How many of you guys here still using your first gpu?

[u/jdmlifex2]

So gotten my first PC few years ago prebuilt. Still works good for me as I don’t game that much. But did upgrade the storage and psu while back. Did build a sff pc for fun but still use this micro center prebuilt as the main. Never thought I would be part of this community but here I am. Positive note my panel is still in one piece.

[u/RyleighGamesDev]

My first GPU died, and this is just a guess, before you were born. 

[u/Djghost1133 → u/RyleighGamesDev]

I'm pretty sure my second GPU died before he was born too

[u/magniankh → u/Djghost1133]

Yeah I think I had gone through about 4 HDDs before this guy was born.

[u/Jertimmer → u/magniankh]

Shit, I think I had a pile of discarded motherboard by the time OP was born.

[u/shoobedoodoo → u/Jertimmer]

I think I died of dysentery before op was born.

[u/Ebonhearth_Druid → u/shoobedoodoo]

Good ol' Oregon Trail....

[u/SolidZealousideal115 → u/Ebonhearth_Druid]

It's a shame they stopped making and selling it.

[u/justadude0815 → u/shoobedoodoo]

Issac?

[u/Electrocat71 → u/magniankh]

I’m going to guess I’m older than all of you above in that monochrome and 8” (I remember it being 11”, but it was when I was 10-11 years old.) floppy was my first setup. HDD? lol biggest in the world was 4mb and the size of a table.

Edit reason is in parentheses above.

[u/Lemon-Mobile → u/Electrocat71]

Cassettes for me

[u/Ebonhearth_Druid → u/Lemon-Mobile]

Yep, my first was the Commodore 64. Nothing says "peak gaming" like needing to flip the cassette to the B side in order to progress to the next level. Took me like 6 hours of coding to make a yellow ball bounce across a blue screen. Took me another hour to make it bounce off the walls of the screen rather than just bounce off screen and disappear.

Good times.

[u/Suspicious_Dingo_426 → u/Lemon-Mobile]

Fuck, I'm old.

[u/WeWillReturn2OneGod → u/Suspicious_Dingo_426]

I have never seen that. How did you ever play anything on that.

[u/DaksTheDaddyNow → u/WeWillReturn2OneGod]

Setting it up was the game. 😂

[u/No_Act_2773 → u/WeWillReturn2OneGod]

you can play global thermonuclear war on it....or a nice game of chess

[u/jdmlifex2 → u/No_Act_2773]

WarGames 1983?

[u/ssort → u/Electrocat71]

My first computer had 128k RAM, 128k ROM, and no storage other than floppies (apple 2c)

My first HD was a 2mb Drive I paid an extra $250 to upgrade it from the default of 1mb. (386 machine, think it was 200mhz), and I paid almost 4k total for the machine, as I was a CS student and thought I would need a beast for DB work after I graduated.

Never needed that much power it turned out, but that baby lasted a good 7 years so it turned out to be not that bad looking back on it.

Edited to add that I lied, my first was an Atari 400, back in probably 80 maybe, forgot about that one.

[u/just_aweso → u/Electrocat71]

I remember using a 3.5 inch before their official release in 1986. My dad worked on the team at IBM that created them. 400 kb of storage? We are never going to need more than that!

[u/magniankh → u/Electrocat71]

Those 11" floppies were phasing out by the time I got my first PC in '96.

[u/svadilfaris → u/Djghost1133]

The company that built my first dedicated video card went out of business before OP was born.

[u/Skyne → u/svadilfaris]

3DFX?

[u/WallBurnt → u/svadilfaris]

I don't think they make Voodoo cards anymore. 😞

[u/Bdr1983 → u/Djghost1133]

Same. And quite some 'pre-GPU' graphics cards.

[u/Satellite_bk → u/Bdr1983]

back when it was just called a video card.

[u/jizzmaster-zer0 → u/Satellite_bk]

i uh… still call em that. to me calling it a gpu is like when people refer to their computer as a whole the cpu

[u/Rangridis → u/Djghost1133]

Yep. I am probably part of the 2nd GPU died before OP was born group.

[u/torb → u/RyleighGamesDev]

I don't remember when GPUs really became a thing. Must have been the late 90s?

I remember getting my first soundcards as a bigger deal. I remember my first 16 bit soundcards as something absolutely insane. GUS Advanced Pro Audio

...oh, and installing a floating point processor that sped up 3DS Max or something like that. After two years it was obsolete.

[u/PantherCityRes → u/torb]

Sounds about right.
ATI Rage and Voodoo hit market in 1996 followed by the nvidia RIVA TNT in 1998.

The two most important games to actually make use of GPU capabilities in a modern way, Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 were both released in late 1999.

[u/aharshDM → u/PantherCityRes]

I remember seeing my first voodoo card and being blown away that it had its own little fan.

[u/justadude0815 → u/aharshDM]

...and the difference it .made

[u/torb → u/aharshDM]

Yeah, I was like. "This is too much. Totally overkill."

[u/TotallyNotRobotEvil → u/PantherCityRes]

Riva TNT was my first. Then the GeForce2 (don't remember which specific model, but it was "expensive" ones, for the time).

Edit: had to look through pictures, it was actually just the GeForce3. Played so much Max Payne on that thing.

[u/sembias → u/TotallyNotRobotEvil]

Mine was the Riva 128. 4MB of video memory. It was no voodoo, but it could do OpenGL well enough, and it made DirectX look good.

[u/Far-Shop5676 → u/TotallyNotRobotEvil]

expensive 2 was probably the ti

[u/cannibalskunk → u/PantherCityRes]

The original Quake was the biggest driving force for 3D video card adoption in the mid 90s. There were like 12 sets of silicon you could choose from, but if they couldn’t run Quake there was no point. Nvidia and ATI were just also-rans with decent performance until Microsoft was able to break the Glide api monopoly with DirectX and Direct3D. It helped that 3dfx also collapsed under its own weight by the end of the 90s and the XBox made porting console games to PC via DirectX more efficient as well. It really was the Wild West back in those days.

[u/dnssup → u/PantherCityRes]

I thought about the Rage and all my hopes for that little card, then I googled the voodoo3 and saw you can buy one off eBay for $300.

[u/nettitheyeti → u/PantherCityRes]

I bought a voodoo solely for everquest and counter strike lol

[u/my5cworth → u/torb]

Man I saved up ALL year to buy a soundblaster 16bit soundcard & cd-rom combo for my 486 back in '97. It was a game changer going from that little bios speaker to actual game sound.

A year later the rich kids started getting 4spd cd-writers & mads bank selling bootleg cds cut from mp3s.

[u/Electrocat71 → u/my5cworth]

You’re welcome. I worked on the 486 as part of my masters degree.

[u/my5cworth → u/Electrocat71]

That's rad!

The dx4-100 was a beast of a chip.

I could run mIRC, internet explorer AND winamp (but only mono, not stereo or it would stutter) at the same time on 16mb ram & it was the best feeling ever.

Before that I had an 8086 with B&W monitor while all my friends had 386s with colour monitors & win 3.1. I had to load an OS onto mine & then park the hdd with pctools when i was done.

Skip a decade & I worked with PIC16F84s on my varsity projects & loved learning the inner workings.

[u/TofuDud3 → u/torb]

GPUs always have been a big deal. Back in the Hercules, CGA, EGA days it was important. Wanted color graphics or better looking Text, better pick the right gpu

Yes, i'm old 😬

[u/TryHardEggplant → u/TofuDud3]

I don’t think ‘GPU’ entered as a colloquial term until around the 3D era of home gaming, with 5th generation consoles, ATi, NVIDIA, and 3dfx.

But yeah, graphics cards were a thing since the beginning. And games became a lot easier to run when GPUs were all made to support standard APIs like Direct3D/OpenGL (and now DirectX/Vulkan).

[u/TotallyNotRobotEvil → u/TryHardEggplant]

Yeah I still call them "video cards" from time to time.

[u/Kyosji → u/torb]

I remember my first soundblaster and the pain of getting it working.

[u/torb → u/Kyosji]

IRQ and DMA conflicts galore?

I don't even know what those things mean any more.

[u/Jertimmer → u/torb]

I remember frantically editing autoexec.bat and condig.sys to get it all working and tweaked so I could get Command & Conquer to work.

[u/DOOManiac → u/torb]

The TLDR is that every component in your PC (video card, sound card, network card) needs its own internal address assigned to it for the PC to know how to talk to it. An IRQ conflict meant you tried to put two devices (say, video & network) on the same IRQ.

In the old days your PC wouldn't boot. Today it is just degraded performance and a footnote buried deep in the Device Manager.

You used to have to pick this address yourself by changing a physical jumper on the card. But one of the great things about "plug and play" hardware from around 1998-ish is that this could now be done in software and the computer itself could pick for you. It was a rough transition, but after a couple years it was fine.

DMA was similar idea, but w/ memory instead of CPU instructions. (I think; I'm trying to remember myself here and am a bit fuzzy, yet too lazy to look it up. Sorry for any misinformation.)

Fun fact: IRQ conflicts can still happen! This isn't a very fun fact. In fact, it fucking sucks. Because now instead of your PC just not booting at all or giving you a weird error you may have shit like unexplained stuttering (because your video and network are on the same IRQ) or random crashes.

[u/dayglo98 → u/Kyosji]

SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D4

[u/laighter → u/torb]

Wing commander 2 had voices if you had a sound card!

[u/tollsuper → u/RyleighGamesDev]

A whole separate processor -just- for graphics? Who would ever need that?

[u/Electrocat71 → u/tollsuper]

Who’d ever need more than a megabyte of ram.

[u/Algrim2001 → u/Electrocat71]

Surely that would just encourage sloppy programming lol?

[u/electromage → u/Algrim2001]

Yes, and we're really feeling it now.

[u/modest-pixel → u/RyleighGamesDev]

https://giphy.com/gifs/TfseOfhwd6BJC

[u/Uhokay1970 → u/RyleighGamesDev]

All these young bucks talking about SLI and 1080s... has me looking at pictures of my Voodoo and Voodoo2 cards from when i was beta testing Everquest and burned them out...

[u/Timmah73 → u/RyleighGamesDev]

3dfx Voodo 2 baby back in the 90s baby!

[u/DOOManiac → u/RyleighGamesDev]

Voodoo 1 gang reporting in.

[u/TryHardEggplant → u/RyleighGamesDev]

It’s bad. I really don’t remember what was in my first desktop. Probably an S3 Virge. The first I remember exactly is my ATi Rage128. So many fond memories with it. All of the Maxis Sim games, Command and Conquer, and Rollercoaster Tycoon.

EDIT: I lied. My first was a VIC-II in my C64. Then probably the S3 Virge.

What was yours?

[u/leg00b → u/RyleighGamesDev]

I think mine was a Geforce 2 and it died many moons ago

[u/thesuperunknown → u/leg00b]

GeForce 256 for me, back in 1999. It came with my dad’s new computer and I convinced him to let me have it as he had no need for it. That thing ran Counter-Strike Beta 4.0 like a champ.

[u/FastHotEmu → u/RyleighGamesDev]

My first PC GPU was a Hercules MDA. Yours?

[u/Catch_ME → u/RyleighGamesDev]

Who here had a 3dfx? 

[u/jdmlifex2 → u/RyleighGamesDev]

Most likely lmao 1995

[u/Za_Lords_Guard → u/RyleighGamesDev]

I think my first was an ATI Wonder on a 286 I had in college, but my PC days go back to 8086 and the TI-99/4A.

[u/PJBuzz → u/RyleighGamesDev]

Yeah I think my first one was AGP. I dont think I ever had a PCI one but the family computer possibly did.

[u/Sajgoniarz]

It would be quite hard to use 20 y.o parts nowadays.

[u/maiwson → u/Sajgoniarz]

I just thought that you're fucking old, but then realized that my first own build got a 8800GTX in it.

FML....

[u/ducktown47 → u/maiwson]

Yup! My first GPU was an 8800GT. With a Core 2 Duo. Good times.

[u/jedi2155 → u/ducktown47]

Mines was a Voodoo 3. With a celeron 466. Good times.

Funny thing was I bought it trying to emulate 007 Goldeneye. Now i play it on my Xbox Series X.

[u/VivRean → u/jedi2155]

I had a Voodoo 2, opened a chest of memories.

[u/Marco-YES → u/maiwson]

My first GPU was an ATI 3D Rage Pro

[u/Legionof1 → u/maiwson]

Just a wee baby you are. 

[u/owa00 → u/maiwson]

Nice one man, but that's not possible because that would mean I'm...oh god...oh god no....

[u/markcocjin → u/Sajgoniarz]

It's a conundrum.

If you're young, you can say yes.

If you're old and say yes, you've been using decades-old hardware, and would fall into the non-technical user type who happens to use a PC to access America Online and listen to music on Winamp.

Or you could be a vault dweller, playing the original Prince of Persia.

[u/Environmental-Post15 → u/Sajgoniarz]

Only 20 y.o.? My first was the OG Voodoo...

...it came out a year after I graduated HS...

[u/Alpercino_FX → u/Sajgoniarz]

same here hahah

[u/AeliosZero → u/Sajgoniarz]

What do you mean!? My 8800GT still has a few years left in it!

[u/sedar1907]

I don't, my Voodoo 2 wouldn't do the job too well anymore.
In a way I upgraded from that one directly to a 4090 though, that's pretty funny (was a console gamer in between)

[u/Akumaka → u/sedar1907]

Yeah, I had a Voodoo 2 as well. I bought it for Homeworld. Good memories.

[u/boxxle → u/sedar1907]

I'll never forget the first time I saw the intro for unreal tournament running on my friend's machine with a voodoo. It was like magic.

[u/VivRean → u/sedar1907]

Came looking for my fellow Voodoo 2 owners. I went from Voodoo 2 to 1080ti and now 4090.

[u/SentientLunchBowl → u/sedar1907]

That's a crazy sentence to read. I understand you didn't do PC gaming til recent but damn

[u/xX_dumb_god_Xx]

Sadly my Voodoo 2 doesn’t work anymore

[u/Catswagger11 → u/xX_dumb_god_Xx]

You probably had the one with 8mb of RAM, should have invested in the 12mb and you’d still be cooking.

[u/DOOManiac → u/xX_dumb_god_Xx]

It was a good card, but that leaked Half-Life: Day One ran like shit and it was time to upgrade (again).

[u/Sleijeri_ → u/xX_dumb_god_Xx]

I came here for this comment.

[u/Sullex_88 → u/xX_dumb_god_Xx]

Mine probably still would, if I had something to put it in. It's been sitting in a static bag for 20ish years now

[u/Budakhon → u/xX_dumb_god_Xx]

Good thing APUs can play Warcraft 2 just fine.

[u/Repulsive_Coffee_675]

18 years old?

[u/-MissCarmine → u/Repulsive_Coffee_675]

I’m late twenties and I have gone through three GPUs since I started building. My first was Nvidia’s 970. 

This must be a teenager or very young guy posting

[u/cstricke → u/-MissCarmine]

Or just someone who got into the hobby later.

If I think about a few of my friends who are/were into PC gaming, our first GPUs are the following: SLI GTX 670s, GTX 960, R9 390 (mine), and RTX 2060. We’re all the same age, but our first builds all happened at different times.

[u/slimeycoomer → u/-MissCarmine]

OP is older than you

[u/-MissCarmine → u/slimeycoomer]

That’s funny as hell hahahaha thank you for bringing that to my attention 

[u/MamboFloof → u/-MissCarmine]

Are we twins??? Same.

[u/eulersheep]

My first GPU was the Nvidia 7600GT.

[u/Kitsui38 → u/eulersheep]

Brother, that’s my first one too

[u/melbournezur → u/eulersheep]

Wow that was mine first too. Dawn of War was the first game I tested it on!!

[u/Impressive-Penalty97]

My first GPU was a voodoo1. So..no.

[u/ApolloWasMurdered → u/Impressive-Penalty97]

I had a voodoo 2. Pretty sure it was PCI - I wonder if they could run in a modern motherboard if you had a driver?

[u/purritolover69 → u/ApolloWasMurdered]

You need a PCIe to PCI adapter and to run a 32 bit version of windows (or whatever OS) and a separate 2D graphics card since the Voodoo2 is just a 3D accelerator and actually can’t produce a 2D image, like the windows desktop.

[u/FraterSinister]

My first GPU was a 3dfx Voodoo, no, I don't use it anymore.

[u/C-D-W]

My first GPU could barely run Quake 2, so I had to let it go.

[u/r_z_n]

It is hard for my brain to conceptualize someone's "first" GPU as a 3000-series NVIDIA RTX card.

I wonder what the average age of posters on this subreddit is these days.

My first "GPU" was just a 2D accelerator in a 1995 Gateway PC. My first 3D accelerator was a totally separate board, a 3dfx Voodoo, close to 30 years ago.

[u/mooselantern]

OP is crazy. He's still using a GPU from the stone ages. The far off year of 2021. Positively ancient.

[u/ADirtyFlirt]

I fucking wish my Voodoo 2 would still cut it today haha

[u/K-Dax]

My 3dfx voodoo 3 (PCI) couldn't run a modern command prompt probably.

[u/RauloSuper → u/K-Dax]

16 MB VRAM master race LOL

[u/butthurtpants]

"first GPU" and it's a picture of a fucking 30 series card.

Way to make a mf feel old, OP.

No, I'm very much NOT using my S3 Verge DX still.

[u/andyr354]

I am not using it, but my first gpu is in a box under the bed.

3dfx Diamond Voodoo from 1998.

[u/DOOManiac → u/andyr354]

I had the same one. I loved that thing so much. The glory of seeing Quake running at a mind-blowing 640 x 480! The wonder of patching your maps so that the water could be transparent!

[u/floobie]

I don’t think a Riva TNT2 could quite handle games like Cyberpunk, unfortunately 😔

[u/martiNordi → u/floobie]

Hey, you can't say for sure without trying. 

[u/Turkish_primadona]

My first card was from early 2000's. An AGP gigabyte Nvidia 440GT with 128mb of memory on it. It was a beast I got just for doom 3.

Edit: my age shows, I replaced this card with an AGP 6600gt because it couldn't play doom 3 lol.

[u/xKingNothingx]

Sonny I've been around so long that a Ti-83 calculator had more computing power than my first PC......probably. 

[u/CaptLoads]

https://giphy.com/gifs/1zfYylV6sFOq9bAkIt

[u/Educationall_Sky]

[u/zeek609]

I don't think you can run cyberpunk on a Voodoo card.

https://giphy.com/gifs/wJD3qiNjSeHS0dP28T

[u/earthwormjimjones]

Me 🙋‍♂️

However, it's a 9070XT I bought in a prebuilt 6 months ago lol. I'm new to owning a gaming rig 🤣

[u/Dazzling-Bat-6848]

My voodoo 3dfx card is no longer capable of running any games so I had to give it up more than 3 days ago.

[u/TJLanza]

My first GPU was a 3dfx Voodoo 2... my second was another 3dfx Voodoo 2 so I could run them in SLI mode.

Okay, technically second and third, because there was also a 2D card in there. I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

[u/DarthRyus]

My first gpu was the 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 Agp. Note APG, that was the slot it went in. So no, no modern motherboards still use that. I'm a half dozen gpu's later now. Lol

[u/RauloSuper]

My first GPU was a Voodoo 3, so I doubt it LOL

[u/xxademasoulxx]

Yeah a voodoo 2 wouldn’t play crimson desert or arc raiders.

[u/Davajita]

No, I don’t use my 16mb Voodoo 3 anymore.

[u/Relative-Display-676]

i don't think anybody makes agp slots anymore for my first vid card.

[u/gen_angry]

My first PC graphics card was an EGA card, lol. Long gone sadly.

First actual “GPU” would probably have to be the Radeon 7000, long gone too :(

[u/edgetastic2]

My Voodoo 3 died a long time ago

[u/VisualGloss]

Yeah, still using my 3DFX Voodoo lol

[u/always-be-testing]

My first dedicate GPU was a Voodoo3 and that PC is long since gone.

[u/hotknives]

My first PC ran Win 3.11, I hope not

https://giphy.com/gifs/eUDhD5XFBw0r6

[u/KeepUpTheFPS]

My first GPU was an ATI, so no I'm not XD

[u/danigiorgio]

first gpu? ... u re kinda young right? haha
my first gpu died like 25 years ago haha .. voodoo 3

[u/jackal406]

I don't even remember the name/model of my first video card. It was built into the Apple ][e with the listed specs of "Double-High-Resolution: 560×192 (16 colors)".

[u/Bottl3Rock3t]

My first GPU was an ATI Rage 2C, the 4 MB of memory will struggles a little bit 😃

[u/Easy-Suggestion9838]

Sadly my 512kb VGA-card from the early nineties isn't alive anymore...

https://giphy.com/gifs/d89Q8oADMlvAB2iWv4

[u/MissSharkyShark]

My first GPU was an AMD Radeon 6950 HD Series from like 2012. It still works, and I have it in my old 1080ti box! I’d be crazy to use it tho.

[u/Soggy-Airline]

How young is OP?

[u/Mobile_Antelope1048]

Unsure my Voodoo2 card still can be plugged into anything :/

[u/Stryfe2010]

My first GPU used an AGP slot on the motherboard lol

[u/LurkeSkywalker]

The 3070 Ti is still a capable GPU so I don't see any problem running it. It may run hot on demanding games but hey.

[u/Lurkdrop]

u mean like my matrox mystique 16 mb with a fanless heatsink?

[u/AirFanatic]

I'm still using my first 1050ti. Everyone said I'd need to upgrade for bg3 and the like, but it's going strong and I'm poor! Haha

[u/zagblorg]

I have both my Matrox Mystique and the 3DFX Voodoo I bought to give it 3d acceleration later on. Not using either because we don't have PCI slots anymore, only PCIE! Keep messing to decide on a way to display them.

[u/MobiusNaked]

GPU? I’m so old I remember buying a soundcard

[u/OkChildhood2261]

If the 3dfx Voodoo2 I bought in 1998 is still working, I'd like it back please.

[u/infingaing]

me

[u/infingaing → u/infingaing]

a gt 740

[u/CharcoalGreyWolf]

Well, I haven’t seen my ATI VGA Wonder 512k 16-bit ISA card in a loooong time…

[u/simba458]

My first GPU was a 1060. It’s been relegated to a media server

[u/Nzelcolai]

My first pc GPU is an RX470. Got it in November last year, so I'm still using it lol. Though I'm thinking about what would be a good replacement and not a very expensive one

[u/rogue_noob]

My first GPU had 64mb of VRAM I don't think it can open word

[u/Tenchen-WoW]

Not sure if GT 430 would launch into Windows today.

[u/nesnalica]

disregarding the GPUs in my first prebuilts i dont remember.

the very first GPU i bought with my own money was an AMD HD6850

I played Battlefield 3 at 540p with 45fps

it carried my youth pretty well until it got retired by a GTX 970

[u/Unyonface]

Nvidia GeForce2 MX 400 wouldn’t run anything today….

[u/SirenSasha_336]

GTX 670, good times! But decidedly no, unlike cars graphics cards generally don't age particularly well

[u/GuiltyAdvantage5877]

I might have my 3dfx card laying around somewhere

[u/meltingpotato]

This is honestly more of a group chat question. Most people here are old enough to have gone through more than one gpu.

[u/Hi_its_me_Kris]

My first GPU needed a ZORRO III slot, so no, not realy possible with todays hardware 😄
It was a MacroSystem Retina BLT Z3

[u/Old_Resident8050]

My first GPU, Riva TNT, is somewhere in the ether.. so no.

[u/chefdementia]

Voodoo 3 or rage 128 were my first……. So they are gone and dead

[u/Kazz0ng]

Built my pc is 2019. I have since replaced the cpu, mobo, RAM, case, And increased storage. But still have the same 5700 xt red devil.

[u/t0bimaru]

Fairly certain this was my first standalone GPU
RADEON x700 Pro 256MB. Back then most of the cards looked very unimpressive but the boxes were insane

[u/Painwracker_Oni]

I'm using the same GPU that I first installed into my particular current build. I had planned to upgrade to a high end GPU down the line but I don't think that'll be happening anytime soon lol. So glad I upgraded to 32GB of ram before the prices fucking spiked.

[u/amenyussuf]

Same chip as you lol. Also prebuilt.

[u/QuiteAncientTrousers]

I’m still using the 1080ti I got for my first build ever back in January 2018

[u/theromingnome]

Well considering my first GPU was a Radeon 5850...

[u/JohnSnowHenry]

My first GPU was a 3D blaster Savage 4 with 32MB… insufficient… lol

[u/FrigginRan]

GTX 660 ⚰️

[u/ThunderSparkles]

That's your first GPU? Wish i could tell you where mine is.

[u/agaceformelle]

My first GPU was a ATI Radeon X1600 PRO, I still have it as decoration on a wall but even if I wanted to, it wouldn't fit in a modern PC it's an AGP GPU back when PCI-E wasn't the de facto standard

[u/dutty_handz]

I don't think my ATI Xpert 2000 32MB AGP4x would fare well in ray-traced content, sadly.

[u/stiky21]

My first GPU was before your parents were alive

[u/Jumpy_Astronaut_302]

My First GPU from 1997? SIS 5597/5598 4MB

[u/jsc230]

2d or 3d? Both would be hard to use today. My first 3d card was the original voodoo card to run Quake.

[u/X-Arkturis-X]

I found my Voodoo 3D card in a box a few months ago. Maaaaan the nostalgia.

[u/returnnull]

My first dedicated GPU (as in, mine alone and not a computer that I had to share) was a Riva TNT2. No, I’m not rocking that card anymore

[u/FantasticPenguin]

3070 To isn't that old right? Or am I getting old

[u/Bart404]

My dude, my first gpu was a nVidia Riva TNT… that thing is so old it could not power a turn these days 😂

[u/schweindooog]

My first gpu died 2 weeks ago after 8 years

[u/Grey-Templar]

Still rocking my 3070 Ti as well (not my first GPU though. I've had a lot of GPUs before they cost a mortgage payment.

[u/r_aquariii]

My first gpu can’t even run youtube

[u/Muzzlehatch]

Do I still have my 1983 Hercules graphics card? No, I do not.

[u/StarSlayerX]

I don't think they still make Voodoo cards anymore...

[u/D3moknight]

My first GPU was from the 90's, so it's long gone.

[u/TuataraToes]

First GPU I bought myself (so not including the family computer my parents paid for with a voodoo 2) was a Riva TNT 2 M64 32MB.

Safe to say it's long gone.

[u/wildtabeast]

My first gpu was a voodoo about 30 years ago. It is long gone lol

[u/Kallandros]

My first GPU would be like 28 or 29 years old. Riva TNT.

[u/PolarizingKabal]

Still on my rtx 2070 super. Was my first and only build.

Looking to upgrade at some point. Just need too many components for my AM4 build.

[u/CrazyHiker556]

Nope, that card, and the rest of the build, got recycled decades ago. My very first GPU was a GeForce 2 Ti. It went pop and let out a puff of smoke as soon as I turned that build on for the first time. It was replaced under warranty, but what a letdown initially as a teenager. I had other PCs before, but nothing that could play games like Half Life.

[u/fierox88]

I don't, my current motherboard doesnt have an ISA slot anymore so can't reuse my old GPU 😅

[u/VitaminxDee]

I have the same card. First one.

[u/AllDakkaNoBrakes]

Who's still rocking a 3dfx Voodoo?

[u/redoctoberz]

My first GPU was a 3DFx Voodoo1 from 1996, so I’m sure it’s in some landfill somewhere.

[u/bbpsword]

I've lost GPU brethren you've never even fathomed

[u/badusernameused]

The old GeForce FX 5200 doesn't hold up very well for games made in this century so I got rid of it last year. Upgraded to a 6600GT, super fast by comparison!

[u/Fucsia_FallenAngel]

Mi primera GPU es de hace 23 años 🤣🤣

[u/ThatJuicyShaqMeat]

Mine was a ATI 3D Rage followed by a Riva TNT 2. I'm old, kiddo.

[u/ne0dym]

I got my first gaming pc in 2021, with an RTX 2060, and i'm still using it, so YES OP! (I am 27.)

[u/leenponyd42]

My first GPU was a 3Dfx Voodoo card, so no, I haven’t used it for a very long time.

[u/NatseePunksFeckOff]

My first PC ever was in like 2005 when i was 5. My first PC that I built myself had a gtx 1060 6gb in 2016 and I used it until november 2025 when i got myself my current gpu