what was your first graphics card?

[SuperCookie78]

mine was the fx5200 pci 256mb from pny but the first card i bought knowing what a gpu was was a gtx 750 ti

[Max_Settings]

First one was an HD5450. First one knowing what it was, was a 750 ti, followed by a GTX 980, followed by a 1080 ti. I’m still pretty new to PC gaming ?

[xg32]

geforce 2 or 3 for diablo 2, legit forgot,

 

then 8800gt after cause it for some reason came with lost planet 1, game was so bad it's memorable. STILL WORKS.

 

hd 3870, sapphire card, broke fast

 

4870 to replace it, remember the grass looking greener in titanquest than on the 8800 gt, colors more vibrant. still works

 

gtx 580. I think i bought this to play witcher 2 (?), ran like a furnace. still works.

 

gtx 670, 580 was too hot, but the 670 caught fire from path of exile (EVGA first batch, known issue), alot of stuff on the screen

 

gtx 970, all 3 fans on the gigabyte card broke within 3 years, bought to play witcher 3 and to replace 580/670. Gigabyte G1, had to flash bios to 1.1v to play lower end games cause stock bios only had 0.9v, not enough to run old games. Has a 80mm noctua TAPED to it for cooling.

 

1080 ti hybrid, done with mid range cards catching fire and breaking fans. personally getting old.

 

 

[hconverse02]

gt 610 from a cousin, never got it to work so i used integrated graphics on an i5 6400-t, then a 4gb rx 460 and hopefully a 1080 this summer

[Jurrunio]

If integrated graphics doesnt count, then my first graphics card is a GTX 970, though before I even used it I sold it to someone willing to offer me a decent bonus over what I paid

 

Then I spent some time with a laptop, equipped with a GT 940M

 

Then one day I received an old machine from my neighbours for free (they are moving out and dont bother bringing this with them), and there's a GTX 275

 

I upgraded that system by replacing the PSU and GPU, which is an RX 470

 

After some time I swapped CPU and mobo twice, and sell the RX 470 for miners, then get my current card, the GTX 1070.

 

Probably staying with this card for quite some time....

[NTDaws]

GTX 560

[Canada EH]

4 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

If integrated graphics doesnt count

 

IBM 8514

circa '87'ish

 

 

 

 

 

[79wjd]

256mb Gefore 6600 I think. It died after a few years and I replaced it with a 512mb X1950 Pro.

[Kynakmar]

mine was a Nvdia Riva TNT 2, GeForce 2 MX400, Geforce 4, 8800 GT, GTX 280, GTX 580, 1080 Ti, and 3 years with a HP Probook with a Firepro video card (dont remember the model but it was a 4000$ ish i7 second gen era)

[Canada EH]

I am old

[ARikozuM]

It was either the Matrox G200 that I found at the local recycling center or an ATI Rage, I had both and can't remember which was mine and which was father's. 

[SuperCookie78]

2 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

It was either the Matrox G200 that I found at the local recycling center or an ATI Rage, I had both and can't remember which was mine and which was father's. 

a matrox? isn't that a 2d card? because i know supermicro motherboards use them for onboard graphics 

[dcgreen2k]

750Ti, still using it today because I'm too cheap to buy a new card.

[Canada EH]

9 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

750Ti, still using it today because I'm too cheap to buy a new card.

You are not too cheap, you are TOO SMART!

[DagerAG]

Mine was a XFX Radeon HD 7970 Double Dissipation Edition.

[Guest]

First card I purchased w/ my own money was a Radeon 9250 forever ago.

[Nocte]

Not counting the iGPU of my first laptop, frst GPU was a NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M, moved to desktop gaming in May/June (one week before the mining craze - thanks god) with a Sapphire RX 580 8GB. 

[GDRRiley]

a card would be a gtx 970 a chip would be gt635m 2gb. 

2nd is a hd5750

3rd 9800gtx+

4th r9 390 (pondering 1 for cheap)

Edited February 1, 2018 by GDRRiley

[Not_Sean]

1st

SiS ColorMAX 8mb

 

2nd card:

WinFast Geforce 4 MX440 64Mb

 

3rd:

Asus Radeon 9200 SE 128mb

 

4th: 

Gigabyte Radeon X600 Pro 256mb

 

5th:

Gigabyte Geforce GT8600 512mb

 

6th 

MSI Geforce GTX 980 Gaming 4GB

 

[JoostinOnline]

A GTX 750 Ti.  Up until then I thought PC gaming was for idiots.

[ARikozuM]

12 minutes ago, SuperCookie78 said:

a matrox? isn't that a 2d card? because i know supermicro motherboards use them for onboard graphics 

Back then I didn't have much to play, mostly text adventures. 

[Maximusfoximus]

Gtx 650 ti 1GB. I first added it to my computer in 2011.

[Noyu]

SAPPHIRE NITRO Radeon™ R9 380 4G D5 - bought 2015 for my first PC Build.

 

Back then (like waaaaay back) I had a prebuilt with a Pentium 4.

Not sure what GPU it had. I'm not even sure if it had one (assuming the P4 has an iGPU).

Sadly I wasn't into computers much back then to know what it had (only cared about gaming).

[Kc7vwc]

5 hours ago, SuperCookie78 said:

mine was the fx5200 pci 256mb from pny but the first card i bought knowing what a gpu was was a gtx 750 ti

S3 Virge ISA card in our first family computer. MY first was #9Fx Motion 771 + Diamond Monster Voodoo.

[r3loAded]

Well the first one I personally bought was Palit GTS 250 512mb 256bit GDDR3 E-Green Edition and the it was followed by:

- ATI Radeon HD 4780

- ATI Radeon HD 4890

 

Then moved to UK and started with RADEON HD 7770 followed by:

- HD 6970

- HD 7870

- GTX 960

- GTX 770

- GTX 970

- the jump from 970 to 980 Ti was done due to monitor upgrade - from 1080p 60Hz to 1440p 144Hz

- GTX 980 Ti Asus Strix, EVGA SC, EVGA hybrid, MSI Gaming (yes I went through all of them as heat and acoustics are very important to me)

 

And now rocking a GTX 1080 Asus Strix bought roughly a month ago for £300 :). For what I'm playing, it's overkill, but as I said I care about heat and acoustics an thought for the price it's worth to have it not being fully stressed and not getting heated up with the fans ramping up.

 

Graphics card lover here