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Your first, favourite and worst GPU.

kazuya1337 said:
First 3DFX Voodoo 3000

Worst ATi 6790 - awful in every respect, from performance to temps made me lose faith in AMD

Best - Nvidia 580GTX 3gb, mainly because I dumped my 6790's for these and never looked at AMD again.
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How can you compare the 6790 to the 580? The 580 was 4x the price, of course it will be better.
 
First s3 savage4
Ive not really had a worse the one that least stand out though was the x800xl it wasnt bad just wasnt really memorable.
fav was probably either the 9700pro or the 8800gtx
 
First: 8400gs. Not very good, used it to play WoW :p
Best: my first 7970. Did 1200/1800 on stock volts. R.I.P
Worst: XFX 5870. Loud, locked voltages and couldn't clock for toffee. Intermittent gsod and XFX wouldn't replace it. Waste of time.
 
First GPU: Not sure, probably some ISA 512KB Tridant/ATi job, but the first I really remember was a PCI 4MB S3 Virge GX2Voodoo 2MB.

Favourite GPU: Proberbly my Radeon 9800 Pro as the price/performance was great and it remained usable for so long.

Worst GPU: Tempted to go with my HD7950 as that has been my worst GPU experience to date but that's a bit unfair on the GPU as the issues with those cards were driver related, so for all round worst GPU I shall go with the PowerVR Kyro II based Hercules 3D Prophet 4500.

For those who don't know the Kyro II was lauded on release as the Geforce killer but never lived up to the hype, price/performance was good to begin with but as time moved on and developers tuned their products for the ATi/Nvidia two horse race that developed the performance for Kyro and Voodoo cards suffered much more than others it's age.
 
A few people seem to take the "Worst" entry as meaning it's a bad card. Is that how everyone took that?
I just took it to mean that out of the cards you owned it was the one you liked least, but doesn't mean you didn't like it.
So for example if I had a 290X and then got a 295X2, I'd say the 295X2 was the best and the 290X was the worst, even though I might have really liked the 290X but got a good deal on the 295X2 or just really wanted it because of how good the 290X was.

A few people questioning how something was "the worst" card someone else owned or even people saying they don't have a worst. Just because something is your least favourite doesn't make it bad, at least this is how I understood this.

Of course it was easier for me as the "ATI Rage Fury MAXX" WAS a bad GPU...
 
First ; 9600GT. When I first made my rig etc, I bought this, somewhat stupidly tbh, as it was a little overpriced, but it managed quite well, as I was only gaming at 1366x768 at the time, so I was able to smash details up on games. Loved it really, overclocked rather well too (Before GPU clocking became what it is)

Best ; 5870. I mean what can you say? 300 quid and smashed everything at the time, and was coping well against the 4870x2, it was the last single GPU that truly stood out. Tessellation performance was dire like, but it was the first DX11 GPU.

Worst ; Hmm, I don't really have a worst, one could argue my MSI 7970's which died in a day :p, but that's not the 7970's fault.
 
First: Helios 3D Voodoo Rush 6mb
Best: Radeon 9700 pro
Worst: TNT2 M64. I bought it because I wanted 32bit colour at the time over my voodoo 3. Slow as a toy car driving through super glue.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
A few people seem to take the "Worst" entry as meaning it's a bad card. Is that how everyone took that?
I just took it to mean that out of the cards you owned it was the one you liked least, but doesn't mean you didn't like it.
So for example if I had a 290X and then got a 295X2, I'd say the 295X2 was the best and the 290X was the worst, even though I might have really liked the 290X but got a good deal on the 295X2 or just really wanted it because of how good the 290X was.

A few people questioning how something was "the worst" card someone else owned or even people saying they don't have a worst. Just because something is your least favourite doesn't make it bad, at least this is how I understood this.

Of course it was easier for me as the "ATI Rage Fury MAXX" WAS a bad GPU...
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To quantify my worst rating, the 2900 was hot, loud, and power-hungry, but didn't give the performance to justify those things.
 
First 3D accelerator: Diamond Edge 3D (Nvidia NV1) (Then added a voodoo1 to make it useful).
Favorite: My current GTX670FTWs
Worst: 9800GX2
 
First: Hercules Savage 3D with a whopping 8 mb :D
Best: Sapphire 7870 Crossfire - ran so cool and quiet. Handled everything. (honourable mention to my 8800 GTX aswell:))
Worst: Gainward GTX280 - ran so hot it locked up repeatedly. RMA x3 and then I gave up. Last time I bought anything on day 1.
 
First 3D card. A diamond Voodoo 4mb. I think it came with G-Police and Destruction derby and G-police. Or maybe that Was the Matrox Mystique. To far back to remember ;)

Best Card. Radeon 8500. Being on an overclocked Celeron 300a at the time, this card had a rocky start with slow buggy drivers. Once the Catalyst driver program came into existence this card really had a chance to shine and blew away my brothers g-force3 in Quake3 which we played a lot back then. Together with Audigy2 for accelerated audio, that Celeron rig really lasted longer than it was supposed to and ran great. The 8500 ran really well once I upgraded to AthlonXP 3200 as well.

Worst gpu: NVidia GF2 MX100. I cant remember why I had this card. I think I thought it would be a good upgrade from my Voodoo3TV at the time, and I really wanted to play gta3. Even overclocked it struggled and eventually blew its caps ;)
 
First: Nvidia 5500
Favourite: x850xt / 7800GTX / 7950 crossfire
Best: 7950 crossfire.
Worst: 2900XT (LEAF BLOWERRRRRRRRRRR, didn't need a hair dryer, just stick ya head behind ya pc, sorted.)
 
First: ATI Rage 128 Pro (later added a 3DFX Voodoo)

Worst: ATI All In Wonder 3D Rage 128. Bought it for the hardware mpeg2 compression. Terrible at anything else. Kept my old Banshee and swapped between the two depending on what I needed to do. Re-sold a few months later once all my VHS's were converted to CD. (Never put any of the CDs in my drive since then, but at least the size of my taped-off-tv video shelf shrank a lot!)

Best: AMD 6870 - lasted 3 years before meeting it's match.
 
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