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Your first dedicated GPU?

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HumblePie said:
Are you sure? a lot of pre-built computers even then used a dedicated 2d card.
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Yeah. As I recall, integrated video in desktops mostly started in the late '90s when the HP/Compaq systems all bragged about having "AGP graphics" and didn't actually have an AGP slot.
 
XFX Core Edition HD7850 2GB

Genuinely good card, it even runs most games on decent graphic settings at 1080p today.

But the coil whine.. holy crap the coil whine.
 
First one was a 1MB Trident (not a gaming GPU) but first gaming GPU I don't remember, either a Matrox or Voodoo2.

Crumpet said:
XFX Core Edition HD7850 2GB

Genuinely good card, it even runs most games on decent graphic settings at 1080p today.

But the coil whine.. holy crap the coil whine.
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Yeah I had a 7850 at one time and it was a solid card, I still have a 5770 2GB and it can still play current games at decent settings, I also still have a GTX560Ti however can't play current games well unless I use older drivers (and many games will not start until drivers are updated).
 
My first machine with dedicated graphics was a Gateway MX7515 laptop with a Mobility Radeon X600 128 MB (64 actual dedicated + 64 shared).

First desktop dGPU was Geforce 8800GTS 320 MB for my first computer build. T'was quite the upgrade.
 
My first card was for a Vesa Local Bus main board for a dx2 66mhz cpu. think it Diamond Speedstar or something, then I got the 3D 2000 S3 for my first Pentium with PCI bus.
 
This takes me back my 1st dedicated 3D card was a 3DFX Voodoo 2 with a whopping 12MB of VRAM! I was so stoked to finally be able to play Unreal with maxed settings!
 
SolMiester said:
My first card was for a Vesa Local Bus main board for a dx2 66mhz cpu. think it Diamond Speedstar or something, then I got the 3D 2000 S3 for my first Pentium with PCI bus.
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Heh... yeah, I remember VLB. I had one along with a disk caching controller card with 1MB of RAM... made Wing Commander 3 finally playable! Graphics became much smoother and level loading times went from 30 minutes to 2-3. 😀 Good times... good times...
 
Diamond monster3d (voodoo1), then onwards and upwards....to voodoo2 Sli. Which I hung onto until geforce2.

Man, they were all great cards.

*Edit, unless we count non 3d cards, in which case it was a 16 colour EGA card in my sweet ass 8086
 
Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, i still have the box for it to. When i first got it i fired up Quake 2 and was floored at how much better it ran and looked compared to software mode. Besides that card, my favorite card has got to be the Geforce 3. It was powerful AND cheap, i remember buying one for $99 when it was in its prime.
 
One of the Diamond S540 Savage 4 pro, if we are talking about 3D card... if we go back a bit to the era consumer pc had to have some kind of dgpu, i think my first card was an ISA one that i dont even remember the name, i do remember the 2nd one, a Trident 9440-3 1MB PCI, i was able to get the chips to get 2MB later on.
 
STB Velocity 128 to play everquest in 1999. Think it was a 4 mb video card.

Then GeForce 2 32mb

EVGA GeForce Ti 4200

ATI Radeon 9600XT (the one card I hated because the drivers sucked and I'd always get driver has crashed and recovered spam)

EVGA GeForce 7600GS

Chaintech GeForce 8800GT

BFG GTX 260

EVGA GTX 560 Ti (only one to go boom)

EVGA GTX 660
 
Rage 128 Pro!

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