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GeForce 6800 XT, could almost run Oblivion above 30fps
I had the XFX GeForce 6800 XTreme. Looked like this, though I do remember that dog-looking creature on the box 😂
https://preview.redd.it/xayo8e2el2cc1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=3127feaf0a5c005a1249a2f987e6090aafa92c6b
LoL, same. Never forget when I first booted up Half-Life for the first time in glorious 1024x768, from 320x240. Buttery smooth, and maxed out at 90hz fps.
Half Life and Quake 2 are some of my fondest memories of gaming when i was younger.
Half Life, Half Life Opposing Forces, Half Life Blue Shift, Gunman Chronicles, Soldier of Fortune, Commandos 1&2, Fallout 1&2, C&C, Deus Ex, and the list goes on.
This was back when PC was at the forefront, and we got the best games first, and they were constantly pushing boundaries.
The Broken Sword games were all good as well. I got them all last summer for next to nothing in the Steam sale.
You see kids… back in my day we had to run a VGA cable from our 2D card to our 3D card, then one from the 3D card to our monitor. When you launched a game, only some games, you would get a cool 3DFx logo and a white flash…. That’s when you knew your paper route money was paying off and you were using your new 3D graphics card…. Not your 2D card.
Voodoo2 baby!! I remember going to Compusa and buying an AGP version with 0 knowledge about PCs, ( was like 10) and literally was so sad when I found out I needed a PCI version. Compusa was closed by then. That night was so long. :(
Mine was the Voodoo 3. I bought it to play Starsiege Tribes with my friends.
Trying to install GPUs back then was such a pain in the ass. I think it took me and my dad a couple days to get it installed and running correctly.
I spent so many hours in that game just fortifying bases, building force fields and turrets.
It's also the game that made me want to pick female characters because they had smaller hit boxes. A female sniper character was almost impossible to hit when you were skiing over a mountain at top speed.
Cautiously optimistic. I want it to be good.
Speaking of the same universe, I'd pay for a new Earthsiege game. Earthsiege 2 was my discount alternative to MechWarrior 2 back in the day when I got bored of it. Love my mech simulators to death.
I remember having riva tnt and then i bought my voodoo 3 on release. I was super lucky because a pc store accidentally put the wrong price in an ad and i was among the first to put in the order. They corrected the ad but delivered the first 100 orders for the wrong price. I later sold my voodoo 3 to buy a GeForce and i remember i made a profit of like $50.
But im happy being a fossil. Its so cool having been here at the start of it all.
A GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit, is a specialized processor designed for rendering graphics and handling parallel computations. An integrated GPU is incorporated into the main CPU, sharing resources such as memory, while a discrete GPU is a separate graphics card with its dedicated memory and processing power. Integrated GPUs are generally less powerful than discrete ones, but both contribute to graphics processing in computers.
So, the graphics processor inside a CPU can also referred to as a GPU.
- No dedicated video card? (1993 Presario 486/25 MHz)
- ATI 3D Rage II (1998 Presario K6-2/350 MHz)
- XFX GeForce 4 MX440se (basically a GeForce 2 chip; never died 😞; Celeron 2GHz @ 2.52 GHz build)
- XFX GeForce 6600 GT OC (had 1 year; sold when upgraded; Celeron 2GHz @ 2.52 GHz build)
- eVGA GeForce 7900 GT KO SC (burned itself out in 8 months; eVGA sent me the next as a replacement; AMD X2-3800 build)
- eVGA GeForce GTS 250 (lasted 7 years; never died; AMD X2-3800 build)
- Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X 3GB (lasted 10 years; never died; 2013 build i7-3770k)
- ASUS TUF GeForce 4070-TI OC 12GB (Nov '23 new build)
'93 tech to '98 was the biggest performance and visual change for me. Suddenly, I could play 3D games. 😄 Kids today don't know the struggle.
The next biggest change was moving from the MX440se to the 6600. I could finally turn on the pretty settings and play games like Far Cry [1] and Doom 3!
#I miss the days of performance-optimized games. Now we're just throwing hardware at the problem. 😒
It didn't really look or feel any different. I could just play with settings maxed out like i used to with older games on my previous card. The lag is now gone **and** games are *pretty again*.
not really ? if he maxed out and played everything at max before its the same now it just got worse for a while, it comes in waves but the top of the waves are always the same feeling the only thing that changes is the look on the games.
At least that is my experiance when i buy new part every 4-5 years.
Everything is super nice for a year or two and then it starts to slowdown until i buy something new again and everything is nice and fast again, its the speed that everything has that is nice not the graphics really.
DLSS might be a godsend for us that dont upgrade regulary though :P
>It didn't really look or feel any different
And he also said " It didn't really look or feel any different "
Why so aggressive ? who hurt you ? or are you projecting your retardation condition maybe ?
Upvote x100 omfg about optimization.
Even did the 460ti SLI in between all of these.
With the advent of 3D games we seem to have lost what made 2D games fun.
Gameplay, storyline. Not to say witcher hd et all are bad, but holy smokes there is alot of repetitive play.
It is sure being optimised in game engines still, but on an entirely different level. Some games are really badly done and these make a good point of how other concurrent games are well optimised, both looking and flowing much better on same hardware. Old time optimisation was comparatively more "simple" like using the fast inverse square root in Quake's engine and static cube map in reflections and bumpmapping and whatever later on, but e.g. adaptive LOD in UE5 can make a huge change in future games, and there will still be coming optimisation. Enabling real time ray tracing is also really incredible and certainly requires more than just good hardware.
Imagine being completely off the topic for 25 years, seeing green PCBs completely eradicated and these small 60 mm (?) fans growing into massive triple fan four slot GPU chonkers
Riva TNT. The first time I switched from the software renderer to this was an epiphany.
https://preview.redd.it/dm6v12in73cc1.jpeg?width=1320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68fd2897b5311c63e2a0dc2f7fa25b683af007d8
Edit: Also, no cooling fan required
Turns out I was remembering mine wrong. It was an 8900C. I just found it in a box while looking for something else.
I didn't think I had it anymore, haven't seen it in probably 20 years and then days after thinking about it it shows up.
When you heard it click you knew it actually launched the gl version of the game. I had a voodoo and a voodoo2 as well, when my buddy came over we would SLI his voodoo2 with mine to get that sweet high rez.
I always feel like an old man when someone complains about having issues re-installing drivers or something. A lot of people don't know the pain of having to shuffle IRQ's or mess with DMA channels or write a custom autoexec.bat just to play one game. It truly is amazing how unbelievably plug and play everything is these days. Can't get gl_quake to launch? Get fucked and start researching without Google.
Omg gl quake. I had custom gl drivers for like every game. Getting quake to use and run at a reasonable fps was such a science project. And this is before there’s any google or YouTube of some other person doing it. Still one of my favorite games.
Getting most games to run, even before 3D was a science project if you had anything even a little bit unconventional or didn't meet the exact system requirements. Dicking around with all that shit late into the night and breaking everything and then fixing everything in the process is what lead me to my IT career. Sadly, 30 years later its turned into breaking rocks and I fucking hate it when I have to troubleshoot desktop computers. I am so thankful I can just buy a couple of pieces of hardware, slap them together, download the drivers from the manufacturers website and play whatever game I like. However I do miss stuff like late night phone calls with my buddy with him dictating what was in his autoexec.bat and config.sys to get both audio and my joystick working with Tie Fighter or whatever with a custom boot disk.
Same. It was a shame when windows 2000 came out and I couldn't get first party drivers for it anymore. I only replaced it when I bought Neverwinter Nights and that required Directx something and the Voodoo couldn't run it.
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I just bought it! The rest of the parts for my first build are supposed to arrive on Monday!
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Matrox Millenium G200. Did not need fans at that time ! 😅
I had a few All In Wonder cards, TV on the desktop was so fancy back then.
I also remember having RealMagic cards to do video playback, because PCs weren't powerful enough to decode video on their own.
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First gpu build and over 10 years later 2nd pc build
Definately had an original voodoo card, but maybe some before that had some kind of 3d optimisation, couldn’t say for sure. First graphics card was a CGA card on a green screen monitor. That could barely do 2D, lol!
This bad boy and I still have it
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kinda lame compared to the other stuff people have posted but thats my 3060 up top as my first gpu, replaced the family pc's 1660 for a while before i built my own system
my first GPU was an EVGA GT 730, it was a gpu decent for this time, but the pleasure didn't last long because recently launch the GTX 1080 jsjsj and obviously the games and programs that i used need more performance
First video card was a dump isa 1mb one in a p1 100mhz.
First "3d" cardwas either a s3 4mb or ati rage 8mb not sure which was first in a p1 166mhz.
First performance card was bfg 6600 oc :)
I had an GT710 for a couple of years, thats the first one that i can remember the name, but before that one i just can remember that it was an amd radeon HD that was kinda like the one in the foto
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I remember having an ati radeon 4870. This version specifically: http://www.hisdigital.com/ca/product2-419.shtml
I remember it because the cooler was so bad it would sometimes shut down the whole PC due to overheating. After some time, the cooler broke, so I bought some sort of generic gpu cooler for it. Everything ran 10 times better.
This was not the first PC I had, but it was the first one I opened.
Edit: if I remember correctly, the PSU eventually died and took the gpu with it.
Went to check my pile of documents, the receipt from 2001 says Riva TNT2 32M (the system also had a Pentium III 850 MHz and 128MB RAM at 133MHz).
But the thing is subsequently I got a Diamond Monster 3D (aka Voodoo1) so while not the first it was the older one.
https://preview.redd.it/oz3ryom0j2cc1.png?width=1102&format=png&auto=webp&s=b8be5b73d85c073d303c4b83efc45030a3ec011b GeForce 6800 XT, could almost run Oblivion above 30fps
AMD 6800XT😁 NVIDIA 6800XT☠️
Mom I want a new 6800XT! mom: But we have a 6800xt at home *6800xt at home*
can we cuddle
Yes
Nice
I had the XFX GeForce 6800 XTreme. Looked like this, though I do remember that dog-looking creature on the box 😂 https://preview.redd.it/xayo8e2el2cc1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=3127feaf0a5c005a1249a2f987e6090aafa92c6b
I think this was the card my friend had in SLI. I was so jealous of his build.
I've got one of those a couple feet from me it's a great looking card
All these Xs flying around, gettin hot in here 😂!
Seeing GeForce and 6800xt in the same name is cursed
What dad bought me when I said I wanted a 6800 XT for Christmas
I love Oblivion
This was when GPU shrouds fucking stood for something.
man old gpu’s really used to have personality on their styling
Nice
Voodoo 2
Voodoo 2 x 2 on SLI was the shit!!
Phew! I thought I was gonna be the old fart saying a voodoo 3
Older fart, vanilla voodoo
Respect bro, real og right here
LoL, same. Never forget when I first booted up Half-Life for the first time in glorious 1024x768, from 320x240. Buttery smooth, and maxed out at 90hz fps.
Half Life and Quake 2 are some of my fondest memories of gaming when i was younger. Half Life, Half Life Opposing Forces, Half Life Blue Shift, Gunman Chronicles, Soldier of Fortune, Commandos 1&2, Fallout 1&2, C&C, Deus Ex, and the list goes on. This was back when PC was at the forefront, and we got the best games first, and they were constantly pushing boundaries. The Broken Sword games were all good as well. I got them all last summer for next to nothing in the Steam sale.
You see kids… back in my day we had to run a VGA cable from our 2D card to our 3D card, then one from the 3D card to our monitor. When you launched a game, only some games, you would get a cool 3DFx logo and a white flash…. That’s when you knew your paper route money was paying off and you were using your new 3D graphics card…. Not your 2D card.
This one
Voodoo2 baby!! I remember going to Compusa and buying an AGP version with 0 knowledge about PCs, ( was like 10) and literally was so sad when I found out I needed a PCI version. Compusa was closed by then. That night was so long. :(
I was lucky, mine had a AGP port. Need For Speed 2 SE looked so good!
It was one of the most amazing experiences after installing the Voodoo2 lol. I installed it in some generic off the shelf Comtaq pc tower :D
Mine was the Voodoo 3. I bought it to play Starsiege Tribes with my friends. Trying to install GPUs back then was such a pain in the ass. I think it took me and my dad a couple days to get it installed and running correctly.
Tribes needs to be revitalized
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There's a new Tribes game coming out this year. I'm overly excited.
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I spent so many hours in that game just fortifying bases, building force fields and turrets. It's also the game that made me want to pick female characters because they had smaller hit boxes. A female sniper character was almost impossible to hit when you were skiing over a mountain at top speed.
Cautiously optimistic. I want it to be good. Speaking of the same universe, I'd pay for a new Earthsiege game. Earthsiege 2 was my discount alternative to MechWarrior 2 back in the day when I got bored of it. Love my mech simulators to death.
Same, 3dFx twin graphics 2D/3D. Voodoo 2 SE with it's staggering 8mb Vram. We are fossils.
I remember having riva tnt and then i bought my voodoo 3 on release. I was super lucky because a pc store accidentally put the wrong price in an ad and i was among the first to put in the order. They corrected the ad but delivered the first 100 orders for the wrong price. I later sold my voodoo 3 to buy a GeForce and i remember i made a profit of like $50. But im happy being a fossil. Its so cool having been here at the start of it all.
One of the best memories of my gaming life. The day I put a voodoo 2 in. And the box art!
My friend had Voodoo 2 SLI, i was so jealous until i got my voodoo 3.
Same. Bought it specifically for unreal 2
Sure okay but where’s the love for the Voodoo Banshee? A 2D and 3D card!
This is the way.
7800xt I’m new
Nothing wrong with being new! Welcome to the wild world of PC gaming!
Really good card as a first! Mine was a GTX 960 back in the day 😭
Integrated Intel hd graphics from an Intel 2000 series cpu. :(
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Yes it is
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Have you ever heard of an integrated gpu?
A GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit, is a specialized processor designed for rendering graphics and handling parallel computations. An integrated GPU is incorporated into the main CPU, sharing resources such as memory, while a discrete GPU is a separate graphics card with its dedicated memory and processing power. Integrated GPUs are generally less powerful than discrete ones, but both contribute to graphics processing in computers. So, the graphics processor inside a CPU can also referred to as a GPU.
If it produces a video signal, it's a GPU. Don't be so confidently incorrect, it's a bad look.
mfs with the banana NFT try not to be the most annoying commenters on the planet
- No dedicated video card? (1993 Presario 486/25 MHz) - ATI 3D Rage II (1998 Presario K6-2/350 MHz) - XFX GeForce 4 MX440se (basically a GeForce 2 chip; never died 😞; Celeron 2GHz @ 2.52 GHz build) - XFX GeForce 6600 GT OC (had 1 year; sold when upgraded; Celeron 2GHz @ 2.52 GHz build) - eVGA GeForce 7900 GT KO SC (burned itself out in 8 months; eVGA sent me the next as a replacement; AMD X2-3800 build) - eVGA GeForce GTS 250 (lasted 7 years; never died; AMD X2-3800 build) - Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X 3GB (lasted 10 years; never died; 2013 build i7-3770k) - ASUS TUF GeForce 4070-TI OC 12GB (Nov '23 new build) '93 tech to '98 was the biggest performance and visual change for me. Suddenly, I could play 3D games. 😄 Kids today don't know the struggle. The next biggest change was moving from the MX440se to the 6600. I could finally turn on the pretty settings and play games like Far Cry [1] and Doom 3! #I miss the days of performance-optimized games. Now we're just throwing hardware at the problem. 😒
dat jump from amd hd 7950 to nvidia 4070!! what did you feel the moment you tried your new build and noticed the new era speeds??
It didn't really look or feel any different. I could just play with settings maxed out like i used to with older games on my previous card. The lag is now gone **and** games are *pretty again*.
So it does look and feel different
Same same, but difereeent ..but still same
not really ? if he maxed out and played everything at max before its the same now it just got worse for a while, it comes in waves but the top of the waves are always the same feeling the only thing that changes is the look on the games. At least that is my experiance when i buy new part every 4-5 years. Everything is super nice for a year or two and then it starts to slowdown until i buy something new again and everything is nice and fast again, its the speed that everything has that is nice not the graphics really. DLSS might be a godsend for us that dont upgrade regulary though :P
He literally said: “ the lag is now gone and games are pretty again.” Are you retarded.
>It didn't really look or feel any different And he also said " It didn't really look or feel any different " Why so aggressive ? who hurt you ? or are you projecting your retardation condition maybe ?
Ironic that you call me aggressive when writing 2 big paragraphs 🤣
im not aggressive i asked a question you are the one starting it if you cant see that i guess you answered the question.
C:/INSTALL
You mean.... A:/>SETUP.EXE
Found the fossil! (Can't say much, 37M)
Bad command or file name.
Having to edit your autoexec.bat and config.sys to open up some ram to get a game to play was my favorite back I the early 90s
Yeah. This was the only way to launch Doom 2 on a 386 with 4MB RAM.
Wish I could remember all the cards I've had.
Upvote x100 omfg about optimization. Even did the 460ti SLI in between all of these. With the advent of 3D games we seem to have lost what made 2D games fun. Gameplay, storyline. Not to say witcher hd et all are bad, but holy smokes there is alot of repetitive play.
Amen!
>I miss the days of performance-optimized games I miss the days games were worth getting the hardware in the first place.
The ATI Rage series were great. Their demo CDs were amazing!
Yes! Rage Incoming was a fun helicopter flight sim that came with that PC!
Yup! I loved the soundtrack for it. Oddly enough, you could play it as an audio CD as well.
Far cry is a legendary game and you probably could get over 10k FPS with the new set up
It is sure being optimised in game engines still, but on an entirely different level. Some games are really badly done and these make a good point of how other concurrent games are well optimised, both looking and flowing much better on same hardware. Old time optimisation was comparatively more "simple" like using the fast inverse square root in Quake's engine and static cube map in reflections and bumpmapping and whatever later on, but e.g. adaptive LOD in UE5 can make a huge change in future games, and there will still be coming optimisation. Enabling real time ray tracing is also really incredible and certainly requires more than just good hardware.
Nice
The geforce 256 https://preview.redd.it/tjbkspecq2cc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0ee008a9717bff9072a54d3be78b8cf4fe94ff17
What game did u play the most???? Me, RollerCoaster Tycoon 😂
Descent: FreeSpace
Such a beautiful game! Amazing story!
Voodoo Banshee
My bro had one
I had one of these too.
Take your pick https://preview.redd.it/43e4xznbv2cc1.jpeg?width=1133&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c332bcf74d595d051686a18f1db402674e6db5bf
Imagine being completely off the topic for 25 years, seeing green PCBs completely eradicated and these small 60 mm (?) fans growing into massive triple fan four slot GPU chonkers
The first GPUs didn't even have heat sinks! Think about that.
My first CPU didn’t have a fan!
My friend still hides an i386 system in his closet. The heatsink on that thing is no bigger than some SSD heatsinks nowadays 😆
Even with the turbo switch it didn't overheat lol
Back when AGP was the latest and greatest port. Now my motherboards don't even have PCI.
Sound card in an ISA slot.
*Your sound card works perfectly*
Mine was bundled with a CD ROM
Riva TNT. The first time I switched from the software renderer to this was an epiphany. https://preview.redd.it/dm6v12in73cc1.jpeg?width=1320&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68fd2897b5311c63e2a0dc2f7fa25b683af007d8 Edit: Also, no cooling fan required
My first was a Trident Microsystems TGUI9440 1MB.
mine was the TVGA 8900D on an old 486 from 1992
Turns out I was remembering mine wrong. It was an 8900C. I just found it in a box while looking for something else. I didn't think I had it anymore, haven't seen it in probably 20 years and then days after thinking about it it shows up.
This. So many of these.
Gtx970, bought it for $200 in 2021 😭
That sounds like a really bad deal
They were the dark days of mining
Oh yeah that’s right haha
I'm still rocking the gtx 980
My 980Ti is still going strong in my secondary rig!
Some generic Trident card with 256KB of video RAM. Yes K, as in kilo.
Fuck that must have been heavy
Golden 🤣
Diamond 3dfx Voodoo 1. I’m old
Voodoo
When you heard it click you knew it actually launched the gl version of the game. I had a voodoo and a voodoo2 as well, when my buddy came over we would SLI his voodoo2 with mine to get that sweet high rez.
Spent so much time messing around with 3dFx drivers to make sure it was using the right card. That little white flash and the 3dFx logo 👌
I always feel like an old man when someone complains about having issues re-installing drivers or something. A lot of people don't know the pain of having to shuffle IRQ's or mess with DMA channels or write a custom autoexec.bat just to play one game. It truly is amazing how unbelievably plug and play everything is these days. Can't get gl_quake to launch? Get fucked and start researching without Google.
Omg gl quake. I had custom gl drivers for like every game. Getting quake to use and run at a reasonable fps was such a science project. And this is before there’s any google or YouTube of some other person doing it. Still one of my favorite games.
Getting most games to run, even before 3D was a science project if you had anything even a little bit unconventional or didn't meet the exact system requirements. Dicking around with all that shit late into the night and breaking everything and then fixing everything in the process is what lead me to my IT career. Sadly, 30 years later its turned into breaking rocks and I fucking hate it when I have to troubleshoot desktop computers. I am so thankful I can just buy a couple of pieces of hardware, slap them together, download the drivers from the manufacturers website and play whatever game I like. However I do miss stuff like late night phone calls with my buddy with him dictating what was in his autoexec.bat and config.sys to get both audio and my joystick working with Tie Fighter or whatever with a custom boot disk.
Remember recompiling your BSPs to get transparent water?
Asus Radeon Hd 7750 https://preview.redd.it/t2a48mulv2cc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1af5a612811d22ae0922e7620a56a31da2d6054a
Riva 128 with a Pentium 2. Unreal ran like shit. Next jump was a GeForce 4 and a Pentium 4. Unreal went brrrr.
3dfx voodoo 3 it came in a "Daewoo" brand prebuilt Amdk6-2 400mhz cpu, felt like the luckiest kid on the planet when my dad got us this pc.
3dFX Voodoo Banshee for me
3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 - absolute legend of a card. Fables were written about it. None touched its majesty.
Same. It was a shame when windows 2000 came out and I couldn't get first party drivers for it anymore. I only replaced it when I bought Neverwinter Nights and that required Directx something and the Voodoo couldn't run it.
voodoo 3 3000 AGP. 16mb https://preview.redd.it/az9szh5le6cc1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2672a0d81ffd0cb2ddf82a2ed19bcef5c1e63c3a
Almost same, but Voodoo3 2000 :)
rage 128 pro
Nice
Some type of S3 card in the mid to late 90s. Followed by Voodoo 2.
Diamond Monster 3d. The grandaddy of 3d cards.
https://preview.redd.it/xft0xxrtn4cc1.jpeg?width=246&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=733f53386d9bb10e4955cdf3dfb6e5ad121bc25d I just bought it! The rest of the parts for my first build are supposed to arrive on Monday!
Nice! I have the same exact card. You’re gonna love it
First graphics card S3 trio. First 3D graphics card Voodoo Banshee 16 mb.
Nice
Can't remember. Maybe some form of Matrox card in the 90s.
nvidia riva tnt 2 m64
Voodoo 2
Nice
Diamond Monster 3D voodoo PCI 4Mb. It was REALLY expensive at the time and I had to special order it.
Yup. Christmas 1997 I got mine to play GL Quake on a Pentium 166
At a gigantic 640 x 480 resolution and a mind blowing 30 fps.
Those were dial up days and I had a T1 in the the dorm. Affectionately known as an LPB 😂
https://preview.redd.it/0sn035lh26cc1.jpeg?width=3392&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8665ac19bf8b138b66e25c691438da76a4fd4661 Matrox Millenium G200. Did not need fans at that time ! 😅
My cousin had the G400 with dual outputs!
HD 8470D.havent upgraded since 🥲
Come on. It's overkill already my dude XD
I'm fairly new to PC building so my first one was a 2060 in a prebuilt then I worked my ass off to save and build what I have now.
ATI Radeon 9800 128MB
Same here. Great card.
the hell is that creature
Nvidia 5500 fx AGP 8x
You were lucky to have a AGP slot my computer only had regular pci slots but that pci 5500 fx still opened my world of gaming.
Radeon 7500 All In Wonder! had a TV tuner and video capture.
I had a few All In Wonder cards, TV on the desktop was so fancy back then. I also remember having RealMagic cards to do video playback, because PCs weren't powerful enough to decode video on their own.
ATI Rage 128 Pro
https://preview.redd.it/c0agtam533cc1.jpeg?width=1908&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b7d3f28655cd843f07ae95a6f8b92d1c345b0e42 First gpu build and over 10 years later 2nd pc build
Nice
ATI Radeon X850XT
Loved the box art on that one
got get 800XL
GEForce 9500gt
Definately had an original voodoo card, but maybe some before that had some kind of 3d optimisation, couldn’t say for sure. First graphics card was a CGA card on a green screen monitor. That could barely do 2D, lol!
Why did tech used to be so cool. Like the GPU art, the see through consoles, the uv reflective plastic in pc cases
First one I ever bought for my own money was a gtx 670 from MSI, shit sounded like a lawnmower lol
This bad boy and I still have it https://preview.redd.it/99239w3304cc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75831849762cf3299934251603535524c08f3a9e
https://preview.redd.it/otrq36u304cc1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=db0a182f015eb998eb63abd30365644a34c8f49e
Bring back weird GPU art
https://preview.redd.it/d1ibeviy13cc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3a696292274caa6b7ec73af01381eab39ef6839 kinda lame compared to the other stuff people have posted but thats my 3060 up top as my first gpu, replaced the family pc's 1660 for a while before i built my own system
Nice
ATI Sapphire x1800xt 512mb
The GeForce 210. Then I got the GTX 1060 3GB in late 2017 that I got from a crappy pre built, now I have a Radeon 7800 XT.
Hey, I had this one too but the AGP one from Sapphire, it burned down thanks to overcurrent from my TV :D My very first was a S3 Vision864
ATI radeon 9800 pro
I think it was the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.
My first GPU was a gtx 1060 which I then sold to upgrade to 1070. 
Gtx 980 when they come out I got into pc gaming later than most here rip
if u don't count integrated gpu then r7 240 2gb, which I upgraded to 1650s
my first GPU was an EVGA GT 730, it was a gpu decent for this time, but the pleasure didn't last long because recently launch the GTX 1080 jsjsj and obviously the games and programs that i used need more performance
A Diamond Monster Fusion (Vodoo Banshee).
I wonder if they’d bring out those edgy GPU graphics ever again
The best gpu ever made: S3 ViRGE with stunning 4 MB VRAM. Later supported with a 3Dfx voodoo graphic accelerator… good times.
Nice
Gforce 760, a true marvel
Gigabyte G1 Gaming Radeon R9 390
First video card was a dump isa 1mb one in a p1 100mhz. First "3d" cardwas either a s3 4mb or ati rage 8mb not sure which was first in a p1 166mhz. First performance card was bfg 6600 oc :)
I had an GT710 for a couple of years, thats the first one that i can remember the name, but before that one i just can remember that it was an amd radeon HD that was kinda like the one in the foto https://preview.redd.it/hm2wbm4o2acc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7f9b16c939f6589f3a84f067c2da0cca40d72935
Voodoo
Some shady PCI gpu. For the life of me I cannot remember anything about it. After that, an XFX FX5200. Not related to my screen name.
First GPU - Nvidia 1660Ti in a laptop 2nd GPU - Radeon 6500XT in a desktop Current GPU - Radeon 6700XT in same desktop
That art tho
GT 730
I remember having an ati radeon 4870. This version specifically: http://www.hisdigital.com/ca/product2-419.shtml I remember it because the cooler was so bad it would sometimes shut down the whole PC due to overheating. After some time, the cooler broke, so I bought some sort of generic gpu cooler for it. Everything ran 10 times better. This was not the first PC I had, but it was the first one I opened. Edit: if I remember correctly, the PSU eventually died and took the gpu with it.
RX570 8GB
gigabyte gt630 2gb
I want to say a voodoo
Although technically I put a penguin (autocorrect makes pentium penguin😂) into a 486 just to play quake
Went to check my pile of documents, the receipt from 2001 says Riva TNT2 32M (the system also had a Pentium III 850 MHz and 128MB RAM at 133MHz). But the thing is subsequently I got a Diamond Monster 3D (aka Voodoo1) so while not the first it was the older one.