My first dedicated card... I think it was a GeForce 4 MX? Either that or a GeForce FX 5200.. neither of which I'd prefer to even think about again. My first high-end card was the GeForce 8800 GTX. I wish I could say I had as fond of memories of that card as most do, but I paired it with Windows Vista. (For example, my system would hard-lock if I flew over a certain area in WoW.) Let's just say that things did not go well, and I still think my card was defective from the start as it never worked as well as you'd expect even after driver updates.
That card was actually the reason why I went over to AMD with the 6970 and then the 7950 before going back to Nvidia with the GTX 680.
We had something like that in our Compaq Presario when growing up, but it only had 2MB of memory. I remember trying to play a demo for a game, but I didn't realize that it required at least 4MB of video memory. So, it only loaded some of the visual assets, and I can assure you that the game looked quite awkward. (This being prior to AGP.) I used to drool over the thought of getting something like a Voodoo 3 or 5, but I knew that'd never happen.
That card was actually the reason why I went over to AMD with the 6970 and then the 7950 before going back to Nvidia with the GTX 680.
We had something like that in our Compaq Presario when growing up, but it only had 2MB of memory. I remember trying to play a demo for a game, but I didn't realize that it required at least 4MB of video memory. So, it only loaded some of the visual assets, and I can assure you that the game looked quite awkward. (This being prior to AGP.) I used to drool over the thought of getting something like a Voodoo 3 or 5, but I knew that'd never happen.