Which was your first GPU? :)

Hello all...as is my custom, its time for this month's lighthearted thread

Which was the first ever GPU you bought/had/installed?

Mine was the XFX Geforce 4200 128mb ....played even Doom3 with it

Geforce 3 Ti 500.

I used it for almost three years. Was a great card and was my longest lasting GPU to date. In fact I still use it in an old Dell. That was the equivalent of a purchasing the 8800GTX in November of 2006 and holding for almost three years. It could easily be done. Unfortunately some of my other GPU purchases haven’t been as wise.

Does a Sinclair Spectrum 48k count? if not then it would be a Matrox Millenium with an Orchid 3DFX accelerator, Half - Life @ 800 x 600 = Bliss

ATI Mach 64, back in December 1993 when it was cutting edge LOL. Sill have it and the system in use today, although I upgraded the Pentium 90 to a 200MMX overdrive CPU. Like TGGA, I wouldn't know/recall what was in the earlier pre Pentium machines.

S3 Trio 3D, 1MB Of cource, it had no real 3D acceleration, but I though it did, and even added one more megabyte of ram to it- I thought quake2 will run faster if I do that
(P.S., I understand, in this thread were are using term "GPU" to indicate graphic card, no matter that GPU was first used to describe IIRC, GeForce1?)

ATI X800pro AGP, had it since summer 2005 and I still use it to this day. Great little card, I can play CoD 4 in DX9 mode 1280x1024. I will be upgrading my entire system this summer, graphics will probably end up as a radeon 48xx or GeForce 99xx.

I think it was a 4MB Voodoo. I don't remember which series/model though. Good times I was able to MAX Red Alert @ 640x480

As far as discrete graphics card my first would have to be the RIVA TNT2 32mb video card, Nvidia's 5th graphics processor generation

Everything before that was onboard of some type or another all the way back to a Commodore 64. Adventure Construction Set (published by EA), lost so many hours to that "making" my own games. Too bad EA doesn't make anything that out of the norm nowadays but I digress..........hehe.

TNT2 ... damn and i thinked it was good at this time ... i paid 1500$can for a Pentium 133 when it was out ...now for this price you got a real kick ass system

ATI Raedon 9600 I think. It was 128 Megs. Still have a computer with it.

My best purchase was the 6800 I got when I bought my dell. That thing did last me for four years (2004-2008) Until I got my 9600 recently.

S3 Virge was in 'my' second rig, I have absolutely no idea what was in the first one, I was so young and couldn't care less... lol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_ViRGE

I had a 2mb ATI Rage Fury something. It was the best card in it's day. I think it was all onboard before that. My next card was a 3DFX Voodoo 3 3000. 16MB but only 16bit color to speed things up compared to 24bit and 32bit color the other 32mb cards where doing. 3DFX had the best cards going until NVidia bullied them and bought them out.

My first card was a MX440 SE, needed something cheap to get the computer running at the time.
Much better when I got my Ati 9600XT.


Otherwise a Commodore 64.

random onboard... first "3D" card would be an ATI Rage Pro? Though I remember it was faster to use software rendering in many cases... so although it was my first 3D card, it was more of a 3D decelerator. Then Radeon 7500, Radeon 9000, Radeon 9600, Radeon 9800 Pro. Not all necessarily for my computer, mind you, but different computers in the house. Currently using a laptop with a Radeon X1400, as I don't really game anymore and I do need to move around, but I didn't want integrated.

Edit: Wow, just noticed; all ATI cards...

A blazing fast Power Color S-3 virge 325 2mb ram upgraded to 4mb(socketed chips)for autocad. on a pentium 90 with 64mb ram.Crazy expensive.

Some relic VGA Adapter from the 286/386 era. Don't know what it was.
It ran SimCity2000 on a 386 hehe.

First "3D Accelerator" : ATI Mach64 2MB VRAM (1997-1999)
First thing I picked : 3Dfx Voodoo 3 2000 (1999) flashed to 3000

good old GeForce 256

had a RIVA 128 before that

Helped my dad put an old Radeon 9250 in my 4 year old computer. Think I had integrated graphics before that (it still wasn't much of an upgrade ). I just put an 8800GTS 512 in this new computer I built for myself though. First computer I had ever built (mostly) on my own.

X800gto, about March of 06. It was a really nice card.

I think it was a Voodoo 3000, for its day that card rocked!!!

I had a Voodoo Banshee - but my first GPU was a Geforce 2 MX400.

EGA Wonder 16 colors out of pallet of 64.

The first card I had in a PC was a Riva TNT2 M64 32mb just like leo2kp(although mine came with the PC). It was a beast of a card, that an a 450MHz PIII with 256MB of ram played some sweet games back in the day, Jedi Knight 2 and Command and Conquer: Generals were the most intensive games I played on it, and Generals was pretty slow running, but that is most likely CPU.

Geforce2 MX 440, or what ever name it was... It was a Geforce2 for sure but for the MX part I'm not too sure...

ohhhh the year was 1997:

Matrix Mystique 220 with a Pentium 100 mHz