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best Graphics card you have ever used

Best
4870 1GB, Max'd everthing out since i got it never had to hold back.

Worst
9600, ran ok on drivers from the CD, but every time i tried to used updated ones i would get BSOD during games. This got worse the higher the driver version got, so was stuck with crap performing drivers till i replaced it.
 
EvilOne said:
Worst
9600, ran ok on drivers from the CD, but every time i tried to used updated ones i would get BSOD during games. This got worse the higher the driver version got, so was stuck with crap performing drivers till i replaced it.
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I built a pc with a 7950 GT in it a few years back for someone, newer drivers all cause full screen strobe flickering full of diagonal coloured lines in games after a min or so, causing a semi-crash making it unplayable (task manager can get back to desktop and kill the game still). Rolling back to a driver from 2008 (possibly 09 too) makes everything fine :rolleyes: I was worried it was a faulty card/vram issue until I tested driver versions!
 
Only got into building PCs recently so only ever owned 3 cards:
4850
8800GS
GTX260

So would have to say GTX260
 
I really liked my Tseng Labs ET6000, great 2D peformance! :)

After that, I had 3dfx Voodoo add-on 3d cards, until I got my first Nvidia integrated 2D/3D card. That was awesome having 3D acceleration on the desktop without the fiddly Voodoo switching setup on the VGA.

Had loads of Nvidia cards over the years, don't remember them, until the 8800GT - which is still going strong!
 
Well it does depend…

I mean, my add on 3Dfx GPU was about the best card I ever made use of, but if it’s a single all in one card, then I think my ATI 9700 Pro was the card I used the most and got the most out of at the time…

The 3Dfx Voodoo 1 was such a boost, it made games really come alive and you really noticed the difference. The Voodoo 2 I upgrade to was on par but it wasn’t such a big leap…

The ATI 9700 pro was a big leap for me as it meant I had a single board in my PC that gave me great 2D and 3D support, and it was one of the first to use DX9, so I really did make great use of the card… Doom 3 was certainly a slideshow at highest res and settings at the time though….

The ATI 5870 I’m using now is also a very impressive bit of kit, seems the cards I’ve not been too impressed with or used little or not used to the max for me have been nvidia cards. I always seem to buy a nvidia card, be impressed with the drivers but never actually use the card to its full or be really impressed...

Had a Geforce 8800GTX 512MB and to be truthful, I never noticed much of a leap from the 9700pro apart from I could run my games a higher res but that was about it really…
 
Mines more of a top 5 list:

1. The Geforce 4 Ti4600, the biggest performance jump in gfx history, what else can be said
2. The 9800GX2, awesome card
3. The Voodoo 2 12mb, what a card, my first "3d" accelerator
4. The Riva TNT2
5. Random Cirrus Logic SVGA card, 24bit colour omfg, eat you heart out CGA/EGA/VGA
 
For me it's the 9600gt alpha dog or 8800gt, both Im still using.

Keen to upgrade though but nothing to the likes of HD2900gt, x1900xt, x1800 of which all were pretty much as noisy as a vacumn cleaner.
 
Definitely the 8800GT, not because I'm using it currently, but because it's still handling everything I throw it at with ease, and they're several years old now!
 
Best card I've used and what always surprised me was the Geforce Ti4600 128mb... at least I think it was 4600... might have been 4200... >.>
 
Asus 8800GT lasted me something like 2 years...sure it ran at 93 degrees in the shade but who cares!

it never let me down, never dissapointed. Introduced me to Company of Heroes (came with card full version FREE!) of which i am now a disciple.

so not only could i cook a mean eggs n bacon i also launched my RTS career for real.

before that the KyroII probably has a place of lore on my shelf. just because it sounded cool...

worst? Radeon 6600 VIVO or 3dFX that i tried to replace my voodoo 4MB with... it was utterly pants.
 
4890 I am currently running, Bought 2nd hand from M&M God knows how long ago it still handles everything I throw at it & the room for clocking is ridiculous with a bit of fan tweaking. :cool:
 
850xtpe sapphire
8800gtx watercooled bfg
8800gtx bfg
4870x2 sapphire
GTX 480 EVGA & Asus


The stand out card has to be the 8800gtx, with all the rest coming very close. :)
 
I think everyone looks at the 8800gtx with rose tinted glasses, it was a good card at the time granted, although don't forget it came out around the same time console gaming slowed the progression of graphics on pc, had consoles like the horrific xbox never arrived then I'm sure gaming now would look a whole lot better on the pc.
I agree with the voodoo cards, I personally could never afford one until the voodoo 5 5500, and I then kicked myself as the geforce256 kicked it's ass lol.
 
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