Voodoo 2
Trident 3D 16mb piece of shit in my HP Pavilion
Geforce 2
4400
4600 ti
5800 GT
9800 Pro
6800 (unmasked to GT) SLI
7800 GT SLI
7800 GTO SLI
680 SLI
4870 512mb x-fire
4870 1gb x-fire
8800 gtx SLI
5870 (had a bunch of these for mining)
7900...
Nvidia and AMD has products lined up for multiple generations. They purposely slow roll incremental improvements in each gen release to keep the profits comming in.
Like most LLM-based AIs, it will get to a point where it's somewhat passable for instanced character interactions. It will be a looong time, however, for it to emulate the multi-layered semantics, character development, and overally plot arching...
In my experience, Asus cards are no more or less issue-prone than any other AIB. Further, their after-market support is on the same level as others. You're really just paying a premium for the brand(ing), and likely shoring up R&D and other...
My view is they'll likely make the 12VHPWR connector more robust and attach than change the entire connection/cord standard. They simply need to make the connection more secure, and easier to tell if it's not seated correctly.