• @tyrant
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    I’m amazed at how many people remember the hardware they purchased 30 years ago.

    • @[email protected]
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      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
      • @[email protected]
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        Man that voodoo card was my birthday AND my Xmas gift one-year. I was lucky I got it

    • @[email protected]
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      618 days ago

      Yeah I need to check every time which one I have. And I built my PC myself so it’s not that I would have no idea lol

    • @mkhopper
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      318 days ago

      You never forget your first.

  • m-p{3}
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    3dfx voodoo 3 3000, with its whopping 16MB of VRAM.

    It ran Unreal Tournament like a charm. Playing CTF on dialup though was not always great though…

  • @PetteriPano
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    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.

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      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.

  • Rhaedas
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    Nvidia Riva TNT, because the onboard graphics were only going to play EverQuest (beta) and Rogue Squadron like a painful slideshow, if at all.

    • Maestro
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      218 days ago

      I got that exact one too! It was way better than the Voodoo 3DFX cards.

    • @[email protected]
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      418 days ago

      I attempted to upgrade such a card and were suggested the Geforce FX 5200.

      I was so hyped. After finally installing the games I always wanted to play I ad to realize: This passive cooled card supported DX9 on paper but its performance was worse.

      It crushed me back then and since then I have never bought a desktop PC part ever again.

      But then recently I was gifted an old rig from a friend. Put a Readon RX 6700 (or so) in it. So my first actual graphics card is this radeon!! :)

      Buddy, if you read this: Thank you again, much love. You are an awesome beeing.

  • @linearchaos
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    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
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      217 days 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.

    • @Trashcan
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      217 days ago

      I was rocking Geeforce 2 and Soundblaster AWE 32. Good times😄

    • @TwoBeeSan
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      Yeaaaaaahhh. 2k total for the prebuilt ended up being comparable to a shortage price at the time.

      Still holding up what about yours?

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        218 days ago

        Mines is still going quite strong, paired with a 5 5600x and runs well for (almost) everything I want at 1440p more-than-60-fps

        • @TwoBeeSan
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          318 days ago

          Exact same setup here. Was what I was shooting for too.

          Was best price to value at the time. It is almost showing its age for high graphics but has been super solid.

          Nice!

  • NutWrench
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    518 days ago

    Voodoo Banshee, so I could play Quake, Unreal and Deus Ex.

  • mub
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    418 days ago

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

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    A 3dfx Voodoo, it came with POD as a pack in game and it looked so good with Glide. My favourite racing game memories.