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Whats your backup card?

A spare 4850 for me, and after that a a 4850 from my other pc, then after that, 2900XT, 2 of 'em.
 
Back up is the onboard graphics, if it all goes norks up. I buy new cards so often that's not likely to become an issue though :D
 
Up until today it was a 275 gtx, sold it on MM, left with an 8800gt from my old s939 rig, which is dead, second 470 coming next week, so if one does fail ill still have another, i did get caught once without a backup, my gtx 280 died and i had to borrow an old ati card from my nephew, cant even remember what model it was, my first and only ati card.
 
GTX470. Failing that I have one of my Gigabyte GTX260 SoCs still and a pair of 8800GT. Should the apocalypse happen I still have my 7950GX2 in the spare parts draw.
 
The 8800gt has to be the ultimate backup card, ive bought 3 on MM and sold them on, used them on my 2 rigs, one i used on my main rig in sig even coped pretty well at 1920x1200, albeit with no aa/af and lower game settings, asus non reference design.

Asus 8800gt
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A 7300 gt i ran for a few days.
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Absolute garbage, i found it in an old box of bits i had, had to bend the pcie bracket into shape with a pair of pliers as it had got twisted somehow.:o
 
An ati 3870x2 that consistantly craps itself as soon as the driver is installed with the dreaded atikmdag.sys error or an artifacting 8800gts 640.

Ive absoloutely no idea what is up with the x2, one weekend i built another system out of spare parts just to test it on to rule out incompatabilities and still got nowhere, not a single component was the same as my main system yet the eror remained. The gts though im considering trying the oven trick on tomorrow.
 
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