Least favorite video card of all time?

[Genx87]

Matrox G400 16MB.

Spent a pretty penny on it and a Geforce 2 MX for half its price ran twice as fast.

 

[lavaheadache]

I came here to lease my favorite card. How much down and how many hours am I allowed to game on it? Do you allow mods?
Lastly, I wonder if leasing is right for me.

 

[happy medium]

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

 

[houe]

S3 Virge

+1. 3d acceleration was slower than software rendering.

 

[superunknown98]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned any of the wonderful Trident video cards, they kind of sort of accelerated DX5.

 

[tweakboy]

Geforce 2 blew goat. but so did my ole voodoo 1 + Matrox Millenium LOL

 

[Absolution75]

+1 to GF4 MX 420


Parents got screwed on that one...

 

[Informant X]

I'd to go with the Matrox G300 or maybe it was G400. Back in the day EMBM looked sweet, only thing is the card performed horrible.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Diamond Stealth S220 - Rendition chip that had _awful_ 2D performance for games like Doom and Duke3D. It's hard to imagine a time when a video card could have poor 2D performance, but they managed.

nvidia 5900 series - a little better than the "leaf blower" 5800 but still a lousy follow-up to the legendary Geforce4 4200 ti. Nvidia redeemed themselves with the 6800 and 6600 though.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

What is with these favorite/least favorite threads? Enough with the grammar mistakes in the thread title. Are you guys doing it on purpose?

My least favorite setup was my dual 7800gt rig. SLi was still going through growing pains. I guess I have done better than the rest of you in regards to awful past video cards.

 

[OVerLoRDI]

What is with these favorite/least favorite threads? Enough with the grammar mistakes in the thread title. Are you guys doing it on purpose?

My least favorite setup was my dual 7800gt rig. SLi was still going through growing pains. I guess I have done better than the rest of you in regards to awful past video cards.

 

[SlowSpyder]

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

 

[evident]

any intel gimped media accelerator, geforce 4 mx, s3 virge

 

[blackened23]

Geforce 2 blew goat. but so did my ole voodoo 1 + Matrox Millenium LOL

Matrox Millenium was such a great card, I wonder why Matrox got out of the consumer biz. Always liked their stuff. Except their powerVR card, screw the powervr.

 

[GotNoRice]

Geforce 2 blew goat.

What was wrong with the Geforce 2? I had a Geforce 2 Ultra and the thing was even competitive with a Geforce 3, aside from not having DX8 support.

 

[adairusmc]

S3 Savage 2000. Followed closely by the 5800Ultra.

 

[Ben90]

I've never "leased" a video card.

 

[bryanW1995]

I came here to lease my favorite card. How much down and how many hours am I allowed to game on it? Do you allow mods?
Lastly, I wonder if leasing is right for me.

Leasing can be a tricky concept. Remember, they don't actually display your "interest rate" on a lease contract because there isn't one, it's a "lease factor". That term can be tricky, and those leasing salespeople...whew...

 

[nickb64]

My first real GPU, the 6600LE. I got it in like 2007, and it sucked hard for pretty much everything I wanted to do.

 

[Smartazz]

ATI Radeon 9250. I was a noob back then and thought it would be decent but boy was I wrong.

 

[cmdrdredd]

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.

It cost more than a Voodoo 2 card and ran slower. Simply put it was worthless

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

What was wrong with the Geforce 2? I had a Geforce 2 Ultra and the thing was even competitive with a Geforce 3, aside from not having DX8 support.

Must've been the wrong PCB color, eh Tweakster? :sneaky:

Intel "Extreme" graphics. More like "Extreme Crap".

 

[lavaheadache]

I've never "leased" a video card.

I think it's an up and coming fad. I really do want to lease my favorite video card of all time. Can I get a write up for a voodoo 5 6000? I'm only looking to hold on to it for a week or 2. Probably no more than 20 hours with some mild overclocking. Who's insurance covers incidentals?

 

[tigersty1e]

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.

 

[Oyeve]

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!!!