Worst Video Card of all time?

Pace_Scare_Cloud · Feb 6, 2005

What is the worst video card of all time? To me, Saphire 9800 SE is the WORST VIDEO CARD of all time, it fails me so many times, and it is not stable at all! Although it is a cheap card with a little bit better performance than 9600 pro...IT'S NOT WORTH IT!!!......
What is the worst video card to everybody? Give me your opinion ...help customers to avoid those awful cards...

Ned_Flanders · Feb 6, 2005

No.

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Ned_Flanders · Feb 6, 2005

Ok, you twisted my arm...

any of the Nvidia FX series.

a.k.a Nvidia No FX :tongue:

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Flinx · Feb 6, 2005

U been reading Mozzartusm?

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Ned_Flanders · Feb 6, 2005

rofl

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KCjoker · Feb 6, 2005

Some FX cards are good but I'd say the worst video card of all time is the FX5800.

Ned_Flanders · Feb 6, 2005

technically the worst vid card one be one of the first gens...but I can't be bothered looking for out dated benchmarks to choose the crappiest card of all time :lol:

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OK it's your choice:
You can have the boat, or you can have the Mystery Box!
...Hey wait a minute! A boat's a boat, but a Mystery Box could be anything. It could even be a boat

splenda20 · Feb 6, 2005

FX 5200 or GeForce 4MX

and those awful Volari cards too

mozzartusm · Feb 6, 2005

OK, i get it. You hate me now dont you :frown:

To save us both time, assume I know EVERYTHING :tongue:

cleeve · Feb 7, 2005

The Xabre suxxors more than the GeforceFX could ever suck in it's wildest sucking dreams of suck.

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dhlucke · Feb 7, 2005

FX5800U....hands down the laughing stock of the video card world.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

mrface · Feb 7, 2005

nods...

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Ned_Flanders · Feb 7, 2005

not that I'm disputing you, but why? (I have no idea the specs / bench results of this card)

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...Hey wait a minute! A boat's a boat, but a Mystery Box could be anything. It could even be a boat

dhlucke · Feb 7, 2005

It was too heavy, too noisy, too hot, and it was too damn slow.

Man those were good days when we bagged on that card non stop.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

cleeve · Feb 7, 2005

More importantly, the 5800 was touted by Nvidia as the 9700 PRO killer, when it's performance is far closer to the 9600 PRO in real life... even beneath the 9600 PRO when it comes to DirectX 9 stuff.

The 5800 is the knife Nvidia bought to Ati's gunfight...

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CowMan · Feb 7, 2005

Matrox Parhelia. Sorry, but that was and still is an overpriced piece of silicon trash. It has the worst performance of any card that I've seen for that price and even years after its release it still sets uneducated consumers back $330. Wow.

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mrface · Feb 7, 2005

The 5800 is the knife Nvidia bought to Ati's gunfight...

exactly i dont think i couldve put it bertter.

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TheGreatGrapeApe · Feb 7, 2005

Whatever dude. :tongue:

Show me another card with better 2D for the price (still tops of pro-sumer), or has surround gaming period.

Anywhoo, worst of all time, you really need to do more research on BAD if you think the Para's in THAT league.

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TheGreatGrapeApe · Feb 7, 2005

Two cards/series not mentioned that deserve a note;

The XGI Volari Duo V8

and

S3 Savages

But the Xabres are a wise choice in the top of the list. :lol:

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ChipDeath · Feb 7, 2005

Saphire 9800 SE is the WORST VIDEO CARD of all time

fine, I have an S3 AGP card somewhere that I'll swap for your 9800SE. I think it has 4Mb of RAM. It's never had any faults, and works exactly as it's supposed to .....

I'll even pay the shipping, if you like

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pauldh · Feb 7, 2005

Yeah, those two qualify. I'd add the Evil Kyro also as third worst.

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splenda20 · Feb 7, 2005

Two cards/series not mentioned that deserve a note;
The XGI Volari Duo V8

I mentioned the Volari earlier, but I guess much like the cards themselves, no one cared or noticed!

Spitfire_x86 · Feb 7, 2005

IMO, XGI Volari Duo V8 is worse than Xabre cards, because it was supposed to compete with R9700 Pro/9800 Pro. Image quality wise, both are equally terrible.

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TheGreatGrapeApe · Feb 7, 2005

Aha, yes I missed that, got distracted by your other entries, the Volari comment looked like a Siggy (I usually ignore the last line in a post if it looks like a sig [none of us are witty enough

).

Kudos to you Sir, for finding the Crap before me, of course I still stepped in it! :lol:

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TheGreatGrapeApe · Feb 7, 2005

Well I think the Volari has redefined the level of sucketude for a next generation. It was a dual GPU card meant to clobber single GPU cards (well it's fill rates are still better than X800XTs and GF6800Us, but only in synthetic tests), it used more power, created more heat, was nosier than a GF5800U by many accounts, and had Faq'ed driver problems. The biggest reason for it's caidancy IMO is that most people agree that the FX series sucked, but the Volari made the FX look like a master stroke of stability, performance, and great drivers, even making the Detonators look like the IQ choice for a change.

Also what other card has a cheesy ballard it's named after.

Who knows, maybe there's an 80s metal band called Xabre that I missed! :evil:

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