• tetris11@lemmy.ml
      13·
      20 days 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
    • Thavron@lemmy.ca
      6·
      20 days ago

      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

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
    14·
    20 days ago

    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.

    • Broken@lemmy.ml
      1·
      20 days ago

      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.

  • Rhaedas@fedia.io
    10·
    20 days ago

    Nvidia Riva TNT, because the onboard graphics were only going to play EverQuest (beta) and Rogue Squadron like a painful slideshow, if at all.

    • 7dev7random7@suppo.fi
      4·
      20 days ago

      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.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    19 days ago

    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.

    • BlackArtist@lemmy.world
      2·
      19 days ago

      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.

    • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
      2·
      20 days ago

      Yeaaaaaahhh. 2k total for the prebuilt ended up being comparable to a shortage price at the time.

      Still holding up what about yours?

      • GuyFi@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        20 days ago

        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

        • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
          3·
          20 days ago

          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!

  • nick@midwest.social
    4·
    20 days ago

    Voodoo Monster 3D

    Edit: wait I misread the assignment. That’s the first 3D accelerator I bought. I have no idea what my first gfx card was it was like 37 years sgo.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    20 days ago

    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.

  • ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
    4·
    20 days ago

    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.