Name a GPU you owned that you hated one that you loved.
I had a GeForce 2 MX 200, and I HATED that thing, even more than my FX 5200. Turns out, Nvidia was scamming with naming schemes even in 2001. It was released after the GeForce 2. They split it between the MX 200 and 400, but most marketing just listed it as the GeForce 2. The 200 was HALF the performance, while the 400 was at par with the retired “regular” GeForce 2. It was like the GTX 1060 3 gig of 2001.
I LOVED my XFX 9600GT. The 9600GT was a prime card, and made the 9800GT almost redundant.
Hated - Gigabyte GTX660. Only gave me headaches throughout the time I had it. Got it RMA’d and after so much back and forth with gigabyte, got a 660ti in return which I just sold off.
Loved - close between the MSI gtx 1060 6gb gaming X and the Sapphire HD7970. That 7970 crushed every game at the time and was a much better value than competing Nvidia cards (price to performance). The 1060 6gb on the other hand, lasted me a long time! I didn’t feel the need to upgrade as I grew older and played lesser. The gaming X cooler was cool and quiet and it looked good too!
Ah, the 7900 series. I had the Vapor-X 7950, and overclocked the snot out of it. I was trying to get into the HWBot leader-board at the time. Here’s a screenie from 2014 from one of my attempts; was trying to break the 12,000 barrier in 3DMark ‘11:
Hate — 4070ti Super
Nothing about the die but the context around it, just that I wanted it and couldn’t really find it anywhere at a reasonable price and in the used market. Found one on OLX and got duped of 20K -_-
The name is a recurring trauma
Luv — 4060
120W, efficacy maven, you don’t need more kinda GPU. It helps that I got it for an ideal price off of the forum here.
I don’t think there was a GPU I hated a lot (or any that I kept anyway)
Maybe my first discrete GPU ever, which was a GTX 1050 LP OC (2GB), I hated that purchase because I didn’t know enough to understand difference between a 1050 and a 1050Ti and what LP meant. I had to use it without any I/O shield in my full size PC, so I sold it the first chance I could.
Then the sourced from ewaste R9 290 (Sapphire Tri-X OC). Spent a total of 6K on it in 2018, and used it a lot, even during lockdown. It was a beast and a power hog, generated a lot of heat (250W) but I enjoyed it a lot. I then painted it blue-red-white to match my painted case (Captain America themed custom watercooled build with blue and red tubing!). The case was Antec NX200 which barely handled the heat and had drilled holes for radiator mounting, and cutaway plastic for front intake.
I absolutely love my Asus Strix 1080Ti which I painted white. This was in a white O11D Mini.
The EVGA FTW2 GTX 1080 is the most beautiful graphics card ever made. I bought it as a showpiece very recently and never plan to actually use it (perhaps in a media PC down the line. Who knows).
I also got an EVGA GTX 980Ti Classified during lockdown (and gifted a PC built using it to my cancer survivor friend). My friend is still using it to this day.
Bought a Strix 3080Ti last week and so far it looks pretty good. It might also get the white paint treatment.
The Riva TNT2 Ultra will forever be my first love. My heart still races as I typed that out.
I never bought a graphics card that I didn’t love, but idea of anything Geforce MX is nightmarish.
I got into GPU mining with 4x Radeon 6950s that I placed side by side on a motherboard that supported Quad Crossfire and powered it on like I was the boss.
Almost immediately, the fan blades of three cards hit the card next to it, breaking off and rending those three cards useless.
I had to wait three weeks for aftermarket coolers to arrive and lost out on a few hundred dollars.
I still ROI’ed 3x and gifted the cards to friends but that was a very humbling experience.
That EVGA card is class! I wish EVGA didn’t exit the gpu business and I hope they make a comeback with AMD this time around (which they won’t). Their lifetime warranty was epic too!
I remember reading in an issue of Digit of dual GTX 280s breaking 25K in 3DMark Vantage. a few years later, I was desperately trying to beat that score with my MSI GTX 570 Twin Frozr. Came THIS close.
