Sapphire Radeon RX 480 (4GB)
Nvidia Riva TNT, because the onboard graphics were only going to play EverQuest (beta) and Rogue Squadron like a painful slideshow, if at all.
I got that exact one too! It was way better than the Voodoo 3DFX cards.
Voodoo 2 baybeeee
It was a shiny EGA card.
On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen.
My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours.
If we’re talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.
I think Radeon 9600xt?
Ooo yeah back when it came with a free code for Half-Life 2.
Geforce 2 fx
I attempted to upgrade such a card and were suggested the Geforce FX 5200.
I was so hyped. After finally installing the games I always wanted to play I ad to realize: This passive cooled card supported DX9 on paper but its performance was worse.
It crushed me back then and since then I have never bought a desktop PC part ever again.
But then recently I was gifted an old rig from a friend. Put a Readon RX 6700 (or so) in it. So my first actual graphics card is this radeon!! :)
Buddy, if you read this: Thank you again, much love. You are an awesome beeing.
ViRGE 3D, upgraded the memory with 2 chips to play Tomb Raider.
an S3 Trio card.
Upgraded my highschool family desktop I took to college with a GeForce 8800 GT , used until I build a new pc with a Radeon 7970 GHz edition, which was replaced with a rx580 after the card passed away from light coin poisoning. Desktop is now running unRAID and my new main rig has a gtx 3070 in.
Rtx 3070
My single-slot Radeon HD 6770 from PowerColor was quite nice, although outrageously loud toward the end of its lifespan. Bit of a dead end from the start though (last of TeraScale, never got Vulkan), but I still had a blast with it.
Technically, an ATI Radeon 9800 as that was my first custom built computer in 2003. However, the ATI Rage IIc was the gpu inside my first desktop computer, an iMac G3 in 1998. But the first one I used was the VGC 12-bpp palette graphics of the Apple IIgs, where I was first introduced to computer games and upgrading the accelerator cards and memory to play new games with more demanding requirements in 1994.
ATi EGA Wonder, it could do a whopping 640 x 350 with 16 colors!
Gtx 1050ti, great card loved it
That was the second card I got and it set a high standard for me lol
Nvidia Riva 128 AGP with 4 megs of ram. I will never ever forget when they released hardware accelerated opengl drivers and I played Quake GL for the first time. It was hitting 120fps and looked absolutely beautiful compared to the software rendered games I’d played up to that point.
Intel Graphics Media
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