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Pemalite on 24 August 2020
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Conina said:
Captain_Yuri said:

Since Nvidia is celebrating their 21 anniversary, DF Retro has a video about The Origins of the 3D Graphics Card. It is sponsored by Nvidia in case you wanted to know.

I loved my Orchid Righteous 3D card (one of the first 3DFx Voodoo 1 models). When it took over the graphic output there was a satisfing "click" from the mechanical relay.

My first GPU was an S3 Virge DX/XG in 1995, before that I was living in a software rendered world.

Eventually in like 1997-ish I found another Virge and took the Ram from that and added it to my own, back then some GPU's would had socketed Ram memory, so going from 4MB to 8MB was a big deal.

Eventually got the Voodoo 2 around 1998 which I still have to this day which I threw in alongside the old Virge... Eventually I would grab a second Voodoo 2 and throw it into SLI.

Had a Matrox Parhelia, PowerVR Kyro, ATI Rage Furry Maxx (ATI's First Dual-GPU single card.), Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo 3, Voodoo 4, Matrox G450, Savage 3D, Geforce 256, TNT2 M64... List goes on, wish I kept more than just the voodoo 2 now.

Do intend to build another retro rig at some point and put the voodoo 2 to work.



--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--