What was your first GPU?

[SSJGodemis]

In 2005 F.E.A.R released and my Dad loved horror games. He decided to build a PC. I remember him getting the ATI X800 Pro on sale with a Dell Ultrasharp 1703FP 1280x1024  monitor. My god was that PC glorious. It was our family machine but my dad still had that PC in storage somewhere.  

 

My first personal GPU was an AMD 6870 paired with an FX-6100.  God I loved that PC.  It was my super budget workstation and Gaming machine. 

 

What as your first PC? 

[xg32]

for fear i think i had gt 7800 or whatever it was, cause i remember upgrading to the 8800 gt for lost planet, first gpu though was geforce 2 or 3 for diablo 2.

[Turtle Rig]

Hercules VooDoo Banshee 2D/3D card.back in 1997.

[SSJGodemis]

4 minutes ago, xg32 said:

for fear i think i had gt 7800 or whatever it was, cause i remember upgrading to the 8800 gt for lost planet, first gpu though was geforce 2 or 3 for diablo 2.

Wow very nice. 7800 GT was king back then. 

 

[XR6]

My first ever GPU was a 3dfx Voodoo2 paired with a Pentium 3.

 

[Constantin]

3 minutes ago, 1kv said:

My first ever GPU was a 3dfx Voodoo2 paired with a Pentium 3.

 

Same here, lol

[Jurrunio]

If integrated graphics count, then my first GPU is whatever that old Lenovo (or IBM or Thinkpad branding? I forgot) Pentium D system has (it depends on the board, but back then I don't know enough to check it). 

 

My first actual card is the GTX 275 896MB GDDR3. You know something's old and slow when World of Tanks stutters in minimum settings.

[ggman250]

My first GPU was...Wait for it,... The GTX 1070. God this is the most unsatisfying post I've ever made.

[baq]

nvidia 6800 i think i cant remeber the name, after that gtx 780 

[Gikero]

I don't know what my very first PC had graphics-wise.

My first laptop had a GeForce MX420 Go 32MB GPU. It allowed for DVD decoding, hot stuff. But it ran Far Cry on low, so I was happy. It wasn't able to run F.E.A.R. due to not supporting Pixel Shader 2.0.

My first desktop GPU was a GTX 430 1GB. It ran Far Cry 3 on medium around 30 fps.

[KarathKasun]

S3 801 SVGA in a 486 DX/33.

[meenmeen1103]

First was MX 4000, then 7150M, then 970 and R9 390. System in sig is the first one, still working condition but has sat unused for like 2 months now, ran OG CS pretty well.

[emosun]

s3 trio gx/dx 8mb

 

was the first one that i technically would considered to belong to me

[Kalm_Traveler]

I almost didn't want to post here since it seems like I'm a generation older than everyone but oh well...

 

"back in my day" we called them 'graphics adapters', then 'video cards' or 'graphics cards' before referring to the whole card as only the processing unit component.

 

Anywho, my first 'graphics adapter' was probably the S3 VESA VLB 16-bit ISA card. We had something in the previous 486 PC but I don't remember what it was, and I do remember this S3 card in an early 90's Dell desktop that Novell let my dad bring home when he worked there through the 90s. It had the normal 16bit ISA connector on one end but on farther down it had what looked like PCI fingers too (this thing was LONG even by todays standards). It had a Pentium 133, a 1gb HDD, and we had a giant 21" CRT that looked unreal lol

 

If we're talking what was our own (like not a family PC type thing), the first PC I built for myself with my own money was around 1998 or 99, Initially it was a Celeron 566 Socket 370 on a socket 370 to Slot 1 adapter card. I spent most of my summer janitor job savings on the graphics card, a Hercules 3D Prophet DDR-DVI (I believe this was the first graphics card on the market either with DDR or DVI, or maybe just the first with both). It was a Geforce 256 with 32mb of DDR VRAM.

[aezakmi]

a Trident that's for sure, it had 1MB memory, EGA output and used the ISA socket

 

I'm not that old I just found it on a dumpster and used it to build my first PC

[LinusOnLine]

An S3 with one meg memory to get the 1024 resolution

 

[Turtle Rig]

The combo of Matrox MIllienium and Voodoo2,   Yup two video cards in the box.

[Princess Luna]

Meh I never had a card that wasn't nVidia, 8600GTS~

[circeseye]

ati all in wonder 4mb

[THraShArD]

My first video card was a Voodoo 2 PCI.   It was when Unreal came out and saw a massive improvement over the onboard video