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Your first dedicated GPU?

Andro Boy

Andro Boy

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Pic related is my old Radeon HD 3650 from around 2008. Absolutely useless today, but was a huge upgrade from the family computer with integrated graphics.

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So what was your first real experience with PC gaming?

EDIT: The photo won't upload for some reason. Oh, well.
 
PowerColor ATI Radeon 7000, if I remember correctly. My computer at the time (a Dell with a 2GHz Celeron) didn't have AGP, so it was the PCI version with 32MB VRAM.
 
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A Voodoo3 3000. I was a pleb back then and had no AGP slots, so PCI it was. Luckily I was also clueless and thought the world of my new graphics accelerator in my People PC. Lol. Good times those were. I also remember Diablo 2 (the reason I bought it in the first place) took up 2 whole GBs of HDD space!
 
A Nvidia TNT2 so I could play unreal tournament. Was pretttttttty sweet at the time. Dad brought it home from his computer store as a surprise!
 
Is there a definition of "dedicated GPU"?

My memory is a bit fuzzy on this, but from what I remember it was an ATI Mach64 ISA-slot VGA graphics accelerator (2D only, I think). I used it in a 133MHz Pentium MMX (P5) system. This was 1995-ish, I know it was Socket 7, but not much more than that. I also recall having to mail-order and install an additional 1MB EDO memory for a graphics adapter inside a 386 machine prior to that (1991-ish), but I can't tell you exactly what graphics adapter that was.

For 3D, I'm pretty sure it was the Voodoo 1 alongside that Mach64 in a faster Pentium 233MHz in the same socket. I never got around to doing SLI, unfortunately. That held me over until I got an AMD K6-2 with an ATI Fury Maxx. The big game-changer for me was the Tualatin Pentium III which is the first chip I remember actively overclocking alongside a GeForce 64MB DDR2 GPU.

There were several other CPU and GPU combinations in between all of those. I had at least one K6-3 build and T-bird build. Other than playing Unreal Tournament and CS relentlessly, I think the majority of my gaming switched over to Xbox (Halo, Ninja Gaiden, Fable, etc.) around that 2001-2004 era. I still bought some PC stuff, but not as much.
 
GeForce 6200... what a pile of crap. Was an upgrade in 2004 from onboard MX 4 graphics. barely ran HL2
 
First experience was a 386 with VGA graphics. First 3D card was a Voodoo 1 which we later upgraded to a pair of Voodoo 2 in SLI. To this day that is still the only SLI setup I have ever had.
 
The first one I owned that did 2D and 3D was the Rendition Vérité V1000 in the form of a Creative Labs 3D Blaster. The term GPU wasn't used until Nvidia relased their GeForce 256 five years later (which, of course, I also owned).
 
My first self bought graphic card was a Geforce 2 mx 200.
My worst purchase was a 6800 Ultra (it even came in its own suitcase)
My next purchase will be top SKU Vega (if everything goes according to plan)
 
ATi All-in-Wonder 9700 Pro baby. Loved that card. Recorded TV on it and played Doom 3.

I had some dumpy no name 2d accelerators in a box before that but I can't remember them.
 
I had a couple/few GPU's prior to 3D graphics accelerator, but my first 3D GPU was a Nvidia Riva TNT. I was playing Everquest at the time, and it made a massive improvement.
 
It had to be around 98 or 99 either a rage fury or voodoo 3? It was so long ago I can't remember anymore. That's when I first started building machines and I think that's around when I started hitting AnandTech's website too.
 
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