What video card from the past do you remember most?

haha- my first vid card was a 4MB integrated piece of crap (on Pentium II system)- I remember not being able to run Need for Speed III properly...

THEN, I made the jump to a new comp- PIII 600Mhz with a 32MB 3dfx Voodoo3 3000... that think KICKED A**!! Oh my god I loved that freaking graphics card... I soon upgraded to what I believe was a GeForce 2 64MB- hell of a graphics card...

anyway, as far as remembering hype back then it was all about the 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 TV AGP - I wanted that card but never managed to score it... oh man, and the Voodoo 5 6000 with anti-aliasing- it seemed SO ahead of it's time...I loved the movie 3dfx released hyping all the features and whatnot- can't find it on YouTube. Oh, and the original Nvidia GeForce seemed so amazing at the time... haha- everyone seemed wowed by that.

I took like a 6 year break from PC gaming, and am just now getting back into it :\ currently I have a piece of crap laptop that can only run older games, but I can't wait to get started again soon with a decent system :-D I love me some good graphics cards...

This is going WAAYYYY back, but I fondly remember before 3D gaming was the rage, for the 486 era it was the Diamond Viper 2MB on VESA local bus. Insanely fast for its time, turely accelerated DOS and Windows 3.1. For the Pentium era it was a tie between STB Lightspeed 128 (first 128-bit graphic card) and the Matrox Millenium with 8MB WRAM...Windows 95 Heaven! As 3D games came along I bought my first "3D Accerators" and got burned 2 out of 3 times...lol S3 Virge GX (SUCKED), Cirrus Logic Laguna 3D (Waste) and finally I got my hands on a Matrox Mystique 220 with 8MB SGRAM, games had no filtering but games codes for it ran very fast. I dont think 3D games got pretty until 3DFX came out with the Voodoo series and single handledly destroyed console and arcade graphics, until the Dreamcast came out....Yeah, the Voodoo series was the most memoriable GPU for a gamer.

Remember teh Obsidian Voodoo2 SLI all in one card? Man, that was like $600 back in 1998

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Oh and if any of you fine people are willing to part with some old cards of yours just let me know. Hopefully you'll send them to me for free (I could pay shipping if you'd like). I'm in need of some cards for education tools as well as perhaps setting up a gaming rig with some other parts I have lying around ;) :)

NamelessPlayer

My first gaming video card was a Geforce 4200 w/ 128mb of video ram, and damn, that thing was a beast for its time and very nicely priced. It lasted me up until Half Life 2 and then it started getting outdated. It's still working fine in my parents computer too! Don't even know how either, last time I opened up my parents computer case it had at least 2 inches of dust on it I'm surprised the fan was still spinning lol

My very first gpu was a Vodoo Banshee 16MB it was one one of the first cards to feature 2D and 3D together .... it came with the game INCOMING , those visuals blew my mind the first time I played it at 800x600 :)

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I loved the 9800 Pro and the 7600GT. Both those cards were wonderful!

see those little copper spools on the 9800? i broke one from a 9800pro i had in an old hand me down pc, so i suepr glued it back on and it worked fine :D my most memorable card was probably my FX 5200. back in my old p3 700, i was rocking out with Allied Assault and Halo with 768mb of system ram.