what was your FIRST video card?

[loafbred]

I have you beat by a slight margin. I had the Stealth 64 Video with 2MB VRAM. It was the thang for Doom II, with my Pentium 90.

 

[DayLaPaul]

Orchid Farenheit 1280 ISA 1MB RAM

 

[Hikari]

Some Orchid -EGA- card to replace the CGA card in the first PC I owned. Bard's Tale was rockin' in 640x350!!!

 

[DeathByDuke]

I just love these historic threads!

Voodoo1 4mb + S3 Virge DX 2Mb
--->
Voodoo2 8mb + SIS
--->
Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16Mb
--->
Riva TNT2 AGP 32Mb
--->
GeForce 256 SDR
--->
GeForce 2 MX (Hercules and it came overclocked)
--->
GeForce3 Ti200 64Mb

planned upgrade route: Radeon 9700 Pro or AIW 9700 Pro. Or may be a GF FX 5900 that only takes ONE slot (ASUS is the only one I can think of)

 

[zakath]

First vid card was a 2MB ATi Rage 3D - had that a while then got a 6MB 3dfx voodoo 1 based Canopus 3D passthru card. I can still remember firing up GLQuake and thinking holy f**k! It was awesome.

 

[nicowju]

what was the video card in the C64? that was my first after that, whatever was in my 286... supported EGA

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: gururu
I had a 2MB Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM (1995)

it was a sweeeet card

First one I actually bought? As opposed to whatever came with a machine...

Diamond Edge3d. Had Saturn controller connectors, onboard audio and really crappy video.

Next one: A Riva128 4megger. Got that one at BestBuy for $45 open box deal (the new ones were over $200). I think it was an employee who set that one up for himself, but I found it buried on the shelf. LoL

 

[DurocShark]

Originally posted by: nicowju
what was the video card in the C64? that was my first after that, whatever was in my 286... supported EGA

Video: MOS 6569 "VIC-II"
320 x 200 Hi-Resolution
40 columns text
Palette of 16 colors.

 

[kurt454]

My first card, bought to upgrade my computer, and play a game, was a 16meg TNT2 Vanta pci card. Upgraded from onboard graphics. Woot!

 

[Harabecw]

not much of an upgrade

 

[kurt454]

Originally posted by: Harabecw
not much of an upgrade

I was a noob who had not discovered anandtech yet. Didn't have an agp slot. Should of got a Voodoo card.

 

[Wipeout667]

I think the first vid card I ever purchased SEPARATELY (e.g. not built into the 8086/286) was a Tseng Labs ET3000 chipset card with 1MB. Hey, it was a Windows Accelerator!

 

[LoverBoyJ]

Originally posted by: FacelessNobody
Whatever was in our 8MHz Intel 8086. I know it drove a Samsung CGA monitor which is in the basement somewhere.

Hehehe... This is also what I had, my first PC.

 

[nick1985]

voodoo3 2000

 

[grabadude]

3DFX Voodoo 2 was my first video purchase. Still remember how I saw the Quake 2 in Open GL for the first time, mmmmm

 

[NEVERwinter]

s3trio 1MB <-- can't remember anything of it
s3virge 4MB + 3Dfx VooDoo 6MB <-- playing GL Hexen2... wow.. jaw dropping XD~~
nVIDIA RIVA TNT 16MB <-- playing FF7 looks damn good (need tnt patch tho')... @.@
GeForce2 MX 200 32MB <-- unimpressive....
ATI Radeon 8500LE 64MB <-- still love it... won't change to anything soon

 

[Malladine]

Voodoo 1 1000

 

[Fant]

First was Tandy TGA (320x240 with 16 colors!)
Second was Trident 8900 I think (1MB video woohoo)

 

[Mem]

Cirrus Logic 1mb video card,I can`t remember the chipset model(too long ago).

 

[cb]

Number 9 771 4mb PCI in 1995. (passed on to my uncle and still going strong)
Voodoo 3 16mb PCI in 2000 (still in second system)
ATI Radeon 64mb VIVO in 2002 (current system)

 

[FFactory0x]

I had a Compusa bought CENDYNE!!!! Pentium 60. First pentium ever. This this cost like $3500 and was used for tie fighter.

Think it came with a
trident 4mb card (p60)
voodoo3 3000 agp (pIII600)
Geforce3 (p4 1.8)
Radeon 9700np (xp2400+)

 

[SickBeast]

some 1mb cirrus logic heap-a-cheap.

 

[AT]

Western Digital 9030(IIRC) integrated on the motherboard of a DEC 486SX25MHz. Oh the memories.