Your first G cards

[dustiestrat]

quick question looking to upgrade from a ati radeon x600 and was wondering *** was better a Leadtek WinFast PCX6600GT-TDH Extreme Edition GeForce PCX6600 GT 128MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-054-LT) or a Connect3D ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-044-CO)

cheers

 

[Behemoth]

Radeon X1800 XT will be the better of the 2 cards, and for the money it's well worth it. Don't bother with the 6600 ulness your on a tight budget, you won't see much improvement with that to the card your running now.

 

[Scottie2004]

Trident something to start with, first 3d one was the Voodoo 3DFX, what a card. What was the name of the car game that came with it again? Something with power in the title?

 

[dustiestrat]

okay then cheers go for the ati there shouldnt be any probs swapping should them over should there just plug it in no?

 

[Aidoscuz]

1. GeForce 2 MX (Shudder...)
2. Radeon 9700 Pro
3. Radeon X800XT PE
4. Geforce 7900GTX (DOA)
5. Geforce 7900GTX (DOA again)
6. Geforce 7900GTX (Working so far)

I'd say my favourite had to be the 9700 Pro, it was such a huge jump from the MX and ran all my games brilliantly. My ATI experiences have been far more pleasant than my Nvidia ones...

 

[Skullfish1]

Radeon 9600SE...

(Thats the only card I ever bought, I'm looking at the screen generated by it now, there is a well used FEAR icon on my desktop...) So lovely card, and surprisingly able to power todays games, even if it is at 800x600 with verything turned down to minimum. (except the maximised effects bar, wierd one that.)

Upgrade will be here next month, and not a second too soon.

 

[Agent WD40]

The first system I ever build was about 15 months ago (or so), so its not old spec. However, i've had a lot of gfx cards.

1) Leadtek 6800GTs (x2)
2) BFG 7800 GTX 512
3) X1900XTX
4) XFX 7950 XXX edition GX2

Thats a **** load of cash...

 

[Aikon359]

well if memory server me right heres how my list goes:

ati mach 64 pci gfx 512k
ati rage pro 4mb pci
rendition verite 8mb pci
same as above but with riteous orchid 3d2 12mb voodo accelerator
same again but replacing orchid with power vr 3d ad on card *crap*
3dfx voodoo banshee pci 16mb
ati radeon pci 7000
ati radeon agp 8500
nvidia geforce 4 ti4200 agp 64mb
ati radeon 9600 agp 128mb
ati radeon 9800 agp 128mb
nvidia geforce 6800gt agp 256mb
nvidia geforce fx 5700 64mb *laptop
ati x700 pcie 128mb *laptop*
gainward nvidia geforce 7950 gx2 1024 mb pcie

ths skys the limit!

 

[Borden]

1) Gigabyte GV 3D1 <-- Wish i never bought it

That's my only card, first built a pc a year ago.

Hopefully getting an X1900XT when i have the cash and if i decide to get that rather than upgrade to conroe.

 

[Trick]

The first gfx card i went out and bought was a Matrox Mystic which was soon supplemented by a Voodoo 1 accelerator card. Firing up glquake for the first time using the voodoo was awesome and its been a never ending cycle of throwing good money after bad ever since

I suplemented my Mystique with a 4mb voodoo as well - what a difference! GlQuake and Tombraider looked absolutely stunning, as did Monster Truck Madness!

 

[mortals]

cirrus logic 512k
s3 virge 1mb
matrox mistique (matrox)
3dfx voodoo (orchid rightuoes 3d)
geforce sdr (leadtek)
geforce2 ultra (hercules)
geforce4 Ti4200 (gainward)
geforce 6800le (leadtek)

laptop: x700 128mb

 

[IamMed]

AGP
32meg Creative Riva TNT2 Ultra
64meg Geforce 4 MX440
128meg Leadtek FX5200
128meg Powercolor 9600 Pro "Ultimate"
128meg Powercolor 9800 Pro AIW
128meg Hercules 9800 Pro
128meg Inno3d 6800 NU

PCI-E
256meg Powercolor X800 Bravo
256meg Powercolor X850XT
256meg MSI 7800GTX

and currently have a 512meg Sapphire X1900XT on its way

 

[fish99]

First time I ever saw 3d acceleration in action was POD running in 3dfx mode on my Orchid Righteous 3D. It was just so smooth Then immediately got hold of the 3dfx patch for Tomb Raider and the OpenGL patch for Quake. All those games went from about 15-25 fps up to 50-60 fps Brilliant stuff.

Those were actually DOS games weren't they!

Also wanted to echo something someone else said - the best video card I've ever owned was also the GeForce 2 GTS, that was the biggest jump in performance I can remember, when hardware TnL was introduced. Then again my X800 XT was a pretty big jump at the time. Seeing Far Cry running smoothly for the first time was pretty neat too.

 

[Jimbo]

First 3d accelorator I bought was a Orchid Righteous 3DFX card... what a stupid name lol.

 

[Duke]

As above - Orchid Righteous 3DFX Voodoo 1 card Had a Voodoo 2 Banshee after that.. then Geforce 2 GTS 32MB... Geforce 4 Ti4200 64MB... ATI 9800 Pro 128MB... ATI X800 Pro 256MB... ATI X1900 XTX 512MB

Doubled the ram on each card more or less each change.

 

[Big Bernard]

2mb Permedia something or other I think

 

[Killajaz]

Matrox Millenium of some sort
3dfx Voodoo2 12 mb
3dfx Voodoo2 SLI BABY!!
Nivida Riva TNT 16mb
Nvidia Geforce 256 32mb
Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS 32mb (Legendary card)
ATI 9800 PRO AIW 128mb
ATI X850XTPE (for about a month)
ATI X1800XT 256mb (current)

As you can see I did not upgrade for a long time from my GTS card. It could render NFSU! Not insane FPS, but still. Excellent card.

 

[nikebee]

first card was a really old Matrox... i forget the name
others i've used
Matrox Millenium II
nVidia GeForce 2 MX
nVidia GeForce 2 MX 4000
ATI Radeon 9600 pro 256mb
nVidia GeForce 6600GT
nVidia GeForce 7800GT
probably a few others too

 

[iceman911]

nvidia GeForce 2 32?
nvidia GeFroce 2 ULTRA 64?
ATi 9800XT 256
ATi X800XTPE 256
ATi X850XTPE 256
nvidia 7800GT Xtreme 256
ATi X1900XTX 512

 

[H3x0rc!st]

3DFX Voodoo 3 3000 PCI ***!