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Oh man, talk about bringing me back in time. My first card was a voodoo 2.
Riva TNT2
Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64
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.
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
Cirrus Logic GD5428.
3dfx Voodoo2, followed by a Riva tnt2. Good times were had.
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.
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.
I had an s3 virge card. Amazingly bad, it basically was no faster than cpu rendering, but looked a bit better. I spent so much time trying to trick games into running on it.
ViRGE 3D, upgraded the memory with 2 chips to play Tomb Raider.
MSI 4GB version of GTX970. Upgraded a few years ago to an RX6800 and I’m stoked about both GPUs tbh
My dad got us a voodoo FX banshee on our home computer back in the day. I guess the first one I personally bought would have been a GTX 970
Nvidia GeForce 8400gs
Went great with my duo core 🥲 for that buttery smooth 30fps
I have no idea what i had in my earliest PCs, but the first 3d graphics card was the 3dfx Orchid Righteous 3d.
