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Your graphic card mistakes..

5850 in crossfire, massive pain that barely worked. Swapped it for the widely ridiculed 470gtx in SLI, night and day in terms of it doing what it was supposed to. In terms of general regret I managed to pull a bunch of resistors off a 7950GX2 by being drunk and not undoing the PCI-E slot screw, literally had a handful of them. I honestly don't get the hatred for blower coolers, I suppose being mainly SLI through the years they were kind of essential but I'm guessing the AMD ones were gash?
 
Only real mistake for me was the Sapphire HD 480 4GB (AMD). So noisy I never really used it for much gaming as couldn't bear the fan ramping up and down.

Left me with a not-so-good opinion of Sapphire's coolers.
 
Had an ATI x1900XT back in the day. Decided to grab an x1900XTX to crossfire them.. embarrassingly I could never actually get it working and ended up selling the XT for £100 loss :/

Also, dare I say it, but my current 5700XT. It's not that it's a particularly bad card - the performance is great, but I've had more driver issues in the last 6 months since I got it than the previous 6 years, and find myself frequently wishing I'd spent the extra ~£100 for a 2070 Super instead.
 
Xfiring two blower cards, Asus 4890 and XFX 4890.

Obviously it wasn't a silent setup but performance was good when Xfire actually worked.

Ultimately though the gain just wasn't there most of the time and the constant look out for Xfire settings/optimizations ruined the experience.

Never went dual-GPU again.
 
Mine was the 7950GX2, barely worked for the games I played, and replaced within 3 months with a 8800GTX.

Also selling my 980Ti to get the super hyped up AMD Polaris 480, which was a dud, and got a Fury X on sale as a stop gap for a "proper card". Not regretting it perse, but defo a big mistake overall.
 
I had some old backup gpu in case my main failed, and when it did I put it on, after 30min pc crashed took it out, it was hot and thermal pad was just dry powder. 2 failed gpu's in one day.
 
5700xt returned it 3 days later as it wasnt performing much better then my 980ti hybrid and that didnt have the mini stutter the 5700xt did.
 
Matrox Mystique 220 instead of anything Voodoo.
Later on making the mistake of getting an AMD card instead of sticking with Nvidia. I had nothing but problems, moved to an 8800GT and have stuck with Nvidia since
 
My first ever 3D accelerator: A Diamond Edge 3D based on a very early nVidia NV1 chip. It actually managed to run 3D slower than software rendering. I returned it and then shortly afterwards got a Videologic Power VR which was fantastic and much better than everything else at the time (1024x768 when the 3Dfx was only able to run at 800x600).
 
ATi Radeon 9000 Pro - It was slower than the Radeon 8500 I already had, ATi weren't the best with model numbers lol.

Nvidia 7950GX2 - A great card, however I didn't know when I bought it that World of Warcraft (the game I played the most by a huge margin) didn't just not benefit from SLI but turning it on would actually lower your FPS compared to single GPU. Ended up selling it and buying a 8800GTX.

HD7950 - A great card, however at the point I bought it AMD had a driver issue which caused random black screens in WoW, I had to side/down grad to a more expensive GTX670.
 
Hades said:
My first ever 3D accelerator: A Diamond Edge 3D based on a very early nVidia NV1 chip. It actually managed to run 3D slower than software rendering. I returned it and then shortly afterwards got a Videologic Power VR which was fantastic and much better than everything else at the time (1024x768 when the 3Dfx was only able to run at 800x600).
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Oh yeh, good point. My Matrox Mystique 220 was able to run at up to 1600 x 1200 which was a massive res in the late 90s. It did so at about 5fps.
By comparison, when I later got a Voodoo 2 everything looked beautiful in 800 x 600 and played at around 30fps. I think 1024 x 768 was possible, but you needed SLI for it to work
 
Bought the 7900x2 when I really didnt have the money for it, spent a day of playing with it and sold it, luckily didnt lose anything on it but It was just the dumbest card I ever bought.
 
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