your very 1st sound card and videocard you bought

[sonoma1993]

What is the very 1st soundcard and videocard upgrade you bought for your computer?

for me it was an aureal vortex advantage and a 3dfx voodoo3 2000 modded to voodoo3 3000

 

[Hyperblaze]

video card was back in the 1980s...do you think I actually remember?

sound blaster 16 though.

 

[Sphexi]

Soundcard, I have no clue what it was. It was a package deal with a 4x CDROM and speakers out of an old catalog back when I was like 9, it was ISA based, and I threw it in an IBM PS/2 55SX so I'd have sound in DOS. The first real card I bought was a Monster MX200 soundcard, the first video card was an STB Velocity 128 (before they were bought out and ruined by 3Dfx), it was running Nvidia chips, after that was a STB Velocity 4400 which was the first TNT based card, before everybody else jumped on the Nvidia bandwagon. Awesome card for the time.

 

[loic2003]

Soundblaster 16 (freaking nightmare having to put the IRQ, DMA and interrupt into every game... man I *hated* that)

Voodoo 3 2000 PCI IIRC.

 

[mpitts]

The first sound card would have been the Creative SoundBlaster. Then the fancy SoundBlaster 16 came out and I had to upgrade.

As for the first real video card I bought, it was probably a Matrox Millenium. 4MB.. Oooohhh... Ahhhhh...

 

[sonoma1993]

it was a pain in the rearend having to configure that for dos games and some windows games. When id had my packarrd bell computer back in the day, it had an option to shutdown to realdos mode and when it loaded into dos it had the soundcard all configure for you. it loaded the drivers and stuff. just had to set the settings in the game.

 

[Lonyo]

SB Live! and a TNT2 M64 were the first add in cards (already had an SB Live! and TNT2 Ultra in a pre-built machine we'd bought).

 

[TheBDB]

Originally posted by: mpitts
The first sound card would have been the Creative SoundBlaster. Then the fancy SoundBlaster 16 came out and I had to upgrade.

As for the first real video card I bought, it was probably a Matrox Millenium. 4MB.. Oooohhh... Ahhhhh...

Sounds about right for me too.

 

[Anubis]

SB Live, Nvidia geforce 256

 

[narcotic]

creative SB, and riva TNT 16mb.

 

[Doctorweir]

Sound: Soundblaster 8bit, but the stereo version yeah baby yeah...
Video: OTIvga with ET4000 accelerator...16bit ISA bus...another yeah

Time: 1992 in an Intel 486DX50(!), 8MB ram, 105MB HDD...this thing rocked that time...especially coming from an Amiga500...

 

Video: Trident 256K VGA
Sound: SB16

 

[Hubes]

voodoo 3 3000 agp

 

[Czar]

Sound Blaster 2.0

Creative 3DBLaster, was utter crap at everything but running quake so I returned it and later got a Matrox Millenium

 

[MasterAndCommander]

Video: Diamond Stealth G460 (Intel i740 video chipset baby!)
Audio: Ensoniq - I think it was Audio PCI?

 

[InlineFive]

GeForce2 32MB
Hercules Fortissimo III

To play POP-3D.

 

[meltdown75]

sound: SB16
video: Creative Voodoo Banshee 16mb

(i later picked up a 4mb ATI Rage card for $5, which i still use on my p-133 garage rig )

 

[sao123]

Diamond Monster Fusion 16MB 3dfx
SBlive PCI 128

 

[JRich]

1997:

ProGen3D S3 ViRge
SB16 PnP ISA

 

[Atomicus]

sound: SB Live
vid: geforce 2 GTS Pro 32mb

 

[wfbberzerker]

sound card: sb live value
vid card: voodoo5 5500agp

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: sonoma1993
What is the very 1st soundcard and videocard upgrade you bought for your computer?

for me it was an aureal vortex advantage and a 3dfx voodoo3 2000 modded to voodoo3 3000

you are a youngin...

Trident SVGA card...
soundblaster 1 on a 286

 

[Inappropriate4AT]

First sound card was a give away Hercules Muse 5.1, first one I bought was the Chaintech AV-710 which I still use.

First video card bought was a BFG fx5200 for $99 from Wal-Mart so I could play UT2K3 back when I didn't know any better.

 

[rky60]

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz...still in use to this day

And video was, hmmm, 32mb Geforce

 

[statik213]

first machine had a SB16Pro, video card with 1MB of VRAM, SiS maybe?
first real video card was a riva tnt2 ultra, remember playing nfs (3?) hot pursuit on it.... could play the game on all high settings at 1024x768 (max my monitor could handle) w/o dropping a frame....