Do you remember your first graphics card?

Trident 32mb card > Gforce4 MX440 > Gforce Ti4200 > Radeon 9700 AIW > Gforce 6800 > Radeon X800XT AIW > Onboard 6150(a downgrade, long story :p) > Radeon X1950 Pro > Radeon 3870 - Will be my last card for a while.
 
ti 4200 haha. Overclocked it until it started smoking so I had to get another one. One of the best card I ever had.
 
Geforce 2 MX > Geforce 4 MX > 9800pro > 7600GT > 2900pro > 4850

Those are the ones I bought. I have older ones that accumulated though. I still use them occasionally when I need to boot from a PCI video card! Riva TNT, a few Voodoos, etc...
 
Hi,

1.
Hewlett Packard Vectra
Intel 486SX 25 mhz
8 MB RAM
Can't remember GPU
256 HD
I could run Heroes of Might and Magic II & Warcraft II on that one :D

2.
p II 233 mhz
Voodoo 3dfx

3.
Athlon XP 2000 +
mx 440

4.
Sempron 3000 +
FX 5500

5.
e6600
8800 gtx
 
(starting in approx 2001 thru today)

1. Onboard Graphics 16MB in Compaq Computer
2. MSI GeForce4 MX440 64MB
3. i/o Magic Geforce FX5200 128MB
4. eVGA 6600GT 128MB
5. BFG 6800GT 256MB
6. (approx 1 year I went to a Dell laptop) Onboard Intel GMA900 128MB
6. Two 7950GTX's in SLI 1GB total VRAM (in Alienware M9750 laptop)
 
NVIDIA TNT2 M64 32MB with a 1.60GHz P4, ran Half-Life great! Then I got a 2.80C GHz P4 HT with a ATi Radeon 9200 SE 128MB and I played BF1942 forever on that card.

If you only consider the cards in my main computers:
TNT2 M64 32MB > Radeon 9200 SE 128MB > BFG GeForce FX 5600 256MB > BFG GeForce 6800 GT 256MB > BFG GeForce 7800 GS 256MB > BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB > 2 x BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB SLi
 
Tandy 1000 EX with 16 colors? Or am I supposed to say "Jaton 256" (my first discrete card) from my 286...
 
fx5200>6600gt > 7900gt > 7900gtx > x1900xt > x800xt (x1900xt died) > gtx 260 (x800xt died).

All the nvidia cards never had a problem (one 7900gt but was RMAd thanks to evga), but two ati's decided to die within months. Coincidence? I think not :mad: :p
 
Wow do I feel old after reading the first page of this thread. I had 2 "first" cards. On my Tandy 2500SX (386 SX w/1MB RAM) it had 256K of onboard video ram for the integrated graphics chip. I have no idea what it was - was probably a cirrus logic or S3.

The first one I ever bought was in my first PC that I custom ordered from the local PC shop (AMD 486 DX4-120) after working at the grocery store all summer. 1MB Trident (S3?) that had slots to upgrade the VRAM - which I eventually did for no good reason other than to say I had a 2MB card.
 
first card i ever purchased on my own was a Voodoo 4 4500 PCI to play Tribes when I was 16.

Now I'm getting ready to pickup a 4850X2.

Crazy how much things have changed in 9 years.
 
NVIDIA TNT 2 64 mb on my old Dell Dimension -> mobility radeon 9000 64mb -> 8800GT!
 
Voodoo 1
Voodoo 2 SLI
Riva TNT 2 Ultra
Geforce 2 Ultra
Geforce 3 Ti 500
Geforce 4 Ti 4800
Radeon 9800 Pro
Radeon X850 XT
8800 GTX
GTX 280

I don't think I missed anything. I think I still have my TNT 2 box somewhere
 
Voodoo!! Oh my goodness. That certainly brings back fond memories of the good ol' days playing Hero's Quest and Zany Golf. :cool:
 
TNT2
Ti4200 <--- one I was most attached to, it was my first real graphic card, lots of attachment rate to this card.
6800gt
8800Gtx
 
3dfx Voodoo.Really got me into gaming. My first post here @ [H] so hi all.
 
Rage Pro (1998)
Radeon 9000 Pro (2002)
7600GT (2007)
9600GSO (2008)

damn, has it really been ten years?
 
S3 Trio (In a 386 DX 40)
ATI Rage Pro (5x86 Cyrix)
Radeon (PCI) (Celeron 300A [Yes, OC'd to 450])
Radeon 32 AGP (Athlon 1800)
GeForce 440 MX
Radeon 9500 (Athlon 2100)
Radeon 9600XT
EVGA GeForce 7900GT (Then a 2nd One for SLi) (Athlon 64 3700)
EVGA GeForce 7900GTX (2 of them in SLi) (Opteron 170)
EVGA GeForce 8800GTS SC 320MB
EVGA GeForce 8800GT SC (Rig in Sig)
EVGA GeForce 9800GT (BIOS Flashed the 8800GT and now have them SLi as 2 9800GTs.)
 
voodoo 2 sli ---> onboard gateway from 2000 --> Ati 9800 Pro 256mb build --> x800xl --> 8800 ultra
 
Cardinal Technologies 256k VGA (8-bit, not 16-bit) is the oldest I can remember having purchased.
I have an older, a Hercules EGA adapter, but I don't recall buying it or even if it was bought or given or what.

From there? I can't recall the order, but..
3DLabs Permedia, 3DLabs Permdia2, 3DLabs Permedia3, 3DLabs Wildcat VP990, 3DLabs REALiZM 200, 3DLabs REALiZM 800, 3DLabs Oxygen RPM, #9 Revolution IV, #9 Imagine 128, #9 Revolution 128 I think it was, ATI Radeon 8500 AIW, ATI Rage Fury MAXX, ATI Rage128, ATI Rage128 AIW, ATI Diamond Stealth64 (couple of those,) Intergraph Wildcat 3K, Integraph Wildcat 4K, Intergraph Intense3D, Intergraph Voodoo2, GeForce2MX, GeForce2GTS, GeForce 3 Ti500, GeForce4 Ti4200, GeForce4 Ti4600, GeForce4 Ti4800, GeForce 6800GTS, GeForce 6800Ultra, GeForce 8800GTS, GeForce 8800GTX, GeForce 9800GTX, Riva TNT, Riva TNT2

That's just cards with acceleration though. And only what I remember. I've been through more.
 
Well the first was an integrated 1MB Cirrus Logic ISA chipset in my 486 DX2/66MHz system. In my first Pentium rig I had a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 4MB installed followed by a 3dfx Diamond Monster 3D 4MB shortly thereafter. Ahhh, the memories.... :D
 
monster 3d... 4 megs ram... 97 i believe

ran GL quake which blew all of my friends minds.

ah, the good ol days.
 
Ah, the good old days! :D

My first one were really on C64, then C128, Amiga.
From early PC days, the Mach32 was the first, following with the S3 Trio 64V (with the extra memory chip :eek: ). I remember being more concerned about maxing the 640 conventional memory then the GFX cards for the games those days. :p
 
EvilAlchemist said:
STB Velocity 4400 graphics card--and the card's 16MB of dedicated SDRAM
Click to expand...

That's exactly the card I had (TNT1) in a Gateway P2 450, my first PC back in 1998 which was bought just to play Half-Life on.
I've been into gaming ever since although the wife tells me I should give it up at my age....no chance :p
 
S3 Trio, must still be somewhere in this room :eek:
Matrox Millenium G400, 16MB
GeForce2 MX 400, 64MB, slow card was slooow :rolleyes:
GeForce3 TI 500, 64MB
Radeon 9800 XT, 256MB, best card ever - died in january 2008 :(
GeForce 7600 GS, 256MB, technically still in use, backup as of today
GeForce 7900 GS, 512MB, in use
Radeon HD 3470, in use
Radeon HD 3650, 512MB, in use as of today/tomorrow

I also have an integrated VIA CHROME 9 that I would like to mention :D
 
I think my very first video card was a Trident card. My first system had no "video card" to speak of! haha

I remember the christmas when my Dad bought me a Diamond video card, it was amazing. Then the legendary 9800 Radeon. Oh man...those were the days.
 
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