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[-] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Upgraded my highschool family desktop I took to college with a GeForce 8800 GT , used until I build a new pc with a Radeon 7970 GHz edition, which was replaced with a rx580 after the card passed away from light coin poisoning. Desktop is now running unRAID and my new main rig has a gtx 3070 in.

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[-] ving_thor@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
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[-] maniel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

ATI Rage something on AGP bus, no 3D acceleration, certainly no Openssl etc, but it had hardware MPEG2 decoding, you know, for DVD

My parents later bought me GeForce 2 MX400, in 2007 i bought a new PC with my own money (first salary) with GeForce 7300GT, later upgraded it to 9600GT, then Radeon HD 7770, GTX 1050 and now RX 6600, it's a Theseus's PC at this point

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 3 months ago

A Monster 2 8 MB. I remember being angry at my parents that they didn't get me the 12 MB version. But I couldn't formulate my anger because I didn't understand the difference between system and GPU RAM.

Still, I was amazed how quickly weapon switching now was in Jedi Knight. And Unreal always looked thr best in Glide. And the included rotating donut demo with bump mapping was awesome! A feature that would go on to be touted as the revolutionary hot new shit even 20 years later.

[-] Raffster@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

6569 R1 VIC II PAL Video Chip

[-] Tehhund@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

3dfx Voodoo 5 5500. I remember thinking it was so cool that it had 2 chips on the same board: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voodoo_5

[-] Captainsockpuppet@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

ATI rage was in my family computer Diamond monster fusion was what I bought myself to replace it so I could play unreal properly.

an ancient card with a colorful box from 3dfx.
I think it was a voodoo 2, but not one that came bundled with creative soundblaster.
Yes, we needed another physical card for sound.

[-] MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Yup the same I had too

[-] Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

GTX 980. put it in my first self built tower, which I still use to this day

[-] randombullet@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

EVGA 970 SSC

Man I miss EVGA. Did the upgrade to a 980 Ti when it got launched soon after.

First discreet graphics card was a GT755M really got me into gaming.

[-] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

ATi EGA Wonder, it could do a whopping 640 x 350 with 16 colors!

[-] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

GeForce2 MX

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

First one that someone bought for me: Riva TNT2

First one I bought myself: ATI Sapphire 9600 pro

[-] Gremour@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I think it was S3 Virge. Remember playing Tomb Raider with smooth textures.

[-] sgibson5150@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago

If by graphics card you mean 3D hardware acceleration, then it was a Canopus Pure 3D. It was equivalent to the first Voodoo add-in card but IIRC it had 6 MB of RAM instead of 4. It wasn't a standalone card so it had a VGA passthrough from your 2D card when it wasn't active.

As for 2D cards, idk. Unless it was pro reference grade like Matrox I don't remember EGA and CGA cards being branded.

[-] freeman@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I think I had a Voodoo 3 at some point. Then a Voodoo 5 at the family PC.

Then on my own PCs Radeon 1900Xt -> radeon 4780 -> radeon 7770 -> radeon 480 -> rtx 2070 super.

[-] Zomg@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Nvidia GeForce 8400gs

Went great with my duo core 🥲 for that buttery smooth 30fps

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago
[-] MadEarl@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

A Matrox Millennium.

[-] krdo@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

I forgot the first one, but I remember I upgraded it to an ATi Rage Pro so I could play Baldur's Gate, which needed 8 megabytes of video ram. Later I paired it with a Voodoo 2. I think it was the Diamond Monster one. And that one got replaced with a Matrox G200, which got replaced with Kyro II. I picked some odd cards back then.

[-] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Radeon 7770.

[-] sibachian@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Oh man, talk about bringing me back in time. My first card was a voodoo 2.

[-] Noedel@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

3dfx Voodoo2, followed by a Riva tnt2. Good times were had.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

Actual PC? GTX 960 4GB from MSI.
I got some random hand me down laptop with Win7 and probably some Intel iGPU

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 months ago

GTX 760 Ti --> GTX 1060 Ti --> RTX 3080/RX6750 XT

[-] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

SiS 6326 with 8MB.

It was 1999 but I had a very limited budget, around $400, for the entire system. This was my first AGP card.

The Wikipedia article says that this was not supported well by Linux but that's just not the case. It was the first card for Linux and FreeBSD that I had which let me view more than 256 colors. I ran KDE 1.x and then XFce.

Something happened between then and 2001 where I got a GeForce 2 MX 400 which ran fine with FreeBSD for many years.

[-] riccochet@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I believe I had the Riva tnt2. After that upgrading to the original GeForce 256. Was on my Intel Celeron 300A that you could overclock to a whopping 450mhz!

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Hell if I know. That was 30+ years ago.

[-] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

GeForce GT 610.

It was the cheapest GPU available at the time, imagine my disappointment when I tried to run Minecraft with shaders and barely got more than a slideshow.

[-] sunflowercowboy@feddit.org 1 points 3 months ago

GTX 650 Ti Super used for 80 bucks. Love that card and man did it get me through tough times.

[-] And009@reddthat.com 1 points 3 months ago

An Nvidia GeForce 6200. It could run assassin's creed, the first one.

[-] feef@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

First custom pc I got had a NVIDIA 6600 gt

[-] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

My dad got us a voodoo FX banshee on our home computer back in the day. I guess the first one I personally bought would have been a GTX 970

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

I had an ATI all in wonder 9600. That card was very unique because it also had a built in TV tuner and AV capture card that could turn your PC into a DVR of sorts. It went into an agp slot before PCIe was a thing.

[-] Pulptastic@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

First and last. Radeon 9600xt

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Radeon HD 6570, bit humble. Still not very powerful, I only have a GTX 950 at best, I don't PC game much these days

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