What gaming video card lasted you the longest ?

My BFG 8800 GTX lasted forever bought it as soon as it was released. I loved that card. Replaced it with a XFX 4870X2 that just died yesterday.... RIP
 
Most likely my GTX275. I had that thing for years in various rigs. As I stopped using it, it was passed it on to someone else!
 
so far my SLI 680 4gb is holding its own. thingking of upograding to 980 sli though.
 
Toss up between my 8800gtx or my voodoo 3. If I remember right that lasted me a couple years as well.
 
I just realized that I've kept my GTX 780 Ti longer than any other card I've owned. I bought it at launch and still have no plans to replace it any time soon. :)
 
640mb 8800 GTS - late 2006 to late 2010

Best, longest lasting card ever. The 8800 was an amazing breakthrough for nVidia and stayed relevant longer than anything else I can think of.
 
I dunno, I never keep a card longer than 2 or 3 years at max, and I always sell the one I take out.

To date, I suppose my current GTX 670 FTW has lasted me the longest at around 3 years.
 
Voodoo 2 12mb Sli. Thst was great for about 2 years.. wish it was always like that.. then it wouldnt be that big of a deal to buy custom water blocks thst fit just them.

Now adays toss $130+ on ea card and hope for 6 months.. late to the party even sooner.
 
It'd have to be the GeForce GTX 560Ti - 3 years 6 months total running time in my current system, with the Ti 4200 coming in a close second.

Honorable mentions are the GTX 260 c216, GeForce 6800 GT, and 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGP.
 
I had a Geforce 2 MX that lasted me five years (broke college student = no upgrades).
 
Sapphire 5830, still working perfectly! my other cars, 2 Nvidia cards , all died for no apparent reason, no overclocking, very good ventilated case, no power spikes... i just had bad luck with Nvidia. just upgraded to an Sapphire 280X and i love it.
 
eclypse said:
Voodoo 2 12mb Sli. Thst was great for about 2 years.. wish it was always like that.. then it wouldnt be that big of a deal to buy custom water blocks thst fit just them.

Now adays toss $130+ on ea card and hope for 6 months.. late to the party even sooner.
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Interesting.

See, I feel it's the opposite.

Back in the golden Socket A days, I feel like I was going through a video card every 6 months, getting a new CPU every 6-12 months, and a new motherboard every 12 -18 months, just to keep up.

In my current rig, I've had my motherboard and CPU since 2011 and my video card since early 2013 and I feel no immediate need to upgrade. The titles I play still run fine.

(though I am feeling a little bit of an upgrade itch on the GPU side, it's not a need)

We had so much more rapid advancement back then, with new hardware coming out quickly due to there being more competition, and new titles actually taking advantage of that hardware, unlike today when competition is limited and most new titles are console ports that barely push our hardware.
 
Mine is a three way tie between the longest video cards I've used (mainly because I would buy new ones every year)
STB Blackmagic 2 Voodoo 2 <- This was sold to me by one of my Jr. High teachers really cheap. Loved this card.
3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 <- Remember riding my bike to the computer store to pick this card up. I later worked for this computer store in high school and college.
Nvidia 8800GTX <- 8800 GTX was my favorite card for the longest time even after I replaced it. Such a great card for its time.
 
Crimson said:
So far...my GTX 670. I bought it back in June 2012. Going to buy either a 970 or 980 soon.
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Same here. It plays gta5 maxed out beautifully pretty much (FXAA of course, and a couple of things on high) but still.

Great card.
 
Laffles said:
Same here. It plays gta5 maxed out beautifully pretty much (FXAA of course, and a couple of things on high) but still.

Great card.
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Yeah, as long as you stay at 1920x1200/1080 or lower cards like that are great.

As soon as you step up to 2560x1600 or 2560x1440 or *shudder* 4k, however, it starts becoming difficult to get the performance you want.
 
Oh yeah of course. I'm still in 1080p land, I will be for a while I think. I'm too obsessive about maintaining 60 frames.
 
Laffles said:
Oh yeah of course. I'm still in 1080p land, I will be for a while I think. I'm too obsessive about maintaining 60 frames.
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Yeah, I've made that "mistake" (if you can call it that) twice now.

My first "big" monitor was my 21" Iiyama Vision Master Pro back in 2001 (not that big by modern standards, but it was HUGE then) and I could run CS at 1600x1200 at 100fps with vsync on just fine with my GeForce 3.

Bought my Dell 2405FPW 1920x1200 panel in early 2005, at which point my AGP Geforce 6800GT couldn't drive HL2 or CS:S satisfactorily on it. Actually slowly turned me off from games, and I didn't really play any for over 5 years :p

By summer 2010 I had gotten back into it again though, and built my first new rig since the 2004 era socket 754 Athlon with the 6800GT, and late that year I splurged on my U3011 only to - once again - find that things (particularly the St.T.A.L.K.E.R series) didn't quite run as well as I liked on my overclocked GTX470 (even with the highest 470 overclock I have ever seen) and my struggle to get stuff running well started again :p
 
It's hard to recall but I believe it was the Radeon 9800pro. I bought it day 1 of release for like $650 CDN iirc. Didn't really last me much longer than most of my cards that I tried to buy in the under $400 range.

Currently sitting on a Radeon 7950 that just turned 3 years old and it's still ticking along quite nicely. Been thinking about upgrading but I'm still able to run all the games I play at high/ultra so I'm not too inclined to do so. Have been thinking about purchasing a new monitor though which might give me the need for a new vid card.
 
I have may working cards but the oldest I have that still runs in a MSI NX7900 (7900GT) even have the box it came in.
 
GTX260... man I had that thing forever. I replaced it with a 750m in my MBP when I stopped gaming :)

BTW the MBP lets me blow stuff up in BC2 from time to time.
 
I had a Geforce 6800GT that lasted me through 3 computer builds. The runner up would be my HD5870 which was a bit of a lemon, the blower died and I had to take the thing completely apart to replace it.
 
Mine's tied for BFG 8800GTX and EVGA 580GTX (one of those rare 4gb video ram 580's). I've just picked up 3x Titan X's and I'm pretty sure those will eclipse prior card longevity.
 
Speaking of which if you count my parents HTPC build it's been using a GTS250 since it was released over 7 years ago.

Btw the GTX580 never came in a 4gb flavour. Only 1.5 and 3gb.
 
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