What was your first 3D card?

[fr]

I still have a Canopus Pure3D (not in my comp though). It came with a cool sticker: "I got a Can-o-pus!"

There was a 2MB V1?

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Originally posted by: trmiv
Diamond Monster Voodoo 1 4MB

Same here. Still have it, can't find the pass-through cable

 

[nj]

I had a S3 Virge 4mb. I could only get two games to work: Moto GP and Descent ... it had great 2d though, it's still in the parent's computer at home.

 

[CrazyRyan]

Poll Updated

 

[CrazyRyan]

n00b update

 

[PliotronX]

A Hercules Thriller 3D based on the Verite 2200. Twas a beautiful card Quake 2 played just dandy on it.

 

[Supermercado]

I don't have any idea what card was in my dad's computer (I never had a system of my own that was capable of anything other than SimCity 2000), but the first card I got in my computer was a GeForce SDR almost two years ago.

 

[MrHappyMonkey]

Originally posted by: littlezipp
ATI Rage

 

[dethman]

i believe it was a diamond stealth 4mb

 

[badboyeee]

ATI 3D Charger ... 8mb i believe
got it with this 300a celeron computer, but i upgraded it with a ATI all-in-wonder 32mb, but now thats outdated too

 

[controversial]

that one intel one that competed with the nvidia riva.

 

[GiGoLo]

4mb nvidia tnt (might have been 8mb)

i think you mean nvidia riva 128... original tnt came in 8 and 16mb, tnt2 was 16 and 32

i had a diamond viper v330 4mb agp.... hehe. that card kicked ass for its time. motoracer and quake ran beautifully on it

 

[Electrode]

Originally posted by: SuperCommando
I never had a system of my own that was capable of anything other than SimCity 2000

You're not bashing SimCity 2000, are you? That game was, no, IS one of the best games ever made!

 

[spanky]

i had a sorry ass banshee

 

[Crimson]

Orchid Righteous 3d.. 4 meg... Oh yeah!

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: Crimson
Orchid Righteous 3d.. 4 meg... Oh yeah!

Hey, that's what I had! AWESOME card for its time. Wow.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Had a few S3virge4mb cards though my first REAL 3d card was the Pure3d Voodoo card, the first one on the market with 6MB of RAM. Also it would overclock from 60 to 66 mhz.

 

[N8Magic]

Mine was a 2MB S3 ViRGE that I upgraded to 4MB by snapping 8x256k VRAM modules into it.

That card was such a POS, I upgraded to a 8MB Voodoo2 not long after.

 

[Eli]

The same one I have now..

Nvidia RivaTNT

I don't think the S3 card should be in there.. I mean, you can't play games in OpenGL with them.. But .. lol.. I used a S3 ViRGE 4mb card for a long ass time.. lol

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: N8Magic
Mine was a 2MB S3 ViRGE that I upgraded to 4MB by snapping 8x256k VRAM modules into it.

Same here N8Magic, on my last retail PC, a Digital Starion!

 

[dude]

Dude, I remember my friend bought a Verite. It was about $200, if I remember right...

I had a S3 virge, S3 Trio, Trident, ATI Rage, ATI Rage 128, and ATI 3D Rage. Those were my first taste in 3D. Or, at least, that's what they claimed. My first real 3D was a Voodoo 1, I guess.

 

[Migroo]

Originally posted by: LukFilm
Matrox Mystique

Yep, me too, but I had the Mistique 220

 

[Nefrodite]

diamond stealth 3d(s3 virge) 3d decelerator. thing pretty much ran slower then software render almost. quickly supplimented with diamond monster 3d 4mb!! oh yea!!

 

[brtspears2]

yikes...matrox mystique, sold on the packaged game it came with. Demolition Derby 2. As I look back, I was easyly amused by low quality graphics.

My path.......
Matrox Mystique 4mb -> Matrox m3D add-on 4mb -> Riva TNT 16mb -> Voodoo3 3500 16mb -> Radeon AIW 7500 64mb > Radeon AIW 8500 64MB

Looking at my path, and if the pattern continues on the video ram onboard... I will have 256mb on my next card. Ram is cheap enough, anything can happen.

 

[Jimbo]

My path.......
Matrox Mystique 4-MB (PCI) >Matrox G-200 8-MB > Riva TNT 16-MB (Canopus 2500)> Matrox G-400 MAX 32-MB> Radeon 8500-64MB

Anand said in a very early review that Mystique was synonymous with CRAP. He was sooo right!