Hey guys
Something light hearted for a change. Which was the first 3D card you purchased for gaming? And when?
Something light hearted for a change. Which was the first 3D card you purchased for gaming? And when?
Mera Pehla Pehla Video Card
None. Never 
but nice threadmine was - Galaxy Geforce FX5500. dont remember when
are IGPs included?
Mine was nvidia 6200-tc from xfx and bought it sometime in 2004 for 2.5k. It had a silent passive cooler. I bought it to play devil may cry 3 , which needed a gpu to run and did not even start on my 915g igp. I had a p4 based rig earlier.
None until now
In my case it is Gainward 6800 Ultra, bought from US in the year 2004.
nVIDIA 7100 in 2006 to play sands of time. Using it till date and maybe upto next month
Mx 440
Pehla pehla card- Palit 9500 gt and it still my only card.
It rocks!
It rocks!
Nice thread!!
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btw.. @rchi81
what is your pehla card,?
what is your pehla card,?
@funkysourav Sorry, but we are talking about Additional video cards here
I didn't dedicate this thread to first 3D cards because there are some people who bought their first computers before the advent of Direct X and Glide Api. Onboard video was still a concept in those days.
well, in my case, my first add in card was a Matrox MGA bought in 96 with 2 MB Vram. It let me play Cricket 97 smoothly, more than anyone else on the block. And in Tomb Raider 2, you could change resolution and color depth by hitting the F2 keys. My video card used to change the res in a second while others would have to wait to see the changes take effect.
My first 3d Card was a Diamond Monster 3D II in 97, to play Carmageddon 2 and Hexen 2 in 3DFX.
Sigh! those were the days..
@digibrush Nice idea to catalogue your cards Reminds you of all the (Parents') money spent on "Computer Games" right?
I didn't dedicate this thread to first 3D cards because there are some people who bought their first computers before the advent of Direct X and Glide Api. Onboard video was still a concept in those days.
well, in my case, my first add in card was a Matrox MGA bought in 96 with 2 MB Vram. It let me play Cricket 97 smoothly, more than anyone else on the block. And in Tomb Raider 2, you could change resolution and color depth by hitting the F2 keys. My video card used to change the res in a second while others would have to wait to see the changes take effect.
My first 3d Card was a Diamond Monster 3D II in 97, to play Carmageddon 2 and Hexen 2 in 3DFX.
Sigh! those were the days..
@digibrush Nice idea to catalogue your cards
Reminds you of all the (Parents') money spent on "Computer Games" right?
Carmegedon 2..great game..
Played the demo for around a year.. Put the entire city in flames!
Ontopic-
bought my card around August 09
Played the demo for around a year.. Put the entire city in flames!
Ontopic-
bought my card around August 09
@funkysourav Sorry, but we are talking about Additional video cards here
I didn't dedicate this thread to first 3D cards because there are some people who bought their first computers before the advent of Direct X and Glide Api. Onboard video was still a concept in those days.
well, in my case, my first add in card was a Matrox MGA bought in 96 with 2 MB Vram. It let me play Cricket 97 smoothly, more than anyone else on the block. And in Tomb Raider 2, you could change resolution and color depth by hitting the F2 keys. My video card used to change the res in a second while others would have to wait to see the changes take effect.
My first 3d Card was a Diamond Monster 3D II in 97, to play Carmageddon 2 and Hexen 2 in 3DFX.
Sigh! those were the days..
@digibrush Nice idea to catalogue your cards
7800GT.
By the way there is a whole section dedicated to Voodoo cards on guru3d. Give it a shot. Those guys are crazies.
1997
i was in 7th class & hadn't touched the keyboard or mouse...hence my 1st video card is written below in siggy
My first Video Card is the one mentioned in my siggy...got it in december last year for 7.1k
XFX 7200 GS for p4
Sparkle 9500 GT for p4 again
Sapphire HD 5670 for Athlon II X4
Sparkle 9500 GT for p4 again
Sapphire HD 5670 for Athlon II X4
nVidia FX 5200 AGP 8x ----> *img59.imageshack.us/img59/6114/13022011172.th.jpg
nVidia 6600GT AGP 8x: It died.
Both were bought together. One for my father to play games and one for me. Then my 6600GT died after 3 years, my father ditched his machine and I started using 5200.
nVidia 6600GT AGP 8x: It died.
Both were bought together. One for my father to play games and one for me.
Then my 6600GT died after 3 years, my father ditched his machine and I started using 5200.
I will buy my first card in a month or two. Not joking!!! I'm serious. I'm still using my sweet Pentium 3 which has only 16 Mb inbuilt graphics memory. I'm planning to buy a 256-512 Mb card. How was your experience about your first graphics card?
Anyway, nice thread.
Hello! Digibrush!
How was your experience about Pentium 3?
Anyway, nice thread.
Hello! Digibrush!
How was your experience about Pentium 3?
6500GT,256mb played crysis with it on a 15" CRT lol still have it lying around somewhere, hopefully it still works
It was teh Palit 8600GT for me. Awesome gpu. Top notch performer till its last bits of rendering.
My first gpu is mentioned in my sig. I bought it in December 2009.
nVidia FX 5200 AGP 8x ----> *img59.imageshack.us/img59/6114/13022011172.th.jpg
nVidia 6600GT AGP 8x: It died.
Both were bought together. One for my father to play games and one for me.
your dad played games
man that's so coooooooool
my old man hates the sight of me playing games on my pc
@rchi84, Lol!!
Ya! that was my 1st pc, 440ZX motherboard with 550mhz intel pentium III CPU(slot type), 128 mb of Ram and 10.2 gb HDD.
My first gaming experience was Roadrush!
It was in the year 2000 and its AGP card was 8mb SIS, which I replaced with ATI later.
still running with a lots of sweet memories
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Hello! Digibrush!
How was your experience about Pentium 3?
Ya! that was my 1st pc, 440ZX motherboard with 550mhz intel pentium III CPU(slot type), 128 mb of Ram and 10.2 gb HDD
. My first gaming experience was Roadrush!
It was in the year 2000 and its AGP card was 8mb SIS, which I replaced with ATI later.
still running with a lots of sweet memories
.
@rchi84, Lol!!
Ya! that was my 1st pc, 440ZX motherboard with 550mhz intel pentium III CPU(slot type), 128 mb of Ram and 10.2 gb HDD
My first gaming experience was Roadrush!
It was in the year 2000 and its AGP card was 8mb SIS, which I replaced with ATI later.
still running with a lots of sweet memories
@rchi84, Lol!!
My is a Pentium 3, 866 Mhz, 512Mb RAM (earlier 64 Mb), 180 Gb HDD (earlier 20 Gb). But, I have no AGP ports, only 3 PCI slots. My first game was also Roadrash and is still one of my favourite game. When I firstly played Roadrash on my sweet Pentium 3, I couldn't think of anything good than that. I'm going to get a graphics card 128 or 512 Mb in a month or two.
XFX Geforce 7300LE
my 1st card, HD5670. brought in Summer of 10....... 2010.
Mine was Nvidia FX5200 128MB from Gigabyte
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here is a pic of my 5500 256mb galaxy. very good condition na?
last year i did all that to see hows a chip looks.
here is a pic of my 5500 256mb galaxy. very good condition na?
last year i did all that to see hows a chip looks.
i got it from one of my friend for 400 Rs...it was a Geforce 64mb card way back in 2004 just to play POP-warrior within...
mines is actually a Nvidia 7050i inbuilt motherboard card
Geforce fx 5200 128mb! It let me play prince of persia!
^^same here. i got fx5500 to play sands of time
was a nice game.
was a nice game.
mx 4000, couldn't let me play POP :/
*images.highspeedbackbone.net/skuimages/large/P450-7253b.jpg
6600, played most wanted etc
*www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/24109/geforce_6600.jpg
*images.highspeedbackbone.net/skuimages/large/P450-7253b.jpg
6600, played most wanted etc
*www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/24109/geforce_6600.jpg
not one yet. Integrated gfx user.
M
Pixelview's Intel i740 bought in 1998...
Radeon Xpress 200 IGP. played Fear2 with everything set to low at 640X480.
never played any POP game.
never played any POP game.
not one yet. Integrated gfx user.
which mobo and cpu do you have or you are using console for playing games ?
my first was 8600gt in 2007 which died within a year and xfx replaced it with 9400gt ( i had a good fight with them about the replacement)..so, in 2008 bought 9600gt which i'm still using and gave my 9400gt to my mom..man, she is really, really good in diablo 2
My first IGP was S3 ProSavage 8 Video Integrated in 2001 used to play roadrash, quake 3, XG2, Jet moto, etc....
Bought new PC with XFX 8600gt 256mb in 2008....
Gave that PC to my bro n bought new PC in 2009 with XFX 9800gt 512mb(config in siggy)....
9800gt is damn good, Played Black OPS with high settings, 4xAA, 1440*900 res. with 30-35fps
Bought new PC with XFX 8600gt 256mb in 2008....
Gave that PC to my bro n bought new PC in 2009 with XFX 9800gt 512mb(config in siggy)....
9800gt is damn good, Played Black OPS with high settings, 4xAA, 1440*900 res. with 30-35fps
I have still to buy my "Pehla pehla" card!
Yups, I dont have any
Yups, I dont have any
gave my 9400gt to my mom..man, she is really, really good in diablo 2
your mom plays game? that also D2? WOW.
a few days ago ico told his dad plays game, now your mom. thankfully, my parents don't play game. actually don't know how to use PC
my first card was MSI 9400GT now i was using 560gtx SLI 
Yups, I dont have any
get one and post in here.
your mom plays game? that also D2? WOW.
a few days ago ico told his dad plays game, now your mom. thankfully, my parents don't play game. actually don't know how to use PC
same here
I am trying to. Meanwhile, you can help me get one, from this query:
Post# 13276 of this thread: *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/graphic-c...ted-general-queries-here-443.html#post1355612
Mine is 7600GS......
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ASUS M2A-VM and AMD Athlon X2 4400+ (Brisbane). Integrated ATI X1250 is the graphics.
I play old games, pre 2008 or low demanding indie games. Can live pretty much without a graphics card to be honest, and not really tempted by recent and upcoming games this year apart from Rage, and Portal 2 which might tempt me to get a gfx card.
Not a console user btw, the only console I ever owned was a NES clone.
your mom plays game? that also D2? WOW.
a few days ago ico told his dad plays game, now your mom. thankfully, my parents don't play game. actually don't know how to use PC
yup my mom also dont know the use of PC....
& my Dad uses PC once in a while for listening music & editing MSWord/Excel
but my frnd's Dad plays solitare
@ico: which game does ur Dad play?
my dad if plays, he likes solitaire.
SIS 6326. Worst card in the history. No OpenGL support, even IGPs had OpenGL support back in 2001.
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Had to buy a nVidia Riva TNT2 in a month or two so I could play Quake 3.
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Tomshardware
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Had to buy a nVidia Riva TNT2 in a month or two so I could play Quake 3.
*img.tomshardware.com/us/1999/03/12/nvidia_rocks_the_boat_with_tnt2/tnt2.jpg
Tomshardware
Sparkle nVidia GeForce 7200GS
Ahem ahem... another bhai
^^ good old memories
you got it there.
Ok.. thanks.
I am trying to. Meanwhile, you can help me get one, from this query:
Post# 13276 of this thread: *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/graphic-c...ted-general-queries-here-443.html#post1355612
you got it there.
ASUS M2A-VM and AMD Athlon X2 4400+ (Brisbane). Integrated ATI X1250 is the graphics.
I play old games, pre 2008 or low demanding indie games. Can live pretty much without a graphics card to be honest, and not really tempted by recent and upcoming games this year apart from Rage, and Portal 2 which might tempt me to get a gfx card.
Not a console user btw, the only console I ever owned was a NES clone.
Ok.. thanks.
Mine was Radeon X1300 Series card don't remember exact model number/
Man, looking at the pics in this thread.. you realise just how humongous our GPUs have become.
In complete contrast, when I look at pics of my old PII 266 CPU, it looks huge, compared to the Sandy CPUS today..
In complete contrast, when I look at pics of my old PII 266 CPU, it looks huge, compared to the Sandy CPUS today..
Its a boon, if they knew how to use a pc then I would have been grounded ages ago over some questionable contentyour mom plays game? that also D2? WOW.
a few days ago ico told his dad plays game, now your mom. thankfully, my parents don't play game. actually don't know how to use PC
My first card was an ATI X1900XTX, imported it from singapore through my cousin(forgot price but was cheaper than here, much much cheaper)
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Then got this:
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And finally the one in the sig, my motto was alway to play everything maxed out(gfx wh0re) and all my purchases were worth it.
^^ Ummm.. seeing the above pictures, my mouth got filled with water... yummy...
Is it bad manners to stare them?
Is it bad manners to stare them?
Y
None till now, using dedicated 256, lol.
No, but make sure your eyes don't come out of the socket^^ Ummm.. seeing the above pictures, my mouth got filled with water... yummy...
Is it bad manners to stare them?
I just realized I've spent as much behind pcs as a car(maruti 800), damn upgrade bug.