Graphics cards that you brought and left you with dissapointment
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Graal
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I find that highly unlikely. I had a GTS250 earlier this year, which builds on the same technology used in the 8800 and 9600, and it was struggling to run certain games at the lowest settings.
As for my most disappointing card purchase, it is said GTS250. Thought it would be a good card at the time of purchase, but the speed at which it started sucking was really fast.
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Ichigo
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Well I don't play graphic draining games
I only play starcraft 2, World Of Warcraft, NFS world & Guildwars while I wait for Diablo 3 and Guildwars 2 to come out and I may need to upgrade my laptop to play them at high settings.
tpex
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I also highly doubt that.
I have an HD4650 (desktop) that is about 4 generations above the 9 series? and even it struggles a bit.
ZAP_Tech
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I belive the Radeon was the 9600XT not the 9600GT, the gt is an nVidia product number not ATI. and if it is the 9600XT i am pretty sure those cards were no good past the year that they were made. And the nVifdia 9600GT power ban ran out out sometime beginning of last year.
Prometheus
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I also had one of the Radeons. I'm not usually one that complains and hardly notices the difference between different cards, but when sadly it died and I replaced it with a supposedly better nVidia one I could notice it struggling hugely compared to my old dinosaur. That Radeon X series cards held up remarkably well where this experience showed me if you don't spend top bucks on a nVidia card you seem to get almost nothing for your money. From now on it's only AMD for me.
Ichigo
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oh yes it is nvidia 9600m gt
was busy reading about radeon before I typed it lol
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Graal
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oh yes it is nvidia 9600m gt
Heh, I only read the 9600gt part anyways, so I assumed it was Nvidia. But yeah, a 9600 might, just might still push games from last year on high settings if backed by a decent cpu and ram, but it's definitely not going to play games from this year on max.
Ichigo
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Yep not going to even try this years games before I upgrade the gpu/laptop
Got Intel Core Duo Processor 2.53ghz 3mb L2 cache and 4 Gb DDR2 on the laptop
pixelpusha
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oh remember this one did the same error in buying it, the guy @ the store still told me yeah it's a very good card, will play all your games easy haahaa
StrontiumDog
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The title of this thread disappoints the spelling Nazi in me...
Back on topic, I've never gone overboard in spending on gfx cards, so I've never expected too much from any of them
Back on topic, I've never gone overboard in spending on gfx cards, so I've never expected too much from any of them
Prometheus
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Checked. The one I bought was a 6200TC. Wasn't worth the R500.
WeaponXtreme
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I got me the GTX460 just to learn +-2 months down the line the GTX560 would be out and cost the same price. 
judgefredd_za
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I've never really had any problems with my graphics cards.
Had the 7600GT for quite a while. To think that I played through Crysis at 15 FPS with it
Broke my heart when my 9800GTX died on me last month, but it had served me well.
Very happy with my GTX570 now
I also had a 7600GT and Crysis was playable with it.
Which is why I was so disappointed with my ati card upgrades. I was severely disappointed with my 4870, i could max only a few oldish games. Then I was disappointed with my 5870, contrary to online benchmarks, you couldn't play all new games on high at 60+ fps. Now I've switched back to Nvidia with a GTX 570 and its pretty good.
I've learnt that very few games can be maxed at 1920x1080 with a single card with consistently good performance.