ITT: Your first graphics card
ITT: Your first graphics card
Oliver Cruz
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Julian Cooper
Trident SVGA
Wyatt Edwards
>tfw
Colton Ward
Some Diamond ISA card. I forgot which one.
Jayden Parker
Geforce 6800
Sebastian Morris
Fucking loved this thing, had the 8mb version with the memory card not pictured on this model
Played Halflife for hours on end on that shit
Dylan Johnson
ATI Rage Fury Pro 128
(pic might be a little incorrect)
Prepare for a fucking nostalgia bomb:
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Luis Bell
>intel integrated graphics
Lucas Richardson
ATi 3DRage or something.
Xavier Gray
Whatever was on the optiplex 210L. I played cs 1.6 and some SLOW ASS gmod 9 and hl2
Lucas Cook
Jace Carter
that's the saddest thing i've ever heard user
Adrian Anderson
mine was 3dfx voodoo 2
i played quake on it
Oliver Carter
some Trident ISA card. Get off my lawn
Brandon Collins
Matrox Mystique 220
I still have it somewhere, I think
It had an incredibly sharp image but otherwise was kind of meh
Austin King
Matrox chips were meh all round.
It was their cards that were something else - compare the output stages just before the VGA connector on your picture to
Matrox had the best picture quality because they didn't cheap the fuck out like everyone else.
Josiah Lewis
nvidia TNT2 with 16MB of VRAM
Jacob Butler
Diamond Viper PCI, Weitek Power9000 svga chip. (ca 1993-94)
Michael Lewis
First 3D graphics card was a Voodoo2 (Diamond) that used a passthru cable. I had to return it due to overheating issues.
The passthru cable very noticeably degraded the vga signal of my regular graphics card.
Michael Perry
pic related, not sure which is the right model of rage pro though
Angel Perry
Huh, I guess I never really considered how they did it, but it certainly was sharp
I was using that card as late as 2012 I think, because the SFF Lenovo Thinkcentre I was using only had one monitor output and I wanted dualhead. Moving a putty window between screens you could really see the difference in sharpness
Bentley Davis
Moving from the Mach32 to a 3D accelerator was the best thing.
Gavin Brooks
Jaxon Hall
I had some VESA board originally than I moved to ISA don't remember what they were. I think my first PCI was an S3. My first one I bought was a Creative Labs TNT.
I'm not overlly old either, millinial even. But I was poor and yet some in my family had a clue on how important computing would become so I got used stuff pretty early and got my feet wet on the older stuff.
Mason Peterson
660 ti
Eli Foster
aptiva faggots detected
Angel Jenkins
Blake Hughes
cryptoniggers btfo.
Asher Wright
9500GT
Carter Richardson
GeForce 2 MX
Angel Ward
I'm still waiting for something to replace it
David Peterson
GTX 770. Using it right now.
Julian Anderson
guillemot maxi gamer cougar
Landon James
kek, mine was a custom build with AMD K6-2 450mhz, that ATi card, 96mb RAM and 10gb drive, MSI MS-5169 board. Loved that damn thing to bits, before I retired it I had it up to 256mb RAM, 30gb drive, K6-2+ 550 @ 615mhz and Voodoo 5500 AGP
Jack Collins
8800gt
Jayden Cruz
NVIDIA 180
Gavin Flores
It could be worse. Mine was the SiS 630.
Samuel Brown
Brayden Adams
GMA 950 reporting in
Christian Davis
My dad had to go to our Software Etc. to get a driver that forced CGA/EGA games to run on this, since it was his work computer, but in comparison to both, monochrome on a decent monitor looked a lot better/crisper
Jack Cooper
can i post my second video card too
Carson Lewis
WHY DID YOU EVEN BOTHER ASKING
Landon Cruz
Adrian Nelson
XFX 7600gt. Somehow fit it inside an Optiplex GX270, the one where the case opened by pressing the two side buttons and opening like a car hood.
With the card in, the case didn't close fully, kek. Played a lot of 20 fps WoW on that bad boy.
Ethan Young
What's the name of it bitch
Charles Nelson
geforce fx 5500
Cooper Nguyen
GTX 1060
Justin Gonzalez
Mason Roberts
3dfx Voodoo 2
Nicholas Phillips
A Tseng ET3000 you underage fuck.
Nathan Harris
et6000 pci
Levi Gonzalez
He could be using one right now
L-luckily I'm not haha
Jack Reed
op's card came out in 2002, try again idiot.
Julian Martin
8400gs
played sonic all stars racing transformed on it, very well optimized game imo
Sebastian Hernandez
First video card S3 Trio
First 3d accelerator card S3 Savage 4
Then Riva TNT2 M64 32mb my brother bought on his own.
First gpu I bought myself was 7300gs lol.
With my own money was Radeon 4830 512mb.
Jordan Thomas
My last graphics card
Charles Lee
R7 360
Zachary James
Trident TVGA8900 1Mb ISA
Slow as fuck, was jelly of Tseng ET4000 friend had.
Leo Hill
HD 3200
Nathan Bailey
nvidia geforce gt 430
Owen Morgan
Radeon 6870
stopped all the gayming shit like 5 years ago, so I might as well rip it out of there and use the internal graphics though. I'm just a lazy fuck.
Mason Powell
Riva TNT 2. The next one was radeon 9700.
Kids these days don't know what difference actually means.
Jace Kelly
Navi will be with us soon :3
Kayden Long
GeForce 4 MX 4000
Slow piece of shit; worst part was there was a spare GeForce3 lying around and lack of internet/PC mags meant that I had no idea that I had a free upgrade in my own home
Brody Flores
Thomas Phillips
Can anyone beat me? It was 2.5 MB
Lucas Scott
Robert Sanders
Trident TVGA 9000i 512kB
Still have one in stock for some reason (but not this my first)
Wyatt Barnes
8500GT boiiiiiii
I remember getting it to 103 C, playing Gmod.
I then got some case fans and had them blowing air over it.
Fun times
Alexander Perry
forgot image :^)
Evan Adams
I forgot which card I had in my computer with a Pentium 120 MMX, the earliest card I can remember is the S3 Virge PCI
Liam Bennett
ATI HD 4450 passively cooled I think it was.
My dad ran an IT shop yet didn't want me to have anything good in my own computer.
Nicholas Cruz
Pic related, came with a Sperry 3070 XT in 1985. Back in my day resolution was measured in characters, not pixels. Now get the fuck off my lawn you limp wristed milksops, with your fancy voxel shading and your 4K faggotry. A real man only needs 80x25 and a good, solid woman to lay into from time to time.
Gabriel Ross
served me well
still have it somewhere too
Caleb Young
hi oldtimer post more pics
is there a body in that barrel
Liam Diaz
>Implying he lives in Snowtown
Kevin Jones
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 till 2003
Hudson Fisher
on 2nd box i got, i believe something ATI with 8MB of memory, i really don't know
it ran things doom releases, jetmoto, roller coaster tycoon, but was flickering and shitting itself when attempting to play a 5 minute long 320x240 avi video in fullscreen on windows 98 classic media player
i was growing up on late 80s to mid-90s vidya in early 2000s (no interwebs until 2007, the very first computer i got in 2000 didn't even have a sound card or cd/dvd drive. however i think it made pc speaker noises for wolf3d and doom1&2)
Easton Gutierrez
9800Gtx+
Jose Sanchez
Have a guts shot. That's a 21MB HDD, which, last time I checked, still has my old uni work on it. PSU shat the bed last time I tried to fire it up but it still works on an external supply.
Eh, us ausfags are all seconds away clicking and going full Milat. You would be too if your entire country and everything therein was trying to kill you.
Jordan Brooks
Something S3 ISA
A card good enough to have ran Wolf 3d at the time and Doom at low detail smoothly.
First card that I bought with my own cash was a Geforce 5770 LE... I hated the thing so much (128bit DDR RAM was swapped with 64bit SDRAM)
Ethan Green
>pc game controller adapter
what does this do
Blake Foster
Riva tnt2 16mb
Lincoln Ross
Adds a joystick port, presumably
PCs used to have those before USB
Easton Gonzalez
STB Velocity 128. 4MB ram with nVidia Riva 128 GPU.
Brody Howard
Sapphire R9 390. There hasn't been any reason to upgrade yet.
Josiah Jones
comfy
John Cruz
>card
Nvidia Riva TNT
Xavier Perry
this pice of shit
Jaxon Brown
I know that feel.
>no opengl, ever
Xavier Wright
yeah...i remember like it was yesterday, i was 12 years old and have a Compaq presario with a Cyrix MII and 64mb ram, and I had spent all my money on a video card to be able to play half-life decently. I was obviously cheated.
Evan Torres
First one I can actually remember what it was
Jace Brooks
Via something integrated graphics
Jeremiah Gomez
Temps were always 99c
Still ran like a champ
Landon Bailey
The 3Dfx Voodoo2
Matthew Gray
Some dinky 2mb VRAM pos from STB.
First upgrade was two of these motherfuckers:
Gavin Watson
Evga Gtx 460 v1
15 year old me pretty well
> Friend's parents bought him parts for a gaming PC
> 460 v1 was the gpu
> He spends a bit of his own money for a second 460 for sli back when it wasn't as big of a meme
> Buys a v2 .. not a v1
> Parents just buy him another v2 and he sells me the v1 for like 80 bucks
> Slap it into a shit desktop I had at home with a phenom x4 (not phenom ii ... just phenom)
> Bottleneck to 1000000 but can run BF3 on medium until I get my phenom ii x4 965
Good memories.. Always jealous though that all my friends parents just bought them their PCs and I had to nig-rig mine together until I got a job
Adrian Harris
Served 15 year old me pretty well*
Logan Hughes
Aiden Hernandez
Voodoo 3 2000 is the first I remember. I also think it's the first VGA card I had which can be considered a "graphics card". I had cards before that one, don't remember what they were but we used to call them "video cards" (like "sound cards") not "graphics" cards.