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Your first, favourite and worst GPU.

Best GPU GTX 660

Worst I can't remember, was it a ti 4200? Remember it being a gainward anyway and had to return it then got another and would only work in one system
 
First: Cirrus Logic (possibly had one before that) which allowed me to play some virtual snooker game at higher resolutions! (640x480 or something crazy like that)

Favourite: Either 8800 GTX (which was a massive step up from previous card) or my Voodoo card (Orchid Righteous 3D) which allowed me to play Quake/Quake2 using OpenGL!

Worst: ATI Rage Fury MAXX 64 - dual gpu card with 64mb VRAM instead of 32MB, but most games only recognised it as a 32MB Rage Fury card...
 
First Ti4600
Favourite 6800 GT over clocked like a nutter Half Life 2 and Doom 3 hours of fun
Worst 9800 pro, got it second hand was so unstable very frustrating, turned out it was bad contact with the cooler, still in use today in an office machine so worked out ok in the end.
 
first nvidia fx5200
favourite ati 9800 pro.. can i have 2? this was very closely followed by the 6600gt!
worst nvidia fx5200
 
First: Trident 128k (if that counts as a gpu or...) Matrox Mystique. Great card, rubbish 3D accelerator :)

Favourite: ATI 9800 Pro. Absolutely awesome gpu back in those days and lasted for ages in gaming.

Worst: PowerVR....yes I was one of those who bought one and then eventually moved to 3Dfx after seeing the light :o
 
My first was an 8800GTX and it was a complete beast. Loved it.

Worst was the 4870, had nothing but problems and went through 3 cards before giving up.
 
First - GeForce MX440

Favourite - Asus 5850 Voltage Tweak Edition. Best clocking card i ever owned, 1Ghz core, 1.2Ghz mem.

Worst - Powercolour 4870, broke after less than 3 months use.
 
First - 7900 gtx
Favourite - Ref 5870 fast, cool, quiet all for less than £300 at launch.
Worst - Ref 6950, way too loud compared to previous gen.
 
First: 3DFX so I could play Quake in colour and not just **** brown.

Fav: The R9 290 I currently have even though I am having to RMA it. I can play games at 1440p with pretty much max setting but dropping AA down.

Worst: The R9 290 if I get another that's no good.
 
First: can't remember but the first 3d accelerator I had was a 3DFX Voodoo 1
Fav: 3DFX Voodoo 1 , it was as if someone sprinkled fairy dust on your games and made them look beautiful. Nothing has come even remotely close in terms of technology achievement since then as far as pc upgrades go.
Worst: Geforce FX 5600, I wish I had spent the extra 20 quid on getting a ATI 9600 Pro. Slow, overpriced and the cooler was rubbish.
 
I have had a series of ATI, Nvidia and AMD cards over the last 10 year and i don't think i have ever had a bad one.

But my favourite of all time is the 290 i have now, awesome performance, its even plays BF4 at 4K with Ultra settings, it renders the best Image quality of any card i have ever had, its the quietest card on a custom fan profile and Mantle make gaming feel like nothing seen before.
 
First on a PC - Hercules Graphics Card with a massive 720×348 pixels resolution!
Best - ATI Radeon 9700pro. Still got it in the loft somewhere
Can't say I've had a really bad card, but over 38 years of using personal computers I must have had one or two
 
First - Nvidia Diamond Viper 32mb.

Favourite - hmmm tough one. Maybe my Voodoo 5500 64mb or my GTX570 SOC. It's a tough call, since there can be a long time between various cards / memory struggles to recall that far back. The 570 was so smooth, as was the 480, and ran very cool and quiet. If it had just been only moderaterly more powerful, I'd probably still be using it. Next card will be Nvidia again, and probably for the foreseeable, too.

Worst - As above, difficult to be accurate. Maybe my ATi X800 Pro Vivo 256mb. One of the first, if not the first cards that didn't live up to the mark. Maybe it was due to a weaker cpu holding it back (Athlon XP 2500)?
 
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First- VideoLogic Apocalypse 3D, PowerVR 4MB. Loved this card 3d patches for tomb raider, mechwarrior, and other games :)
Best- 8800gtx ultra (most expensive card i've ever owned but lasted ages)
Worst- Voodoo 3, going from from a voodoo banshee it was a bit 'meh'
 
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First: ATI X1650
Favourite: 512mb 8800GTS
Worst: GTX 680

Had buyers remorse ever since I got my 680, upgraded from a 470 so should have been a big jump but the performance for the visuals it produces has never impressed me.
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I think the days of noticeable image quality difference between cards is largely absent. The last time I had such an experience, was 'maybe' around the time I upgraded from a 4870X2 to a GTX480 SOC, and even that didn't make as much difference as on previous occasions. I still remember a time when buying a new card meant as much to me in terms of IQ as it did fps. In fact, one of the main reasons I fancied trying out an AMD card after selling my GTX570 was due to my love of their colours and contrasts of days before. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case this time around. Maybe there was something in that article on the AMD 6000 series IQ adjustments / in relation to improved peformance...
 
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Well I've only had three cards, two were HD 7850 2GB models and this R9 290. The worst was a Sapphire HD 7850 as one of the fans started to fail and started clicking, not like the second hand MSI Twin Frozr III OC I got for £100 :) If it wasn't for the amount of noise this reference R9 290 puts out then it is a great card.
 
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