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

Assuming we are talking only discrete 3d addon cards here (i.e. not 2d only or integrated / laptop graphics), I'd say probably my 3dfx Voodoo Graphics. 4MB VRAM, 16bit colour only, extremely limited choice of resolutions, and Quake 3 was virtually unplayable on it.

Close second was my Geforce 2 MX, I got the Hercules version with faster memory but of course it was still only SDR not DDR. It was annoying because it was supposedly the best bang-for-buck card around, yet most of the stuff was a bit gimmicky, sure it gave me 32bit colour but the actual performance wasn't vastly better than my Voodoo 3 that preceeded it when you turned the settings down.
 
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I had a RAGE PRO 8 MB at one point and about a year after getting the PC, a new game that I really wanted needed a 32 MB video card and specifically didn't support RAGE PROs. >_>
 
I would say its a tie between my Matrox G200 Max and Intel i740 both needed Direct 3D wrappers to play Open GL games and were barely any faster than my old Voodoo 1....
 
ASUS GTX480. Expensive, hot, noisy, power hungry, crap overclocker and now going on fleabay.

edit: I should have kept my other GTX460 as it is hard to notice the difference between a 460 @ 950core vs 480 @ 730core (max stable clocks for both).
 
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Apart from the obvious answer of onboard intel (my first PC) I've never owned a graphics card i've been disappointed with, this is the list of cards i've had:
Intel onboard with first PC
Geforce 4 440MX - Was very pleased with it at the time
ATi 9700
ATi 9500 unlocked pipes to a 9700 performance
ATi 9800Pro
Nvidia 6800GT
ATi X850XT
Nvidia 8800GT
ATi 4870
ATi 5870 - current
 
Eh, I'm too cautiously thorough (often overly) so have never gotten what I'd class as a 'bad' or underwhelming card. So for me it'd have to be the integrated Intel one I was stuck on as back-up for a few weeks many years back...*shudders*
 
ATi X700 Pro. Was for the wife's computer and I figured she wouldn't need anything too powerful for the Sims and Zoo Tycoon, etc. However, it couldn't even play those very well. Ended up selling it after a few months and got an X1950 Pro instead.
 
ATI Rage Pro.

Rage was the key word with anything to do with ATI back in those days.. "of course it would support Open GL" i foolishly thought all those years back >.<
 
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