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What is the worst DX11 card you have ever owned.

Kaapstad

Kaapstad

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As in the Title only DX11 cards or later

Please don't base your choice on drivers as these change all the time.

My worst ever I think was the GTX 590 as it was very difficult to oc unless you had a fire extinguisher handy.:D


Kaapstad GTX 590
 
Kaapstad GTX 590 - Poor overclocker.
varkanoid Gigabyte HD 7850 - Crashing/Freezing.
varkanoid Gigabyte 780ti - Crashing/Freezing.
Rusty0611 R9 290P - Too hot in summer.
opethdisciple GTX 670 SLI - Hotter than the sun.
nashathedog 290x gaming - Too Hot.
Geeman1979 Sapphire 7970's dual X - Cheap, blue Pcb's and both died.
pgi947 HD 6950 crossfire - Cheap in every sense of the word.
Doogles Sapphire Tri-X HD 7850 - Fan started to click on it.
amigafan2003 Asus matrix platinum 7970 - Overclocked lower than the ref 7970 it was crossfired with.
MrMarvelous HD 5970 - No comment.
zola25 GTX670 - Terrible stock cooler.
Disco_P MSI 290 gaming - Too hot and too loud.
Disco_P MSI 780 lightning - Too hot and too loud.
Boomstick777 HD 6990 - Hot and loud !! So very very loud !!
humbug Sapphire HD6950 - The Main reason, would not clock past 880Mhz.
rs155 MSI 970 - Fan problems.
snips86x Powercolour 290 - Unstable with dodgy mem!
old gamer 6970 crossfire - used them for eyefinity and never got them running right.
Dicehunter Asus Matrix Platinum 290X - Horrible heat, Horrible overclocking.
thefogo Powercolor 290PCS - Black screens.
Silent_Scone HD5870 - Namely for the poor state of Crossfire and PowerPlay issues.
pandem0nium Vtx 3d 7970 - A poor clocker, elpida ram and I paid too much for it.
Confused Stu GT440 - Small, loud fan that only ran at full speed.
Gregster HD 6970 - It was crap. Constantly asking for the correct cable to be plugged in.
Mogwilson HD 6970 - Creaked & groaned like my nans knees, Hateful thing.
james.miller 7950 - It was a great card (once i fixed the crashing) but the coil whine. Dear god, the coil whine.
Telecaster VTX3D 7870 - Hotter than the sun with two case fans pointing directly at it, and the combined noise of 3 fans was enough to almost put me off gaming altogether.
altrewin Asus R9 290 DCUII - (black screens), sent it back and the replacement has been perfect.
Jamielicious GTX 460 - Disappointing upgrade.
breadturbo Ref 290X - leaf blower alert.
rtho782 7990 - Overheated constantly, would hit 105 degrees, then declock itself to 500mhz until reboot.
opethdisciple 3.5gb Edition 970 - Not becuase it performs poorly, just that I thought I was buying a 4Gb card.
arc@css 7970 Asus Matrix Platinum - Memory chips lack sufficient cooling, resulting in slightly less than optimal performance (screen flicker/mild artifacting), poor overclocker.
SiDeards73 Tri-x 290 - I owned purely because of the blackscreens.
Jumper118 2GB GT610 - yes its runs at 103c under any kind of load without the fan on 100%. Another thing is that it can't play crysis on any settings at all.:p
Neil79 MSI 280X - Bios locked voltages, *** support. Plus they used the worst fans ever and still use them!
Rossi~ 7970 Matrix Platinum - Drivers and GPU Tweak (**** you ASUS) aside. It just wasn't worth the extra cash for the clocks and the sheer size of the things.
Dervious GTX460 - RMA'd twice (due to being "picky" which motherboard it would work in). Also failed to work when I installed it in a friend's PC.
DazQ87 VTX R9-290 X edition (Not a 290X) - due to black screen issues, also it was hot. This thread just reminded me I need to RMA it actually.
Rangerjr1 7970 Matrix - just a piece of ****.
Dave2150 NVIDIA 780TI - Two faulty cards in a row.
adolf hamster Powercolour r9 290X - Beast of a card power wise and no driver problems. But reference coolers.......
Andygully MSI twin frozr 7950 - It broke, on the bright side my 2 His 7950s are going strong 2 years on.
Divine Pain GTX 580 reference - It was a beauty card at the time but, it would get so hot I could fry an egg on it and it sounded like bomb raid alarm.
Terminal_Boy Sapphire 7870 - Lovely card right up to the point that the early batch bad capacitor issue reared it's ugly head with very infrequent black screens.
 
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My current MSI 290x gaming due to heat

I'm looking forward to replacing it and getting one of the 34" freesync monitors they had at CES this year
 
6950 crossfire, a time when amd drivers really were poo.

Sorry didn't read op :D

Again, 6950 cf, xfx ones on a 6870 pcb, cheap in every sense of the word.
 
HD 7850 and R9 290 are the only cards I've had and both have been fine, should have gotten a non reference R9 290 though because I had to get a Gelid Icy Vision for it which now one of the fans are failing on :/

Probably the worst was my Sapphire Tri-X HD 7850 as the fan started to click on it and felt cheap compared to the MSI Twin Frozr III I crossfired it with.
 
Asus matrix platinum 7970.

Heavy, higher voltage and ran hotter and overclocker lower than the ref 7970 it was crossfired with.
 
GTX670, but only because I bought a card with the terrible stock cooler. Sounded like a jet engine at anything more than a moderate load.

Replaced with a 680 twin frozr at the time, which was much better.
 
It's a tie between 290 gaming and a 780 lightning. Both ran too hot and too loud and were not worth the £350+ price. 780 lightning also did not overclock.
 
Sapphire 6950.

#Would not unlock to 6970 (Not the cards fault but still disappointing)
#Horrible blue PCB
#The Main reason, would not clock past 880Mhz

 
MSI 970.

It has the fan problem of not spinning until i move it with my hand and the card is sagging quite a bit.
 
The Asus Matrix Platinum 290X, Horrible heat, Horrible overclocking.

Funny considering I swapped it out for a Sapphire Vapor-X 290X and that blew it out of the water in temps, Overclocking and general performance and it was a good chunk cheaper to boot.
 
I know the cards are great when they work, but for me it's the Powercolor 290PCS.
I went through two of these, the first would randomly crash to a black screen and the second would black screen and sounded like a jet engine.
 
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