I’m amazed at how many people remember the hardware they purchased 30 years ago.
Yeah I need to check every time which one I have. And I built my PC myself so it’s not that I would have no idea lol
If you hold onto your cards for 6-7 years, that’s only around 5 cards.
Mine goes:
- RTX 4070
- GTX 1080
- GFX 5200 (I think?)
- (The Playstation 2 years)
- (The Playstation years)
- 3dfx Voodoo
You never forget your first.
3dfx voodoo 3 3000, with its whopping 16MB of VRAM.
It ran Unreal Tournament like a charm. Playing CTF on dialup though was not always great though…
The ultimate LAN flex.
It was a shiny EGA card.
On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen.
My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours.
If we’re talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.
I remember when the EGAs came about. Damn, it was like stepping into the future. But I didn’t have a color monitor so it didn’t matter. I was probably more envious than your friend.
Nvidia Riva TNT, because the onboard graphics were only going to play EverQuest (beta) and Rogue Squadron like a painful slideshow, if at all.
I got that exact one too! It was way better than the Voodoo 3DFX cards.
Geforce 2 fx
I attempted to upgrade such a card and were suggested the Geforce FX 5200.
I was so hyped. After finally installing the games I always wanted to play I ad to realize: This passive cooled card supported DX9 on paper but its performance was worse.
It crushed me back then and since then I have never bought a desktop PC part ever again.
But then recently I was gifted an old rig from a friend. Put a Readon RX 6700 (or so) in it. So my first actual graphics card is this radeon!! :)
Buddy, if you read this: Thank you again, much love. You are an awesome beeing.
Voodoo 2 baybeeee
an S3 Trio card.
3060 ti I bought during the shortage, overpaid soooo much haha
Yeaaaaaahhh. 2k total for the prebuilt ended up being comparable to a shortage price at the time.
Still holding up what about yours?
Mines is still going quite strong, paired with a 5 5600x and runs well for (almost) everything I want at 1440p more-than-60-fps
Exact same setup here. Was what I was shooting for too.
Was best price to value at the time. It is almost showing its age for high graphics but has been super solid.
Nice!
Voodoo Monster 3D
Edit: wait I misread the assignment. That’s the first 3D accelerator I bought. I have no idea what my first gfx card was it was like 37 years sgo.
I think Radeon 9600xt?
Ooo yeah back when it came with a free code for Half-Life 2.
Pretty sure me too. It was an AGP card lol.
I feel like so many of the asklemmy questions are covert methods to profile users, so I never give real answers.
What value would this information have? You might get an approximate age estimate?
Put all the various questions together and you have lots of good info to profile.
This one feels particularly guilty
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GTX 980. put it in my first self built tower, which I still use to this day
First one I bought with my own money for my first own PC was the 3dfx Voodoo 2 (~1997). It was the best 3D GPU (addon to an existing 2D GPU) at the time.
Dont remember the details anymore, but I remember something called “Voodoo”.
Also, connecting 2 different types of graphics cards with a cable on the outside for some reason.
