What was your first? GPU Rewind!

I did a search and didn't find exactly what I was looking for so I wanted to start this new thread. I want as many people here who can to contribute and let's discuss the very first GPU you had in your computer whether it be desktop/laptop. What card was it that made you fall in love with PC Gaming?

For me it was the V2 1000 PCI by 3dfx. That card was a beast for me at least and I loved every minute of its use.



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My first real GPU?
Original Voodoo 1 (3d-only) paired with a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM (2d only).

But I fell in love much earlier with computer gaming on a hardware-memory modded Commodore VIC-20. (complete with a hardware command sys64802 button)

 

Yeah for me it was 3Dfx too that gave PC a whole new gaming experience, after that I went from ATI X800XT to Nvidia 8800 GTX and man that GPU was fast in those days, well paired with SLI they are fast even today.

 

My first real gpu was nvidia geforce 4 420 go. I saw a commercial for need for speed underground and it got me back into PC gaming - i bought my first laptop (sony vaio) with this card just to play that game.

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AGP 2x - ATI RAGE Mobility P 8MB. It was in a Compaq Armada E500.

It wasn't until the nVIDIA 8600M GT GDDR3 256MB that I started gaming more often and desiring more power.

 

first GPU was I think a tnt2 m64, but I had onboard stuff too

 

ATI x 300
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Matrox m3D with PowerVR! It was cheaper than Voodoo but had great specs on paper.

Matrox m3D (PowerVR PCX2))

Before my m3D, I had these types of video cards in my PC systems (oldest being an XT-compatible running at 4.77Mhz with turbo mode up to 8Mhz!):

1.CGA Standard resolution 15.7KHZ Horizontal rate (like a TV) 4 color!
2.EGA Medium resolution 25KHZ Horizontal rate --> 16 color! woohoo!
3.VGA 31.5KHZ Horizontal rate (640x480 mode)

 

my first real gpu was a S3 savage 3d.. Had to beg my parents for one when i was about 10..
my 1st cpu was an intel overdrive P5.. 66mhz and 0.8 micrometer fabrication..I was in the 3rd grade at that point and I still knew those specs .. Although, I couldnt quite pronounce fabrication properly then..

 

The Nvidia Geforce FX 5200 was my first desktop GPU. That thing sucked so much I immediately upgraded to a FX 5700, which was still pretty bad. After that I built a system with a Geforce 6800, which I then upgraded to a BFG 6800 Ultra. Then I visited a buddy's house and I noticed his much cheaper ATI 9800 pro doing the same stuff my 6800 ultra was doing. After that I went Ati all the way. I purchased an Ati Radeon HD 4870 and I fell in love, still running that baby to this day.

As a notebook gamer I went from an Hp zv6000 with a ATI 200m(pretty bad) to an Asus G50v (best Buy) with a Geforce 9700m Gt. The G50 was awesome, I was running Mass Effect and most other games on high with a resolution of 1366x768(which I used to think was awesome). After the legendary G50 I upgraded to an Asus G73JH which in comparison was running a god-like 5870m. Now I was gaming on the go at 1080p and that 5870m overclocked seemed to make everything except metro its b****. About 2 years later games like Saints Row the third and Battlefield 3 made my G73jh suffer, running maxed out was no longer possible, also my 720qm was nowhere near enough to emulate some games on pcsx2 and dolphin. After working my a** off I saved up enough to purchase a refurbished Alienware M17x R3 with a 6990m and an i7 2760qm.

 

I can't remember the first card I had, which was an ATI in an AMD run machine, but in that I upgraded to a nVidia GeForce 6600.

First notebook GPU is poor in my vaio f series, nVidia GT330M.

Glad to be going PowerPro 12:17 with an nVidia GT570M though.

 

for desktop my first card is a nVidia geforce FX5200 =)))))

my first mobile GPU would be intel integrated graphic 3000 or something (not the HD one)

 

EGA 16 colors

 

My first PC came with S3 Graphics back in 1996, came from a Gateway 2000 P5-100. That PC lasted for 6 years before retirement...

The first notebook I had was a Compaq Armada M700 with ATI Mobility Rage GPU somewhere back in 2002.

 

i first got 9800mgs, after 3 years of service, it served its purpose. now the next in line is in my sig.

 

ooo mine was a diamond stealth s3 trio or something and a voodoo 2.

 

Well techincally my first gpu was integrated and was an Intel x1300 ( or something like that). But my first real gpu is the Gtx560, and yes I'm fairly new to the pc gaming world.

 

Radeon X700

 

S3 Virge 2MB with a Pentium MMX 166MHz and 32MB (later 64MB) of SDR RAM.
Played Commanche Gold, the first Tomb Raider, Duke Nukem 3D, Heretic... can't remember much more.

 

ATI RAGE in the first SONY VAIO desktop (I think mid 90s)

 

First GPU I've used was whatever integrated GPU I had in an old K6-based NEC desktop. After that was an ATI Radeon Xpress 200 (integrated). Current family desktop has a nVidia GeForce 6150SE (integrated, yet again).

My first dedicated GPU is the Quadro 2000M in my current laptop (previous laptop had an Intel GMA4500 iirc).

 

Sis 6215c with 2 mb VRAM for my first desktop!!!

First Laptop GPU was 8600M GT. Yeah the fail one from Nvidia which had the heating problems. :|

 

Whatever was popular in the mid 1990's. S3 Virge perhaps, all 4MB of it. lol. Otherwise I did end up with a Monster 3D and eventually a pair of them. Otherwise I had an Amiga before that and a TRS-80 prior to that, so no true GPU.

Of interest from Wiki:

While revolutionary in delivering an affordable 3D accelerator with good quality 2D performance, the ViRGE earned the unofficial title as the world's first "graphics decelerator" due to its abysmal 3D performance. While the ViRGE could render basic 3D scenes faster than host-CPU based software rendering, turning on features such as bilinear filtering and Z-depth fogging caused the card to slow down to the point where software-rendering would outrun the ViRGE. To this extent, the practical feature set of the ViRGE range was extremely limited. Ironically, 3D-rendering on the expensive VRAM based ViRGE/VX (988) was even slower than the ViRGE/325 due to the VX's slower core and memory clock rates.

 

Whatever was in the Mac Performa 450. About 93, maybe late 92.

 

geforce 3 ti 200, iirc...

well, that's the first one i remember selecting at least. I suppose I might have had an earlier nvidia or via desktop gpu

 

3dfx Voodoo 2 12mb. I wanted to run a pair of them but didn't have the money. I may have even ran EQ on it, can't remember anymore.

 

My first desktop card was some old Intel IGP i think.
Bought it super cheap and installed Windows 2000 on it.

First proper GPU?
ATI Mobility Radeon X600 with 128mb vram.
I could even play BF2 with it until they added something in Catalyst that made it leech off my 512mb of ram.

 

You guys really had dinosaurs. My first w the 8800GT.

 

First "video card" of any sort? Tandy/Radio Shack EGA card I installed in my Tandy 4000 which I upgraded to VGA (and the needed monitor) so I could play Wing Commander in all it's 256 color 640x480 glory.

First 3D card? Rendition V1000 so I could play Vquake in all it's graphical splendor.

First real GPU specific laptop? Dell Inspirion XPS with a Radeon 9800M and a P4 Extreme Edition 3.2ghz (with the nifty Skull cover). I went all out in 2004 on that puppy and it had, without a doubt, the worst keyboard I've ever used on a laptop.

 

First desktop GPU was a Voodoo Banshee. From then on I've had MX440, FX5700 (failed and replaced with a 6800 AGP), 6600GT (failed and replaced with 7600GT), 250GTS, 460GTX and currently a 580GTX

First laptop GPU was an Intel 855GME inside an ASUS M5N, next was a 9300M GS inside an ASUS W7sg which failed after 2 years, and currently using these in my sig (M11x R1 with GT335M and E6410 with NVS4200M)

 

First real GPU for me as in I bought a GPU and not something that came in a computer was the Nvidia Geforce 5700 Ultra.

Even back in the day I had to go for "high end" and get the Ultra lol.

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra Review - www.sharkyextreme.com

I think I had some voodoo card before this but I cant remember clearly, I do however remember buying this quite clearly. I even though I recall buying it from EB Games... a strange place to buy a computer gpu.

Oh the memories.

Pretty sure I had a VooDoo 3


Prob the AGP version

While I was searching around I found this article: http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/voodoo_geforce_awesome_history_3d_graphics?page=0,0

Definitely worth a read or atleast a glance through they did a great job laying out details and just seeing the pictures & dates of the old gpus and going forward and watching them advance was a nostalgic experience.

 

3DFX Voodoo/Voodoo 3 (2x) for me. S3 Savage, Matrox 400, and ATi Rage 3D.

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Cirrus Logic CLGDXXXX (I don't remember the number) based on ISA 16-bit bus with 256kB VRAM.

 

First desktop GPU was Geforce 2 MX 400 and first laptop GPU was Intel X3100

 

Does my old C64 graphic card count?

Anyway, my first GPU for windows gaming was the old Nvidia Go Force 4 64 MB on board. I OCed it with rivatuner and the last game I played with it was PES 2006..

 

No idea, the standard stuff that was in an IBM XT.
The first real GPU was a Vodoo 1, than came a Rage Fury, and the first thing you could call a GPU was 1st generation Radeon with 64Mb DDR in 2001. That stuff was awesome at that time.
The first notebook GPU was an Intel 950 in a d610, it was crappy. Then came a GF8600M GT, followed by the current 540M.

 

That's not a voodoo3, that's an S3 trio, THIS is a voodoo3 3000:



Also my first proper graphics card. My first few:

3DFX voodoo3 3000
Radeon 8500
Radeon 9800 pro
Radeon x700 pro
Radeon x600 mobility

 

Crikey this thread is taking me back I have had quiet a few PC's in my time I am 33 but when I was 18 for some reason I had 4 pc's in my bedroom (not sure why) LOL anyway from memory I have had the following in no specific order and I am sure I have had more than this


My first PC was an Elonex 386SX 16Mhz with 100mb HDD, I can't remember the GPU that was in that but it must have been really old LOL
Diamond Stealth
ATi Rage 128 Pro
Elsa Erazor 2
Diamond monster 3d
Orchid Righteous 3d
Creative 3d Banshee
Nvida 7300Gt
Nvidia 7950GT
570m
6990m

 

3dfx voodoo banshee ! Was so excited for that card.

 

I tried a desktop with a 3dfx gpu once, but i was to young to care for what model it was.
All i cared for was that i could play NFS Hot Pursuit on it. xD
Damn, Need for Speed games where awesome then.

 

I remember playing rollcage first software and then accelerated.

 

I actually bought the Monster 3D card so I could play Descent II. I played that game to death.

 

Well my firt pc when i was a little kid had Voodoo 2, it was a beast back then My first laptop had an ATI Mobility Radeon X800XT, also a beast back in the day

 

Voodoo PC M855 - 9600m pro. Hundreds of countless hours playing Black hawk down...

Memories....

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My first desktop GPU was some Via 32MB chip.

My first laptop GPU was the ATI Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory in my Dell Inspiron 1501.

 

Radeon Geforce 2 ---> Radeon 9600ti ---> Radeon 9600m ---> Radeon x600 Mobility ---> Nvidia go 7800GTX ---> Nvidia go 7900gs ---> Nvidia m9800gt SLI ---> Mobility Radeon HD 5870 Crossfire

Kind of neat seeing the progression of videocards over the years.

 

My first desktop GPU was a Radeon 9000. Coincidentally my first laptop had a Radeon 9000m.

 

RIVA TNT... it killed my playstation.... I was hooked. I worked at CompUSA and won a GeForce 256. I knew nothing about overclocking and proceeding to clock the card as high as it could go and blew it out in .00001 seconds of getting it. Replaced it with a Stealth card.

 

The earliest I could remember was a S3 Speedstar and a few years later the Stealth.

I don't remember the exact model but I still have their driver install discs somewhere in my closet.

I was playing Wolf3d, my first FPS game, when I was 5. I learned how to install games and tweak my config.sys and autoexec.bat for each game.

 

1st Dedicated card was a Ati Rage Fury Pro 128 then i cycled through several Geforce GPUs over the years. Currently running a GTX580 in my desktop.

As for laptops, 1st laptop GPU was an Geforce 7600m in an HP DV9000 Series laptop.

Running Starcraft and SiN on my old AMD K6-2 system with on board graphics killed console gaming for me.