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What was your first GPU?

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Mine was the Radeon R7 250X (Totally not a rebadged 7770).

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  2. GABE_EDD

    GTX 660, and I totally didn’t get a GT 630 before that, not knowing just how awful it was.

  3. elspuddy

    some 3dfx voodoo 1 card hooked up to a Cirrus Logic pci card.

  4. Arcticfox04

    S3 Savage 4 32MB PCI. It played Unreal rather good and everything else okay’ish.

  6. reddit_mike

    Geforce 3 and i thought that was the bees knees! I was over the top when I got my hand on that puppy! Was stoked to get Max Payne on that beast!

  7. stubenson214

    Number Nine Motion 771, S3 968. A $300 card in 1995.

    You could call that a graphics accelerator, though. If you wan to say GPU, it was the Diamond Monster3D, used at the same time.

  8. AndroXg

    The GTX 750Ti carried me through college, i wish i never sold mine and keep it for the memory

  9. duckbutter888

    3dfx Voodoo 1. Just so I can play NFS 2 SE and Motoracer

  12. PS_Awesome

    Some 16mb GPU that i can’t remember the name of.

  16. Kurostones

    Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Gr and GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 940M

  17. DrSickFish

    Honestly never had one just had really bad computers with integrated graphics

  18. Packle-

    GeForce mx400. Still have it on my shelf.

  19. SwagChemist

    I had an old 1060 6gb version, had it for about a year and then upgraded it to a 1080ti which I kept for the next 7 years.

  20. assortedUsername

    My first personally purchased system was actually a laptop, which was hot as hell and struggled to run maplestory lol.

    From there, I ended up with a Dell T5400 and settled with a 750 ti slapped into the system.

  23. unabletocomput3

    Hd5450 with a whopping 512mb of vram

    Came with an old optiplex 990, which was also my first pc.

    Granted, I had a family pc that I can’t remember what was inside, and a dell latitude with Intel 2nd gen integrated graphics, but I’d consider this my first actual gpu.

    Now, the first gpu I bought was a gt710, which was eventually replaced by an rx 580 and started my journey to making my own system.

  26. 242vuu

    First dedicated video card was a 3dfx voodoo2. Then I went baller with two in SLI. Celeron 300a overclocked to 450. Good times.

  29. Individual_Pin7468

    Geforce, don’t ask me the model 😁

  34. pagemap1

    First was a Voodoo II, then the Riva TNT2. After those, the Voodoo3.

    Also, a Matrox at one point, I can’t recall which one.

    Video cards were being released in quick succession back then.

  35. Stabilizer_Jenkins

    GeForce 3 Ti500

    The first graphics cards that I purchased myself for a build, that wasn’t a secondhand given or came with a pre bought system which was way more common then.

    It was a dual CPU build on an Asus MB with 2-1.56GHrtz AMD Athlon processors and 8GB ram from 2 stix.

    I used Thermaltake heatsinks on the CPU’s and FOR GODS SAKE they were UNHOLY in the amount of NOISE that they made. Even one would have been too much. I cannot for the life of me remember specifically what make they were, but the CPU heatsink fans (I want to say Tornado?) were just insanely loud. Like Friends and fellow LAN party people wouldn’t shut up about it.

    This was 2001.

  37. MinnesotanFat

    I don’t remember but it was cheap and I paired it with AMDs very first APU. Then I crossfired them. It was pretty garbage 😂

  38. SliceOfCheese337

    GTX 1060 3g, served me well from 2017 to 2023 until her age started to show.

  40. CharcoalGreyWolf

    https://preview.redd.it/a4ko8sb7af3f1.jpeg?width=330&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b46095395d82c0bda26795888c2ac4b92b806368

    First one of consequence, the ATI VGA Wonder. Upgraded it from 256k to 512k (one row on the card is socketed).

    First 3D card? The 3dfx Voodoo-based Orchid Righteous 3D. Used with an S3 Trio64V+ 2D card.

    [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-yYgpiWYAAYVeB?format=jpg&name=large](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-yYgpiWYAAYVeB?format=jpg&name=large)

    First 2D/3D card? Well, I had a Matrox Mystique with a Voodoo 2, (followed by a Riva 128ZX AGP with the V2) but my first good one was the nVidia Riva TNT 2 Pro. I returned my ATI Rage Fury for it because the drivers were so bad on the Rage3D.

    I’ve had ISA, VESA local bus, PCI, AGP, and PCI Express graphics cards.

  45. -DethLok-

    My first ‘GPU’?

    A Trident S3 video card with 2 megs of ram.

    Coupled with a 3Dfx Voodoo card for a mass 640×480 screen of 3D awesomeness 🙂

    And I had SO MUCH fun playing Quake!!

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