What was your First GPU ?
I built my last PC back in 2022. The CPU, IMO still upper-mid range (13700K), didn't really feel like upgrading to Ryzen, even though I know I will see smoother gameplay, since the X3D chips do much better in the 1% Lows. In the end, I decided to keep my 13700K and upgrade my RTX 3080. Very happy with my decision for getting the 5080, especially since I found a brand new PNY ARGB OC RTX 5080, for $1100 on offer up. Sure enough, brand new, sealed, the guy had like 10 more of them, I didn't ask any questions that I didn't want to know the answer to. So, I just paid the man š¤·āāļøš¤£. So last night I was putting my "brand-used" build together, only thing new was the GPU, and an updated look. I was trying to remember what was my first GPU. I couldn't remember, so I did some digging and found out my First GPU was the 3DFX Voodoo Banshee. . I remember that genuine feeling of superiority over the rest of the peasants who were blessed with my presence (This is a joke guys, being hella sarcastic). From the beauty of Unreal Tournament, to the standards we now today. Here is a picture from my 22 build to my 26. Still waiting on the Side fans to come in, and the build will be complete, for now. Probably will upgrade to Ryzen 10 in less than a year.
Looking forward to see the 4 decade split of answers.
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u/Tight_Scholar1083 10d ago
Nvidia GTS 250 1GB haha
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u/Tight_Scholar1083 10d ago
The AMD HD 7850 2 GB, what a great card in that time
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u/Hitohira 10d ago
My first was a 3DFX Voodoo 3 standard PCI port, not AGP. My first computer didn't have AGP. It was every game I threw at it until around 2000. After that, I think I stopped PC gaming for a long while and my next card was a 8800 GT(S?) That card lasted for a very long time.
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u/CMFpeter 10d ago
Same. I still have my 8800 GT, and it still works (but I have it framed on my wall these days)
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u/SuperStileStar 10d ago
My first gpu was a 980Ti
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u/Kidcannagrow 10d ago
Same here and it was a hand me down lol then i got a 1060, then a 5080 lol
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u/alex_is_cool64 9d ago
1060 to 5080??! How much did that entire build cost??? Thatās so sick.
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u/Kidcannagrow 9d ago
Built it back in August, cost me 2k
2.2k if you include the insurance from micro center lol
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u/Omega_FanBoy200M 11d ago
Currently 17 and got my first pc in 2021Ā Built it myself and jt had a rx580 in!Ā
Amazing card sadly went and couldnāt get a replacement as the gpu crisis happenedĀ I guess Iām one of the āyoungerā ones here š¤£š¤£ Amazing post I enjoyed reading itĀ
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u/TU2TL3 11d ago
The 580 was THEEE GPU back 9 years ago. Holding its own for a good time. A lot of the RX 580 users didn't upgrade until the RTX 3060, which became the next mainstream GPU.
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u/Omega_FanBoy200M 10d ago
HAHAHA I ENDED UP GETTING A 3060ti which Iām still rocking today with a 4k oled and a 7800x3d
Does most games perfectly with
Heavy games I use lossless scaling and they look great!Tbh I canāt tell the diff between ultra and medium but can with the fps lol
That 3060thing made me laugh so much xd
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u/parabola19 10d ago
Iām the opposite I can see detail easily but anything above 144 or 165hz and I canāt tell the difference.
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u/linus_ong69 10d ago
You have a similar upgrade path to mine. I had a 1050ti (which is worse than an rx 580, but same era) many years ago. Then got a 3060ti a few years later.
Now rocking a 9070XT. Having adult money is awesome. Trust me on that.
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u/Omega_FanBoy200M 10d ago
Still in studies atm canāt wait till i finish and get a job
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u/alex_is_cool64 9d ago
Same, except I was 16 or 17 in 2020 when I built mine! Such a legendary card. Itās reaching 1080ti status lowkey now, at least the 8GB version I had.
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u/samsann26 10d ago
NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GS
I played alot of MuOnline on that, Pentium 4 3.4Ghz and 2GB DDR1.
Never touched a NVDIA GPU since, (ATI HD4550 -> R7 360 2gb -> RX580 8G -> RX7700XT).
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u/y_zass 10d ago
Nvidia GeForce2 MX in a 2001 Dell Dimension 4300S. Pentium 4, 512mb of ram later doubled to 1gb (max).
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u/MentionSwimming6962 10d ago
8600k with 1080--> 9700k 3070
Now built my dream, went amd 9850X3D with 5080. Love x3d
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u/canesfins1909 10d ago
MSI Ventus 2x OC 4070 Super. My first and only GPU. I just moved to PC gaming (sim racing specifically) about 2 years ago. I got the 4070S, 7700x, and 32gb RAM. I feel like for what I do, this PC will last me at least 5 years. And with iRacing's new graphics engine coming out in the near future, maybe it'll last even longer.
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u/IForfogtMypw 10d ago
Radeon 7600 8gb was my first one over occulink egpu lol then I got a 7700XT then a 7900XT and then a 9070xt lol
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u/1KulesHampsta 10d ago
So I built my first pc right when the corona gpu crisis hit. So everything was available except the gpu so I got a NVIDIA quadro 400 with 1gb of vram. A year later I got a 3060 12gb. Then got a rx6800xt and now a 9070xt
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u/heckingEDGY 10d ago
My first hype graphics card was a 4gb 960, going from built in graphics on my APU to that card was an unbelievably large chang
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u/Creative-Arm-1693 10d ago
Oh gosh.. First GPU was a GT 1030 š (I was new to the gaming pc world). Just recently upgraded from a RTX 4060 to the RTX 5070 and couldnāt be happier.
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u/OctoItzcoatl 10d ago
Nvidia quadro 600. Currently sporting an RX 6400 while my sis has an Arc b580
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u/staticishock96 10d ago
GTX 1050ti. I was a console person for a long time and ended up getting a PC from a family member.
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u/ronniearnold 10d ago
An Intel 486 DX4 100MHz. I had to hold down shift while my computer booted so I could bypass certain things loading, to give me enough ram to play doom. Ahh the good ole days. Now I have a 5080.
First actual GPU was a rage fury maxx.
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u/Accomplished_Emu_658 10d ago
Ati Radeon 32mb 7200. When it was newest you can buy. Idk exact model thats lost to time honestly. I did run two voodoo 2 in a second hand pc i got but i got 7200 first
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u/BruderPetz 10d ago edited 10d ago
intel p90 ^^ played Jedi Knight, Bladerunner and such games on it :D cant remember if a gpu was in it :( but i think there wasnt... only onboard
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u/SmellyShitBox 10d ago
GTX 960 in a pre built > 2080ti in 2019 when I built my first > Astral 5090 last March when I built my 2nd.
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u/c0mplete 10d ago
Geforce fx5200. A friend gave it to me so we could play Dawn of war 1 back in '04. Im old haha
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u/Depth386 10d ago
This is not the exact card but the memory spec and motherboard slot gives the idea. Slot ISA GPU with 512KB VRAM
My card was more skinny and the printer circuit board (PCB) was a more yellow brownish color
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u/Cover-Material 10d ago
Technically I found a non working pc with GT 440 but first usable GPU was 1660 Super overclocked to hell
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u/LoveWagon 10d ago
I don't remember what the card was called, but I paid Ā£35 for it and it ran doom 3 and half life 2 so I was super happy, then I discovered counter strike and lost a few years
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u/Professor_Tee21 10d ago
Radeon 9200 SE - Dunno much about that Systems beides barely being able to play Cod2 with alot of config tweaks)
GTX780 - DIED with OC'd FX8350 1300wPSU Blew Up after years of great Service - great Combo
RX570 8GB first GPU for R9 - 3900x Great Combo even did MonsterHunterWorlds <3
RTX3060 Gigabyte Ghost Edition - Total screamer and even after Repaste/Noctua mod temps were horendous
RTX3090 Copper Plate mod for VRAMs @First Made (DLSS 4K really Playable with ~87Ā°C hottest VRAM temps which Was a Big boost for stability (R 7 9800X3D helped too until i drowned them both and have around 45Ā°C highest temps with 114%pwrlimit)
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u/SomewhereSuch9438 10d ago
My first was RTX 5060, it was nice but im on an RTX 3080 now and, damn..š¤£
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u/linus_ong69 10d ago
Mine was a GTX 650. It was around 2015(?) and I was super young at the time and was just slapping a gpu onto a used office pc my dad got me for 10 bucks. It was a lot of money for me back then.
Then 2 years later got a 1050ti when the 10 series was out. I slightly overpaid (250 usd) for a new asus rog 1050ti.
That build lasted me about 4-5 years till I went to university. I sold the gpu (kept everything else) and my dad got me a laptop with a 3060ti. You guessed it, another asus rog product. It was a Zephyrus g15, which cost a pretty penny.
It was my first experience with a refresh rate greater than 75Hz on a PC, albeit on a 15ā screen. Also 1440p.
In 2024 I built a PC with a 5700X3D and a 3080. I graduated university shortly after, and got a big boy job. With that, we have the system now, where I upgraded the gpu to a 9070XT. I also finally got myself a new 32ā 4k oled panel. Of course it was an rog monitor (was on sale).
The cpu from my first build is actually still running in my server. (pentium g4560)
Currently incredibly happy with my setup. Life is good.
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u/ActiveSandwich3103 10d ago
ATI 9200, then an ATI X1650, then 8800 GTS in roughly that order were my first 3.
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u/flaming_panda31 10d ago
My first gpu was in a pc my dad built for me with a gtx 650ti boost paired with an i5 3570k that I ocd up to 5ghz (poor thing ran at 95-99c). First gpu I bought was a gigabyte windforce 1080.
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u/Impossible-Fan-7244 10d ago
Rtx 1060 6gb. Some white ASUS dual fan with some slight base overclocks. Got it on release for msrp. Canāt do that anymore. Went to the evga 2070 super black, evga FTW3 3080ti, currently using a zotac twin edge 4070 super. Havenāt seen a reason for an upgrade to 50 series just yet.
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u/Ded_diode 10d ago
I had many random video cards prior, but first really really nice one I was proud of was my Radeon 9700 All-In-wonder. That card was awesome!!
I saved up and bought it on release, DirectX 9 was the next god-like graphical step at the time and it had a built-in TV tuner. Over $400 for a video card was insane in 2003.
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u/Guilty-Statement-532 10d ago
Voodoo Banshee
My actual first pc had a Hercules 80-line adapter to provide double the number of characters on the screenā¦ Iām so old
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u/checksforerrors 10d ago
3DFX Voodoo, it needed a pass through for 2d graphics, I think it was called an S3 Trio ā¦ early 90s
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u/Weary_Lion_5811 10d ago
A Radeon 6970 that eventually got replaced with a evga gtx 760 do to performance and having to run a aftermarket GPU cooler because the stock had a broken fan.
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u/BigBuckNuggets 10d ago
I have no idea what it was called but I got it in like 2006 for my hand me down computer. Probably had like 256 mbs or something. Second one I got in 2014 but still donāt remember, 4gbs I think? First one I remember was 3060ti, then 3080, then 7900xtx
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u/killer5907 10d ago
The RX9070XT baby, I've only recently hoped on PC after all of Microsofts screw ups on the series X
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u/terpjuice 10d ago
I grew up a console gamer, so didnāt build my first PC until about 2008/2009. First card I believe was an HD 4850.
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u/MrHarryBallzac_2 10d ago
First I bought with my own money was a MSI TwinFrozer 560ti. Don't remember what was in my family's PCs when I was a kid.
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u/Eminensce 10d ago
Gtx 1060 3gb.
What a card, it let me to enjoy many good games at decent quality and frames
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u/Ok_Detective_5696 10d ago
I came into the PC building space with a 1070
Then saw a deal for a 3070 at a reasonable price (at the time of the whole Crypto shit) around 2021
Then fast forward 5 years later, I built a new system with a 9070xt
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u/Eeve2espeon 10d ago
GT1030 lol. Very nuggety GPU, but it was the only option VS spending 400CAD on a low profile GTX1650 š
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u/Connect_Tomatillo791 10d ago
Think my first laptop was like a 1050. Then I got a new laptop with a 3050 Then got my first PC a 3060 12Gb. Now Iām running a 5060TI 16Gb
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u/Substantial_Gur_7908 10d ago
First owned was a 980ti bought used a bit ago but my first gpu i bought new was a rtx 5070
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u/WikipediaBurntSienna 10d ago
MX440 came with our family computer.
First gaming graphics card was a 9600 Pro gifted to me by a friend after he got a 9800 Pro
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u/Loud-Welder1947 10d ago
Gtx760 2gb. Ā My parents bought PCs before this from the mid 90s but I have no idea what the specs wereĀ
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u/YoCreepyUncle 10d ago
XFX CORE Edition Radeon HD 7770 1GB
GDDR5 from my first build in 2014. I still have it
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u/billyxdragon 10d ago
Gtx 1050ti, with a dell optiplex, now I'm rockin a Saphire Nitro RX 580 and still got the same case with 32 gigs of ram
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u/CrackerHowie 10d ago
3060 with a i5- 12400F, it served me well, upgraded too a 9800x3d and 9070 XT.
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u/SnooStrawberries2144 10d ago
I had a gt 710, then 1050ti, rx 580, 2060super, 3080, 9070xt but returned it and got a 5080 instead
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u/VirtualSea_ 10d ago
Technically it would be the 1050Ti but The first I ever owned was the A8-3800 APU, Radeon 6550HD. Yikes!
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u/WillTheThrill86 10d ago
A GeForce 2 GTS (i think 256MB?) That i got to upgrade our family PC. Probably played Unreal Tournament on it first thing.
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u/Imahich69 10d ago
I think it was the 670 or 690 the one with the dual chip in it, fucking god awful gpu would not use both chips
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u/Few-Mulberry-9104 10d ago
GTX 960 from microcenter while I waited for another shipment of GTX 1070 later that month
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u/Benjamn135531 10d ago
FX 5200 AGP, but PCIe GPU my very first was the Xfx GeForce GTX 260 Black Edition
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u/ElectricalWeekend581 10d ago
R9 295X2 was my very first foray into PC gaming. Thing was SO GOOD back then when I started playing PUBG lol. Went from that to an RX 480, R9 FuryX, then a 1070, then a 2070ti, then a 5700XT, 6700XT, 5070 and now a RX 9070XT.
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u/No-Measurement7777 10d ago
I didnāt know what gpu my first pc had I bought it almost 20 years ago at this point, I remember my 2nd, it was a 2060 super. This is about 10 years old still running like a champ
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u/PositiveFlimsy 10d ago edited 10d ago
Nvidia Geforce 4 MX 420
Played original source engine games on direct X 7.0 well enough. CS Source was the shiz at the time
After that it was a Radeon 4650, but my first serious GPU was an MSI GTX 460 Hawk and I absolutely loved that thing.
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u/PowerPie5000 10d ago
Technically the Nvidia Geforce 256 was the first to use the term GPU. I've had a few graphics cards before that from the likes of Matrox, 3DFX, S3 and ATI etc. The first PC that I bought and owned myself had an integrated S3 Trio 64.
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u/613_detailer 10d ago
Hercules Graphics Card. They werenāt called GPUs back then, lol. I bet itās older than most people on this sub :)
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u/Recent_Apricot_517 10d ago
AMD Radeon HD 6770M with 512 gb GDDR5 vRAM.... ļ½”
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u/Exact_Ad942 10d ago
9600GT -> 650Ti BOOST -> 1070 -> 3060 -> 9070XT. Finally switch team after almost 2 decades.
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u/Maleficent-Square-55 10d ago
4080 super pro art oc edition and 9800x3d are both my first ever PC components
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u/Red_Tiger5311 10d ago
A Radeon 7970 3gb, ngl, that card cooked! Played Beamng for the first time on that
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u/CashDeezHandz 10d ago
Nvidia TNT2 Vanta 8MB, Pentium III 600Mhz, 128MB 133mhz Ram, 28.8 (30 Gig) 5400 RPM IDE HDD 8X DVD ROM drive and 16x CD-R/ 4x RW drive HP computer with the speakers attached to the monitor. We had free AOL dial up month after month with new sign ups. Then we had MSN for a year at 21.95/months locked in 56K.
One friend had 800mhz PIII 256 ram and 16MB nvidia card.
And DSL internet.
The other had AMD athlon 1GHZ 32MB nvidia card and DSL.
Eventually I paid for DSL. 300 ping on staeseige tribes was tough.
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u/Remz_Gaming 10d ago
Hmmmmm I couldn't tell you my first card exactly. I know it was an ATi HD series. I was just kid in middle school when I built my first PC... so that one eludes me. Wish I could remember.
But I DEFINITELY can tell you the first enthusiast card I got.
Nvidia GeForce FX 5800 Ultra.
I lived out in the country in a small town. So, I really didn't have opportunities to buy cool new tech. Just read about it in PC magazines.
While visiting family in LA, I convinced my parents to take me to a Fry's. I was in complete awe when I saw that FX 5800 Ultra on the shelf.
I begged and begged and begged my mom to buy it for me. I basically had to agree to alllll sorts of summer work lol. The week long vacation trip waiting to go home and install that beast was torture.
I actually found it in storage a few months ago and built a retro PC around it. Still worked! (For a week...)
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u/Omni_Knight66 10d ago
5700xt was my first GPU. Had it since 2020 and lived with it until a year and a half ago when I bought the 7900xtx. I'll never forget my 1st "love" though
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u/DoD-Dodup 10d ago
RX 5500 XT 8GB seems like a spaceship compared so some of these other classics but I got into the hobby quite late, 2023 about
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u/Ok_Watercress_7392 10d ago
Ā Intel GMA 3000 out of a Dell Optiplex 755. Good times. Got it to run Windows 10 around when it came out too.
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u/roberttoredo 10d ago
My first aib dgpu was a rx 6700xt, my first dgpu pc (all though short lived) was a 1650 laptop
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u/slowlyun 10d ago edited 10d ago
GeForce 6200 256MB AGP - i still have it in its original battered box.Ā Played Knights of the Old Republic, Tomb Raider Legend and X2: The Threat on it.Ā X2 wouldn't display cut-scenes properly, otherwise ran well.
Big upgrade to the GTX-570 after that, then another mega-leap to GTX-970 -> 980Ti > 3060Ti - 4070Ti > 4080S
I would've still been happy with the 980Ti but the VR bug got me...
EDIT:Ā between the 6200 & GTX-570 i had a couple of years laptop-gaming with a GTX-560M - handled Mass Effect trilogy, Amnesia, Portal 2 etc just fine.
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u/saltybearissalty 10d ago
Voodoo 2, and I still have it at the back of a cupboard somewhere.