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Favorite GPU you have owned

m1dg3t said:
anyone know what it is?
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I would say its an old Graphics card :)

you could start by googling the FCC identification numbers/code to try and identify it further

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awkward if its not in your possession
 
dorsetknob said:
I would say its an old Graphics card :)

you could start by googling the FCC identification numbers/code to try and identify it further

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awkward if its not in your possession
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Hardeeharhar :p Wish I had that card! Pretty choice for back then :D

agent_x007 said:
It's a Radeon 9800 Pro Max : LINK :)
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Indeed it is, cheers! :toast:
 
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@m1dg3t

Yeah X800 series is when the HSF become more substantial, never owned one of them. IIRC I stuck with the 9800 Pro until then X1900 series. I still have the HSF off one of them, will have to fish it out as it may have Ruby on it.

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Found 3DM05 benches on a backup, have a few screenies where I was meddling with DRAM timings to see if an impact on bench.

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9700 pro, i wish i still had it for the novelty of the floppy power connector, but it died and i got a 9800 pro (4 pin molex) back from rma

It would have been a result but the rma took so long (connect3d) i had bought a 9800 pro in the meantime:rolleyes:

My other/2nd favourite was a BFG 8800gts g80, the box said 320mb, but it was a 640mb card, i also had an xfx 320mb one and got the bfg for sli, but ended up loaning the 320mb one to my brother and just running the 640mb one.

Unfortunately this died too, and they sent me back a really bloody noisy single slot 512mb 9600gt, and refused to send out anything better when i complained, even citing the 'larger' vram as making it perform better than the card it was replacing.
It did actually perform a bit better, even than the 640mb card, but both were a little outdated when this happened anyway, and i was using these in a 2nd pc plugged into a 720p tv for movies etc, which the 2 slot gts stayed very quiet doing, i ended up swapping it with the loaner 320 in my bro's computer
 
I should show pic my fav. card :)

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^GeForce 6800 Ultra (Ref.) is in second place after GTX 780 Ti as my fav card.

Cards from the top (not in "likeness" order) :
GeForce GTX 780 Ti
2-nd Row :
GeForce GTX 580 Lighting 1,5GB (I guess you have to belive me on word, since it doesn't have any markings...)
Radeon HD 5870 1GB
3-rd row :
GeForce GTX 285 1GB
Radeon HD 4870 1GB (almost dead - works only on "Standard VGA" driver :()
4-th row :
GeForce 8800 GTX (bought used, but still working fine ;))
Radeon HD 2900 XT 512MB
5-th row :
GeForce 7900 GX2 Duo (not something you see every day :))
Radeon X1950 XTX 512MB
6-th row :
GeForce 7900 GTX
Voodoo 1 2MB PCI (of course) :)
Radeon X850 XT PE
7-th row :
GeForce 6800 Ultra (425/1100)
Quadro FX 1300 128MB (it's GeForce PCX 5900-ish performance wise... and Windows 7 x64 hates it :D).
 
Favorite GPU for me until now really still is the MSI GTX 770.

Rock stable, extremely well rounded card. Clocks well, ran smooth as butter, dead silent.
 
Sapphire Radeon HD5670 512MB GDDR5. Incredible performance for its price. And I could never hear the fan. It even runs Crysis 3 on Low.
 
My favorite has to be MSI TFII 6950's overclocked by about 20% well above 6970 clocks and if i had pushed voltage that probably would have been more. Now one is retired and the other is pulling double duty in my girls rig :peace:
 
My favorite card has to be the 780TI reference. The build quality was just awesome. Here are pics of the card in my old system and when I just finished unboxing it:

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3dfx Voodoo 2 8MB - first real 3d card I had the difference it made was awesome

Ati Radeon 9800 pro (bought the non pro version, it died got the pro as a replacement) - best card of it's generation and I only paid for the non pro version, even the supposedly horrible Linux drivers worked well enough

Nvidia Geforce 6800 - got it way bellow market price and it had better Linux drivers than the Radeon 9800 pro

Ati Radeon 5770 - replaced a Radeon 4850, the performance drop was almost 0, but it was much quieter and more stable

The igpu of my Haswell i5 4460 - it does translucent wobbly desaturated windows playing 1080p video while being moved from one display to another without dropping any frames (played on kde/kwin with smplayer using mpv and the drivers just work).
 
my favorite would be my old crossfired 4850s

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My ATI Radeon X850. I flashed it to the X850 platinum edition BIOS. Added a Zalman Copper/Aluminum cooler, and some massive RAM heatsinks.

That thing was an OC'ing Monster. And a great gaming GPU at that time.
 
9600XT was probably my fav, but my X800 is what got me here to this site, 4850 let me play GTA4 with some eye candy, 5870 was a badass card for overclocking, and my 7970 is still holding strong.
 
AlienIsGOD said:
my favorite would be my old crossfired 4850s
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Those, I would love to have good GPUs in a single slot, like those or the 8800/9800GT.
 
my favorite so far: GTS250 or better said everything thats based on G92 cause back in the time where i had not enough money for a new card my G92´s just saved my life haha (that chip is true love <3)

my list atm:
AMD/ATI:
Radeon 9800 PRO
Radeon X1650
Radeon R9 380 (Gigabyte/2GB)

Nvidia:
Geforce FX5800
Geforce 6700XL
Geforce 7900GS (Asus/256MB/can still play everything on max at dx9)
Geforce 8400GS
Geforce 8500GT (256MB)
Geforce 8800GT (MSI/512MB)
Geforce GTS250 (2x Club3D/1GB)
Geforce GTX295 (3x MSI/ 1,8GB)
Geforce GT440 (3GB ... wtf...)
Geforce GTX480 (Asus/1,5GB)
Geforce GTX560Ti (Captiva/1GB)
Geforce GTX660 (1x Zotac and 1x Gigabyte/both 2GB)
Geforce GTX760 (Inno3D/2GB)
Geforce GTX780 (Zotac/3GB/using it atm with a 660 for physx and displayconnectors)

i have much more but these are all i actually found in my shelf haha
 
I've only had 2 gcards a 3DFX back in the 90's cant remember the model cost shit loads thats all i remember.:laugh:
Stopped pc gaming and got on consoles.
Only like 3 years ago i got back into pc gaming and love it.
Have and still loving my Geforce780ti:)
 
My favorite should by default be my first TNT2, but it isn't ...

It's this tank of a graphics card, XFX GTX 260 (216sp):
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Still have it somewhere (in the boxes from my latest moving out)
 
GTX 690
 
I will say my current Palit Game rock GTX1080 (love the card but not the price though)
 
In terms of number of games played I have to say nothing beats the HD4850 amongst all the cards I owned.

Most to least favorite:

1. Triplex HD4850 512mb GDDR4
2. Sparkle Geforce 2 MX400 64mb SDR - finished Doom 3 with this card, I couldn't recall how.
3. Palit HD4670 Super Ed. 512mb GDDR3
4. XFX DD HD7950 3GB GDDR5
5. HIS IceQ X Turbo HD6870 1GB GDDR5
6. Sapphire Dual-X R9-270 2GB GDDR5
7. Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X R9-280x 3GB GDDR5 x2 - originally intended as a mining card, got to play with it but this was during the non-gaming days of my life so I never got to play with even above casual hence the lower rank.
8. Inno3d Green Ed. GTX 750 1GB GDDR5 - good clocker, but it only lasted in my hands for few months, card was overkill for my needs.
9. EVGA GTX 460 FPB 1GB GDDR5 - died after a month, got it back from RMA 5mos. after, got to play with it for a few months till I got rid of it
10. Powercolor HD5750 1GB GDDR5 - got it 2nd hand, poor clocker but got the job done for a few months
11. Inno3d 7600GST 256mb GDDR3 - started manifesting issues after the first 6mos. had to underclock it to keep it stable
12. Asus 9550 256mb DDR - got it for few days, gave it to my bro. ( psu issue)
13. Sparkle Geforce 4 MX 4000 128mb DDR - no memory of this card aside from the fact that I use to have one before
 
Sempron Guy said:
In terms of number of games played I have to say nothing beats the HD4850 amongst all the cards I owned.

Most to least favorite:

1. Triplex HD4850 512mb GDDR4
2. Sparkle Geforce 2 MX400 64mb SDR - finished Doom 3 with this card, I couldn't recall how.
3. Palit HD4670 Super Ed. 512mb GDDR3
4. XFX DD HD7950 3GB GDDR5
5. HIS IceQ X Turbo HD6870 1GB GDDR5
6. Sapphire Dual-X R9-270 2GB GDDR5
7. Sapphire Vapor-X Tri-X R9-280x 3GB GDDR5 x2 - originally intended as a mining card, got to play with it but this was during the non-gaming days of my life so I never got to play with even above casual hence the lower rank.
8. Inno3d Green Ed. GTX 750 1GB GDDR5 - good clocker, but it only lasted in my hands for few months, card was overkill for my needs.
9. EVGA GTX 460 FPB 1GB GDDR5 - died after a month, got it back from RMA 5mos. after, got to play with it for a few months till I got rid of it
10. Powercolor HD5750 1GB GDDR5 - got it 2nd hand, poor clocker but got the job done for a few months
11. Inno3d 7600GST 256mb GDDR3 - started manifesting issues after the first 6mos. had to underclock it to keep it stable
12. Asus 9550 256mb DDR - got it for few days, gave it to my bro. ( psu issue)
13. Sparkle Geforce 4 MX 4000 128mb DDR - no memory of this card aside from the fact that I use to have one before
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Pics or it didn't happen. Nah just a joke but it would be cool.
 
Mine would be between my original OG card which is an Asus Ti4200 that did 340/580 without voltmods and the sapphire 4850x2's I had.
 
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