onken
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What was the first video card you ever bought?
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Ah ok, thanks.
ISee
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Same Story here. First was the Matrox Mystique, later the monster 3d joined it. The voodoo 1 really blew my mind back then. But to be honest mech warrior 2 mercenaries looked better on the Mystique.
Cheeseman Battitude
Member
GeForce 2 GTS. Wonderful card, back when GFX cards didn't cost silly money.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Number 9 Motion 771 4MB
Damon Bennet
Member
This might be the one I bought first, or a later model.
This one
JohnSpartanLee
Member
^ Same here.
BlueSilver
Member
My first was a GTX 460. The problem was that my noob self didn't realize the rest of the hardware also matters. I put that card in my beyond ancient LGA 775 Pentium 4 machine. At least I'm able to game with pretty graphics now whereas before I was forced to stay at low settings regardless. =/ I still haven't upgraded my machine to this day.
ShyGuy0504
Member
A Geforce 6200.
I didn't know much about GPUs at the time and bought it because it was cheap.
I later upgraded to a 6800.
I didn't know much about GPUs at the time and bought it because it was cheap.
I later upgraded to a 6800.
This was the first graphic card I handpicked and bought myself too! Installed it in a hand me down desktop from my brother.
Círdan Telrúnya
Neo Member
Geforce FX 5200.
Loved that baby
Loved that baby
NekoFever
Member
Radeon 9700 Pro in about 2003. Built my first PC for Half-Life 2 before it got delayed until 2004.
Prior to that I did talk my dad into paying extra for a graphics card in a PC that he got his IT guy to build for us, which ended up being a RIVA TNT2. But I didn't choose that or do it myself, so it doesn't count.
Prior to that I did talk my dad into paying extra for a graphics card in a PC that he got his IT guy to build for us, which ended up being a RIVA TNT2. But I didn't choose that or do it myself, so it doesn't count.
Brerlappin
Member
GeForce 4 MX 440. Bought it for like 60 euro so I could play RTCW. Great days
SubiyaCryolite
Banned
Sapphire Radeon HD 5670. Good times, good times.
mysocksarepink
Banned
9800pro
Games on onboard before that for years.
Games on onboard before that for years.
TBiddy
Member
The Riva TNT!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_TNT
Although, technically, a card did come with my newly purchased Celeron 433 MHz PC, but the Riva TNT was the first card I bought on it's own!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIVA_TNT
Although, technically, a card did come with my newly purchased Celeron 433 MHz PC, but the Riva TNT was the first card I bought on it's own!
We had 3dfx SLI at our offices as we were working on 3D PC games. That card was a revelation - 3D in software rendering was horrible
That edge article was interesting as I remember SLI being 'scan line interleaving' where two cards rendered the same frame, but alternate lines. These days it is still called SLI but it is each card rendering alternating frames? I wonder why they changed, and wouldn't 'proper' SLI help with latency?
That edge article was interesting as I remember SLI being 'scan line interleaving' where two cards rendered the same frame, but alternate lines. These days it is still called SLI but it is each card rendering alternating frames? I wonder why they changed, and wouldn't 'proper' SLI help with latency?
Mohonky
Member
Cant remember. I remember we had a 386 living overseas. For Christmas one year I remember we got a Pentium 75 with Win 95 when I was like 12. It was the shit at the time. I was jealous as shit of my mates with Voodoo 2 cards. Then later I think we got another PC and I have no idea what was in it, just that it wasn't anything special but it ran No One Lives Forever 2 and I was stocked. Then one day I purchased my first card myself, a Geforce FX5200. Holy shit, NOLF2 was fucking amazing on it.
Then my history went like;
ATi 9600XT (couldnt affor the 9800)
nVidia 8800GT
nVidia 570GTX
nVidia 670GTX
nVidia 970GTX (bought last week)
Wonder what my next card will be?
Then my history went like;
ATi 9600XT (couldnt affor the 9800)
nVidia 8800GT
nVidia 570GTX
nVidia 670GTX
nVidia 970GTX (bought last week)
Wonder what my next card will be?
Shai-Tan
Banned
I had video cards before they were 3d. It's too far back to remember what model but we're talking ISA slot. My dad worked for a software company so I got to see a bunch of odd ones like the Matrox pro cards that were huge
For 3d I think it was ATI Rage cards until I got Diamond Monster 3d and then Riva TNT (then Riva TNT2 which is what we used to play counterstrike beta 2-4 nonstop)
edit: an aside - the pentium 200 mmx I had at the time (1995) was converted into the router/server (freebsd 2.2) at my parents house until like 2008. it actually ran perfectly still - but it only had 10mbps ethernet which bottlenecked their new cable modem (also had cable internet since 1995, was lucky to be one of the first. I was downloading at 500-800K/s until they started throttling.. meanwhile most people were on 56k modems)
For 3d I think it was ATI Rage cards until I got Diamond Monster 3d and then Riva TNT (then Riva TNT2 which is what we used to play counterstrike beta 2-4 nonstop)
edit: an aside - the pentium 200 mmx I had at the time (1995) was converted into the router/server (freebsd 2.2) at my parents house until like 2008. it actually ran perfectly still - but it only had 10mbps ethernet which bottlenecked their new cable modem (also had cable internet since 1995, was lucky to be one of the first. I was downloading at 500-800K/s until they started throttling.. meanwhile most people were on 56k modems)
Mohonky
Member
The SE denotes that it was the Sloth Edition.
thatdenalidude
Neo Member
ATI Radeon HD 5770
codswallop
Member
Matrox Mystique G200 (or possibly the Millennium G200).
I think the early days saw a lot of rapid innovation, but it was way more confusing (as to what worked with what games, missing features, etc) at the same time.
Got into PC gaming about 10 years ago. The big push to get me to buy a dedicated GPU was because I couldn't run the FEAR demo on my integrated chip, and it seemed like a really awesome game. Ended up getting an Nvidia 6800 vanilla, that I was able to flash into a 6800GT by unlocking some pipelines.
Been hooked ever since. One of the best decisions I've ever made.
Been hooked ever since. One of the best decisions I've ever made.
SliChillax
Member
Two 560Ti's in Sli.
soulassssns
Banned
Riva TNT card.
Made by Diamond if I remember correctly
Which Ihad installed in my awesome (/s) Cyrix MII based PC with 4Gb HDD. Lol
Made by Diamond if I remember correctly
Which Ihad installed in my awesome (/s) Cyrix MII based PC with 4Gb HDD. Lol
Skanderani
Member
580gtx
NEC Power VR. It came with an awesome racing game that was the mutts nuts at the time. It also had a special edition of Biohazard/Residnet Evil that was optimised for its acceleration.
Swiftly followed by a 3DFX Diamond monster - the Power VR was pretty junk. No reflections off surfaces in Unreal or lights off wet road surfaces in TOCA.
Swiftly followed by a 3DFX Diamond monster - the Power VR was pretty junk. No reflections off surfaces in Unreal or lights off wet road surfaces in TOCA.
AbandonedTrolley
Member
2 x Palit Sonic GTX560ti
Barely used them though and sold the PC a couple years later.
Barely used them though and sold the PC a couple years later.