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Your first, favourite and worst GPU.

First: Orchid 3DFX (Pass through card)
Favourite: Radeon 9800 Pro. Blew the competition away for a while.
Worst: XFX NVIDIA 290. Horrid card, overheated like crazy. Badly made
 
First was a VLB based card in the 80's. I think it had 256k! Its funny that people are converned now about the lenght of video cards. This thing was huuuuuge. it had more chips than Vegas.

Favourite was the 3DFX card. I just loved the loud CLICK as it kicked in.

Worst was anthing by Intel up until a few years ago when they got there act together a bit.
 
First: 8800GT which I think I still have downstairs.
Favourite: MSI GTX 670 PE OC, should see some more years yet, bought last year July.
Worst. GT 545 from Ebay as a temp. Ew.
 
First: Unsure, some fairly low-end Nvidia card from ~2005.
Favourite: My current 6850 (although will likely change when I get my 290).
Worst: I don't really have one tbh, unless IGPs count? (Thinking of the silly one on one this motherboard which can't even handle a 720p video)
 
eddiew said:
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!)
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The original All in wonder was in the running for my worst card as well, but its tv feature was good even if the rage gpu didn't support bilinear filtering at all so games looked like it was software mode. I did replace with a voodoo3 tv.
 
First : leadtek 6800 le
worst : ( touch wood ) don't think i have had one tbh they have all been gd cards but my
Favourite : has to be the sapphire 6950/70 with flashed bios had 2 and both are still going strong in other pc's
 
First: Matrox G400
Worst: NVidia geforce 3 (total blurfest, couldn't see any detail)
Best: ATi 9700 - After uprading from the above card I was astonished there was details I never knew about, plus it was really fast for its day.
 
First: fx5200
Worst: non specifically, either 7970 or 670, the 7970 took 10 months to get a good perf driver out and the 670 at launch irritated the **** out of me due to a driver bug. That said I owned 6-7 7970's and around 4-5 670's so can't have been all that bad.

Best: 780's i have now. Been absolutely flawless in every area.
 
First was a 256K cirrus logic, first real 3D card was a Matrox Mystique
Favourite I love them all but would go for 6990, or the mystique for tomb raider
Worst, Tseng labs ET6000
 
First: Voodoo 2MB
Favorite: Radeon 9800 Pro
Worst: X800XT PE (i got this card straight after the 9800 Pro and the performance increase was average at best)

Current Card: AMD 7990 (this comes very close to the 9800 Pro but I have a lot of nostalgia with that old card as it got me through many hours of HL2 and CSS and performed so well)
 
There's a few people that have mentioned how poor their experience of the X800 series was, myself included. Unsurprisingly, the 9700 / 9800 cards are among the best.
 
I used to love my x850xt platinum, old piccy here of it with my 146 cabne opteron and a vantec tornado fan LOUD!

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