In those years, i only had integrated gpus. Many great games ran ok.
1st dgpu i got was in a laptop in ~2012, played for a year. Finally played Crysis ~25fps !
Then temps sky rocketed, i cleaned and repasted. Did not know what thermal pads were ( guide did not say..), gpu went bust.
Then 1050 for 5.5 years
Then 3080 ( big ass jump ).