The First and Only "GTX+" Graphics Card

[@kristapssavnors3031]

Is it just me or does letter "x" makes anything sound better.

[@marioman971]

in that case the X1950 XTX just sounds insane doesn't it?

[@haha13131313]

The X in the RX series stands for 10 as in R10, but you gotta agree R10 480 would sound weird and not as appealing as RX 480.

[@uuuaaaaaa]

Jay Pattyson beastly GPU!

[@shemberkkk]

sex?

[@Slenderman63323]

The XFX X1950 XTX????

[@Pickelhaube808]

*I can't wait until 10 years and on this channel:* 10 years ago, NVIDIA released the "GTX 1070, and it only had 8GB of GDDR5 VRAM, a measly 2GHz boost clock, and DX12, not up to the standards of DX16 of today's standards. We picked it up for $12.

[@AustinMichael]

Is this really all that stunning though? It's even worse in the Enterprise realm where after 3-6 years you can get servers which cost thousands of dollars for less then 600 bucks.

[@salmonn_gz7987]

u jokin? in next 10 years we all be in MARS, earth is left with TRUMP nuclear catasthrope! AND the size of GPU would be as small as MicroSD on your smartphone with the power of 100sli-gtxTITANxp !! we all by then acustomize with VR-full body with taste + touch !!!!

[@StopaskingformynameYouTube]

True, Hillary has actually ordered drone strikes on civilians. Trump just wants to know what's inside area 51 and who really shot Kennedy and make that wall. And by the way, building the wall is actually good for everyone. There's a LOT of human trafficking from mexico to the US, several people die every day either by robbery from those seeking to exploit those who want to travel or they die during the travel itself. There's also a lot of drug trafficking. A wall that's big enough will make it harder to get in and out and that forces people to apply for work visa or greencard? is that it? Illegal immigrants is a problem even if they are from canada, mexico or sweeden. He won't nuke anyone, tho he might destabilize trade agreements to some extent it will most likely be fine. The world isn't over. And no, i'm not a trump supporter, nor do i support hillary. Bernie was the best choice for the wellfare of your people but even he would face challenges with economy, trump might be able to fix that, but probably not.

[@vinniekiro]

VR Full body with taste and touch? well porn might be interesting

[@salmonn_gz7987]

Vinnie haha, now u get it......yeaaaaaahh

[@fullmetaljacket7]

Talk about the very first PCI-E graphics card please!

[@RandomGaminginHD]

zxz1997 I'll look into it 👍

[@Alex-oz9eh]

zxz1997 I second this

[@fullmetaljacket7]

RandomGaminginHD Thanks!

[@Alex-oz9eh]

RandomGaminginHD talk about the first and last pci gpu also

[@tekplays5366]

YAY

[@igloo2862]

It's amazing how little CPUs have developed over eight years compared to GPUs

[@zososldier]

? it went from core 2 duo/quad as the highest cpu to a 10+ core i7. You will easily see which knocks the crap out of which in a cpu rendering or processing test. (this doesn't even count xeon processors)

[@igloo2862]

Eight years ago, we had Nehalem with parts like the i7-920 and i7-965. These parts are still very usable with a modern GPU. The 9800 is basically a turd now

[@igloo2862]

2006 is ten years ago. I got my Nehalem part (i7-920) in 2008, which is eight years. Counting is hard.

[@july5345]

igloo2 yeah if you only play games then GPU sure is alot more demanding than cpu. But if your computer is used as a workstation that analyze data or do alot of rendering work, you will see the huge difference.

[@pauls4522]

honestly gpus have had a pretty good slow down this decade. We haven't had a huge generational leap since 8800gtx in november 2006 which nearly doubled the performance (if not more) of its previous gen 7000 series. Before that it was the mighty radeon 9700 pro released in 2002 which was probably the hugest generational leap in regards to performance of all time. Anymore we have been seeing maybe 30-35% bumps at best per generation, and the gaps between generation have been getting wider. Look at how long the gtx 10 series has been latest gem? Some of the blame is how long the 28nm node latest (2011-2016), although nvidias lack of competition and amd being burned hard by the bitcoining mining craze in the mid 2010s didn't help either. (basically hd 7900 and r9 280+ series of amd gpus were bought in masses by bitcoin miners in around 2015 to mine, but when ASICs came out the miners sold their cards in masses on ebay for lower than the suggested retail price which made it hard for amd to sell new product and made them a huge loss)

[@Tbonedoesfsx]

Do a video with the 90 series of GTX Cards (590, 690 etc..)

[@timschubert8624]

TbonePlays gtx 290

[@zlounberg6958]

you mean GTX 295

[@timschubert8624]

David Kuchař yea, sorry

[@matocarina]

who got money for that

[@DanielCardei]

HD 6990 :D

[@LETHALF90]

Xfx made nvidia cards? Wow

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Medo Gabr yeah up until nvidia cut them off for taking an interest in amd products

[@AintPopular]

wow nice background info

[@LETHALF90]

RandomGaminginHD well thats dumb. If only evga made an rx 480

[@ABaumstumpf]

The irony of Nvidia and XFX: www.nvidia.com/object/IO_20020821_4517.html Couple of years ago some were saying that this move from Nvidia would hurt them - seems like this was not the case.

[@EricTanGH0ST]

To show NVIDIA is such a monopolizing ass of a company.

[@ipoopedtoday4260]

That titanium exhaust muffler and cone air filter with turbo looks really odd

[@kirbyswarp]

I pooped today Its just his downpipe

[@ipoopedtoday4260]

You pooped today too?

[@xGxPhantomZzz]

yes

[@xGxPhantomZzz]

the morning stresspoop when you dont have time.

[@trychan959]

I pooped today that muffler looks exactly like a port i love that shit i want to paintjob my gpu like that

[@salmanariq8549]

ooooo i have my first gaming pc core2quad 4gb ram 9600gt 😂 upgraded to an overkill 700$pc

[@fox5269]

Salman Ariq give your old to me xdd

[@undeadelite]

i also had a core 2 quad q6600 gt, 4gb ddr2 800mhz, 9600 gt 512 mb from 2007 and upgraded to a 1200$ pc, just now in dec 2016, feels good man

[@undeadelite]

i didn't meant "upgraded the system" i meant upgrading from a 10 year old system (that was pretty strong for the time) to a new system. Also the ram couldn't be kept since my new PC is using ddr4

[@fox5269]

***** Im planning to upgrade to as old as his setup too, only difference between us is I have intel gma 3100. I cant even run san andreas with more than 20 fps on low with this crap

[@fox5269]

***** I really don't know. I'm a proud survivor but I still have a not-so-good laptop. Well it can handle some games but you know laptop. (I got it some months ago, now I cant even imagine using the other pc)

[@BoomBox02]

Just under a year after the 9800 GTX+ was released, Nvidia released the GTS 250 which was basically a re branded 9800 GTX+. I had the GTS 250 with 1GB and it was a decent mid range gaming card for its time.

[@JedHurricane]

Is this future proof?

[@naslazhdaysyamomentom]

JedHurricane 2008 video card with no dx11 support and you are asking whether it's futureproof??

[@JedHurricane]

Go44o ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) can it run minesweeper at 4k max settings?

[@ItaAndy2014]

jordocondi ..well I have 2 titan x Pascal (on sli ) thats pretty future proof for me

[@OnlyEpicEmber]

consejosgamingHD You'll be down to medium settings at 1080p in about 5 years I recon so if you're happy with that then yeah, it's future proofed

[@r0ast5_61]

JedHurricane 2560x1600*

[@jawr1215]

S-Video? Madness.

[@exceedisdead5180]

It's like a console lol

[@Nikke-nn5mn]

Exept without benefits and disadvantages of a console

[@Classikh]

Better. 1080p instead of 720-900p and when it's lower resolution you get over 30 FPS.

[@WayToManyAssassins]

***** Yea and the ps3's like 11 years old lol

[@youaintasbadasyouthink]

that and the fact consoles are optimised to play games without having an operating system in the background running, meaning even with the same amount of power, the console would out do the PC

[@SomethingNewEveryDay]

It's actually considerably more powerful than a PS3. A closer comparison would be the PS4.

[@jeffy1670]

I really like that you had shots of the card while talking about it instead of talking over gameplay footage.

[@zlounberg6958]

Do a 9800GX2 video ! If you can get a hands on one of those that is.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

David Kuchař yeah been looking but no luck

[@Lauriemine]

i have one, but its dead ;(

[@DanielCardei]

9800 GX2 Its a monster with its fat Cousin GTX 295 X2

[@MY5TCrimson]

I'd a 7950GX2 years ago. Looks so beautiful.

[@HosakaBlood]

i still have my old xfx 9800 gx2 on the box xD thoses time when even a dual gpu high end card used to cost 499 xD

[@dangeroustoaster2688]

This dude has a lot of good videos showing his future is secured through his subscriber count. The channel is exploding mate. Good job.

[@migzwilliams2049]

this was a beast back in the day!

[@julianvickers]

I'm really glad you took my advice and started testing popular esports games like DOTA 2 and Rocket League (I imagine it wasn't just me, but I like to think I'm important :) ). Cheers!

[@bestelitt2760]

I have this GPU in my System: Pentium Dual Core clocked at 3GHz 4GB DDR2 RAM Its nice for older games

[@Supcharged]

does it run cyrsis?

[@SpeedyMarioPony75]

Supercharged it can, low settings 720p

[@OrangeBroom]

Ouch

[@EvaYohane]

These are very interesting videos and i have learned loads of things about PCs and GPUs. This is helpful as i do computer science as a GCSE and this in my opinion is one of the best tech channels on youtube! :)

[@Ziimbiian]

Funny to see a 9x00 Series here, yesterday i found a 9500 GT from XFX, 512mb...their owners didnt know what they had.

[@fox5269]

Ziimbiian. how much did you pay

[@Ziimbiian]

FoxTheLegend Nothing, i found it on the Streets.

[@fox5269]

Ziimbiian. jesus christ you are very lucky. I found a 8800gt for how much 2 euroes. I tried it but artifacts. Then I noticed that A LOT of the pieces behind the card (very small chips) were missing lol

[@ed13yop445]

I have the 9500 GT in my computer, but I'm not sure if it's XFX...

[@SuperMario1005]

I got two GTX 8800 OC2s a couple years ago for free to start my PC off with a GPU

[@AeroFix94]

Keep in mind people. The GTS 250 that launched 1 year later is just a renamed 9800GTX+

[@DaniiG2251]

When videocards where cheap asf, Paid 538 euro's for my GTX 1070

[@OrangeBroom]

Dani You could find used ones on ebay for €400

[@GameXTwo]

No one wants a used 1070, btw there are new ones for bout 400€ now like the MSI one.

[@smash9419]

Pichele i want

[@JahnoKestt]

I had this card in the 1GB variant, worked surprisingly well.

[@lordstevewilson1331]

I still got 8800GTX somewhere in boxes.

[@waleedalzuhairi526]

do you want to sell it

[@Vintersemestre00]

I've got one too. I'd sell it. Better off in a cool retro build than sitting in a box in my house.

[@OrangeBroom]

Muroidea Take it out and put it on a shelf for display

[@Leelz2]

Thanks for DOTA 2 test, my friend playing DOTA 3, Warface, war thunder on this card on medium-high settings 720p ~40-60 fps!

[@Leelz2]

yeah, exectly after 7.0 patch i can't call it DOTA 2 anymore :)

[@MrSzero13]

OMG hahaha this was my FIRST real good buy for a GPU the 9800 GTX was the shit in its time, i ran so many instances of WoW in these times :) *** I actually sold mine on EBAY 3 yrs ago for about 40 bucks i had this exact one as shown in video

[@waifuracer6516]

I loved how old cards had great stickers like this gtx+ :D

[@benoit1335]

i love that you test everything on games that are also avaible on linux like bioshock, rocket league, metro LL, dota 2 etc... thanks for all your hard work!

[@titisober]

i just wondering why does he talk in pural for himself for all i know it's just him

[@OrangeBroom]

*KIDNAPPED*

[@MachadoAssist]

Used to rock this beauty OC'd from 2010 to 2014, fit really well in my Core2Duo E6400 and 2Gb of DDR2 RAM. A shame it had such low memory and no DX 11 support. Only good memories, though.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Machado Assist yeah it was a great card

[@kristapssavnors3031]

Is i5-4590 much better than i5-4460?

[@muudzi]

The 4590 gives an extra 100Mhz on the base clock and 300Mhz on the turbo clock. Not worth upgrading if you already have a 4460.

[@HelghastMerc]

I had this card a few years back. When I was building a budget gaming machine, I had Windows XP 32 bit Service Pack 2. That same machine also had a core 2 duo (I cannot remember which model it was), 4 gigs of memory, a sound blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Fata1ity Pro, and a 600 watt power supply. I had the 9800 GTX+ card, and it was really good for the games I was using it, for. I remember playing Serious Sam HD on medium settings, and although it was struggling just a tad bit at some areas, it ran really well. The PC was really awesome. It's just too bad that I lost the damn thing, in a fire. I am getting ready to build a classic PC Gaming Machine with the same OS, but with an AMD FX 4300 CPU, an AMD Radeon HD 5870, 4 gigs of RAM, and a Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium card.

[@tor2840]

hey should i buy the xfx rx 480 4gb or the gtx 1060 3/6gb i would like your opinion as all i've heard so far is nothing definitive, pointless conversation and muttering about dx 12 and vulkan

[@ea1766]

tor rx 480 for high textures o guess

[@mrcr8220]

but dx12 and vulcan makes the difference... It all depends on the games optimization between these two. the 1060 6gb is only slightly better in performance than the 3gb version, and in my opinion is not worth the price. Keep in mind that the 480 gets quite hot.

[@tummalakethan9768]

rx 480 is faster and also has a slight edge over the 1060 with regard to dx12.definetly go for rx 480

[@woutvandermeulen1492]

tor if you look to the benches the rx480 4gb is 4% faster than the gtx 1060 3gb but the gtx 1060 6gb is about 1-2% faster than the rx480 8gb so if i need to choose one i would choose the rx480 over the gtx 1060 and this is a non biased opinion

[@arkplaysgame3826]

3gb will bite u in the end a lot so better go for 6gb version or rx 480

[@AlexanderWilithinIII]

My first self-built system had two of these bad boys in SLI. Those were some good times.

[@NN2484]

lul wtf are those outputs :D

[@oddvin0000000000000]

NuclearOnion dvi and a old screencable i cant remember the name off haha

[@fox5269]

NuclearOnion how old are you have you never seen DVI wtf were you just born or smth

[@TiredFerret]

NuclearOnion That Svideo output is actually really good if you want to connect to a standard CRT TV. Pretty nifty for the time although the resolution is limited to 480i if I remember correctly.

[@Mini-z1994]

some crt tv's with some luck ran up to 1280x1024, at least one i had did through s-video. yellow video output oddly enough on a radeon 9550 64 mb worked somewhat well too (quite blurry though lol)

[@texannationalist5887]

that's S-Video and DVI-D

[@gtastuntcrew302]

I think the coolest naming scheme back in the day was the "Ultra" line.. Oh my god I remember seeing Maxishine running his 8800 Ultra 3 way sli setup back in the day playing Crysis on all Very High. Nostalgia!!! Imagine GTX 1080 Ultra!!!

[@computercatgaming02]

Stop asking to get pinned... also could I get pinned? just kidding

[@sburton015]

On my secondary gaming PC I have its successor the GTX 285 with the AMD Phenom x4 9650 quad core cpu. Would be high end gaming specs from a decade ago.

[@gonzaloperezgarcia7]

"...to be honest..." pin me :)

[@salvi016]

omg i had this card for 7 years replaced it recently with the 780 but this card was a beast for so long

[@ramdrivesys1869]

I really want the GTX+ name to come back, it is just cool :D great vid

[@WtfomgbbqxD]

i bought a 9800gtx+ back in the day, ran it to the ground literally. played diablo 3 with this bad boy on launch day, ran perfectly 1080p max graphics till eventually it overheated and started producing weird stutters and poor fps in all titles. it served me well for many years and never regretted the $200ish canadian pricetag when purchased. great card, great video. Shout out to RandomGamingHD for making amazing content on old hardware that definitely displays a good blast from the past with older hardware.

[@TiredFerret]

I miss fun shrouds too. I used to have a Radeon HD 4870 512 MB card (I miss it!) with a red plastic shroud and a red PCB. It was a pretty good card! I took off the sticker on the shroud and I could see the heatsink inside which was neat. It's pretty tacky but honestly I kind of miss that goofy look. Anyone remember those 100% clear acrylic PC cases that everyone wanted? Lol.

[@MagMan4x4]

had two of these in SLI with a Q6600... Loved that rig.

[@SSinisterXCI]

Got this thing as a hand me down from a friend when i got tired of paying for xbox live and 60$ games around 2010, this card was there for my transition to pc gaming, good times, good memories.

[@hartsickdisciple]

The 9800 GTX+, which was an overclocked 9800 GTX... which was an overclocked 8800 GTS 512mb. Of course after it was the 9800GTX+, it was rebadged AGAIN, to GTS 250. All 4 cards used the 128 stream processor version of the G92 core, running at different clock speeds. The early ones were 65nm, and the newer ones 55nm.

[@decimat777]

The plus isn't just because of an OC it was actually a die shrink of the 9800 gtx (which was just an OC rebrand of the 8800gtx). The rebrand of this card was the GTS 250 if I'm not mistaken.

[@vincesvv]

Holy shit, I thought GTA V was GTA SA with those low graphics. Great video again mate!

[@BrenskiIP]

Haha this is always so funny! I love the videos but the funny part is that I have usually just bought or am looking into buying the part just reviewed on the channel haha. I bought a 9800GTX as well recently for £12 too. Brilliant card!! Mine came with a different cooler tho

[@JackBandicootsBunker]

Long live shrouds with illustrations. Cards back then looked better than the trainwrecks we see nowadays. Only EVGA has a decent design on their cards (nVIDIA), or XFX or Sapphire (AMD)

[@nigmosh65]

Trainwrecks? Most board partners are simple, and easy with their color schemes (except for MSI of course with their Gaming X/Z line). And like dandrixxx said, those illustrations look really tacky and is comparative to a riced out car.

[@Classikh]

Kevin Moondust Gotta disagree the old designs looked like shit a lot of the times imo. Much rather have a MSI Gaming X or ASUS ROG STRIX looking card.

[@JackBandicootsBunker]

dandrixxx Nah, riced-out is the silly RGB bullshit wave we're into nowadays.

[@JackBandicootsBunker]

dandrixxx Depends on the card and the shroud design. MSI would always falter back in the day...

[@Classikh]

Back in the days they would have plain GPU's and have stickers all over them to make them look "cool".

[@xyntak8270]

I have the PNY variant, used it for WoW back when this was top notch. I got it on sale for about $150 US. It was a decent card, but extremely fickle when it came to compatibility. Been working professionally in the IT industry for 15+ years, and an enthusiast for more than 20. Out of all my graphics cards (scores) over the years, this one works in less motherboards than some of my earliest ISA/EISA slot based cards. But that may be isolated to the PNY version.

[@wabbit234]

Oh man, that card art is pretty nostalgic to me now.

[@POKEGAMERZ-uy5lv]

I wish more modern cards had a bit more of a design like this card did. My new RX 470 that I upgraded my PC to like 3-4 months ago has the MSI dragon on it and it lights up and has a red light.

[@FixedHDD]

I just dug out my old system from 2008 and it has the exact same GPU in it. How far we've come!

[@Hirumadu90]

I've had this gpu in my computer still 2 yrs ago, a Point of View card, with a so loud fan... I did replace the cooler by a ThermalTake DuOrb with the fans in 5v and it was really quiet after that. My 9800gtx+ was also different, it had only 1 6pin connector instead of 2 in yours. I loved this card, however, i had to change for GTA V which needed 1gb of memory instead of my 512mb so it stuttered all the time and i couldn't play dx11 games, but that was a card that i really enjoyed, as well as my core 2 quad q9400 with it's p5q pro turbo motherboard :)

[@outtheredude]

A terrific example of one of the biggest, baddest & loudest 9000 series single GPU cards with an awesome paint job from back in the day. Surprising you could even find one that hadn't already lived fast and died young with major artifacting occuring even at stock speeds, especially at that price. Yet now, even a soberly suited, grown up, economical and quiet 750 Ti can easily beat it at 1080p while also running on DX11.

[@Derek-mg2le]

Haha it's interesting to hear a different opinion on the old decorated graphics cards, I always thought they were super ugly and was glad to see the trend go away. Either way, great video as always!

[@CubeMatz]

Thank you very much for including the stats of MSI Afterburner and Rivatuner Statistics Server, it realy shows what is the bottlenecking factor of the system. Although I would have guessed the GPU in this instance to be a limiting factor for every game, I was very surprised that the GTX+ card was not maxed out in the Dota 2 test.

[@Obie327]

I skipped the gtx 9800 + model and bought the gts 250 1 gig version instead. Great cards at the time. Thanks for the memories :)

[@matthewavilez318]

Just finished my gaming rig! i5 2320 paired with a 1050ti. It is really quiet and plays most of my games at high to ultra settings at 45+ FPS

[@goqwertygo]

i have that same exact card bought it for my first REAL gaming pc after countless scrap builds with old parts. started with a Core 2 Duo E6600 4gb of Corsair DDR2. I still have the box and the card is displayed on a shelf. I late upgraded to 8GB and a core 2 Quad Q6600 it played Bioshock 1,2 Halo 1,2 Sims 2,3 Need For Speed Undercover, Transformers War For Cybertron and many others on high settings very well. GTA IV was when it started to struggle. i have a bunch in game play uploads with it. Haven't used it since i upgraded to a SC 660. sad to see how it performs now, but great for a sidekick pc that plays all your favorite games during it's hayday

[@lordgeorgemaster]

I had two of these babies.. One is still running in my grandparents desktop 9 years later :)

[@FinnLovesFP]

Hey Random. I just pulled in my driveway. then i get a notification saying you posted a video as soon as I pulled in. it said posted 1 minute ago. then i come on a few min later to see, oh. this was an hour ago and my phones late. lel still. the excitement is there every time you post a new video.

[@RomaniaOverpowered]

I would be curious about how this card performs against the 9800gx2 (which I always called GTX2 despite not being named like that). I always thought that dual gpu single card was a beast even when compared to later GT series. But as you well mentioned in your video, while some same time period cards from ATI got the jump to DX11, Nvidia never did that to their 9xxx series. I felt so disapointed back in the day when I bought this card along with a i7 970 only to witness the immediate launch of the 2xx gt series. But it wasn't all that bad as I could run most of the games at decent framerates albeit in DX10.

[@windvortex3249]

I had this gem :) Lasted like 5 years and it came with Assassin's Creed ! Those were the days..

[@Hator44]

EVGA 9800GTX+ Superclocked was dope! :D

[@julzmax956]

I used to have 2 of these in SLI. Lasted for a couple of years then I upgraded, I wish I had kept them at least just to display them on a shelf. My cards had flames on them.

[@ferkinell1]

My misses is still running a 8500gt 1gb purchased from maplin many years ago, i used to for gaming originally years ago, still running sweet.

[@itmkoeln]

The 9xxx Series is a good example of big green renaming CCPUs with slightly improving them. The G92(which powers 9800 GTX and in a Hardware Revision the GTX+) is originating from the Geforce 8800 GS / GT / GTS 512 which replaced the G80 (the original DX10 Chip found in the 8800 GTX and GTS 320 and 640 MB Versions. nVidia rebranded the G92 in b (which was the 55nm Shrink of the original G92) Revision afterwards as GTS 150. The Chip even survived into the GTX 200 Series GT 230 v2, GTS 240 (in both 65 and 55nm Revision), GTS 250 . Only When Fermi the GF100 Lineup came arround the G92 was burried for good...

[@012345678911177]

maybe in the future we'll have crazy designs and RGB lighting

[@TheJohny543]

What a beast..i still have a Palit 9600gt 512mb oced at 725Mhz and I just can't stand the thought of replacing it, it plays whatever games from 2014 and before i throw at it with relative ease (except for dx11 titles ofc).

[@taslaradarador]

Dude your videos are great but when showing dota2 try to download some tournament games and show some teamfights they can easily achived by "watch" feature at the home screen so that could be better anyways good job

[@MrBlackdragon1230]

Missing one important game from testing this card, and it was out around the time of this card, Crysis. I used to play original Crysis on a plain 9800 gtx and it did well.

[@bigsam1986]

I had this card when it came out mainly to play crysis and it played them well with my q6600 ❤️

[@slaaayx]

Love this Card! With Q6600 and 9800GTX+ BF4 - Minimum Settings 720p on 50-60 fps

[@JacobTyo]

My last PC was a Core 2 Quad (OC, LC), 2x 9800GTX+ in SLI (OC), 4GB RAM. I could play DayZ and Arma III at 1080-60fps. I got my cards for $20 each. In total PC cost me about $150 in recycled parts. Not bad!

[@NikolaiMTA]

I technically have part of a 9800GTX in my current rig. The heatsink mounting holes are the perfect distance apart to fit my RX 480, so after a bit of dremeling, I've now got a better cooled reference RX 480 :D

[@SalveMonesvol]

I had this gpu on release to play crysis. Such a good card, It managed high settings dx9 really well. Sadly, I had to replace it for a 6870 a couple of years later because I got the 512MB version. 1GB made a huge difference for some games. This gpu was a BEAST for pushing high resolution textures and 16x AF. It also became really cheap for what it was when the gts 250 was released, and up to about 2013 I still saw new ones really cheap online. If I may digress, I think that this GPU design would be good even today if manufactured in 10nm and clocked higher.

[@MarcWeavers]

i had a PALIT brand one of these, for a long time, got an identical one for the brother about 3 months later, mine was bugged from the start yet took 3 years for the problem to surface (demanding games) The brothers flat was hot all year round and combined with the bad temp/fan curve built in the solder joints under the GPU chip cracked, i managed to cook some life back into the card at 200c for 8minutes, So me being clever and planning ahead I SLI the 2 together, however both needed to be underclocked by about 15% due to their poor state... then discovered my motherboard was a high end PCI-E v1 m2nSLI-Deluxe.... that explained why i wasnt getting the performance i was expecting with 1 card, but its still a good card, brother had a better experience as he had a lower end but more modern PCI-E v2 Asus m3n78 motherboard....

[@Jerpaderp9719]

I actually ran my 9800GT right up until the very end of 2014 when I upgraded to a GTX 970. The thing was a monster for what I did (like skyrim, fallout nv/3, l4d2) I have nothing but good things to say about it. I still got the card on my shelf, however it's now half dead. It works and detects/displays but the screen has some huge artifacts now. Rip my first GPU.

[@taruxy]

Omg.. just remembered this and wanted to check it out.. was The first card i bought as a teenager after saving for a year to buy a Nice card. Was a monster in my eyes, was probably my first love aswell🤣

[@taruxy]

Honestly, seeing how this card still runs modern titles this well is really impressive😁

[@StaelTek]

i have to correct you, the GTX+ is NOT a sucsessor to the GX2. the GX2 is a dual gpu version of the 8800/9800 GT. the GTX+ is a factory overclocked, refresh of the 8800/9800 GTX. with all respect for your work i liie the video, i just want to correct it.

[@yarazar]

That is incorrect , the 9800 isnt the only card which has a plus model. I have a GTX 260 which is also a plus model. Instead of the standard GTX 260 which had 192 cuda cores, the plus model had an additional thread of 24 cores, giving the plus card a total of 216 cuda cores.

[@Ram-xr5uj]

I love your videos, keep up the good work my friend!

[@Hless421]

I had a standard 9800 GTX. Stutter city lol switching to the GTX 260 was quite the eye opener.

[@bogdanalexandru9525]

I have as a secondary build a OC-ed E2100 paired with the HD5450 1 gb DDR3 64 bit and it can barely play GTA IV at 20 fps. Something like the 9800 GTX would be grateful.

[@MrLense]

Can you make, Dota 2, CSGO, Rocket League and Overwatch standard game tests in all your reviews? Most people will probably only get budget hardware to play mainstream esports games.

[@Snotnarok]

I had this card, served me pretty well for a while but the DX11 thing was the beginning of the end.

[@Taorakis]

I think i've seen that Sticker on another, smaller, grafics carf were the ring thing with the exaust on it was hollowed up to house the cooling fan, so you had the fan inbetween the round grafic.... i hope i'm not just imagining this.

[@jonasga]

I still have my 8800GT in one of my PC parts graveyard drawers. I always wanted to upgrade to a 9800GTX+ but I waited until GTS 250 to get something new, the price was much better for similar results waiting another year or so. The performance wasn't drastically better but my 8800GT has the worst fan and heatsink, it's so loud. I changed to a Galax GTS 250 that had a 100mm fan and a proper modern heat sink and shroud, it was such a difference. My 8800GT seriously has like a 45mm fan that runs like a jet engine. I suffered with that card for a couple years xD

[@srhmeftah1098]

Woah 90k subs! congratz :)

[@MrKillswitch88]

This was one of the best bang for buck cards for close to half a decade along with all the other G92 based cards, good luck finding a 9800 GX2 at least one from the states as supplies dried up and the eBay sellers have gotten greedy. I really do miss this era of pc master race and was the end of the line when it came to actually needing some skill to do pc building unlike it is now. G92 with good cooling and high quality pcb can be a overclocking monster with 2ghz+ on the shaders.

[@alxmac240]

I used to run sli'd BFG 9800gtx+`s in 2008, the '+' made 'em feel badass >.

[@DarkPhalanax]

Omg! This is kinda funny. Watching one of your videos yesterday I was wondering if someday you would upload a video showing one of the card that I owned back in the day. And today you put that card, the one that I sticked to it more time. Let me tell you a sad story, I bought first her sister, the 9800 gtx, then bought this one and did SLI them. It was a waste of money, little to no improvement. So I sold the 9800 gtx and kept this girl for years. XFX was my brand back then, they went to make only amd cards. Weird thing is that the 9800 gtx had a "glitch" after doing SLI, no matter where you put that card (motherboard), it only will show you 8x pci-e bus speed, the 16x speed was no more. Well, enough sharing my memories, don't want to bore you guys, but damn!, just looking at it brings so many memories, to the heart man.. to the heart.

[@KeyToTime]

I love this card. It came out when I was in collage and I've got allot of nostalgia over the 9 series of NVidia cards. XFX were the best, such a shame they don't make NVidia cards anymore.

[@kanopus06]

Comparison of this with a HD4850/4870. Love your table cover!

[@Insightmind1]

Built my first ever computer with one of these, it was a best with a q4400. Replaced it with a 770 so it lasted quite a while for my wow playing days.

[@crimson-foxtwitch2581]

For something similar but with support for modern titles I would recommend a 550 Ti if you don't mind having to play on low to medium settings. If you want something with DX12 and some more power go with a 650 Ti(Boost edition is essentially a slightly overclocked version of the 650 Ti that improves minimum framerates by what, 2-4 FPS?)

[@RESOPO1]

I mightbe mistaken here, bute DOTA2 ist probably not the best test for any GPU, is it? During your test you were clearly CPU bound (GPU 55%, CPU 98% load). For CPUs it is probably a valid test, but I feel anything with a monitor adapter seems to be able to run DOTA2. Other than that, great channel :) Seems like you will beat 100k subs soon, keep up the good work!

[@rebelscum1925]

2:21 its says d3d11? its was directx 10 only right?

[@marshallalexander8228]

DX 10.1 is detected as DX11 on MSI