What's the worst graphics card or chip that you ever had to use?

[Twiggy]

Fun times, not, when I was stuck with a HD 3000 when it comes to gaming in general, even at 1366x768. At least I moved on to a laptop with an NVIDIA chip inside.

The Radeon Xpress 1100 comes close, though - that dang thing overheated most of the time, had poor Aero performance and is generally incapable of handling DX9 games.

Note: This is relative in time. A GeForce 2 MX would be useless in 2012, but very good in 2000. It wouldn't be a bad card by any means.

[Shade]

Radeon HD4650

It continuously crashed even from a little strain. I couldn't play any games using it, and minecraft would only run a few minutes before it would hard crash the card.

[Quadcentruo]

GeForce 7050/nForce 620i.
The integrated GPU that came with my computer when I first got it. It could hardly run anything at lowest settings and some games couldn't even run at all.

[KingOfKYA]

Spoiled people.

There was a time when gpu were just a frame buffer for the cpu. (no/little proccessing)So this is just a compition of who is older.

So i win with Generic VGA frambuffer with maybe a 1mb of ram.

[Twiggy]

Originally Posted by KingOfKYA

Spoiled people.

There was a time when gpu were just a frame buffer for the cpu. (no/little proccessing)So this is just a compition of who is older.

So i win with Generic VGA frambuffer with maybe a 1mb of ram.

What?

If you got a new card that is supposed to be top-of-the line and it went bad within months, it qualifies. Like hardware failure.

[Cat333Pokémon]

I've never really had a bad graphics card. The worst I've had was just really cheap stuff that was designed not to do much, but never anything that crashed.

I'm not counting my laptop's graphics card, as it's somewhat expected for something really old to not be supported in Windows 8.

[Wobbachomp]

Originally Posted by Cat333Pokémon

I've never really had a bad graphics card.

This... But whatever they use at my school is awful, does that count?
Seriously, some of the computers there can't even handle any screensavers. >_<

[Cat333Pokémon]

Originally Posted by Cat333Pokémon

The worst I've had was just really cheap stuff that was designed not to do much, but never anything that crashed.

Umm, does it count if my processor dies on the same day I post that? The CPU melted while rendering some video, and that's the second time I've had that happen.

[Twiggy]

Originally Posted by Cat333Pokémon

Umm, does it count if my processor dies on the same day I post that? The CPU melted while rendering some video, and that's the second time I've had that happen.

If the CPU melted during video playback/encoding:

1. Was the CPU overheating? Modern CPUs have safeguards that ramp up the fans, throttle the processor, and only shut down the processor as a last resort when the temperature reaches T-junction.
2. Is the program capable of GPU-acclerated playback? If not (VLC, for example, defaults to software and handles VERY poorly with GPUs), playing HD videos cause significant load on a CPU core. Even DXVA support helps a lot, and Intel Quick Sync/DirectCompute/CUDA goes a long way in video encoding.