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Your first, favourite and worst GPU.

First - GeForce FX5200 128MB
Favourite - 8800GTS 320MB (It was an overclocking monster!)
Worst - 4870X2 2GB it was loud and it ran at 65 idle and 95 under load
 
Mine was a surprisingly cool performer for such a hot running card. I envy the chap that had one that overclocked well.
 
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First: S3 Virge 325
Best: Guillemot Hercules 3D Prophet DDR-DVI 32MB DDR (GeForce 256 32MB DDR) - I still have this card today, and it runs flawlessly ... how I miss Guillemot/Hercules GFX's.
Worst: XGI Volari Duo V8 Ultra 256MB - A promising product that's severly let down by inadequate image quality.
 
First ever vga card was a 4mb S3 Virge pci card.

First proper 3d gaming card was an Orchid Righteous 3d followed by a 3dfx voodoo 2.

Favourite so far is probably my 3dfx voodoo 3, Geforce 256 or the TI 4600

Worst prolly the ati rage 128 pro as it was just a poor performer. Also had a 5770 and 8800gt both die in recent years (both after 2+years of use and to be fair they were good perfoming cards.)
 
Actually, I think I'll revise my favourite GPU choice to my old reference design GTX480. I ran that thing overclocked for years. It was catastrophically loud, and would often nudge 100°C :eek:

But it could still keep up, the heat pipes looked as sexy as hell through the side window, I didn't need a radiator on in that room during winter, and it was one of the last, true, power munching radiators that NVIDIA made and I liked it for that. :p
 
Started with a geforce ti500 64mb. Haven't really had many graphics cards, but maybe the 6800Ultra OC was the worst of a good lot. It didn't over clock very much and was a second choice for the card I really wanted, which was the hen's teeth x800xt.

Had an 8800gtx, but about 3 or 4 years after it was released, so had lost most of it's shine but did the job. Got an ati 5850 now. Old and cheap it still runs things fine at 1680x1050. All in all, no problems with any card I've ever had!
 
First: Matrox Mystique
Favourite: 3dfx Voodoo - I'll always remember loading up GL Quake for the first time and my jaw just hitting the floor :) No other card has given such a big jump in graphical quality.
Worst: Riva TNT N32 - I got it cheap at a local computer fair and didn't realise it was the cut down N32 version.
 
first: Hercules Something....
best 8800 Ultra, at that time the card was just a monster in performance and my first 4way SLI I've set up + the heatsing was looking great
worst: never had a really bad experience with a card...
 
First = Nvidia 410m go.....in a sony vaio back when I thought that simply having a graphics card in a laptop meant it would play games with decent graphics. I was wrong.

Favourite = Currently using an asus dc2 760 GTX, and it does play games with decent graphics.

Worst = the same as my first. For dedicated desktop graphics I would go for my 8600 GT 128mb, which played Guild Wars absolutely fine, but in retrospect wasn't as good as I thought it was.
 
Even my 780 could barely max Crysis in 1080P with smooth frames, I can't see even the most insane 8800GTX Quad SLI setup maxing Crysis in 1680x1050 or 1280x1024 or whatever the resolution of choice was back then. :p
 
First: Nvidia TNT2 (played all the games with high quality settings, was the first PC in a long time).
Favorite: Nvidia Ti4400. Played Max Payne, Wolfenstien etc at max details.
Worst: ATI Rage 128. Unstable, terrible drivers, slow and soft images. Swapped back to the Nvidia TNT2.
 
First: Absolutely no idea tbh.

Favourite: Quite enjoying my 780Ti Gaming Edition cards, and before that my 7970's, but I do have a soft spot for the 5870 I built my system around a few years ago. Terrific price vs. performance.

Least favourite: Easily my GeForceFX 5800 Ultra... anybody that ever had 1 will understand my reasoning. Powerful enough card at the time, BUT...


Just to add, there was no fan speed variation - that was the the noise anytime a 3D app was launched. Ridiculous!
 
I loved the Click Sound of the Orchid 3D 3DFX Card. When you heard the Relay Click and monitor flicked black for a few seconds, you just knew you were playing games.

I went through all the Voodoo/Banshee cards. The 5500 Dual Chip Voodoo was quite amazing at the time, but sadly SLI back then didn't really work well. I think its biggest downfall was the fact each GPU chip had to share 32MB of the total 64MB, and less we forget the 166 Mhz clock speeds which was kind of fast for those days!

I mean benchmarks were WOW...1024X768 and OMG if you could go 32Bit colour instead of 16Bit lol..those were the days hahaha.

It was almost as if you only needed Quake or Unreal Tournament back then to bench.

Voodoo 5500 Review:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/580
 
First ATI X1600 Pro - As part of a new computer for the family, wasn't too bad at the time.
Favourite - EVGA GTX 670 FTW - Current card, its very cool and quiet and runs almost everything at max in 1080p.
Worst - MSI GTX 560ti twin frozr II - Had problems with the fan bearings making a buzzing noise, RMA'd and when I received it again it seemed to be dead.
 
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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