What is the worst Video card on the market?

[oldman420]

mx 440 se is a sure bet

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry

Originally posted by: dullard
At work and at my parents house, I had 3 out of 3 nVidia TNT cards which worked great for 2 years and then suddenly created ghost images (a faint duplicate of everything offset by about 1 mm). I concluded that that model just sucked.

That actually sounds like a signal-reflection problem, most likely from a damaged video cable leading to the monitor. I get something like that when I connect my PC (any video card) through a mechanical VGA switchbox, and then to a monitor (any monitor). The ghosting can be more or less pronounced depending on the components, but is definately caused by the switchbox. I wouldn't totally rule out the card though, but having three fail in an identical way? Did they all fail at the same time? That would be another indicator that it might be something other than the card(s). OTOH, if buying a new card fixed the issue, and then it failed after a time, and then another was purchased, and the older ("broken") cards also displayed ghosting on other monitors/systems, then I would be forced to conclude that it was the cards themselves.

Sorry I had a slight typo, which made my post confusing (it is corrected in bold above). The 3 cards were all 2 different computers (one computer had the card replaced under warranty with the same card). Putting in new video cards worked fine and moving those cards to another computer (with another monitor and cable) had the same ghosting problem. All failed within 1 year of each other (simply since they all were about the same age).

 

[Bovinicus]

Originally posted by: dullard
Sorry I had a slight typo, which made my post confusing (it is corrected in bold above). The 3 cards were all 2 different computers (one computer had the card replaced under warranty with the same card). Putting in new video cards worked fine and moving those cards to another computer (with another monitor and cable) had the same ghosting problem. All failed within 1 year of each other (simply since they all were about the same age).

My father, his ex-girlfriend, and a friend of mine all had a TNT2 M64 in their system. All systems exhibited the same problem you are describing.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
THIS

LOL, $8 for a Virge? Not bad server cards or anything, but it should be more like $1+s&h.

 

[BurnItDwn]

The TNT2 Vanta Card i used to have had horrible 2D quality in 1600x1200 ... in 1280x960 it was bad, and in 1024x768 or less it was Good.

If you are going to run at a low resolution, anything would be fine, if you need 1600x1200 or 1280x960 you should consider only Gforce or newwer Nvidia cards, and any ATI cards with enough memmory to support the colors/res you want (if 1600x1200 I recommend 16MB or more so you can run 32bit) or any Matrox card with enough memmory.

 

[magomago]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn
The TNT2 Vanta Card i used to have had horrible 2D quality in 1600x1200 ... in 1280x960 it was bad, and in 1024x768 or less it was Good.

If you are going to run at a low resolution, anything would be fine, if you need 1600x1200 or 1280x960 you should consider only Gforce or newwer Nvidia cards, and any ATI cards with enough memmory to support the colors/res you want (if 1600x1200 I recommend 16MB or more so you can run 32bit) or any Matrox card with enough memmory.

This thread is three months old...what in the world are you doing...

 

[BurnItDwn]

I have no idea ....

I must have done a search or something ....

Sorry about that!

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: Runner20
NVDIA Gefore 5800 --- sounds like a vacuum cleaner

you obviously didnt read the first post. :roll:

 

[Anonemous]

Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Ok... worst video card on the market? I have one from a 386SX... I believe it's made by Sis and has 64k of RAM onboard. I'll put it on the market if you really want to buy it, lol.

does it still use ISA? or VESA?
edit: whoops didn't see that this thread was dead and brought back to life

 

[CraigRT]

eBay, buy an 8meg ATI Xpert... they should be like $2