Which Graphics cards do you regret buying?

[Bug One]

A few years back I bought an nVidia 730 thinking it would be better than the onboard graphics of an old i5 workstation. I was wrong.

Swapped it for a 1050ti for a massive performance increase.

 

[darket]

Ati Rage Fury Maxx , what a pile of crap that was

 

[Thumpsta]

ATI 2900X I think it was. Ran very hot and underwhelming. Sold a few months later and got the gtx 8800. Been with team green ever since then.

 

[Concrete]

Matrox Mystique for me, a blinding 2D card for image quality back when people cared about such things, but its 3D was painfully bad and barely supported.

 

[melmac]

I haven't regretted any GPU purchase.

 

[greatash]

7970 blower edition, loudest thing ever.
Should have spent the extra £30-40 for AIB cooling but I was a poor student penny pinching.

 

[darket]

Matrox Mystique for me, a blinding 2D card for image quality back when people cared about such things, but its 3D was painfully bad and barely supported.

You were ment to pair it with a Voodoo 2 , didn't you get the memo ??

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Radeon Vega 64. Never ran right in my system, constant crashes and driver issues. RMA’d it, but no fault found. Gave it to a mate who never had a problem with it and gave me £300 for it.

Replaced it with Vega 56 which has run flawlessly since install.

 

[Supernova]

I was just getting into PCs in 2006 and not knowing what I was doing, I changed my X850XT for a 1600XT. It was definitely slower. Fail!

 

[harmattan]

For me it was a mobile card, the GTX 480m. A GPU so hot and leaky it had no business being put into a laptop, you essentially needed two power adapters to avoid shut downs at high load on the few latpop models (I think Clevo/Sager and derivatives and maybe a small number of AWs were the only models that sported it). It was so bad nVidia replaced with a revised, cooler chip, the 485m, literally months after the 480m was released.

FX5600 was bad, but it wasn't that bad. I had one and it played current games adequately to well. Its problem was it was noisier than other cards, and importantly, it was completely blown out of the water by the 9700.

 

[harmattan]

For me it was a mobile card, the GTX 480m. A GPU so hot and leaky it had no business being put into a laptop, you essentially needed two power adapters to avoid shut downs at high load on the few latpop models (I think Clevo/Sager and derivatives and maybe a small number of AWs were the only models that sported it). It was so bad nVidia replaced with a revised, cooler chip, the 485m, literally months after the 480m was released.

FX5600 was bad, but it wasn't that bad. I had one and it played current games adequately to well. Its problem was it was noisier than other cards, and importantly, it was completely blown out of the water by the 9700.

Same with Radeon VII. It was a decent performer for the time, albeit hot and unstable in some circumstances. It got a bad wrap.

 

[mingey]

None, I did the research before buying and got the card I needed at the time to do the job I wanted it too, I mean at one point I had SLi GTX 480, they was fantastic for heating the office, but no regrets !

 

[dave28]

none, except the gtx 780 founders edition that started malfunctioning in games

 

[subbytna]

7990 card. Man that thing was HUGE and I had to gut my case to get it to fit in. It ran hot too and sucked a stupid amount of power. Ended up selling it on and got a 280x instead

 

[willhub]

2900XT, it was horrible, loud and ran crap especially with AA.

 

[Odirse]

A laptop with a 640m, I think it was. And I thought it was a good card at the time...

 

[man_from_uncle]

FX5200 256mb and fx5800U. The first was a mistake due to lack of knowledge (it had 256mb! I thought that meant it was good), the second a mistake of trusting that nvidia was still best. After that it was a vanilla 6800 128mb, and that was like night and day. I had almost completely forgotten that dark part of my PC history. In fact it was only post nvidia 6800 that I really got into PC building and gaming.

 

[Vince]

The only one I can remember that I regretted was the (Hercules 3D Prophet) geforce 3 ti 500. After that everything has been perfectly good and I even bought a Radeon 7

 

[StarShock]

2nd 7800 gtx. Got it 2nd hand to extend the life of my system with SLi. Even then SLi was not amazing and i ended up upgrading to 8800GT not too long afterwards

 

[Jimmy Weirdarms]

Just the Radeon X800 pro, and I only regretted that really because I wasn't playing PC games at the time and never really put it to good use.

Mostly due to the various consoles in the next room hooked up to a projector.