what was your first graphics card?

[Froody129]

The lowest end of the FX 4xxx series (can’t remember exactly). That PC is now sitting outside with the side panel missing.

 

Then a mobile 610 and now a 1060 and a 1050ti in my laptop

[mnemonicman]

Cirrus Logic 2MB. First I bought with my own money was a ATI Radeon 7200 64MB.

[Crunchy Dragon]

Up until my GeForce GT 540M in my latest laptop upgrade, all my GPUs have been integrated.

 

Then I got my A6-5400K based desktop with an integrated Radeon HD 7540D.

 

After that, I got my GTX 780 that I run in my main rig right now.

 

Next came 3 GPUs all at once from a friend; a GTS 250, a Radeon HD 4850, and a GeForce 6200 PCI.

 

I used the 6200 in my retro gaming rig to replace my GeForce4 MX420, which is now sitting on my tech shelf with the others.

[KarathKasun]

If you want to go back further than "cards", I had a Dell Dimension 486/33 with a S3 805 512kb SVGA chipset.  Further back than that I had  C128 with a VIC-II + VDC. 

[SuperCookie78]

4 hours ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

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

 

 

i would be interesting if matrox came out with a 3d gaming card on the level on the 1080.

[maizenblue]

Pny gtx 550 ti. Just wanted something that would handle diablo 3 when it released. 

 

For my first full pc build i bought an Msi Twin Frozr RX 280x. I still have a soft spot for that card because i got it for a great price and it exceeded my expectations. It was a terrific card for the money. 

[themctipers]

first gpu i bought

gtx 760

 

have it sitting inside of a pc mining  

 

[Ertman]

1st card: nVidia TNT 16mb

1st card I bought: HD 3450 

1st card  I bought for games : HD 6750

 

The 6750 was a low budget card, and worked well for what it wa used for.

[Spudbilly]

Ati x1300 256mb pcie 1.1

[andrewmp6]

Showing my age a voodoo 2 then a ati radeon 9800 pro,Then a g force 6800ft i believe.It was the last agp socket video card worth buying.As of today still rocking a old 5770 hawk .

[WibblyWobblyTimeyWimeyStuf]

nVidia GeForce 4 440 Go 32MB in my old Latitude C840.

[FishLowLevelGamer]

First 9400GT then GeForce 210 then GT 730

But my notebook have a GT 330m but younger than the 210

[asus killer]

i can't remenber. I know i had some matrox, a virge, power vr, riva tnt2

[1234vietnam]

750ti now a 1060

[Phentos]

Radeon HD 4850 > GTX 580 > R9 390 > R9 Fury (sold 390 to cousin) > GTX 1080 TI

[TheXev]

My first non-iGP was some Tritan 2D card I bought for my first fully built computer, a Cyrix 686 PR166+ with some crap Abit motherboard that the BIOS CMOS battery would die every 2 weeks (no, seriously, every two weeks).
3D cards:
1) My first 3D card was a nVidia TNT 2 8MB (yeah, MB ha!) cause I thought it'd be enough to play Diablo 2... yeah, that was a mistake.
2) An Inno3D GeForece 2 MX 400 64MB.  This would finally played Diablo 2 half-ways decent
3) 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 32MB.  I bought this card on clearance from ebay for $30 new in box.  Bought it to play around with Glide games and cause I freakn' went to High School with NuAngel (one of the better known 3Dfx driver mixers of the day).
4) 3Dfx Voodoo 5 6000.  Cause of NuAngel above we tried to fix a non-working Voodoo 5 6000 in our electronics class.  The only thing we managed to do was set it on fire.  How many of you can say you've lit up a legendary graphics card? ;(
5) ATi Radeon 9700 Pro.  Got this puppy only two weeks after the R300 launched to the public, back when pricewatch.com was still legit.  Saved $25 off retail price and got it for $375 (retail was $400).  To this day, this is the single biggest and baddest upgrade I have ever done. The jump from my primary GeForce 2 was amazing, and all of my friends GeForce 3's and 4's looked like the complete garbage they were at the time. lol nVidia had serious image quality problems back then.
6) GeForce 6200.  My Radeon 9700 Pro finally gave up the goat after 5 hard years of OCed gaming.  The 6200 seemed to offer similar performance, and an online friend sent it to me for free to help me out.
7) eVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB.  This card was the one that put nVidia back on the map for mainstream gamers after several years of ATi dominance.  This card packed a great punch and an amazing price tag of around $220 when I nabbed in I think 2006 or 2007.  After upgrading the rest of my PC, it was a welcome treat to be able to play new 3D games again.
8) Radeon 4870.  I didn't use this card very long.  NuAngel gave me his old PC since I was pretty broke and didn't have any money at all.  This card gave up the goat after only a few months, along with the power supply in the PC
9) XFX Radeon 5770.  I bought this thing on ebay for $30 in unknown condition(Going value working would have been $150).  It came in the retail box but with no anti-static bag.  I popped it into my PC and it fired up.  After some new thermal grease, this card became my first cryptomining card.  This would start the trend of my video cards buying one another via cryptocurrency mining.
10) Gigabyte Windforce Radeon R290 -  I bought this card in 2013 just as Bitcoin started to crash.  Thank God for Overstock taking Bitcoin, otherwise I had no other way to convert my Bitcoin into USD! Haha!
11) 3x XFX Radeon RX 580 8GB CB Edition's.  I fired up the ol' Radeon R290 for cryptomining after not doing it for a few years in 2015.  I just kept storing up the Bitcoin I was earning via Nicehash until I could get something nice.  Turns out I was able to easily buy 3 - XFX Radeon RX 580 with what I had saved!  I then went and built a new PC and setup these cards in Triple Crossfire for when I wanted to game!  I kept mining and used that money to buy...
12) 2x RX Vega 64.  I honestly was trying to get a few Vega 56's, but the Vega 64's were in stock first so I jumped on them.  If it wasn't for the jump in Bitcoin's value I wouldn't have been able to do this, but I did it.  I figured if Bitcoin was going to crash again, I'd have a few graphics cards that would last me for more then a few years of gaming afterward!

ATM, the 3x RX 580 and 2X RX Vega all live in my current desktop/small mining rig.  I have the Vega 64's plugged in via 16X extenders so Crossfire can be enabled at any time, while the RX 580's are attached to simple 1x extenders.  My current PC is a mess but I love having a tinker toy for gaming that makes me money on the side.  I might sell one of the RX 580's to a co-worker if he's interested for a nominal price as he's trying to put together a Ryzen system right now.  I could sell all of this and make bank right now but its too much fun to tinker around with.

[asand1]

Geforce 6600 AGP.

[86123maxxi]

Mine was the "venerable" GeForce FX5200 64MB, utterly slow piece of crap.

Followed in order by:
GeForce 7600GS 256MB
GeForce 9400GT 1GB

Radeon HD 5670 1GB

GeForce GTX 750 2GB.

Looking to upgrade to a higher end card soon.

[Morgan Everett]

Sapphire Toxic R9 280x. I suspect it's still perfectly capable at 1080p.

[InertiaSelling]

Hard to tell, there are different kinds of "first".

 

My first dedicated GPU was in a laptop, the mobility radeon hd 4330, in my 2009 hp 4710s.

The first GPU I bought knowingly was in a laptop as well, it was a gt 740m, in my 2013 asus x75vb.

The first actual graphics card I purchased was a gtx 1060 6gb, right before the mining craze.

[alphaproject]

On ‎1‎/‎31‎/‎2018 at 9:15 PM, Canada EH said:

I am old

Yea me too. I had the IBM XT and it had CGA graphics. I eventually paid $300 to upgrade the graphics to EVGA graphics... not to be confused with the brand today but it was an actual ATI EVGA card that gave you extra colors back then even on CGA monitors.

[it_dont_work]

1)Trident tnt 2mb

2)voodoo2

3)another voodoo2

 

[basToRNutO]

1) Some low end ATI Radeon from 2000, don't remember what it was exactly

2) GeForce 8600 GT - Stopped displaying red

3) GeForce GT 220

4) Radeon 6870 - MBO/PSU killed it

5) GeForce GTX 780 - MBO/PSU killed it

6) GeForce 210 - MBO/PSU killed it

7) Intel HD Graphics 2000

 

Soon to be a GTX 1080 Ti owner (Nvidia UK restock for Christ sake...)