I’m amazed at how many people remember the hardware they purchased 30 years ago.
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
Man that voodoo card was my birthday AND my Xmas gift one-year. I was lucky I got it
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
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.
Voodoo 2 baybeeee
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.
Trident VGA?
I got a 3DFX voodoo as soon as they came out. GL quake was mind-blowing.
I bought a Riva TNT
Then a GeForce 2
Then a Radeon 9000
Then for a bunch of years I just moved into laptop after laptop with discrete GPUs.
Now I still have a 1080 and a 2070 doing a little bit of light AI work and video transcoding for me. But I’m still relying on crappy laptop GPUs for all my gaming. They’re good enough.
I was rocking Geeforce 2 and Soundblaster AWE 32. Good times😄
I got a 3Dfx from a computer fair in Liverpool just so I could play Quake 2 CTF, it was absolutely mind blowing not even an understatement.
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 Banshee, so I could play Quake, Unreal and Deus Ex.
7950 gx2
Ahhhhh, back when GFX Box Art was better than the video game box art on the shelf adjacent
A 3dfx Voodoo, it came with POD as a pack in game and it looked so good with Glide. My favourite racing game memories.
Hercules Prophet 9700 Pro
I remember because it was my first PC that I got for myself. I was an intern at a small computer repair shop and that’s where I learned how to build computers.
Before that I only played on my parents PC and afterwards I switched to Mac.
Same. I had the Hercules Gamesurround Muse sound card to go with it too.
Riva TNT2
Technically, never, none. Untechnically RTX 3080Ti laptop.
My prime gaming years were self moderated by only going to internet cafés as a strict rule to manage my time. I spent a lot of time at cafés, but nowhere near as much as I would have played if I had my own hardware. It wasn’t the money. It was about the time management and a large part of how I owned my first auto body shop business.
