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Your first video card?

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Mine was a "Riva TNT2 Model 64" (32 MB), it looked like this:
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I got around to buying it by 2001, I guess I was tired of software rendering :D
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? :wink:
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I didn't have the first video card: I bought the second video card straight away.
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Re: Your first video card?

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I had a 3DFX Voodoo 1 4MB, it was the pass-through variety that hooked up to I think a Tseng 4000.
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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 :)
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you mean PC ey ?

then it was OAK 256k VGA card
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Re: Your first video card?

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Geforce 2 mx 64mb. Soon it became absolete.
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freakboy wrote:Geforce 2 mx 64mb. Soon it became absolete.
I think that was mine too.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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