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Ok i will go first my first GPU was Radeon x1650 pro

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  2. Goblin_Eye_Poker

    My first was a Trident Microsystems TGUI9440 1MB.

  3. DannyDorito6923

    Integrated Intel hd graphics from an Intel 2000 series cpu.
    🙁

  9. Careful-Mind-123

    I remember having an ati radeon 4870. This version specifically: http://www.hisdigital.com/ca/product2-419.shtml

    I remember it because the cooler was so bad it would sometimes shut down the whole PC due to overheating. After some time, the cooler broke, so I bought some sort of generic gpu cooler for it. Everything ran 10 times better.

    This was not the first PC I had, but it was the first one I opened.

    Edit: if I remember correctly, the PSU eventually died and took the gpu with it.

  13. NinjaNoSerra

    First graphics card S3 trio.
    First 3D graphics card Voodoo Banshee 16 mb.

  15. ToneZone1978

    Although technically I put a penguin (autocorrect makes pentium penguin😂) into a 486 just to play quake

  19. Titanium_Eye

    Went to check my pile of documents, the receipt from 2001 says Riva TNT2 32M (the system also had a Pentium III 850 MHz and 128MB RAM at 133MHz).

    But the thing is subsequently I got a Diamond Monster 3D (aka Voodoo1) so while not the first it was the older one.

  20. ThrowRA0638

    – No video card? (1993 Presario 486/25 MHz)
    – ATI 3D Rage II (1998 Presario K6-2/350 MHz)
    – XFX GeForce 4 MX440se (basically a GeForce 2 chip; never died 😞; Celeron 2GHz @ 2.52 GHz build)
    – XFX GeForce 6600 GT OC (had 1 year; sold when upgraded; Celeron 2GHz @ 2.52 GHz build)
    – eVGA GeForce 7900 GT KO SC (burned itself out in 8 months; eVGA sent me the next as a replacement; AMD X2-3800 build)
    – eVGA GeForce GTS 250 (lasted 7 years; never died; AMD X2-3800 build)
    – Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X 3GB (lasted 10 years; never died; 2013 build i7-3770k)
    – ASUS TUF GeForce 4070-TI OC 12GB (Nov ’23 new build)

    ’93 tech to ’98 was the biggest performance and visual change for me. Suddenly, I could play 3D games. 😄 Kids today don’t know the struggle.

    The next biggest change was moving from the MX440se to the 6600. I could finally turn on the pretty settings and play games like Far Cry [1] and Doom 3!

    #I miss the days of performance-optimized games. Now we’re just throwing hardware at the problem. 😒

  22. Aevia12d

    An ATi gpu which was mid-tier back in 2003…

  23. reallyryan-1899

    I’m fairly new to PC building so my first one was a 2060 in a prebuilt then I worked my ass off to save and build what I have now.

  24. AdComfortable9363

    I dont have a photo of it but it was an old AGP Nvidia card, i still remember the mermaid that was on the box, i think it had 256mb VRAM

  27. Mother-Translator318

    First ever gpu I have no idea. I was like 4 when my dad bought it for me. First gpu i bought with my own money tho was a Diamond Radeon 6950 back in 2011

  28. blackest-Knight

    Some generic Trident card with 256KB of video RAM.

    Yes K, as in kilo.

  29. thespank

    It was a Radeon X800. It had a malfunction after a few months and I did a warranty replacement and they replaced it with a newly released X1600. I still have it.

  32. Dubya_Tea_Efff

    ATI X700, which I replaced shortly after with an ATI X850XT.

  38. HigherFunctioning

    My first GPU was a 16 Color EVGA card that I used on my 8086 IBM PC Clone.

  39. YoMomInYogaPants

    3dfx voodoo 3

    it came in a “Daewoo” brand prebuilt Amdk6-2 400mhz cpu, felt like the luckiest kid on the planet when my dad got us this pc.

  41. WackyBeachJustice

    Some type of S3 card in the mid to late 90s. Followed by Voodoo 2.

  45. navagon

    3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 – absolute legend of a card. Fables were written about it. None touched its majesty.

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