Which was your first GPU? :)

[inglburt]

My first dedicated gpu was just a 2 meg 2d card. But if your talking 3d card it was a 16 meg Voodoo Banshee from Elsa. Back aroufn 1999 or so. My friends were jealous cause it played Soldier of Fortune.

 

[ahmshaegar]

random onboard... first "3D" card would be an ATI Rage Pro? Though I remember it was faster to use software rendering in many cases... so although it was my first 3D card, it was more of a 3D decelerator. Then Radeon 7500, Radeon 9000, Radeon 9600, Radeon 9800 Pro. Not all necessarily for my computer, mind you, but different computers in the house. Currently using a laptop with a Radeon X1400, as I don't really game anymore and I do need to move around, but I didn't want integrated.

Edit: Wow, just noticed; all ATI cards...

 

[gorak]

RIVA TNT 16mb !!!!! (creative labs)

S3 Virge does NOT count.... was good for NFS thou !

 

[Unolocogringo]

A blazing fast Power Color S-3 virge 325 2mb ram upgraded to 4mb(socketed chips)for autocad. on a pentium 90 with 64mb ram.Crazy expensive.

 

[esmith7075]

First card I bought and installed myself was a 8800gt lolz

 

[Andrius]

Some relic VGA Adapter from the 286/386 era. Don't know what it was.
It ran SimCity2000 on a 386 hehe.

First "3D Accelerator" : ATI Mach64 2MB VRAM (1997-1999)
First thing I picked : 3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000 (1999) flashed to 3000 😉

 

[Sengoku]

First GPU I bought, rather than some onboard thing: Geforce 2, GTS

I still use it to this very day.

 

[omicron_15]

good old GeForce 256

had a RIVA 128 before that

 

[Asian PingPong]

ATI Rage 128 pro. It was a big deal because it was agp

 

[Saedeas]

Helped my dad put an old Radeon 9250 in my 4 year old computer. Think I had integrated graphics before that (it still wasn't much of an upgrade 😛). I just put an 8800GTS 512 in this new computer I built for myself though. First computer I had ever built (mostly) on my own.

 

[L1qu1d]

Voodoo 3

I had a couple before...but forgot their names...I was too small 😛

 

[yadge]

X800gto, about March of 06. It was a really nice card.

 

[skittle]

riva tnt 16mb
Played quake III!

 

[4Ryan6]

I think it was a Voodoo 3000, for its day that card rocked!!!

 

[Conumdrum]

Crayola, box of 16 colors. I doubled my memory later to 32 crayons when I was a good boy.

 

[lancer_3k]

I had a Voodoo Banshee - but my first GPU was a Geforce 2 MX400.

 

[B-Unit]

O man, my first one was the good ol Voodoo 2, and the worst part is I never got it to render a single frame. Couldnt get it to play with the intigrated on my IBM, so it has sat useless all these years...

First one I got to work was a 64MB Radeon VIVO. Dropped that baby into a 450Mhz PII and was ready to play! lol

 

[rolli59]

EGA Wonder 16 colors out of pallet of 64.

 

[leo2kp]

TNT2 M64 32mb was the first card I bought myself. I've had other cards before that but I can't remember anything lol.

 

[Gravemind123]

The first card I had in a PC was a Riva TNT2 M64 32mb just like leo2kp(although mine came with the PC). It was a beast of a card, that an a 450MHz PIII with 256MB of ram played some sweet games back in the day, Jedi Knight 2 and Command and Conquer: Generals were the most intensive games I played on it, and Generals was pretty slow running, but that is most likely CPU.

 

[caamsa]

Crayola, box of 16 colors. I doubled my memory later to 32 crayons when I was a good boy.

Damn you were lucky, when I was a kid I only had 2 crayons.....a black one and a white one. And I had to make those from old candles that we used to light and heat our log cabin.

 

[romulus47plus1]

Geforce2 MX 440, or what ever name it was... It was a Geforce2 for sure but for the MX part I'm not too sure...

 

[arson94]

My first cards were a Voodoo 3 3000 and a GeForce 2 MX 440. I'm still currently holdin it down with my Gainward 1800 GoldenSample GeForce FX 5950 Ultra. Jesus that Gainward cost me some pretty pennies...

 

[badgtx1969]

ohhhh the year was 1997:

Matrix Mystique 220 with a Pentium 100 mHz

 

[njalterio]

I remember in September 2005 I bought an Visiontek Radeon X300 SE from the local Best Buy for $100.00. XD

Ah.....come such a long way.....lol