I’m amazed at how many people remember the hardware they purchased 30 years ago.
If you hold onto your cards for 6-7 years, that’s only around 5 cards.
Mine goes:
- RTX 4070
- GTX 1080
- GFX 5200 (I think?)
- (The Playstation 2 years)
- (The Playstation years)
- 3dfx Voodoo
Man that voodoo card was my birthday AND my Xmas gift one-year. I was lucky I got it
You never forget your first.
Yeah I need to check every time which one I have. And I built my PC myself so it’s not that I would have no idea lol
3dfx voodoo 3 3000, with its whopping 16MB of VRAM.
It ran Unreal Tournament like a charm. Playing CTF on dialup though was not always great though…
It was a shiny EGA card.
On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen.
My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours.
If we’re talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.
I remember when the EGAs came about. Damn, it was like stepping into the future. But I didn’t have a color monitor so it didn’t matter. I was probably more envious than your friend.
Voodoo 2 baybeeee
Trident VGA?
I got a 3DFX voodoo as soon as they came out. GL quake was mind-blowing.
I bought a Riva TNT
Then a GeForce 2
Then a Radeon 9000
Then for a bunch of years I just moved into laptop after laptop with discrete GPUs.
Now I still have a 1080 and a 2070 doing a little bit of light AI work and video transcoding for me. But I’m still relying on crappy laptop GPUs for all my gaming. They’re good enough.
I was rocking Geeforce 2 and Soundblaster AWE 32. Good times😄
I got a 3Dfx from a computer fair in Liverpool just so I could play Quake 2 CTF, it was absolutely mind blowing not even an understatement.
Voodoo Banshee, so I could play Quake, Unreal and Deus Ex.
NVIDIA RIVA 128
an S3 Trio card.
Cirrus Logic GD5428.
A 3dfx Voodoo, it came with POD as a pack in game and it looked so good with Glide. My favourite racing game memories.
ViRGE 3D, upgraded the memory with 2 chips to play Tomb Raider.
Technically, never, none. Untechnically RTX 3080Ti laptop.
My prime gaming years were self moderated by only going to internet cafés as a strict rule to manage my time. I spent a lot of time at cafés, but nowhere near as much as I would have played if I had my own hardware. It wasn’t the money. It was about the time management and a large part of how I owned my first auto body shop business.
Intel Graphics Media
a c c e l e r a t o r
Nvidia Riva 128 AGP with 4 megs of ram. I will never ever forget when they released hardware accelerated opengl drivers and I played Quake GL for the first time. It was hitting 120fps and looked absolutely beautiful compared to the software rendered games I’d played up to that point.
3060 ti I bought during the shortage, overpaid soooo much haha
Yeaaaaaahhh. 2k total for the prebuilt ended up being comparable to a shortage price at the time.
Still holding up what about yours?
Mines is still going quite strong, paired with a 5 5600x and runs well for (almost) everything I want at 1440p more-than-60-fps
Exact same setup here. Was what I was shooting for too.
Was best price to value at the time. It is almost showing its age for high graphics but has been super solid.
Nice!
