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Your first G cards

I had some Voodoo maybe a Voodoo 2 if thats correct, 32mb about 5 years ago I guess when I was about 12 or something :)

64mb system ram
233 Mhz Pentium 2
Voodoo 2 32mb (I think!)
and Dial up! :p

Next PC was ....

AMD K2 or something 500 Mhz
256 mb of ram
Geforce3 64mb (I think)

Next...

AMD Athlon XP 1800+
ATI Radeon 9600 128mb
512mb of ram

Next...

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
nVidia Geforce 6600gt 128mb
1024mb of ram

Upgrade again...

AMD Athlon 64 3000+
ATI Radeon X800GT016 256mb (hardly better from 6600gt -.-)
still 1 gig of ram

Final upgrade / what I have now

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Now @ 4000+ speeds)
nVidia Geforce 7900GT (ASUS) 256mb
2 gig of ram.
 
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bitslice said:
To see Doom on a 3dfx Voodoo for the first time was amazing :)
- everything since has been same old...
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Agreed with this, well.. if you put GLQuake where you have Doom ;)

Still the biggest graphics upgrade ever.
 
Its incredible really because some of those systems and graphics cards that are described in this thread are only 6 to 8 years old, yet in terms of todays tech they seem archaic.

I played on a system with a Voodoo 3D card and remember thinking that I had to get into this....

With the arrival of DX10 and a new era in gaming over the next few years, are things going to get even better. Performance has been doubling with G cards for the past few years. The ATI 9700 killed the Ti 4600. Then the 6800 was king. The 7800GTX was the equivalent of 2x6800 SLI and now we have the Nv7950 equalling the performance of 2 x 7900GT's. Can this increase be sustained? I hope so. I just hope that gaming as a whole does'nt suffer due to the amount of time it will take for Software developers to create new games for our systems. There has been quite a lull in games for a while, I hope this is not a trend that will continue.
 
titaniumx3 said:
3dfx Voodoo

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb (best card ever, imho)
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Agreed!!! thought that about my ATI 9700.
I loved that card... it blew everything away for quite sometime. I didn't bother upgrading until the release of the Nv6800 and that was quite sometime after the 9700. ATI got back into the game with the 9000 series.
 
-|ScottFree|- said:
Its incredible really because some of those systems and graphics cards that are described in this thread are only 6 to 8 years old, yet in terms of todays tech they seem archaic.

I played on a system with a Voodoo 3D card and remember thinking that I had to get into this....

With the arrival of DX10 and a new era in gaming over the next few years, are things going to get even better. Performance has been doubling with G cards for the past few years. The ATI 9700 killed the Ti 4600. Then the 6800 was king. The 7800GTX was the equivalent of 2x6800 SLI and now we have the Nv7950 equalling the performance of 2 x 7900GT's. Can this increase be sustained? I hope so. I just hope that gaming as a whole does'nt suffer due to the amount of time it will take for Software developers to create new games for our systems. There has been quite a lull in games for a while, I hope this is not a trend that will continue.
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Personally I think that most game houses are looking to coding for Dx10 as I know a few people in that industry that are now looking to use Dx10... I think that at the moment we are at a cross roads... it might looks slow but wait untill later on in the year :)

Stelly
 
first system was...
intel pentium 4 1.8ghz
128mb pc2100
combo drive
****** psu
equally ****** case
everything onboard(crap pc chips mobo;) )

the cards ive owned...
64mb Geforce mx440
128mb hercules 3dprofit 9000pro(still in use)
128mb MSI Geforce FX5600le
128mb Sapphire 9600xt fireblade(still in use)
128mb BFG Geforce 6600GT
256mb Leadtek Winfast Geforce 6800GT(still in use)
256mb Powercolour X800GT
256mb Gainward 6800GS
256mb XFX XXX Extreme Edition 7600GT x2
512mb Gigabyte X1900XT-X(in use)
512mb Connect3d X1900 Crossfire Edition(in use)

waiting for the second gen of DX10 cards before i upgrade my gpu again...(i say that but i'll probably end up buying one sooner...)
 
I don't consider cards like the 7950 or even SLI/Crossfire as real achievements; the only achievement there is the technology that allows two cards to work together.

Things like the Radeon 9700 card and the new Conroe processors are achievements.
 
Ah, outvoted...
...probably called Quake then...

iD sent me the first artwork for the project, they were going to call it
"Doom - just stop calling them flying tomatos" but I persuaded them to call it "Quake". - it scanned better, yah know.

.
 
titaniumx3 said:
I don't consider cards like the 7950 or even SLI/Crossfire as real achievements; the only achievement there is the technology that allows two cards to work together.

Things like the Radeon 9700 card and the new Conroe processors are achievements.
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I have to agree!!
 
First pc

Atlantic computers
Pentium 130mhz
16mb ram
1.6gb maxtor hd
ancient soundblaster
ess graphics card
14inch monitor
cdrom.

Cost about £1300 in 1996!!

Graphics cards:
Diamond 3dfx ???
3dfx voodoo banshee
Creative t4200 ???
Creative Geforce anihhaltor pro
ATI 9800 pro
7800 GTX 256mb
7900 GTX 512mb

Can't really remember what i've bought all together but i know i've spent too much!!
 
4mb Orchard Righteous was my first gfx card, mechwarrior mercenary looked amazing! :D I think it was 4mb like.

Then a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000, I couldn't afford the next model up :( But the box had the green face which looked nicer than the purple one. lol.

Then a bit of a jump, I think I got a FX5900U (was out of the loop for awhile!) but unlocked it and clocked it to an FX5950U! Woo.

Then a 6800 vanilla 128Mb card, and now my 7800GTX 256Mb card.

My next one will probably be G80 or the next model after. :D


Cheers!
 
First one was either a cirrus logic or Tseng Labs card
Next one was a Vesa Local bus Cirrus Logic
followed by 2Mb Matrox Mystique.

Powering a mighty 4Mb 386SX33 - no maths co-processor in this baby - that was for the rich people who ran spreadsheets!

This was in the days when new graphics cards cost £80 :p
 
Orchid Righteous 3D was my first 3d accelerator card too, then onto a Diamond Monster 3D II 8 mb. Then Voodoo 3 3000 AGP. Then a Riva TNT of some sort. Then Voodoo 5 5500 AGP (what a disaster that card was, sold it within a week). Then GeForce 2 GTS. Then a slightly faster GeForce 2 IIRC. Then GeForce 3 TI500 (IIRC). Then a GeForce 4 TI4200. Radeon 9600 Pro, Radeon 9600 XT, Radeon 9800 Pro and now X800 Pro (modded to XT) which is the first one I've put a 3rd party cooler on.

Also had 2d cards before the Orchid, and I also owned an S3 Virge '3D decelerator' at some point too although I can't quite remember where it fits into the timeline above.

Currently waiting for my new X1800 XT to turn up :) Buying a new video card is awesome.
 
voodoo 4 (i think)
MX440
FX5500 (XFX)
X700XT
6600GT (XFX)
X1600XT (Sapphire)
7600GT (Leadtek)
Second 7600GT (Leadtek)
 
Voodoo 1
Voodoo 3 3000
TNT2 Ultra
Voodoo 5 5500
Geforce 256
Geforce mx
Geforce 2 mx
Geforce 2
Geforce 2 GTS 64 meg(when they came out with 64 meg cards)
Geforce 3 TI 200
Geforce 4 TI4200 Otes
FX 5900 xt
Radeon 9700 pro
Radeon 9800 pro
Geforce 6800 GT
Radeon X850 XTPE
Geforce 7800 gtx
Radeon x1900xt

About all i can think of
 
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that ^
 
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