what video card was your favorite? (that you own/owned)

[mrgq912]

Interesting question. I am not sure what to choose so I will name two:

1) I don't even know the name of this card. It came in my very first pc my parents bought for me, a Gateway Pentium 66mhz. It came with 1mb video card. The reason I am mentioning this card is because it is the first one I played a pc game on. I am even sure which game it was, probably quake.

2) Diamond Monster Fusion 16mb video card.
This is the card which showed me the light. It showed me what exactly a video card does. The first game I played with a 'real' 3d graphics card was Mechwarrior Merceneries. I loved this game and I love the card for letting me play it.

I currently own a 7800gt. But like a previous poster pointed out, the video card industry nowadays doesn't carry that same warm, fussy feeling anymore. I am still excited about new tech and features but not as much as in the past.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: mrgq912
I don't even know the name of this card. It came in my very first pc my parents bought for me, a Gateway Pentium 66mhz. It came with 1mb video card.

ATI Mach32?

 

[Aries64]

CURRENT: VisionTek X1900XT-X. Expensive? Definitely. Worth the extra $100.00 MSRP? DEFINITELY NOT. But for the early adopters (like me) the Lifetime Warranty (Retail) coupled with a $20.00 VisionTek discount (BOUGHT ONLINE) made the X1900XT-X Bundle only about $30.00 more than an OEM X1900XT (at launch) than if I had bought from Newegg, since I am in California and would have had to have paid sales tax.


OLDSCHOOL: 16MB Matrox Millenium II PCI coupled with my Quantum3D X-24 SLI (3D only) passthrough card. Back in the day it was the only single card (but double-slot) videocard that could run Quake/Quake II at 1024x768 at really fast framerates. Back then the X-24 was the fastest 3D card around, but since it was a passthrough card you still needed another card for 2D. That where teh Millenium II came in. It was fastest for 2D. Back then the two cards ran you about $1,000.00 including tax!

 

[classy]

Voodoo 3000

 

[BFG10K]

Probably the 9700Pro with the Voodoo3 and X800XL close behind.

 

[Cygnus X1]

Mine was my GeoForce 2 MX400 64MB card that I ordered with my dell 8200 in 2002. That card was total pwnzors!

 

[secretanchitman]

my current card/OEM nvidia geforce3.

 

[Piano Man]

Originally posted by: Zap

Originally posted by: mrgq912
I don't even know the name of this card. It came in my very first pc my parents bought for me, a Gateway Pentium 66mhz. It came with 1mb video card.

ATI Mach32?

I had a Gateway P5-60 with a ATI Mach 32 with 2MB DRAM. They did have a 1 MB version as well. I bet that was the card.

 

[kyparrish]

1. Ti4200 64mb
2. 9500pro
3. 9800pro
4. 6800GT/GS

 

[thegimp03]

My geforce 2 gts lasted 4 years playing Quake 3 Arena. Probably my favorite...

 

[kellehair]

16MB Voodoo 2.

 

[KeypoX]

9700 pro still running all the need games on high... doom 3 Battlefiedl 2 only fear does it run kinda sucky but that game sucks anyways


9700 years ago for for less then 300 and still running strong

gforce mx was the worst ever imo

 

[PrayForDeath]

Radeon 9800 SE (softmodded to pro)
My current 6600GT is a runner up.

 

[Lord Banshee]

My first one... Voodoo Banshee (hence my name) lol!

But damn it was nice when chunked that thing and got a Geforce2, wow Quake3 is playable!

 

[Phobic9]

I'd have to say my favorite card was the good old Voodoo 3 3000. That was the last card to truly make me go "WOW!" I am planning to order a x1900xt next week though.

 

[MBrown]

TI4600.

 

[JBT]

1st 6800GT July 04 for $303 shipped
2nd X800XT swapped for the 6800GT
3rd 9500 Pro for $175 when they were brand new.

 

[pakigang]

Mine is MSI Geforce Fx 5900 128MB. It got me excited when I modded it 5950U which is a much more expensive card.

 

[Allio]

My Chaintech MX440-8x. Sure it didn't perform as well as this 7800GT, but it was so quiet and so stable and overclocked so damn far that I always felt like it was one of the best purchases I ever made. It lives on in my media PC.

 

[boyRacer]

Rage Fury MAXX

 

[Raduque]

I think I'd have to throw in my GF3 Ti200. I had it up untill about 3 years ago, and I would just overclock it some more when a new game came out i couldn't run. It was a monster. I joined the 3dmark01se 10k club with that card. I think when I replaced it with my 9700Pro (now in my HTPC), it was running faster then a Ti500.

 

[gtjr]

geforce 2 mx 400

 

[Stumps]

hmmm so many to choose from, hmmm let me see, probably the Vesa Local Bus S3 805 1MB from my 486 days back in the early 90's damn that was a fine graphics card, especially when I backed it up with a Creative 3D Blaster VLB in 97...yah I could run VQuake then???? and my friends who had Pentiums couldn't with their lowly PCI tridents and cirrus logics...damn I used to laugh at that..my lowly am486DX5 133 PR75(am5x86) could smoke my friends P100 when it came to running quake

hmmm other greats include my creative TNT2 M64, it was my first stand alone card after I ditched my PCI S3/VOODOO2 combo...many fun memories with that one.

most recently would have to be my beloved Gigabyte 9700PRO...I used it from late 2002 uptil a month ago when I upgraded to a 6800GT in my AMD 3200+...and its still getting a run in my P4 3.4ghz.

most of the other graphic cards that I have in the past 5 years or so I haven't used for more than 6 months or so, so I can't really include them

 

[T101]

9800 Non-pro overclocked to Pro speeds. It lasted me 1.5 years before its performance began to suffer. Which I loved it for, not like the "crap" they sell today that can not run game that are released 3-5 months after the card is released, because it has no muscles to do so...

 

[jkyle]

voodoo and glquake that was the bomb