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The first graphics card: Do you remember?

Author: Thilo Bayer (Nov 20, 2008) - Do you still remember the first graphics card that you put into your PC or that was part of the first system you got? Then use the comments to share your memories. And of course you can post pictures too if you have them. In the gallery you can find some graphics cards and the related memories of our PCGH editors.
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Daniel Möllendorf: The first graphics card that I intentionally saved my money for was the Voodoo 2. It that card Unreal was finally running smooth and look alarmingly good. The Creative model (yes, Creative still offered graphics cards back then) even came with the full versions of Incoming and G-Police – those games are responsible for the death of two Thrustmaster joysticks in the following months. (picture: PCGH)
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Daniel Möllendorf: The first graphics card that I intentionally saved my money for was the Voodoo 2. It that card Unreal was finally running smooth and look alarmingly good. The Creative model (yes, Creative still offered graphics cards back then) even came with the full versions of Incoming and G-Police – those games are responsible for the death of two Thrustmaster joysticks in the following months. (picture: PCGH)
Raffael Vötter: My first graphics card had been an Nvidia Riva 128 ZX (AGP) with 8 MiByte VRAM. I have to admit that the term “card” isn’t fully correct, since it was placed on a motherboard with an Intel 440BX chipset. It hasn’t been fast actually and I had to deal with graphics problems and the 16 Bit quality (the NV3 wasn’t able to deal with 32 Bit yet). The consequence: The card – and the board – were replaced by a Voodoo 3 3000. (picture: Carsten Spille)
Christian Gögelein: My first graphics card had been a Trident card with 2 MiByte memory. That was enough for a resolution of 1,024 x 768 in Highcolor. Truecolor was possible at up to 800 x 600 (Yes, you had to think of things like that back then ;-). The first 3D card was a S3-Virge/DX with 2 MB EDO-RAM. With that, I thought, Descent and Tomb Raider would run smoothly at last. Forget it! Tomb Raider looked better indeed, but ran at about 3 fps only. Descent couldn’t use the chip – support came with Decent 2. I can’t remember the producer, but it could have been Hercules. (picture: Blade T64, PCGH)
Lars Craemer: My first PC had been an x286 monster that housed some S3 card. At that time tuning was related to funny config files and hardware was regarded to be almost god-given and thus was beyond the knowledge of mere mortals (and myself). But after I earned enough money with vacation jobs, I went to the local PC store to buy my first computer. Finally I received a system with a Matrox Mystique that had 2 MB video memory. Henceforth games ran without annoying lags – Hallelujah. Marginal note: Shortly (it felt like five minutes) after I bought that PC, a company called 3dfx blasted my PC dreams with the new Voodoo card and the first real 3D graphics card became a top priority. (picture: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MatroxMystique2MBcard.jpg]Swaaye, Wikipedia, under GNU Free Documentation License[/url]
Thilo Bayer: My first graphics card that I can remember had been a Hercules Dynamite with an ET4000 W32 chipset. That is a 2D accelerator for the Vesa Local Bus. (The picture shows a Diamond Stealth 32 VLB with an ET4000 W32; Source: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dstealth32.jpg]Wikipedia[/url]
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