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Least favorite video card of all time?

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blackphoenix

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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.
 
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Creative S3 Savage4
Great texture compression, horrible performance. Went back to the Rage IIc I had beforehand.
 
I had a Voodoo Banshee through half of college. I loved it despite the fact that it was a cut down voodoo1 with decent 2D graphics (for it's time).
 
I had an EVGA Geforce Ti 4200 w/ AGP 8X I really liked but I had it RMA'ed mistakingly into a Geforce 5600 XT.
 
6200 le....like the 8400gs that replaced it this card is a plague that won't go away.

The 6200 le was my first gpu purchase matched up with a pentium 4 that allowed me to play BF2 .

I swear the 8400gs is a slower piece of crap then the 6200 le and its out in full force like a virus .
 
IGemini said:
Creative S3 Savage4
Great texture compression, horrible performance. Went back to the Rage IIc I had beforehand.
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Came in here to post this, this card was total garbage... I remember trying to play Half Life on it and getting a half black/half pink screen, and half of the games glitched anyway, it was just a mess
 
Please update the thread to read Least favourite. Reading "Worse favourite" is bad grammar and just hurts my eyes!
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As for my least favourites GPU's - I fortunately didn't have any experience with those old Matrox cards, but I had utterly disappointing ATI Rage/Rage II graphics in a couple of my PC's as a kid. Anything from ATI pre-Radeon was often far inferior to the hype. Even the Radeon couldn't match its hype until the drivers about 6-8 months later bumped up performance by like 25-50%.

I'd also have to list the Voodoo 4/5 series, not because I ever owned one (I didn't), but because the delays and lack of innovation ultimately killed the company that I loved in the Voodoo 2/3 days.
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I also have to list the GeForce DDR and GeForce 2 GTS as some of my personal least favourites - not because they were bad, they were awesome! That was the problem. I was young and couldn't afford either and they blew what I had out of the water!
 
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The answer is BitBoys Glaze3D. It was everyone's favorite card just for the jokes but since it was never released it can go in the worse category.
 
Worst card I've had was probably an old Radeon 9100 in Dad's Dell.

Every card since (GeForce 6800 vanilla, 8800GTS 640MB, 4870 1GB) has been great.
 
My Llano APU as of now. My games stop responding causing me to end task on the game. I had artifacts on the desktop recently too. Goes and comes in waves.

Might have to RMA again.
 
I am surprised somebody mentioned the Rage128. Its was really an incredible card when it was released. It would not outperform a Voodoo2, but it had 3D and 2D capabilities as well as up to 32MB of VRAM.

I think my least favorite was my old Matrox G400. It had decent performance, and I played Mechwarrior 4 for a while with it before upgrading to a GF3 Ti200. Which was really a night and day difference.
 
Radeon 9600 AGP, but through no fault of it's own. It was a last ditch attempt to upgrade an old system and it didn't work out.

Basically $100 down the drain.
 
Voodoo 3, for the same reason as Via. CPU wasn't fast enough for the card, I bought it for one game only (Diablo maybe?), was very $$$, and it didn't improve performance at all. Also, it was on the tail end of its life cycle, and I overpaid for it best buy. Generally fail all around. A year later I bought a pre-built computer for the last time and upgraded the video card while I was at it.
 
Philgag said:
Matrox m3d .. One of the first powervr.card. Did not work correcly with most games!
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Yep, also got one of these. Was my first 3D card and I had to specially order it from overseas. Despite matrox's hype, it rendered slightly less frames than my cpu could on its own in Quake 1. Total disappointment.
 
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).
 
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