I'm just curious as to what all brands you guys have purchased and have experience with, when it comes to GPUs.
Sapphire and EVGA. I had a zotac for a very brief time too
Gigabyte GTX 780
-Very good, keep the card cool except in Kombuster.
Asus- 7970 DCUII, 2X R9 290s DCUII
EVGA- GTX 650 Ti SSC, GTX 970 ACX, GTX 670, 8800 GTX
PNY- GT 240
Gigabyte- R9 270 Windforce
HIS- 7870 IceQ
Sapphire- 4870, R9 290 VaporX
I think that's it. Prob some older cards I forgot.
ATI - Radeon 9800GT - cant remember
nVidia 8800GTX - XFX
nVidia GTX275 - Gigabyte
AMD HD 6950 - Powercolor (had 2 in xfire)
nVidia GTX680 - Gigabyte (windforce5 - shat itself in 3 days so replaced it with.....)
nVidia GTX770 - EVGA superclocked ACX 2gb
nVidia GTX980 - EVGA superclocked ACX 2.0 4gb <------ current card
Asus GTX 240
HIS Radeon 5670
Refurbed (I think) nVidia GTX 550Ti
MSI Twin Frozor 650 Ti Boost (best looking card I will ever own)
Gigabyte (amd 290x)
Crap... Crap... Crap...
Though I never owned any GPU's prior 290x but I have very good opinion on their mobos. I have owned plenty in past.
Asus (amd 6970, 7970)
Good, Good, new ones are crap... (DirectCU II, Matrix)
Diamond
(6950, 3DFX VooDoo2)
Good Quality.
Trident
8900C, and 2 others later models
Were very good.
Savage (S3 and some I forgotten)
They were good.
Sis integrated graphics
Crap.
EVGA (nv 480 GTX)
Good, but was overheating.
HIS (9800 radeon)
Good. They had better cooling than others.
PNY (nv 240 GT)
Crap for crap. Never owned many cards from them
Sapphire (8500 Radeon)
Good.
ATi (ATi Rage 128 All-In-Wonder, and some older)
Over 9000!
Powercolor (9200 radeon, 290x)
previous were shit, now v good.
MSI (ati x1800xt, 290x lighting)
crap, new ones are good lighting edition.
XFX (nv 8800gtx)
fair.
Palit (nv 7600GS)
oc this as f*ck.
and more but don't remember...
MSI - 6450 (lol)
EVGA - 770 / 980
Sapphire - 290
BFG - 6800GT (agp, still have it)
Friends: MSI 780lighting
diamond, matrox, his, gigabyte, evga, asus, gainward.... geez all of em except for probably galax & pny.
Sapphire - R9-290
ASUS - R9-270x
EVGA - GTX 770
In recent years, I have owned:
ASUS Radeon HD 6870 - Good, but couldn't overclock worth a damn.
EVGA GTX 460 FPB edition - Great overclocker, but poor cooling design.
HiS R9 280X - good, overall, although the aesthetics were not for everything.
EVGA GTX 670 FTW edition - Great, but the stacked power connectors is the stupidest idea known to mankind.
I have recently got a hold of an XFX R9 280X Black Edition , and I have to say that it has probably been the most impressive of the bunch.
Oh boy.
PALIT GTX 570 - Had this card for years until early this year. Great card with high heat output.
Gigabyte GTX 670 - Had this for less than a week before upgrading too...
Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming - Had this for a month. Great card but wanted more.
Gigabyte GTX 980 G1 Gaming (Current)
"You've put me in a position I'd undeniably rather not be in, OH YEEEaaaaahh." - Macho Man
From the top and in no order aside from alphabetical:
AMD
- FirePro V7800
- "Tahiti" Engineering Sample 09/01/11
- Radeon HD 7570 (OEM)
- Radeon HD 5770/6770
- Radeon HD 6990
ASUS
- Radeon HD 4850 (Two of these)
- Radeon HD 7970 Matrix
- GeForce 2 GTS (V7700 G-F Deluxe DDR-32M)
ATI Technologies
- 3D Rage II (w/ ATI ImpacTV NTSC Tuner)
- Radeon X1950 Pro
- 264VT2
- Rage 128 Pro
- Radeon 7000 PCI
- All-In-Wonder HD
BFG Tech
- GeForce 6600 GT
- GeForce 9800 GTX/GTX+
- GeForce GT 210
Canopus
- 3DFX VooDoo "Pure3D"
ColorGraphic
- Radeon Mobility 9000 X2 (On PCI)
Creative Labs
- 3DFX VooDoo2 CT6670 8MB
- 3DFX VooDoo2 CT6670 12MB
Diamond Multimedia
- Radeon HD 2900 XT
- Radeon HD 3870 1GB
- 3DFX VooDoo2 "Monster 3D II 12MB"
- Stealth 64 "Video VRAM"
- VIPER VLB
- Viper V330 AGP 4MB OEM (nVidia Riva 128)
EVGA
- GeForce GTX 295 OC (V1)
- GeForce GTX 295 CO-OP (V2)
- GeForce GTX 460 2Win
- GeForce FX 5900 Ultra 256MB
- GeForce 9800 GX2
Galaxy
- GeForce GTX 280
- GeForce GT 220 1GB
- GeForce GTX 460 1GB (V2)
Gigabyte
- GeForce GTX 560 Ti
- Radeon R9 270
Hercules (Under Guillemot)
- 3D Prophet II GTS Pro 64MB (GeForce 2 GTS)
- 3D Prophet II GTS 32MB (GeForce 2 GTS)
HIS
- Radeon R9 290X
- Radeon HD 7870
- Radeon R9 270
Intergraph Computer Systems
- 3DFX VooDoo / Alliance ProMotion AT-25 "Intense3D!"
Matrox
- Millennium G200
- Millennium G450
MSI
- GeForce 4 MX 420
- GeForce GT 220
- GeForce GTX 465 "Golden Edition / Twin Frozr II"
- GeForce GTS 250 "Twin Frozr OC"
- Radeon HD 6950 "Twin Frozr III"
- Radeon R9 270X "GAMING / Twin Frozr VI"
- Radeon HD 6850 "Cyclone OC"
nVidia
- GeForce GTS 240
- GeForce GTS 250
- GeForce GT 120 1GB
- GeForce 4 Ti 4600
- GeForce 8400 GS Rev.3
- GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
- GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
- GeForce GTX 690
- Quadro FX 4500
- Quadro FX 3800
Powercolor
- Radeon R9 270
Sapphire
- Radeon HD 3870 "Toxic"
- Radeon HD 3870 (4 of these)
- Radeon HD 4850
- Radeon HD 4770 512MB
- Radeon HD 4870 Vapor-X
- Radeon HD 4870 X2
- Radeon HD 6970
- Radeon R9 290 Vapor-X
Sparkle
- GeForce 9800 GT (Half height!)
S/U/M/A/
- GeForce 2 MX 400 "Platinum SIF Type B"
S3 Graphics
- Vision968
WinFast
- GeForce 7900 GTX 512MB
XFX
- GeForce 6600 GT
- GeForce 7600 GT
- GeForce GTS 250
- Radeon HD 4890
- Radeon HD 5850
- Radeon R9 270
Zotac
- GeForce GT 545 1.5GB
3DFX Interactive
- VooDoo 1000
- VooDoo2 1000 (8MB and 12MB, two of each)
- VooDoo 3 1000/3000/3500
- VooDoo 4 4500 (VSA-101)
- VooDoo 5 5500 (VSA-102)
- VooDoo Banshee
And that's all.
EDIT: I lied, I had to add more. I forgot the GeForce 4's and a ColorGraphic... Dangit.
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nVidia... Radeon HD 6850?
Any way I am not fancy like him. Although I do have a touch of Stupid Black Magic going on.
ASUS:
HD 5450 (bought as a backup fail card)
MSi:
HD 7870 Hawk (best looking card I have owned currently in my brothers PC)
HD 7850 1GB (in waiting for something to do, maybe HTPC)
ATi:
X1200 (in the laptop I am currently using, slow but gets the job done)
X1400 (although it could be x1600 or x1800 I can't remember I put it in a dell it was the first time I saw stars in the sky of minecraft)
Sapphire:
R9 290 Tri-X OC 4GB
My bad, that's supposed to be in MSI. With so many cards, it's hard to get them all straight.
Fixed now.
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Any notable experiences with any of them? Any that stood out as exceptional?
HIS Radeon HD 6950 2GB IceQ Turbo
Overclocked like a champ and ran as quiet and as cool as a Cayman GPU could on air. It even supported the 6970 shaders, which I assumed wasn't possible for non-reference cards at the time. It died after 4 years, which I mostly owe to using custom bios and those disabled shader units.
EVGA GTX 970 ACX 2.0 SC
This thing was garbage. It was loud, hot, had insane inductor noise, and was a terrible overclocker. I ended up using EVGA's upgrade program to get the
EVGA GTX 970 ACX 2.0 FTW+
This is the Card EVGA should have made from the start. It actually has a properly designed heatsink unlike the original versions and the power delivery is no longer the weakest among it's competition. Overall, the build quality is noticeably improved
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Asus for AMD cards and EVGA for Nvidia.