Your favourite gpu, ever? Blast from the past..

[Fonz-Valo]

As bad a card as it it truly was, I will have to say my Nvidia MX440... I know it was only a Geforce 2mx on steroids but hear me out

My card before this was a poor little TNT2 32mb and although I could pretty much max out Quake 3 at 1024*768 newer titles that were creeping in would kill it The games i'm mostly referring to are Max Payne, GTA3 and Tony Hawk 3.

It seemed such a performance jump to me at the time and for the price I paid I couldn't really complain, although I soon realised I could have picked up a lovely little Geforce 3 ti200 for the same price If I shopped around

However if this was a most regrettable gpu purchase ever thread I would have to go for the 5700le that I stupidly purchased, I bought into the whole bigger memory is better hole Live and learn I guess

 

[CyberCrow]

For me it would have to be either 7800GTX or HD 5770 both Oc'd well an played most games well

 

[RooBoonix]

My 7850 Only finished installing it last night, and it's my first ever proper graphics card... but it's amazing I can play Minecraft without lag! :O

 

[bakes0310]

Asus 9800XT brilliant card at the time.
BFG 280GTXOCX longest time i kept a card just amazing.


Early days yet but i love my current 670 SLI i cant see myself needing to change them for a while yet

 

[arekgreenman888]

As bad a card as it it truly was, I will have to say my Nvidia MX440... I know it was only a Geforce 2mx on steroids but hear me out

My card before this was a poor little TNT2 32mb and although I could pretty much max out Quake 3 at 1024*768 newer titles that were creeping in would kill it The games i'm mostly referring to are Max Payne, GTA3 and Tony Hawk 3.

dID You oc'e mx440? My oc'ed like a dream. 30% more +

 

[Fonz-Valo]

dID You oc'e mx440? My oc'ed like a dream. 30% more +

At the time of owning the card I didn't have any knowledge of overclocking at all sadly

 

[Needles]

pfft!

MX440! the entry level card that could play it all!

Hell yeah ..... remember getting a hand me down tiny PC with a TNT 2ultra and it could not run the original splinter cell.

Bro rings me from town saying that a high street gaming retailer had a GeForce card for 40 quid.

And that card was the Mx440 and it was a great little card.

 

[StonedPenguin]

9800pro/8800gtx.

 

[RageQuit©]

XFX 6600GT 256mb PCI-E. My first proper gaming card and played CS:S, Quake 4, Doom 3, F.E.A.R. beautifully. Devastated when it died, replaced with a 4670. R.I.P. 6600gt :'(

 

[Duke]

Righteous Orchid 3Dfx, going from VGA graphics to full on smooth 3Dfx Glide was a total game changer

Couldn't agree more. The jump of going from old games to ones like Turok, Incoming etc was great.

 

[CEUOTC]

Sapphire 9800pro 128Mb ahhh the memories

Regards.

C.

 

[jakspyder]

The GTX280 for me was my biggest leap and I got it at an absolute mega bargain AND it clocked like a BEAST. Was a fantastic card and is still in use today in a mates PC and going strong with very high overclocks under water.

 

[Overlag]

Voodoo 3 3000. The boxes in Game made this lil nerd jizz himself for one.

Totally!!! I remember that moment buying my first graphics card from game, the PCI Voodoo 3 2000, which I clocked to 3000 speeds. I went from ati onboard graphics at 7-10fps for HL1 at 640x480 to a high 50fps at 800x600. At the same time I upgraded to a hardware 56k modem and started owning online too, where as before I could barely move due to so much lag, hence my name Overlag!!

Next best cards would be the 9700pro and 8800gtx, which I'm still using today!

 

[MrMoonX]

3DFX Voodoo


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[Vir]

Geforce 4 Ti 4600 it was a legend all my friends were like omg your dad is crazy for buying that for you
Good old times.

 

[ilovetechno]

8800GT ! Always keep my two in case they needed!

 

[Duke]

Relevant

 

[Pabl0]

Ati 9800gt (I think)

Remember overclocking the hell out of it and playing source with artifacts haha!

Thought it was the bees knees and also thought it was massive! Now put it next to a 7970 or the likes...

It still lives actually, at my parents as a rarely used desktop, opened her up afew weeks ago and noticed the fan wasn't working but it's not stressed enough to notice! Haha

That card is the reason I'm an Ati fan.

 

[8 Pack]

ATI 5850 and 5870 class cards!!!

 

[TrojanWhore]

for me it's between my BFG 8500gt, and my XFX 260(192sp)GTX, both clocked pretty astoundingly well, and gave me hours of fun doing so.

The 8500 clocked around 45% on the core, and was notbably faster than an 8600gt, in fact so good I could play crysis multiplayer on medium settings with no notable lag

Same story with the 260, got it to above 285 bandwidth/pixel/texel rate for very little BSOD!

a friends 5850 was immense fun to play with, mine however, was not, as even overvolted, I could never get stable at 850MHz, whilst my friend hit almost 1GHz with 1.3v