What's the oldest video card that you still own, that still works?

GuardianAsher · Post by **GuardianAsher** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 2:36 am

I was digging through my extra computer parts, and I found an S3 Trio 64V+ PCI card. Dunno where it came from. I put it in my main rig for kicks, and low and behold, it worked. So I figured, if I have something like this, what do you guys (and gals) have?

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:12 am

I just finished cleaning out my garage of old junk, and I mean old junk including an old ISA video card that I think was a Stealth that I'm sure still worked, but I no longer want to have parts for ISA bus. The oldest video card that I have now are the Matrox Millennium PCI and a couple of Voodoo 3 AGP.

123cool · Post by **123cool** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:48 am

TNT2 riva PCI card.. is the oldest one i have.

EvilHorace · Post by **EvilHorace** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:04 am

I think I might still have my Voodoo 1, Pure 3D in the attic. I think it was too old to sell, like no one wanted it the last time I tryed selling off old parts. Might still have the Voodoo 2s (SLI) too. I'd have to go up there and check to be sure but I never ruined any card, just replaced them due to needing better ones when available.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:50 am

oldest one in my regular use-it box is a 32mb radeon - 7000 maybe....still a great bench / emergency card

nitro237 · Post by **nitro237** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 9:33 am

I think I have an old 8MB,might be a 16MB, Vantec card that was a pull fom an antique Compaq. Worked when it was pulled.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:03 am

Oh heck I just threw out some old Trident 2Mb PCI video cards. These things are so old that Win98 has native drivers for them.

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:32 am

I have a couple of 1MB ISA video cards on the shelf. I, believe it or not, still have a client or two that refuse to get rid of their 486s.. So I hang on to at least two of everything ISA that I have.

eGo

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:21 pm

matrix parhelia in use.

Greg

ZYFER · Post by **ZYFER** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:24 pm

The oldest one? an Oak Technology 512kb ISA video card

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:27 pm

duno... but i know its ISA.

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 1:47 pm

I have a handful of Matrox Millenium II cards for some reason...

wpublic · Post by **wpublic** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:01 pm

i had some old s3 virge pci. still using 1. one time i took the eeprom chips out of one and put in the other that had 2 empty sockets just to see what would happen ; when i booted it up, the screen had many, many blocks of color for about 15 seconds, then the card started smoking and melted the sockets.

NubyCanuby_OFC · Post by **NubyCanuby_OFC** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:32 pm

I've still got my S3 Virge, Voodoo 1 and 2 PCI plus a Voodoo 3 and Geforce 2 Pro AGP. Current rigs are running an ATI X800XL and Geforce 4 TI 4200 AGP.
I'll never forget seeing Quake 1 running in OpenGL for the first time.

My father-in-law still has an original IBM XT running a Hercules monochrome Graphics card.

Karchiveur · Post by **Karchiveur** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 6:58 pm

some kinda matrox addon card? like extra memory?, has no output on it, but it corresponds with a matrox video card?

older than me, i know that