Favorite GPU you have owned

[Estaric]

So i know this may seem pointless but i really wanna know what your favorite card youv ever owned was. I really love my R9 Fury and my GTX 950 so much i prolly wont ever get rid of them. Whats yours?

 

[ixi]

My list.

Nvidia:
6600 GT Asus
7600 GT MSI
8600 GT Asus
8800 GTX MSI
GTX 760 Gigabyte
GTX 980 TI MSI
GTX 1070 Gainward - Using right now

ATI:
HD 2770 Don't remember brand
HD 3850 Sapphire
HD 4870 MSI
HD 6850 Asus ( This was a beast card, remember when I no-lifed Battlefield Bad Company 2, I miss those times ).
HD 6950 MSI
HD 6970 MSI
HD 290x MSI

There all cards did what they needed to do!

 

[RealNeil]

Sapphire R9-280X OC Toxic
Great performance and cool running too.
I loved the colors.

I've had (and do have) many GPUs that are faster, but this one rang all of the bells for me at the time.
I never sold it or gave it away. It's in an M-ITX build with an i7-4770K. Still cool under fire too!

EDIT: I have three R9-290X Tri-X Radeon GPUs that I'm not using right now. Any one of them will outrun this 280X and still stay cool in my InWin 901 case. They look pretty good as well, but I'll continue with it because I like it so much.
Pure nostalgia.

 

[Iceni]

Voodoo5 5500 AGP.

Wasn't as fast at pure framerates as a GF2, but oh my it made games look stunning.

Close second is the ATI 9700 pro. It was a monster, And I ran one for over 10 years in various systems. ATI hit the nail on the head with them.

 

[dorsetknob]

3DFX 3500 TV carefully packed up in Nostalgic Storage owned from New
held off upgrading it for several years after AGP x4 & x8 became Available Because there were no cards Available in local Retail that were as Functional
ie No Intergrated TV function and pci TV Cards were CRAP
Eventualy had to bite the upgrade bullet and went for new CPU (P3 800) motherboard and an ATI Radon9800se AIW

 

[Iceni]

ATI Radon9800se AIW

Those cards were fantastic, Loved everything about them including the remote!

I had a voodoo3 3000 16mb, Good card but the voodoo5 beat it to a pulp for gaming. 3DFX had a lot of things very right, It's a shame they didn't sell the VSA100 chip to third parties and keep the company afloat. I was gutted when they went under!

 

[GreiverBlade]

well ... AGP (i still have them and if i did loose one i re bought them recently ... for the sake of my GPU/CPU collection )

1st Hercule 3D Prophet II GTS Pro
2nd Asus GeForce 4 TI 4200
3rd Hercule 3D Prophet 9700 (include original boxing and bundle: N.O.L.F.E.2 and accessories )
4th Asus Radeon A9800XT
5th Xpertvision X1950GT Super AGP

PCIeX

1st well my actual MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Armor 8gb OC
2nd my previous Asus GTX 980 Poseidon Platinum
3rd Asus Radeon R9 290 (reference, i've kept the blower+heatsink+shroud, was under a Kryografics Hawaii )
4th Asus 8800 Ultra (still have the original cooler aside, currently under a Prolimatech MK-26 )
5th HIS Radeon 3870

and many other ... in fact i loved all card i owned (except my EVGA GTX 460 SC )

almost all of them (also some not listed )


the 290 leftover and a burnt Zotac GTX 460 AMP (powerphase fried ) with a X1650Pro AGP hidden behind


boxes the famous 3D Prophet 9700 and a MSI 6600GT (which contain 2 of them )

 

[Estaric]

well ... AGP (i still have them and if i did loose one i re bought them recently ... for the sake of my GPU/CPU collection )

1st Hercule 3D Prophet II GTS Pro
2nd Asus GeForce 4 TI 4200
3rd Hercule 3D Prophet 9700 (include original boxing and bundle: N.O.L.F.E.2 and accessories )
4th Asus Radeon A9800XT
5th Xpertvision X1950GT Super AGP

PCIeX

1st well my actual MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Armor 8gb OC
2nd my previous Asus GTX 980 Poseidon Platinum
3rd Asus Radeon R9 290 (reference, i've kept the blower+heatsink+shroud, was under a Kryografics Hawaii )
4th Asus 8800 Ultra (still have the original cooler aside, currently under a Prolimatech MK-26 )
5th HIS Radeon 3870

and many other ... in fact i loved all card i owned (except my EVGA GTX 460 SC )

almost all of them (also some not listed )
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the 290 leftover and a burnt Zotac GTX 460 AMP (powerphase fried ) with a X1650Pro AGP hidden behind
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boxes the famous 3D Prophet 9700 and a MSI 6600GT (which contain 2 of them )
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Dang thats quite the collection

 

[GreiverBlade]

Dang thats quite the collection

counting, still searching and assimilating!

well my CPU and mobo are also fo' show (not including a MSI KT6V in her original box )

although purely nostalgic ... ahah

 

[Iceni]

It's his Chip collection that makes me smile the most.

Slot A athlon, Socket A athlon, Thunderbird, palamino,TB-a, TB-b, barton. It'd like looking at a wall of warm memories!

 

[dorsetknob]

Those cards were fantastic, Loved everything about them including the remote!

I had a voodoo3 3000 16mb, Good card but the voodoo5 beat it to a pulp for gaming. 3DFX had a lot of things very right, It's a shame they didn't sell the VSA100 chip to third parties and keep the company afloat. I was gutted when they went under!

Still got that one as well also packed away in storage ( working )
i was never able to find a later series of 3DFX than the 3500 otherwize i would have bought one
when they were bought out by Nvidia i was gutted ( just like 3DFX and their Assets )
Went ATI Never Bought ANY NEW nvidia Cards after that ( except a MMX for a Dell XPS 1700 laptop nothing else would fit )
Any other Nvidia cards i have Came out of Scrap yards for pennies or Free

Hey Donald Trump make Nvidia bring 3DFX back from Mexico and resume Production in the USA "if you become President" then Build your Damm Wall

 

[jboydgolfer]

id have to say my powercolor 6950. it lasted SO long that i retired it, re-purposed it, retired it again, then gave it away for another TPU member to utilize it. it only had a 1Gb of Vram, but it ran games like GTA5 pretty well arma 2 CO, and many others, she served me well for Many years.

 

[ixi]

well ... AGP (i still have them and if i did loose one i re bought them recently ... for the sake of my GPU/CPU collection )

1st Hercule 3D Prophet II GTS Pro
2nd Asus GeForce 4 TI 4200
3rd Hercule 3D Prophet 9700 (include original boxing and bundle: N.O.L.F.E.2 and accessories )
4th Asus Radeon A9800XT
5th Xpertvision X1950GT Super AGP

PCIeX

1st well my actual MSI GeForce GTX 1070 Armor 8gb OC
2nd my previous Asus GTX 980 Poseidon Platinum
3rd Asus Radeon R9 290 (reference, i've kept the blower+heatsink+shroud, was under a Kryografics Hawaii )
4th Asus 8800 Ultra (still have the original cooler aside, currently under a Prolimatech MK-26 )
5th HIS Radeon 3870

and many other ... in fact i loved all card i owned (except my EVGA GTX 460 SC )

almost all of them (also some not listed )
View attachment 79444 View attachment 79445 View attachment 79446

the 290 leftover and a burnt Zotac GTX 460 AMP (powerphase fried ) with a X1650Pro AGP hidden behind
View attachment 79447

boxes the famous 3D Prophet 9700 and a MSI 6600GT (which contain 2 of them )
View attachment 79448

Nice collection

 

[hat]

My 9800GT was great... until I killed it in a tragic overclocking accident.
My favorite card I bought with my own money was probably the 9600GSO (after I killed the 9800GT). It was fantastic for the money. Everybody who ran folding@home had one. It was great for gaming, until eventually it became outdated.

My current GTX660Ti has yet to let me down. I may replace it with something in the future that's a little faster, just to be more efficient.

 

[Solaris17]

ATI 9650 PCI

ATI 9800pro

8600GT

9600GT

980TI

 

[hapkiman]

Had a XFX Radeon HD 5870. That card was a beast.

 

[D007]

8800 GTX.. Was such a beast.

 

[qubit]

There are several: 7950 GX2, 8800 GTX, 8800 Ultra (offset cooler reference version) GTX 295 (single board version) 9800 GX2, GTX 590 (I have 3, but don't tell anyone) GTX 780 Ti (such a beast of a card, with the full uncut Kepler GPU and still powerful today). And the runt of the litter, the HD 2900 Pro (bios flashed to XT). The card looks simply beautiful even if it can't compete with its competition, the 8800 GTX.

Except for the 9800 GX2, which I sold on eBay, (sold 3 at a nice profit ) I have all of those cards and crucially, they all work. These babies are going nowhere. The 7950 GX2 in particular, with its tiny, noisy fans is known for unreliability, so it's great that I managed to bag a brand new EVGA one in its sealed box at a firesale, which works perfectly.

 

[Ithanul]

Hmmm.

Top current fav. GTX 960, just because it surviving folding 24/7. Plus, been such a great little overclocker.
GTX275 next on the list.
GTX590, my first and only dual GPU. Poor thing got so much abuse from me. Reason, it is when I first started folding. So, the card got beat up pretty bad since it ran with a blower style air cooler, and I fold on both GPU cores that where on it at times. Woooo, talk about a heating unit.

 

[Melvis]

My HIS 4870X2 is still my Fav card of all time for me and running two of these in crossfire was awesome in so many ways.

 

[Kanan]

Actual images. XFX GeForce GTX 260 Black Edition with 216 shaders. Such a nice looking and well made card. Had it until its soul vanished in a overclocking accident after just 1 year.

MSI GeForce 7800 GT, great card did a good job until it was dead soon before the warranty was over.

Club3D Radeon HD 5850, had it for nearly 4 years and sold it to be replaced with a HD 5970 I got cheap off ebay. A really really good card, I'd even say my best so far, because it made a very good job for almost 4 years. Also was the replacement card for the GTX 260.

Club3D Radeon HD 5970, made a good job although old crossfire card, with the new Frame Pacing feature in AAA games. Sold it after 1 1/2 years because it started diminishing more and more.

My current GPU, Asus GeForce GTX 780 Ti DCU II - does a great job so far, actually my first and only custom graphics card.

That's it so far. I also had a ELSA Erazor X (GeForce 256) and MSI GeForce 3 Ti 200 128MB that were great cards too, but sadly I got no pictures of them. I guess I was very young and didn't care about it.

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

BFG 7800 GTX 512MB

 

[Melvis]

I think some people are getting mixed up in this thread, its your FAVOURITE card not all the cards you have ever owned.

 

[Kanan]

I think some people are getting mixed up in this thread, its your FAVOURITE card not all the cards you have ever owned.

I posted more since I can't decide on one, I guess the others have the same problem.

 

[Solaris17]

I posted more since I can't decide on one, I guess the others have the same problem.

pretty much this. I've owned alot of cards. Some I dont even remember how I came across them. but I listed my favorites. The cards whos performance at the time I really fell in love with.