GAMING on a £0.25 Graphics Card!

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Big thanks to our channel artist for some 25p renderings: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqOUlaZ8jdB2Zsksi=Eq80xlQ0FrXZroAm

[@Redmage913]

Wonderful work! I love the software-render look to it, including what looked like occasional z-fighting!

[@RANDOMNATION907]

I recently discovered that AMD had released a AMD Ryzen 7 5800G APU. Apparently it's a higher clocked 5700G. I've never seen one in the wild before, have you? I'd like to find one.

[@MrVolksbeetle]

They are seriously nostalgic. All misty eyed and stuff.

[@HaonProductions]

Flashback to old playstation memory card icons. Great work!

[@Micecheese]

Please share the spinning gpu gifs, they look good.

[@diet_lemonade]

finally, a GPU I can afford in today's economy

[@Im-zp7tu]

So true bro 😅

[@GimOA]

now this is a true budget gpu, not the RX 580.

[@Br0ken_playz]

You do need a Good Power Supply for it..

[@lucasrem]

You can have my old GTX 1080 !

[@karisiin]

@@lucasrem can I have it frfr

[@starplatinum1222]

i think its time you make another 1 dollar pc

[@CoolSock123]

No £1

[@skylius]

£4 PC?

[@dotxyn]

@@CoolSock123 £0.77 PC

[@tiberiusstaicu7853]

this will be the greatest poundland pc ever built .

[@nuherbleath461]

The *free* pc

[@ViewtifulJoe86]

The scrap value of copper in this card has to be worth more then 25p

[@handlmycck]

the cardboard with all the stuffing and tape it came in costs more than the card no joke lmao

[@Im-zp7tu]

Even the packaging was higher value than the item itself Lol

[@deathbydeviceable]

​@Im-zp7tu other sellers need to take notes

[@GrainGrown]

*than...

[@bulletholeteddy9223]

​@@handlmycck I think for cex it's usually £2 each for every item, so you would have to pay 8 times the cards value just to receive it

[@daemonspudguy]

25p? I expect only the highest quality of potato.

[@iwilltouchyourtoes]

Actual Potatoes cost more than that these days, shame you can't eat GPUs

[@MrMrCruachan]

It's cheaper than an actual potato where I am, sadly enough.

[@shanemitchell477]

@@MrMrCruachan I can help you with that. Free.

[@Phonixem]

​​@@MrMrCruachan If the title means 0.25 dollar then you can get a kilogram of potato here

[@banana83885]

​@@Phonixem25 pence

[@dikbozo]

25p working GPU, shipped. works well. doesn't run hot. Deal of the Day, at the very least. Thanks bud. Your recent out put has been first class. And comparatively rapid fire. Quality AND quantity.

[@ramborambokitchenkitchen6357]

They lost money by selling it to him lol

[@crazykid073]

It would have cost him probably 3.15 although including shipping, but still he could have picked it up for 25p in store

[@jskyg68]

That card was so good I skipped the 6000 series and didn't upgrade until the HD7870 came out.

[@jasongrimshaw-smith8369]

#metoo, although I got the 7850 2gb, which I still have!

[@jskyg68]

@@jasongrimshaw-smith8369 I still have my 7870 Sapphire, didn't upgrade it til 2019 lol.

[@scotttait2197]

I still have a HD 7950 Kicking about think it's 3gb

[@iciboy9]

The first PC me and my dad built years ago was a 5830 then upgraded to a 7870 later on. Man those were the good times!

[@79huddy]

I have the souped up version in the media pc I put together for my mom the old r9 280x makes for a good space heater during Ohio Winters 😁

[@Redmage913]

I love your software-render styling when you twirl the card around during the spec overview.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

You have the channel artist to thank for that, let them know over in the pinned comment 👍

[@emuevalrandomised9129]

My media server PC has a 6850 and can run quite a few games from before 2010 decently. A 5850 can easily run some quite good games from the 2000-2008 era and even some more recent ones in lower resolution. No point letting a perfectly working card become e-waste.

[@christianhorn1999]

great performance for a card from 2010

[@joaovmad]

i have an old pc with a hd 6800, i7 2600 and 8gbs of Ram and it ran War thunder at 30-40 fps on med/high settings in 1080p, extremely good for a gpu from 2010

[@Doubleohstevo]

The 5850 is actually faster than the 6850 btw.

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

On the HD6850 launch review from Tech PowerUp, the HD5850 beat the HD6850 in 14/15 games they tested, often the 5850 was the card just ahead of the 6850. No doubt the 6850 improved more from driver updates during it's generation. The one game that the 6850 won and it was by 12%, was Metro 2033.

[@SterkeYerke5555]

@@JamesSmith-sw3nk The 6850 was a bit cheaper than the 5850 as well (or was supposed to be anyway), as the true successor to the 5850 was the 6950. Granted it wasn't always faster than the 5800 series either, as AMD had cut down on the die size slightly. The 5800 series had a huge amount of shaders for the time, but it couldn't always utilise them, as you're seeing in GTA V. Terascale 3 was quite a bit better for gpu utilisation, so it still won out most of the time. It was never a real competitor to the GTX 580 though.

[@GodBurstPk]

I truly love how you put fable in every video even if it's just an into. best game ever, cant wait for fable4.

[@iamvee87]

Fable 4 will be hot shit.

[@ramborambokitchenkitchen6357]

​@@iamvee87no it wont, playground games always put out very high quality games.

[@HardWhereHero]

LOL! You got our old one I'm almost certain. I'm the only person on the planet that would re-paste a 5850 b4 selling it off. This is 100% proof that CEX buys old ebay cards.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Credit to you if this was your old card, most of the time the cards I get from CeX are of very questionable quality. But this was mint.

[@crabnix]

Massive props to you if you re-paste all your cards before selling

[@openlyracist8055]

For that mate you get a sub

[@Tendeez]

​@BudgetBuildsOfficial bought a asus 3070 with bad fans, returned it they tested it and found nothing wrong. A 16 yr old to teach them their vertical test bench wont make gravity pull the fans down and make them rattle. Idk about cex anymore 😂

[@crazykid073]

​​@@Tendeez hey there, I actually work at cex and unfortunately I don't believe we do 😢 At least our franchise doesn't, a lot of our old gpus can come from a mix of employees or traders. Sometimes even people who bulk buy online 'waste' or left over goods from warehouses. Some stores work differently, some buy things in with different quality or tests performed but I don't think we source things off ebay!

[@Xaltar_]

The hd 5850 was an absolute monster of a card when it launched. I got mine 2 days before it launched. There was absolutely nothing it couldn't play maxed out at the time. It decimated my 8800gtx.

[@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap]

It replaced a 9800GTX+ for me. That 9800 GTX+ is why I avoid Nvidia where ever possible. Before it I had a GeForce 9800 GX2 that burst into flames, literally caught fire in my bedroom and retailer tried to blame me for it because "Nvidia doesn't do that" I thought the 9800GTX+ was going to be similar it too died a swift death. Cheap powercolour 5850 was my only in stock option and it blew my mind how fast and really god dam brutally fast it was in ever game I wanted to play that it was. AMD driver funk? Yeah is your OS up to date? no? then why do you expect your GPU drivers or games to run properly? I had to repeatedly tell that to morons chanting about how bad AMD was when the fault was theirs and theirs alone. A 2009 GPU on an OS not updated since 2007 is a recipe for disaster so big fucking WHOOP your cheap pirate arse has stability issues.

[@Xaltar_]

@@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap Not to mention, I gave my 5850 to my brother when I upgraded, he is still using it to this day without issue. For audio production and some light gaming it still does everything he needs it to. Gave him an RX 470 8gb and he just sold it, said the 5850 was solid and did everything he wanted it to, if it ain't broke. Also worth noting, the 5000 series were super efficient for the time too. My 8800gtx sucked down twice the power for half the performance.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I had a 8800 GT for a while, and it was a heat monster with it's single slot cooler. (103'°C under gaming load. Could bring it down by about 30 degrees by taking off the metal shroud and tying a pair of case fans on it) Later I got a HD 4870 and that got me through until I could get a GTX 660 Ti, so I missed the whole DX11 TeraScale fun. But yes, the HD 5850 was fast. Faster than a HD 4870 obviously, which was about on par with the GTX 260 and HD 5770. All of which were faster than the 9800 GTX+ (which was reused as GTS 250), which was faster than the 8800 GT/GTX/GTS I've used cards from both manufacturers during the years (and technically also from the other respectable companies like Matrox, 3dfx, Number 9, Tseng, S3, Cirrus Logic), and can't say the Radeon drivers are any worse than the Geforce ones. Both had their bad eggs, but usually the solution was to just roll back to a previous version and wait for a fixed update to be released. But I'm also not hunting for the bleeding edge. If a driver works, it works. And if the new one doesn't add any features or improves performance in software I use, I stick with the known good for a bit.

[@tolemem]

I did not realize you meant 25 pence when you were teasing this video, I was so confused lol

[@SteTechGaming]

I look forward to the "25p RTX 4090" video 😉

[@digginguphardware_lx]

Had one. Got it from a PC graveyard, was without a fan and shroud, just the PCB and heatsink but was in pretty good condition except a pretty big bend on the PCB. Swapped it with a r9 370 or whatever heatsink and fans (with some adaptation needed) and It was solid. Sold it in a fully built system (i3 2120, 8gb DDR3 1600, 500 GB hard disk and a repaired server tin box with 600w PSU) for about 70 bucks. It was solid NGL, old but works fine to this day, let my sis use it in her first PC before upgrading her to an 6500xt. 9.5/10 card for the time and hella good under 10 bucks card to this day.

[@AbdulHannan-vx9fs]

bro has everything to singlehandedly dominate the voice acting industry

[@hunzhurte]

It makes me so happy to see that you're still making videos like this in 2024. Gives me some hope in humanity.

[@3losh_lol72]

it's crazy what this card could do for this price

[@hellcoreproductions]

CeX & torn label, name a more iconic duo.

[@Johny40Se7en]

Tango & Cash 🙃😅😝

[@danielfrancis7798]

I really like the pacing of this video. I love that you’re getting higher and higher budget now (ironically) and I’m here for it. Keep it up! :D

[@kl1n235]

I've watched your channel for almost 5 years at this point, the production quality skyrocketed compared to when i discovered your channel I love the new intro and the ps1 render of the thing you're talking about? Chef's kiss

[@lil_floofer]

I mentioned this in the last video I saw, but I can't get over the low poly models you use. They are such a simple but pleasing detail in your videos!

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Please do let the channel artist know in the pinned comment :)

[@chriscole8909]

Thanks for making this. Awesome to see the hd 5850 still going.

[@slurp50s]

I'm so happy I ran into this channel. First of all, your voice is soooo soothing haha. Secondly, I love putting together PC's. I've likely put together over 100 PC in my life. And I especially enjoy bringing to life old hardware to see another day of life. Now you sir, you pick up older hardware than I do. But, either way, I love the channel.

[@ToniaGlitched]

I did not expect this good of a performance on a device this cheap, I mean, I didn't think it was possible for a Terascale card to perform this well after all I've seen about them, goddamn

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

They were fine cards. performance was on par with their Tesla competition, but they were usually much cheaper and had lower power draw. But just as today there is the big marketing from team green.

[@AndyBrearley]

26:26 did you mean to leave that in 😂 Great review, so pleased when you went for the overclock as I was just wondering about it would do.

[@kings_pride]

my first Desktop Gaming GPU was a HD5850. unreal that you got one for just 25p... Had it running alongside a Phenom II X6

[@cal2127]

man i miss the x6. such a good cpu

[@Johny40Se7en]

Cracking processor too. Came out before six cores were properly being utilized by games...

[@notaulgoodman9732]

These were the most bizzare benchmarks I’ve ever seen. Not because of anything particularly weird in them but because a more than a decade old card for .25-7 buckies ran them really well.

[@thatzaliasguy]

The open source drivers for this GPU on Linux are even better.

[@woldemunster9244]

Everything is better on Linux because it's open source, NOOT! -Pingu

[@AdaraHepburn938]

Linux users not being insufferable challenge (impossible)

[@celestialsylveon6453]

@@woldemunster9244 I mean it's actually true, for the most part AMD performs better on Linux than Windows. (Aside from VR) It's the opposite with Nvidia though. You can find numerous video comparisons on the same hardware, and most of them come out with AMD being a little bit faster on Linux. I say this as someone who spends equal time on both OS's for different reasons. Actually considering these drivers probably haven't had updates on Windows in a while, the difference in driver quality is probably pretty large. Even 20 year old AMD GPUs get updated on Linux sometimes.

[@georgewashington6171]

They aren't. As a linux user who has installed linux on a wide variety of laptops I can attest to linux drivers swinging to nearly on par with their windows counterparts to being literally broken and providing 0 gpu accel. Intel HD 3000 and earlier gpu drivers are dog shit and provide very inferior performance to its windows and even osx counterparts, the gma line of gpu's flat out dont work except for the 950 and the 950's drivers are the shitty stock intel drivers, which are basically useless for anything except 2d accel. I also had a shitty amd e1 laptop whose integrated terascale gpu went from 21 or so fps on tf2 720p low on windows 10 to 1fps 720p low on debian 12, didnt change if I switched between the stock or mesa drivers.. Linux is a toy for anything except embedded devices and handhelds that have custom distro's made and maintained by the oem, there's a reason linux has nearly no market share, I use arch because I hate microsoft more than I hate linux but goddamn both linux and its users suck, I get why nobody wants to use it or speak to the people who use it

[@celestialsylveon6453]

@@georgewashington6171 I did hear a lot of older AMD GPUs had really bad compatibility with Linux because like Nvidia they didn't always fully open source their drivers. But I've watched a dozen videos of AMD Windows vs Linux benchmarks for GPUs in the RX 580 and later generations and they almost always perform better on Linux.

[@derek4255]

I had that exact card and it was really good back when it first came out. I played a lot of Crysis with that card and it was a very good experience. I use to gel laughed at when people asked me what i ad for a video card back in 2013 or so, but I figured I had a pretty good card. that Sapphire Modern Warfare card was OP for sure. I miss that old system but i have moved on from that many upgrades since. Cheers and thank you for making a video that brings back some great memories.

[@iRedMCYT]

29:02 OH CMON.. I was so expecting you to say “Sometimes they can be 50/50… but this instance, it’s 5850!”

[@mrhappy8966]

loving the frequency of videos lately ty your videos are one of a kind as well the feeling is one off.

[@reflex9991]

Brilliant video glad you're back at it now I ran out of your videos so I'm so glad you've carried on now

[@dawnslayer]

i would honestly consider getting that for my nephew as a starter. he doesnt care about graphics and most of the things he play aren't very intensive, so it would be almost perfect.

[@hernancapisto8335]

Nice transport tycoon music. 🎵

[@TheBcoolGuy]

that background music with the plucky guitar is very '90s Michael Jackson.

[@dan167]

Been watching for 6 years what a throwback

[@DoomWalker42]

Now this is true PC Master Race material! Being able to play games on something that cost less than a pound. Very interesting video. Thanks for uploading!

[@K31TH3R]

This was a great era for Radeon. I really dug into this card when I had one on custom water back in the day. With vBIOS mods, some very good cooling, a decent power supply, and most importantly, an unreleased version of the HiS iTurbo program that could trick the VRM overcurrent protection from kicking in, you could push these cards well into HD 7870 performance territory, and the bang for buck and performance was absolutely unbeatable at the time. Some 5850's could also be vBIOS flashed to unlock disabled shaders, which turned the card into a 5870 with lower overclock potential. But IMO, the ones that couldn't flash to a 5870 were actually the card you wanted if you planned to overclock, as the extra shaders didn't help performance as much as the extra clock speed in the majority of cases.

[@Neur0nauT]

25p That just makes me laugh when you consider the fluctuating cost of GPUs over the years... to what it has become today. With top of the range cards costing more than whole mid-range setups! I still have an old ATI 1950XTX, and a Radeon HD 6870 x2 Dual GPU card in the roof space! So many fond memories tweaking settings to get the elusive stable +60fps back in the day. I still can't believe you got this for 25p! That's unreal! Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

[@alcatraz6275]

He's at it cooking again

[@dgorry]

Got to love CEX.

[@The-Anathema]

I didn't run an HD 5770 (1G version) for over a decade without reason, that card just ran beautifully with anything I threw at it. If I get even close to that lifespan out of my 7900 XTX I'll be very happy

[@janwitkowsky8787]

Just found a deal on Facebook marketplace in Denmark, where a full computer setup is costing 700 DKK (£75) with this card in it. Full specs: MSI P55-GD65 Motherboard Intel i5 750 2.67 GHZ CPU 8 GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 RAM XFX ATI Radeon HD 5850 Grafikkort 256 GB Samsung EVO 840 SSD 160 GB Seagate Barracuda HDD DVD-RW drev Antec SLK3700-BQE Case FSP HyperS 600W PSU Samsung SyncMaster T220 monitor (22" 1050p @60Hz) Compaq Mouse and Keyboard PS/2. Yes... Beige. Honestly... a solid WinXP runner, if you ask me.

[@jacobjones9071]

I'd love some videos on cards from right around 10 years ago. The first PC I built had a 4GB 960 in it that still surprises me with it's performance today for everything but modern AAA, and I still use a 980ti in my backup system and I've yet to play a game that it can't run decent.

[@menace63uk]

Great Vid mate... I swear by CEX for all cheap PC components. I built a low powered PC, that I come across on the street. Thanks to CEX with their reasonable prices, I've built a reasonable PC. AMD Case Asrock Motherboard 300w PSU A10 6700 £10 GTX 750 TI Plait StormX 2 GB £35 16GB DDR3 1866 £20 TLC 40" TV £110 (I thought I'd throw this in lol)

[@hypocriticalharambe8274]

I spent 20 bucks for a first gen i7-920 and a radeon hd 5870 back a few years ago the thing was thrashed but that thing was impressive with performance and heating performance still chugged along on my dx11 backlog when i tested it.

[@ShinyHelmet]

I've got a 6870 HD here. I'm holding out for 50p before I let it go though.

[@bezceljudzelzceljsh5799]

the 70 at the end means it's worth at least 75p

[@itsnotzen64]

I'm still running one of these in a Phenom II build, it was my first proper gaming computer build. I plan on keeping it forever.

[@ruojautuma1]

Had a HD5850 in the build I made when I started college. Used it for years before I ultimately upgraded and donated it to someone who had even weaker GPU. For all I know it still works, though I'm not so sure it's in use anymore.

[@cronoevo]

My first real GPU was a Sapphire TOXIC 5850 way back in the early 2010's. It overlooked well past a 5870 base clock and I had it until I upgraded to a Sapphire 7870 2Gb. Never had an issue with either card. Sapphire made some quality cards back then. Good video...👍

[@NecroFlex]

I remember me and my mom going to a shop to have check for PC parts and see what i could get new as a bang/buck computer back in early 2010. Think it was like a core i3-540 and a 5770. Sadly wasn't able to afford it back then, but got lucky a year later when a local PC shop was selling a dirt cheap system. an i3-540, 4gb ram, 1tb hdd and a 6850 for like 300e. Loved that card. Right now i'm rocking 5970's in an old build. Scaling is shit, but just the look of it is quite majestic.

[@Rose.Of.Hizaki]

I had two of these 5850s in crossfire but I think I went through about 4 or 5 different 5850s as a whole before eventually switching up to a pair of 6970s when they became available. When the 5850 first came out they offered absolutely incredible bang for buck and every tech website on the internet was singing the cards praises. A lot of the _'middle-end era'_ pre-AMD rebrand cards either get totally ignored or completely forgotten. A lot of my main gaming youth was spent on crossfired 4870s, 5850s, 6970s and GTX680s (I did run a fair few single GPu configs but when you worked 70-80hr weeks like I did back then you discovered you accumulated tonnes of money and didnt have a whole lot of spare time to enjoy it so I built the most sickass OTT PC setup I could care to throw money at to dunk on all my friends) Honestly great cards. The last game that I played on my 5850s before upgrading I think was Bad Company 2 on PC. 99% of the time the 5850s would eat the game up no problem but the little cutscenes at the end of the game after we've won a game of conquest would turn into a slide show.

[@arczinsowo]

For 7-ish generation console gaming era you cannot really complain, very sensible option for creating time relevant PC

[@gtasomogyi]

Nice one! Did not had a 5850, but 5870 1G, 7770 1G, 5750 1G, 6850 1G (passive cooling! stable at 3 figures C°...), 7870 2G, R7 250 1G, GT740 1G, GTX460 1G, GTX550Ti, GTX650 1G, GTX560 1G (and other less powerful ones), and I have to say, these old mid-higher end cards can be still impressive! (My -"fairly modern" comparsions are the 940MX in my laptop, GT710 2G ddr3 than GT1030 2G ddr4 in my Futro S920, and RX460 4G than RX570 4G in the main rig, and that 7870...)

[@DJSekuHusky]

I still have my ATI reference HD 5970 (Hemlock). Basically 2 of those Cypress Pro GPUs running on one PCB. Last time I used it was 2017 when my R9 280x fried itself. I picked up a ProMagix HD60 Core 2 Quad system in good condition for $80. Using wayback machine, I used their parts configuration page to figure out it retailed for nearly $4k back in '06-'07. Came complete with the acrylic side window option, aluminum case wheels option, and the cold-cathode case lighting option. The EVGA motherboard (complete with Nvidia chipset) was included, but the GPU was missing, so I'm thinking of giving it the 5970 since it's a closer match for the era ('09), and would mean I'd have Intel AMD and Nvidia all in one machine.

[@itznsdominator3521]

I had a Ati Radeon 5850 when I built my first PC back in 2015. It was actually an upgrade from the R7 240 that I first had lol. So I bought one off of eBay for $80 Aussie bucks and was extremely happy with the results. Smashed every game I threw at it back then which was BO1 BO2 CSGO Bioshock infinite and so on. The biggest thing that slowed it down was my Rubbish AMD A6 7400K APU that was OC to 5.86ghz and was still getting smacked by a i3 2100. After getting a Athlon X4 860K CPU and a small OC it was all good. I eventually got a GTX 960 but I still had that Radeon in another PC and it still works to this day.

[@hobbitrash7815]

I ran this bad boy as a kid until 2017, it's fan was broken and so my dad simply taped a new one to it. I got the rx580 once we realized newer e-sport games started looking very rough, though I still got to plat in overwatch with it.

[@Orodreth888]

Just a little bit ago a 5770 was still going to give you "some" GPU power for E-Sports stuff, but back then the 1gb GDDR5 on it was limiting you most. I always recommended 2gb at least for decent 1080p. Just last week I redid some benchmarks with a 1030 2gb GDDR5 and was suprised how it still holds up.

[@SterkeYerke5555]

Would be interesting to see if a 2GB 5850 would do any better in GTA V.

[@PvtPiotr]

I loved the SC3K outro music nostalgia hits

[@gregorscott]

I had a 7850 moded to a 7870. Fallout 4 was the last big game I played on it before upgrading.

[@SterkeYerke5555]

Surely a "7870" should be able to run Fallout 4 without any issues?

[@gregorscott]

@@SterkeYerke5555 it did fine, but I upgrade not long after. Ended up finding a really good deal on a 1070.

[@JxTechy]

Can't believe how well this card performs. I've been there with OCing, sometimes its brilliant and sometimes it crashes even after it worked in a stress test 😄

[@TheSpotify95]

Not bad, and the drivers for this card were way, way better than the final drivers for that 2900XT, as well as all of the HD 3000 series (such as the 3450 that you reviewed before).

[@CaidenTMG]

those dell monitors you have are absolutely goated... old dells are great for even modern use

[@trailduster6bt]

I really like that centrally mounted single fan cooler. Much more pleasant to look at that these modern 3 fan gpus riddled with rgb

[@ragnarsdad6065]

I picked up a HD5850 a few years back for £10.00. I chose it spedifically because it has really high double precision FP64 compute power. For FP64 it outperforms a GTX 1080TI and was great to use on the Milkyway@home project on Boinc.

[@jamesthemongrel]

5300 times cheaper than CeX's cheapest 4090. And the performance gap isn't what you'd expect given the price difference. I loved my 5850 and had it for years. Great video.

[@stephanieamare]

One thing I miss about the 00s, is shroud and cooler designs. It feels like these days it's rare, and you'd just never been able to tell one card apart from the other if you covered up branding with tape or something.

[@darkcognitive]

I think your definition of a 'perfectly smooth framerate' differs from mine by quite a large margin, lol. I think you are undervaluing the meaning of the word 'perfect' in this video quite a lot of times.....in my humble opinion. Amazing you can get this for 25p though, that's gotta be the best price vs performance deal i've ever seen, that's pretty crazy but funny at the same time.

[@cccpredarmy]

Kudos to including Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord in there. Imo this game is so good and replayable that if you manage to build a budget built to run it smoothly - that's a big win!

[@somehow_not_helpfulATcrap]

I LOVED my old 5850. So much freaking value for money it was insane. Lost it to h2o being bad for computers.... I could push that POS Power Colour to 1.1ghz if I wanted to but I honestly never needed to with the games I wanted to play.

[@Riotmakertk]

Man, I remember this card, picked one up super cheap to replace my 4870 and replacing it with an Nvidia 980 from my first job.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

I always love these things. On one hand I'm in the medium price range for new cards, but this is is always amazing. The HD 5850 is a fun card. Performance should be somewhere between a 6870 and a 6950. At least it's faster than my old 4870 I still have around here. It will obviously do great in games of it's time in 2009, but should also play well in games up to 2011, and even some after that. I'm not really in the market for one, as the afromentioned HD 4870 and and a later bought HD 7770/R7 250X pretty much covers that area of performance. The interesting part is checking which chip runs on it. the 5850 should have a Cypress Pro, which wasn't even reused in the HD 6000 cards (only the Juniper from the HD 5750/5770 was in the HD 6750/6770) My first thought would be a rebadged workstation card, but no, the workstation and server cards with a Cypress chip also didn't come with 512 MB. The FirePro 3D V7800, V8800 and V9800 and the FireStream 9350 and 9370 came with 2 GB minimum. It also can't be a reflashed HD 5830, the smallest card with Cypress chip, that also had at minimum 1 GB The fact that GPU-Z reports it as 1 GB suggests it also isn't a partly broken card where part of the memory was disabled in the firmware. And I love the Batmobile 5850 shown at 5:29 that was truly a great visual design, even if cooling performance was what you expect from a blower style cooler. The Black Mesa results aren't too surprising. It's still Source Engine in DX9, so the card should perform well. Cities Skylines on the other hand will be CPU limited. No matter what CPU you have, at some point the city is large enough that it will limit. CS2 feeling sluggish and heavy is usually how I would describe the engine when vsync is on, but the result clearly shows that that isn't the case. And yes, Skyrim is a perfect example of a 2011 game that people would play on the card. Two years newer than the card, but still perfectly playable. And guess what, the old release of Skyrim also runs on a Core 2 just fine. Fallout 4 is as expected. The godrays run indeed much better on nvidia, but manually tweaking the settings massively improves quality and performance. And that it goes down in the city can be improved by tweaking the shadow settings. Not something in the launcher, but ini file editing. For overclocking I would look into the tools used in the day. TDP and voltage should be able to be changed through RBE. Either by manually editing a bios with higher voltages and higher CCC clock limits, or by using one from a faster card. Besides, the AMD GPU Clock Tool and MSI Afterburner seem to be the tools of choice back in 2009 And 1200 memory feels fine, that is also what the HD 5870 runs at. It seems some people were able to get their cards to 1000/1350, but that would basically mean putting about 1.16-1.21v on the core and 1.15v on the memory. And one additional thing for improving performance: Quite a few people had success flashing a HD 5870 bios on their HD 5850

[@bezceljudzelzceljsh5799]

Next thing we'll see is another bargain bin competition? I wonder what you can run with a half broken laptop motherboard in a pizza box with pci x4 gpu connection.

[@MisterPancake778]

Had a HD6770 as my very first card (was a console gamer beforehand) thing ran Oblivion and GTA SA like a dream, its predecessor seems like a banger too here!

[@BeefLettuceAndPotato]

I would love to somehow transfer that cooler a newer card. I love my new features and performance, don't get me wrong, but something about those older cooler aesthetics put a smile on my face.

[@DiscoBallGaming]

This is the BEST Sequel since GRAPHICS CARD DAMAGE BAD, I love this channel because I really do love Jank PC Components and there's nothing like that anywhere else recently

[@stevenakers1995]

I had this card in day! Upgraded to the 5870, liked it at the time and haven't owned a desktop gpu since

[@scareyaf]

I had a 4870 back in the day. Absolute weapon of a card. AMD really were on a roll in the late 2000's.

[@stulaw90]

My first PC build had an XFX Radeon HD5850, it was a great card and got me, and my younger brother, through Uni. The card still works today, but my motherboard from back then failed.

[@Max-rn3eb]

I love your office/recording room! maximalist and colourful, looks cozy with the window and all the ferns outside.

[@TalonPro]

Sapphire was the only AMD affiliate that made cards like this, where they didnt meet the "high end" 70 or 90 series but made a perfectly great cutdown 50 series. I think the 5870 was based off the 4890 which makes the 5850 (or 4860 if you were lucky enough to find one) fairly high performance, which meant you were gonna get some serious results for a lot less money.

[@RossMitchellsProfile]

Used to have two of these back in the day, thing did the job quite well for the day. Obviously wasn't top of the line but was by far best thing I could afford. (Started with one card)

[@adwaitagnome]

6:45 even the bee is impressed

[@alexanderwhite8320]

I had HD5850 card back when they were new. They are High-End cards that are very capable for games from 2010-2013 I even found Bitcoin block when GPU solo mining was a thing.

[@tatecheddar]

I used to have an HD 5850 back in the day. It cost me $300 at the time. It was a damn good card.

[@ViktarTheBarbarian]

This was THE windows 7 card back in the day. Battlefield BC2, Arma 2, GTA 4, Crysis Warhead, Metro 2033. This card ate it up. Used it from 2009-2015!

[@h53637]

I never had this card but I did have a couple 5830s I had bought on ebay years ago. They must have been used for mining as they had no shroud or fans. After applying case fans with zip ties they performed quite well for the games we played at the time. I think I spent around 20$ each. I still have one and used it a few months ago for testing a horribly cobbled external gpu setup with a modified powersupply before installing a good card. It survived lol.

[@lolza-qh2xw]

Even for £7, that card is a steal. I remember wanting one of these cards so bad when they were new.

[@Nkrlz]

How much I miss the days of my 5850 crossfire setup, later to be replaced by a 780 that lasted me 7 years 😂.

[@notsogrand2837]

Brings me back to my Radeon 4870 days 🥲

[@peyton_uwu]

I appreciate you testing both GTA and GTA Online, lots of people dont cover it because they simply dont know, but I played the game a lot and really noticed it on my i7-2600 and 1050ti when i first started playing it.

[@KeZzYT]

Havent watched a vid in a bit, but you went through a glow up. Looking good man.

[@SeraphXS]

5850 was a legendary card! I had 2 of them in crossfire in my 2nd? or 3rd? gaming rig and they munched up everything at 1080P, 25p is a utter steal, had mine paired with an AMD Phenom II X4 955 CPU and 4gb DDR3

[@captainwasel8377]

This is cheaper than the beans i had yesterday and i'd pick this GPU over the beans :P. I enjoy your content a lot and I wish you good luck finding more great deals like that.

[@grizzlyindustries7593]

Gosh dang 25p for a GPU is a shocking good deal! Happy for you dude. Also, I since watching your last video amd you playing Black Mesa. I keep looking into my issue, yet I can't find anything valid. I keep getting the textbox "Out of Texture Memory-Lower the Vram" every 10 to 15 minutes. Of course, I'm getting this on a RX 5500 XT 8gb, RX 560 2gb, and a GTX 1050 2gb. Still having fun playing Black Mesa. I played for over 4 hours while having it stop every quater within the hour. At least the save features help so much I'm not angry about it. So, coloured me surprised when I see you with a HD 5850 with 1gb of Vram hearing it is running flawlessly. And then with the condition it is in. The card is near perfect that I might end up getting a HD 5000 to 7000 series card all over again. It makes me wonder if it is a DX9 issue. Or a mixture of DX9 and DX11 by the Black Mesa team. The HD 5000 series might handle DX9 to DX11 very well. So, this is interesting to me for this one game. Either way, I always enjoy the videos. Been subscribed on many different accounts. Keep being you. Hope you have a wonderful day.

[@askialuna7717]

Congrats to this awesome find, even a well-preserved one with fresh thermal paste 🙂. The glorified traffic simulator 🤣. Same, I also prefer to see my cities grow nicely, and a lower fps number is enough for me, too. I watched a few videos from your channel after I saw your iMac video by chance because it was shown to me in the suggestions on the right. Your videos are great, they are relaxing and interesting for me. You explain very well and in such a way that you include a lot of information but don't overwhelm. I especially like that you have such quiet, relaxed music and patterns and textures in the background in the form of curtains, walls tablecloth and so on. You remind me of @AtomicShrimp, that your videos are about technology, cheap and obscure technical things, creative implementation and problem-solving, for him, it's about food, cheap and obscure food and also creative implementation and problem-solving. You are similar in your style of narrative, and both have colourful patterns and textures in the background.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Thank you

[@AlexBoneChannel]

Just bought a 60GB Kingston V300 SSD from CEX for 1.50 because they mislabeled it as a HDD. About 10TBW used of 32TBW spec.

[@Retro-Hamer]

Upgrading from an GTX 8800 to 5850. I was not disappointed with the visual upgrade to BFBC2. CF one with a 5870 a year or 2 later that I got cheaply

[@nomadsempirebuilder9461]

I have been following sinse you had like 250 subs and this is the first time i have ever saw you lol