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Your first, favourite and worst GPU.

Well, I've only ever bought one so my first, favourite and worst is all the same one :p AMD MSI HD 7850 2GB. Great overclocking headroom, although the voltage seems not to be changeable unfortunately, so I can't get it above 1050/1450 (the stock CCC maxima).
 
First: Would have been a Matrox G200 8mb deal. I thought it was a beast at the time, even though it wasn't meant to run Max Payne it did ... with the funniest glitches I've ever witnessed.

Favourite: Would have to be the Geforce 3 ti500. It blew my mind and was my first enthusiast GPU. 64mb of VRAM. DX8 support. It opened up doors and kinda got me started on building custom pcs a lot more as it was my first build.

Worst: Geforce 5600GT. Why. WHY did I buy this? I bought it to play Splinter Cell and it ran worse than with my GF 3 ti500. In fact, the 3 ran it smooth but I put the card in my brothers PC. And it just chugged on everything I played in the worst way. In the end I took it back and exchanged it for an ATi 9600 Pro. Pricier but saw me through the years!
 
First (ignoring 2D cards): 3DFX Voodoo Graphics
Favourite: GTX280. Had very few weaknesses.... decent VRAM, decent bandwidth, decent grunt etc and for a high end card wasn't too overpriced (£240).
Worst: Radeon 7950. Seems to be voltage locked to 1.13v max, annoying issue where it crashes and resets to 2d clocks or something, usual dodgy ATI drivers, doesn't support 2x 120hz monitors, suspect opengl performance
 
First: It was part of an old compaq system I got when I was in my younger teens, I decided to upgrade the graphics card to a GeForce MX 4000 64MB
It was terrible, as you can imagine. Source games at 18fps 640x480, gripping stuff :D hell, its on ebay for £26 right now - haha!

Favourite: my current GTX760 (ASUS) , I love it.

Worst: 9800gtx+ I upgraded it from the 8800gtx (eVGA's step up program) and I didnt like it as much as the 8800, mainly down to the difference in VRAM.
 
First: GeForce 2 MX 32MB.
Favourite: Current one, the GTX 780 3GB (SLi).
Worst: ATI Radeon 4870 1GB.

The ATI was my first and last. Crap drivers resulting in crap stability and crap noise levels. Basically a whole bunch of crap. Less crap now from what I can tell but still certain level of crap. nVidia is the sensible choice :p

The MX allowed me to play CS without lowering any settings while the 780 allows me to play ultra widescreen 1440P without sacrificing visual quality and because of that it is my current favourite.
 
First: Monster3D Voodoo 2 8MB PCI
Worst: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
Best: GeForce G92 8800 GTS 512

2900 XT was loud, very hot, required so much power and the performance was no where near what it should have been for a £250~ card. The 8800 GTS G92 saved me from this card. That's not purely why it's my favourite though, it was an exceptional graphics card. It cost me £50 less than the 2900 XT did only about 6 months later, it was much faster, cooler and needed less power.

The Voodoo 2 was the first time I experienced "proper" graphics with a dedicated graphics card after having used software mode in Quake 2 up until that point. I bought it at a local computer fare being held in the local leisure center. It was a bit of am impulse buy but man, what a difference it made.
 
1st: ATI 3D Rage Pro 4MB

Wasn't until 4 months after release that I found working GL drivers and all of a sudden Quake 2 became an entirely different game.

Best: Hard to say, toss up between the Geforce 4 Ti4200 and my GTX 580. My 580 has been with me since Feb. 2011 and is feeling its age now, but has been problem free. The Ti4200 was such a huge jump over the TNT2 Ultra that I always remember it.

Worst: Toss up between 3DFX Voodoo 3 2000 PCI and XFX AMD 5870. The Voodoo was a huge leg up over the 3D Rage Pro, but it suffered from stability issues at times and even fried the motherboard in the end. The 5870 had a lot of driver and compatibility issues when I bought it and I quickly sold it on and replaced it with the 580.
 
nashathedog said:
First (That I remember buying, I've still got it): 8600GT

Favourite: Either the 4gb MSI 770 or MSI 7950 TF BE (new revision)

Worst: 1gb Asus 560 ti or 2 gb VTX 7850
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I'd just like to update this and put the MSI 290x Gaming I recently got as being the worst card I've had the displeasure of owning. It runs okay although I have found a strange quirk where if I pause a game and bugger off for half an hour when I come back it refuses to give me any performance and chugs along as an example in Call of Pripyat at 10 to 20 fps where it should average 90 to 100. forcing me to close down and restart the game. The biggest annoyance is the temp's. I do not overclock and my case has been kitted with decent fans yet I still get 94 degree temps where as my old 780 would max at 74 degrees.

Very disappointing and my list is now as follows:

First (That I remember buying, I've still got it): 8600GT

Favourite: Either the 4gb MSI 770 or MSI 7950 TF BE (new revision)

Worst: 4gb MSI 290x gaming
 
First - Orchid Voodoo 1
Fav - ATI 9800 which could be flashed to Pro and over locked some more. Great vaule at the time.
Worst - Not had any terrible cards but Nvidia 8800 ran very hot.
 
First - Cirrus 5436 First Gpu that you could play Doom on properly on a Intel DX 66 with 4 meg of ram (plus a Promise 4 meg cache controller for no loading times lol), think it was a 1meg Gpu.

Fav - Ati 5970 First dual Gpu and first card that cost me over £500 beast of a card and still upstairs in its box.

Current - Sli 780ti

Worst - Never had a bad card always purchased and upgraded to the latest from either camp.
 
First - EVGA 9800gt;
The temperature sensor on this burned out so my dad gave it to me and got himself a new one.
It was crazy loud with the fan running at 100% so I used Rivatuner to manually control the fan.
Eventually I turned my computer on one day and it just wouldn't boot, it was dead. :(

Favourite - Sapphire HD7770;
This was the first graphics card I used that genuinely surprised me, the performance it gave for the money was unbeatable.
Even at 1080p it held up for quite a while running games at high settings, eventually I took the bite and upgraded.
I gave my entire old rig to my friend, he runs it at 1366x768, and it keeps up with my R9 280x on otherwise max settings.

Worst - Asus HD6570;
I hated this graphics card so much. It had a tiny little fan that whined a high pitched noise from the first time I used it.
It replaced the 9800gt I had, but it wasn't quite as good. It lagged slightly behind by about 5 -10 fps.
So from day one it was disappointment, but I put up with it for gaming's sake. Eventually the fan stop spinning suddenly.
I ordered a new fan online to replace it, but when i tried to take the old fan out, there were these tiny, and I mean tiny, screws.
When I tried to unscrew them the entire head of the screw came off, on every screw. No matter how gentle I was.
I already hated the card, and this annoyed me so much. Enough, I just threw it away and moved on.
I still have the replacement fan.
 
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