@@RandomGaminginHD Its time for a gtx 295 review 😉😆
@mitchellpatterson1829
3 жыл бұрын
You should pop this in that FX9590 used build if you still have it. Good winter PC.
@bryanyokofich5021
3 жыл бұрын
Or a 9590 and GTX 480, very nice personal heater
@pattyoneill91
3 жыл бұрын
Lmao that's funny. A gtx580 is a good option for that too
@rehanaziz8499
3 жыл бұрын
@@bryanyokofich5021 ah yes when they made a Architecture so hot, they needed to name it Fermi.
@fetus2280
3 жыл бұрын
i go with Dual gx2's in Quad Sli on a Core 2 Extreme .. keeps me warm thats for sure .
@chromedonut2441
3 жыл бұрын
Could put the whole systen ouside in the winder cold for cooling.
@mikesilver9285
3 жыл бұрын
2 gpus for 550= top of the line gpu...... today 550 = entry level gpu.... bring me back in time
@Middcore
3 жыл бұрын
Of course, the prices are distorted at the moment as we all know. But even if everything was at MSRP... $550 in 2008 is about ~$670 in 2021 adjusted for inflation. So $670 would get you a very nice upper-end card at MSRP now, but certainly not a flagship.
@Forseti008
3 жыл бұрын
Wanna get back to a time when you needed a top of the line GPU to get decent framerate in 720p? Quite bizarre.
@Sirdiggar
3 жыл бұрын
But that entry level card now completely out performs that top of the range card back then....
@mikesilver9285
3 жыл бұрын
@@Middcore this was flagship... thats what i was referring too.... so at msrp 1100ish for 6900xt and 1500+ for the 3090.....
@Middcore
3 жыл бұрын
@@mikesilver9285 I'm generally agreeing with your point, except that it's not quite fair to say $550 is the true price of an entry level card today because that's only due to mining and silicon shortage related market distortions. It's true though that 550 (or 670 in today's money) won't buy a flagship card.
@nobodyyouknow1065
3 жыл бұрын
“Obsolete, just like time itself, is a manmade concept.” is a very little appreciated truth.
@robertt9342
3 жыл бұрын
It's a bit more complicated than that. Extremely simplified, Causality is a thing and time is a way of expressing it.
@NFStopsnuf
3 жыл бұрын
@@robertt9342 I'm 14 and this is deep
@josejuanandrade4439
3 жыл бұрын
Except time is not enterely just a concept. Is a quantiative and well defined measure. It would be akin to say that "distance" is a manmade concept. Is a measure we use to define how far away is an object from another. Time, in the same way, is a measure we use to define how far an event is in the past or future. I like to use Time Dilatation as a good example that proves the existence of time. Einstein showed in his thought experiments that people travelling at different speeds, while agreeing on cause and effect, measure different time separations between events, and can even observe different chronological orderings between non-causally related events. Though these effects are typically minute in the human experience, the effect becomes much more pronounced for objects moving at speeds approaching the speed of light. Subatomic particles exist for a well known average fraction of a second in a lab relatively at rest, but when travelling close to the speed of light they are measured to travel farther and exist for much longer than when at rest. According to the special theory of relativity, in the high-speed particle's frame of reference, it exists, on the average, for a standard amount of time known as its mean lifetime, and the distance it travels in that time is zero, because its velocity is zero. Relative to a frame of reference at rest, time seems to "slow down" for the particle. Relative to the high-speed particle, distances seem to shorten. Einstein showed how both temporal and spatial dimensions can be altered (or "warped") by high-speed motion.
@V1CCZ3XX
3 жыл бұрын
this is why I still rock my rx 480 with pride
@Zero11s
3 жыл бұрын
Time is not manmade
@Charles-jj2su
3 жыл бұрын
“Obsolete is just a man made concept” I like the way you think!
@dallesamllhals9161
3 жыл бұрын
I still have my C64 breadbox grey F-keys!!!
@eduardoscorpio
3 жыл бұрын
I had 2 of these and an i7920 when they released, good times
@RandomGaminginHD
3 жыл бұрын
Must have had some serious heat from them haha
@Saleem_Bhai
3 жыл бұрын
@@RandomGaminginHD free room heater...
@eduardoscorpio
3 жыл бұрын
@@RandomGaminginHD yes they did that's why i picked a case with a fan sending air on them , here's some old pictures of my system back them imgur.com/a/ndUws3o
@Noxior12
3 жыл бұрын
@@eduardoscorpio that CPU cooler is an absolute unit lol
@eduardoscorpio
3 жыл бұрын
@@Noxior12 i had a bigger one on the Q6600 with a Tuniq Tower 120 😂😂, gave that pc to my brother when i assembled this one
@TigerChamp99
3 жыл бұрын
7:27 Respect for giving us a flashing image warning.
@xstongames4778
3 жыл бұрын
This was some time that there was some real gpu competetion. Now Intel is entering the gpu market too, let's see how that goes
@RandomGaminginHD
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah I'm looking forward to Intel's stuff tbh
@DJ_Dopamine
3 жыл бұрын
A Triopoly ?
@zuckdaddy1596
3 жыл бұрын
@@DJ_Dopamine oligarchy
@vipervidsgamingplus5723
3 жыл бұрын
It will be the same as it is now, you won't be able to find one for the price it should be.
@adlibbed2138
3 жыл бұрын
@uls m I kinda imagine and wished matrox and 3dfx we're still around tho, that we may just had more options to choose from instead of sticking with either nvidia or amd/ati as we we're now
@lordofwolve
3 жыл бұрын
Only if I was this early to buy RTX 30 series GPU's...... Edit 5 seconds later: They're all gone...
@bored_person1640
3 жыл бұрын
I shall sacrifice my like for 69 likes!
@dallesamllhals9161
3 жыл бұрын
..i just want a simple 1660S/Ti... GAAAAAAH!
@_unseenhunter_5093
3 жыл бұрын
Go to a stock checker discord and get an fe drop from scan. That's how i got my 3080 fe.
@MrWillypanda88
3 жыл бұрын
I remember looking at this card in a computer expo back when I was a broke college student. Back then I dreamed of buying it someday... Now that I think about it, it was such a stupid dream
@Ja2016
3 жыл бұрын
Yeh but I dream of getting a 3080/3090 now and in 15 years or whatever I wont think of it as a stupid dream
@sithounetsith9877
3 жыл бұрын
@@Ja2016 Will the 1080TI be considered a dream in 6 years??
@Ja2016
3 жыл бұрын
@@sithounetsith9877 No, but I wasnt saying that. I was referring to this "it was such a stupid dream". *Was*
@MrWillypanda88
3 жыл бұрын
@@Ja2016 it was a stupid dream for me because at the end of the day I feel like I couldn't justify buying a high-end GPU for the price it asked. The comparison of performance/price of high end GPU IMHO was not justified. It's just my personal opinion about it.
@LuizFernando-ym1my
3 жыл бұрын
Some dreams just doesn't age very well.
@kraazed
3 жыл бұрын
I had a HD4870 back in 2008. I wanted the x2 so badly. At the time the HD4870 was such a competitive card with the 9800 GTX and it just ran games so well, even the original Crysis ran at close to max settings @ 1650x1050 getting close to 30fps average. The HD4870 and my current (last 4 years) GTX1080Ti have been the best video cards I have owned.
@agsechogd6406
3 жыл бұрын
I'm so happy you are gaining subs and getting noticed more now :D keep it up bro, we love your content
@laurensfundaytwl
3 жыл бұрын
Really enjoy these now 'old school' gpu/cpu videos. Fun stuff.
@MenTal9R
3 жыл бұрын
I had a 4870x2... that thing was a beast at the time. I upgraded to 2x 5870's after that, which were also great cards in their day. Almost hard to imagine you could get a flagship GPU for under $400 USD ($379 if memory serves). Simply amazing what AMD did back then to keep GPU prices in check.
@grtechgamer9294
3 жыл бұрын
Damn you won't believe i was Fixing a HD 4870 (not the x2) for my other PC which had fan problems . and today this video came up !
@ToysForTheGods
3 жыл бұрын
I still have my 4870x2 when I bought mine it ran hot so I put an Arctic cooling after market tripple fan cooler on it. It was way ahead of its time and I ran this card for years, it was amazing. I will never get rid of it lol
@benjaminwirth5192
3 жыл бұрын
Loved that card. I owned one in 2008 and still have it.
@gageboy14
3 жыл бұрын
Got to dig up Crysis 2 and give it a run on my TUF 3080! Personally my favorite Crysis.
@bryanyokofich5021
3 жыл бұрын
Loved Crysis 2!
@johnhanson4795
3 жыл бұрын
i got the evga ftw ultra last monday hard to pry me away from computer now waited 7months
@chincemagnet
3 жыл бұрын
These were GREAT cards, I used to have two 4850x2. ATI was awesome back in the day. The 4850x2 was dirt cheap, you could get two of them for the price of a 4870x2 and have WAY more performance, and headache of course. The biggest issue with these and the 5970, I also had two of those lol, was they didn't have enough VRAM for the level of performance you'd get by running 4 GPUs.
@lorenzotaccini765
3 жыл бұрын
we want a video about the "not very good" laptop you use to capture gameplay! :)
@alexandruurda5284
3 жыл бұрын
I remember back in the 2010 my friend had this beast of a card in an asus laptop. It was a beast
@wisico640
3 жыл бұрын
What you said doesn't make much sence? If it's in a laptop the chances are low that this exact card with 2 GPUs was in it 😅
@alexandruurda5284
3 жыл бұрын
@@wisico640 if i tell you that the laptop had the screen size of 18.4" will that make sence? Just search for Asus w90vp
@wisico640
3 жыл бұрын
@@alexandruurda5284 interesting time piece, there are 2 gpus! Probably not running at 100% but still, this is nice :)
@alexandruurda5284
3 жыл бұрын
@@wisico640 i don't know what was the max %, only got to play 2-3 times on it. Everything was running so smooth on max settings and i was drooling everytime because my laptop had a crappy ati radeon hd3470 on it 🤣
@wisico640
3 жыл бұрын
@@alexandruurda5284 I mean, it might just still be better than my current laptop soo 👌
@waveyan
3 жыл бұрын
Also in the temperatures (thank you for adding them ) it says one gpu is at like 80 and the other is at 40, maybe this means only one of them was working and the frames could have been higher if both of them were working? I am not too sure.
@RandomGaminginHD
3 жыл бұрын
I thought that, but I think it might be because only one gpu is actually getting cooled effectively. I'll have to take it apart and investigate
@waveyan
3 жыл бұрын
@@RandomGaminginHD What I would do is just in whatever way trying to mount a fan in a way where it directly blows air into the other side of the card and see if the temperature goes down.
@eyetac
3 жыл бұрын
I've still got my 4870x2 running in another machine. One GPU is definitely doing all the heavy lifting here.
@Zeveulesaussure
3 жыл бұрын
Thought the same. Crossfire isn't running here
@Rhamirezz85
Жыл бұрын
I had Radeon 4870 back in the day! Best graphic card for sooo long! Served me well until it died and I bought gtx 970. Now I have laptop from.Asus with 6800m. Radeon team once again :)
@uglybob7505
3 жыл бұрын
Awwwww man I can smell the burning from here lol. I had one of these and I had to keep the side of the case open to help with the temps but did nothing to stifle the noise of the blower fan. Still though, an absolute monster of a card......wish I still had my old one. Good find :-)
@IcebergTech
3 жыл бұрын
Ha! I've got a build with an HD 5970 on it's way from CEX, been looking at other dual GPU videos lately to see what I should expect. This is timely!
@shafeq786786
3 жыл бұрын
Still got mine proudly sat on a shelf...happy days back when I had time to game..
@culaneomacknear7021
3 жыл бұрын
I saw this video yesterday and never clicked on it, but now that I did I realized you changed the title from "the beast from 10 years ago" to "I think I smell burning"
@951258tike22
3 жыл бұрын
I went to a vocational tech school for my junior and senior years of HS and we got to build a "super computer" as an end of the year project. The sickest build of past classes was definitely two of these bad boys in Quadfire and the top of the line Nahalem i7, all under a custom water loop. Our class of '12 build was admittedly not that cool in comparison!
@Igel86
3 жыл бұрын
As a matter of fact, i also have one of these lying around. It's the XFX model, and sadly it doesn't work anymore. But it is one hell of a beautiful card.
@RedEverything
3 жыл бұрын
I didnt get into PC gaming until 2012 with the Radeon 7950, so it's neat seeing these old graphics cards.
@VernonDraws
3 жыл бұрын
I useto have an Old HD6000 series cardin my FX pc. i know what overheating AMD smells like. now i have an RX 570 in my Ryzen 5 PC... lets just say team red is cooler now than it useto be, no pun intended
@dallesamllhals9161
3 жыл бұрын
'cause Pentium Ds did NOT smell? (or to OLD for ya'?)
@capralmarines4043
3 жыл бұрын
undervolt that baby
@sushimshah2896
3 жыл бұрын
4:37-Yay, finally someone with my GPU (I have the DDR3 variant😢), though I specifically chose the 4C/8T i7-4712HQ model instead of the U series i7, thank God for that.
@braxtonbunner4990
3 жыл бұрын
Haha, I got the same GPU when my dad helped me build my first Gaming PC back in 2008, in fact, this video encouraged me, I actually still have it! And it still works in my Z970 configuration with a 9700k! It does get quite hot! Crossfire still worked too. Thanks for bringing back the memories. I remember firing up Crysis with this bad boy and was blown away. My first PC was hooked up to an old CRT monitor. Those were the days.
@braxtonbunner4990
3 жыл бұрын
Correction, it's a 3870 X2. Check your tweets @RandomGaminginHD
@AdamSFM
3 жыл бұрын
GTA 5 has stuttering issues in the menu (sometimes), it's related to extremely high framerates - turning vsync on fixes this.
@MultiYippee
3 жыл бұрын
In particular, VSync off allows the FPS to go as high as possible, but there's an engine FPS limit of 188FPS, and it also stutters quite badly when reaching this framerate. It also happens in regular gameplay should you happen to be able to reach that framerate when playing.
@xkillerpn
3 жыл бұрын
I had one, I remember removing the plastic and puting 2 80mm fans on both coolers. works great
@nischalofchrist
3 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love the AMD Radeon shrouds from this era.
@Krisztian5HUN
3 жыл бұрын
Sorry but this is ATi shroud
@xXValentineXx
3 жыл бұрын
I repair a friends pc last week. The GPU was dead and i had a hd4890 in my basement... He had the choice of either an expensive graphics card or a 4890 for free until the graphics cards are cheaper. now he's playing with the 4890 in 2021 ... its phasmophobia is even running 🤣
@Charlie6969
3 жыл бұрын
I remember drooling over one of these back in the day. Just something about a big beastly blower card really does it for me.
@gabrielcastileherrera9262
3 жыл бұрын
i was here wayyyy backkkkk when.... i am so glad youve got 420k subs now.
@evileyeball
Жыл бұрын
I got this card in 2008 when it was the new hotness. I was running it on a system with an E8400 and EIGHT GIGABYTES OF DDR2. I drove two Samsung T220 22" 16X10 monitors with it until they died. I ran that machine on XP x64 from 2008 to 2019 and the card ran well from 2008-2014 at which point I had overheating issues that required I re-thermal paste the cooler and blow it fully out with it removed that got me another 5 years. Near the end though I wasn't gaming as much on it as near the beginning.
@malamri424
3 жыл бұрын
i gotta say it looks awesome... i love the look of old graphics cards
@MaTtRoSiTy
3 жыл бұрын
Ah yeah I could only dream of one of these back when they came out
@Pathstalker
3 жыл бұрын
Ahhhhhh my old card, Rest in peace
@jbrooks4282
Жыл бұрын
I had 2 of these bad boys back in the day in quadfire. Most expensive room heater I've ever bought.
@phelype211
3 жыл бұрын
I had an HD 4830 512mb from 2008. But I was crazy about this one, was my dream!
@z3r067
3 жыл бұрын
They removed DX 10 support for fortnite when they introduced RTX and DLSS to the game. Sad for older cards that could normally run the game perfectly fine. :( Great Video as always!
@leefoster8015
7 ай бұрын
I spent a terms student budget buying a rig with 2 of these in crossfire so effectively 4 GPU's. I've never even come close to outputting that level of heat, it was kind of amazing during the winter months but I couldn't game comfortably in summer due to the heat. On the plus side it was the first rig I bult that could tame crysis.
@MCMinerHQ
3 жыл бұрын
I successfully restored and operated two of these in crossfire and mined some of the first coins with them hella long ago. If you have any questions about these cards like thermal pad thickness you wanna use or anything let me know man. I graduated to an EK blocked R9295x2 and mined some ether when I got free power in my college dorm. I can probably help you out with stuff I may start a channel soon probably just casual vids tho I don't want to become big. EDIT: your card isnt too healthy thats why I mention it
@rolandssavdons7993
3 жыл бұрын
RGinHD, where have disappeared the gaming rig reviews? I'm devastated that the series has come to a stop.
@deputybluevein93
3 жыл бұрын
I remember having this and actually ran Crysis and it handled it very very well. Along side with i7 3770k and 16gb or corsair ddr3. Brilliant card but it quickly heated up my bedroom. Was a monster back in the hayday
@pauls4522
3 жыл бұрын
I remember in my freshman year of college when this card was new. I only had a radeon 4850 at the time, but the 4870x2 in I think in cross fire for a total of x4 maybe I remember watching crysis 1 1000 barrels explosion videos seeing smooth framerates (yes in crysis!) if if my memory serves me correctly in 1080p max settings my 512mb 4850 ran at 21fps, a radeon 4870 was around 26-27 fps. so assuming some reasonable scaling and functionality for that matter 2 4870x's could have run it at 60fps, which was absolutely breathtaking at the time :)
@leviathan7294
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking Overwatch back in to the benchmarks, I really appreciate it.
@Joel-ew1zm
3 жыл бұрын
Perfect candidate for a retro vista rig. I have one I built that I swap between a GTX 285 and an HD 4890. Running a launch vista-era i7 965, intel dx58so motherboard, Zalman CPU cooler and a WD Velociraptor boot drive, in a more modern case with a modern PSU of course
@saulaaa2387
3 жыл бұрын
Still have mine in closet, it's MSI HD 4870x2 and it works fine, it's for my collection! WIll fire up this beast and play some old titles like F.E.A.R.. ohh memories!
@badass6300
3 жыл бұрын
Funny thing is that that the 2x HD4870 chips are still smaller than the single chip in the gtx 280 at the time. The HD4000 series are the best Generation of GPUs AMD/ATi ever made.
@Gargantura
3 жыл бұрын
what a beatiful stove you got there..
@EasternUNO
3 жыл бұрын
I was expecting you to release this video after you told me you bought this card :) It is so noisy and in majority of games only 1 gpu is supported
@tylerkunz5490
3 жыл бұрын
I picked up 2 of these in a vintage lot... I have to build a retro rig for one but man is it tempting to get to it
@AnaesthaeticX2
3 жыл бұрын
About the drivers: ATi dropped the ball with HD 4xxx series support, I had a HD 4850 512mb on winxp back in 2008, installed the drivers from the CD, (didn't update them) then in 2014 I bought win8.1, installed latest drivers and had worse performance in GTA IV than on XP. (Had to turn the details to minimum, had lags, reverting to XP didn't help) I've upgraded the whole rig in 2015, looked on the internet and it's clear that ATi gimped the performance in the legacy driver. The last good one is 11.11 (or 12.11?)
@tyrannicpuppy
3 жыл бұрын
Not the 2x but while doing a spring clean today I found a Sapphire HD 4870 in the box for the GTX680 that is now in my tower (upgrade time is around the corner). Gave it a test run in the tower and it still worked, though it got quite hot in the few minutes it was in there. It's interesting seeing just how well some of this ancient tech handles some of the more modern games. I've been playing Power Wash Simulator on the 10 year old hardware in the tower and it plays near perfectly at 1080p.
@ZackSNetwork
3 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: The Wii U GPU was based off of the Radeon 4650.
@_unseenhunter_5093
3 жыл бұрын
RandomGaminginHD is the only guy making me want to sell my 3080 to get an army of these older video cards
@TheNeonGecko12
3 жыл бұрын
GTA V menu stutter can normally be fixed by turning V-Sync on. Possibly not the ideal situation for everyone, but it stops the stutter.
@romefox
3 жыл бұрын
I had a 4850 x2 2gb model for like 2 years, it was awesome for the time.
@samusaran11
3 жыл бұрын
Ahhh the 4870x2 the first GPU I ever had. Won it in an online giveaway on the redfaction forums eons ago. I was able to get enough money saved to complete a Gaming PC 9 months later.
@chincemagnet
3 жыл бұрын
Here's the thing people don't understand about dual GPU cards and SLI/Xfire in general. Just because the box says 2 GB, doesn't mean it's has 2GB of VRAM. Each GPU has 1 GB, which means you have 1 GB of VRAM. You can't add them together. I've been running SLI and Xfire for 15 years, trust me.
@user-zj5rb3xo7d
3 жыл бұрын
Love these GPU videos its what got me into pc’s
@JuxZeil
3 жыл бұрын
The problem with initial install is because the at card doesn't support UEFI. You can work around it by having that card in another slot while using an UEFI supported card in the main slot running a spare display, and then enabling Envoke BOOT ROM option for the GFX/PCI-E in the BIOS.
@mattix3705
3 жыл бұрын
Launch price of this beast compared with launch price of a mid range card nowadays :D
@fastfire7409
3 жыл бұрын
You are fully correct about fortnite being playable on DX10 before, I used to play it without noticeable frame dips on about 40 fps using a first gen i3 and a radeon HD 4670, about 3 years ago, but now it doesn't start
@YAAMW
3 жыл бұрын
My friend had one of those back when they were still newly released. Absolute beasts in their time. 4:20 The FPS increased because you're staring at a building which means there's only one object to render while staring down the street drastically increases the number of objects and therefore, reduces performance 5:22 In case some viewers didn't notice, Overwatch does NOT support Crossfire as only one GPU is active. This card is also clearly needs a new thermal paste. 8:12 That, my friend, is a driver issue. It happened with my old 290X back when Shadow of Mordor was released but not to this extent
@XacTactX
3 жыл бұрын
Of course this GPU is way past its prime and if someone is buying it today, the main reason is for collecting/curiosity, but one feature I immediately noticed on this GPU is that it has proper fins on the top of the GPU (at 0:02). Today's GPU makers have gotten so careless with GPU design that they put backplates and heatspreaders and all kinds of shenanigans but they make flat pieces of metal and there are no thermal pads to transfer heat. At least they had common sense when they designed this thing
@cammmy
3 жыл бұрын
Judging by the core temps, some of those games weren't using the second GPU. It would probably benefit from a clean and some new paste if you haven't done that already. Your videos remind me of when I shoehorned 3x 8800 ultras followed by 3x gtx 280s into a Dell XPS machine in 2015. Drew so much power I had to bodge a second PSU in as the 1000w Dell one wasn't enough. I wanted to see just how much I could get out of an old machine.
@FogogamerMildesten
3 жыл бұрын
Just a quick heads-up ("TLDR"): if you're planning on more testing, then you might be able to get CoD working properly if you turn off shadows. I'm no expert, and lack any means of testing, but it's worth a shot. If I had to guess, those greyish streaks and patches you're seeing across the map are shadow volumes, used for stencil shadows (as popularised by Doom 3), and something (multi-GPU or driver bugs, as you describe) is making them visible. The Infinity Ward 3.0 engine's distant predecessor, idTech 3, uses an older and somewhat finicky stencil shadowing technique called "depth-pass", and allegedly lets the associated shadow volumes stretch infinitely, much like the graphical artefacts you've captured. If IW3 uses the same shadowing system without any modifications, then I wouldn't be surprised if that system is the root of the presented graphical issues.
@egnappahz
3 жыл бұрын
Never started an old oven or heater before? The burning smell is the "buildup dust" that is simply heating (these are smaller particles of dust that burn very easy because of their low mass). If it goes away after a certain amount of time, you should be fine.
@smackers1514
3 жыл бұрын
Currently using a 4890 in my retro xp system, great performer but quite loud aha
@AshTechCorner
3 жыл бұрын
Need to use Radeon 13.1 Reloaded drivers and Windows 7. TS cards are broken on windows 10 , the drivers do not work correctly so you Basically was running just 1x 4870.
@OrdinaryBiscuit
3 жыл бұрын
Hey dude been watching you a while you've grown a lot but there's a pet peeve I have that's very present in this video and that's how much we can hear your breath in the voice over. Best tip when recording from someone who does voice work is to keep your gain relatively low when recording if you're going to be right up against the microphone and then up it later, alternatively you can edit your voice over and cut out your breaths which I often did early on, or just be further away from the mic so it doesn't pick up your breath though too far and well you'll sound distant obviously. Using a combination of lower gain and cutting out might be best if you want my honest opinion. Still love your content but it's something that I'm tuned to listen for and I think it'd really improve your content quality if you gave this a go. Hopefully what I've said is helpful.
@OrdinaryBiscuit
3 жыл бұрын
Distance wise from the mic I suggest around 6 inches from the mic and your mouth if you're wanting that narration sound.
@AshenTechDotCom
3 жыл бұрын
as i remember it, shadows really hammer these cards on widows, with some tweaks you may be able to get 1080p without too much trouble on gta v
@arnaudrobert4895
3 жыл бұрын
If the heating is a problem for thoses cards, some fix can be maked like replace the original by a custom coller like Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme. Maybe this can be a good thing ? I don't know anyone who have maked this except RetroHardware guy his collection is just incredible. great video by the way :)
@FloodExterminator
3 жыл бұрын
Not really worth it
@chazdotty459
3 жыл бұрын
I actually owned the HD 3870 X2 with GDDR4 memory a couple of months ago, and I hear it was one of the only GDDR4 cards ever made
@findRED
3 жыл бұрын
I have one in my test system currently. I've heard win10 absolutely hates dx10 and older gpus so that might be some of the problem. Other than that, I run mine on win7 with the 13.9 catalyst drivers and I've heard the 13.1 drivers are also pretty good. If you want to run this without burning out the second core, set a much higher custom fan curve with msi afterburner or something. By default they're designed to target 95c, and that's partly why so many are now burned out or dead.
@cjhouse8666
3 жыл бұрын
Skyrim used to flicker when you brought up the menu with my old 4870X2 but ran at a decent frame rate as far as I could find games that flicker didn't have the driver enabled properly so one gpu would push more frames than the other causing stutter as they didn't sync right.
@Trillock-hy1cf
Жыл бұрын
I had two of those beasts running in Crossfire, back then and I reckon I could have made toast if I held a slice or two from the heat they put out at the rear... One died after a few years, returned it under RMA, and got a Gigabyte 670OC (I think in return), and then bought another one to run crossfire and have the old 4870X2 in my cupboard, and still should work., but not trying out though, and don't have the heart to chuck it away.....I just run my EVGA GF GTX 980 Ti since 2016 new build back then.
@jonathanellis6097
3 жыл бұрын
I kind of lost interest in gaming and pcs for a period just before this was released originally. Interesting card, can't believe AMD only put that one little fan on it for two GPU cores! 🔥
@UncleMikeRetro
3 жыл бұрын
One small fan for two hot GPUs... what could go wrong?
@jorgealain5126
3 жыл бұрын
i've had both one 4870 that someone scammed me and one 4870 x2, with bga problems on the gpu, back in 2011. Oh lord, how much i wished back then that at least one of then were perfect. After some months selling everything spar parts i had i ended up buying an used 6850 1gb xfx that i used for 2 years, back in 2012. But until today i wished that theses two card i've owned for a short period of time worked so i could enjoyed then at least a little bit. After it a switched to a gtx 660 2gb PNY and right after the lauch of the rx 480, i bought the 8gb version of the rx 480 8gb xfx BE. The last one, i use until today with no problems except for the limitations of overclocking.
@asebaninja
3 жыл бұрын
Channel has really blown up, love to see it and the unique content you bring. Quite surprised at the card as well
@MrKillswitch88
3 жыл бұрын
One of my very last oven baked cards that worked, they go for a bit of money on eBay to collectors and retro gamers as supplies of the 3870x2 have dried up years ago and this being the one up. Got two 5970 that need to be fixed someday as well.
@waltterihuhtala
3 жыл бұрын
Just got my hands on an ati hd4850 512mb, feels quite special using it. Different card but same era I believe.
@outwoodyapecker
2 жыл бұрын
those flickers are caused by amd overclocking utility running in the background. happens on a lot of amd cards running legacy drivers
@olivierbiwer5205
3 жыл бұрын
I used to have a 3870X2. I definitely don't miss the micro stutters :-p
@theh0lybible
3 жыл бұрын
The temperature difference between the two 4870 cores was very noticeable. Looks like only 1 was getting cooled.
@bigdog440sp
3 жыл бұрын
An understanding of tech rejects the idea of obsolescence itself.
@WILDouglash
3 жыл бұрын
That setup with an i7 3770k oc'd would rip. I run mine locked at 4562.8 MHz. It can go higher but I like being able to feel the a/c instead of a space heater.
@nejcgucek353
3 жыл бұрын
Just sold one a week ago. The Gainward GLH Edition.
@RandomGaminginHD
3 жыл бұрын
awesome :)
@YasinVanDoorsen
3 жыл бұрын
I can't understand why GPU manufactures stopped this 2 cards on one board and game developers stopping SLI/Crossfire support. Especially when GPU prices are Skyrocketed in price
@jihadjoe4957
3 жыл бұрын
Guess it is easier to produce an image with one double percormance chip rather than trying to synchronise 2 lesser ones at the same time.
@liamrobinson3623
3 жыл бұрын
Great vid as usual
@RC-pj1pr
3 жыл бұрын
You can remove the FPS cap in Crysis 2 by going into Nvidia CP, and setting the “max framerate” slider to 1000. Not sure of the AMD equivalent. This will unlock the framerate, I think a windows 10 update broke the game a while back.
@KatenKyoukotsu
3 жыл бұрын
Wonder what the deal was in Battlefield 3. My HD 4850 512MB ran the game with difficulty though part of the problem was my dual-core CPU. Still have the card and should test it on my i5 3570 in more games, it's been years since I last used it with the i5, after another GPU died.
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