ThatsABigOne
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Absolutely this. It could not even play 2001 Il2 Sturmovik series. Stupid card and their naming scheme.
BurnItDwn
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I've been happy with every video card I've ever purchased ...
My old 4mb s3 virge with my canopus pure3d worked great.
My old S3 2000 (aka Diamond Viper 2) kinda sucked, but it worked great for Unreal Tournament, and it was a LOT cheaper vs a Geforce and a LOT faster than Voodoo 1. (had little budget back then)
Since then I've owned a Geforce DDR (bought used for cheap, gave the Viper 2 to my brother.) Then a Geforce 2 GTS. Then a Geforce 3. Then a Radeon X1800. At one point I had a Geforce 4 TI4200, that would be probably my only "lemon" as that card died after a year or so. Hmm ... Radeon 4850 was great, Radeon 4870 was great, and I really am enjoying my Radeon 6870s now ...
That said, I thought the Geforce 2 MX series as a whole was a heaping pile of crap. As well as every slow card that is marketed as being good for gaming.
My old 4mb s3 virge with my canopus pure3d worked great.
My old S3 2000 (aka Diamond Viper 2) kinda sucked, but it worked great for Unreal Tournament, and it was a LOT cheaper vs a Geforce and a LOT faster than Voodoo 1. (had little budget back then)
Since then I've owned a Geforce DDR (bought used for cheap, gave the Viper 2 to my brother.) Then a Geforce 2 GTS. Then a Geforce 3. Then a Radeon X1800. At one point I had a Geforce 4 TI4200, that would be probably my only "lemon" as that card died after a year or so. Hmm ... Radeon 4850 was great, Radeon 4870 was great, and I really am enjoying my Radeon 6870s now ...
That said, I thought the Geforce 2 MX series as a whole was a heaping pile of crap. As well as every slow card that is marketed as being good for gaming.
Least favorite I owned was a Geforce FX 5900. Terrible card.
Worst of all time was the Geforce FX 5200. This card was everywhere, it was my nemesis. Someone would talk to me about how their games played terribad and I'd find out they paid $100+ for an FX 5200 with 64 bit memory. I'd have to figure out the best way to tell them they essentially flushed that money down the toilet.
People are hating on the Geforce 2 / 4 MX cards, but these were actually as fast or faster than the FX 5200. The extra shaders in the 5200 were meaningless due to the speed (and the low memory bandwidth the card was typically shackled with)
Worst of all time was the Geforce FX 5200. This card was everywhere, it was my nemesis. Someone would talk to me about how their games played terribad and I'd find out they paid $100+ for an FX 5200 with 64 bit memory. I'd have to figure out the best way to tell them they essentially flushed that money down the toilet.
People are hating on the Geforce 2 / 4 MX cards, but these were actually as fast or faster than the FX 5200. The extra shaders in the 5200 were meaningless due to the speed (and the low memory bandwidth the card was typically shackled with)
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Stuka87
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Notice that on that graph, the 5700 scores nearly 50fps more than the 9600 at high resolutions.
Here is a review from Guru3d: http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-fx-5700-ultra--5950-ultra-review/16
At high resolutions it was a bit bottlenecked. But was great at up to 1280x1024. Which at the time was a pretty common resolution. It doesnt smash the 9800, but beats it in some areas, and it was cheaper. I also had a 9800 Pro at the time, I thought it was an awesome card as well.
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Dadofamunky
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6800 Ultra. $500 piece of crap, couldn't run any of the prevailing games on max, noisy, just no redeeming value except for EVGA's Trade-Up program.
Intergraph Intense(Rendition Verte 1000 based)-Offered no performance benefit over my Trident intergrated graphics in my IBM Aptiva Pentium 150Mhz(with the Opti Viper Chipset and no L2 Cache)
S3 Savage 4-I didn't own one(I had a Voodoo Banshee 16 Meg card in the Aptiva which was the card that I settled on since it did actually accelerate stuff along with a Evergreen 400Mhz K6-2 which managed to...caused me to hold on to the computer for another year and a half, oh well it did run better after the upgrades but I never did find any Asynchronous Tag SRam to cause it to be really too much faster, EDO memory from Fast Page memory did make a slight difference.) but my friend did and needless to say it was terrible when it came to running 3D anything, or 2D anything.
More Modern era cards AGP era...hmm let me think...I'd have to say...drawing a blank...I wasn't the biggest fan of the Direct X 7 Geforce 2 MX cards due to not offering even bump mapping, nor was I a fan of the Radeon 8500 which I found to be vastly inferior to the Geforce 4 ti4200 I owned, I skipped the FX series graphics card and found the 9700 and 9800 Radeon cards to be wonderful, and I loved the Geforce 6800GT graphics card I had finish out the AGP era for me.
PCI express cards, I can't really think of any. I own a pair of Asus Ultimate 9800GT cards which I had to downclock cause they used the 8800GTS 65nm chip and only one power connector and would start to artifact after maybe 30 minutes in games but thats about the only negative things I can say about the cards.
S3 Savage 4-I didn't own one(I had a Voodoo Banshee 16 Meg card in the Aptiva which was the card that I settled on since it did actually accelerate stuff along with a Evergreen 400Mhz K6-2 which managed to...caused me to hold on to the computer for another year and a half, oh well it did run better after the upgrades but I never did find any Asynchronous Tag SRam to cause it to be really too much faster, EDO memory from Fast Page memory did make a slight difference.) but my friend did and needless to say it was terrible when it came to running 3D anything, or 2D anything.
More Modern era cards AGP era...hmm let me think...I'd have to say...drawing a blank...I wasn't the biggest fan of the Direct X 7 Geforce 2 MX cards due to not offering even bump mapping, nor was I a fan of the Radeon 8500 which I found to be vastly inferior to the Geforce 4 ti4200 I owned, I skipped the FX series graphics card and found the 9700 and 9800 Radeon cards to be wonderful, and I loved the Geforce 6800GT graphics card I had finish out the AGP era for me.
PCI express cards, I can't really think of any. I own a pair of Asus Ultimate 9800GT cards which I had to downclock cause they used the 8800GTS 65nm chip and only one power connector and would start to artifact after maybe 30 minutes in games but thats about the only negative things I can say about the cards.
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x2 on this. Gosh, that card was such a POS. I can't believe I went that route instead of something better... To think I opted for that instead of a voodoo card, because it was cheaper. What a horrible choice that was...
Madcatatlas
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I guess you did not understand the question. Try again.
edit: in your defense, it has to be mentioned that the OP is not exactly an example of how to write "good" "english".
edit: added some more ""s
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jacktesterson
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9800 Pro was may favorite. Always have to mention that! Kyro II was another one, man that thing was cheap but performed well.
Least Favorite: Geforce 2 MX-200
Least Favorite: Geforce 2 MX-200
Will Robinson
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fffblackmage
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+1, I remember overclocking it by like 10MHz or something? It actually made playing Halo a smoother experience, but in the end, it was just no match for my friend's GF4 Ti4600.
Arkaign
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Yeah nothing like a card that gets smashed in performance and features by the last-gen Geforce 3 Ti 200 and 500
Mirroring the CPU thread as well...
I'm torn.
Voodoo Banshee or Matrox Parhelia.
Luckily I was able to return the Matrox Parhelia for a 9800 Pro.
Definitely the Parhelia. That was being hyped (at least by us hopeful Matrox fans) as Matrox turning their slide around and getting back - or surpassing - nVidia and 3Dfx.
Unfortunately we know what happened...
Yeah, Parhelia was a disappointment on the scale of today's Bulldozer. Glad I waited for reviews b/4 buying one :thumbsdown:
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