First PC I built in like 2002 with a mini-itx kit from shuttle, I had to use a PCI graphics card with a riser because the early ITX boards just had PCI and this was when AGP was for graphics.
I have no idea what model it was.
A pci Voodoo card but I can’t remember which one. I hade an ati all-in-wonder after that followed by a GeForce 3. I didn’t pay attention to dGPUs again until I bought an RX 580
Having hardware Transform&Lighting was considered the breaking point towards "GPU".
Some consider programmable shaders instead of fixed-function 3D instead.
while i think the term "GPU" being used for PC video cards / 3D accelerators started in the early 2000's around the time of hardware T&L and shaders, it's actually a bit older than that, it's the name sony gave the playstations' "Graphics Processing Unit", which of course has no hardware t&l, no shaders, and not much of anything you'd call basic features of a modern card (no AA, no texture filtering, no perspective correct mapping, etc)
so objectively speaking, it was never about hardware features, it's just a popular term not really distinct from any other name
PS1 had hardware transform&lighting, not on the same chip as what they called a "GPU", but still the same device.
In any case this thread is about PC hardware so I named the tiers in accordance to what was used in this field.
This exact RX 580. Absolutely awful cooler, loud fans and unstable to undervolt. Ended up giving it to a friend as a starter GPU for his first PC build until he had the opportunity to upgrade. Happy with my RX 6600 XFX SWFT at the moment.
i'm using that RX580 right now and it's a pretty loud card
i think the only card i've ever had that may be louder was the time i had a radeon 2900xt, but i couldn't say for sure because i haven't owned that in a long time
Tell me what experience I had with the card, because I seemingly don't due to my retardation. The MSI ARMOR was loud as shit, hence why I tried undervolting in the first place.
Radeon 6670. I still have it somewhere. I used it to get something like 50fps in World of Tanks, which was a world of difference from the 20fps I had on integrated graphics. I think it was paired with a Core 2 Quad.
>upgrading every year
if you had bought a 780Ti you would have been good until the 1080Ti and if you had bought a 3080Ti or 3090 you wouldn't need a new card for another 2-3 years.
iirc a Geforce 2, but when GTA 3 came out my dad got me a Geforce 4 MX.
Then the first one I actually picked myself was a 6600 GT when Half-Life 2 came out.
honestly suprisingly good. it's still a dedicated graphics card with 6gb vram. haven't tried running the newest games or anything but works for what i use it for. can do basic tasks really fast.
Radeon 4980? I think it's the 4980
Highschool friend gave it to me and I gave it to a friend in college that needed a Radeon 4000 series card for some reason
>first graphics chip
6569 R1 VIC II PAL that was part of Commodore 128 >first graphics adapter
Hercules Graphics Card driving an amber 13" CRT via DE-15 (what would later become VGA) >first 3D graphics adapter
*sigh* S3 ViRGE
>Did you try playing GTA2 on that thing? It was horrible for me.
i only owned GTA(1), but i didn't even know it supported anything besides software and 3dfx, so i only ran it in software
i wasn't a very knowledgable computer user back then
I was not very computer knowledgeable at the time either, but now that you talk about it, maybe if I had run it in software mode it would've been better.
If I knew that was a thing, ofc.
How did it run by default? Software or hw accelerated?
software would have looked correct, since there's no way for it to look different on different cpu's, but it may have run slower depending on what cpu you had
you don't need a very fast cpu to beat a virge in software rendering though, that's why the virge today is often known as a "3D decelerator", because cpus got faster very quickly such that a short while later it was outclassed by cpus themselves, though to be fair it wasn't a 1:1 comparison, like software renderers didn't do texture filtering
gta ran in software mode by default for me iirc, i ran it on a pentium 233mmx so i doubt using the virge would have been any faster anyway
i don't know if there's a requirement gap between gta1 and 2 (a friend of mine did own gta2, but this was a bit later and he had a pentium 3 by that point), but i would say there's a good chance it would have run better in software mode (and look better by the sounds of it)
Damn, I'm now having regrets for not trying to run it in software mode after all these years.
hey, out of curiosity, what was that favourite thing you used to do in gta2?
for me in gta1, it was finding out that if you get the tanker up to top speed, you could make cars blow up instantly on impact
also as a side note, my sister could never get the hang of the controls, due to the camera never rotating
fun times, i should try gta2 some time
>if you get the tanker up to top speed, you could make cars blow up instantly on impact
Haha yeah, it was the same on GTA2, if memory serves me right.
I think my fav thing was either go grab the tank and cause traffic jams and then just roll over them in a row.
Or maybe getting the fastest car and try to do the longest jumps on the ramps.
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>Damn, I'm now having regrets for not trying to run it in software mode after all these years.
i wouldn't worry about it, besides the alpha blending issue you mentioned (transparency), there was probably nothing else to gain
and this is even assuming gta2 has the same requirements as gta1, since i only have experience personally running gta1 on a computer around that period
looking at pcgw, gta2 is listed as having higher requirements, so it seems what i said may not apply to gta2
looking a bit further, it seems gta2 used directx 6 by default, and optionally 3dfx, it's not clear if gta2 even has a software renderer
despite how similar they look it seems they're quite different under the hood, like i ran the DOS version of gta1 but it seems there's only a windows version of gta2
so yea, probably nothing i mentioned applies to gta2
hey, out of curiosity, what was that favourite thing you used to do in gta2?
for me in gta1, it was finding out that if you get the tanker up to top speed, you could make cars blow up instantly on impact
also as a side note, my sister could never get the hang of the controls, due to the camera never rotating
fun times, i should try gta2 some time
>You got a dud. I hope you've asked for a replacement.
Like the genius I am I got another XFX, this time a 7870 which also broke in less than a year
After which I got a Sapphire 7970 which didn't break but had the worst fans I've ever heard in my life
After that I had enough of shitty AMD cards and switched to an MSI 1080 which I have been using ever since
I'm not American
And I did RMA them all, but they never got repaired they just always sent me my money back which is why I got new cards
Also just because I can RMA them doesn't mean I love the process lol. I just want a card that fucking works
For a long time I just used whatever was in my dad's PC
my first PC had pic related, HD 5770
and the first PC I bought with my own money was a laptop with a GT 520MX
i had this celeron cpu cause my dad bought it for me because it had the cd burner already but the p4 didn't. well, so i got it. and it didn't have agp. my cards were >Radeon 7000
shit >Geforce 4 mx 440-se 64mb >Radeon 9250 pci 256mb
dx8 didn't work right on it so bf2 didn't run wahh
got an agp cpu at this point. single channel ram controller. cheap mb >9550 ati 256mb >6800 geforce 256mb
got a pcie board after this >ati 1950 pro 256mb >4870 512mb >6850 1gb on ebay
this was rma'd to msi twice for upgrades >7870 3gb to a >r7 390 8gb >nvidia 970 >nvidia 980ti
now >4080 nvidia
It might actually be your pic, OP. I was on some trash card before that was running WoW at like 20 fps on low. Then I asked on LULZ for a budget upgrade rec, blindly installed it bc I knew nothing (was definitely underage b&) and suddenly could turn on shadows lmao.
Bought this Voodoo Banshee for $100 in 1999. Shit was SO cash being able to run UltraHLE, Half-Life, Unreal, FF7 all in 3D-accelerated glory. Then 3DFX went belly-up and the Glide API became worthless.
Powercolor Radeon HD 5570 1GB GDDR3
Got it for $55 during the PS3 era and it let me play pretty much everything I wanted. I fucking hate the death of budget GPUs.
I got thtat thing from an old PC I found in the dumpster. It died shortly after I ran a Mandelbrot shader I wrote on it. I will probably try to reflow the VRAM some day.
Yes, I'm a poorfag zoomer.
GTX1080
My family was poor when I was growing up.
Your robomom's vagina
Some Geforce 2MX
geforce2mx200
geforce2 mx440 here. It struggled but I could play UT2004 on my home built PC built with lawn mowing money.
i upgraded to a gf 4 ti 4400 in 2002
I think I had something in between but I eventually upgraded to a Radeon 9500 softmodded to a 9700.
First PC I built in like 2002 with a mini-itx kit from shuttle, I had to use a PCI graphics card with a riser because the early ITX boards just had PCI and this was when AGP was for graphics.
I have no idea what model it was.
It had no vram
geforce 6600 gt agp
PowerColor ATi Radeon x550 128MB PCIe
it ran Max Payne 2 on Max settings
This was my first, too. I still have it around, wonder if it still works with a modern OS.
it should work fully in modern linux using the "radeon" driver
Some Riva TNT card, most likely STB Velocity 4400
Geforce fx 5200
This spooky nigga.
I literally saw different ads for it in every PC magazine before I finally convinced my dad to get it for me.
my nigga, these fucking kids here don't know shit.
A pci Voodoo card but I can’t remember which one. I hade an ati all-in-wonder after that followed by a GeForce 3. I didn’t pay attention to dGPUs again until I bought an RX 580
3090
GTX 1060 6GB
Didn't have my own puter with dgpu for a good while
yes I am a zoomer
FX 5500
My dad bought it for me so I could play Lego Star Wars. Those were the days.
first display controller: CGA
first graphics card: ATI Mach64
first 3D card: 3DFx Voodoo 3 2000
first GPU: GeForce 2 GTS
there's a difference between 3D card and GPU?
Having hardware Transform&Lighting was considered the breaking point towards "GPU".
Some consider programmable shaders instead of fixed-function 3D instead.
while i think the term "GPU" being used for PC video cards / 3D accelerators started in the early 2000's around the time of hardware T&L and shaders, it's actually a bit older than that, it's the name sony gave the playstations' "Graphics Processing Unit", which of course has no hardware t&l, no shaders, and not much of anything you'd call basic features of a modern card (no AA, no texture filtering, no perspective correct mapping, etc)
so objectively speaking, it was never about hardware features, it's just a popular term not really distinct from any other name
PS1 had hardware transform&lighting, not on the same chip as what they called a "GPU", but still the same device.
In any case this thread is about PC hardware so I named the tiers in accordance to what was used in this field.
Yeah display controller
Trident TVGA8900C
One of those OEM HD4850s in a Dell 'Gaming PC' in 2009. Broke immediate so I got a 5770.
This exact RX 580. Absolutely awful cooler, loud fans and unstable to undervolt. Ended up giving it to a friend as a starter GPU for his first PC build until he had the opportunity to upgrade. Happy with my RX 6600 XFX SWFT at the moment.
>msi
>loud fans
you must be retarded
i'm using that RX580 right now and it's a pretty loud card
i think the only card i've ever had that may be louder was the time i had a radeon 2900xt, but i couldn't say for sure because i haven't owned that in a long time
>a pretty loud card
nagger you can set the fans to whatever you want within safe temps including stop-fan feature
i'm not really bothered by it
Tell me what experience I had with the card, because I seemingly don't due to my retardation. The MSI ARMOR was loud as shit, hence why I tried undervolting in the first place.
MSI armor was absoltely worst cooler that generation. Close to unusable on 1070 and higher. Are *you* retarded?
Radeon 6670. I still have it somewhere. I used it to get something like 50fps in World of Tanks, which was a world of difference from the 20fps I had on integrated graphics. I think it was paired with a Core 2 Quad.
radeon 9000 pro
it didn't actually matter though because I upgraded it in 18 months
spec bump was way faster back then it's crazy
i'm old enough that the earliest machines i owned didn't have onboard video, like that wasn't a thing (on the typical pc) yet
couldn't play jack shit apart from cod4
had a 1050ti, then upgraded to a 6700xt.
asus coilwhine goes brrr
Data mining thread
Yes, very valuable data. Might start WW4!
ATI 4890
These were so funny
You basically had a hot brick in your closed case tower, so hot it heated up all other parts as well
> delicious, now I want to manually place some polygons by banging this obnoxious nigga's registers
That's how every GPU works...
I know, but it's an incredible chore to do it manually on newer cards.
>upgrading every year
if you had bought a 780Ti you would have been good until the 1080Ti and if you had bought a 3080Ti or 3090 you wouldn't need a new card for another 2-3 years.
>970 SLI
7Gb of total VRAM!
>8888
I TRIED SO HARD AND GOT SO FAR
BUT IN THE END IT WASN'T EVEN 8GB
first "3D" card, idk about video card in general, some OAK thing with 512k of vram i think
good to know some of you are older than me
>tfw launching 3d mark 2000
iirc a Geforce 2, but when GTA 3 came out my dad got me a Geforce 4 MX.
Then the first one I actually picked myself was a 6600 GT when Half-Life 2 came out.
gtx 1060 6gb and it's still my card
hows it treating you in 2023? it was my first card too
honestly suprisingly good. it's still a dedicated graphics card with 6gb vram. haven't tried running the newest games or anything but works for what i use it for. can do basic tasks really fast.
GT630.
X1900 XT
I think it was the girl with the sword one
GTX 560 Ti
made that starting area in q3a with the mirror look really nice tbh
Radeon 4980? I think it's the 4980
Highschool friend gave it to me and I gave it to a friend in college that needed a Radeon 4000 series card for some reason
>first graphics chip
6569 R1 VIC II PAL that was part of Commodore 128
>first graphics adapter
Hercules Graphics Card driving an amber 13" CRT via DE-15 (what would later become VGA)
>first 3D graphics adapter
*sigh* S3 ViRGE
>*sigh* S3 ViRGE
hindsight is 20/20 eh?
>Did you try playing GTA2 on that thing? It was horrible for me.
i only owned GTA(1), but i didn't even know it supported anything besides software and 3dfx, so i only ran it in software
i wasn't a very knowledgable computer user back then
I was not very computer knowledgeable at the time either, but now that you talk about it, maybe if I had run it in software mode it would've been better.
If I knew that was a thing, ofc.
How did it run by default? Software or hw accelerated?
software would have looked correct, since there's no way for it to look different on different cpu's, but it may have run slower depending on what cpu you had
you don't need a very fast cpu to beat a virge in software rendering though, that's why the virge today is often known as a "3D decelerator", because cpus got faster very quickly such that a short while later it was outclassed by cpus themselves, though to be fair it wasn't a 1:1 comparison, like software renderers didn't do texture filtering
gta ran in software mode by default for me iirc, i ran it on a pentium 233mmx so i doubt using the virge would have been any faster anyway
Mine was a Pentium 2 300Mhz
i don't know if there's a requirement gap between gta1 and 2 (a friend of mine did own gta2, but this was a bit later and he had a pentium 3 by that point), but i would say there's a good chance it would have run better in software mode (and look better by the sounds of it)
Damn, I'm now having regrets for not trying to run it in software mode after all these years.
>if you get the tanker up to top speed, you could make cars blow up instantly on impact
Haha yeah, it was the same on GTA2, if memory serves me right.
I think my fav thing was either go grab the tank and cause traffic jams and then just roll over them in a row.
Or maybe getting the fastest car and try to do the longest jumps on the ramps.
>Damn, I'm now having regrets for not trying to run it in software mode after all these years.
i wouldn't worry about it, besides the alpha blending issue you mentioned (transparency), there was probably nothing else to gain
and this is even assuming gta2 has the same requirements as gta1, since i only have experience personally running gta1 on a computer around that period
looking at pcgw, gta2 is listed as having higher requirements, so it seems what i said may not apply to gta2
looking a bit further, it seems gta2 used directx 6 by default, and optionally 3dfx, it's not clear if gta2 even has a software renderer
despite how similar they look it seems they're quite different under the hood, like i ran the DOS version of gta1 but it seems there's only a windows version of gta2
so yea, probably nothing i mentioned applies to gta2
hey, out of curiosity, what was that favourite thing you used to do in gta2?
for me in gta1, it was finding out that if you get the tanker up to top speed, you could make cars blow up instantly on impact
also as a side note, my sister could never get the hang of the controls, due to the camera never rotating
fun times, i should try gta2 some time
I'm a zoomer, built my first PC around 2019, hence why I got the GPU that I did.
.t late millenial (96)
this piece of shit broke within like 8 months
You got a dud. I hope you've asked for a replacement.
Maybe if you've read the thread
>You got a dud. I hope you've asked for a replacement.
Like the genius I am I got another XFX, this time a 7870 which also broke in less than a year
After which I got a Sapphire 7970 which didn't break but had the worst fans I've ever heard in my life
After that I had enough of shitty AMD cards and switched to an MSI 1080 which I have been using ever since
Why do americans don't do RMAs?
It always bothered me.
I'm not American
And I did RMA them all, but they never got repaired they just always sent me my money back which is why I got new cards
Also just because I can RMA them doesn't mean I love the process lol. I just want a card that fucking works
>they just always sent me my money back which is why I got new cards
Oh ok then. Sorry for assuming you're american.
someone post an answer other than nvidia or amd. go ahead. i challenge you.
660ti
For a long time I just used whatever was in my dad's PC
my first PC had pic related, HD 5770
and the first PC I bought with my own money was a laptop with a GT 520MX
>dads with gaming GPUs
Lucky.
>t. ‘02
Being able to finally run AAA graphics games on max was amazing but the luster wore off quick and I realized how much money I wasted
HD 4550
1GB GDDR2
Ati 9250
i had this celeron cpu cause my dad bought it for me because it had the cd burner already but the p4 didn't. well, so i got it. and it didn't have agp. my cards were
>Radeon 7000
shit
>Geforce 4 mx 440-se 64mb
>Radeon 9250 pci 256mb
dx8 didn't work right on it so bf2 didn't run wahh
got an agp cpu at this point. single channel ram controller. cheap mb
>9550 ati 256mb
>6800 geforce 256mb
got a pcie board after this
>ati 1950 pro 256mb
>4870 512mb
>6850 1gb on ebay
this was rma'd to msi twice for upgrades
>7870 3gb to a
>r7 390 8gb
>nvidia 970
>nvidia 980ti
now
>4080 nvidia
Pc? None.
Laptop? Gtx1650 which I still own
It might actually be your pic, OP. I was on some trash card before that was running WoW at like 20 fps on low. Then I asked on LULZ for a budget upgrade rec, blindly installed it bc I knew nothing (was definitely underage b&) and suddenly could turn on shadows lmao.
some pci card so I could play starwars battle front
Asus GeForce 2 with 64mb vram
Could play runescape at low detail
Nvidia gt640
Have my entire gpu history
>msi hd 6670 Radeon amd
>fake gtx 1060 I am stupid I know
>gtx 960
>gtx 980
>rtx 3070
>rx 6800xt
9600 GT with 512MB DDR3 VRAM
S3 Virge DX with 4 MB of VRAM.
Bought this Voodoo Banshee for $100 in 1999. Shit was SO cash being able to run UltraHLE, Half-Life, Unreal, FF7 all in 3D-accelerated glory. Then 3DFX went belly-up and the Glide API became worthless.
I wanna go back
radeon something circa ~2006-2007
RIVA TNT
ATI Rage 128 was the first one I had that I remember the model name for. The one before that was a Diamond-branded PCI card.
for me it's the bitchin' fast! 3d 2000
Voodoo 3 2000
Powercolor Radeon HD 5570 1GB GDDR3
Got it for $55 during the PS3 era and it let me play pretty much everything I wanted. I fucking hate the death of budget GPUs.
FX5200 128MB
I felt better about mine because it was 128bit bus instead of 64bit, that meant like 10 more fps in Call of Duty 2
Ati radeon 9550 is the first I remember. No idea what was in the older PCs my family had before.
I miss Abit. They were always the most kino manufacturer.
Radeon 7000, the first gen Radeon because it had drivers for BeOS
GTX 1080
I got thtat thing from an old PC I found in the dumpster. It died shortly after I ran a Mandelbrot shader I wrote on it. I will probably try to reflow the VRAM some day.
Yes, I'm a poorfag zoomer.
Radeon HD 4870
https://www.newegg.com/sapphire-radeon-hd-4870-100259-1gl/p/N82E16814102801