Most aesthetically appealing Video Cards of All Time?

[erek]

is this your channel?

 

[Mchart]

is this your channel?

No, just the best, most premium, 5800 Ultra example I know of.

 

[FlawleZ]

Most interesting thing about that article is how they used Ali as the pro and Frazier as the con.

 

[somebrains]

Here’s a pic of the gpu that started it all for me.
Had to 1 up my buddies with voodoo2s.
This was back when MaximumPC first came out on grocery store magazine shelves.
I haven’t hung out on that aisle in years.

 

[FSCDiablo]

Think they were the first after market coolers I ever bought; for my Voodoo 2 SLI. Was pretty sexy for the day lol.

TennMax Stealth V2

 

[SeymourGore]

Here’s a pic of the gpu that started it all for me.
Had to 1 up my buddies with voodoo2s.
This was back when MaximumPC first came out on grocery store magazine shelves.
I haven’t hung out on that aisle in years.

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Yup, my first GPU purchase as well. Got the Voodoo3 specifically for its Glide support - a little game called Starsiege: Tribes played best using Glide.

 

[70 Polara]

I always thought the silver colored Triplex cards were very unique looking back in the early 2000s, always wanted one but they were expensive then and about unobtainable now. The pictured card is a Geforce 4 Ti4600 with 128MB, and it came in it's own metal briefcase!!!

 

[jeremyshaw]

The Gainward Phantom GTX 570. No contest.

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Its successor (back in 2012) the GTX 670, had an interesting feature.

 

[somebrains]

Yup, my first GPU purchase as well. Got the Voodoo3 specifically for its Glide support - a little game called Starsiege: Tribes played best using Glide.

That's exactly the game my buddy got for his p2 400 Micron prebuilt. They got dsl at his office, luckily it was a bail bonds office. We gamed there all night when we didn't have to stop bc he's have to write a bond in the middle of the night to get someone out of jail.

Voodoo3 was in MaximumPC that month, I ran down to the store and bought one for my dual p2 233 rig. It was hard to get dsl or cable back then, just rolling out. Total revelation.

 

[Laffles]

EVGA 1080 easily one of the best looking cards:




now look at their 3080...




...Damn shame..

 

[Sir Psycho]

Reaaaally liked the way STRIX Pascal cards looked. Kind of low-key but not at the same time. And I'm a simple man. My brain sees something remotely close to a Batmobile and I smile. Never realised in the 2 years I've had mine it had LED lighting.

Also loved the kind of Hot Rod look to the 6800 Ultras. There's also something special about that era.

 

[jeremyshaw]

Taco likes all single sloth cards. The ones they make now look too big.

Well, if you are willing to spend Quadro money...
Quadro RTX 4000 (roughly a RTX2070 iirc), even has the usb-c port.

 

[erek]

That looks fantastic!!

 

[cdabc123]

back in my mining days I got my hands on a HOF 980ti with the waterblock

looked pretty nice

 

[Logan M]

I’m probably super biased because I was so happy when I got the card but that X850XT looked damn good to me.

 

[KillA_KIA]

Its successor (back in 2012) the GTX 670, had an interesting feature.


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Wow! They thought about 3080 series before nVidia! LOL! Nice!

 

[djellison78]

You're all wrong the answer is Voodoo 5 6000.

 

[erek]

You're all wrong the answer is Voodoo 5 6000.