What was your first? GPU Rewind!

#3 for me lol. On top of being young, I'm also a console-tard (especially for FPS games), so there's that. Most of my computer gaming consists of Minecraft and RTS games, which is more CPU intensive than anything else.

 

I would say average age here is 23-24 yrs old, so yeah.

I'm #4) really old, lol Big 4-0 this year

 

Diamond Monster Fusion, 3dfx banshee chipset

sharky extreme - hardware - diamond monster fusion review

 

I'm almost 2 decades old! Yeah nearly a fifth of a century old! Come'on that is old.

I had my Intel-powered laptop for a year and a half before my current laptop (which happens to be a year and a half old now).

 

nobody had microwaves back then I think ... but with that machine of mine all the kids from around wanted to come to play games on it

I had one like that back in the day. That must have been around the time of the S3 cards as well ...

lol

 

nVidia Riva TNT 2 32Mb. I had it till about 2005. That was family's first rig, bought back in 2000, had P3 600MHz, 192Mb RAM and 40Gb HHD.

 

Ati rage mobility 8mb paired with a Pentium III 450mhz

A hell of a rig

 

It must have been 1993 when I got my first PC equipped with an AMD486 SX2-50 (50MHz) CPU and Diamond Viper GPU (don't remember the exact model). It came with 2 MB of RAM (which I upgraded to 4), a 210MB hard drive and a hilarious TURBO button which clocked the CPU DOWN! to 25MHz

I kept the case of the above system and upgraded it to become my next machine. A Pentium II (133MHz), 8MB of RAM, "double-speed" CD-ROM, a Creative Sound-Blaster and a Matrox Millennium II CPU later replaced with a Matrox G-400. Or was the G-400 already in my next setup? However, I clearly remember Matrox ruling my GPU world for quite a while.

edit: Yes... I'm getting older

 

My first was an "S3 Super Savage" from thinkpad t23.
It could actually play Morrowind, which is more than Intel 915 and 945gml integrated graphics can claim.
Next was a 9300m GS from the sony Z, and then I went straight to a quadro 3700m. Somewhere in there my brother bought I think a Radeon 1650xl AGP for our desktop.

 

My first "GPU" was a UB 800 which doubled as a CPU as well and ran at incredible 1.75MHz in a Robotron KC 85/3.
One of my favourite games on this machine was a boulder dash clone called Digger which Linux users among you might know as xdigger:
Debian -- Details of package xdigger in lenny

 

The first *PC* that I bought and owned myself was just out of college. Pentium 60, 2MB RAM, 320MB hard drive, S3 virge video card, Windows 95 was just released too. I think I spent like $1500 on that setup, plus a 17" CRT probably max resolution of 1024x768.

 

S3 Virge DX paired with a [email protected] that was promptly upgraded to a GF4 MX440 because that piece of garbage couldn't handle Return to Castle Wolfenstein and B&W.

 

hmm... Apple II/Amiga 1200 era was the earliest computers to use games on at school before Macintosh IIci/Performas/486SX-33Mhz-Pentium 75mhz were fully deployed by middle school. I have many memories of Chessmaster, Oregon Trail, SimLife, Simcity 2k, Sid Meier's Colonization & Civilization, etc at school Amiga & Macintosh were the best platform for game graphics, DOS versions of the same games were always blocky.

First GPU wasn't exactly a GPU, it was a Sirius Logic VLBus SVGA card in a blazing fast 486DX2 50Mhz... also had a Soundblaster 16 and a Gravis Gamepad(surprisingly the gamepad still works, methinks its because of being made in Canada)

Since then on desktops its been ATI, Matrox, ATI, 3Dfx, ATI, nVidia, ATI, etc... my family went exclusively nVidia as the 4000/5000 series had been a bag of hurt on warranty claims with several ATI/AMD card vendors.

 

But with inflation being what it is, $600 is worth what, $825 now? A dual Voodoo2 system was like picking up a dual 7970 system now, so roughly the same ballpark So it's just as outrageous now, and enthusiasts then dropped that coin just like they do now. Most people didn't have dual-GPU systems then, just as now.

 

My first card was a Monster 3D II
I bought it to play Turok Dinosaur hunter

 

That sound awfully high for $1500 than what I remember when my dad got his in late 95' for pretty much the same price.

I remember most of the specs since being little, only concerned of will it run vs will it fit

Maybe it was the price of the hard drive that determined it.
I don't really remember the size but I know it sure it was greater than 100MB.

Pentium 166 (Non-MMX)
16MB RAM
2MB S3 Diamond Stealth 2000
Sound Blaster 16
CD-ROM
28.8k baud modem
Windows 95
17" CRT 0.28 DP 1024x768
KB+M+Speakers

Gave me good times, survived y2k but died cause of battery died and lost HDD settings. Wasn't worth the time to fix it.

 

Maybe it was 4MB RAM and monitor came with it. I dunno, but it was top end, only to be replaced by the Pentium 66 a couple months later, not to mention the 486 100 was a contender as well.

 

Diamond Monster 3D... By that point I had already been a long-term gamer, but it really opened my eyes to what was possible. Let's just say that productivity took a major nose-dive after that.

-Rob

 

My very first card is S3 Trio64V+ as far as I remember runs on Pentium 166MHz non MMX, gave by my father. The first card I bought with my money is GeForce 4 MX440

 

my first laptop (or computer for that matter) was an inspiron 7000 and it had an ATI RAGE Mobility - P video with AGP 2x, 8M SGRAM. Great card in it's day

my first real gaming card was my NVIDIA 9500m gs in my acer aspire 6920g. Even close to a 50% overclock it is still solid as a rock. I doubt I will let it go till it goes offline for good.

*edit* All said and done, I will NEVER go for an ATI card as I have seen countless driver/hardware issues with those cards.

 

Then you are losing out on some of the best bang for buck performance you can find. Other than FAR past issues, AMD/ATI driver and hardware issues are no more predominant than nVidia. Heck, Radeon drivers are updated every month compared with nVidia whenever they feel like it.

 

ati radeon moibility 9000. afaik. dell d600 it was