and people waxing lyrical about Half Life and the like makes me wish that I had kept up PC gaming through the 3D years. Alas, once my 7 year old self got his hands on an N64, I was a console gamer through and through up until starting university. Good to back on the winning team again!
The first card I had was a 4MB Voodoo a friend gave me when he upgraded to a Voodoo 2, but the first one I bought for myself was a Savage 4 Pro Plus, specifically this one -
I remember there were three versions, a crippled one that ran at 125MHz, mine that ran at 143MHz and the "xtreme" version that ran at 166MHz. This one gave me great performance until an asshole friend of mine (not the same friend) "accidentally" damaged it by running a coin along the AGP connector. So then I went out and bought this -
Oh man, was GLiDE great on this thing. It had half the memory of the Savage and only 16-bit colour, but it was blazing fast for the time even on DirectX. I loved it so much that later I went out and got a Voodoo 5 5500. I still miss 3dfx.
I remember there were three versions, a crippled one that ran at 125MHz, mine that ran at 143MHz and the "xtreme" version that ran at 166MHz. This one gave me great performance until an asshole friend of mine (not the same friend) "accidentally" damaged it by running a coin along the AGP connector. So then I went out and bought this -
Oh man, was GLiDE great on this thing. It had half the memory of the Savage and only 16-bit colour, but it was blazing fast for the time even on DirectX. I loved it so much that later I went out and got a Voodoo 5 5500. I still miss 3dfx.
kutthoat5150
Member
I remember ati bundling HL2 with these cards when it released though sadly did not include it when I bought the 9800xt edition card
Garuda1One
Member
I remember it like it was yesterday.. it was geforce 2.. my first video card
Then geforce 4 mx..
Then geforce fx 5800.. it broke then bought a 5200 for replacement
Then geforce 6800.. bought it for battle for middle earth.. it was bundled with it..
Made the jump to 8800GT.. crysis !
Then skipped A LOT because i went to perth to finish my degree..
Bought gtx 580 after i finished my degree..
Then ATi 6990..
Then gtx 980..
Did i missed something ?
Then geforce 4 mx..
Then geforce fx 5800.. it broke then bought a 5200 for replacement
Then geforce 6800.. bought it for battle for middle earth.. it was bundled with it..
Made the jump to 8800GT.. crysis !
Then skipped A LOT because i went to perth to finish my degree..
Bought gtx 580 after i finished my degree..
Then ATi 6990..
Then gtx 980..
Did i missed something ?
SniperHunter
Banned
GForce MX 440 or something like that. I got it around the time Splinter Cell 1 and Need For Speed Hot Pursuit came out. Initially my friend bought it and it didn't work with his computer so I purchased it from him for $95.
My computer was complete shit though, useless HP desktop machine. Pretty much all the games I played on it ran at 15-20 FPS
My computer was complete shit though, useless HP desktop machine. Pretty much all the games I played on it ran at 15-20 FPS
Quicksilver4648
Member
My first was/is a GTX 560 Ti. After using only integrated graphics for my entire life it was like walking into a whole new world. I am not sure if my second GPU purchase will be a 970 or I might just wait till the next cycle.
Pretty much the same. Went to geforce 1 after that, then 2, 4Ti, then to Radeon cards.
I was really into the demoscene for those early cards. I remember the voodoo demo was a military base that was mindblowing.
I remember this
GeForce 256 bubble Tech-Demo: http://youtu.be/1wYEnxOeX2k
And the lake tech demo. I spent a day or more trying to download some of those tech demos on my crappy dialup. Not sure why now that I look back.
Growing up our family PC's had several ISA cards from ATI, the Wonder EGA and VGA cards.
My first PC in 1994-5 time frame, I put in a Number Nine 128 PCI Card with 4MB of VRAM. It was fine with windows 3.1 and early 95A but terrible in DOS gaming. I replaced it with a ATI Mach 32 then shortly after a Rendition Verite V1000 card. At the end of 1996 I ended up piggybacking the first Voodoo Card(Orchid Righteous 3D) onto that box.
My first PC in 1994-5 time frame, I put in a Number Nine 128 PCI Card with 4MB of VRAM. It was fine with windows 3.1 and early 95A but terrible in DOS gaming. I replaced it with a ATI Mach 32 then shortly after a Rendition Verite V1000 card. At the end of 1996 I ended up piggybacking the first Voodoo Card(Orchid Righteous 3D) onto that box.
roadrunn3r
Member
ATI 9600xt, a nice medium range card.
-Deadpool-
Member
Oh man, the memories.
Voodoo 2 crew checking in. Them 3Dfx Quake days for the win.
Voodoo 2 crew checking in. Them 3Dfx Quake days for the win.
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Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
This thread makes me realize that there are a lot of relative newcomers to PC gaming. That's pretty cool.
Beautiful card
Pestilence11
Member
ATi 7200 (part of the first Radeon family) was my first card followed by a 9500 pro.
sir_kevith
Member
What's up with the graphic design on graphics cards lol!?
It's never changed!
It's never changed!
Was this posted? LGR did a nice writeup on the history of graphic cards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrn-QYdT4F8
I still remember getting my Monster 3D card to play Quake. Game changer right there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrn-QYdT4F8
I still remember getting my Monster 3D card to play Quake. Game changer right there.
thunder_snail
Member
Geforce 256. It was paired with the first Athlon that broke the Ghz barrier. It was the first PC built by myself. Replayed Half-Life in full screen mode and it was like playing a whole new game (I used to play 3D games in tiny resolution with HUGE black borders around it, where the borders were as thick as the actual render when I used to use software renderer).
Only downside was that damn athlon sounded like a jet engine (I don't remember Geforce 256 being loud though).
Only downside was that damn athlon sounded like a jet engine (I don't remember Geforce 256 being loud though).
allotheabove123
Banned
My first and my current. Totally worth the $240 I paid for it. I still don't have trouble running games at 1080p 60FPS.
TC McQueen
Member
My first card was the Galaxy GTX 560 Ti 448 Core... which was a lot closer to the 570 than the 560. Ran everything I had pretty well at 1080p/60 either at max settings or with a few things dropped down, but I finally jumped on a Gigabyte 970 G1 Gaming because 1.28GB of VRAM wasn't going to last much longer.
adamantypants
Member
I had some permutation of the GeForce 4 back in 2002/3. After that I was a console gamer for the next decade. I re-entered PC gaming with a GTX 760 and quickly upgraded to a 780ti.
