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Your graphic card mistakes..

Reference 4870x2, so ***** loud that thing was. But when crossfire was running it had some serious power. Still regretted that purchase.

GTX 260 Black edition from XFX. I got 2 of those and both had hardware problems causing crashes all the time. One could be fix with a heavy downclock the other, was just PITA all the time. Happened again when i went SLI GTX 560 from gigabyte, both cards would crash but a small downclock and it would be fixed.
 
Rroff said:
The GF2 MX cards were... interesting... ranging from some cards made by IIRC Elsa Gladiac which weren't actually bad at all and could be overclocked to match non-MX cards through to some with really really slow VRAM which were utterly hateful. I remember someone getting a Dell or something build with a MX400 and really happy about it until they tried gaming and it was like 10x slower than a GeForce 2 GTS.
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I think my mate had one of the ones with slow RAM, seem to remember checking that out and discovering something along those lines. Those Elsa cards were indeed popular, along with stuff like Guillemot. My addled memory has also just recalled Kyro cards..
 
Rroff said:
The GF2 MX cards were... interesting... ranging from some cards made by IIRC Elsa Gladiac which weren't actually bad at all and could be overclocked to match non-MX cards through to some with really really slow VRAM which were utterly hateful. I remember someone getting a Dell or something build with a MX400 and really happy about it until they tried gaming and it was like 10x slower than a GeForce 2 GTS.
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You've just reminded me of another turd, the GeForce 4 MX 440. Again, I had a mate with one of these and it didn't compare to my GeForce 4 4200Ti..
 
Nutella33 said:
Fury X.

Can't say I regretted it but I did rock crossfire 5850 references for a while and it was wild. 85c+ and a dyson next to you on the desk.
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Currently, running an old reference 290x. It was water cooled, which I removed and used on my lads PC. Put the reference cooler back on and wtf, its literally an aircraft 2ft from you. Time to upgrade, finally...
 
Rroff said:
There was a window between the move from more primitive graphics techniques towards full unified shader/compute features where multi GPU generally worked pretty well - especially if you were handy with the profile tweaking tools and had half an idea how to optimise it yourself. The 7950GX2 also used a bridge chip so that more data was shuttled core to core rather than via the PCI-e bus and/or CPU which gave a small improvement (mostly ~5% but could be 10-15% in some cases) over multiple cards in different PCI-e slots.
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Still have my working 7900GX2 which is the much longer version of the 7950GX2. It can blow twice as many leaves as the FX5800!
 
Bought the Voodoo Banshee as it did not need a separate 2D card, should have gone for the legendary Voodoo 2 instead as it was faster in the only game I really played at the time (Quakeworld). Was a slight regret in paying a whopping £700 for the 1080Ti on release, doesn't seem too bad a purchase now though...
 
295X2 and a 290x under water in a custom loop. All was good untill I thought "why is warm water spraying down my leg?!" Compression fitting wasn't on right. The 295 was just an expensive paper weight after that.
 
Regrets
7900 GT - broke, got a 8800 GT from RMA - broke, got a 9800 GT from RMA - broke
ATI 5870 - drivers unstable, so many crashes, my mates had GTX 460 instead which was flawless
GTX 780 - loud, hot, not enough VRAM (3GB) so became obsolete quickly

No Regrets
GTX 1080 Strix - pricey, but very good card
 
stooeh said:
Bought the Voodoo Banshee as it did not need a separate 2D card, should have gone for the legendary Voodoo 2 instead as it was faster in the only game I really played at the time (Quakeworld). Was a slight regret in paying a whopping £700 for the 1080Ti on release, doesn't seem too bad a purchase now though...
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That was a choice I had too, went for the Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 and wasn't sorry.
 
no idea what said:
I don't think I've ever regretted a GPU purchase. I generally buy on lots of research and reviews.
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Yeah I'm with ya on that one, can't think of a single GPU that I was disappointed with and for the past decade I've been running multi GPU setups in every rig... been perfectly happy have to admit. This last system I build in 2014 has stood the test of time... the mainboard and CPU and ram are all the originals and run everything in 4k still, just update the hard drives now and then and the GPU.

The GPU that I remember most fondly was the 3Dfx Voodoo 1 and 2 (which was SLi that was later used by nVidia who I'm sure bought them out in the end) which I had running Quake in Glide and miniGL was it? was mesmerising... that for me was the start. I had that with a Matrox Mystique 2MB card... fantastic setup with a AMDDX4 133mhz think it was... something like that.
 
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