Nvidia's Forgotten Flagship!

[@scellyyt]

thats some real cement based thermal paste right there

[@MozrowDrops]

I have the same exact one from eBay , cost me 1.99 good temps

[@TheAcidMuskitears]

@@MozrowDrops I think that Scelly is referring to the stuff that was dried and removed from the old gpu, not the stuff that B-BO applied.

[@CaveyMoth]

Keeps the GPU stone cold.

[@Churchgrimm]

It reminded me of some thermal paste I had to scrape off the northbridge of a Westmere era SuperMicro server board recently. Literally took me two hours solid of scrubbing I burned through 20+ alcohol wipes. I eventually resorted to using my fingernails at the end. Remarkably the northbridge die survived unscathed.

[@randomtech4973]

It is a thermal brick

[@frank144p4]

8:58 So you’re saying that due to the cars the card can’t keep up and it may be a _driver_ related issue... 👀

[@infelicitas]

As a car guy I really appreciate this one

[@jhonjhon1740]

@@the_motherfucker r/ihavereddit

[@jasongrimshaw-smith8369]

hehe, dad joke, and i understood it and chuckled a little :D

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

From the time when "GTX" wasn't the series, but the suffix meaning the highest in it's bracket above stuff like GT, GTS and GS The 9800 GTX+ was also rebranded into the GTS 250 btw.

[@bartekpekala77]

Shows how big of a leap 200 series was.

[@yalsonnoorcahayapratama3775]

and when FX was a geforce series

[@vamwolf]

You are correct.

[@RikaRikaItsumika]

Omg that was my card until 2011 :0

[@NukE30]

I still have a GTS 250 on my shelf, and it is still working.

[@w19ely85]

I had the 512mb Asus "Dark Knight" version of this card. I had to RMA it and they sent me the rarer 1gb version

[@whitenoiserevived6575]

I just had a look at that card and Jesus that's a beefy cooler for the time

[@Iamnicknow]

Do something on the GTX 285, it idles at 200w

[@sandipanplayz7282]

really bro?? 200 Watts. Damn

[@sandipanplayz7282]

@SemperFidelis2006 ok so your youtube display pic moves.

[@mcky_msh]

I bought a GTX 260 c216 and a GTX 285 in a combo deal from a friend. Sold the 285 because I couldn't keep it cool. 260 c216 was 95% performance with 50% the heat. Bizarre.

[@elarmino6590]

Other times, impressive

[@gulfcoaster210]

Many many moons ago I had 3 bfg 285s in tri sli.... What a disaster that was 😂

[@TrinityAlex]

I used this card from February 2009, for about 200 USD, and used it until 2018, when I got a 1080. Initially it had a 3 year warranty, but EVGA later offered 10 years warranty for it. Though I mainly bought it because of PhysX, if I had known PhysX would become what it is today (irrelevant), I would have probably bought something else. Still, it hold it's ground for almost 10 years, happy customer. Perfect card!

[@Diceman82]

Honestly surprised how well this old girl did, I seen so many variants of the gt 8000 series chug hard on GTA V and here this card is, flipping them all the middle finger.

[@shadowguardian3612]

Well its basically a refresh of 8800 Gtx ultra on smaller and more efficent node.

[@TheBig451]

@@shadowguardian3612 No. The 9800GTX was just a higher clocked 8800GTS G92, and this is just a higher clocked die shrink of that. G92 is quite different than G80 on the 8800GTX.

[@FullyBuffered]

Yeas, the 9800GTX+ ! Back in late 2010 to early 2011 I was running a second hand Q6600/x48 machine with two eVGA 9800GTX+ cards in SLI. I can remember being disappointed when I found out GTA IV didn't support SLI. I sold the cards in late 2011 to a guy who said he wanted to get three of them in SLI and watercool them to play Battlefield 3. I'm still curious how that turned out... Anyhow, great vid! The card seems to have held up quite reasonably just like the the other iterations of this Tesla chip.

[@pcflippin2901]

I can't believe how well these hold up. My second GPU ever was a 8800 GTS 320MB and I was using this for years before finally building a new system. Unfortunately I sold it last year, as you put it there's still quite a high price associated with the 8800 cards. I did pick up a HD 4870 512MB for a fiver a couple of days ago so will be giving that a bash soon - it will be interesting to see how they compare!

[@ahmadsheikhghalavand1904]

I really like these videos. They're amusing, informative and pretty damn good. I learned how to clean, put together my pc, overclock and many things just from your channel. Good job mate

[@thehman9499]

Funny story: I actually used to use one of these after my dad gave me it, and, surprisingly, i still have it today (i dont use it anymore obviously). Twas an EVGA card and it apparently only had one 6pin connector

[@nickjayr0]

u should do a series about forgotten but still capable GPUs!

[@onometre]

isn't that the entire point of this channel?

[@jjaze9831]

I never see him review gpu's like old fire pro those cards are interesting.

[@hahaiseewhatyouredoing9086]

@@jjaze9831 or old Tesla line. The K series are still great especially if you need a proper 10-bit output.

[@hahaiseewhatyouredoing9086]

@@jjaze9831 But apparently most of those old workstation GPUs are still expensive, considering this guy mostly bought things from sub-$10 category.

[@jjaze9831]

@@hahaiseewhatyouredoing9086 yeah here in ph Some of them are like $200 but some I found around $35.

[@oldschooldude8370]

Still use this card, an evga with the nice heatsink/fan it came with. Total powerhouse for it's time. It was a 250gts if you overclocked it if I remember correctly and was a hell of a lot cheaper. Crushes Fear on high settings with an x2 and ddr 400 without overclocking. It handles everything 2014 or so and prior.

[@asdanjer]

Civ 5 is a "relatively new strategy game"? It is 10 years old. 2 years less than the card. I hope a card can handle a title that came out only 2 years after the cards release.

[@dobrosbirka]

The other day I was able to get my hands on one of those, made by Asus. As often happens with the older cards, it needs to be serviced and the thermal paste and pad needs to be replaced. Looking forward to testing it in games, so big thanks for making this video!

[@Wushu-viking]

And they found out later it actually could settle with one 6 pin ;) The OC capability might be better in the 9800 GTX+ over the GTS 250.

[@rosenscharf]

So glad you're putting out more videos again.

[@max06250184]

Isn't it the same card as the GTS 250 ?

[@YordaMX]

Yes it is!

[@LayneRuley]

i like your simcity music! thank you for the content! as a kid in highschool the 8800 ultra and the GTx280 were the cards i always wanted and thought id never be able to afford.

[@probablyanadult7354]

8800 gtx reminds me of the polaris rx 480, new architecture with a new node. 9800 gtx is like the rx 580 and this 9800gtx+ is like the rx 590. same architecture but a smaller node.

[@pepre7594]

if only it performed a 590....

[@enzomeister]

Nice video, I find satisfying and calming watching your videos in this oven of the days.

[@offlinegamer6756]

i had a GTX 9800 back in the day , was cool until the day i tried playing Hitman Absolution on it, man ! she couldn't handle it in most crowded levels, memory limitation , but other than that this cards was worthy the investissement.......but because of Hitman i replaced her with a GTX 660 ...and yes , i had her for almost 6 years , and she served me well ...but man !going from a 9800 to a 660 was like night and day!

[@3dcomrade]

@Dalle Smalhals and they left kepler with no extra optimization now. Sad really, as theyre quite capable actually

[@3dcomrade]

@Dalle Smalhals add game devs pushing new features and wont bother to optimize for older cards. Look at Doom Eternal for example. Its weird seeing there is no huge outrage over it. I know it ran well on AMD cards, but come on thid is gameworks bullshittery taken into the next level

[@hummel6364]

My first card was an EVGA version of this exact card back in like 2010, and let me tell you that meant I had the best PC among all my friends for quite a few years.

[@Bluebery_Pickle]

Thanks, your videos are one of the few things worthy of taking up my time.

[@artk2219]

Ah man, I had a GTS 250 (which was basically the final rebrand of this card), that i picked up for like 50 bucks in 2011. I picked it up as a physx card that I used alongside my Radeon 6950, and then just kept it as a spare card. Honestly as a backup card it was solid for years, floating around from build to build when i needed to test with something that required a PCIE power cable, and had more grunt than a basic display adapter.

[@Treynath84]

I have a GT120 with 1GB of VRAM and mine can barely play WaW, and you can play GTA V. Nice...

[@MozrowDrops]

What settings in WaW?

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

As I have said time and time again. VRAM =/= Performance

[@Treynath84]

Yeah, I know, it's still pretty bad tho...

[@Treynath84]

@@MozrowDrops medium at slightly under 720p.

[@johnkitsi]

Isn't that card also available for the old mac pro ?

[@ivyflow3r]

nice, i managed to find this video when it was uploaded after 3 minutes

[@sebastiangabriel4421]

14 minutes for me. Cool!

[@fionaneufeld7908]

Ok.

[@laureanolamonega]

simcity music never gets old. nice video!

[@BenState]

Something not mentioned, having had numerous 8 series cards, they all need 100mV bump on core volts and they run 100+ MHz faster without even blinking.

[@GearSeekers]

Let's see the 9800 GX2 ;)

[@GPULibrary]

^

[@khmerkandal121]

"What was it"? A perfect topic for an amazing BBO video :) Stay safe!

[@Superchad245]

SimCity 4 music threw me off, I'm listening to this video and playing SimCity 4 lol

[@Daraco]

I'm still rocking EVGA 9800 GTX+ on xeon w3565 16gb 1600mhz triple channel XD great to see this card coming up on this channel loved it, btw i get around 158 fps in csgo 1600 x 1200 and it hardly drops at 80fps. Though mine is quite a lot overclocked, and my temps really doesn't exceed 70c.

[@likemau5552]

I hear simcity 4 in the background, nice choice of bg music :D

[@solocamo3654]

When you have a oc'ed 6900xt and a 4k monitor but get almost more joy out of this than gaming in 2021.

[@cobrastomas]

I had a Asus 9800GTX+ dark knight, upgraded from 7300gs, damn It was a good card

[@NexusFantismo]

Budget builds official in 2032: Today we are going to look back at the RTX 2080 ti, the forgotten flagship.... At that point we may have quantum computing at home, who knows.

[@jorno1994]

got one of those still. quite a nice card for a retro build.

[@AveragePootis]

Nice video mate, waiting for a another live stream of yours as i have tech based questions to ask you about... again -POTTU98

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Might be streaming some Fable Anniversary tomorrow

[@AveragePootis]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial that would be brilliant, around the same time as before?

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Id imagine so 👍

[@AveragePootis]

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial excellent, i hope to talk to you tomorrow, good night

[@WellBeSerious12]

Computers are amazing. No matter how old they get, most still have uses. Mainly older games and emulation. And before that, DOS and native games. And can you do a video on HD 7570 1GB GDDR5 (NOT DDR3 VERSION!)? It's one of the best value low-end cards.

[@RetroAmateur1989]

I had a 9800GTX+ That died on me after like 3 years of mild use. Not only that pretty much, anyone I know who had 8k and 9k series cards had to replace them at one point because it died for no reason. That pile of cards you showed, I have one such pile too, and there are a lot of 8k and 9k cards that I have to throw out because they have died. The 285 I got in 2010, is still alive in the computer I sold to a friend, while the 970 I got 5 years ago to replace the 285, is still going strong.

[@badATchaos]

I had a 8800GTS and a 9800GTX. Those were so great at the time. I remember running stuff like Crysis on those.

[@Joshfarmpig]

I love the SC4 music in the intro!

[@cesaryanez9837]

Dat Sim City 3000 music in the background! Ah yis!!

[@MetalY2KMusic]

Shoutout to 13y/o me when I bought a 9800 for my Inspiron 530 and couldn't figure out how to install it so we just sold it lmao

[@eddiebone1]

Lol the “Pixelated” lighting @ 3:48

[@DavidJonSpem]

Should have used that new fancy texture streaming feature in cs go

[@reptilez13]

I have a Geforcr 8800gts I found in a Mac. Haven't had a chance to actually put it to use yet, but this makes me want to. Does this one take a PcIe power cable or no? Wasn't sure gow much that node shrink helped power consumption lol.

[@RegalPixelKing]

This was my first ever dedicated GPU. When I got it it was already years old, but considering I was in high school with no job and little money, for my first ever PC build it did just fine. To go from playing TF2 at 480p at not even a full 30fps at times to running at the game maxed out at 1080p at 60fps was insane for me.

[@grahamjohnson7412]

I remember the 9800GTX+. I had an EVGA card. I later sold it to my brother and he still has it. It's his emergency "Aw, crap!" card. It's been put back into service at least once when his then current GPU died.

[@moistbrain9297]

I'm genuinely impressed how well this ancient graphics card did on some very respectable titles

[@homelessEh]

1:39 i fully expect you to just Start Blasting it with a Garden hose now pushing it across the stone. wreklessly then taking a STEEL wirebrush to it.... lol gg

[@Rod_Nyssen]

@ Budget-Builds Official But can it run F.E.A.R.2 in 720P???

[@Dawid_The_Man]

i have the same card in my second pc. I dont use this for gaming i only use it for watching youtube at 1440p or 1080p. This GPU does well at 1440p video playback and theres an issue with it. Every so often the screen goes black and shows red lines and it only lasts for like 4 seconds and goes back to normal. Anyway when i launch furmark and stress test it, it shows lines and artifacts on the display. The card is dying and like 2 days ago i bought a GTX 550 Ti for a small upgrade.

[@SUCRA]

Great video, thanks! I recently put together a sempron 1250le with a 8500 gt and 8800 gts, still pretty good.

[@JETWTF]

I have twin EVGA 9800 GTX+ cards sitting on a shelf collecting dust along with the SLI bridge. Last blower cooler cards I ever used and they worked great for years.

[@voteDC]

I used a 8600 GTS for a long while back in the day. I'm surprised to find out that that generation of card was so disliked. The card still sits quite happily in a friends office PC where the only time it stretches its legs these days is to play Rome: Total War or The Battle for Middle-Earth.

[@GPULibrary]

3:00 That`s some concrete evidence you got there :D

[@glutenfreegam3r177]

The GTX+ was also known as the GTX KO, I have one with each branding from EVGA. IIRC they switched from the KO to the plus designator but I could have that backwards.

[@Zujanbre]

I had a 8800GTS and playing HD videos caused it to stutter. I remember trying to run Heroes 6 and it struggled on low. Darksiders ran on AMD x1600 but was unplayable on the 8800GTS.

[@piecatcher4159]

I mean. I have two of these GTX+. They work to this day, both have 512mb. Worked in SLI at the time. Both were replaced with a 285 GTX+ With a gig of ram a couple years later.

[@Warbob11]

I have my PNY GTX 9800+ I pulled from a Asus Striker Extreme 1 build I picked up in 2014. Guy finally retired his 2008 - 2009 build it was a very nice build but all I wanted was that GPU. Did end up parting out the components from that build to people who needed them or wanted them at least.

[@aceoyame2619]

The GTS250 was the exact same card. Used to have one. Some people would flash GTS250 bioses on the 9800gtx+

[@eksine]

Wait this is the video card I have now but mine is evga. It's paired with an unlocked phenom ii x2 black 550 which unlocked becomes a phenom ii x4 b50

[@nticompass]

I had a 9800 GTX+. I also had a GTS 250, which I learned was a re-badged 9800 GTX+. I tried to re-flash the 9800 GTX+ so I could SLI it with the GTS 250. The re-flash worked, SLI did not...

[@MrRobot-ry7ky]

You always find something to surprise us :D

[@Mini-z1994]

Got a 768 mb version of the 9800 gtx+ here with a reference cooler, does surprisingly well for what it is at 720p or 1366x768 in borderlands 2.

[@tobiaszistler]

Finaly someone includes BeamNG in his benchmarks (That Game itselve is a made high demanding benchmark xD)

[@skoopsro7656]

I have a 9800 that I got from a recycling center bin. Had the rest of the era appropriate PC attached.. a p55 asus tuf and an I3 540 was a neat snapshot of an era before I got into hardware. The start of were we are today

[@salvi016]

this is the first ever graphics card i bought in 2010 lasted me until 2014 since it had no dx11

[@cyc2862]

Cool video! Haha... Better than my integrated graphics.

[@Zieldak]

Oh wow, I didn't expect to see some Banished gameplay here.

[@sandrocarletto9386]

waiting for my rx 570 to be reviewed by someone in 10 years time

[@DavidKing-wk1ws]

I still use a zotac 610i running both Windows 98 and Windows Xp. This is not a dual boot system. However i decided to go with an Acard 9010 ddr ram ssd. The drive is only 32gb and only 27gb useable but when you are using software everything seems instant. It also allows for backup of the installed os, on a 32gb flash card. So i turned my pc into something from the 80s, being i install only certain programs on different flash cards making it like a cartridge system :)

[@goqwertygo]

I got a XFX 9800GTX+ for my first gaming pc with a Core 2 Duo E6600. Still have it with the box retired on my shelf.

[@zeekmx1970]

The only thing I can say here is at the time ROPs were vital and memory interface of 256bit memory interface was the goal. At the time at the 512MB video memory mile stone we started to judged a graphics card by the memory size and prayed for more ROPS We're still doing that and we usually buy the next card in the stack with double the memory when we upgrade. It will not be that way much longer as we approach parody with work station memory sizes.

[@vapingaminchav200]

I had a water cooled 9800gtx back in the day paired with a core 2 extreme had alot of fun with that rig

[@enermaxstephens1051]

I used to have one of these! The EVGA one. None of the software knew it was 55nm, everything always said it was 65nm

[@nilbenetes]

I played crysis on a friends pc at the time i think he had this graphic card, it was amazing at time!

[@speedlolita]

Bought one of these with my first pay cheque, a Palit version. Ran across some memory issue with the Source engine and ended up having to change video card, think I went to a 8800 GS after that.

[@wiesel222]

Was the Radeon HD 4000 Series not from ATI? If I remember right the first AMD made GPU (after buying ATI) was 6000 Series or I'm wrong?

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

AMD used the ATI name but every card made from the 2900XT onward was produced by AMD as a parent company.

[@weaponx26]

I had two watercolor with ful copper blocks in sli and a 9600gt doing only physx crysis was buttery smooth

[@jaggededge11]

Still running off of a GTX470 (Was running 2 but they both crapped out a few months ago). Will eventually have to invest in a new rig, but when it comes to tech I tend to want to run it into the ground.

[@Kippy8472]

I used to love my 8800gtx, handled battlefield 2 (2005) like champ. Wow I'm getting old 😖

[@Heliocentric]

I had the 9800 GTX+ superclocked in SLI. It worked amazing for quite a few years.

[@slvr_l7732]

wow, i just finish watch first AMD Radeon 2800XT from this channel and this shows up

[@estate-tidus1007]

Didn't some of the EVGA units of these suffer from the 100% fan bug that wasn't easy to fix?

[@Ammageddon89]

Good old memories. Had a XFX 9800GTX+ 512MB 765MHz. Worked great at the time, even though my E6600 was struggling to keep it fed. I remember paying 250 dollar for it. Now thats a price for a Flagship GPU.

[@MGR99]

One of my first GPUs I've used and could say owned. Got it from a friend who had upgraded, but I didn't buy it, but rather he loaned it to me. Anyway, paired with the Celeron G1840, this GPU let me play GTA IV. V and Mafia 2 on my own PC for the first time, and I remember it dearly for that :)

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Got a pair of 8800&9800, as well. Waiting to build some retro pc.

[@951258tike22]

ahhh nostalgia blast! 2008 was the first year i got seriously into modern computer hardware and this gpu was the hottest new thing at the time. I remember lusting after an SLI rig with these baddies to run CoD World at War maxed out in full HD. Meanwhile the phat ps3 was doing very well in it's own right to completely enthrall my 14 year old self :)

[@lbsiuk]

Why do you not upload in 60/48 FPS anymore? Not angry, just curious. Also that thing is faster than my GT310 from years later.

[@will891410]

GTX 1080 TI is still a beast card nowadays.

[@Rainbow__cookie]

Wonder if it's good in 10 years I mean we have alot of good games will people play those in 10 years

[@boxritter]

I have this card.

[@will891410]

@@Rainbow__cookie If you mean the games made until 2025 yes, qafter that the card will start to weaken a lot, as the new games will demand a lot of memory and procesing power along with the new tacnologies written on the new processors.

[@soniablanche5672]

I remember playing Skyrim on a HD 4850, I don't remember having 60 fps, but that might be because I maxed the settings.

[@austinwahl2945]

still have a pny xlr8 9800gtx+ on my wall. went to a 550ti after then to sli 550ti for bf3 then 7970ghz and 7970ghz xfire with an overlocked xfire 1440p monitor back in the day that would do 100hz+. those were the fun times

[@hafixul0250]

I got some problems with tesla card (9600 gt)...issue with driver cuz i always got opengl issue such error code 3 and 4

[@Pulverrostmannen]

I had one of these cards, it ran well until it died, it was replaced with a 285 card which ran a bit better than this until it also died, that was replaced with a 560Ti which ran even better until that also died which was replaced with a 770 card which ran very well which actually last too. but for the 9800+ it was running Crysis well until you got into the snow part and here it did not run Crysis well at all

[@lil_floofer]

I love how you get better performance with that card than me with 8GB of RAM, a 1050ti and in I5 7700HQ I get about 13 fps on very low...

[@ThatTonybo]

I own a Gigabyte variant of the standard 9800GTX. Just wondering though, should I get a second 9800GTX and run it in SLI, or take a risk and get a HD 4850?

[@dyslectische]

What I still know is that I have to stick the 8800 and 9800 serie the fuck up chip with soldering. So you have us a hot oven to repair it. Good thing I use a ati card in that time