For a video with a poo joke, it's awfully funny that the video URL actually has "Poo" at the end of the URL thanks youtube. 😎
@JaimeIsJaime
2 жыл бұрын
The GT 210 is a crappy card after all
@Collector123k
2 жыл бұрын
5VvDiIW7Poo = 5 Volt Diluted Windows 7 Poo 🤣
@LiquidCooledListerine
2 жыл бұрын
@@Collector123k haha yessss
@gtasomogyi
2 жыл бұрын
Question: Is it worse than a HD4350? :D
@BudgetBuildsOfficial
2 жыл бұрын
@@gtasomogyi Probavly about on par. The Nvidia drivers are better than the AMD ones though.
@JeffWaynee
2 жыл бұрын
The GT210 was gutless about 4 years before it even existed. An amazing feat!
@aleksazunjic9672
2 жыл бұрын
Well, nope. It was usual Nvidia low(eset) segment card, and they target games released 5 years prior at low settings.
@TheDemocrab
2 жыл бұрын
@@aleksazunjic9672 No that's the thing, the GT210 was even slower than the 9400GT which it was meant to be replacing. It's probably the worst budget segment graphics card released by nVidia or AMD/ATi. Legit would have been better to just shrink the 9400GT and add in the new video decoder.
@HappyBeezerStudios
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheDemocrab laughs in FX 5200, which was slower than the lowend card it was supposed to replace.
@TheDemocrab
2 жыл бұрын
@@HappyBeezerStudios I regard the GT210 as worse simply because the FX5200 had an actual use-case - For years it and the FX5500 (Overclocked, die-shrunk version of the FX5200) were the most easily available PCI graphics cards that didn't require any external power when it was still reasonably likely to find PCs without any AGP or PCIe slots and proprietary PSU pinouts, and despite its lacklustre performance it still ran circles around any IGPs in those PCs and most of the other readily available PCI options that didn't require external power at the time. The GT210 even came in PCI as well funnily enough, but by then it was much rarer to find a PC where PCI was the only bus option so it wasn't as useful.
@aleksazunjic9672
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheDemocrab 210 was not direct replacement for 9400Gt (220 could have been) . 210 was cheapest card with hardware decoding h.264 which was huge deal back then. Overall, it was cheaper to produce gt210 in 40 nm process than to continue with 9xxx series in 80 nm process.
@Polygraph2131
2 жыл бұрын
I had a Gigabyte DDR3 variant of this card. I managed to basically max out the sliders in MSI afterburner before it black screened and never posted again.
@SJPretorius000
2 жыл бұрын
Niceeee!
@detecta
2 жыл бұрын
@@SJPretorius000 or not
@JoseLgamer05
2 жыл бұрын
You probably did a favor to yourself by killing it.
@mariastevens6406
2 жыл бұрын
Lmao I did that to my 970 when I got it lol don't drink and oc people
@12100F
2 жыл бұрын
hats off to you for ending one of those abominations
@Caarajack
2 жыл бұрын
210 as a gaming card is as good as those tiny USB fans as air conditioner.
@skraegorn7317
2 жыл бұрын
I was gonna say it might be acceptable for Windows XP, but then I remembered you can still buy a new or lightly used GT710 for the same kind of money, and that will blow the 210 out of the water.
@mariastevens6406
2 жыл бұрын
@@skraegorn7317 you could buy a 730 with gddr5 for the same price. Though I'd say just get a 750 (ti or not, whatever) for xp. You'd run literally everything at no less than 60fps if you're doing a retro rig
@fluttzkrieg4392
2 жыл бұрын
@@skraegorn7317 Or you could get a Ryzen CPU that has a Vega, which is considerably better than even a 710. Of course, that is only valid if you're basically building a machine from scratch.
@HappyBeezerStudios
2 жыл бұрын
@@fluttzkrieg4392 So how are the XP drivers on it?
@fluttzkrieg4392
2 жыл бұрын
@@HappyBeezerStudios Not bad, though they work much better if you don't use that as your main OS 21 years after its release.
@dotxyn
2 жыл бұрын
During the GPU shortage this was the only card consistently in stock at EVGA
@solarstrike33
2 жыл бұрын
Rest In Peace, EVGA GPU unit.
@dotxyn
2 жыл бұрын
@@solarstrike33 RIP in peace :,(
@Greenfly39
11 ай бұрын
@@dotxyn rest in peace in peace?
@nuglord2084
2 жыл бұрын
I loathe this card. Every single business PC I’ve seen with a GT210 or GT710 already had a superior iGPU.
@harrytsang1501
2 жыл бұрын
One time the office got a new PC, we asked Dell not to include the GT730 because the intel 9th gen iGPU is better. You know what? Those bastards still included it with the $80 price tag. 4k 60fps videos from an iPhone does not play, removing the GT730 fixed it. And that was before the GPU prices went crazy, for that money you could have gotten a second hand RX470 or GTX970
@okgo173
2 жыл бұрын
oh boy, i'm guessing you don't know gt705 exists do you? gt710 is a monster compared to that turd.
@bitelaserkhalif
2 жыл бұрын
Wanna hear a joke? I3 10100f paired with gt 710 or 730
@MultiDivebomber
2 жыл бұрын
@@bitelaserkhalif 5700G paired with GT 710 is even funnier
@therealmistermemer
2 жыл бұрын
@@MultiDivebomber That's just one of those cheap gaming PCs on Amazon.
@aleksazunjic9672
2 жыл бұрын
Very few people understand GT210 success story. It was lowest tier Nvidia card, and as it became standard for this segment, it could run games released 5 years prior with low-ish settings. But gaming was not its selling point, playing compressed video was ! It was among first budget cards that could run compressed video clips at 1080p , which was a huge deal when it was released. DivX was a king in those years, most clips were encoded with H.264 and GT210 had hardware decoding for that - instead of relying on your (weak) CPU . Suddenly you had completely usable multimedia machine alongside usual office tasks.
@HappyBeezerStudios
2 жыл бұрын
It sits in that specific low performance bracket that is just barely good enough to run a screen and show video. Stuff like the GT 420/520, GT 610/710, GT 620, HD 4550, HD 5450, HD 6450, R5 230, etc Performance at the lowest end hasn't really progressed over the last decade. The fact that they still produce cards on the performance level of the 8800 GT that I bought used more than a decade ago is astonishing.
@aleksazunjic9672
2 жыл бұрын
@@HappyBeezerStudios To be fair, GT 210 runs 1080p videos without problem . 710 would run 4K but at 30 FPS (Hz) which is good enough for movies etc ... Lots of people simply do not game. What is presently killing this lowest end market is advance of integrated graphics. Even UHD 630 could run 4K videos and more and more powerful CPUs came with iGPU which was not a thing in the past.
@nutzeeer
2 жыл бұрын
Now imagine modern amd cards dont habe decoding
@CotyRiddle
2 жыл бұрын
@@aleksazunjic9672 UHD can even run more modern games. as long as you don't push the settings high most game will run 1080*720 with low to medeium settings. *actually a accomplishment from intel at the time. Can't wait to se what arc actually brings to the table if they can manage it for at least 4 years and have a few good cards and decent drivers pushed out.... last time intel did dedicated was ahem yeah >.>
@aleksazunjic9672
2 жыл бұрын
@@CotyRiddle True. Thus this lowest segment of x10 cards is slowly dying out.
@razcodes
2 жыл бұрын
I had a 210 for around 5 years as my main GPU when I was 12 years old, I played CS Source, Garry's Mod, Minecraft, TF2 and GTA SA, and other very old games like the first Far Cry. I didn't knew anything about computers at that time so I thought it was amazing, I have to thank that card for making me appreciate games a lot, and since I had to be tinkering so much it eventually leaded me into programming which is now my passion and way of living.
@littlewendigo5055
2 жыл бұрын
Hey, that is quite a heartwarming story actually, 210 was useful for once!
@ChloeVFX
Жыл бұрын
I ran a 710 for the longest time, and I ran EVERYTHING on it. Bendy, Minecraft, editing softwares, a lot of Blender renders, etc. It was a BEAST for what I put it through. :)
@razcodes
Жыл бұрын
@@ChloeVFX I used blender too! I remember also using Cinema4d and things like that. Hahah what a time! Now I have a much powerful GPU but I don't enjoy gaming nearly as much as I did when I had the 210. As I learned about other GPUs, I remember thinking every day how much more fun could I have with a better one, now that I do I wish I was 13 and playing with my 210 again!
@mars-jr5uu
27 күн бұрын
@@littlewendigo5055omgg heyoo😊
@averageuser2114
2 жыл бұрын
The GT210 had the perfomance of a card that was released 4 years before it's release
@solarstrike33
2 жыл бұрын
I honestly wonder if even the 6800 Ultra has better performance, honestly. And that's a flagship from *_2004._*
@aleksazunjic9672
2 жыл бұрын
It did target games released roughly 5 years earlier, as lowest tier Nvidia cards do. Video decoding was its main forte, and it made it sell so well.
@HappyBeezerStudios
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, fits about with the 7900 cards, so 5 years old high end is about it. Which is also why the GT 710 is much worse in comparison. 5 Years before that was, oh not 5 year old highend, but 5 year old midrange with the 9600.
@CotyRiddle
2 жыл бұрын
@@solarstrike33 it did LFMAO
@another3997
Жыл бұрын
And that was essentially what they were aiming for. A CHEAP card for basic use, that could also play video with hardware acceleration. Offices, schools, people who just wanted to browse the web etc don't need gaming performance. If you wanted a card primarily to play games, they made plenty of those too. It's no different today. A lot of computers have a basic iGPU or low end card for the same reasons.
@TheChilledThunder
2 жыл бұрын
A few years ago a friend of mine asked for a new graphics card for his birthday (he was playing with integrated graphics on whatever cheep second hand CPU he was using). Long story short his parents bought him a brand new 210 from amazon. When installed in his PC it ran at about half the proformace of his integrated graphics and for fear of his parents being upset we spent about 20 minutes in the bios/random windows settings to disable the card so he didn't have to remove it. The card may be designed to be a display adapter but it is not marketed as such misleading non tech-savy people (such as my friends parents).
@elecktr1
2 жыл бұрын
I got it for free with some old pc parts. Serves as emergency/test card pretty well
@gtasomogyi
2 жыл бұрын
For that use I have an HD4350. :D Tried once the last Carmageddon on it, ran, but was not fun. :D
@Twintania
2 жыл бұрын
thanks to my dad giving me his old gaming computer my test gpu is now a 560 ti. But primarily going to use it in his old computer as a overkill windows xp machine
@generalyido
2 жыл бұрын
I have a 1030 pulled out of a prebuilt as my backup
@wallachia4797
2 жыл бұрын
I've had this card for almost my entire childhood. Thankfully I've upgraded since then...to a Quadro 2000 I love living in Eastern Europe 2023 update: I am now the proud owner of a 6800 XT
@vinylSummer
2 жыл бұрын
i hope you'll be able to get smth better
@wallachia4797
2 жыл бұрын
@@vinylSummer Thanks man, yea, I hope so too
@angeltzepesh1
Жыл бұрын
@@wallachia4797 român?
@wallachia4797
Жыл бұрын
@@angeltzepesh1 da
@pankoza2
8 ай бұрын
I see a literal pandemic of people switching from NVidia to AMD GPU's
@tyttuut
2 жыл бұрын
It's amazing that they still make these. They're old enough that I've found three of them at an electronics recycler, but still in production.
@n0rsca392
2 жыл бұрын
I had this gpu, back in 2010-2012 and it was ass-tier even back then. To see people use this gpu still is disturbing. Truly an awful gpu.
@harryshuman9637
2 жыл бұрын
To be fair, I think people who use it today just need a display adapter. Yes, you could get a much more powerful GPU for $15, like you could pick up a mid 00s near top-tier GPU. It will play Fable and HL2 better, but it will not support the latest APIs.
@adrianc.valentin5407
2 жыл бұрын
Can confirm this. Currently running a MSI 210 as my current GPU in my build, paired along with 4 GBs of DDR3 ram at 1333 mhz and i3 3220. Not the worst configuration possible, but boy, that 2 sticks of memory that I've got and that 210 are two massive buggers that keep me preventing from playing older titles from the early-mid 00's. I can't wait to finally get rid of this awful GPU and get a Maxwell Titan X or a 980 TI, so that I will FINALLY be able to play most of the newer titles from 2006/2007 onwards at 1080p or 1440p settings.
@airmicrobe
2 жыл бұрын
I have 2:)
@n0rsca392
2 жыл бұрын
@@airmicrobe .....why
@HappyBeezerStudios
2 жыл бұрын
@@harryshuman9637 But neither does the 210 :D That is a DX10 card with no support for Vulkan, HEVC/h.265 or vp9, it lacks driver support for years. (the latest one is from 2016) It requires hd264ify to even accelerate youtube! In fact, a mid 00s top tier GPU would be something from the same lineup like a 9800 GT or GTX 260, which won't have hardware acceleration for those codecs or DX11/12 either, but but least they would play the old games better. This is still a mid 00s card, just a low-end one.
@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap
2 жыл бұрын
There is a 205. 8 Cuda cores instead of 16 so as bad as the 210 is it can get worse.
@thepezfeo
2 жыл бұрын
I had a 205 and 210, I think the 205 was in a Acer pc a friend gave me. The 210 was a fanless MSI model that had ATI branded Vram.
@Hibbyhubby
2 жыл бұрын
@@thepezfeo this sounds like the card to get ty
@Annyumi_
2 жыл бұрын
It's pretty much geforce g100 but with different name
@MichelleTamezPerez
2 жыл бұрын
The actual worst of the worst is indeed an "OEM 210 PCI" It was basically the same as the g100/205 with the added bonus of being capped at 12w TDP instead of 30w due to the PCI (not PCIE nor agp) bus. It was about 20% slower than a 205, came with GDDR2 400 ram and was about 120mzh slower than the 205 on clock and about 300mhz in shader clock. Whats worse is that some OEMs were display locked, so they did work for video decode/encode but nothing else, you couldn't connect any monitor to the vga or dvi despite having them.
@AdjectiveBlazkowicz
Ай бұрын
205 sounds like something you would buy your friend for april fools lol
@whattodo3116
2 жыл бұрын
Man... The GT 210. I remember in 2009 or something the netcafe near my home received a full upgrade and every PC over there had a GT 210, I remember emulating Megaman X Command Mission on one of the machine using Dolphin and it was soo slow. But people didn't really care about it being powerful or not , the popular games at that time was a counter-strike clone made in Lithtech Jupiter, called Crossfire, the game tend to defaults to low settings and 800x600 resolution out of the box, the attitude was as long as it plays fine it doesn't matter, most people didn't even know what resolution settings were.
@re4796
2 жыл бұрын
crossfire was the shit
@TheDemocrab
2 жыл бұрын
In my high school there was a teacher whose office was next to a computer lab and they'd let a bunch of us LAN unreal tournament during lunchtime especially on wet days, I was the only kid who knew you could change the resolution from the default 640x480. Computer lab had 9600Pros in it as it was also used for CAD classes, I cranked those graphics settings :D
@charlesmcg
2 жыл бұрын
Crossfire. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
@clarkdsaf
Жыл бұрын
I have this card wayback 2010, until my brother swapped it for gt220.. he installed this gt210 on the pc vendo machine he assembled for his customer, i also remember him testing this card playing crysis 1 on the lowest resolution on the lowest possible setting at 8 fps 🤣.. the GT220 he gave to me gives my installed games a little breathing room, i also obtained a copy of crysis 1 and game on 800x600 on low-medium settings at 25-30 fps..
@Sheovion
2 жыл бұрын
i was one of the unhappy owners of this cursed GPU, used it from 2016 to 2020, when i bought a RX 580 8GB, to finally get my self rid of this old curse
@pankoza2
8 ай бұрын
Switching from NVIdia to AMD Graphics is extemely popular now btw.
@michaelvigil5321
2 ай бұрын
@pankoza2 once Nvidia can find a way to separate their extra features and hardware that are useful for software engineers and scientists from certain GPU's then give the savings to the average consumer GPU then it won't be that way but they won't. And that's why AMD will always be praised even if they are always 1 step behind with GPU's, also Radeon software is just straight up better to use.
@HeyItsJonny
2 жыл бұрын
I used to play warband and fallout 3 on this exact card, with a pentium dual e4something and 1 gig of ddr2 667. It was an lga775 chip, and I swapped it for a e6700, 4gb of low density ddr2 800, and a r7 250 later on and it ran so much better on windows 7.
@haroldsoldierJTM
Жыл бұрын
Holy hell, the pc specs sound like my pc specs 5 years ago. Fortunately, i upgraded to a 1060 back then.
@memesthatmakemelaughforhou476
2 жыл бұрын
I'd like to share a budget build of mine that I'm absolutely giddy over. I got a Dell optiplex 990, old office station. With Intel graphics and 4 GB of slow ram, it got 20 fps in GTA V with below lowest settings. But I added 16 GB of ram, and threw an RX 550 in it, and now I have 60 fps on GTA V, Fallout 4, and CSGO with Medium and High settings at 768p. This is so awesome for me because I've only ever had potatoes before, nothing capable of running these games like this. It was only 150 American Dollars, and with only 8 GB and a more competitively priced Optiplex, one could probably build it for 100.
@Josue31627
2 жыл бұрын
Before even watching the video, let me just type I do appreciate your in-depth insights on tech stuff. It's a nice little history lesson few channels dive into, especially the parts showing contemporary (at the time) reactions to them. That research takes some time both to find and analyze! There are so many versions of the GeForce 210 I have to wonder how awful the best version is. I have one that supposedly has 24 shading units according to GPU-Z which probably isn't right but let me tell ya, even with the extra shaders, GDDR3, and decent clocks... it's still pretty bad in games. As a display adapter... well it works. BUT considering they were still sold new as recent as 2021... terrible. There were and still are far cheaper and better options especially if looking used. I remember wanting one, before I knew what GPU really were for my old Pentium 4 system back in the day.. then I found out the motherboard can't support the GeForce 210s that were available. That's when I knew it was time to upgrade everything!
@kyoudaiken
2 жыл бұрын
With the resources wasted by this card, we probably could have achieved world peace instead.
@TheCod3r
2 жыл бұрын
This card did have a little plus, it did provide a cheap way for home servers to output to a display
@pankoza2
8 ай бұрын
that is what that card is really meant for
@jbritain
2 жыл бұрын
I respect your willingness to put any GPU you buy in your PC, I would be very worried to do that
@HappyBeezerStudios
2 жыл бұрын
I would have a specific test PC for that stuff. Just so that my main will not in any way be affected.
@GundamMate07
2 жыл бұрын
Oh dude this card was my first ever GPU, my dad got it for me and I had a prebuilt Dell Optiplex running only Intel Integrated Graphics. Needless to say it felt like a huuuge bump in performance even though I couldn’t run games smoothly like AC3, but was I happy kid. Good memories and I have you to thank for making this video on the GT210. Cheers mate
@awnordma
2 жыл бұрын
Around 2010 I ended up with an old first gen Athlon64 X2, since I didn't have any PCIe video cards I ran out and picked up the cheapest one I could find. I was quite horrified to find the 210 was about half the speed of my AGP GeForce 6600 GT, a mid range card from 2004.
@amathus2233
2 жыл бұрын
I purchased one of these a few years ago, no not as any kind of gaming card but for a 1080p picture? A lot of cpu's have no inbuilt graphics, you get a problem with your GPU you are fried. I seriously cannot imagine buying this for gaming, but it is excellent for getting a picture output. I love mine as a trusted backup.
@UKVampy
2 жыл бұрын
Holy crap these are still selling! This is pure madness, although I can see why after that period of stupid prices due to Covid and now inflation hitting. Like you said much more affordable cards out there that are much more powerful, I think I saw a GTX980 in CEX the other day for £125.00.
@emenem907
2 жыл бұрын
This card was great when you just needed a display on a system and the mobo didn’t have an output. Of course the pci tridents were always much more preferable.
@chillhour6155
2 жыл бұрын
This card was the main reason why most of us completely stay away from prebuilts back in the day
@harrytsang1501
2 жыл бұрын
This alongside the GT430 and GT610 were a must have if you build Hacintosh. Mac OSX just works with them and getting Intel HD to work was a nightmare
@jrose-xp6tf
2 жыл бұрын
I remember this well, I used it to show H.D. vids as proof-of-life in super-cheap budget rigs of the day....I'm SO glad those days are over...lol.
@specialopsdave
2 жыл бұрын
Truly a display adapter, not worthy of the title "graphics card". Definitely deserves recognition for being a good multi-monitor 1080p video decoder at it's price point back then.
@kylejones8392
2 жыл бұрын
Amazing. A graphics card sold today that my Iris Xe iGPU in the i7-1165G7 would completely decimate. Feels good man.
@e8root
2 жыл бұрын
even iGPU from Sandy Bridge 2500k would decimate this card
@phoneyry
2 жыл бұрын
Love when new videos roll in!
@Mitsuoxx
2 жыл бұрын
A dude build his PC at 2019. His RTX 2060 Super was delayed by Amazon for some issues so, for two weeks he had to use his new Ryzen 5 3600 with a GT 210 for working lmao.
@gaucovyaero
2 жыл бұрын
11:01 Minecraft is actually a really good and fun game to tweak. I got 1.19 running at 100fps semi-stable on a mobile Core 2 Duo and Intel GMA X3100 graphics, be it on Linux with some shader hacks and low resolution, but it is actually working! The GT 210 should be 65% faster than that (according to UserBenchmark), so it would be really nice to see how well it would perform with those settings :D
@MitsubishiGTO
2 жыл бұрын
In my opinion, he should use Garry’s Mod more as a benchmark.
@MitsubishiGTO
2 жыл бұрын
Also, MCPE corrupts if you have more than 10MB of mods.
@HappyBeezerStudios
2 жыл бұрын
That is really good performance. In fact, that is much better than my tests on a Pentium 4/GTX 660 Ti setup. Oh, and userbenchmark is really only good to compare the hardware with itself.
@MagMan4x4
2 жыл бұрын
I put this in a thousand computers that were never going to be used outside an office.
@fridaycaliforniaa236
10 ай бұрын
To be honest, I used to have a PC with no iGPU that I transformed in a NAS/server and I needed some kind of "graphics adapter" because I kept the RTX I had for my newer beast gaming PC. One friend gave me this for the price of a vodka and I'm more than happy with that low end very low power card for what I do with it. Ofc, I tried to "game" on it just for the laughs, and damn, I would never think of this for a gaming PC lol. Meanwhile, it can be a fun thingy for a retro gaming PC... Oh, and BTW, those cards are often raped asf in MSi Afterburner 😂
@Tiger351
2 жыл бұрын
Bindpoo is actually quite a fitting name if they're still manufacturing these things.....🤣
@DerangedScout
2 жыл бұрын
I remember really wanting to get one of these when I was in Maplins years ago. Bare in mind I had a Radeon HD 6450 at the time, which was actually more powerful. Just glad that the staffmember there told me to put more budget towards something better.
@WigWoo1
2 жыл бұрын
My first GPU when I bought my first "gaming" PC was the GT510
@Filipex13
2 жыл бұрын
my first was the gts250
@theol1044
6 ай бұрын
Just as I wrote that this card was called just "GeForce 210", not "GeForce GT 210", you said it in the video.😀 Seems like even nVidia did not dare put the "GT" moniker on it. OTOH, I can see the original purpose of this card, and even the reasons for its success. The Core2 and early Core-i CPUs did not yet have iGPUs. Belive it or not, the majority of people aren't gamers. For cheap, it was either (similarly misearable) chipset graphics or this. Perfectly viable solution for 2D office applications and did even play video reasonably well (for the time).
@aintaintaword666
2 жыл бұрын
I have managed to find a use case for a brand new 210: connecting two older, VGA-only monitors. Nowadays the 210 is the only GPU sold new which can have both VGA and DVI-I at the same time
@pygmalion8952
2 жыл бұрын
Adapters are a thing. I use 1 hdmi and 1 vga monitor with a 3070
@aintaintaword666
2 жыл бұрын
@@pygmalion8952 DVI/HDMI-to-VGA adapters are active, they convert the digital signal to analogue, so they cost a lot, at least much more than one would want to spend on such a thing; the 210 has a DVI-I, which combines both digital and analogue signals, so the needed adapter is just a bunch of cables, an it's usually included with the GPU itself
@Cory_
2 ай бұрын
Cards like this do have real use cases. Once I needed to convert an old office PC into a family-room computer for my mom and I needed to add an HDMI port to it because I didn't want her to have to deal with DisplayPort converters.
@rushnerd
2 жыл бұрын
I bought a BFG (remember those guys?) GTX 280 launch week in 2008. $650, which now is about $900. It was a brilliant card, but even at the time it was considered completely overkill and most didn't buy it. I kept it around a LONG time, but frankly, it's 1gb vram, performance, and DX10 limitations means it aged horribly. So I cannot even fathom living with a GT210. I mean I have to assume even my Intel 2600K I got in 2011 would equal this thing in GPU and decoding power.
@o-hogameplay185
2 жыл бұрын
in hungary during the gpu shortges, someone sold a gt 210 for more money, than the MSRP of a gtx 1070
@junaidunar9148
Жыл бұрын
This was actually my first ever "gaming" gpu in 2012 it was ddr3 though, i managed to play gta 4, tomb raider 2013, cod black ops 2, max payne 3 etc, it did ok, i never paid too much attention on fps and stuff, overall it i did enjoy and i loved it for what it was back then.
@BREEZYM6015
2 жыл бұрын
I found a computer in a dumpster in 2010 at the apartment complex that we were living in at the time. It was a Core 2 Duo E8400 with 6GB of RAM. It was missing the graphics card so I bought the cheapest one I could find which was the Geforce 210. I had no idea that the card was good for watching movies but awful for gaming. This CPU, GPU combo was terrible to say the least. I put up with it for 10 years before getting a free upgrade to an FX8320, Radeon HD 7950 3GB Twin Frozr iii. and 16GB of DDR3 RAM. Been gaming on the FX8320 PC for 2 years now and I'm happy with it.
@TheFakeVIP
2 жыл бұрын
Oh man, this is bringing back memories of when me and my step brother tried playing games on a Geforce 9400 back when that was the best GPU I had. I'd gotten it for free, along with most of the other parts I mashed together to give him a PC in 2015 or so. But hay ... it was at least better than the 7300le he had before that, which doesn't have Windows 10 drivers.
@CotyRiddle
2 жыл бұрын
the 9400 pounced the geforce 210 into the ground in all aspect other than direct x support.
@elliottsalt
2 жыл бұрын
This video made me happy that I have and use a GT 1030 in my current system.
@thephoenixking1086
2 жыл бұрын
It reminds me of Pineapple on Pizza, something everyone hates because the Internet told you to when in real life it is not that bad and pretty good. The GT210, 710 and 1030 are all cards like this, they are made for a reason which is NOT gaming, just a display output but because "GAMERS" said you must hate it, everyone hates it. Not everyone wants an RTX 3090 TI in their PC just to watch some KZitem videos, use Microsoft Word, in a school etc. These cards can do all that easily so a great, cheap and easy choice that uses nearly no power.
@Elkarlo77
2 ай бұрын
There is another Reason why so many Geforce 210 are around. Geforce GTX 480. The first DirectX 11 Geforce Card. It was in so demand that Nvidia forced the retailers to buy 10 Mid-Tier Cards or 100 Low Tier Cards to get one GTX 480 for the first 3-4 Month. And of course the dealers bought the cheapest card which had a full 1080p set on masses, so a lot of Geforce 210 went on the Shelfes, to sell the Highend Cards. The profit on the Low-Tier cars was the same as like on a GTS 250, GTX 260, GTX 465 or GTC 4070 but the risk was far lower.
@kikihun9726
2 жыл бұрын
It is a beast card for IT or computer repair shops/ youtubers/everyone. Thanks for the igpu-less cpu's. This and the 710 is the best. Don't need much power, can run 1x speed perfectly fine, would never break, never burn etc. It won't even get hot.
@riztiz
2 жыл бұрын
Yea my passively cooled 210 basically never overheats
@fastrockproductions9788
2 жыл бұрын
Alright chaps press that like.
@kurnma3776
Жыл бұрын
I feel bad for the dudes who got a gifted a GT 210/710. The geek equivalent of being gifted socks for Christmas
@thedankachu8653
2 жыл бұрын
I was an extremely toxic 14 year old on rocket league with this bad boy. Good old days.
@EnigmaticGentleman
2 жыл бұрын
Honestly i feel like it should be illegal to sell anything with a GPU lower than a 1050 as a "Gaming PC", its literally just misleading marketing to trick someones mom.
@mordecaiepsilon
2 жыл бұрын
"You might notice GTA V looks a lot like Notepad++" That intro to the GTA V benchmarking made me crack up
@hicknopunk
2 жыл бұрын
My first Nvidia was a 300 something. I loved it, it played EvE Online really well. Added: lol, for 1080p?? I used my gf3 for 1024x768
@adamhooper2476
2 жыл бұрын
The Hackintosh card. This was the go to card if you wanted an easy to build Hackintosh up to around the High Sierra era.
@dabombinablemi6188
2 жыл бұрын
Considering Portal was quite playable on a Celeron M380 with the intel 910GML and dual channel DDR2 400 (laptop won't run it at 533) - if the 210 hadn't managed gmod... That being said it was playable with no tweaks - just 1024x768 with low settings (at least I think - might have been 600p or 480p). It did better than a Mobility Radeon 9000pro igp (the one without a vertex unit) paired with a P4 HT 3.2GHz and DDR.
@whatanerd7628
2 жыл бұрын
i played WoW on this card at 5-10 FPS on release.. I think i had it already for 4-6 years before WoW released. I played all my favorite games on this card (at 5-45 FPS, usually somewhere around 15 FPS avarage) I was so HAPPY! It was my first "gaming" PC! I've never been more happy with a PC. Even today, with my RTX3090 , 5950X, 4Ghz DDR4, ITS JUST NOT THE SAME! xD
@jtp5167
2 жыл бұрын
I actually came across a GT218 (yes 218, not a typo) PCI-e 1x edition from zotac. Still works too.
@podio_km4g532
2 жыл бұрын
7:44 I can feel the pain, I got a tecra a9 around 2012 and I remember spending my time trying to run games at insanely low settings
@Sunlight91
2 жыл бұрын
I never heard of it. My Desktop had a capable HD 4770 and in 2011-2014 I only used a laptop due to becoming a student. When my laptop died I upgraded to a 750 ti.
@so14r3
2 жыл бұрын
As someone who mains a GeForce 210/GT218, thank you for having to suffer for the sake of us viewers xd
@Analisede_Tudo
2 жыл бұрын
In Brazil this Gpu is still massive selling
@acid3129
2 жыл бұрын
Now they just get stuck in Facebook marketplace "gaming" systems with a 3rd gen i5 from an optiplex all bundled in a rgb case for £500
@ismaelsoto9507
2 жыл бұрын
And the integrated graphics is better than the GT 210...
@davidmalkowski7850
2 жыл бұрын
I remember the GT 210! It was the very first GPU I bought for the very first computer I built. I played so many Flash games with it, back when I didn't know Steam was around.
@gregsmith9183
2 жыл бұрын
I remember the GT210 was a very popular card back when releases. Yet I always thought the lowest entry card was always going to be terrible for gaming and only useful for a media type setup.
@qdmc12
2 жыл бұрын
Nice brief feature of DoD @ 14:50
@yoman9446
2 жыл бұрын
Using GT210 with Pentium 4 or Core 2 Duo gives way better performance than a modern CPU. You should test with old CPUs, the GPU was made for.
@SmokeMastaP
2 жыл бұрын
I had the FX5200 years before the release of the (GT) 210, it was a similiar experience. :D But I was young and I had no demand for high fps or good graphics. (I didn't even know what it was.) It just worked for my games.
@ABYTE64
Жыл бұрын
the problem is that usually the lowest gpus, are more or less 1/8 of flagship - look at GT1030 or GTX 1630 or GT730, but GT210 is 1/16 of it's time flagship (GTX 280)
@FoxyAnimater
3 ай бұрын
As for minecraft, even a year ago, there was this new emerging mod that was even better than OptiFine at optimizing the game, it was called sodium and it was a fabric mod, not a forge mod, four just kind of on its way out as fabric is taking its place, and with better optimization mods like sodium, lithium, at one point I even had another mod by jelly squid 3 installed called prosper, and then I also had an experimental one called hydrogen installed, these four mods allowed me to play Minecraft 1.17 on a raspberry pi 4 with decent quality and almost 60 FPS consistently, the raspberry pi 4 by no means is any sort of a powerhouse.
@andrewl3779
2 жыл бұрын
Can't believe I played most of Dead Island with this damned card, fortunately after XCOM Enemy Unknown's release, Dad eventually got a 650ti, life was good from there on.
@ItsDeebs
9 ай бұрын
I brought my new gaming PC December 2009. It was a Phenom II X4 945 _(great processor)_ with a GT 240 1gb. With a set budget I prioritized processor, upgrade compatible motherboard and good PSU instead _(the latter is in my current PC)._
@BlueEyedVibeChecker
2 жыл бұрын
Imagine if someone made custom bios to use DLSS compatible with it, or if you could use FSR for 480P gaming with a 210. I'd try it, not gonna lie.
@Pentium320.
2 жыл бұрын
The success of this card is actually pretty obvious. Back in the day, iGPU market wasn't that popular, as many PCs didn't have any integrated graphics, and if they do, they were so limited, struggling even with basic operations like smooth support for Aero Glass (Intel GMA
@HappyBeezerStudios
2 жыл бұрын
And yet nVidia makes more cards at pretty much the same performance, all the way to the GT 710
@Pentium320.
2 жыл бұрын
@@HappyBeezerStudios GT710 is actually 2x times, or even more faster than GT210 (though, 2x zero is still zero 😂), is on newer architecture and has (or had?) longer driver support, so while being sold in pretty much the same price, it was like natural successor to GT210. Although, that's also interesting, that GT210 was so long being sold after end of support - you can probably still buy one new. I wonder how much of them were produced...
@MarySmith-hv5ur
2 жыл бұрын
Now do its succesor, the 710, which is also somehow still being made in someone's basement till today I believe, and the 750ti, which is the actual gaming card that's still pretty much the most popular card in third world countries
@SoilentGr33n
Жыл бұрын
LOL, I have one in my current music studio machine with an i5 12400F. A Zotac GT210 Synergy with 512mb of raging DDR2 to be exact. It was in some other computer that we found in a closet when we bought the house and I was like yay spare parts well guess what, in a pinch I ended up needing it and I could not fucking BELIEVE it even worked. Even GeForce Experience was like "DEAR GOD....well....alright then" and downgraded ITSELF to its 2014 build in pity just to find the "latest drivers." A truly sobering experience. I'm sure the card felt like Marty McFly when I coerced it into displaying Windows 11 in modern resolutions. OMG I'm running the future!! With two monitors it flickers like crazy and basically operates like Homer Simpson's dad falling asleep at random times, but it'll do until the i7 with integrated graphics shows up. I thought about trying Crysis for teh lulz but I don't want to blow it up before I'm done transferring all my sessions, plugins and DAW. It is a brutal product and it was a brutal product the day it came out.
@lilia-ai
Жыл бұрын
I know I am almost 1 years late, but this gt 210 terror has been replaced by it's new competitor gt 710.
@TheDuumiMuumi
2 жыл бұрын
GT210 is a completely capable card if you choose it's tasks right. Friend of mine couple of years ago had his GPU died, and he bought a brand new GT210 instead, works fine still. He only uses his computer for basic internet tasks and sometimes watching movies.
@plazmasyt
2 жыл бұрын
I remember playing so much Minecraft and Brutal Doom on one of these as a kid. Fun, terribly bad times c:
@gp3328
2 жыл бұрын
When a card is at the bottom of the performance comparison of techpowerup, you know it's bad.
@lolza-qh2xw
2 ай бұрын
I bought one for my work PC at the time so I could watch movies/youtube and play ps1 emulators lmao. I think I paid £15 for it discounted, brand new at a PC World, I went in expecting to pay £40 for a HD5450 so when I saw the battered GT210 box for £15 offering pretty much the same thing as the other card, was a no brainer. Well worth the price for that, it was a job as a night concierge at an apartment building. Me and my colleague got tons of use out of it, it wouldn't run every PS1 game but ran a fair few of them, even MGS. Still wonder if they have the same PC and the card in there.
@Tominatort69420
2 жыл бұрын
GT 210: Suffering From Success
@fungo6631
2 жыл бұрын
Oddly enough I recall some guy running GTA V on a GT 210 and it didn't have the same issues.
@SoUtHMeMpHis
8 ай бұрын
More interesting than watching videos about today's graphics cards/ video cards‼️🤔
@Leon14344_
2 жыл бұрын
So this is the first i've heard about it being bad. Not that I disagree, but it's use has been specific. I actually still use the same card today. In college I got it because I just needed a card to run dual monitors out of a slimline desktop PC and didn't do much PC gaming beyond Minecraft (it was in Alpha at the time) or AoE2/Civ4. It ran those fine, and of course played OK video. Today it's in a sleeper "retro" pc I built in an old optiplex case with a system running XP for older games, I used a vista-era Motherboard and a Core2Quad which pushes XP pretty good. The 210 runs a lot of XP-era games pretty well, all things considered. At least, Quake 3 runs fine, and that's most of what I care for, as well as NEC PC98 emulation. That said... anyone know a good old card I could throw in an XP machine to replace it?
@sgkonfetti
3 ай бұрын
You should consider making videos regarding the Nvidia GT710 and GT730. The GT710 has 2 Gb DDR3 Ram. The "new" GT730 has 4 Gb DDR3 Ram. The 4Gb Version can be purchased from Zotac.
@dan3a
2 жыл бұрын
I actually used it until December 2018... Used to run Just Cause 2 at 640x480 on Low settings... Really don't miss it lol.
@gtasomogyi
2 жыл бұрын
I tried the last Carmageddon on an oc'd HD4350, well, it ran, but was nut too much fun to play. Use that card to test MB's, ram, cpu, hdd. Thank God that was just curiousity, and I have an XFX silent RX460 4GB in my main rig. Backup is (hopefully not long) a Club3D silent HD 5750 1GB.
@solarstrike33
2 жыл бұрын
@@gtasomogyi Wait - not even Carmageddon (from 1997!) can run on an HD 4350??
@gtasomogyi
2 жыл бұрын
@@solarstrike33 on the opposite, I ran the latest/last, Reincarnation on it. 😀 With an oc'd C2D E6300 1.86GHz, running over 2,1GHz, 3GB DDR2, 300+MHz instead the 266... xD Stock Intel cooler, no issues with heat or instability.
@solarstrike33
2 жыл бұрын
@@gtasomogyi Ah, okay. I keep forgetting they made more Carma games after TDR 2000.
@gtasomogyi
2 жыл бұрын
@@solarstrike33 No problem! 🙂 I can definately recommend, good ol' Carma vibes with much better graphics.
@theburger_king
2 жыл бұрын
Your videos may not have the best hardware, but I love them good job bro 👍👍👍 I’d love to see some more full builds tho
@R3DMSR
2 жыл бұрын
I was distracted then I reached 5:55 and had to rewind a little just to hear the whole sentence
@mikesweet9991
2 жыл бұрын
Whoa I had this card some 12 years ago, hand me down from a hand-me-down Raytheon desktop PC. Many hours were spent playing Fallout 3/NV, Oblivion, Skyrim, and EVE online with this bad lad, then one day EVE updated the drivers and I couldn't log in anymore :'(
@GazahSCD
2 жыл бұрын
I had this card back in the day, there was one good thing about it. It ran TF2 at max settings.
@bulldog8080
Жыл бұрын
yeah I saw a video dating 8 years ago and it was getting 44 fps on max settings
@pankoza2
8 ай бұрын
I wonder if it could run Valorant, considering some old Intel HD Graphics even can
@gabrielv.4358
Ай бұрын
I absolutely love the clear fan design
@HAriz54321
2 жыл бұрын
I remember I had one of those. Still remember playing Tomb Raider, Far Cry 3 and FIFA 13 on it. On 800x400 windowed should be able to get above 20fps
@Raptor3388
2 жыл бұрын
The sad thing is, the slightly more expensive GT220, in particular the DDR3 version, was a decent low end gaming card that could play 2010-ish games decently for what it was, while the 205/210 really were only graphics adapters that could display HD. They became quickly redundant as CPUs integrated better graphics features.
@madson-web
2 жыл бұрын
If it was DX 11 compliant it would be still selling today. Well, you can have a 610.
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