What was your first video card /g/?
I got by on second hand stuff bought of friends and whatnot through high school, but this was the first card I saved up for and bought.
>>54482805
The first one I bought with my own money was an XFX Radeon 6850.
But the first one I've ever had was some Trident VGA card.
this thing
turns out the seller of my thinkstation lied about pci x16 slots on the motherboard
so i cant actually use it
http://www.ebay.com/itm/111813848611
first one i bought with my own cash, anon.
First one I bought with my own money was a Radeon 5770. That's when I first got into playing video games on my PC.
EVGA 9600GSO 512mb.
Bought it in 2009, kept it til 2011 when I upgraded to a 560ti.
If your first graphics card was made by a company still commonly used today, I want you to get the fuck off my lawn
>>54482805
It was 8600 GT from Zotac. Meh, that was such a fucked up purchase. Not only it turned out to be a low-quality build because fan died in like 3 month, but I've also purchased the one with GDDR2 when all other manufacturers were shipping 8600GT with GDDR3. FUCK YOU, ZOTAC!
>>54482805
>favorite card
The msi gtx 760 was the best bang for your buck card you could get and it aged very well.
>>54483026
Diamond is still around so get off your own lawn.
Sapphire 9200SE here. I remember I ordered it and like the next day they shit all over it on tech talk so I was pretty bummed. But I was still able to play heavy gear and need for speed so it worked out alright
>>54482964
This was mine too 7 years ago.
8800GT was the first card I brought. Saved up my pocket money so I could play oblivion!
HD radeon 7770, got it for free of a friend
>>54482805
GeForce 6150
It was embedded into an AMD 939 mobo
>>54483096
3dFX is not though
Geforce 2 fucking newborns
NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX440 AGP. I bought 2 other cards after that burnt out and always went back to this.
S3 Virge.
I still have it as a 'test crappy old motherboards' card.
Matrox mystique 220 FTW!
>>54482805
It's impossible for me to be certain as I was too young to have known how to find out at the time, possibly a Hercules.
569ti, unless you include the ancient GPU I had in the mid 90s. I don't remember anything about it, though..
>>54482805
Being this young.
Not getting excited about your first 1mb VGA card and being able to view images in high colour.
>>54482805
My first was Riva TNT2.
First one i had was some crappy sis 530 with 8mb and it could barely play Quake III.
First one i bought with my own money was a MX 440 64mb Appollo graphics bloody monster, not the best but bretty gud for 2003 could play serious sam first and second encounter very well!
And finally the first one i fell in love with was my 9800GT 512mb used it for about 4-5 years, was some kind of ECO version without the 6pin adapter so no OC for me, its still working great in a friends potato pc (gave it to him for free)
>>54482891
I'm jelly. I was thinking about buying a used one and putting it on display in my office or something.
Still running most of my original config. with a Sapphire HD 4730
>>54483388
>first time going from 8 bit to 16 bit color
>mfw
ATI X1950 PRO. Used to play shit like Counter Strike, Warcraft 3 and Combat Arms like a dream, even at 1080p. Had it up until last year when I started getting artifacting on screen so I upgraded to a GTX 980.
>>54483478
>playing nfs3: hot pursuit without dedicated card
>looks like shit
>install Riva TNT2
>holy shit dem graphics
this beast, i bought it where all the most leet tech was back in the day, Sam's Club when i was 17 and had decided to be a gaming haxor 4 weeks before.
>>54483612
>>54483612
woah
>>54483201
My nigga, my first card too. They were damn near indestructible
>>54483632
>tornado
accurate
9700 pro master race
>>54483496
Oh man, I had the AGP version of that. It was so brutally overpowered for how cheap they sold it for.
>>54483638
fucking world of warcraft destroyed a BFG 6200 and some ATI hand-me-down i got from my dad. MX440 stayed strong tho
One of these bad boys.
>>54482805
My gpu history
Nvidia 2 mx200 (AGP)
Nvidia 8800 GT
AMD 4870
Nvidia 660
Nvidia 870M (still have laptop with this)
Nvidia 980M (had laptop)
Nvidia 980TI
Nvidia 1080 gtx or better Nvidia is my next card.
>>54482805
Imagine 128 II
A Geforce 2 on my pentium mmx machine. I don't remember what I had in my 486 machine before that.
geforce 6600 gt
>>54483201
I remember those were shit on for being weaker than even the mid range Geforce 2 chips.
>>54482805
7300gt, it died yesterday
>>54483779
rip
5200 fx
Creative graphics blaster 4mb was my first dedicated gpu
>>54483779
Rip
>>54482805
Wasnt the "first" one i had, but the first one i didnt find in a dumpster.
AGP 7300 with 512mb of vram. Bought used for like 10$
>>54483919
Next got a 512mb 8600gt. Was the first card where i really felt power. I could actually play modern-ish games at reasonable settings.
Not the exact one in the pic.
>>54483935
Then i saved up and got this 460. An amazing card. Only recently discovered that it had died while not being used. The cooler was really really over the top for a 460 too... could OC the fuck out of the card and still be under 75*c
i had a Cyrus logic 1MB graphics adapter on my 486dx4 100
but my first real vidéo card vas a Riva TNT2 with 32MB of VRAM iirc on a PII800Mhz
>>54482805
The first discrete card I bought separately was an FX5200. Before that I had used a rage 128.
>>54483955
I wish more shrouds looked like this instead of black and red GAYMERZ ONLY XD shit
3670
4670
5770
7770
7950
What will my next GPU be? 490?
>>54483955
Then i switched to a reference 6970, then got dual reference 6970s. Used them to buttcoin mine for a while. Then sold them to a friend and he still uses them in his machine.
Now im rocking a 770 4gb, but the nvidia gimpworks is showing. I might switch to a 280x that i have lying around because that now beats the 770 in benchmarks.
RIVA TNT2
>>54482805
7600GT master race
>>54483026
come at me m8
>>54483997
We had one of those paired with an Athlon XP 1600 in 2001, it was my dads daily driver until caps on the PSU an mobo started leaking in 2009.
He's a hoarder so we still have that PC downstairs in its original resting place since we replaced it with a laptop.
>>54484082
I remember playing Quake II at a high resolution thanks to that bad boy, damn those were funny times.
>>54483496
I used a 2900 pro until a year or two ago. I thought x1950 was of comparable performance but after further analysis it turns out the x1950 was way, way less powerful and released less than a year earlier. How could you possibly have used that until last year?
>>54483661
How much was it? I recall paying $200-250 for my 2900 pro in 2007 (also AGP, stupid me) which according to benchmarks scores way higher so unless it was under $100 in late 2006 right after the release I find it hard to believe it was brutally overpowered for the price.
Alright, now I'm interested in finally trying to map out my clusterfuck of misguided purchases.
>May 2010: HD 5770
>October: 2010: GTX 460
>Early 2011: GTX 570
>Not longer after: GTX 570 SLI
>Not long after that: sold second GTX 570 cause multi-GPU is trash
>Some point later in 2011: sold remaining GTX 570 to brother.
Back to HD 5770 (Still have it to this day, running in my dad's PC)
>May 2012: HD 7870 (Immediately refunded because it had unbearable coil whine)
Back to HD 5770.
>August 2012: GTX 660 Ti
>December 2014: GTX 970
>February 2015: Sold after the false advertising obsolescence-dooming ruse was revealed
Back to GTX 660 Ti
>September 2015: GTX 960 (As a stopgap)
>Soon: probably GTX 1070 if NVIDIA don't pull the same shit
My first GPU was this radeon HD4850 by asus. This was my first because i bought it with my savings and i actually chose it. It worked great until it started overheating(aprox 4 years after i bought it and replaced it with a radeon hd 7770)
I had
FX 5200 (AGP)
7800 GS (AGP)
GTX 280
HD 5670 (needed something quick and cheap after my 280 unexpectedly died)
GTX 460
GTX 460 SLI
GTX 770
Not sure why I'm telling you faggerts, not like any of you care
tnt2 like half of the developed world circa 2000
I can't remember the exact model but it was a PCI Trident of sorts in 386.
>>54484169
>How could you possibly have used that until last year?
it was a good card for running non demanding games. games like counter strike and warcraft 3 are piss easy to run so i could get a locked 60 on both of them.
the only demanding game i've run is dishonored and it ran between 40-60 fps at medium/low settings at 1080p.
>>54484332
i care anon
>>54483984
This.
Times over 9000
Radeon X1650
VRRRRRRRR
>>54482805
5200 fx (AGP)
8600M (Laptop)
Intel GMA 850? Laptop broke :(
R9 280X that still is strong to this day.
>>54484169
>How much was it?
Good question, I have no idea, partially because of currency conversion rates. I want to say that it was between 100-200$ but with inflation it is impossible to tell, and I don't remember anything that would be a good price comparison..
It played every game I had maxed out, often also with max aniso filtering and AA. I only had midrange/budget cards till then, so it was the first time I could just crank up everything to max. The AA wasn't that important because I still used a CRT at the time (a better one that could do higher resolutions), but the AF made such a big difference that I never turn it off nowadays.
It was fun to turn up AA as well, just to see that I can do it without the framerate dipping.
Most games I played at the time were in fact limited by CPU speed, despite the fact that I was running the highest end platform at the time (Athlon64 X2). Core 2 Duo only came out around that time.
I had to make sure to use the correct rail on the power supply because that card had 2 molex connectors, and if I did not power it up on the best configuration, the machine reset randomly.
TNT2 M64
It was shit
I don't remember the model number, but it was a 1MB PCI Trident with MPEG1 hardware decompression and composite as well as VGA out. It came with a copy of Virtua Fighter 2 and Virtua Cop 1. I bought an Orchid Righteous Voodoo 1 to go along with it. This was on a 166MHz MMX Pentium machine. It played Unreal and Quake II well enough and I could watch 320x240 porn on my TV.
Gtx 760
ATI Rage Fury 32MB (babby's first)
ATI 9600 Pro
ATI 9600 XT
Nvidia 8800 GTS
Nvidia GTX 570
Nvidia GTX 970
>>54484156
iktf, my dad used to run semi-recent tomb raider games at playable frame rates. Can't remember which one but it might have been underworld.
But at that point the PC was starting to die, the CD drive would open by its self at POST due to some low voltage or high ripple on one of the voltage rails. He was convinced it was "spyware" making that happen.
3dfx voodoo 2
I was able to play swiv 3d at max settings
>>54482805
8800GT
GTX260
GTX680
>>54482805
Voodoo 1 nigga
who remember this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lyCVfcajKY
>>54483108
Damn, are you me? Got mine in a prebuilt though because I was a pussy at the time.
>>54483955
That is a sexy fucking shroud. Reminds me a of Shelby cobra.
Matrox mystique. Fuck I'm old... >>54484590
>>54482891
This
>>54484741
i loved when we could choose between glide ,opengl and Direct 3D
I only used Direct 3D for VRally.
This card was in my third computer. I don't know what was in the first two (1995 and 2001 builds) but in the third we had an FX 5900 Ultra.
Cirrus Logic something or other.
ISA, 1 MB of memory. I didn't even know what drivers were back then so I was stuck in 16 color mode until I upgraded to a Geforce 2 MX 200 that came with drivers.
>>54483026
Weirdly enough, S3 still fucking exists
>>54483779
My condolences senpai
>>54482805
GeForce 3 Ti500 was the first one I bought with my own money.
I still have my first GPU (from a major fucking upgrade standpoint, my Voodoo 3 and FX 5200 don't deserve anything resembling recognition)
I made a big fucking mistake though when I upgraded to a PCIe mobo and replaced it with an X1300, that thing was a huge piece of shit and performed WORSE than a 9800
Then I accidentally shorted my entire system and nuked everything in the process, and my next build had an X1950, which was replaced by an 8800 GTS for Christmas, which became a GTX 285 next year, followed by a 5770 the next year (probably the most insane budget card ever), then a 6970 with my first major paycheck later that year, a god-awful 7950 the next, which I sold on CL and used the cash to get an R9 285 two years later (another nice budget card), and as of now, I'm on a Fury that I unlocked to a semi-Fury X
>>54485072
> a 5770 the next year (probably the most insane budget card ever), then a 6970 with my first major paycheck later that year
Thats the jump I made. Got a 5770, rocked the shit out of it, then moved up to the 6970. After that I went to the 7970 and I'm still with it four years later.
>>54482805
ATI Radeon 9800 PRO
>>54484487
Now that you mention the molex stuff I realize my 2900 was obviously PCIE, I mixed it up with my 6600GT which came in both AGP and PCIE versions. I never used an AGP card that needed extra power connectors. 2900 was also one of the first cards with DX10 which is probably why it scores so much higher despite only having twice the transistor count. Athlon64 X2 was a nice series, I used a 6000+ up until two years ago as well.
>>54484647
Awesome video. I remember that being a popular vid at lan parties in the early 2000s. The karsten koch track just makes it even cooler. It's a sad thought that the beast machine in the video is less powerful than the average cellphone of today.
geforce 7600 gs agp
The ATI 4770
I was pretty much a poorfag student so it was the best I could do.
I even bought a 2nd one for crossfire a couple months later b/c of a open box sale
>>54484647
This kind of reminds me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06MYYB9bl70
TNT2, i think i played messiah on it.
Counting laptops? Gtx 820m. Ran WoW pretty good at 1366x768 so whatever. Desktop is gtx 960. Inb4 underage. Im 22. Just always been a consolefag except for family shitbox dell's.
this piece of shit
Voodoo banshee
Picked it up at a computer trade show
>>54485274
>GTX 820M
>GTX 8
wat
>>54485253
Jesus, that's a sweet mod tune.
>>54484950
Seriously?
I have a pci s3 card laying around. Single vga slot.
But, seriously?
Riva TNT2. Came in a shit Dell prebuilt my family had, which got passed down to me eventually.
>>54484332
I care anon. That's why I made the thread.
>>54485497
http://www.s3graphics.com/en/products/class3.aspx?productId=19
>>54483771
Nah, they were stronger GeForce 2s. The only real problem they had was the lack of support for pixel shaders.
Games ran easily at 60fps, until newer ones didn't run at all.
ATI Radeon 9600
>>54485611
No they were weaker mang, I remember it well. The upper half of the Geforce 2 and the entire 3 series spanked them, and they didn't even have DX8 support.
I remember wanting to play NFS:MW but the game wouldn't run, so I went to a shop and said I needed a graphics card(I didn't know shit about computer parts back then) and I got this, that feeling of being able to actually play the game for the first time due to an upgrade... you just can't experience that anymore beyond the first time
Have a Dell Vostro 200 running XP.
What would be a good old GPU to get for it?
Needs to get power from Pcie.
With my own mobey was an ati EH2340 agp 8x
I knew from beginning it was going to be shit but I needed a new card since my old ati 9600 pro fried up
What I was not expecting was it leing slower than the older card
The first one was a voodoo2 bought by my brother
>>54482805
OP here. So much classic GPU porn in this thread. Since everyone else is doing it here's my card history to the best of my memory.
>Some NV11 card
My first card. Pretty sure I scavenged it out of a busted tower at a family thrift shop
>GeForce 6200
A hand me down from a friend who got a new computer for his birthday.
>8800 GT
A birthday gift. This card kept me going in my scrapheap PC until I was able to save up and build my own.
>GTX 260 Core 216
The first card I ever bought on my own.
>GTX 570
Probably my favorite card out of all the ones I've owned. Bought it not long after launch to replace my struggling 260 and it lasted me over 4 years. OC'd like a champ too.
>GTX 980 SC
My current card. Should probably last me until my next complete rebuild.
>>54482805
Pic related was my very first video card, an nvidia 7300 LE. It was part of the PC my parents got me as high school graduation present.
First card I bought with my own money was an nvidia 9400 GT because I barely knew anything about computers and thought my PC, which only supported DDR2, would not be able to run a 9800 because it was DDR3.
>>54482891
This. I had my first job and got a custom built machine and specifically requested the voodoo 3 2000 agp after seeing it in my cousin's pc. I was totally blown away by the graphics.
I still have it but maybe I should've gotten the pci version so I could still use it today.
>>54482805
If you mean self-bought, probably a GTX980.
My first PC had a MagicMedia 256AV 3D video card, note its a GPU from a 1998 Thinkpad. I used a HD2400 Pro in a HP prebuild from 2007-2012, then had laptops until last year.
I got a Titan X after the 980, then sold it for the 780Ti I now use.
>>54486005
Also total history:
>MagicMedia 256AV 2.5 MB
>FX5200
>GeForce 6150 Go
>ATI X1650 Pro (Temporary)
>ATI HD2400 Pro 256 MB
>GT 530 2 GB
>GT 650M 2 GB
>GT 755M SLI 2 GB
>GTX 980 4GB
>GTX 660 (OEM) 1.5 GB
>GTX 670 2 GB (660 didn't run ME3 in 4K)
>GTX Titan X 12 GB
>GTX 780Ti 3 GB
>>>GTX 1070 until 1080Ti Classified SLI
Andromeda I come
>>54486066
>FX5200
That card was so unbelievably shitty, even when it came.
First card ever was some ATI card I pulled out of a server
First one I ever purchased was a Quadro FX 560
>>54483632
>That tiny fan
What was the deal with these? Why not just slap a stock 80mm fan on heatsink?
>>54482886
Yes you can, you just need a dremel
I got myself a EVGA GTX 460, after previously having two 9800 GTX+'s.
>>54486160
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOVjZqC1AE4
Ati x1550.
nvidia geforce 6200
>>54486201
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4830 @ age 17
GeForce2 MX200..... 64mb vram.... 175Mhz core clock which I overclocked to 185Mhz and 166Mhz memory which I overclocked to 170Mhz. Used to game on this thing playing cs and quake. was laggy as shit though I remember only getting like 15fps. card literally held me from like 2001 to 2009 or something
Originally had a Gigabyte radeon 6670 for $90. AMD drivers really were shit for the 6xxx series. Constant issues and problems at idle. Returned to Microcenter and bought pic related for $120. Overclocked like a champ and pushed all games on my bargain bin 21.5" 1680x1050vmonitor on ultra no problems.
Not my first, but my favorite card ever. The 8500le 128mb. Better than a geforce 3, close to a geforce 4 and a lot cheaper than both. Played half life 2, doom 3, kotor, and vtm:bloodlines on it.
Motorola 6847 but that was soldered to the motherboard. First actual video card was a Hercules mono card.
>>54486131
All 5000 series were shitty. But enough to run flight simulator 2001 on it.
The X1650 was more powerful than the HD2400 in my prebuild later, but it was the AGP version.
The GT530 was a enthusiast gaming card for me in 2012, it could easily max all the games I played on 20-30 FPS in 800x600 on my full 1280 resolution highest settings.
my first real gpu i bought with my money.
My first ever was a powercolor radeon 9600 pro
Was blowwwwn away watching BF1942 play wake island at 60 fps and farcry original. And gamed on HL2 with upgraded ram to 4GB. Miss those days..
I remeber never being impressed with any graphics in games since farcry 1's specular reflections and HL2 tech demo (gimped release version).
![935[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/rMtqgJr.jpg "935[1].jpg")
>>54482805
this baby
9250 AGP, aw yiss.
Then jumped to a 5770 eventually.
ATi should've been bought by Intel
they would've been good then
>>54487455
what is it?
A 2MB S3 Virge.
Was quite fun to play tomb raider 2 without textures when trying to run it at 640x480x32.
>>54482805
first card i ever got was some radeon card close to this guys: >>54482849
second was an 8800gt. third was a 560ti 448, i'm rocking a 780ti now.
for having built my first pc 8 years ago, not a whole lot of money has gone into this thing. still no problem running anything.
>>54487480
God am I glad they weren't, I'd be stick buying Novidia cards then
>>54482805
One of these pieces of ass haha
>>54487484
shit, it is a 4750
>>54483403
that was my 2nd
Pretty sure my first was a vga of some sort back in 1990 though cant remember which one
>>54487511
Intel would have more funds for ATi to compete with nvidia
>>54487541
No shit, that's not the point. I would avoid them because they're owned by Intel.
![14-102-915-04[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/s9AX4lm.jpg "14-102-915-04[1].jpg")
>>54482805
Got the HD Radeon 6970 card back in 2010. Still using it in my secondary build.
>>54485318
Me too, but I had the 4MB version. That was actually a hell of a card with my P120. I could play anything with that bastard.
>>54482805
Voodoo3.
It literally came in a brown carboard box because it was a discounted item that had been returned by another customer.
I was around 13 years old and didn't really have any idea what I was doing beyond knowing that my favorite game was running like shit and that supposedly having a dedicated graphics card would fix/help.
>No 9600pro
These buggers used to do hardware tessellation in real time 9 years before nvidiashits dx10.x demo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATI_TruForm
used mine until 2010's as a backup pc had it since 2003
>>54483108
Same. Loved that thing so much. I think I still have it around here in a box somewhere
>>54487631
I've still got one in my PowerMac G5, it's an awesome card
>>54483147
>3dFX is not though
3DFX was not a company. It was a chipset in the Voodoo family.
The first video card I bought was probably a matrox mystique. Our previous computers had onboard graphics. I think I remember buying the 2mb upgrade for it to have 4mb. Shit was cash.
Poorfag here. Used Gigabyte R9 280x Windforce. It still has almost 1 year warranty left. Bought it with money from my job. Missed a good deal for a Sapphire so I went with this one.
Fucking love the thing.
First video card was a 9800GT. Then I got this. I'm probably going to get a 1070, and later sell it for the 1080ti because im stupid.
