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[Mister_Headcrab]

Mine was a "Riva TNT2 Model 64" (32 MB), it looked like this:

I got around to buying it by 2001, I guess I was tired of software rendering
Funny fact, by the end of 2002 this card was pretty much obsolete as it wouldn't support "Hardware T&L".

What about you guys?

[zobraks]

I didn't have the first video card: I bought the second video card straight away.

[Meddle]

I had a 3DFX Voodoo 1 4MB, it was the pass-through variety that hooked up to I think a Tseng 4000.

[Shattered]

My first 3D card was a 3dfx Voodoo3 (don't remember exactly which model).

The first PC we had at home in the late 80's contained a combined CGA/Hercules card. You could change between them by flipping a switch on the back of the PC

[hfric]

you mean PC ey ?

then it was OAK 256k VGA card

[freakboy]

Geforce 2 mx 64mb. Soon it became absolete.

[Trey]

Geforce 2 mx 64mb. Soon it became absolete.

I think that was mine too.

[Virgil]

Noname Geforce MX 32 Mb in 2002. I used family computers before that, but this is one was in my very own PC. Gotta say, it's already sucked back then, since it was a lower end card. I couldn't run some game demos with good speed. I recall playing Morrowind with 10 fps and then buying Radeon 9500 just to see the shader water.

[freakboy]

Yeah dx9 shaders looked impressive back then. I remember loading Far Cry with Radeon 9800SE and seeing water shader gave me an eyegasm. Now the same water looks awfull.

[guardsman]

Hmm... I would have to say my "first" video card would have to be the ATI All in Wonder 128 16MB PCI video card that I bought seperately to replace the ATI Rage Pro Turbo 8MB PCI card which came bundled with a generic system build which I purchased at the same time.