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History of Video Cards and the GPU

My claim to local gaming fame was 2xVoodoo2 12mb SLI w/ a SiS 6326.

I could run Quake 2 at 1024x768, the graphics were amazing.
 
Good old Diamond Edge 3D NV1.
Even came with sega style game paddles, and a few sega games ported to PC.

I still have buried somewhere a good story about VGA.
It was in Computer Shopper, and it said since all companies have invested heavily in EGA, VGA would be a fad that would go nowhere. Long live EGA!

Cleaning my garage a few months ago, and came across a brand new 12 meg Voodoo 2 card, still in the box. I remember buying a pair of them several years ago, when Staples made a mistake and walked out the door with the pair for $30 each. Too old to sell now...
 
Ahh, the good ole days.

First actual 3D card I tried out was a Rendition Verité V1000 card, it had to go in large part because it was pathetic in VESA LFB modes. I got it for GL Quake 'cos it was cheaper than Voodoo1, but it wrecked DOS games. Yeah, remember DOS games?

I coughed up the coin for the Diamond Monster 3D, and it was 100x better in GL Quake anyway 😀 I even stuck some heatsinks onto it and overclocked it 6 MHz. Blazin'!!
 
Originally posted by: buzzsaw13
I remember my old 3d rage, the thing could barely play CS
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lol a friend of mine has a PC he is using with that onboard GFX chip and a celly 333. what a POS. Oh and a 13 inch CRT, it could make you sick looking at 😛
 
its interesting to see that insane prices were round even then......$999 for that Number Nine Imagine card! cool that they named their card after beatles songs.....ticket to ride is an awesome name for a graphics card
 
Awesome article 😀

Reminds me of the days of my 2mb Matrox.. Upgradable to four!

Think I had a Voodoo 3000 at some point, too. Still got a couple of old PCI cards lying around, but can't remember what they are off the top of my head.
 
Rendition Ready!

I had the 3D Blaster PCI with the Rendition V1000 chip. Awesome card. You should've played vQuake and not glQuake with your V1000! vQuake was the first game I played with anti-aliasing.
 
that definately brings back the memories 🙂 I still have my 2 vodoo2 12 meg cards from my sli days. that combo lasted seemingly forever, till I got an ati 7200 32 meg for the hw t&l.
 
Originally posted by: orangat
lol I remember the old S3 Virge deccelerator.
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lol yup I had the misfortune of having one of those. the only game it played well was Decent, and that was modified for it. I did use it as a 2d card for my voodoos.
 
awesome! Just read the whole article, brings back memories.

Thanks!

I was a 3dfx voodoo rush user.. I was only trying to get the broadest compatibility.. at the time, it was better to get a card that can run glide, opengl,dx that runs a little slower, than to get a card that won't run glide but a little faster.
 
Originally posted by: Tanclearas
Rendition Ready!

I had the 3D Blaster PCI with the Rendition V1000 chip. Awesome card. You should've played vQuake and not glQuake with your V1000! vQuake was the first game I played with anti-aliasing.
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When I first looked at screenshots of Rendition Ready IndyCar Racing in the Sierra magazine it blew my mind!
 
The nice thing about the Rendition was the antialiasing. On my Pentium 100 I could run vQauke at 400x300 with AA on, or 512x384 with it off. Man, I was in HEAVEN!
 
My first video card was an ATI Rage. Smokin! I followed that up with a Riva 128 in my next system, which I replaced a few monhts later with a 16MB RivaTNT! Wow, that was hot!

Then I settled into my mid-range upgrade cycle:
GeForce2 MX
GeForce3 ti200
Radeon 9600 Pro
GeForce 6800GS

That's every card I've owned. Scary that some people here go through that many upgrades in a year.... 🙂
 
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