Favorite GPU you have owned

[Apocalypsee]

X1800GTO, sadly I lost the single slot cooler. I miss the day where mid to high end card still use single slot design

HD 5850 reference, I love reference design, not so much on the noise

This Albatron 9600GT is my big favorite, single slot, runs cool and play game very well. On old Biostar TForce 550 motherboard and Sempron 2500+ 1.4GHz overclocked to 2.5GHz

 

[Outback Bronze]

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

And the all mighty X800 Pro VIVO Flashed to X800 XT PE

Mmmmm Tasty!

 

[FYFI13]

ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

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And the all mighty X800 Pro VIVO Flashed to X800 XT PE

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Mmmmm Tasty!

I've had both of these cards, just different brands. Absolutely loved them. Next card that comes to my mind would be 8800GTX, real beast

 

[BiggieShady]

FTFY

For CPU in 2016, in my experience Ivy Bridge i5 is still more than enough for 60 Hz with GTX970 ... very few games need reduced settings and not by much
Those few old games I listed flat out required me immediately to buy next generation graphics card back in the day and no settings could help

 

[peche]

have no image of my dear Gigabyte 6800GT

also loved my 5890 Ati,

and my older GTX 760 windforce 3X

Those are my all time Loved video cards,

Regards,

 

[Kanan]

well, if following hidden logic, nonetheless the OP specified 2 of his favorites cards in the initial post (ok .... 1 nv, 1 AMD/ATI) thus i do same by period (lucky i didn't list my HP 9800GT 1gb, Asus 9800GT Matrix, 4870, 5600/5900 Ultra , oh wait ... no one love the 5XXX series)
he second one i didn't like before that EVGA 460 SC was a Cirrus Logic that i had in my 486DX2 33 build... (see what i did ... i have a "twisted logic"? )

ok ... all time favorite? then, till the next one, that will be my MSI GTX 1070 Armor 8gb OC.


Asus A9800XT sweet one indeed, i prefer my picture of it tho ... but that one had a cooler that felt soooo much premium (and still do ... a nice weight for a single slot card and ... sooo much copper )



agreed altho it's boring with ... google'ed pics ... rather live pics or ... no pics



oh now you remind me to seek some Matrox's for my collection ... i wonder if i can find a Parhelia 512...

Yes Id really like to just see real pics of the cards I don't really care about generic Google pics.

 

[GoldenX]

My favorites...

Nvidia:
EVGA MX4000 64MB DDR, cheap as hell, made it run even Battlefield 2 and NFS Most Wanted. Overclocked a 40% on GPU and 100% on VRAM.
EVGA 6200 256MB DDR2, I learned to overclock on it. As they were locked, you had to flash them to change clocks.
PNY 7600GT 256MB GDDR3, voltmoded it, added a Thermaltake DuOrb on it, learned how to change the geometry clock via flashing. Played Bioshock and Batman Arkham Asylum on it at 800x600. Was a gift from someone I once helped on a forum.

ATI/AMD:
My current XFX HD7750 1GB GDDR5, old by now, cheap, supports all new characteristics and can still game pretty well. Too bad the voltage regulator is not software configurable...
HD4200, my IGP, has saved me a couple of times, and can take a nice 100% overclock, plus 128MB of integrated DDR3 VRAM.
Powercolor HD3450 512MB DDR2: Had it with a 25% oc both on GPU and VRAM, died young thanks to a power outrage...

Intel:
The Braswell IGP of my notebook, supports DX12 and Vulkan, thanks to DX12, Gamecube games on Dolphin-emu are playable, and thanks to Vulkan I can run Dota 2. Would be nice if I could overclock it...

 

[dorsetknob]

Yes Id really like to just see real pics of the cards I don't really care about generic Google pics.

My pics are in the nostalgic hardware thread !! no real point posting them here again
Page 13 ish

 

[Kanan]

My pics are in the nostalgic hardware thread !! no real point posting them here again
Page 13 ish

I'm a very lazy guy haha. you could post them again.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Yes Id really like to just see real pics of the cards I don't really care about generic Google pics.

MSI Pro - E
Xeon X 5650 @4.0ghz
XFX HD 7970 DD 3gb
12gb Corsait XMS 3 trip ch

EDIT


I forgot I had it in here too

ASUS ROG ii Extreme
Xeon X5670 @4.4ghz
XFX HD 7970
16gb Hyperx

 

[dorsetknob]

I'm a very lazy guy haha. you could post them again.

Hrwmmmm something tells me if i did your so lazy you still would not look at them

 

[yotano211]

I guess I took a different rout, laptops for me.

My favorite graphics card was the Nvidia 8800m GTS in my 1st gaming laptop, Gateway 6860FX. That little beast was able to overclock over 35% on the core and about 25% on the memory without any added voltage. It finally died when I lost the PSU so I decided to put another one in from another laptop. I guess it wasnt the correct voltage and blew the power circuit board. It would power on (from the battery) but wouldn't charge the battery.

 

[Ruru]

Nvidia:

Abit GeForce 4 Ti 4200-8x 128MB; my first GPU which I used to play many games years ago
Asus GeForce 6800 LE 128MB; soft-modded to 6800nu and overclocked over stock-GT speeds
Asus GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB; overclocked like mad and ran games even in 2010 pretty fine
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 470 1280MB; my all-time favourite card, OC'd pretty well with modified BIOS, no heatspreader and 3rd party cooler (Twin Turbo II)
MSI GeForce GTX 780Ti 3072MB; I'm having this now, and this is even better than I thought, overclocks like mad and has absolutely awesome stock cooler (Twin Frozr IV)

ATI/AMD:

Club 3D Radeon 9700 Pro 128MB; this is the reason of my username, after GeForce 4 this was like switching from walking to lightspeed!
Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 512MB; custom PCB with slow 1.4ns memory, still overclocked like mad with pencil voltmods
XFX Radeon R9 290 4096MB; noisy and power-hungry, but fast. not as good as my 780Ti which I had now, but still one of my favourite cards

 

[Toothless]

MSI GTX660

 

[EarthDog]

X800 Pro Flashed to X800 XT PE

8800 GTX

780Ti Lighting

980Ti

 

[biffzinker]

Yes Id really like to just see real pics of the cards I don't really care about generic Google pics.

Sorry about the photos pulled from review/duckduckgo. It was the best I could do since I no longer have the cards.

 

[Kanan]

Hrwmmmm something tells me if i did your so lazy you still would not look at them

No I would! Tell me if you edited it.

Sorry about the photos pulled from review/duckduckgo. It was the best I could do since I no longer have the cards.

Okay np m8.

 

[dorsetknob]

For the Pleasure of
Kanan

Kanan look another pic

Kanan yet another

Kanan look am i wearing out your Eyeballs

Kanan you can rest your Eyeballs now

 

[Kanan]

Nice that voodoo3 3500 with that big blue whip. one of the best 3dfx cards.

 

[flmatter]

I really loved my HD6950 - unlocked to 6970. hat card took a beating and just kept asking for more.
Really liking my R9 390 8gb atm too. WOuld love to find another cheap to xfire it.

 

[Yukikaze]

2x8800GT 512Mb in SLI, bar none. Man, the G92 was a work of art!

 

[HammerON]

After thinking about this question for a while, I have concluded that the most favorite GPU I have owned was from my first computer build in 2004. That would be a Sapphire 9600XT. I wanted a 9800XT because it was the top of the line; however, I was able to play DOOM 3 and Quake IV and that was my main goal.
My second favorite GPU would be the GTX 295. That thing was a beast back in the day.

 

[largon]

Favorite GPU?
G92.

Owned a few of this type of chippery. One 8800GT 512MB I vmodded 'n' OC'ed until it was dead. Burned (!) the VRMs while torturing the poor thing. Thus came in a 8800GTS 512MB which ended up being strapped with vGPU, vMEM and OCP. Shader core reached blistering >2.4GHz until, apparently the VRAM controller started glitching. Wonderously, it still works if overvolted a bit...

 

[Ruru]

Favorite GPU?
G92.

Owned a few of this type of chippery. One 8800GT 512MB I vmodded 'n' OC'ed until it was dead. Burned (!) the VRMs while torturing the poor thing. Thus came in a 8800GTS 512MB which ended up being strapped with vGPU, vMEM and OCP. Shader core reached blistering >2.4GHz until, apparently the VRAM controller started glitching. Wonderously, it still works if overvolted a bit...

Heh, I have one GTS250 on my shelf, I guess I need to check its OC potential some day

 

[agent_x007]

I own a LOT of GPU's. Here's bigger part of my AGP collection :

But out of all of them I think my fav. is GTX 780 TI (Reference), because it looks awesome and probably will serve me me till Volta comes out in 2017/2018