What is the worst gpu you ever purchased

FX5200 AGP. When i first got it i thought it was pretty good. It played Call of Duty and Half Life 2 etc...

But it tended to struggle really badly with Brothers in Arms, Rome Total War, FarCry and Men of Valour.

I once tried to play the FEAR demo with it. That was pretty fun lol. I had to put all the graphics settings on low, and even then it was only just playable.  

Oh my! I was another one fooled into buying the Geforce FX5200!!!  I even upgraded to this froma Geforce 3!

I realised how utter crap it was when it couldn't handle smoke in 32bit colour (yes I spelt that right, I'm British!) in GTA Vice City!

The next bad card was the 9800XT, it burnt itself out within 6 months!

8800 gtx.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just kidding. It was the radeon x300, though it came with the dell computer I bought, with all intent and purpose to change it as soon as I got the system. Why oh why can't we order a video cardless system?!?! oh well.

jfelisario

Yeah, I had the X300.... the card sucked..or maybe just mine, but I got it in a dell before I started making my own computers.... And it always got artifacts at stock speeds.. 

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[QUOTE="BounceDK"]The 8800GTS. Random FPS drops, no 2d/3d mode, really bad drivers etc.9mmSpliff

You are honestly the first person Ive read about that does not like their 8800GT, there are no random FPS drops, reviews from all over the world love this card, it's your own system's problem.

I think he's joking.

Hes not, it does drop in games. But its a brand new card too, yes months old, but ylou have to let nVidia and M$ catch up to eachother. I like how people expect things to come with no problems. I think thats a fantasy world they live in. I get random drops in CSS, but thats the only game for me, plus models look grey from super far away.

Well, when you pay the money you tend to expect no errors coming with the product. Just like when buying a game, you want it to be able to run at least.

It was like the worst card ever. Better than the previous Rage 128, but still, yeah, it hurt a lot.frost_mourne13

I dunno.

The first 3D card I purchased was the Diamon Monster 3DII. I wonder if I can remember what I bought after that...

-12MB Diamond Monster 3DII (SLI - yeah, I bought two)
-16MB Voodoo 3 3000 (I think, and this may be the worst of my cards)
-32MB GeForce 2 GTS
-256MB GeForce 7600GS
-256MB GeForce 7900GS Go

Yeah, not that many. And there's a huge gap in the middle where I didn't upgrade or buy a new computer.

ATI 9550 256mb. The mhz so low its not even funny.:?Axecident

Hey that's what i'm using right now lol,it can run WOW on high setting with no lagg.And half life 2 and even doom 3 on medium.

Lol but yh i know it sux for games after 2004,i plan to upgrade my whole pc later this year.

But anyway worst one is probs SiS something or other...words can't describe it. 

I dont miss my X600 one bit - it came with the computer and I quickly replaced it.

 

quadraleap

yeah im still running one of those old beauties lol. not for much longer thankfully though, upgrading to 8800GTS.:D:D:D

The worst video card I ever puchased performance-wise would've been the embedded ATI Rage Pro AGP with a whopping 4MB of memory. That was in 1998.

The worst video card I ever purchased would've been the ATI X800XT All in Wonder AGP. Performance should've been great, but in my PC (which as a VIA chipset-based Athlon XP 2800 at the time), it was nothing but a headache. I'm guessing that my VIA chipset was the culprit.

Plugged into my friend's Dell, the card worked fine. But in my home-built machine, I got artifacts while watching video, games crashing back to the desktop at random times--even MS Word would randomly lock up, which was a huge pain in the arse. I eventually bought a slower (since I was broke), but much more stable Nvidia 6800 Vanilla w/ 256-bit memory bus. I've been an nVidia fan ever since.

i cant buy worse... i have the ati radeon 340m... thats righ... 64 mb of... something. dust probablyJsung8070

well back in the day integrated video was all there was. My first seperate graphics card of any note was a diamond stealth 2000 (OpenGL support), that had a 3dFX Voodoo added to it (the original)

9550! 128. 200 core 200 memory slow then a snail LOL :oSiKh22