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What was the 'worst' video card you ever owned....?

Although a good card in terms of performance I had no end of problems with a 9700Pro. Gave up in the end, think it must have been some sort of compatiablity issue with a motherboard chipset or just bad luck.

Funny thing is I sold it 6 months later and it worked perfectly for the buyer.
 
Speed said:
Although a good card in terms of performance I had no end of problems with a 9700Pro. Gave up in the end, think it must have been some sort of compatiablity issue with a motherboard chipset or just bad luck.

Funny thing is I sold it 6 months later and it worked perfectly for the buyer.
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To be fair, I loved by 9700 pro but I had some compatibility problem with the Asus P4B Deluxe motherboard I was using and GPU recover. I had to disable GPU recover the entire time I owned the card, otherwise it BSOD my Windows XP install.

Was a pain, but the card itself was a complete monster. Every game I threw at it flew…
 
GeForce Ti4600.

I waited six weeks for it to become available in the UK (this in the days before hard launches), and paid more than I would have liked for it. I got three or four weeks of use out of it, then moved to the US for three months (work related). By the time I returned, the ATI 9700pro had been released which absolutely destroyed my pitiful Ti4600.
 
A Geforce 3.

I paid £250 for it and felt ripped off from the moment it booted windows. The colour filtering on it was really dire, granted I came from a Matrox G400 but I couldn't cope with how washed out everything looked - very disapointed. It left such a bad taste that I've never bought a NVidia card since.
 
My 4mb (I think) ATI Rage card, people that have issues/problems with ATI drivers in recent times best thank their lucky stars because the rage card drivers where complete trash.

To ATI's credit they got one part right, all this card did is make me RAGE! :p
 
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ATi 8500 LE -- Absolutely terrible drivers. Pretty much every single game out didn't work properly with it at launch. C&C Renegade had huge areas of missing textures. Day of Defeat you could see through walls (quite useful!). Other games had missing effects, or polygons out of place, or z-buffer problems, or generally awful performance. Some just wouldn't even load.

In the end I just gave up on it, sold it, and bought a GeForce 3 Ti200 instead, which worked absolutely flawlessly from day 1.
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Strange, the 8500LE was my first Ati card and i've never had Nvidia since. Had it flashed to 8500pro for 90% of its life to. I was going to suggest it in the best card thread due to the great value it offered at the time and was at the turning point in ATi drivers.

Worst card for me was the GF2 Ultra, that thing just ran so hot and loud all the time!
 
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