what was your first graphics card?

[AT0MAC]

My first machine was a C64 I shared with my brother, so whatever graphics it had was the first I used.

Have had some IBM machines after that mostly for schoolwork and as they were prebuild beige boxes with either black/white or black/green screen I have no clue what graphics it used.

 

The first real PC I had used a TNT2 card from Asus, a lovely yellow AGP based card.

 

Since then I have had a truck load of graphics card and have for now settled at a GTX 1070 untill more reasonable prices is a thing.

 

Thinking about it, this makes me feel old

[Bill4]

Voodoo 2

[ShadowChaser]

Started off with an ATI Radeon X300SE, back in 2004 ish. Then got a GT730 4 years ago, and now I’ve got a GTX970.

[germgoatz]

First 2 GT 9800s in SLI, then R9 270x, now a 1080

[Paddi01]

I went from Radeon HD5650 to RX 470 and the performance difference is night and day.

[MaratM]

Voodoo3, bought the original Unreal with it, it was mindblowing

[SpaceGhostC2C]

If you ask for the first dedicated graphics card I bought for myself, it would be the R9 280. Well, technically it was a used Quadro FX3800 by a few weeks  

The first dedicated graphics card I used, though, was probably a Creative "3D Blaster" Voodoo² in the family's PC.

[cluelessgenius]

fx 5200 by club3d , first card i bought with "my" money for my birthday

then later my parents bought me a prebuild that had a 8500gt

then i got myself a hd5770 by sapphire and took that thing to college.

from that i went straight to my 770 when i got my first salary

[Parideboy]

HD 5770 xfx (reference pcb) still working btw

Then I bought myself the current rig

[Princess Luna]

My first was a Geforce 8600 GTS.

 

Then, GTX 560 Ti then TITAN X Maxwell then GTX 1080 Ti then mining rush allowed to replace it for a TITAN Xp

[Dissitesuxba11s]

I'm fairly new to the PC building world so my first GPU is what I have right now, an EVGA 980 Hydrocopper. I also have an EVGA 1080 Ti FTW3, but still need to figure out how I want to set up my waterloops since my current GPU and CPU share a loop. 

[chiller15]

I put a Nvidia GeForce 6600GT in the first PC that I upgraded.

Then an 8800GTX, then a GTX 580 and now a GTX 1070.

[immortal-ben]

First one not in a pre-built? An RX 560. 

[Dissitesuxba11s]

7 hours ago, r3loAded said:

A lot of GPU's

Any particular reason why you are not using the 1080 Ti?

[Biggerboot]

The first card I bought was an FX 5200. 

Well, it actually showed up in the bios as a FX 5500 so I don't know for certain, but I didn't question that back then.  It either was labeled wrong or had a different bios.

 

I remember getting that so Doom 3 would run.  Quickly realized I needed a 6600 to have an enjoyable experience (lol).

[r3loAded]

2 minutes ago, Dissitesuxba11s said:

Any particular reason why you are not using the 1080 Ti?

"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."

 

I wouldn't see the benefit of the 1080 Ti for me. I play only 1 game and that's World of Tanks. the 1080 manages to do 120FPS at ultra settings while maintaining @80% load. Also, World of Tanks is capped at 120. I was happy with 980 Ti before, but considering that I did the swap to 1080 for the same price, works for me, more power for same price

[EisVogel]

My first one was a Radeon HD 6950 that i still use in my office PC to this day. However it was later replaced by a ASUS GTX 760 Direct CU thats being used as decoration right now.

[grayperview]

ATI Mach 64 2mb.

 

had a voodoo 1 2 and 3 too.

[Majinhoju]

Voodoo2.

First all in one 3d card was probably a Geforce 2.

[Roman848]

My first GPU was FX 5500 128mb AGP card. Pretty bad because i got a PC from parents in like 2011 , so i used to search for games that can run on this card, never again...

PC had HD 5570 1GB, and it was marvelous for me back then, because i could now run all games that i wanted. Whole PC was pretty high end back in 2011 (well in some degree) Pentium Dual-Core 3.00ghz, 4gb ram.

As new games were more and more demanding, i bought GTX 750 Ti to my system, huge jump for me again. I did upgrade on my CPU too, from Pentium to Q6600 and OCed it to 3.2 GHZ. But CPU was bottlenecked and i had a lot of issues with my RAM (couldnt use more than 4gb) I switched to FX 8300 and upgraded my RAM to 16gb.

GTX 750 Ti was a 2gb card and i found that very limiting for me , so i swapped it for GTX 960 4gb, not a huge upgrade , but for me , it was a step down the path.

When i started working, i always wanted something from mid- high end. So i bought myself a 1150 MB and bought Xeon from ebay. Upgraded to 32gb ram ( because my old FX system had DDR3 and this one had too, easy upgrade)

Lastly sold my GTX 960 and bought 1070 because i wanted triple monitor setup.

Also, bought a laptop for school that ended up having gt750m , win/win situation for me

[Majinhoju]

I have to say the first gpu I had that really made me feel like I had a monster rig was my Geforce 6800gt.  I remember cranking out the fps in Doom3 with it.  

 

Since then....

8800gt (eventually in 2 sli)

amd 4890

amd 6870 (later paired with 2 in crossfire)

gtx 780

now my gtx 1080.

[KarathKasun]

/double post/

[KarathKasun]

15 hours ago, SuperCookie78 said:

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

No.

 

Matrox cards were DX5/DX6 compatible 3D accelerators back in the 90's and early 2000's.

Matrox G400 was a top performing card in its day while also having the absolute best image quality.

 

My first card was an ATI Rage II+DVD 4mb from back when ATI existed and made their own cards.

[Frankenburger]

We had a card from Diamond in our family's Pentium MMX gaming machine in the mid 90's. Can't remember the exact model though. My first personal gaming PC had a Radeon 8500 LE 64MB.

[i_build_nanosuits]

Matrox M3D 4mb 3d accelerator...that thing sucked so much...