• tetris11@lemmy.ml
      9·
      6 months ago

      If you hold onto your cards for 6-7 years, that’s only around 5 cards.

      Mine goes:

      • RTX 4070
      • GTX 1080
      • GFX 5200 (I think?)
      • (The Playstation 2 years)
      • (The Playstation years)
      • 3dfx Voodoo
  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
    10·
    6 months ago

    It was a shiny EGA card.

    On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen.

    My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours.

    If we’re talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.

    • Broken@lemmy.ml
      1·
      6 months ago

      I remember when the EGAs came about. Damn, it was like stepping into the future. But I didn’t have a color monitor so it didn’t matter. I was probably more envious than your friend.

  • nick@midwest.social
    4·
    6 months ago

    Voodoo Monster 3D

    Edit: wait I misread the assignment. That’s the first 3D accelerator I bought. I have no idea what my first gfx card was it was like 37 years sgo.

  • xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I will never forget the joys of the playing Half-Life 1 on max settings with my Diamond Monster3D Voodoo2.

  • mercano@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 months ago

    GeForce 256 on my first Windows computer when I went to college. Before that, I was using motherboard graphics on a series of Macs growing up.

  • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    Trident VGA?

    I got a 3DFX voodoo as soon as they came out. GL quake was mind-blowing.

    I bought a Riva TNT

    Then a GeForce 2

    Then a Radeon 9000

    Then for a bunch of years I just moved into laptop after laptop with discrete GPUs.

    Now I still have a 1080 and a 2070 doing a little bit of light AI work and video transcoding for me. But I’m still relying on crappy laptop GPUs for all my gaming. They’re good enough.

    • BlackArtist@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      I got a 3Dfx from a computer fair in Liverpool just so I could play Quake 2 CTF, it was absolutely mind blowing not even an understatement.

  • mub@lemmy.ml
    3·
    6 months ago

    I feel like so many of the asklemmy questions are covert methods to profile users, so I never give real answers.