Least favorite video card of all time?

[country2]

ATI Rage Fury Maxx

My first dual-GPU card, probably the 2nd dual-GPU card ever made after the Obsidian x24.

I already knew it had mostly negative reviews, but got one super cheap used and decided to try it anyway.

...up until the point I realized it had drivers for Win98 ONLY and the way it worked in it's primitive pre-crossfire was simply not compatible with Windows 2000 (which is what I was running at the time since this was pre-XP).

lol...I was thinking the same card. Bought it on newegg (I think) real cheap. I remember having to follow instructions to a tee in order to get it to install correctly and was a pain. Basically had to install a driver for each cheapset and reboot each time and think you had to turn one off when installing the driver for the other chip...or something like that.

I sold it on ebay to just have them send it back claiming it did not work but it did as I tried it before I put it in the trash.

 

[soccerballtux]

6800gt. Was hot, made my games too dark

 

[Clinkster]

Fx5800,

Agreed.

 

[Rezist]

Geforce4 MX420 Video Card / 64MB DDR / AGP / TV Out in a Dell system with a Pent 4 3.06 truly sucked.

Or a FX5200 in a similar P4 2.4 GHz

 

[Attic]

nVidia 8600GTS.

I got sold on this card after reading a review at HardOcp and was very disappointed in the performance of this card. Was a lousy midrange card IMO, though Hard made it out to appear a solid offering.

 

[Attic]

GeForce 4 MX 420. I learned a lesson about branding with that card...

At least you had the sense to realize it. I had a couple friends who bought into the Geforce4 branding while not realizing the MX was the important part and when I tried to explain to them that it was slow and a DX7 card they weren't having any of it. The big thing with the GF4 and GF3 were pixel shaders, and the GF4MX didn't support any of that.

Nvidia really did a number on quite a few gamers with that card.

 

[Ajay]

Even the Radeon couldn't match its hype until the drivers about 6-8 months later bumped up performance by like 25-50%.

^ This. The original Radeon just drove me nuts. I was so annoyed that after 6 months or so, I moved over to NV and haven't used any ATI product since.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

9800 Pro

Edit.

Oops, I thought this was the favorite card of all time. I'd say GeForce 4 MX440, first card I bought cause of the GeForce name. It was shit.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

7800 gt - loud and gimpy. replaced by my favorite card of all time, xfx 7950 gt passive cooler with a huge oc.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

^ This. The original Radeon just drove me nuts. I was so annoyed that after 6 months or so, I moved over to NV and haven't used any ATI product since.

yeah, i had an AIW 9800 pro ($400, back then!) and the software absolutely sucked. are they better now?

 

[crisium]

Diamond Radeon HD 3850 512MB. I had two of them, both would crash the display drivers if stressed to hard. Diamond refused to acknowledge the problem. Such a shame as that company was really good a decade or so ago, but not anymore.

 

[sandorski]

S3 Savage 2000. Performance was ok and even great for Q3 and UT. Those 2 games ran fast and flawlessly, but every other game in existence had issues with graphical corruption of some sort. TnL never did work, well, not if you were expecting a performance advantage using it anyway.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

I corrected it, I think I managed it with a "Worse CPU you've owned..." and "Least favorite CPU you've owned..." and mixed the two.

Do you understand the difference between the word 'worse' and the word 'worst'?

 

[ViRGE]

8800GTX. It was a fantastic card at the time, but it's also the only card I've ever owned that prematurely died.

 

[Pandora's Box]

hmm tough question (i tend not to buy shitty hardware lol)

i'd say the 6800GT for me. The shimmering that card produced was insane (this was before the lod clamp in the drivers). Was the only card I returned, got a x800xt instead.

 

[colaxs]

For me, it was the 2900xt. Most disappointing AMD release ever..

 

[SlowSpyder]

For me, it was the 2900xt. Most disappointing AMD release ever..

The 2900XT was a let down. But, I did buy 2900 Pro 512MB/512bit and did like that card quite a bit. It overclocked beyond XT levels and cost a good deal less. So, at least there were some positives from the 2900.

 

[Stuka87]

Any Nvidia card that had an MX or FX in the name. I remember buying a 4400MX (I think thats what it was, 2001?) and it was the worse POS ever. I traded it for a GF3 that was actually cheaper, MUCH faster and even came with free system RAM!!!

For the most part I agree. But I had an FX5700 Ultra that kicked the crap out of nearly any card in its time. Was even faster than a 5950 Ultra, as well as faster than ATI cards (9800 Pro) at the time.

 

[SlowSpyder]

For the most part I agree. But I had an FX5700 Ultra that kicked the crap out of nearly any card in its time. Was even faster than a 5950 Ultra, as well as faster than ATI cards (9800 Pro) at the time.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/5799/5

The 5700 Ultra looks like it was competition for the 9600 cards... I cannot see it being faster than a 9800 Pro... Or did those unlock or something?

 

[A5]

Bitboys Oy

 

[69Mach1]

Diamond Viper 770 Ultra. Paid big bucks on it and it crashed constantly, as in, 2-3 times an hour on Diablo 2. Tried everything, never could get it to work right, finally gave up and went and got a Voodoo 5 5500. It was like night and day, Voodoo card NEVER crashed, too bad it got too old and slow to keep up.

 

[amenx]

I never owned it, but recall back in the day the FX5200 was one of the most reviled cards ever.

 

[nitromullet]

For me it has to be an early crossfire rig that consisted of a Radeon X1800XT, an X1800XT Crossfire Edition (with the dongle), and an Asus A8R-MVP Radeon Xpress 1600 motherboard. When it worked it was a screamer, but the frequent crashes due to "vpu recovery" made it the most infuriating rig I've ever owned.

 

[Madcatatlas]

I'd say GeForce 4 MX440, first card I bought cause of the GeForce name. It was shit.

Same happened to me and resulted in both hating the geforce brand and enying the TI cards. Ended up upgrading to 9800xt and had a blast

 

[QuantumPion]

8800 gt when it first released.

It was 300. And then in 3 months, the price dropped to 200. And then 3 more months the 4850 was released at 150.

Worst 300 bucks ever spent.

You think that's bad, I paid $650 for my 8800gtx but never got the price-fixing settlement check

Anyway least favorite card easily the blowdryer with crappy performance: