Which GPU do you have?

Ninjaboy · June 25th, 2009, 11:34 PM

thats a good one for me lets see

my first card i ever bought was a ati 8mb rage 3d,,since then ive had
radeon 7000 32mb
radeon 8500 le 128mb
radeon x800xt
radeon 1900xt
radeon 1950crossfire
and i still run my radeon 3870 x2
this card is a beast and i wont replace it till i find a game that it cant run well

Genki · June 26th, 2009, 11:36 AM

My first card was a 3dfx voodoo banshee, after that a geforce 2 ultra. I replaced the ultra with a radeon 9800pro 128mb, bought on the day it was released so probably paid more than I should of.
Decided to go back to nvidia and bought a 7800 gtx but was unimpressed, aa was really poor compared to ati. Kept gtx for about a month and sold it for a radeon x1900 xt.
Bought another x1900 and went crossfire, unimpressed with crossfire so sold both cards and bought a single radeon 3870.
The 3870 was a stopover until the new 4870 was released, bought the 512 version. After coming into some money I decided to give nvidia another try. Bought an evga 285gtx ssc but had so much trouble with the dreaded bsod nvlddmkm.sys error I gave up and sold it.
Currently I have a 4870x2 which is fast, stable, loud and hot!

Cannyone · June 27th, 2009, 09:07 AM

Disaster strikes when you least expect it! ... The system with my Radeon HD4870 seemed to be working fine. So I left it on while I ran to the store. When I returned the display was off ... and wouldn't come back on.

I tried everything I could think of, short of seeing if it works when connected via VGA. Nothing gets it going again. It seems the backlight is out. I say this because the power light is on steady. And Windows 7 recognizes it's presence (I had to connect a different display to use that system). But the curious part is this ... the CCC indicates that it thinks this display (a Samsung 245BW) can run at 75Hz. Now the option to run at a lower frequency is checked but apparently that had no effect.

This is all with the latest version of 9.6 Catalyst drivers. So I suspect there may be a bug in these drivers. Ultimately the failure of this display may have been immanent anyway. But still be warned you need to make sure that your drivers aren't pushing your display too hard. I'd hate to see others have the same problems I'm having.

I don't even remember where / when I got this display. I'll bet it was Circuit City. Which means I'm SOL... Well maybe not. There is a 3 yr warranty on parts and labor, and I think it is just less than 3 years old.

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Well now I've replaced that ATI card with an Asus GTX260 Matrix. My other system has an MSI NX275GTX TwinFrozr OC. Both cards run cool and relatively quiet.

crunchie · June 27th, 2009, 09:47 AM

HIS 4870 1Gb water cooled

whizzkid_ram · July 7th, 2009, 07:03 PM

XFX Nvidia Geforce 8600 GT

Bio Hazard · October 2nd, 2009, 09:42 AM

Geforce 8800 GTS 512 MB ( G92 ) .

ewells2420 · October 5th, 2009, 03:11 PM

Gefornce GTX260 216. Its ok, gets the job done. Not super impressed though, but nice.

Improvizor · October 10th, 2009, 06:34 PM

ASUS EAH4850 1Gb. And just when I thought I was on top of the world and that I've built a super machine along comes Dx11. Damn it! I can still play every game I like on max details so I'm not really complaining...yet.

bigal · October 11th, 2009, 08:54 AM

Ati Radeon 4870 512mb (sapphire), not overclocked, works wonderfully , I can play resident evil 5 on max setting, 4x anti-aliasing, on 1080p, at 25-35 frames per second. On directx 10 too.

Sazabizc · October 12th, 2009, 02:48 AM

XFX 8800 GT XXX Alpha Dog Edition what ever that mean lol. Oc 700/1750/1050
They run very well for me right now.

The only thing I don't like about them is for some reason xfx changed the heat sink and now the cards blow the hot air back in to the case the original blow the hot air out the back of the card. but the heatsink dose have a biger fan and is all copper and these bad boys put out some heat let me tell ya. I have seem them go up to 80C witch I don't like but they say the card can run up to 100C.