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what was your FIRST video card?

Cirrus Logic 5446 2MB card. hmm....I barely remember it now. upgraded later to a RageII Pro plus a Voodoo2 12MB.
 
3Dfx voodoo2 first 3d card (made by creative labs), i still remmeber the day i got it. i put it on a pillow and paraded it around the house. then i droped it. but it still worked! still have it, still use it, in another pc of course
 
Not counting onboard....Diamond FireGL 1000 pro. Still have it and use it when I need a PCI board for something...great board for what I needed.
 
On my 386 in the ISA days. 🙂 I had an OAK 256k VGA and a school computer had an OAK 512k SVGA.
Shamefully, I swapped them when playing around inside the machine.... 😱

My first video card upgrade.

The second was 1MB that had big words on the box sayong 150% faster(!!!) I wanted faster desktop redraw so I spent $80 for it. I should've known better since I saw little or no difference.
I would go through several cards after that, from ATI to Trident.

Then came my first PCI 2MB card, Cirrus Logic. Much nicer.
Then a 4MB S3 Virge.
Then the Riva128 (fast but TERRIBLE image quality - returned)
Then the Rendition Verite (Diamond Stealth II) fast but terribly fuzzy... must have beend defective. Returned, though I should have tried again because I would not get another 3D card until Voodoo2 was just coming out...
I wanted the Voodoo2 but the shop wouldn't get them in for a while yet, but they DID have the awesome Canopus Pure3D. I foolishly got that, but wouldn't keep it long.
Then came the Real3D Starfighter (i740) Free with promotional package, still have the T-shirt! (Thanks Chris @ Real3D!)
Next was the Voodoo Banshee... nice overall, but still not enough speed.
Finally I would settle with the Creative TNT1. That had good speed and kept me going a LONG time!
Then I tried a V3, saw no benefit, returned it.
Bought an Asus GF2MX a year later, worthlessly fuzzy, returned it...
bought an ELSE GF1-DDR. Very nice, lasted quite a while.
Then led a Voodoo5 group buy (the last one ever allowed on Anandtech!) and had that a while, went back to ELSA card.
Sold whole PC, got Rage128 (thinking I would try and not play any 3D games)
I started playing games again and got a Radeon VE SDR - too slow
Bought a Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO. Very handy card, did some video clips. Never should have sold it, even if I did make a profit... lasted over a year. Great card.
ATI Radeon 8500LELE, lost job - needed money, sold it almost immediately.
Matrox G400 (which I still have) on the cheap for working. I love the 2D.... 3D is pretty slow. 🙁
Hercules 8500LE, bought at super price, lost job again, had to return before even opening it. 🙁
Back to G400.

Quite a history... wonder if I forgot any? 😛
 
First card was some S3 Virge 2 Meg thing

First 3D card was a Diamond Stealth II S220 based on the Rendition Verite 2100. It was not as fast a a Voodoo 2, but had MUCH better IQ. Played many hrs of Quake2 and Half-Life on that card.
 
first 3d card was my twin voodoo 2s, still have one of them used it as a temporary card to run a second monitor while I was waiting on a card to rma.

first actaul card was some trident thing forget exact specs
 
S3 Virge VX 4MB. It's so big, it blocked the air circulation in the case (but it didn't need a fan). 2D was good (I still have it & use it once in a while in emergency). First 3D was TNT-1 16MB by Diamond (Viper 550 I think). I've never jumped on the voodoo wagon as I had no time for playing games back then. But playing games with the TNT-1 was an earth-shattering experience.
 
I can't remember many details about my first card except that it had some Cirrus chip on it and came with a whopping 512KB of RAM onboard and was made circa 1995. I actually used it until I could afford an ATI RageII+ 2MB which I later upgraded to 4MB via a memory daughter card that plugged into it. That was a sweet card for the times (1997).
 
Goodness. If I remember correctly, it was the additional 256k/512k of VRAM chip upgrade in my Apple 6xx30 33mhz based Performa system. It was required to allow me to run 16bit color on a 14" screen. My how times have changed.
 
Western Digital Integrated Video with a whopping 1 meg of memory!! YES, you read that right - Western Digital at one time made an integraded VGA chip that they sold to OEMs and was included on integrated mobos. My first box (not THAT kind!) was a GW2K so this is what came with it.
 
First 2D card a Cirrus 1MB VESA card 😀
First 3D card a Voodoo 1 I got together with the combo of the time, a Matrox Millenium 1 2MB, later got the 6MB expansion card, still have it 😛
 
All-in-wonder Pro 8MB (Rage Pro chipset). Never used any of the AIW features... It still locks up when installing non-generic ATI drivers under 2k... :|
 
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