What is the best and worst video card you ever had

Mussels · Aug 13, 2008

cdawall said:
went from the stock 250mhz to 345mhz on the stock cooler and the ram from 425 to 605mhz it ran just as fast as the FX5700 :shadedshu

my 4200 did 315MHz core as well on the stock cooler, it died after 2-3 years but it was a hella good card for its time.

ChromeDome · Aug 13, 2008

best one is the one i have now. 8800GS. pretty soon it'll be another

worst was an FX5200. got that right after DOOM3 came out and right before Far Cry. so you can imagine my dismay. wasn't long before i upgraded to a 6600GT. which was a good little card at the time

StarYoshi · Aug 13, 2008

Worst: FX5500 - Didn't run even though I met the PSU requirements... would crash anytime I tried to play a game
Waste of money: HD4870 - Hot or loud, pick one. Wasn't a significant improvement over my current card. Powerplay broken.
Best: 8800GTS 640mb - It's 2 years old and it STILL powers through nearly every game at near-max settings. Truly an engineering marvel

Psychoholic · Aug 13, 2008

Worst, probably my 5900FX.. didnt know any better at the time. hehe

Best, My 4870 By far.. fast, handles AA Like a dream, and runs cool to boot (65C Load on TOP Bios). Nice upgrade from my old 9800gtx.

cdawall · Aug 13, 2008

Mussels said:
my 4200 did 315MHz core as well on the stock cooler, it died after 2-3 years but it was a hella good card for its time.

mine still works

it is still my fav card

Urbklr · Aug 13, 2008

Worst, my old Sapphire x1950pro, had VRM issues...and died.

Best, my current 4850...my first card that can overclock like nuts, all my other cards didn't clock worth sh*t. It is also the fastest card I have owned, and is power efficient.

PP Mguire · Aug 15, 2008

Oldest card i had was Trident VGA with Voodoo1
Newest card is 8800GS
Best card ive had was my old PNY Geforce 3 TI500
Worst card 6800nu. After i received that from a friend i went right out and got a 6800GT from Leadtek. Was the difference between night and day.

zithe · Aug 15, 2008

PP Mguire said:
Oldest card i had was Trident VGA with Voodoo1
Newest card is 8800GS
Best card ive had was my old PNY Geforce 3 TI500
Worst card 6800nu. After i received that from a friend i went right out and got a 6800GT from Leadtek. Was the difference between night and day.

Lol trident. My friend took a computer from the side of a road and found one of those cards in it.

r1rhyder · Aug 16, 2008

Same here, worst was a Trident, best is my new 4870x2. This card is smoking hot, literally. Oh, I take that back, worst card was a Tandy card in my 8088 pc. That really takes me back.

platinumyahoo · Aug 16, 2008

Best: 4850
Worst: Some nvidia PCI crap I had to buy because damn emachines didnt include an AGP slot on a computer in 2002!

teamtd11 · Aug 16, 2008

Best: X1900XT
Worst: SIS 6326

eidairaman1 · Aug 16, 2008

teamtd11 said:
Best: X1900XT
Worst: SIS 6326

WHOA!?

You had a SIS 6326? That was my First AT Tower, consisted of Slot 1 Celeron 333, 256MB ram, 98SE, at that time I was having trouble running a game and didnt know what to do, found out it was a Driver Issue.

Frick · Aug 16, 2008

Worst: None, really. The Radeon 9000 i bought tons of years ago (it's now being used again!) was a bit overpriced, but well worth it at the point.

Best: My Radeon x1950 Pro with an Accelero x2. It was cheap, powerful, overclockable, silent and cool. :cool:

Widjaja · Aug 16, 2008

Worst XFX 8800GT XXX VF830.
I went through three of these, all faulty and I never overclocked them.
Games would CTD on occasions with all of the cards except for the one which over heated to 96degC out of the box.
Personally think this was more of a case of bad luck.

Best HD4850
Reason why.
No problems.

snuif09 · Aug 16, 2008

my best is my HD4850

My worst radeon 7000 32mb it was slooooow and it died in 2 weeks

SK-1 · Aug 16, 2008

I am taking that from the title , speed is not the factor, but the best overall experience.
Best for me, 9700PRO with my crystal orb cooler,still working fine.
My most disappointing was a MX400.

mullered07 · Aug 16, 2008

well when i was a bit of a nub i bought a S3 savage 64mb and that card sucked ass, mainly bought it to play splintercell and it sucked, needless to say i bought an mx440 and thats when i got into pc gaming, cause i had played splintercell on the ps2 but on my pc it looked soo much better and polished, i was hooked

best hmmmm could be the x1950pro that was the first high(ish) end card i bought and would play anything without breaking a sweat

so far ive owned, voodoo 3 16mb, mx440, ti4200, ti4600, fx5200, fx5700, 9800 pro, x1650pro, x1950 pro, 8600gts, 8800gts G80 and this hd 4850, im sure there are some in betweenies ive left out and onboard etc

tkpenalty · Aug 16, 2008

X1950PRO was the BEST card i owned. I was so happy with and I still am happy with it

The 9200SE was the most underwhelming card I had. Though i was much better off than other people who were stuck with FX5200s lol.

mullered07 · Aug 16, 2008

tkpenalty said:
The 9200SE was the most underwhelming card I had. Though i was much better off than other people who were stuck with FX5200s lol.

hmmm seems like the lesser of 2 evils lol :laugh:

smoothshooter · Aug 16, 2008

my 2 worst cards 7800gt and 2900xt

my 2 bests 9800gx2 and 4870

mullered07 · Aug 16, 2008

why 2900xt ? they were sweet cards

anyway talking about my old cards and playing splintercell, im going to get this game again, just for old time sake, wonder if it still looks so nice, and back then i could run it maxxed without a £700 pc think i had a Athlon Xp 1900+ palamino 512mb ram and a mx440, and my rig flew :pimp:

xylomn · Aug 16, 2008

So far I've owned: some 4mb matrox thing (first pc about 10-12 years ago), mx440, fx5500, 6800, 1900xt (flashed to XTX), 8400 gs, 8800gts (g92).

Best: 8800gts (g92) and 1900XT (flashed to XTX)

Worst: GeForce FX5500

smoothshooter · Aug 16, 2008

my 2900 is very powerful and i had a crossfire of 2900 xt:18880 pts on 3d mark 2006,but i lost half second to shoot an ennemi.the point is the card were good but the driver were pieces of shit.

sorry for my english,i am from quebec,canada and my english is not very well.

theonetruewill · Aug 16, 2008

Best card: My Uber-clocking X1900GT Rev 1
Worst Card: My dead and useless X1900GT Rev 2

Sc1mitar · Aug 20, 2008

best card:
HIS x800GTO, overclocked to 580:580, stable 24/7, ran nice n cool never any problems still pwns games at 1280x1024

worst card- Sapphire x1650pro/x1950 pro AGP cards- absolute peices of shit so unstable i hate them.

special mention for my old 9200pro, overclocked to 225/210 stable

ran BF2 800x600 medium settings at 30 fps avg

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VR HMD	Oculus Rift S + Quest 2
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Power Supply	Antec Earthwatts EA500D 500w
Software	Vista, bby <3
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Cooling	NZXT Kraken Elite 280
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What is the best and worst video card you ever had

Mussels

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ChromeDome

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where the hell are my stars

Urbklr

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teamtd11

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Frick

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tkpenalty

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smoothshooter

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xylomn

smoothshooter

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Sc1mitar

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Processor	AMD Ryzen 5800X
Motherboard	Asus Strix X570-E Motherboard
Cooling	Castle 240EX v2 AIO
Memory	2x16GB GSkill Trident Z RGB 3600MHz CL16
Video Card(s)	Powercolor 7900XTX Red Devil
Storage	2x1TB M.2 - 3TB Spinny Boi
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Case	Lian Li 011 Air Mini
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Power Supply	silverstone 1000w
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Mouse	Logitech G602
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Processor	Intel i5 2500K
Motherboard	ASUS P8Z68-V/Gen3
Cooling	Cooler Master Hyper 212+ in Push Pull
Memory	2X4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600
Video Card(s)	ASUS R9 270x TOP
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Audio Device(s)	Infrasonic Quartet
Power Supply	Corsair HX650w
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Processor	Ryzen 5600X
Motherboard	X470 Gaming Pro Carbon
Cooling	Water is Masterliquid 240 Pro
Memory	GeiL EVO X 3600mhz 32g also G.Skill Ripjaw series 5 4x8 3600mhz as backup lol
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte Gaming Radeon RX 6800
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Case	Phantek P400 Glass
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Mouse	Roccat Military/ Razer Deathadder V2
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Motherboard	asus sabertooth z77
Cooling	watercooling in thermaltake level 10 gt
Memory	corsair vengeance 1866 16 gigs
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Display(s)	samsung 32 ''
Case	thermaltake level 10 gt wc
Audio Device(s)	sb x-fi fatalyty
Power Supply	nzxt hale 1000w

Processor	3770k
Motherboard	asus sabertooth z77
Cooling	watercooling in thermaltake level 10 gt
Memory	corsair vengeance 1866 16 gigs
Video Card(s)	crossfire r9 290x
Storage	4 ssd corsair gt raid 0
Display(s)	samsung 32 ''
Case	thermaltake level 10 gt wc
Audio Device(s)	sb x-fi fatalyty
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Processor	E8400 @4.4 GHz - FSB @550 MHZ
Motherboard	Asus P5K Premium (Black Pearl)
Cooling	Xigmatek HDT-S1283
Memory	2x1GB Geil BlckDrgn 800 @1158 5-5-5-18
Video Card(s)	8800GT 512MB @740/1782/2080
Storage	Hitachi T7K250 250GB & 7200.10 Seagate 250GB
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Case	Antec 1200
Audio Device(s)	Xi-FI Xtreme Audio
Power Supply	CoolerMaster IGreen 500W
Software	XP Home SP3
Benchmark Scores	SuperPi: 10.563 Sciencemark: 2563.14

System Name	Ma Biatch
Processor	i7 860
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-P55-UD3A
Cooling	Noctua
Memory	8gb (4x2gb) G-Skill
Video Card(s)	GTX 470
Storage	WD5000aaks raid0
Display(s)	Sony Bravia 37" 1080p
Case	CM 690
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair HX520
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Motherboard	MSI MAG B550M Mortar WiFi
Cooling	Corsair H100i RGB Platinum SE 240mm
Memory	32GB Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 3600MHz
Video Card(s)	Sapphire Vega 64 8GB
Storage	Sabrent Rocket 4.0 1TB / ADATA SX8200 Pro 1TB / Crucial MX500 1TB
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Case	Corsair 280X
Power Supply	Corsair RM850x
Mouse	Razer DeathAdder Chroma
Keyboard	Ducky One2 Horizon
Software	Windows 10 Professional
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Cooling	2x 120mm, 2x80mm Coolermaster Blue LED
Memory	4GB OCZ DDR2-800 Platinum
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Audio Device(s)	Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
Power Supply	Ultra Modular 600W