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[โ€“] nickiam2@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

I had an ATI all in wonder 9600. That card was very unique because it also had a built in TV tuner and AV capture card that could turn your PC into a DVR of sorts. It went into an agp slot before PCIe was a thing.

[โ€“] riccochet@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I believe I had the Riva tnt2. After that upgrading to the original GeForce 256. Was on my Intel Celeron 300A that you could overclock to a whopping 450mhz!

[โ€“] dosse91@lemmy.trippy.pizza 1 points 2 weeks ago

The first one I got was some integrated cirrus logics chip that didn't even have 3d acceleration. The first one I bought with my own money was a GeForce 7800GT in late 2005

[โ€“] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Noedel@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

3dfx Voodoo2, followed by a Riva tnt2. Good times were had.

[โ€“] sibachian@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh man, talk about bringing me back in time. My first card was a voodoo 2.

ATI Mach32 EISA. It looked to good on paper, but somehow, it did not make DOS go brrrrrr ๐Ÿ˜Ÿ

[โ€“] ghashul@feddit.dk 1 points 2 weeks ago

I have no idea what i had in my earliest PCs, but the first 3d graphics card was the 3dfx Orchid Righteous 3d.

[โ€“] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

MSI 4GB version of GTX970. Upgraded a few years ago to an RX6800 and I'm stoked about both GPUs tbh

[โ€“] Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

rx580. still have it on top of a shelf.

[โ€“] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

GTX 1060 in a laptop. I still have it.

[โ€“] MrFunnyMoustache@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know what hardware my first computer had because I didn't even know what a GPU was at the time... But the first GPU I ever bought was the 8600 GT.

[โ€“] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

AMD Radeon 6300M.

Or if mobile doesn't count: GTX 1060-6GB

[โ€“] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Mine was an ELSA Erazor III LT (the name somehow stuck). It was an offer that was bundled with horribly bad and clumly mechanical shutter 3D goggles. I remember trying Half Life with it. It was rattling all the time and the 3D effect was mediocre.

[โ€“] Grofit@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It was some on board gpu with my super amazing AMD K6-2, it couldn't even run mega man X without chugging. Then a friend gave me an S3 Virge with a glorious 4mb vram.

[โ€“] feef@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

First custom pc I got had a NVIDIA 6600 gt

[โ€“] rainynight65@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Riva TNT 16MB, brand name Elsa, card called Erazor.

[โ€“] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

Radeon 7770.

[โ€“] eugenia@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A Cirrus Logic, on VLB on my 486DX/40, with 4 MB of RAM, and a SoundBlaster card. December 1994.

[โ€“] __Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

I had an s3 virge card. Amazingly bad, it basically was no faster than cpu rendering, but looked a bit better. I spent so much time trying to trick games into running on it.

[โ€“] EonNShadow@pawb.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

As a teen in the 2010s, my first GPU was an Nvidia 680m in a Sager (Clevo) laptop.

That thing could power through just about anything I'd throw at it. Good times.

[โ€“] dkr567@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My brother and I after putting our allowances together as kids got either a Voodoo 2 or 3 (can't remember anymore) in order to run quake 2 better back in 1999.

[โ€“] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My dad got us a voodoo FX banshee on our home computer back in the day. I guess the first one I personally bought would have been a GTX 970

[โ€“] mo_lave@reddthat.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

A GeForce 9 series

[โ€“] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

Some Nvidia card back in the 90's

[โ€“] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Actual PC? GTX 960 4GB from MSI.
I got some random hand me down laptop with Win7 and probably some Intel iGPU

[โ€“] SawNee@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

Intel i740. Awesome bang for buck card in the late 90s!

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