QOTW: What was the first graphics card you purchased?

[Avernus]

I think a Sparkle s3 video card for my 386 desktop was the first I ever installed. Butchered quite a few machines back in the day, kinda like Frankenstein's monster some of my builds.

[Norkay]

Leadtek WinFast 3D L2300 8MB.
It was a 3D LABS Permedia 2 card made for CAD applications back in 1998.
In most of the games, the lights (i.e. Need for Speed) would be rendered on an opaque black background, making them unplayable in some cases.

[neonplanet40]

GeForce 3 Ti500 I believe

[Duckboy79]

Diamond Viper V550 16mb if I remember right

[Vamp]

I did'ent get started in gamming for some years but my first gpu was I think the best little gpu I ever used and still use in other builds today and that is the G-Force GT 610 but for gamming I went up to a GTX 690ti then to a GTX 1070. I still like the 610 cheep and good for the price

[rich835]

The first one I can remember was in the late 90's, an ATI All-in-Wonder. I bought it specifically so I could connect the PC to the huge 28" CRT in the lounge. A few years later it was a Voodoo 3 2000 to play Quake III

[the_Unforgiven]

My first card was the 9250 and I have been with the red team since then,
until I bought a 1080ti KiNGPiN a couple of years ago

[InnocentFool]

My first personal build was an ATI 9600XT. For the family computer it was a 2D accelerator that could run Catacombs Abyss, EGA graphics and a 286 running at 12Mhz with 4MB RAM (with chips no DIMM, SIMM, SDRAM, EDO, Fast page malarkey) it was too long ago to remember what it was I'm afraid...

[Phrontis]

Matrox Millennium, but which version I cannot remember, it would have been the early 90's I think. Would have been the first time I had more than 256 colours on my PC. I probably still have it in a box somewhere.

[dfour]

3dfx voodoo banshee with 16 meg on baord. Came with a free copy of Unreal (the original game) which ran like a rocket on GLide.

[ddg3595]

For me, it was Orchid Technology's Righteous 3D card (powered by 3Dfx's Voodoo graphics chip) purchased back in October '96. Those were the days.

[micles5]

Hmm... i got some kind of VGA with my 386sx 25. Then i bought 3DFX Voodoo.

[ik9000]

oh shoot er Mx something was it MX64? that's a long long time ago now. Ran Quake 3 just fine.

[Endlesspath]

Canopus Pure3d

[MrJim]

My first few PCs had integrated graphics, but the first discrete graphics card I bought was the Rendition Verite V1000 (Creative Labs 3D Blaster PCI). It had miniGL drivers for Quake, which had a huge impact on me, being the first graphically accelerated game I'd ever played.

[Namor]

Radeon 9700 pro, its still sitting on the shelf with all the other old units.