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System Name | Lenovo 17IMH05H |
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Processor | Core i7 10750H |
Video Card(s) | GTX 1660 Ti |
Audio Device(s) | SSL2 |
Software | Windows 10 Pro 22H2 |
Benchmark Scores | i've got a shitload of them in 15 years of TPU membership |
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!!!
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! Fooled ya! Actually i liked HD 2900XT, i even ran it on a low quality "trash class" 350 W PSU
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 despite 50+ % less memory bandwidth...
Holly Moses was i wrong!
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! 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!
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!!!
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! Fooled ya! Actually i liked HD 2900XT, i even ran it on a low quality "trash class" 350 W PSU
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 despite 50+ % less memory bandwidth...
Holly Moses was i wrong!
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! 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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