I have almost always used 3DFX video cards. We won't include my Commodore Vic-20 or my Commodre 64, as there was no choice...

My first PC had a Stealth 2000 card. However, since then, it has been Voodoo all the way. I started with the Voodoo Rush and later moved to the Voodoo2. Then I went with 2 Voodoo 2's in SLI. Then I moved on to the Voodoo 3. Not too long after that, it was the Voodoo 5 5500. I used that Voodoo 5 for 2 1/2 years until today. With 3DFX gone, there were only 2 paths to choose... NVidia or ATI.

Today I bought a GeForce4 Ti4400.

Life with this card is good.

The motivating factor was Jedi Knight 2. The no longer supported Voodoo caused some problems and I decided it was time to upgrade. I finally moved over to the NVidia camp.

Now I'm going to go back and re-try many of my newer games to see the graphical and higher frame-rate differences. Time to go back to Medal of Honor, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Aliens Vs Predator 2, Giants, Screamer 4x4, and Panzer Elite. I'm going to really see what this card can do with my games.

I'll never forget the first time I used my Voodoo Rush to play the original Quake after using the software mode for some time... I was amazed. My jaw really dropped.

To keep this on track, does anyone remember the first time you used a real video card to play your games? Were you as amazed as I was? Let's hear it!

Just about the same as you, a Voodoo for GLQuake. Though I honestly wasn't too floored by the visuals; the textures were blurry as hell, and I don't remember the new weapon effects being that impressive. The frame rate, on the other hand...woah.

when i jumped from a tnt 16mb -> gf2mx my jaw went

when i buy the gf4 ti4200 64mb ddr, (along with the new pc im building) it will once again go

Good for you guys to go with the GeForce 4 TI... there is another GeForce 4 card that apparently runs like a glorified GeForce 2 or 3.

I went up from an onboard voodoo 3 to a Radeon 8500 and was/still am thoroughly impressed

I purchased Half-Life on sale at Comp-USA the first time it hit $10. I hadn't bought a game in a while, and even though I knew it wouldn't run on my Pentium 75 with 32MB of RAM, I kept it until I got a K62/450 for bargain price (I've always been on the lagging edge of hardware, which is fine).

I installed and ran it; the onboard video sucked. I was running at 320x240 at about 10 frames per second. In a corner I could get up to 20 frames per second at that resolution. Wow.

Halfway through the game I found a Voodoo2 on sale and purchased it. I played the demo of WipeOut that came with the card, and I can remember being amazed. At that point, I realized onboard video sucks.

I currently use a 32MB OEM Radeon DDR LE, and while I wasn't floored as much as going from literally hardware deceleration to a Voodoo2, I was impressed.

Actually, looking back, I think it may have been Quake 2 for me, not Quake 1. Big difference with the hardware acceleration in that game. I spent several minutes just shooting down a hall and watching the light reflect off of the walls.

Yeah, the GeForce 4 MX series. All models of the GeForce 3 run faster, and even the Ti version of the GeForce 2 is almost as fast.

Also, the MX series doesn't have DirectX 8 functionality.

Like some of you 3dfx/VooDoo fans I hated the fact that Nvidia bought them out. But now I like Nvidia cards because of the killer graphics and most of all knowing that GeForce cards use VooDoo architecture.

That's why they kick butt!!

I like to refer to my card as the V-force.

My first experience was also Quake. I had been running it on my Pentium 150 with 24mb of ram and it was fun but didn't look too hot. I read up on GL Quake and bought a Monster 3D Voodoo 1 card. I was amazed at how smooth it was at 640x480(without the card it was unplayable at that res). My parents still have that computer and the Monster 3D is still in it. I then lost interest in PC gaming and got into the PSX. For my next machine, I had moved to the Macintosh. I played Unreal on the 4mb ATI Rage Pro and it looked good but wasn't super smooth. When I sold the Powerbook and got my G4 tower, it came with a 16mb ATI Rage 128 Pro and most games still run pretty well on it. Now I'm more into playing my PS2 than gaming on my Mac so whatever card my next machine comes with will probably be fine.

OK, I'm on my second day of using this video card...

Damn this is nice.

I'm playing games all over again and am amazed at the difference. I'm mixing in my new copy of Jedi Knight 2 with MOA:AA, and will be adding Black and White soon.

Still though, I miss the 3DFX logo.

I place 3DFX along with Atari (don't give me any of that Infogrames crap) as great companies of their time..

If any of you guys want a spiffy new benchmark to run on your expensive h/w, check this out:

http://www.warp2search.net/article.p...thread&order=0

It looks a lot like the nature scene in MadOnion's 3DMark suite.