I remember I was off for the summer after my first year of undergrad. My folks at bought me a PC for school but it didn’t have a dedicated GPU so I put one in earlier in the summer so that I could play:
-og Far Cry
-PC port of Halo 1
-Unreal Tournament 2004
And in anticipation of the releases of Doom 3 and Half-life 2. I’m not 100% sure but iirc it was an ATI Radeon 9600 which was already a bit out of date by 2004 but nonetheless good enough to run all of those titles. Man, 2004 was a great year for fps games.
I upgraded to a different ATI card in 2006 in order to play FEAR but for the life of me I don’t remember what the card was exactly.