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[pelican]

Hmmm - Diamond Stealth 64 count?

First "3d" card would be the 3dfx voodoo 1. My favourite old card set up was Voodoo 2 SLI.

 

[Genio88]

I know budget is a problem, but if i change my VGA i always tend to pick up one of the best in the market, they're the most important piece of a gaming PC so i tend to buy the best in price/performance, for example last year i changed my 7970 with a r9 290.

 

[megabytecr]

my first card was a 3DFX Voodoo 3, PCI, 12 mb I think. Absolute loved it, as it made jedi knight, half life, and some other misc games I had back then look so much better.

I think I still have the actual card in my closet somewhere, as a momento.

I had an S3 or SiS, 4MB, can´t remember well, then I added a 3DFX Voodoo 2 8MB and could not be happier, everything looked sweet. Then I added another one 4MB through some bridge connection this babies had. Great times.

Can´t remember well the next one, I think it was 3DFX 32MB. And yes I am old!!

Now I just have consoles (3DS, PS3, PS4 and Wii U) and a crappy notebook, my last PC was an AMD 3200, GeForce 6800

 

[KKRT00]

SVGA - bonkers stuff at the time
Later my friend bought S3Virge and that was like ultra high end stuff

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This was my first GPU. S3 Virge. Absolutely terrible.

It run Virtua Fighter 1! This automatically makes it awesome

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I remember playing Half Life 2 for the first time with this baby

I bought this for Oblivion launch [gigabyte version]. What a disappointment.

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Picked up an nVidia GeForce4 MX 440 64MB at a Best Buy to slap into my crap-tacular HP Pavilion desktop I had when I first started out.

I remember playing NFS: Underground with it and was struggling with low settings at 640x480...

Real time reflections? Wait what? I dont remember NFS: U having those.

 

[spekkeh]

I remember playing Half Life 2 for the first time with this baby

Man I bought a Geforce 6600, turned out it was a PCIe card when my motherboard was AGP. I was studying computer science at university at the time too (of course I told no one). Could only switch it for a similar priced AGP 6200. Just awful. True story of how I became a console gamer

Spoiler

jk

 

[dcassell]

Got my first computer that wasn't a "family" machine about 3 years ago (HP Pavilion junk), and I got upgrade fever as soon as I got employed at a university job. Within 3 years, I went;

AMD APU (What came with the machine)
Radeon 6670 1 GB
Radeon 7550 1 GB
Gtx 750 ti 2 GB

And now I have my card I'm sticking with for a few years, the GTX 970, which was put into my very first home built PC this summer.

 

[Forerunner]

I was still in high school and I got a new pc. However, I couldn't play BF 1942 because of the integrated graphics card. So for my birthday I got a 9800.

 

[electric turd]

ATI 9700 PRO

 

[Brofist]

this badboy

 

[pottuvoi]

First 3D card was something based on Verite 2200.
Proper 32bit framebuffer, edge-AA and so on, loved that little card.

 

[DrFunk]

this badboy

This right here

Ran Open GL quake 2 at mind-numbing 800x600/30fps

 

[AlphaDump]

this badboy

yeaaaaa man. mine too

maxed out everything. half life at like 300 fps

 

[jett]

I think it was this thing, a "Trident 3D" card. All I remember is that it had 4MB of RAM. I think

I bought it to run emulated PS1 games better. I didn't know at the time that when it comes to emulation the CPU matters most, so it didn't help much. I think a Pentium-100mhz at the time. Honestly, I don't know why I got it exactly.

 

[Rafterman]

Gaming bliss!

 

[diffusionx]

Riva TNT + SLI Voodoo2. 24 megs of GLIDE goodness. Best ever.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

My first card was the Voodoo Banshee

I didn't know much about computers back then. Wanted to play Need For Speed 2 and Incoming. Was told I needed a 2D and 3D card.

this was also my first upgrade. followed by:

 

[n0razi]

this badboy

i had that... just so i could break 30fps in counterstrike beta

 

[The Goat]

First real, dedicated video card I bought, was a Diamond FireGL for my NT workstation. Ran games like shit, but was good for 3D programs. Thing was like $1200, lol

 

[Gouda Jouji]

Had it from 2007 to 2011. Currently have an EVGA GTX 570.

 

[aliengmr]

Diamond Monster 3D with Voodoo 2 chipset.

First game I used it for was Mysteries of the Sith. Didn't know you had to activate it in game, so my friend and I were less than impressed at first.

Then we turned it on and...

Seriously can't remember gaming on my PC before. Been hooked since.

 

[noire]

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[alife]

3dfx Voodoo3 3500 and Nvidia RIVA TNT2 Ultra => GeForce 2 MX, GeForce 2 Ti

I used the Sapphire R7 260X for a while and it surprisingly ran well for being an entry level card. Most games ran on 1080p High/Maxed settings with the exception of shadows (medium/low), ambient occlusion (SSAO), tesselation(usually off), and AA (SMAA/FXAA); 45+FPS.

 

[vvise]

The first I remember (I just used the family computer before that since I was so young) was a GeForce 4 MX440.

MX440 was my first too. Was a great day.

 

[Cels]

fx 5200

i played bf1942 and WoW on it

i don't think it can run WoW today

 

[tioslash]

It was this beauty. Trident 9440.

 

[CarbonFire]

Technically my first graphics card was some ATi RAGE card that came with my first HP Pavillion PC, but my first proper PC build had this bad boy:

Hercules 3D Prophet Geforce 256

That card got me through the early 00's in style