Buying The First Graphics Card I See On Craigslist...

I bought the first graphics card that showed up on my local Craigslist and it turned out worse than I expected.
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[@hardrivethrutown]

the "weird connector" is for SDI, and the "S-Video connector" is actually for stereo 3D

[@theboogerbomb]

STEREO 3D

[@NextEevolution]

I thought it was S-Video until I saw it was missing two pins. Thanks for the clarification!

[@sergiobisonte]

the "weird connector" is a 14-pin header for nvidia quadro g-sync, and the round connector is a workstation stereo connector

[@tqrules01]

correct (y) pressed like !

[@pranjalghanghoriya4391]

Yes!

[@savagecomanche]

At this point Dawid should just put together all of his haunted PC parts into a single system and finally complete his slip into madness

[@Dennzer1]

💖

[@Thurgosh_OG]

No! if he did that Cthulhu himself would awaken and use the PC as a gateway into Earth.

[@sky0kast0]

Elder sign anyone no? Darn 😅

[@Tarkov.]

"Dawid Buys Haunted Tech" is the weirdest halloween content ever.

[@charmer2087]

An even weirder part is that this video was uploaded on November

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@charmer2087 Okay now that's Spooky, I'm freaking out.

[@laundromast]

@@charmer2087 I couldn't even finish reading your comment because of how traumatic it was

[@astelsama]

ur my favorite tech youtuber

[@enka4079]

No

[@Gatorade69]

ur my favorite commenter

[@CalintzJerevinan546]

You seriously need to learn proper English.

[@ginger_wby]

@@Gatorade69 ur my favourite sub-commenter

[@dylanbailey4776]

@@ginger_wby ur my favorite replier

[@shrekken2326]

Dawid always delivers content no one ever asks for...prime chad

[@raven4k998]

or Gary

[@lanwish]

I consider his channel more of a comedy channel than a tech channel. And I fuckin love it

[@Varmint260]

Your suffering for our entertainment will NEVER be taken for granted, Dawid! And props to Anna for engaging in the Craiglist Knife Battle with Silk Pajamas Man!

[@raven4k998]

he can melt down and sell that copper heat sink down and sell it for its weight in gold value Hes lies that it is worth 3 penny's

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@raven4k998 You're right it's probably worth 4 pennies.

[@devil5051000]

The "heatsinked" memory chips are close to the VRM-part of the card and may get additional heat from there. So they gave them additional cooling. ^^

[@shaneeslick]

G'day Braden, I had the same thought about those MEM chips getting hotter, plus while helping dissipate Heat those fins would also help guide the Airflow over the MEM Chips to the VRM Cooler

[@zenwheat]

I absolutely love the execution of your humor. I would listen to you talk about anything lol

[@raven4k998]

msi afterburner is like the gpu's not trying at all🤣

[@DavisMakesGames]

I would love one of those cards for my XP system, quite jealous of you! Despite their niche market those cards frequently go for above the $100 mark, since it's the same GPU die as a GeForce 6800 Ultra under the hood (and those are even rarer) The POST issues were because the card likely does not support UEFI BIOS, it needs legacy video ROM support. No Windows 10 drivers but the ones for 7 can be modded to run on 10 if you so desire...

[@ffwast]

I was under the impression the GTX 960 was (at least "officially") the "best" supported card for XP, is this a "period correct" configuration thing?

[@DavisMakesGames]

@@ffwast GTX Titan from the 900 generation is the best as far as I know. I've used my GTX 980 on XP in the past, but I prefer to use older, more period accurate video cards.

[@ffwast]

@@DavisMakesGames Any of the 900 series should work but *official* support only goes up to the 960 for some reason.

[@Napostriouf]

Hi! I know the reason why you had all of these problems! This is card was made for the 32 bits era and it was expecting to work along with 32 bits drivers. Which even though you was installing 32 bits drivers because the working environment around was 64 bits, there was some issue on the common files usage (which at the time video card drivers were using all the time). By example, if you had installed a 32 bits of Windows XP Pro instead of the 64 one (which by the way, the 64 bits version of XP is known to be problematic aka unstable in many situation as this is a not a TRUE 64 bits environment, so many conflict happens) since the start 95% of the problem you had would have been resolved by itself due to the plug and play nature of Windows.

[@DragoSmash]

i noticed that too "Windows XP x64" that means he installed the super unstable janky 64 bit version of WinXP, which indeed was never meant to be, that along with the old ass GPU was just a recipe for problems

[@EvilTurkeySlices]

The 32-bit windows XP images are way easier to find as well.

[@Vile-Flesh]

I was very surprised to see him installing 64 bit XP as well. I heard there was nothing really available for it. 32 bit XP is fantastic and it STILL feels new to me sometimes.

[@GGigabiteM]

@@DragoSmash There was nothing unstable or "janky" about Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. It was quite literally Windows Server 2003 x64 with a Windows XP UI slapped on it. Server 2003 was the last server version of Windows that was actually good. I ran numerous machines with XP professional x64 Edition for years and never had any issues with it, besides not being able to run 16 bit software. It was my daily driver as well, and I gamed heavily on it. Driver support was spotty in the beginning, but quickly caught up with the Server 2003 x64 install base forcing hardware vendors to write good drivers. There were two other 64 bit Windows XP versions that are relatively unknown, and those WERE janky and unstable. Windows XP 64 bit edition, or its long name, Windows XP 64 bit Edition for Itanium Systems. Then the followup Windows XP 2003 Edition, which was for Itanium 2 systems. Those versions saw almost no development and were extremely barren. The only reason they existed is because of Microsoft's contractual obligations, and when that went away, so did those versions of XP. I think both only had a lifespan of just a couple years and never did run right. Plus they were missing tons of functionality that existed in every other version of XP.

[@GGigabiteM]

>which by the way, the 64 bits version of XP is known to be problematic aka unstable in many situation as this is a not a TRUE 64 bits environment, so many conflict happens) Nonsense. Windows XP Professional x64 Edition was a pure 64 bit OS, just like Windows Server 2003 x64 it was derived from.

[@lxvin9812]

That one cpu cooler at 7:58 looks wild asf

[@MxMoondoggie]

Those were really popular at the time lol. Always thought it looked like barbed wire.

[@IanC14]

It looks awesome! I kinda want one.

[@ryanspencer6778]

Early to mid 2000s components could get really wild.

[@irukhan07]

I want one. Whats it called?

[@C2-GAMES]

More funny that it appears from STATIC bag

[@theBabyDead]

Shit man, I wish you'd let me know! I, for this exact reason, have kept EVERY SINGLE Windows installation since 3.11. I literally have a bootable USB installer for WinXp over here. Damn. You should obviously have known this! ;)

[@dogsandmotos8093]

Remember the little fans on video cards. Ah those were the days. Even better, passive cooling on the CPU. I remember when Pentiums required a fan (a FAN!) on the heatsink. Now we're like 'eh, water cool it and it still hits 100C (looking at you Intel 13900K). I really enjoy your videos - you always look like you're having a good time, even when you aren't!

[@raven4k998]

when windows 10 can't handle it use windows 7🤣

[@richteritwan]

Dawid's analogies. The silk pajamas man, etc make me piss myself laughing. AND he sends poor Anna out there to deal with the ass-clownery. 😂

[@SmokeDogNY420]

What you described around the 9 minute mark is what mechanics have to do with older rusty cars when something difficult to access needs repair. Funny stuff

[@ZmieniK]

5:38 i love that stanag mag as a hear sink

[@cybercat1531]

Considering how collectible this card is you bought that at a steal of a price. It's effectively a GeForce 6800 Ultra

[@cybercat1531]

The one problem you will have with these cards is they don't work in systems with more than 4GB of main memory. This has to do with them being a AGP card bridged to PCI-e using an on package chip and the way the bridge works causes havok if you got more than 4GB of RAM in the system.

[@Vile-Flesh]

@@cybercat1531 That is good to know. Thanks for sharing.

[@DraftySatyr]

@@cybercat1531 I sincerely hope that was documented at the time. On the other hand, who had more than 4GB of RAM in 2005?

[@Le_Grand_Rigatoni]

5:16 It probably doesn't support UEFI, try enabling CSM in these cases. Also, there seems to be a good windows xp iso on the internet archive.

[@samh3157]

I fell out of my chair when you pulled up lock on to test. I legit couldn't think of the name of that game for about 3 years and finally found it a week ago, and here you are just randomly out of the blue playing it only 1 week after I remember what it was called. This moment has convinced me we live in a simulation.

[@fred_derf]

+Sam H, writes _"This moment has convinced me we live in a simulation."_ Really, that's the kind of thing that convinces me we don't live in a simulation -- a simulation would be able to avoid that kind of coincidence.

[@samh3157]

@@fred_derf The sheer absurdity of it for me, makes it seem impossible to be a mere coincidence. The TV saying a word just after you said it is coincidence. Not hearing about this obscure game from the early 2000's for over a decade, randomly thinking about it here and there since the start of covid but never remembering it's name and then suddenly I find it. 1 week later a seemingly unrelated video looking at craigslist listings goes down a rabbit hole to have the video conclude with gameplay. I think I can now understand how some people can believe in that religion mumbo jumbo when events like this occur. Oh and im also using it to exaggerate a point.

[@fred_derf]

@@samh3157 Why would it be impossible for it to be a coincidence It sounds like a prime example of a coincidence to me.

[@jaredchampagne2752]

@@fred_derf if we lived in a simulation, the odds of there being a glitch or weird repeats of things is actually quite high, ever watched the matrix broski?

[@Atropos148]

Yeah, this definitely sounds like a "reuse of cached content" type of thing, we do live in a simulation :)

[@Jazzy-kz6wd]

fun fact: the copper heatsink is not actually milled out of solid copper, the fins are created one at a time with a process called "skiving" and that's why they have a curve to them.

[@anthonyatuhaire]

I like that you and Ozzy don't do the typical 3000 dollar builds. You guys actually stay close to home testing things we might buy or are in the peasants range. Plus the expirements are awesome to sit through😂

[@Kubose]

1:55 $2400 in 2005 is nearly $3650 in todays bucks. Almost makes me want to go out and buy a 4090 lmao

[@sophustranquillitastv4468]

Quadro cards are always expensive but when their age has passed for sometime their sell price in secondhand market isn't as high as normal GeForce cards.

[@magicmarger]

I think I've fallen in love with that X58 mainboard. Obviously the nicer part of all that grannies shown here^^

[@steelfox1448]

There's a second edition of that motherboard that just has a pistol as the northbridge heatsink, I think it looks a lot worse, but there's an article about New Zealand customs ripping someone's dual GPU monster of a system to try and get to the gun

[@larryboles629]

In the summer of 2007 I was able to purchase 4 of these cards for price of $ 3,400 from a Big Sams that was going out of business. I have been running these cards is quad sli ever since. Say what you will but with Windows XP I have been very happy with my rig. I am able to play Minecraft at 480p at 47 FPS. Eat your heart out Dawid!

[@colin1373]

what the fuck

[@Vile-Flesh]

That is God damned amazing. Also, I miss playing Minecraft Alpha and early Beta. It was so fun. Haven't played it since right before version 1.6 and it was on an old Dell Poweredge 2800 and a GT 610 PCIe x1. That server was s complete pig but it was all I had for late games for nearly a year.

[@chrunchyhobo]

No you haven't. The FX 4400 doesn't support more than two cards in SLi. It's only got one SLi finger.

[@cessnacitation-x]

​@@chrunchyhoboThis is a satire comment.

[@Kraven83]

Also, FEAR is from 2005. So are Quake 4 and Doom 3's Resurrection of evil expansion. We want a follow up video 🤓

[@JeffWaynee]

I really love the look of the cooling shroud and fan. Sort of a mini-blower.

[@cowofwar]

your description of getting this working as a "fractal of crap breaking" describes the linux experience where fixing one problem invariably breaks two other things.

[@paulpietschinski3282]

Almost half a million subs...been here from the early days. Well done my fellow Canuck.

[@FailConGaming]

Dawid correctly pronouncing 'Gansbaai' gave away so much info :)

[@Hughesburner]

The first GPU on my CL search was a PNY 4090 for $1790...I am pretty sure these scalpers relist daily

[@jabezhane]

Watching the XP part was my life as a IT support guy back in 2009. Having to find the exact branded XP distro for the specific PC or laptop...some things have got better.

[@Hughesburner]

For real...I have used the same M.2 win10 install for the last 3 builds, completely differerent specs, even swapping from AMD to Intel processors...and it still works...mostly. I plan on doing a fresh install but wanted to see what would happen. So far only a printer via usb gives some weird issues, everything else just works.

[@mikeymaiku]

@@Hughesburner lol you should really redo the install. the performance hit must be savage.

[@Vile-Flesh]

@@Hughesburner I have wondered about this myself and didn't know if it would work or not. I'm totally going to try this.

[@mattorare9949]

That weird connector is for VGA with cable... and maybe used for stereo sound I have seen one with VGA

[@jerryquesenberry2520]

That was fun fella!. How many of us have struggled for HOURS trying to set up a system & then had that 1 little idea pop into our heads that fixed everything. Suddenly, you are the next Einstein! Way to hang in there man!

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

Windows XP 64 bit was also often an adventure unto itself.

[@joshb6470]

I swear if that Looney Tunes cartoon "Fool Coverage" was released today everything Dawid went through with this would be the clauses in the insurance policy, including Anna's knife fight.

[@JaketheMotorhead]

I am a DCS player and my instincts served me well... Lock-on was made by the same people (Eagle Dynamics) I recognized to due liveries, radar and where it says "Modern combat flight simulator"

[@nadafixe8830]

I like this channel because it's the only tech channel that doesn't make me jealous.

[@realkk]

lol

[@TechWithSean]

"It's like a fractal of crap breaking" Lmao

[@chrisv6126]

I'm quite surprised this didn't get the half life 2 treatment, as this card is closer to when that game launched. But all in all, great content as always. I love a good Dawid video on a Sunday morning 👍.

[@joshb6470]

There's Dawid talking about his love of dual channel, pulls out a second test system with tri-channel.... who got to you Dawid??!?!?!?

[@macmurphy74]

That cpu cooler looks like the Smol Hadron Collider.

[@Draaklore6677]

IF you ever need any clean versions of old OS let me know! I have a nice archive i have collected! Most even still on original CDs

[@Joreel]

Gotta love how much the software and hardware has changed over the past 25+ years. I still have my Win 3.1, and 3.11 disks as well as my Win95, Win95 SE, Win Millinium, Win 7,8, and 10 install CDs. But that being said it's mostly because I'm too lazy to toss the old stuff away. I'm also pretty sure I have one of the only Win Millinium CDs that actually worked on a PC.

[@XMANIAFLYYY]

There’s something about the old Nvidia logo font that I love. There’s sort of a charm to it.

[@rocketPower047]

It's very of-the-era

[@XMANIAFLYYY]

@@rocketPower047 definitely

[@EXOWill]

I still have a functioning system with a Voodoo 5 5500 in it. It is used for old games and elementary school programs for my grandchildren.

[@BeauBassfaceBowie]

@8:05 that cooler is wild lol

[@elliothunter2579]

You know it's gonna be a great vid when you have the inevitable *Sigh* followed by "Dawid, why do you DO this to yourself?..." Fun as always sir! :) P.S Never ever mortgage Neko-chan...cat will not be pleased

[@fattomandeibu]

I still say whale needs to send Dawid an old ISA board and all the required parts from the '90s. One of the ones so old that the only I/O is a keyboard socket. Remove all the jumpers, mess up the dip switches and other "fun" stuff. Then give him the challenge of not just installing DOS and Windows 3.1, but getting Doom to run in full VGA and with Sound Blaster support.

[@Vile-Flesh]

That would be awesome!

[@euphoric_gaming]

Did that second motherboard have 6 ram slots?... in the same side?... and did he have 3 ram sticks plugged in?...

[@johnDingoFoxVelocity]

So let me explain why you couldn't get windows 10 and windows 11 to boot with this card Both operating systems require a graphics card that supports UEFI Bios which that card does not at all

[@CannedNoodles]

Judging by the shiny solid metal PCIe bracket, it looks like a Mac card to me

[@brewnrd8742]

You need to build a Craigslist / dumpster diving period correct XP system for this old card. Lol.

[@moogleking]

This video brings me back to the golden days of windows xp, which was the best OS of all time in my opinion (2nd would be windows 98)

[@herfordkingsly7979]

Looks suspiciously like a VGA output like the kind you disconnect for low profile graphics cards back in the day

[@dexgaming6394]

6:33 I think a new Windows 7 install is a bit of an overstatement.

[@Jezza_C_WT]

5:54 Now that's a splash screen 😹👍

[@jragonwriter6316]

I love ya, Dawid, but this one was a snoozer. Still, commenting to show "engagement" and I watched to the end-- because of all the love.

[@alexandredutertre9638]

Hey Dawid! I really really like your work, like big time like! So much that you gave me the urging need to build my first ever PC, even though I'm mainly a console player! Keep up the good work, I eat your videos at every meal. Greetings from France!

[@raphi_sch]

2:44 I don't think it's a S-Video since S-Video need 4 pins. It's probably stereo sync for 3D vision

[@adamhafiddin9564]

I bet the pajama man dressed up like that knowing he finally will sleep peacefully after handing over the cursed gpu to anna

[@johankooistra9332]

Your persistence is really admirable! I can so relate to the error on error fixes . . . . .

[@CH-bn7qb]

The launch model PS5 has a massive copper heatsink must have cost a fortune in parts

[@arjyadas1938]

Man in silk pajamas was not harmed in this video 😂😂😂

[@sergiobisonte]

the "weird connector" is a 14-pin header for nvidia quadro g-sync, and the round connector is a workstation stereo connector

[@Kelekona_808]

I think the silk pajamas is a nice touch to lul you into a false sense of security when getting ready for the alleyway knife fight.

[@YourreelmemoriesAu]

I enjoy watching your problem solving in action Dawid. Sums up dealing with life in general which we can all relate to.

[@acidGoatG]

I wonder if a modern linux distro would handle this card better or not

[@IanC14]

Possibly. The closed source drivers certainly won't support it, but the open source ones would have a high chance given the age.

[@josejuanandrade4439]

Dude, where's Half Life 2 ?! That was the perfect game to test on that card!

[@braddishv3146]

Wow - Dawid, I didn't even know craigslist was still a thing. Unless you were looking for a black market kidney.

[@hardrivethrutown]

I'd love to find one of these cards, a viable alternative to paying loads for a 6800 Ultra

[@ffwast]

Why this card or a 6800 ultra?

[@hardrivethrutown]

@@ffwast I'm building a gaming PC from 2004-2005

[@groundjet]

There are rare things funnier than watching someone with a 'ellu guvnur' accent go through the computer equivalent of 'I stepped on a lego' for our entertainment. We love you Mr. Almost Bri'ish!

[@DraftySatyr]

Not sure where you come from, but his accent sounds like no British accent I've ever heard. To a native Brit, he sounds like he comes from a southern African state; I know it's Namibia, but could equally be South Africa or Zimbabwe

[@spacegeeking]

The cooling fins on that LGA 775 board looks aaaaawesome!

[@PauloRAgostinho]

Damm it Dawid! 35 CAD for a FX4400 that is basically a 6800 Ultra that are expensive nowadays!

[@lennard9331]

The heatsink and its fins being full copper isn't actually that unusual for blower coolers, any blower card that isn't complete trash still uses a full copper single block heatsink

[@johnDingoFoxVelocity]

the weird connector is actually the connector for the VGA Connector that card has a optional ribbon cable attached to a VGA connector its not for the stereo 3d like you think.. this card was produced back when DVI Was suppose to be the new thing and vga was a optional feature

[@samic]

This is one of those video cards that old enough to go to the college.

[@RedVRCC]

the die has a huge mark on it and it still worked? Also that m4 mag mobo is just amazing lmao.

[@gedeuchnixan3830]

Can´t find my ultimate cutdown XP anymore, but I still have the full XP and my first cut down (down to about 582MB to make XP more stable in gaming) if you´re interested Dawid.

[@ARobotIsMe]

That weird connector kinda looks like a usb 3.0 header that would be on a motherboard

[@AnnaDoes]

Honestly the experience just made me want a pair of a silk pajamas which I wear all day just coz.

[@GrumpyWolfTech]

I've had issues with older quadros (quadro 400) not posting on newer hardware. You also need to install the proper driver, you can't just use the generic nvidia drivers, they have specific ones for quadro.

[@PenguinConspiracyProject]

It would probably work just fine on Linux🤣

[@smoothboye4203]

That point where LGR becomes your best friend

[@BigPandaGamer]

Crazy to think that the almighty 4090 will be just like this card in a 15, 20 year period

[@RogueCannon.]

The issue with the modern system not booting I experienced with my RX 470 and i5 11400 my solution was to boot it without the GPU on the iGPU which worked and then with the GPU again then it booted Don’t know the reason but something similar might work in this case

[@nicholsliwilson]

What you identified as an s-video port is actually a VESA 3 pin 3D sync port for connecting 3D glasses. You cannot plug an s-video cable to it. @Dawid Does Tech Stuff

[@kraio-sfu]

That is absolutely ridiculous lmao. I miss the “3D era,” it was a much simpler time

[@nicholsliwilson]

@@kraio-sfu it was more common than you might think & hung around for quite a while on workstation cards like this as well as some consumer cards.

[@heffe2001]

Some of that frustration with XP could have likely been mitigated by using the 32-bit version, instead of 64-bit.. XP-64 has always been kind of PITA when it comes to drivers.

[@cheebsgod]

At this point, now that you found a working install of XP, you should just keep it because you're going to need it for some other haunted Tech at some point

[@ProximoNovio]

Im kind of worried if i should trust someone who thinks changing from sata2 to sata3 would have fixed the issues.

[@joelcarson4602]

This is how getting any piece of off the wall hardware running on any version of Windows has always been. At least with Linux, you can generally look something up and if it's not listed on the hardware compatibility list you can just stop the suffering there.

[@justsumguy2u]

It just goes to show that what's hot today will be a relic tomorrow. That was a solid card back in it's day, but time marches on....

[@blastgamer3511]

That made me laugh 😂😂😂like mad especially in the last bit of the video

[@frequencywatchers]

In 2005 THIS Card Would Be A KILLER ! I Would SHIT MY PANTS If I Had It, All I had In 2005 I Had 256Mb And I Believe 32Bit Rate Graphics Card.. By The Way, Don`t Call Videocard A GPU, GPU Is Graphic Processor UNIT, Not A Card, When You Say GPU You Are Saying Graphic Chip And Not A Video Card, LOL !

[@raptorking_2025]

"I've recovered from the desire to blend the graphics card down, and feed the GPU smoothie to pajama man" Sentences like that are why I subbed lol

[@Arachnoid_of_the_underverse]

Well done on visiting your childhood. Your mission now should you decide to accept and show your manly worth, is to find many, many ancient computer artifects that fit in the 5" PC bay and show your true power as a Ninja reviewer .

[@styles234]

64 bit windows XP was an absolute nightmare to work with even back then. It only ran 64 bit code. Which nothing was back then so it barely functioned 😂

[@davem7722]

newer tech with older operating systems is even more infuriating

[@theshadowman1398]

I absolutely love that zalman cooler

[@Geardos1]

Windows XP 64-bit, and that's the one that worked. The worst version of Windows XP.

[@busterscrugs]

still a better value than the RTX 4090!