graphics cards from scrap

[@SkrovnoCZ]

I always like to watch someone fixing old hardware.

[@SkrovnoCZ]

@Wowitsshit What are you talking about? Fixing hardware is always appreciated.

[@SkrovnoCZ]

@Wowitsshit I know. But these graphics cards looks cool. Also some of them I have never seen. I don't have as many as in this video but I do have for example 3DFX Voodoo Rush 6MB.

[@SkrovnoCZ]

@Wowitsshit that is a nice card.

[@kjcolewelle]

Is it just me or did graphics cards look just a whole lot cooler back in the day? (Respecting the comments below stating that cool-looking didn’t always mean keeping the card cool).

[@Pidalin]

I agree, hardware was much prettier in the past with all that copper coolers and nice logos. Today everything is covered in sterile black plastic or it has stupid RGB led lights, it looks everything same today, I miss green or red PCBs and naked copper coolers. But to be honest, today coolers are much better.

[@iremiabliss]

@@Pidalin Performance wise no, but looks you still can't beat pipes and copper

[@classic_jam]

@@iremiabliss Hell copper and pipes is still better than what you have today if done with modern finstack, its just too expensive when aluminum usually works.

[@warrax111]

Not just you. I love look of components , both graphic cards and motherboards of the past. late 90's and early 2000. Also boxes from graphic cards and motherboards. What is weird, new generation finds them "ugly". Even on Linus Tech Tips, when they do something old, they mention it "of course, it is ugly". Because they are not black, and full of strange gimmicks and LED stuff. But to be honest, I find new components weird and ugly looking, same computers from new generation. I was even very much disapointed, when I've found out, when I've tried to upgrade, that all motherboards looks ugly from like 2015 and newer. Even Gigabyte stopped to make their nice blue and white colored old fashioned motherboards around Z77 chipset (3rd gen of core). I'm so sad, no company stayed to make motherboards in old colors and design. I have feeling, last was Gigabyte, till Haswell., that used old design. Now, all motherboards look, like they were thrown into soot chimney. Ugly, dirty, disgusting, without the color and "component"feeling. And they are even "presenting them" with transparent cases... unbelievable.

[@ivaniliev2272]

@@warrax111 my components today does not differ much from the older one. My geforce4 and FX 5200 was black. My rx 580 today is also. My socket 478 motherboard was black coloured, than my asus P43 was black colored. Today my Asus prime b450 plus is also black. On top of that is stock amd cooler. But I never chose my components based on their look.

[@MOS6582]

Yeah, go air compressor! I feel so bad for people using canned air. A tank and a hose is the real shit. Good work, nice vid👍

[@RETROHardware]

I have a garage with 150dB compressor ... not everybody can own this ... but I saw that some people using canned air in studio/room :-))) this is unbelievable for me

[@giorgio5789]

@@RETROHardware yeah, canned air is a real scam. they sell you air, that's free lol

[@MagicSpamDragon]

@@giorgio5789 well they arnt really air most will use iso-propane mixed iso-butane for the evaporation so it doesnt leave behind water

[@MagicSpamDragon]

@@RETROHardware hope your running a water/moisture trap on the airline

[@romancisneros3706]

I used can air once and said $#!t I'm going outside water hose and a way I go ..easy clean.

[@wiliusundefined8666]

Seeing dusty gpu coolers being cleaned with an Air compressor is so satsfying. Great video as always. Thanks for rescuing and fixing old hardware. I really respect that. It makes me so sad how more and more vintage hardware keeps getting scrapped.

[@kacpreusz9911]

I watched this video on a PC built from scrap 100%. Asus M2N board, Athlon 64x2 5200+ CPU overclocked to 3.08ghz, radeon hd 5450 1gb overclocked gpu, 320gb 7200rpm Samsung hdd, Chieftec 400w psu, no name case, some crappy silentiumpc cooler i got from my friend and windows 10 LTSC installed

[@MrLukealbanese]

Nice rig!!

[@shady4422]

My god i just luv old hardware,That x1950 pro was a banger bk in its day

[@mesterak]

I love your graphics card finds and testing. Nice work. I wish I could get cards in bulk like that

[@timothynolan7250]

Thank God the power color one worked! Love those cards!

[@roger.monitor]

Nice bunch of cards you tested, reminds me of all the ones I still have.

[@paparazzo80]

Damn,powercolor is a beast,they still make great AMD cards specially Red Devil 6000 series and I'm suprised after 18 years this model at 10:00 still works :D

[@romanrm1]

11:03 it can be seen the VGA ribbon cable is shot in two places. DVI would probably work, but it's not soldered on, wow. Anyway, could be possible to find a replacement cable from some totally dead board.

[@RETROHardware]

this allready happened one year ago ... cable failed but after this all cards missed one colour ... here only one card and all cards after running well, so no problem with cable

[@romanrm1]

@@RETROHardware I mean the flat cable on the card itself, which goes from PCB to the VGA socket.

[@jailsonsilva4225]

very good your plate collection, I here wanting one and you there with so many congratulations

[@GKProgramming]

Thanks for your videos. Get me everytime in nostalgic mode with my old hardware.

[@ianmilo9982]

I really enjoyed watching the video. :) I can't understand why some derive satisfaction from seeing people destroy things... I love it the other way around....

[@Mini-z1994]

r9600 pro & 9600 pro, guess one has more pipelines unlocked almost becoming a 9700 just missing a bit of clock speed ?

[@RuruFIN]

Nope, they use a different chip. 9550 (SE)/9600 (SE/Pro/XT) uses RV350 or RV360 and 9700 uses R300. The RV350/360 has only four pipelines physically on the chip.

[@Dragonheng]

The old coolers are simply aesthetic compared to today's coolers

[@matcarfer]

Oh man seeing a dead/faulty GeForce FX 5800 breaks me. My best FX card is a 5600 Ultra from Leadtek, and I've been searching for a better card for a long time. :(

[@ApostolCV]

Hot and noisy😵

[@Wasmachineman]

18:15 I have the passively cooled version of this card in my Pentium 4 system!

[@emmanuelfernandes8768]

very cool

[@icatcyningproductions]

great collection, its really impressive to see all that hardware :D

[@TraenenSammler89]

Nice to see if the old graphic cards works, great job!

[@itzamedave6242]

So much epicness 🤯

[@harrydhcco]

estos son los videos que me gustan, se agradece saludos desde Chile!

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Always wandered -9800 ,and passive cooler,no surprise, it's "baked"...

[@framebuffer.10]

from the working group, my favorites are: G400 Max, GF2 GTS and of course the tentaculous 9600 Pro, with Mobility 9700 GPU! 😎 really pity that the FX5800 and the passive 9800 don't work

[@RETROHardware]

passive cooling for these GPUs was mistake ... mobility GPU suprised me too

[@MrLukealbanese]

Wow, great result!!

[@nameistunbekannt7896]

11:08 maybe fixing the VGA flex cable could help? Looks punctured.

[@ZoruaZorroark]

i understand copper is pricier and heavier than aluminum, but would love to see more gpus having copper coolers as the stock heatsinks again

[@RETROHardware]

Photo gallery for this video: facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1112626945815263

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

I have much science you and I could be doing together. A new beginning for Retro is soon to be upon the fingertips of all mankind. Gabe Newell amen.

[@nothing_to_see_here8255]

@@remasteredretropcgames3312 Tell me more

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

@@nothing_to_see_here8255 See channel for details. I was hoping for legit retro hardware to test it on some of the older titles. Im pretty sure as long as it has unified shaders its viable. So DX10 or better. Wont know until someone with the hardware tests it.

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

@@nothing_to_see_here8255 When I was raytracing old nvidia demos one of them called "Island" when I went into the debug mode to see objectively what the shader was treating and only in the scene, nvidia was already using raytracing and I could see its effects in the debug mode without even enabling my own. In the one with medusa they also straight up tell you in the information with the demo itself. Geforce 400 and 200 series respectively. I dont doubt a 8800 ultra could do it. Just keep the memory usage and resolution in check and it should be fine. Obviously only in games that are older than something like crysis or its going to have zero extra rendering headroom to do anything interesting with it. To be honest with you I dont even know if the reshade effects will work outside windows 10. They might. Everything I do is like Dr. Ian Malcolm in Jurassic Park put it life finding a way as long as its always in windows 10 simply because thats what people actually have.

[@nothing_to_see_here8255]

@@remasteredretropcgames3312 very interesting

[@Semseddin.]

Great video, i think the jackpot of this lot is Matrox P650

[@AnD_RoM]

Я бы посоветовал перед нанесение смазки полностью разбирать вентилятор, т.к там старая застывшая смазка остается. Промывать ось со втулкой бензином и наносить смазку непосредственно перед сборкой на ось. А так силиконовое масло со стороны фиксирующего кольца может и не проникнуть внутрь.

[@naikjoy]

Seems like low-mid end GPUs survive and high end ones are likely to fail. I'll probably just keep buying the cheapest 128-bit GPUs and undervolt them.

[@Kundalini12]

I have a Sapphire X1950pro AGP, it's nice to see one with a flat PCB.

[@Krisztian5HUN]

really nice cards dat Sapphire X1950pro AGP is the boss

[@amdintelxsniperx]

no kidding i forgot they even had an agp version of that card :)

[@ShieyV2komputroniks]

I have that medion geforce 4 with green cooler 😁

[@dikbozo]

Sweet to see all these old cards. Running or not. I loved the Power Color heat sink that looked like a flying saucer had landed and there were tentacles coming out of it. The light still working was just a total bonus surprise. I was saddned byt he Radeon 9800 pro failure though i womnder if it might be resurrected by a fan or two. The elaborate coolers on both the 9800s were quite impressive for silent configs. Thanks again for the video. Love these old cards you find.

[@candidosilva7755]

Cleaning and fixing nice.👌

[@MasterChef12109]

Leadtek heatsinks are always out there

[@PixelPipes]

Noooo I'm sad about that Leadtek 5800. I'd love to have one of those.

[@edward940]

Nice video mate.Thanks and thumbs up for such a great work you're doing in there. ;)

[@samuelgarcia7776]

It seems to me that the farther we go back into the past, and look at how things was built or manufactured. The further we go into the past, looks was always very important and everything man made in the past always had a better look or was better to look at than things are today!! It seems today that we have given up on the esthetics of items and care only for the actual function. I am sure money and how much the manufacturing process cost for a item is always the bottom line. But I still wish manufactures would go back to giving our consumer items the cool looks that they used to!!

[@ivaniliev2272]

The nvidia FX 5200 ( 11:10 ) seems to have faulty cable to vga port or the vga port itself, Try picking from one another card. It worked for me.

[@RETROHardware]

I tried 2 more VGA cables and nothing. different setup a still same. Looks like problem on PCB ... it is pointless put more energy to do with card like this. I have 20 other 5200s :-)

[@paparazzo80]

Love what you do...is there a way for you to send me all of your pics so I can use them as wallpaper on my cellhphone? Makes me relax and chill enjoying good old hardware and my childhood.

[@TeunisD]

Why did you place the fan the wrong way on the Winfast 5800? Dont you want to blow fresh air on to the heatsink instead of pulling hot air away from it?

[@BelieveNoGod]

I got a tip for you, for the cards with scrambled graphics. Maybe you think I'm joking with you, I am not. Remove the fans, and coolers that cover much of the card. Then you take the card to the kitchen sink, put on some dish soap, and water, then you wash it with a soft brush. After you have washed both sides, use a lot of water to make sure all the soap are gone. Then you dry it, and let the card dry, so you are sure all the water have dried up. Maybe let it dry for 24-48 hours. Then reassemble it, and try again. And NO I am not joking with you, I have done this many times, and I gotten the thing to work.

[@elnoobedition5734]

de mis canales favoritos de placas retro

[@amdintelxsniperx]

that x1950 tho :)

[@RuruFIN]

Always makes me sad to see those old flagship GPUs die.

[@nimakhosravi6476]

we love to see them working fix them all please

[@Pidalin]

"maybe you will see some explosions" that's why I am here :-D

[@ElSeñor.T]

At least 14 of 21, good!

[@phillycheesetake]

That 5800 Leadtek cooler design is easily among the worst ever. Cool-looking, but just absolutely diabolically bad at it's job.

[@MOS6582]

Man I can believe that. From the inside it’s the biggest POS.

[@quartinhoretrohardware]

um dia eu chego nesse patamar!

[@quartinhoretrohardware]

@anô nimo grato!

[@unknowntegro9627]

can you tell me please, which Manufacturer of gpu cards has over the years the less of deaths? I thank for answer!

[@kacpreusz9911]

I have the same keyboard as in the video

[@angkhoavo8004]

Some 7 malfunctioned/broken GPUs look unique! Are you trying to fix them or return them to the scrapyard?

[@RETROHardware]

all faulty cards on the table I’am keeping for parts or watching

[@tehcooler]

So satisfying! :)

[@darkel_games]

Awesome vid. What do you do with faulty hardware?

[@99danwil]

9:54 is this spider gpu

[@zackk6415]

damn those are some rare gpus, i got a VGA nvidia gpu from 2004 and it feels like u hold something so rare

[@ntg.holmes3766]

These are only videos you could just watch 10h straight.

[@rudolf2000]

What are you doing whit KO Cards?

[@wince333]

reflow the fx5800, possible the solder is craked (same period xbox360 and ps3 ring of death )

[@petersketch1990]

Can you combine all of that cache or vram to one gpu processor ?

[@aaronslippery1921]

Wait how is the Powercolor 9600 pro a mobility 9700?

[@MagicSpamDragon]

hope i don't ruin your fun but these can pretty much all be scrapped with cpu's such as amd ryzen 5 3400G and 5600G the integrated gpu runs equivalent to nvidia geforce gt 1030 or radeon rx 550 or for an even lower budget amd ryzen 3 3200g runs equivalent to nvidia geforce gt 740 or ati radeon HD 4890

[@jackjones6936]

Hold up. No one mentioned the Mobility Radeon 9700 Pro hiding under the heatsink of the Radeon 9600 Pro?!

[@romancisneros3706]

I wash it by hand then let fully dry looks like new just saying all the dust comes off

[@romancisneros3706]

I really use water from the hose out side the dry lightly then blow dry and let dry fully

[@offline9218]

I have not even seen such, although I have been doing repairs for 20 years)

[@Brayam777]

I have a geforce fx 5500, agp socket, looks new to sell Exchange for a gtx.

[@zalmanfans1334]

I like watching your videos because the hardware is expensive and I won't ever get the chance to find it anyways

[@clintthompson4100]

Can I ask where do you get the silicone oil at? Great video and you got twice as many OK than KO.

[@RETROHardware]

anywhere, it is normal item in shop

[@3_ROUE_TABARNAK]

how do you get this much hardware im inpressed

[@kplow19861]

where can i buy these old card?

[@warrax111]

Wow, someone wanted to throw out functional Geforce 2 GTS into the trash. Even legendary V7700 from Asus, that was unreachable dream in 2000 for many, for extra price. Unbelievable. Glad you've saved this little jewel.

[@Lordosvk]

Cau mas zaujem aj o kompletny origonal oem starsie pc?

[@99danwil]

Those gpu very artistic

[@Lordosvk]

That gigabite looks decent. You can try to bake it.

[@schizostrel]

Нортвуд на 3,2 в то время вообще топчик был, долго я такой искал, так и не нашёл.....

[@ApostolCV]

Странно, их как грязи по весне.

[@emmanuelfernandes8768]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@rale1994]

ah the good old matrox graphics I was suprised that I saw today Matrox gpu on newest hpe servers

[@ArturJK]

The fan on the CPU cooler should be installed in reverse :)

[@barbunicolae2711]

Where do you find all these graphics cards?

[@RETROHardware]

almost all are from scrap

[@barbunicolae2711]

@@RETROHardware Amazing! I wish I had access to such goodies! Wish you all the best!

[@RaPtOr9600]

8:32 at same time ugliest and most intriguing 9600pro that i looked at, but they will survive almost anything robust piece of hardware 21:34 Working x1950 pro AGP 512mb ram, that allone is worth the trouble of testing. Very nice find. FX5200 dead how missing smds probably :)

[@victorsegoviapalacios4710]

If I shitted money, I would have a collection of every-single GPU ever released....

[@istvankelemen3376]

The Radeon 9600 is (looks like) the "covid card" :-DDD

[@dikbozo]

the sound at 5:17 I fully expected. the failure of the card, not so much.

[@sergiobisonte]

test card nº5 again... i bet the vga ribbon is bad... replace it and try it again

[@--Zook--]

not all hero's wear capes

[@ApostolCV]

Sapphire made really interesting cooling system.🤘 Not sure about effectiveness of passive cooling. As always Matrox sucks in games.

[@NorComeNorGo]

my first gpu ATI radeon x1300 pro ^^

[@hardwarechronicles9178]

i have that same msi motherboard :D

[@Uraim]

nice video

[@samuelgarcia7776]

OH, I forgot to say.....AWESOME VIDEO though!!!!!!

[@danielhussain2900]

Can I have one of it?

[@dikbozo]

By my count just the one Radeon card dead versus 6 NV. TBH the Radeon cards all beat their contemporaries in 3D Mark. i would take this as evidence of longer lasting hardware. i have had 6 different Radeon cards and all are/were still working at last test. Oldest is a plain old 9600. Current desktop card is an rx 570. Sapphire FTW!

[@mesterak]

Btw, what do you do with so many graphics cards. You just have hundreds by now.

[@RETROHardware]

storaging

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Oh, my favourite card IS ALIVE ,the 1950 PRO !!! PLEASE, pretty please replace the stock cooler,it's junk!!!!

[@user-dw6fj1py1o]

Bought old graphic card!

[@JL-wm5mh]

Maybe you can heatgun some of them to bring them back to life.