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Do you remember your most disappointing video card ever?

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Why was it so?

When i had my first desktop PC in 2003 with FX 5200 inside i did not know what to expect, so i could not realize how shity it was. Only so much later did i realize the awfulness of it. I even complained about low FPS in Painkiller not getting above 60 FPS on low settings when that game demanded 120 FPS for competitive and fluent multi player gameplay. I was called an idiot for complaining about low FPS in the forum and the man who said it to me so was right!!! :D

The FX 5900XT was even more horrible - i bought it cheap thinking this is the right stuff when the 7 series cards were available already. It was such a disappointment, that in some particular game it got beaten by a low end GeForce 6200. Not even talking about the stomping beat up it took from GeForce 6600GT, which i had around too. Was FX 5900XT the most disappointing high-end card for me? Hard to say now...

Years came by and i realized that when you buy a low end card by naming, you can not expect much from it, so then i stopped expecting anything below X6XX mark from both NVIDIA and ATI, but soon i found the most disappointing video card of my life exactly in that X6XX line! It was the deep Fall of 2007, i had GeForce 7600GT, 7900GT video cards which were, as you know, awesome. But i wanted much more - a brand new top of the line DX10 card, and so i've purchased a slightly used HD 2900XT, but it's not about her! :p Fooled ya! Actually i liked HD 2900XT, i even ran it on a low quality "trash class" 350 W PSU:rolleyes:

It's about the most disappointing card i ever had, which i acquired in Spring of 2008. OMG! 512 MB GDDR4! 120 unified shader cores!



The MIGHTY Radeon HD 2600XT, which, based on specs was supposed to annihilate my previous GF 7900GT 256 MB GDDR3 with 24 pixel and 8 vertex shaders:D despite 50+ % less memory bandwidth...

Holly Moses was i wrong! :eek::eek::eek:

It performed worse than anything that deserves facepalm. The one game that i liked to benchmark in the past aside from Crysis was F.E.A.R and i still have the results of many video cards in that game used from 2008 till 2010 in the same Core 2 Quad 3.6 GHz platform.


MSI Radeon HD2600XT 512 Mb DDR4 {850/1150} - 29 FPS
MSI Radeon X1950XT 512 Mb DDR3 {625/900} - 80 FPS
MSI Radeon HD2900XT 512 Mb DDR4 {740/1000} - 82 FPS
ASUS Radeon HD4830 512 Mb DDR3 {575/900} - 117 FPS
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD4870 1024 Mb DDR5 {750/900} - 164 FPS

ASUS GeForce 6800 256 Mb DDR {350/350} - 24 FPS
SPARKLE GeForce 7600GT 256 Mb DDR3 {560/700} - 32 FPS
EVGA GeForce 7900GT KO 256 Mb DDR3 {500/700} - 57 FPS
GIGABYTE GeForce 8800GTS 320 Mb DDR3 {513/800} - 82 FPS
MSI GeForce 8800GTS OC 320 Mb DDR3 {575/850} - 88 FPS
SPARKLE GeForce 9600GT 512 Mb DDR3 {650/900} - 88 FPS
XFX GeForce 9600GT XXX 512 Mb DDR3 {700/1000} - 92 FPS
EVGA GeForce 9600GT SSC 512 MB DDR3 {740/1000} - 96 FPS
NOVATECH GeForce 9800GT 512 Mb DDR3 {600/900} - 96 FPS
EVGA SLI GeForce 9600GT SSC 512 Mb DDR3 {740/1000} - 136 FPS

I had much more various video cards, but did not benchmark them in FEAR.

It was a shocker alright!:twitch: 29 FPS was even less than my previous GF 7600GT 256 MB GDDR3! Twice slower than GF 7900GT 256 MB GDDR3 and 275 % slower than X1950XT 512 MB GDDR3, which i had later.

I had lots of disappointing and shity cards later on, but never again i felt so cheated like i was with HD 2600XT!

Talk about your biggest disappointment, but do not confuse with just shity card that is supposed to be like shity, and tell us why was it so!
 
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The only one I was really disappointed was Sapphire HD6870 Toxic. Granted, it was very fast, but I never in my life had such a noisy card as this one. And it supposedly came with Vapor chamber and all that. To my luck, store was willing to accept it back and then I've replaced it with Sapphire HD6950 Silent Efficiency instead. It was about the same speed at stock, but it was a lot quieter.
 
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I can't blame the Geforce 2 MX for being slow, it was cheap. But after I upgraded it to an FX 5200 only then I knew.

I had a total piece of crap.

By the time I had it still held a similar price after 2 years, still makes me cringe when people buy the 610/710 Geforce cards.

After this lesson I have never bought anything entry-level gaming or even below. I didn't know much about how well entry level GPU's ran between hardware generations back then.
 
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Never been disappointed as I always knew what to expect for what I spent. It's the games that suck now.
 

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I had an S3 Trio 64v+ 2MB PCI in the late 90's and that thing could barely handle anything accelerated. We had a hate-hate relationship in any 3D games where acceleration was an option or requirement. But it got me started, the 3Dfx VooDoo Banshee that came after made all the difference!
 

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I can't blame the Geforce 2 MX for being slow, it was cheap. But after I upgraded it to an FX 5200 only then I knew.

So FX 5200 then! That was expected!

Never been disappointed as I always knew what to expect for what I spent. It's the games that suck now.

Ye, the games come out surely more unoptimized then they did in 2007.

I had an S3 Trio 64v+ 2MB PCI in the late 90's and that thing could barely handle anything accelerated. We had a hate-hate relationship in any 3D games where acceleration was an option or requirement. But it got me started, the 3Dfx VooDoo Banshee that came after made all the difference!

Could it run Quake at software mode 640x480? I had some kind of 2 MB Radeon card back in my laptop, which i received from US in 2002 and it ran Hexen 2 OpenGL steady at 800X600.
 

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hands down the worst card i ever owned :p replaced it with HD 4850 512mb Xfire :D
 
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Geforce 6200 BFG edition. Man, the box made it sound like it could play Crysis on Ultra, and Crysis wasn't even out yet... It was a turd, but it did run Oblivion, which was all I wanted at the time.

On the other hand, I bought a cheap Geforce 8500gt later on. Stuck some ram heatsinks on it, and strapped an intel CPU cooler to it with zip ties. Got an 80% overclock on the core! It could hang with the more midrange cards in some games.
 

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Could it run Quake at software mode 640x480? I had some kind of 2 MB Radeon card back in my laptop, which i received from US in 2002 and it ran Hexen 2 OpenGL steady at 800X600.

Yes it could, which I was thankful for! But most other games were viewed in slideshow mode. :D
 

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The eVGA GTX460:



Yeah, it was Fermi, yeah it used a lot of power, but that isn't what I was disappointed about. I actually didn't mind the GTX460, but this specific card was disappointing because of the cooler. The cooler had all the makings of a decent cooler. It was a heatpipe design, similar to the GTX470/480. But the fan was only half height, not the full height of the card. This made it loud, and inefficient. So the card ran hotter than it should have, and was way louder than other cards.
 
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hands down the worst card i ever owned :p replaced it with HD 4850 512mb Xfire :D

I was playing GTA SA on that card at the time, not sure what brand anymore something with "3d" or so, every setting was locked on it, unable to OC anything....
Not much later I bought another brand, X1600XT after that..:D:p
 

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Asus 8500GT SILENT MAGIC, a 512MB version.
My problem with this card was how the silent cooling was not adequately cooling anything at all, super high temps. Card played crysis 1 though.
 
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Hell my own first desktop (acer) came with ati X300 (passive cooled), I was able to finally play FarCry!!! (don't ask me the exact fps though....but it worked!!) , I even OC'd the snot out of it...:rockout::p

Oh sorry, it seems a bit OT... Forgot, it's about the worst card...
Well actually the X300 was a shitty card once I found out the power of better ones..
 
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Anything from Geforce FX.
 
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Else gfx i dit not own my self has to be gtx 480. Hot as hell with stock cooler and used so much power that you needed your own small newclear powerplan out in your backyard. Vram where also some what to the small size.
 
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Keyboard Chuangquan CQ84
Software Windows 11 Professional
The first computer I put together myself had a 6600GT, more by luck than anything else because I didn't know much about computers at the time. I've had computers before, of course, but as I wasn't big on graphics then, I had nothing to be disappointed by, really. But seeing as the 6600GT was one of the best price/performance cards at the time, and I've been pretty computer-literate since, I had the fortune of never owning a disappointing video card :)
 
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Processor 8700k OC @ 5GHz (1.35 V)
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The FX 5200 I used to have was good for anything on par with CS:Source lol
 
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To be honest in my many years i never had a disappointing GPU because i know what im buying and i know how to take care of my babies.
 
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Storage 4 x 250GB PNY SSD & WD BLACK 1TB HDD
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Software Windows 10 Pro
To be honest in my many years i never had a disappointing GPU because i know what im buying and i know how to take care of my babies.

In my case, all of this was before Amazon and good Newegg reviews and our only source of info on these cards were whatever the dude at the computer shop said!
 
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