Graphics What was the first gaming GPU you had?

If I recall correctly then :-

• ISA - Trident (can't remember the model)
• I did have another ISA card but can't recall what it was; must have been 'real' good
• PCI - Matrox Mystique 2Mb (still have it)
• PCI - Matrox Millenium G2 8Mb (still have it)
• AGP - ATI 9700Pro 128Mb (still have it, with bodged fan and heatsink)
• AGP - ATI 9800XT VIVO 256Mb (still have it)
• PCIe - Nvidia 8400GS 512Mb (still have it)
• PCIe - Nvidia 8800GTS 512Mb (died, 'oven fix' didn't)
• PCIe - Nvidia GTS250 1Gb (current)

 

I started out with a Riva TNT2, was a great card at the moment, gave me a whole lot of fun back in the days when the NFS-series was still worth playing. Here's a semi-complete list of my gpu-history since the tnt2:


- Nvidia Gefore 3 Ti 500
- ATI Radeon 9700 Pro
- ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
- ATI Radeon X800XT
- ATI Radeon X800XT PE
- Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS
- Nvidia Geforce 8800 Ultra
- ATI Radeon 4870 512Mb

 

baring the awful 8mb SIS onboard graphics of my first PC (games actually ran faster with software rendering than using the GPU )
My first card was a 32mb *PCI* S3 Savage 4

 

-Geforce 2 Mx400
-Geforce 4 Ti4400
[gap, cos Geforce 4 was very fast]
-ATI Radeon x800GTO
-ATI Radeon x1650Pro (damn shaders)
[gap cos don't have PCIe]
-8800GTX
-GTX260
and ATI 5870

judging my that pattern, next would be an ATI mid-range

 

My first PC was in 97 when I left school, I was running a 3DFX Voodoo Rush. Its mad how only 13 years have passed and the GFX cards are unbeleiveable now!!!

 

Creative GeForce Ti 4200 (whereabouts unknown) -> Gainward FX 5600 (still working in my parents pc) -> BFG 6600gt (gathering dust in its box)-> XFX 7800gt (still working in a friends pc) -> PNY 8800gt (my current card)

 

First card was a Voodoo 3 of some variety
Nvidia Geforce 3
ATI Radeon 9700 Pro which nearly set fire to my PC from a dodgy power connector, although an awesome card
ATI Radeon X800 XT
ATI 3870 X2
AT 4870 X2 followed about 6 months after my 3870X2 - was not impressed with that card

 

TNT2,
Voodoo 3 3000,
ATI 9200,
ATI 9700 Pro,
GTX 8800,
GTX 210,
GTX 4830 ( Yes i have gone backwards at some point along the line, however, with the games i play i see no need to upgrade 4830 does DirectX10.1 and framerates are fine.. i have headphones also so the noise isn't a problem)

 

nVIDIA P73CR - Dell-supplied passively-cooled junk but could run HL2 and Hitman 2 passably. Thank God for my PSX and PS2...
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT 128MB - Not too bad but by this point AGP was frickin' ancient. I needed a new computer, which just happened to come with...

XFX GTX-280 - Which is wonderful in every way.

 

Ditto. Mine broke recently so I replaced it with a 5770

 

riva tnt and a original voodoo rush..

 

Assuming this pertains to the first one I personally bought..

GeForce 9600GSO 512.
And I'm still using it since it's part of the first computer I built for me.
I really wish I had gotten the regular 9600GSO though.

It works pretty well for what I do, but I want to upgrade because what I do can be done better.

 

some of you can probably remember the token ring networks.. what a joke that was XD but it was the only way to play some doom and took 15 hours to transfer 200 megs

that's if some a hole wasn't hogging the token XD

 

Amiga 500 - Gauntlet/R-Type then jumped ship to PC

3dfx Voodoo 2
Matrox Millenium 2
GeForce 400
ATI X850XT
GTX280 RMA'd for a 285

Ah the heady days of Doom, Half Life and Unreal!

 

If you're going to be like that:

• Commodore C16/+4
• Commodore 64
• Commodore Amiga 1200
• Matrox Millennium II
• Orchid Righteous 3D 4MB
• Matrox Millennium G400 MAX
• Gainward GeForce 3 "Golden Sample" (Pre Ti and numbered releases)
• Acer Built-In GeForce Go! 5700FX
• Gigabyte GeForce 9600GT

That's where I stand at the moment.

 

Ahh i'm just one of the many Voodoo 3 bitches. 3000 iirc.

I'm sure that's still hiding about the place somewhere too.

 

Voodoo III 3000 here I still got it lying around, actually.

 

Voodoo Banshee here. First hybrid 3D/2D card on a PCI Bus.
When that died I got a Geforce2 MX something
Then a Radeon 9500 Pro (with the 9700 hack, good times)
Radeon X800 Pro
Nv 7950GT
Nv 8800GT
Nv GTX260

I think that's the exhaustive list of cards I've had. I do like to try and keep them as long as I can

The GF had:
GF 4 Ti 4xxx (cant remember the model exactly)
Radeon 9600
Radeon 9700 Pro
Radeon X800 Pro
Radeon X1950
8800GT
Radeon HD 5770

 

Onboard graphic controller 4Mb xD dunno name.

 

850XT < that thing is noisy. It kept me up at night lol. I could only download things during the day.

I swore never to get such a noisy card again. Though I have to say after trying to sleep with that card a lot. I can now sleep to any amount of noise.