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The graphics card with the hottest looks?
This is a not too serious thread on which card or cards you think look the hottest/meanest/baddest. It's got nothing to do with the actual performance of the card and can go back as many generations as you like.
My personal favourites are the HD 2900 XT & 9800 GX2. The 2900 has a good-looking, translucent red cooler and has that great flame design on it. The GX2 has a real heavyweight, brute force look to it, which reflected it's awesome performance at the time. EDIT: As everyone is posting pictures, I thought it only proper to post mine too. ![]() ![]()
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the 5870, it looks like the batmobile when viewed from the right angle.
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Sapphire HD 5870 Vapor-X,Asus EAH4890,Asus Mars,Asus GTX 285 Matrix,HIS HD4870 IceQ4 ...maybe MSI Twin Frozer GTX275/285.
As for reference design the 5970 wins by quite a bit |
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There is little style however with the 5 series cards, now my card has some style!
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i've seen many , but for some reason i like this one : http://www.techpowerup.org/uploaded....26/1655780.jpg
It's a GTX285 |
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the ASUS matrix 285.
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There are some Nice looking GFX card [specially from Asus] that pop out every now and then, but the main two i always liked are:
ASUS EAH4870 ![]() ATI radeon X1900's
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Until the graphics cards look like...
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ummm, the 8800GTX Leviathan
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The EVGA GTX 285 Classified and 5870/5970 tie as my choice for the top looker. I love cards with backplates on them, plus the whole matte black finish with red accents looks killer.
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<Qubit struggles to prevent turning into a quivering mass of jelly> She's smokin' !I think you may have a point there....
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blonde is not too sexy,luckily!
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Certainly the Batmobile and the Asus Matrix.
The HIS IceQ3/4 also looks damn hot.
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I need a graphics card with Binge's Blonde's piccie on, in fact tell me who she is and I'll print one off and glue it to me damn card!
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The future of graphics cards will be a 4x3 LCD that lets you upload and display whatever design you want on it.
But before that, they will make them all-white so that you can draw your own design. |
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I think one was a 3870. There's a full-on picture on the box too. <gasps>
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DUH
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57xx/58xx/59xx series cards look pretty damn awesome as stock cards go.
Gotta say i like the look of the 8800GTX Leviathan too. EDIT: almost forgot....
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Asus EAH 4890 with SUPERML cap.
![]() I've a bias as I've got one at the moment, but god-damn for a stock cooler its a beauty. Having taking it a part even teh engineering is beautiful in a way, a lot of work went into the cooler.
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Its a monster but i like it
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Fans still noisy though on the Anus...... It's whisper quiet on the toxic, and the GPU is better binned
Cosmetics aside of course because it does look a mean muvvaa!
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yeah mine can be noisy too ahahahah
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I like this one ...
ASUS EAH4870x2 Tri-Fan Edition ... ![]() ![]()
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