• DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    GeForce GT 610.

    It was the cheapest GPU available at the time, imagine my disappointment when I tried to run Minecraft with shaders and barely got more than a slideshow.

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    I don’t know what hardware my first computer had because I didn’t even know what a GPU was at the time… But the first GPU I ever bought was the 8600 GT.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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    Mine was an ELSA Erazor III LT (the name somehow stuck). It was an offer that was bundled with horribly bad and clumly mechanical shutter 3D goggles. I remember trying Half Life with it. It was rattling all the time and the 3D effect was mediocre.

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    Upgraded my highschool family desktop I took to college with a GeForce 8800 GT , used until I build a new pc with a Radeon 7970 GHz edition, which was replaced with a rx580 after the card passed away from light coin poisoning. Desktop is now running unRAID and my new main rig has a gtx 3070 in.

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    3 days ago

    I feel like so many of the asklemmy questions are covert methods to profile users, so I never give real answers.

  • Reil@beehaw.org
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    The first I bought for myself was a PNY XLR8 GeForce GTS 250 in 2010. It tided me over for 4 years, until my power supply gave a loud POP, and I replaced pretty much the whole build just in case the other parts were damaged (or caused the damage).

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    2 days ago

    Trident VGA?

    I got a 3DFX voodoo as soon as they came out. GL quake was mind-blowing.

    I bought a Riva TNT

    Then a GeForce 2

    Then a Radeon 9000

    Then for a bunch of years I just moved into laptop after laptop with discrete GPUs.

    Now I still have a 1080 and a 2070 doing a little bit of light AI work and video transcoding for me. But I’m still relying on crappy laptop GPUs for all my gaming. They’re good enough.

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      I got a 3Dfx from a computer fair in Liverpool just so I could play Quake 2 CTF, it was absolutely mind blowing not even an understatement.