Ugliest GPU's ever

Am* · Mar 19, 2011

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Originally Posted by TwistedDane;12788180
Here is some of my fav.

My comment to them all

EDIT:
Asus did a Evga look-a-like

Found some more bad ass gpu´s

LOLWAT? That Calibre is awesome, far from ugly.

But that 8th one gets my vote for being king of the uglies of this thread. It looks like an expansion card for people who want to hear their motherboards POST. ROFL...

Hyoketsu · Mar 19, 2011

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Originally Posted by thealex132;12788342
That thing has like no heatsink, it must run hot!

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Originally Posted by Heavy MG;12788375
How are it's temps?
That's what I was about to say, the heatsink is really really small.

It doesn't have any thermal measuring devices inside, so I can't monitor the temps. However, it runs pretty darn cool, even while OCed. Judging by my sense of touch, I'd say the whole card is running at a few degrees higher than human body temperature, that is, ~40C, while idle. When under heavy load (benchmarks), the GPU die becomes a tad warmer, I'd say ~45C-ish? The vRAM chips heat up quite a bit, but it still isn't enough to burn my finger, so I'd guess... ~60C-ish?
All that while OCed 397->459MHz core, 298->334,8MHz memory.

Of course, I have applied AS5, so that's helping too, but it was running pretty cool before that as well.

Alex132 · Mar 19, 2011

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Originally Posted by Jaguarbamf;12788579
I bought an Accelero 5870 and it works fine for me.
My backplate looked very nice with my accelero.

Yeah I just placed mine on now lol, no screws holding it in, hopefully it might help with my boiling hot VRMs

Alex132 · Mar 19, 2011

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Originally Posted by Hyoketsu;12788693
It doesn't have any thermal measuring devices inside, so I can't monitor the temps. However, it runs pretty darn cool, even while OCed. Judging by my sense of touch, I'd say the whole card is running at a few degrees higher than human body temperature, that is, ~40C, while idle. When under heavy load (benchmarks), the GPU die becomes a tad warmer, I'd say ~45C-ish? The vRAM chips heat up quite a bit, but it still isn't enough to burn my finger, so I'd guess... ~60C-ish?
All that while OCed 397->459MHz core, 298->334,8MHz memory.

Of course, I have applied AS5, so that's helping too, but it was running pretty cool before that as well.

use hwmonitor and furmark

Hyoketsu · Mar 19, 2011

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Originally Posted by thealex132;12788758
use hwmonitor and furmark

I AM using HW monitor, but, as I said, there's no thermal sensor in this card.

Starbomba · Mar 19, 2011

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Originally Posted by N3C14R;12788259

ROFL, my thoughts exactly!

Jump3r · Mar 19, 2011

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Originally Posted by Starbomba;12789284
ROFL, my thoughts exactly!

They should have made it more like the VCR Tape lol, better cooling design hahah

Photograph · Mar 19, 2011

Hey! I have three of those... they all have Arctic Accelero coolers on them now

Smoblikat · Mar 19, 2011

@OP number 1 and 4 are fugly all the others are fine, and most of the cards in this thread are fine.

Phos · Mar 20, 2011

The Geforce FX, complete with its

cooler, the "FX Flow":

Oh wait, you can't really appreciate how dumb this thing until you see it from another angle:

Ok, it sucks air in one side, it goes through the fan, and then out through those copper fins, which are right next to the intake vent in case the now hot air wants to go again. Don't worry though, the heatpipes in this cooler weren't embedded in either fins or the baseplate, just soddered to the surface, meaning that the air isn't really heated up all that much.

To top it all off, this discordant mess of a cooler was then sheathed in cloudy plexiglass so you can see just how goofy the whole process is with your own eyes.

Volvo · Mar 20, 2011

I don't get how this one is ugly. If anything, that cooler looks awesome for a passive card.

Rakhasa · Mar 20, 2011

hahaha, one day what we have now is gonna look ugly. Honestly, not many GPU cards look good.. it's just a box. The best looking ones so far that I've seen are ones with heat pipes.. they look bad ass.

Name Change · Mar 20, 2011

I gotta say I like the pretty much all of them look lol..

AgentHydra · Mar 20, 2011

ATI Radeon X850

Horatio McCallister · Mar 20, 2011

Haha I enjoy this thread.

8ight · Mar 20, 2011

Great card but this fat sh&* is FUGLY!

Then there's this thing...

Name Change · Mar 20, 2011

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Originally Posted by 8ight;12796836

Great card but this fat sh&* is FUGLY!

Then there's this thing...

I gotta say sometimes the chunky look is good.

8ight · Mar 20, 2011

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Originally Posted by Name Change;12796845
I gotta say sometimes the chunky look is good.

I can't come to like the deformed brick of obsidian with racing stripes and oddly placed fans sorry.

nategr8ns · Mar 20, 2011

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Originally Posted by Eros;12788115
I actually like the first one.

Agreed, I really like the blue/gold Sparkle card, whatever it is.

JohnDProb · Mar 20, 2011

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Originally Posted by 8ight;12796877
I can't come to like the deformed brick of obsidian with racing stripes and oddly placed fans sorry.

minecraft >,.,>

Ugliest GPU's ever

Am*

Hyoketsu

Alex132

Alex132

Hyoketsu

Starbomba

Jump3r

Photograph

Smoblikat

Phos

Volvo

Rakhasa

Name Change

AgentHydra

Horatio McCallister

8ight

Name Change

8ight

nategr8ns

JohnDProb

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