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what was your first gpu ? nvidia or ati(before amd bought the ati) and what was your dream gpu during that time XD hehehehe this is for fun only XD

what was your first pc spec during that time ?
 
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The first video card I remember I had was a SIS 6xxx (don't remember exactly the model). It was a 8MB AGP 2x card, running in a Katmai Slot1 P3 500MHz. It was our 2nd family PC. But my first PC had a Geforce 2 MX200 (on a Pentium 4 1.7 - PGA478).

Best regards
 
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GeForce 256 DDR, 32MB of the good stuff...baked that into a Duron 800 based system OC'd to 1Ghz with the ol' pencil trick. That was my first new system, before that I had various frankenboxes made from old parts (A family friend owned a local PC shop). My very first box was the family Tandy 1000 TX, 16 colours and 640k of RAM! We even added a 40MB HDD!
 
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I got into the PC game "late" so to speak - my first machine was a Win95 Pentium 133 from Dell.

It came with a 2MB STB video card, PCI, that was based on an S3 chip, if I'm not mistaken.

The first 3D GPU I bought, the second highest price I ever paid for a video card, was an STB Velocity 128, 4MB Riva 128 chipset from Nvidia. I think I got it in late 1997 or early 1998. Cost me a whopping $180 back then.

My first actual computer? Commodore 64, and for storage, a datasette. I saved up the money and got the 5-1/4 floppy drive later, which, if I recall, cost a little more than the computer itself.
 
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Aaaah the Commodore! I picked up an entire system at a flea market in the early 90's for $5. Came with the machine, monitor, tape drive and a 5 1/4. Also had a stack of floppies and a bunch of game code books! I had more fun with that system than any other in retrospect.

 
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My first 3D card was a Diamond FireGL 1000 Pro, based on the 3DLabs Permedia2 chip (a consumerised single-chip version of the GLINT Delta workstation chipset, IIRC). It had exceptionally-good image quality compared with the other 3D chips at the time (3DFX Voodoo 1/2, ATI Rage 3D, S3 ViRGE, etc.) although the raw performance figures weren't quite as good. 8MB VRAM, AGP 1x. I strapped a fan to it with cable ties and overclocked it from 83MHz to 96MHz. Combined with a dual-CPU Pentium II PC with an unheard-of 128MB RAM and a huge 8.4GB hard disk, my system went like the clappers and was the envy of all my college friends.

A few years later I got a Matrox G400 (16MB, AGP 4x) which wiped the floor with it and still had very good image quality. I went from that to a Radeon X850XT (256MB, AGP 8x) which again totally eclipsed its predecessor on 3D but, interestingly, felt very sluggish in 2D and had comparatively poor video playback image quality.
 
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you probably born on modern era XD
 
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Oh, man, I am so envious. At one point, I'd upgraded to the C128 (oddly, a game called Pharaoh's Curse wouldn't work in the 128's C-64 mode). After moving to the modern PC era in the mid 90s, I gave the disks, drive, and C128 to a friend of mine. Unfortunately, when he got his own place, after a while, his parents moved, and they pretty much threw out everything they found in the attic. A shame, because when I started playing with C64 emulators, I would've loved to have that back.

Wish I could get my old system back, or a complete system without spending stupid money. Still, I'd not have that boxful of floppies, though I don't know if they'd still be readable.

I still have the original of the game Ultima V, in the box, with all the floppies, the metal coin, cloth map, manuals, etc
 
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