7 years of 3d cards


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my frist aftermarket video card purchase was a $200 Creative Voodoo2 12MB back in the PCI videocard days. i remember playin games after i put that card in, i thought i was teh reet haxor +1 :D

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my first card was some type of ati with 4 mb video ram :p

that was the only ati card i ever had, and i will never go back

go NVIDIA

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I remember my brother getting a Diamond Voodoo 1 4MB for ?50. I told him it was nice, but not worth ?50. I just preordered a Geforce 4 for nearly ?4:) :)

My first card was that Voodoo 1. That's when Quake 1 just had just had the Glquake patch released and the start of the 3D card revolution. nVidia have a lot to thank 3DFX and John Carmack for - the voodoo 1 and Glquake kicked it all off.

Voodoo 1 PCI ?40

Voodoo 3 PCI ?70

Asus GF2 GTS ?190 (deliberately broke it to get a refund when I found out about Asus releasing drivers that allowed ppl to cheat online)

Elsa GF3 ?265 (I was one of the first people in the UK to get a GF3!)

Gainward GF4 Ti4600 ?370

Leadtek GF5 Ti10000 ?420

ATi GF7 TiXQDDR 1Ghz ?580

Guessing the:)ast two :)

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Ati GF7? typo perhaps?

Anyways, I still remember my 1st 3D card. It was a Voodoo Banshee. I intended to get a Voodoo 2, but salesperson was too stupid and I didn't want to bother with his dumbass. Got a Banshee instead. I gotta admit, back in the days, the Banshee did it's job well.

I think the Banshee is now in my little cousin's computer...hrmm...

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Originally posted by nomis_nehc

Ati GF7? typo perhaps?

That was deliberate - you never know what the future holds!

I could start a great big fight here so I just want to make clear than after the Gainward GF4 my list is fiction and it is entirely possibly that in 3 years ATi will rule and nVidia will be making nForce chipsets with future Radeon chips in them instead of ATi making boards with future nVidia GPUs.

That's actually a very interesting article. I never realised anyone other than 3Dfx had a reasonable performance low price card at the time of the Voodoo 1 - it's probably people like me who made 3Dfx so big :)

I also didn't realise the TNT2 was much cop.

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Psssh-

Cmon guys, we can do better than this! Tseng Labs(ET4000-w32i) was the first card that I credit with introducing me to accelerated gaming. I picked one up after reading on Fidonet that it sped up Doom (yes, Doom). I popped open my case, plugged it into my VLB slot, and away I went.

Let's also give the *smack* where it's due as well. S3 Virge..... man what a piece of crap. I remember getting the patch for Descent I, and went from about 20 frames per second to 8. Thank god the Voodoo 1 appeared shortly thereafter to save us all. Props to Verite, but their card couldn't hold 3dfx's jock.

I recall many a morning spent flying through multiplayer Descent on Kali, wading through the hundreds of "multiplied" powerups trying to find a ship to toast before heading off to class at UCF.

Ahh, the good old days!

Neo

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