The best and worst graphics card box art of all time

[nvidiamd]

Intel AGP card from the 90's

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

I was 15 when I bought it, I thought is was cool as hell

I remember having a cousin who loved Razer mice only and thought they were the coolest, and disliked and questioned why I had a crappy 'GuildWars' mouse instead of a much better Razer mouse.

Except it was a Razer Deathadder Guildwars edition, and he still wouldn't believe it cos it said Guildwars on it not Razer.

Stupid brand loyalty,, I only bought it cos that used to be my favourite MMO.

 

[Zenduri]

Intel AGP card from the 90's

Well ****... i had one of those in my first PC, an Intel 740 AGP

 

[NexxCat]

I fondly remember getting this:

 

[V F]

I remember having a cousin who loved Razer mice only and thought they were the coolest, and disliked and questioned why I had a crappy 'GuildWars' mouse instead of a much better Razer mouse.

Except it was a Razer Deathadder Guildwars edition, and he still wouldn't believe it cos it said Guildwars on it not Razer.

Stupid brand loyalty,, I only bought it cos that used to be my favourite MMO.

I remember many raved about the Boomslang back then. That was when I started looking into Razer which the Copperhead became my favourite.

 

[tyler_jrb]

I don't see the clown card, very disappointing

my thoughts exactly now that was the one to look out for

 

[montymint]

That's easy for me (shows my age a bit) -

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baller cards back in the day

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

I had asked for a Rage 128 because it was 32 mb over a Voodoo 3 at the time those were out.

What a first time mistake that was.

 

[Dominick Decocco]

my thoughts exactly now that was the one to look out for

No way this is the actual card hahaha?

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

No way this is the actual card hahaha?

If in doubt, Google whats on the box followed by box.

And yes that ones real too.

 

[robin66]

My god ASUS

 

[ianh]

Best - As shown above, the Voodoo 3-4-5 series by an absolutely huge margin. Instantly recognisable as a brand no matter the generation and easily spot-able in a shop amongst other bland boxes.

Worst - Any of the Matrox G series, had a G400 which had an awful box design.

 

[V F]

No way this is the actual card hahaha?

It's tacky and daunting at the same time.

 

[arc@css]

Yeah, the 3DFX ones were easily my favourites though I think there was one or two by EVGA which had an angel-like image on the front. I thought that looked pretty good.

 

[robin66]

The BFG cards had some crazy designs on them back in the day. I couldn't really find any box art online, however.

 

[Besty]

The Asus 1080ti Assassin's Creed box art was a good one.

My favourite remains the EVGA 1080 classified, probably the best looking card and box i’ve ever handled.

 

[V F]

The Radeon 9800XT was a cool box. It came with a Half-Life 2 code. http://ixbtlabs.com/news.html?02/16/88

As was the X850XT. https://giantbomb1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/8/88760/2551363-x850-box.jpg

I loved the ATi branding back then. Red, chrome, black boxes.

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

I had a cut down 9800 pro which came with absolutely no cooling on it and the vram died in a few years.

From a quick google search Hercules made the nicest 9800 pro too:

https://tweakers.net/i/ZGbDqtM7HjvU...):strip_exif()/i/1051215866.jpg?f=imagenormal

It had blue LEDs and cooling on the back too

https://www.tiger-technik.de/images/product_images/popup_images/160_2.jpg

I believe I had a reference one with no ram sinks and a dinky grey metal cooler.

 

[JonnyG1982]

Bringing back some memories. Uni, counter strike, cheaper prices, fun overclocking, 3dmark 2000, 2001 & 03. I miss it

 

[BallistixOnZ490]

Reading about Hercules going out of business is sad, they made the best cards by a landslide back then.