Founded this card in 2024 in my friends house, when we are on rtx 3060, thanks for video, now i can play with this old guy

I only had the HD2600Pro back then. No budget hahahaha My friends had GeForce 8600/8800 though. But the HD2600Pro still had a more vibrant color output that I liked.

In hindsight the fx cpus turned out to be better than their intel counterparts, for example the fx 6300 is still super good and usable if you want to play the ps4 era games whereas the 2nd and 3rd gen i3 are absolutely useless in that regard. Speaking from experience as i used an i3 3220 and would always have to cap the framerate to 30 and close the background processes, whereas not so much with my fx system

I used a Sapphire HD 2900XT 512 mb model. After about a year and a half the card failed and was replaced under warranty with an Nvidia GTX 260^2 Core 216. Good times

I bought this for a $3000 build after coming back from Afghanistan. I miss this beast.

This graphics card was unbeatable for two years since its launch.

I don't get it. It's GPU bottlenecked, not overheating but still doesn't go up to it's max spec 900 mhz gpu clock.

WHEW this brings back memories.......I remember building a Phenom 2 X4 PC to replace my old core 2 duo and ...yeah that was the last AMD CPU i ever purchased....it was a TERRIBLE gaming CPU....although the HD4850 and 4870 I got still working great in my spare PC/ media server. I just never shook the disappointment of that first ALL AMD PC....(people don't forget AMD....they just don't)

The first "gaming" card I bought was an XFX 8800GT Alpha Dog. Triple digit fps was great.

just listen to this f2f sellout

1:00 subway surfer

7:57 idk man when you look at the memory bandwidth, the HD 4000 and 7800 GTX has probably roughly the same memory bandwidth. The HD 4000(ivy bridge) also has shared L3 cache with the cpu, which cripples the iGPU performance. Then add to that the Intel drivers for ARC which were basically lackluster for DX9-11. You can expect that the HD 4000 no longer receives any updates and maybe the DX9 title would perform poorly. You also can't really optimize a game for new DirectX/openGL features/ways of interacting with gpu pipeline, which allows expressing the shaders and problems in a different way, without a game update. It's just usually with new directx/opengl/vulkan versions the effects, scene complexity is being increased alongside it, so we don't always notice the performance improvements. Then there are openGL/directx extensions which can only be used with older graphics card, so some of the `better code` might be stuck behind what was a temporary solution, before it made it into the spec or was superseded by something else.

HOW ARE YOU ABLE TO PLAY ROCKET LEAGUE WITH THIS GPU WITHOUT DX11?????? I HAVE THIS AND ALL DX11 GAMES NEVER OPEN THE ONLY ONE THAT OPENED WAS CONTENT WARNING BUT EVERYTHING WAS PINK?????

Excellent investment by AMD it's paying dividends for them to this day

Voodoo 2, GeForce 256, Radeon 9700, GeForce 8800, GeForce 1080Ti, these are all known as ridiculously good graphics cards that massively outperformed their competition and price and stayed relevant for quite some time despite new generations coming out. Unfortunately 1080Ti itself was more of an oddball and otherwise for the past decade we are not getting great offerings anymore. Just iterative ones. BFGTech themselves were great guys and before the financial crisis of 2008 they had a ridiculous warranty whereby if you lived in US - you had a lifetime warranty (10 years otherwise, which was still beyond anything any other manufacturer offered) and if your videocard broke - they were replacing it with a next generation one of an equal class at no charge. Sadly after 2008 with that kind of policy they ended up going bankrupt and that lifetime warranty lasted only for a BFGTech lifetime.

I had my Fx8350 from 2016 to 2024 (recently moved to a ryzen platform). My rig specs were: - Fx8350 (4.4ghz oc'ed during first 2 years, after that i chilled and leaved the CPU at 4.0/4.3Turbo emulating Fx8370 stock) - Hyper 212 Evo - Asus Sabertooth 990FX R2 - 16gb (2x8) Hyper X Fury 1866mhz CL11 DDR3 ram - 120gb SSD SATA3 windows and software drive - 1TB HDD SATA3 games and files drive - from 2016 to late 2017 i paired with an R7 370 4gb Sapphire Nitro. The GPU worked great for its time given the fact that i was rocking a 1360x768 60hz 19' LCD. 60+fps was very common in both AAA and MOBA tittles even at ULTRA settings. - From 2017 to 2023 paired with Rx 570 4gb Sapphire Pulse and 1080p 22' 64hz LCD. Rx 570 was a great pair for the Fx8350, i played a lot of tittles (mainly MOBA games like WOT, WOWS, or War Thunder, but also some AAA games like Far Cry Primal, Tomb Raider, Rise of Tomb Raider, Sniper Elite 3 and 4 and others) at 60+fps at ultra or High settings. In Dx12 tittles bottleneck was non existant, but in Dx11 tittles you could feel a little bottleneck (not so important since it was minor). - From 2023 to 2024 i paired with Rx 580 4gb Sapphire. i didn't notice any gaming improvement, but the bottleneck in Dx11 was a little higher. I would still consider the Fx8350 a valid CPU for 1080p 60fps gaming in most tittles, but for 2024 its a very dated, underpowered and long term death platform, so the bargain to get one should be really good. That being said, i would suggest anyone on an Fx4300 and Fx6300 cpu to get an Fx 8350 (or Fx8320e if the mobo only supports 95w CPUs) and 16gb DDR3, since the CPU upgrade will keep the platform usable for a couple years (yes, i'm saying this in 2024) and 16gb ram is still OK for gaming.

Phenom II x4 onboard memory controller cant handle ram speeds past 1700 mhz. 1696 mhz still works, everything past that wont work.

this really tickled the ol beanbag back in the day...

how are you getting 15 fps?? im only getting 2

I had Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 with Geofrce 7200 and 4GB ram

i9 12900k 16 gb ddr4 3060 12GB 1080 res ultra settings have 10140 score

Can you please share a bios dump with us? I would like to get my hands on bios files and try to convert my xtxs into uber editions! Many thanks!

directx 9 needs hardware acceleration and backward compatibility that's why radeon X1900 XTX for windows xp is a more powerful graphics card than radeon HD2900 XTX

radeon HD2900 XTX has too much damage but they will fix it it will be a good competitor for geforce 8800 ultra then there will be another problem with motherboards if people connect four radeon HD2900 XTX crossfire that is why now the graphics card nvidia quadro 6000 fermi100 connected with sli cable to two graphics cards nvidia quadro fx 5600 sli processor intel core i7 980X is for me the best configuration for windows vista ultimate monitor samsung 226BW ram ddr3 memory geil evo one 24 gigabytes

8800gtx and 1080ti where nvidias golden ages..

Beautiful cards though!

The 8800 GTX is the only video card I've ever owned that overheated and cooked itself (no overclocking). Good while it lasted though.

Nimez drivers

nvidia quadro fx 5600 is the best quality 384 bit memory speed but 76 gigabytes per second because the videoram memory is broken, 384 gigabytes per second must be the minimum speed for 384 bit graphics cards

2:31 it should be able to the 4090 has 24 gb of ram ;)

Mine suddenly died and has a red light on the back. Was a great gpu for the time

This reminds me of my former H-I-S R9 290 (Reference). Great performance, horrible noise, energy usage, thermals.

I'm a little jealous, a wonderful collection of retro graphics cards

I think this game would do well on Radeon HD 7850.

I don't know if anyone will see this comment as it's 2023 but what happened to F2F Tech? Completely dropped off the face of you tube.

it was my most desired vc of all time as well, I member reading about this back in the day and showing everyone as well.

Great channel with unique videos. Looking forward to your next upload.

Resolution scale 42%, you're basically playing 600p resolution with 1440p UI res.

Is it still a good daily for office work or for students ?

I don't get it. Did the card ever get to 100% fan speed?

I had a X1950Pro at the time it was released. Holy shit, it was an insane bang for the buck card.

Not interested in other channels 😂

Wana watch this not Alix pass 😂

Think I was using a phenom ii when this vid came out!

Beautiful Card

I just bought a powercolor 6950 for £24 but I need a power supply with 2 8pins

yea those old 8800 GTX's ran damn hot, ik with mine i repasted it some years later and even before that was always running it at 100% fan, yeah it was a bit loud, but it stopped being a damn space heater with max fan. recently repasted my old BFG 8800 GTX with thermal grizzy kryonaut, and she rarely goes above 60-65c now! crazy what temp reduction you can get with better pastes.

Hello i have the same card but after 5 minutes of gaming it already has over 90 Degrees and is extremely loud. If i dont stop gaming it goes even higher to over 95 degrees. I changed cooling pads and cooling paste today (good one from arctic). But to no avail. It still gets so hot. But i noticed that the stock cooling mounting bracket on the backsite is missing. Does this cause the high temperatures cause the mounting pressure is not enough?

Hello i have the same card but its getting xtremely hot. over 90 degrees after just 5 minutes and then goes even higher. I changed thermal pads and thermal paste but it does not help! Any suggestions?