nekrosoft13 Posted March 18, 2002 Share Posted March 18, 2002 great article here http://accelenation.com/?doc=123&page=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof. Frink Posted March 18, 2002 Share Posted March 18, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted March 18, 2002 Author Share Posted March 18, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L3onheart Posted March 18, 2002 Share Posted March 18, 2002 My first one was a Diamond Multimedia (Voodoo1) Then a 3dfx Voodoo3 Now a GeForce 2 MX 200 Next, a GeForce 4 Ti 4600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quboid Posted March 18, 2002 Share Posted March 18, 2002 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 :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomis_nehc Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freeza Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 my first card was an ATI rage 3d 8MB :right: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quboid Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekrosoft13 Posted March 19, 2002 Author Share Posted March 19, 2002 nvidia forever!!!!!!!! ati will die just like 3dfx:evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo_wiggle Posted March 19, 2002 Share Posted March 19, 2002 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanctified Veteran Posted March 19, 2002 Veteran Share Posted March 19, 2002 my first card was a s3 savage 4 8 mb I managed to play deus ex in that thing :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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