The graphics card with the hottest looks!

Athlonite · Sep 15, 2018

@qubit I just love how that says Inspired By Gamers built by nVidia Oh yeah right whens the last time you heard an 1080Ti owner say out loud you know this GPU is really great an all but what it's really missing is some mega neato real time ray tracing cores yeah that'd make it just that little bit more special because we all know gamers spend all their ingame time just gawping at textures thinking ya know that could really do with some ray traced reflections and lighting

eidairaman1 · Sep 15, 2018

qubit said:
From TPU's unboxing article, the RTX 2080 has to be the hottest looking card of the moment. Especially with the performance of that heatsink in news leaks, it looks great and is also of good quality for a change. Oh and that product box...

qubit said:
From TPU's unboxing article, the RTX 2080 has to be the hottest looking card of the moment. Especially with the performance of that heatsink in news leaks, it looks great and is also of good quality for a change. Oh and that product box...

The box reminds me of the GTX480/580 lol

Splinterdog · Sep 15, 2018

Not forgetting the venerable Voodoo II in SLI. In fact, up until a few months ago I still had a pair running in a Pentium II I'd built and rebuilt in the 90s and onwards.

RealNeil · Sep 15, 2018

Just got an AMD pair of cards. VEGA 56 AND VEGA 64. The 64 is the Red Devil and it's pretty nice looking. (maybe a tiny bit gaudy though)

qubit · Sep 15, 2018

RealNeil said:
Just got an AMD pair of cards. VEGA 56 AND VEGA 64. The 64 is the Red Devil and it's pretty nice looking. (maybe a tiny bit gaudy though)

You gotta post pictures of them!

Dinnercore · Sep 15, 2018

Excuse me? The hottest looking card is ofc my ATi AiW X1900:

I miss the days when we had rendered artwork on the cards...

Oh and srsly who can compete with a literal 'golden' sample die?

droopyRO · Sep 15, 2018

Didn't you get a lot of cables with those VIVO cards ?

cucker tarlson · Sep 15, 2018

eidairaman1 said:
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The box reminds me of the GTX480/580 lol

I liked a lot of sapphire designs, but the design for Fury Trix is no.1 for me. Looks rad AF.Though nothing in recent history looks or has a cooler name than R9 Fury X.

Also,these looked super cool to me when I was a kid

Sapphire X800

PoV 6800

27MaD · Sep 15, 2018

Asus GTX 760 Direct CU II , looks badass

MrGenius · Sep 15, 2018

I wish I could find better pics of these.

M-ONE R9 290X Surge

M-ONE R9 290X Gold Edition

cucker tarlson · Sep 15, 2018

That Powercolor is ugly as F. They have a great design for 390 though.

Anyway....

RealNeil · Sep 15, 2018

qubit said:
You gotta post pictures of them!

OK, here are the two VEGA GPUs along with an MSI 1080Ti card for size reference. The Devil card is three slots thick. The MSI is two and a half. The ASUS card is a dual slot card.

natr0n · Sep 15, 2018

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=asus+980ti+strix

dieselcat18 · Sep 15, 2018

dj-electric · Sep 15, 2018

I have a new winner:

MSI did an absolutely incredible job designing their RTX cards.

Flyordie · Sep 16, 2018

Like Idk how the RX Vega64 Liquid card hasn't been posted here. Its like sheer perfection. Love how simple and sleek it is.

R-T-B · Sep 16, 2018

Athlonite said:
@qubit I just love how that says Inspired By Gamers built by nVidia Oh yeah right whens the last time you heard an 1080Ti owner say out loud you know this GPU is really great an all but what it's really missing is some mega neato real time ray tracing cores yeah that'd make it just that little bit more special because we all know gamers spend all their ingame time just gawping at textures thinking ya know that could really do with some ray traced reflections and lighting

I mean, you could say that about every cool innovation ever...

That said please do not start the brand wars in here. We are discussing looks only and I could make a million similarly bad comments about Ruby.

StrayKAT · Sep 16, 2018

RealNeil said:
OK, here are the two VEGA GPUs along with an MSI 1080Ti card for size reference. The Devil card is three slots thick. The MSI is two and a half. The ASUS card is a dual slot card.

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I've got one of the Red Devils. It's more like 2 and 1/2 slots thick, at least for me. If I would have known, I would have never bought it though.

RealNeil · Sep 16, 2018

The red devil is a fat, fat card. My X299 ASUS board has sufficient PCIE slot spacing for two of them in Crossfire, but the 370X boards do not. Spacing is one inch less on all of them.

27MaD · Sep 16, 2018

Flyordie said:
Like Idk how the RX Vega64 Liquid card hasn't been posted here. Its like sheer perfection. Love how simple and sleek it is.

That GPU looks luxurious .

Dinnercore · Sep 16, 2018

Flyordie said:
Like Idk how the RX Vega64 Liquid card hasn't been posted here. Its like sheer perfection. Love how simple and sleek it is.

The problem I see with that design is, that the other hardware is not ready yet to fit that look. It´s always an isolated grey box, looking out of place in the most builds or places. It would fit the spongebob future where everything is chrome, but until we have chrome plated everything I´m having trouble to make this fit in.

qubit · Sep 16, 2018

Dinnercore said:
The problem I see with that design is, that the other hardware is not ready yet to fit that look. It´s always an isolated grey box, looking out of place in the most builds or places. It would fit the spongebob future where everything is chrome, but until we have chrome plated everything I´m having trouble to make this fit in.

Agreed, it looks awful, like some kid's rough-hewn school metalwork project.

27MaD · Sep 16, 2018

qubit said:
Agreed, it looks awful, like some kid's rough-hewn school metalwork project.

As i said one word can describe thar Vega64........luxury

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cucker tarlson · Sep 16, 2018

Vega LC looks rad. For purely asthetic builds it's nicer than Titans,though if I had money to blow I'd build a PC with both RX64 LC and 2080Ti in it, hook rtx to my gaming monitor and Vega to a big ass TV.Equpped with an 14/16 core it could easily handle two games at once.Why ? Cause I could.

MrGenius · Sep 16, 2018

RealNeil said:
The Devil card is three slots thick.

StrayKAT said:
I've got one of the Red Devils. It's more like 2 and 1/2 slots thick, at least for me. If I would have known, I would have never bought it though.

My reference Vega 64 with a Morpheus II and regular 25mm thick fans is 3 ¾ slots. Which is pretty ridiculous. I mean...can you imagine? A damn near 4 slot graphics card? Insanity. :kookoo:

Sure works good though.

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