VGAMuseum.com

[Lonbjerg]

Just found a nice site:
http://www.vgamuseum.info/

It has a REALLY neat feature.

A GPU famlity tree:

http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php...cles/1143-vlask-proudly-presents-history-tree

Lot of players, lots of info...good read!

 

[ViviTheMage]

nice, I used to have a Riva TNT

 

[Lonbjerg]

nice, I used to have a Riva TNT

I find it funny how many players in the early days that I had forgotten.
I think my first GFX card to a PC were some Tseng card...on ISA bus I think.

 

[ViviTheMage]

I remember having some 1mb SiS GPU at some point too, haha.

 

[Lonbjerg]

I remember having some 1mb SiS GPU at some point too, haha.

I don't think they were called "GPU'" back then...or had the capabilities to be labled as such

 

[thilanliyan]

I remember having some 1mb SiS GPU at some point too, haha.

Try a 0.5mb (yes, half a megabyte) Trident video card...it was awesome back in '92.

 

[Annisman*]

My first Graphics card was some 128mb AGP, guess I was a little late to the party.

Still, it's incredible that I've got 32X the video memory in ONE of my current vid cards...

 

[balane]

That's neat. I wish I could remember my first "good" card. It was pre 3Dfx days. It had 4MB and cost nearly $400 at the time. It was a lot of dough to pay out but I was taken in by the beautiful box art and I didn't really know anything about graphics cards. I thought it was a Matrox but I'm not seeing anything on that chart that rings a bell.

Edit: Found it. A Number 9 Imagine 128. Anybody remember them? Damn this card gave me a great feeling to buy.

http://www.oddmix.com/comp/px/chd_pci_9_imagine_128.jpg

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[KingFatty]

Ah I remember the Riva TNT from 1998, I was really proud of that card as my first real video card for a custom built machine. Prior to that I used some integrated video on my old 486SX/25 packard bell. but I thought Nvidia had more cards than shown prior to the Riva TNT, was Nvidia just that young of a company?

 

[WiseUp216]

Countless hours spend playing Tanarus on my Voodoo 1. Hard to believe that was 15 years ago.

I had something else before the Voodoo that wouldn't run all the effects on Tanarus but for the life of me I can't remember it. Too many lost brain cells.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

My first card was a Creative Voodoo Banshee... ahh, the good ol' times, when Quake 2 looked like the paragon of photorealism!