What is the first graphics card you got?
What is the first graphics card you got?
What is the first graphics card you got?
I'm amazed at how many people remember the hardware they purchased 30 years ago.
If you hold onto your cards for 6-7 years, that's only around 5 cards.
Mine goes:
Man that voodoo card was my birthday AND my Xmas gift one-year. I was lucky I got it
Yeah I need to check every time which one I have. And I built my PC myself so it's not that I would have no idea lol
You never forget your first.
3dfx voodoo 3 3000, with its whopping 16MB of VRAM.
It ran Unreal Tournament like a charm. Playing CTF on dialup though was not always great though..
The ultimate LAN flex.
It was a shiny EGA card.
On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen.
My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours.
If we're talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.
I remember when the EGAs came about. Damn, it was like stepping into the future. But I didn't have a color monitor so it didn't matter. I was probably more envious than your friend.
Nvidia Riva TNT, because the onboard graphics were only going to play EverQuest (beta) and Rogue Squadron like a painful slideshow, if at all.
I got that exact one too! It was way better than the Voodoo 3DFX cards.
Voodoo 2 baybeeee
Geforce 2 fx
I attempted to upgrade such a card and were suggested the Geforce FX 5200.
I was so hyped. After finally installing the games I always wanted to play I ad to realize: This passive cooled card supported DX9 on paper but its performance was worse.
It crushed me back then and since then I have never bought a desktop PC part ever again.
But then recently I was gifted an old rig from a friend. Put a Readon RX 6700 (or so) in it. So my first actual graphics card is this radeon!! :)
Buddy, if you read this: Thank you again, much love. You are an awesome beeing.
Trident VGA?
I got a 3DFX voodoo as soon as they came out. GL quake was mind-blowing.
I bought a Riva TNT
Then a GeForce 2
Then a Radeon 9000
Then for a bunch of years I just moved into laptop after laptop with discrete GPUs.
Now I still have a 1080 and a 2070 doing a little bit of light AI work and video transcoding for me. But I'm still relying on crappy laptop GPUs for all my gaming. They're good enough.
I was rocking Geeforce 2 and Soundblaster AWE 32. Good times😄
I got a 3Dfx from a computer fair in Liverpool just so I could play Quake 2 CTF, it was absolutely mind blowing not even an understatement.
an S3 Trio card.
3060 ti I bought during the shortage, overpaid soooo much haha
Yeaaaaaahhh. 2k total for the prebuilt ended up being comparable to a shortage price at the time.
Still holding up what about yours?
Mines is still going quite strong, paired with a 5 5600x and runs well for (almost) everything I want at 1440p more-than-60-fps
Voodoo Banshee, so I could play Quake, Unreal and Deus Ex.
7950 gx2
Ahhhhh, back when GFX Box Art was better than the video game box art on the shelf adjacent
Hercules Prophet 9700 Pro
I remember because it was my first PC that I got for myself. I was an intern at a small computer repair shop and that's where I learned how to build computers.
Before that I only played on my parents PC and afterwards I switched to Mac.
Same. I had the Hercules Gamesurround Muse sound card to go with it too.
NVIDIA RIVA 128
I think Radeon 9600xt?
Ooo yeah back when it came with a free code for Half-Life 2.
Pretty sure me too. It was an AGP card lol.
I feel like so many of the asklemmy questions are covert methods to profile users, so I never give real answers.
What value would this information have? You might get an approximate age estimate?
Put all the various questions together and you have lots of good info to profile.
This one feels particularly guilty
Gtx 1050ti, great card loved it
That was the second card I got and it set a high standard for me lol
Technically, never, none. Untechnically RTX 3080Ti laptop.
My prime gaming years were self moderated by only going to internet cafés as a strict rule to manage my time. I spent a lot of time at cafés, but nowhere near as much as I would have played if I had my own hardware. It wasn't the money. It was about the time management and a large part of how I owned my first auto body shop business.
A 3dfx Voodoo, it came with POD as a pack in game and it looked so good with Glide. My favourite racing game memories.
Dont remember the details anymore, but I remember something called "Voodoo".
Also, connecting 2 different types of graphics cards with a cable on the outside for some reason.
Riva TNT2
Voodoo Monster 3D
Edit: wait I misread the assignment. That’s the first 3D accelerator I bought. I have no idea what my first gfx card was it was like 37 years sgo.
Cirrus Logic GD5428.
GeForce 256 on my first Windows computer when I went to college. Before that, I was using motherboard graphics on a series of Macs growing up.
Quite a bump. That was a really good card at the time.
Sapphire Radeon RX 480 (4GB)
Me too! I'm actually still running mine, I've been desperately needing an upgrade
I was about to get one of those used (only difference is it being the 8GB version) but at the end it turned out it didn't work so I bought a new RX 6600 instead
Technically, an ATI Radeon 9800 as that was my first custom built computer in 2003. However, the ATI Rage IIc was the gpu inside my first desktop computer, an iMac G3 in 1998. But the first one I used was the VGC 12-bpp palette graphics of the Apple IIgs, where I was first introduced to computer games and upgrading the accelerator cards and memory to play new games with more demanding requirements in 1994.
Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64
Voodoo Banshee
Nvidia Riva 128 AGP with 4 megs of ram. I will never ever forget when they released hardware accelerated opengl drivers and I played Quake GL for the first time. It was hitting 120fps and looked absolutely beautiful compared to the software rendered games I'd played up to that point.
GTX 980. put it in my first self built tower, which I still use to this day
I will never forget the joys of the playing Half-Life 1 on max settings with my Diamond Monster3D Voodoo2.
First one I bought with my own money for my first own PC was the 3dfx Voodoo 2 (~1997). It was the best 3D GPU (addon to an existing 2D GPU) at the time.
ViRGE 3D, upgraded the memory with 2 chips to play Tomb Raider.
Intel Graphics Media
A VGA card. In an IBM PS/2.
The first 3D accelerator card I ever had was a Voodoo 2 of some variety.
GeForce2 MX
3dfx Voodoo 5 5500. I remember thinking it was so cool that it had 2 chips on the same board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_5
First one that someone bought for me: Riva TNT2
First one I bought myself: ATI Sapphire 9600 pro
ATI rage was in my family computer Diamond monster fusion was what I bought myself to replace it so I could play unreal properly.
I forgot the first one, but I remember I upgraded it to an ATi Rage Pro so I could play Baldur's Gate, which needed 8 megabytes of video ram. Later I paired it with a Voodoo 2. I think it was the Diamond Monster one. And that one got replaced with a Matrox G200, which got replaced with Kyro II. I picked some odd cards back then.
ATi EGA Wonder, it could do a whopping 640 x 350 with 16 colors!
A Matrox Millennium.
EVGA 970 SSC
Man I miss EVGA. Did the upgrade to a 980 Ti when it got launched soon after.
First discreet graphics card was a GT755M really got me into gaming.
Trident TGUI9440 on a VL-bus card. Surprisingly peppy on a 486/66 overclocked to 80.
Upgraded my highschool family desktop I took to college with a GeForce 8800 GT , used until I build a new pc with a Radeon 7970 GHz edition, which was replaced with a rx580 after the card passed away from light coin poisoning. Desktop is now running unRAID and my new main rig has a gtx 3070 in.
Rtx 3070
3dfx Voodoo3 2000 AGP
Intel HD
I think I had a Voodoo 3 at some point. Then a Voodoo 5 at the family PC.
Then on my own PCs Radeon 1900Xt -> radeon 4780 -> radeon 7770 -> radeon 480 -> rtx 2070 super.
Nvidia GeForce 8400gs
Went great with my duo core 🥲 for that buttery smooth 30fps
an ancient card with a colorful box from 3dfx.
I think it was a voodoo 2, but not one that came bundled with creative soundblaster.
Yes, we needed another physical card for sound.
Yup the same I had too
GTX750ti>GTX1070>RX6800
A Monster 2 8 MB. I remember being angry at my parents that they didn't get me the 12 MB version. But I couldn't formulate my anger because I didn't understand the difference between system and GPU RAM.
Still, I was amazed how quickly weapon switching now was in Jedi Knight. And Unreal always looked thr best in Glide. And the included rotating donut demo with bump mapping was awesome! A feature that would go on to be touted as the revolutionary hot new shit even 20 years later.