what is the best graphics card you have owned?

[insider]

Radeon Rage Fury Pro, what a POS dual core graphics card, didn't even work in windows 2K, ATI failed to deliver a driver that would work on anything beyond Windows 98.

My Radeon 9800 Pro was a legendary purchase that lasted well beyond its expected life cycle of 18-24 months.

I still have an old heavily clocked X1950GT running that could play all the latest games at max detail on a 17" display, only Crysis struggles.


The best modifiable card was my nv 6800LE, I managed to unlock all 16/16 pipelines and all the shaders via bios mod (thanks to rivatuner), heavily overvolted and overclocked to the hilt it surpassed a 6800GT, it would be equivalent to unlocking a 320 stream processor HD-4670 into a full 800 stream processor card beating a stock 4850.

 

[Rebo&Zooty]

Radeon Rage Fury Pro, what a POS dual core graphics card, didn't even work in windows 2K, ATI failed to deliver a driver that would work on anything beyond Windows 98.

My Radeon 9800 Pro was a legendary purchase that lasted well beyond its expected life cycle of 18-24 months.

I still have an old heavily clocked X1950GT running that could play all the latest games at max detail on a 17" display, only Crysis struggles.


The best modifiable card was my nv 6800LE, I managed to unlock all 16/16 pipelines and all the shaders via bios mod (thanks to rivatuner), heavily overvolted and overclocked to the hilt it surpassed a 6800GT! .

wrong, the rage fury MAXX was the dual chip gfx card that had NO decent driver support at any time in its life.

 

[insider]

Hmm you are right, it was the Rage Fury MAXX I had, what a waste of money!

 

[Rebo&Zooty]

if u still had it, i know a guy who would have bought it hes into building vintage machiens for people and himself(to play old games as they where ment to be played on orignaly period hardware.....)

 

[Fitseries3]

hands down... my 2 gtx295's have to be the best ever. SOOOOO smooth and amazing.

 

[Weer]

hands down... my 2 gtx295's have to be the best ever. SOOOOO smooth and amazing.

Aren't they a big waste with that size of a monitor?

 

[Fitseries3]

what size? 24"? no. i bench. not game.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1160711&postcount=1407

 

[cdawall]

what size? 24"? no. i bench. not game.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=1160711&postcount=1407

no 40K?

 

[Fitseries3]

not YET. i did manage 38953 today but im holding out for 40k

 

[pepsi71ocean]

while i love my GTX 280 and im still getting used to her, i will in my history of graphics cards, my 8800GT would have to be the best ive ever had. I took it from a stock cooler on a KO edition, to a modified lapped heatsink for the card, and then i super cooled the air coming into it by using a 140mm fan blowing into a cone that then forced more air into the card then the fan could suck it in, card ran 760 on the core, Managed about 48fps in crysis demo, never had issues with choppy game play till GTA IV. my card just couldn't push what i wanted it to do. So i eventually upgraded to the GTX 280, because it was about time.

But this is not the end of my story. My beloved 8800GT will be cold storage until my trading computer is put together, then her might and power will be shown again.

 

[juan adames]

My first card was a bfg880gt and still running like new,in wich I just -
replaced with a BFG-Gtx295.

gotto love that lifetime warranty!

 

[Lazer_Dark_Assassin]

My 8800GT!!

 

[tofu]

My fav must've been the 5950 ultra LOL. I actually had two of these babies, had a gigabyte gv-n595u-256v and an asus v9980 ultra. Bought the asus after I accidentally ripped out the pcb trace my vr was attached to. I had a 9800pro at the time, but I found the 5950's THAT much more fun to mod, clock and bench

 

[kiriakost]

My first 3D card world wide

Diamond Viper V330 AGP chip : NVIDIA RIVA 128 ..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riva_128
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/review-agp-graphic-cards,38-5.html

This card had scream first in the planet .... Let the 3D games begin !! (1997)

Next buy was Voodoo2 add on , then got Voodoo3 ...Next Radeon 9600 series.. then MSI 6800GT , and today HD3850 .

All of them, i had love them, the same .

In 10 years from now i will move to PCIe

 

[quasar923]

i really liked my x850xt 256mb but my 4850 i have now is sickkkkkk.

 

[RadeonProVega]

http://www.visiontek.com/products/cards/retail/2400PRO_PCI.html

The !!!!!BEAST!!!!!!!!

 

[hat]

you're just lookin to get flamed arent you? heh

 

[Duffman]

Well, the last one I bought! Which right now is the Sapphire 4870 1gb with heatpipe cooler.

 

[AlienIsGOD]

My current card which is a Sapphire 4850...easily beats out my ATI 9600 pro

 

[Thrackan]

First I had a Diamond Viper V330 (or 300), but I never really "experienced" that card...

Best card for it's place in time was my Geforce 2 MX400. I bought that for my first self-built rig and it rocked at the time. Passive = silent!

After that, I got a piece of crap Club3D Geforce 5900XT, which essentially lead to me not buying Club3D products anymore. You'll also see I switched to ATi after that experience.
The card was bought on budget and crapped out on games within a few months. It just couldn't handle the games of that time anymore.

Next step was a second-hand x800 Pro, which lasted for less than a year due to me getting a job (hence more money )
Was a good card even though I broke a fanblade off the stock cooler and it still worked...

Last year, I bought my current system with a passive HD3450, which did beat the x800 in raw performance, but soon proved to be nothing for gaming. Sold it really fast Was good for HD video though, so it ranks above the 5900XT.

Then I got a HD3870, which is currently still serving me very well, plus being hugely overclockable. First card I put an aftermarket cooler on (VF1000-LED) too.

So, my top of owned cards in regard for time:
- Geforce 2 MX400
- (Current)HD3870
- x800 Pro
- HD3450
- Geforce 5900XT

 

[Laurijan]

My current 8800GT OC Edition