Baby's First Video Card

What was your first video card Sup Forums?

I got by on second hand stuff bought of friends and whatnot through high school, but this was the first card I saved up for and bought.

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The first one I bought with my own money was an XFX Radeon 6850.

But the first one I've ever had was some Trident VGA card.

this thing
turns out the seller of my thinkstation lied about pci x16 slots on the motherboard

so i cant actually use it
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first one i bought with my own cash, user.

First one I bought with my own money was a Radeon 5770. That's when I first got into playing video games on my PC.

EVGA 9600GSO 512mb.
Bought it in 2009, kept it til 2011 when I upgraded to a 560ti.

If your first graphics card was made by a company still commonly used today, I want you to get the fuck off my lawn

It was 8600 GT from Zotac. Meh, that was such a fucked up purchase. Not only it turned out to be a low-quality build because fan died in like 3 month, but I've also purchased the one with GDDR2 when all other manufacturers were shipping 8600GT with GDDR3. FUCK YOU, ZOTAC!

>favorite card

The msi gtx 760 was the best bang for your buck card you could get and it aged very well.

Diamond is still around so get off your own lawn.

Sapphire 9200SE here. I remember I ordered it and like the next day they shit all over it on tech talk so I was pretty bummed. But I was still able to play heavy gear and need for speed so it worked out alright

This was mine too 7 years ago.

8800GT was the first card I brought. Saved up my pocket money so I could play oblivion!

HD radeon 7770, got it for free of a friend

GeForce 6150
It was embedded into an AMD 939 mobo

3dFX is not though

Geforce 2 fucking newborns

NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX440 AGP. I bought 2 other cards after that burnt out and always went back to this.

S3 Virge.

I still have it as a 'test crappy old motherboards' card.

Matrox mystique 220 FTW!

It's impossible for me to be certain as I was too young to have known how to find out at the time, possibly a Hercules.

569ti, unless you include the ancient GPU I had in the mid 90s. I don't remember anything about it, though..

Being this young.
Not getting excited about your first 1mb VGA card and being able to view images in high colour.

My first was Riva TNT2.

First one i had was some crappy sis 530 with 8mb and it could barely play Quake III.
First one i bought with my own money was a MX 440 64mb Appollo graphics bloody monster, not the best but bretty gud for 2003 could play serious sam first and second encounter very well!
And finally the first one i fell in love with was my 9800GT 512mb used it for about 4-5 years, was some kind of ECO version without the 6pin adapter so no OC for me, its still working great in a friends potato pc (gave it to him for free)

I'm jelly. I was thinking about buying a used one and putting it on display in my office or something.

Still running most of my original config. with a Sapphire HD 4730

>first time going from 8 bit to 16 bit color
>mfw

ATI X1950 PRO. Used to play shit like Counter Strike, Warcraft 3 and Combat Arms like a dream, even at 1080p. Had it up until last year when I started getting artifacting on screen so I upgraded to a GTX 980.

>playing nfs3: hot pursuit without dedicated card
>looks like shit
>install Riva TNT2
>holy shit dem graphics

this beast, i bought it where all the most leet tech was back in the day, Sam's Club when i was 17 and had decided to be a gaming haxor 4 weeks before.

...

woah

My nigga, my first card too. They were damn near indestructible

>tornado
accurate

9700 pro master race

Oh man, I had the AGP version of that. It was so brutally overpowered for how cheap they sold it for.

fucking world of warcraft destroyed a BFG 6200 and some ATI hand-me-down i got from my dad. MX440 stayed strong tho

One of these bad boys.

My gpu history
Nvidia 2 mx200 (AGP)
Nvidia 8800 GT
AMD 4870
Nvidia 660
Nvidia 870M (still have laptop with this)
Nvidia 980M (had laptop)
Nvidia 980TI

Nvidia 1080 gtx or better Nvidia is my next card.

Imagine 128 II

A Geforce 2 on my pentium mmx machine. I don't remember what I had in my 486 machine before that.

geforce 6600 gt

I remember those were shit on for being weaker than even the mid range Geforce 2 chips.

7300gt, it died yesterday

rip

5200 fx

Creative graphics blaster 4mb was my first dedicated gpu

:/

Rip

Wasnt the "first" one i had, but the first one i didnt find in a dumpster.

AGP 7300 with 512mb of vram. Bought used for like 10$

Next got a 512mb 8600gt. Was the first card where i really felt power. I could actually play modern-ish games at reasonable settings.
Not the exact one in the pic.

Then i saved up and got this 460. An amazing card. Only recently discovered that it had died while not being used. The cooler was really really over the top for a 460 too... could OC the fuck out of the card and still be under 75*c

i had a Cyrus logic 1MB graphics adapter on my 486dx4 100

but my first real vidéo card vas a Riva TNT2 with 32MB of VRAM iirc on a PII800Mhz

The first discrete card I bought separately was an FX5200. Before that I had used a rage 128.

I wish more shrouds looked like this instead of black and red GAYMERZ ONLY XD shit

3670
4670
5770
7770
7950

What will my next GPU be? 490?

Then i switched to a reference 6970, then got dual reference 6970s. Used them to buttcoin mine for a while. Then sold them to a friend and he still uses them in his machine.
Now im rocking a 770 4gb, but the nvidia gimpworks is showing. I might switch to a 280x that i have lying around because that now beats the 770 in benchmarks.

RIVA TNT2

7600GT master race

come at me m8

We had one of those paired with an Athlon XP 1600 in 2001, it was my dads daily driver until caps on the PSU an mobo started leaking in 2009.

He's a hoarder so we still have that PC downstairs in its original resting place since we replaced it with a laptop.

I remember playing Quake II at a high resolution thanks to that bad boy, damn those were funny times.

I used a 2900 pro until a year or two ago. I thought x1950 was of comparable performance but after further analysis it turns out the x1950 was way, way less powerful and released less than a year earlier. How could you possibly have used that until last year?
How much was it? I recall paying $200-250 for my 2900 pro in 2007 (also AGP, stupid me) which according to benchmarks scores way higher so unless it was under $100 in late 2006 right after the release I find it hard to believe it was brutally overpowered for the price.

Alright, now I'm interested in finally trying to map out my clusterfuck of misguided purchases.

>May 2010: HD 5770
>October: 2010: GTX 460

>Early 2011: GTX 570
>Not longer after: GTX 570 SLI
>Not long after that: sold second GTX 570 cause multi-GPU is trash
>Some point later in 2011: sold remaining GTX 570 to brother.
Back to HD 5770 (Still have it to this day, running in my dad's PC)

>May 2012: HD 7870 (Immediately refunded because it had unbearable coil whine)
Back to HD 5770.
>August 2012: GTX 660 Ti

>December 2014: GTX 970
>February 2015: Sold after the false advertising obsolescence-dooming ruse was revealed
Back to GTX 660 Ti

>September 2015: GTX 960 (As a stopgap)
>Soon: probably GTX 1070 if NVIDIA don't pull the same shit

My first GPU was this radeon HD4850 by asus. This was my first because i bought it with my savings and i actually chose it. It worked great until it started overheating(aprox 4 years after i bought it and replaced it with a radeon hd 7770)

I had

FX 5200 (AGP)
7800 GS (AGP)
GTX 280
HD 5670 (needed something quick and cheap after my 280 unexpectedly died)
GTX 460
GTX 460 SLI
GTX 770


Not sure why I'm telling you faggerts, not like any of you care

tnt2 like half of the developed world circa 2000

I can't remember the exact model but it was a PCI Trident of sorts in 386.

>How could you possibly have used that until last year?

it was a good card for running non demanding games. games like counter strike and warcraft 3 are piss easy to run so i could get a locked 60 on both of them.

the only demanding game i've run is dishonored and it ran between 40-60 fps at medium/low settings at 1080p.

i care user

This.

Times over 9000

Radeon X1650
VRRRRRRRR

5200 fx (AGP)
8600M (Laptop)
Intel GMA 850? Laptop broke :(
R9 280X that still is strong to this day.

>How much was it?

Good question, I have no idea, partially because of currency conversion rates. I want to say that it was between 100-200$ but with inflation it is impossible to tell, and I don't remember anything that would be a good price comparison..

It played every game I had maxed out, often also with max aniso filtering and AA. I only had midrange/budget cards till then, so it was the first time I could just crank up everything to max. The AA wasn't that important because I still used a CRT at the time (a better one that could do higher resolutions), but the AF made such a big difference that I never turn it off nowadays.
It was fun to turn up AA as well, just to see that I can do it without the framerate dipping.

Most games I played at the time were in fact limited by CPU speed, despite the fact that I was running the highest end platform at the time (Athlon64 X2). Core 2 Duo only came out around that time.

I had to make sure to use the correct rail on the power supply because that card had 2 molex connectors, and if I did not power it up on the best configuration, the machine reset randomly.

TNT2 M64
It was shit

...

I don't remember the model number, but it was a 1MB PCI Trident with MPEG1 hardware decompression and composite as well as VGA out. It came with a copy of Virtua Fighter 2 and Virtua Cop 1. I bought an Orchid Righteous Voodoo 1 to go along with it. This was on a 166MHz MMX Pentium machine. It played Unreal and Quake II well enough and I could watch 320x240 porn on my TV.

Gtx 760

ATI Rage Fury 32MB (babby's first)
ATI 9600 Pro
ATI 9600 XT
Nvidia 8800 GTS
Nvidia GTX 570
Nvidia GTX 970

iktf, my dad used to run semi-recent tomb raider games at playable frame rates. Can't remember which one but it might have been underworld.

But at that point the PC was starting to die, the CD drive would open by its self at POST due to some low voltage or high ripple on one of the voltage rails. He was convinced it was "spyware" making that happen.

3dfx voodoo 2
I was able to play swiv 3d at max settings

8800GT
GTX260
GTX680

Voodoo 1 nigga

who remember this?
youtube.com/watch?v=7lyCVfcajKY

Damn, are you me? Got mine in a prebuilt though because I was a pussy at the time.

That is a sexy fucking shroud. Reminds me a of Shelby cobra.

Matrox mystique. Fuck I'm old...

This

i loved when we could choose between glide ,opengl and Direct 3D

I only used Direct 3D for VRally.

This card was in my third computer. I don't know what was in the first two (1995 and 2001 builds) but in the third we had an FX 5900 Ultra.

Cirrus Logic something or other.
ISA, 1 MB of memory. I didn't even know what drivers were back then so I was stuck in 16 color mode until I upgraded to a Geforce 2 MX 200 that came with drivers.

Weirdly enough, S3 still fucking exists

My condolences senpai

GeForce 3 Ti500 was the first one I bought with my own money.

I still have my first GPU (from a major fucking upgrade standpoint, my Voodoo 3 and FX 5200 don't deserve anything resembling recognition)

I made a big fucking mistake though when I upgraded to a PCIe mobo and replaced it with an X1300, that thing was a huge piece of shit and performed WORSE than a 9800

Then I accidentally shorted my entire system and nuked everything in the process, and my next build had an X1950, which was replaced by an 8800 GTS for Christmas, which became a GTX 285 next year, followed by a 5770 the next year (probably the most insane budget card ever), then a 6970 with my first major paycheck later that year, a god-awful 7950 the next, which I sold on CL and used the cash to get an R9 285 two years later (another nice budget card), and as of now, I'm on a Fury that I unlocked to a semi-Fury X

> a 5770 the next year (probably the most insane budget card ever), then a 6970 with my first major paycheck later that year

Thats the jump I made. Got a 5770, rocked the shit out of it, then moved up to the 6970. After that I went to the 7970 and I'm still with it four years later.

ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

Now that you mention the molex stuff I realize my 2900 was obviously PCIE, I mixed it up with my 6600GT which came in both AGP and PCIE versions. I never used an AGP card that needed extra power connectors. 2900 was also one of the first cards with DX10 which is probably why it scores so much higher despite only having twice the transistor count. Athlon64 X2 was a nice series, I used a 6000+ up until two years ago as well.
Awesome video. I remember that being a popular vid at lan parties in the early 2000s. The karsten koch track just makes it even cooler. It's a sad thought that the beast machine in the video is less powerful than the average cellphone of today.

geforce 7600 gs agp

The ATI 4770

I was pretty much a poorfag student so it was the best I could do.

I even bought a 2nd one for crossfire a couple months later b/c of a open box sale

This kind of reminds me of this

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