Nvidia's Old $666 9800GX2 Is The Unluckiest Graphics Card I've Ever Bought...

[@diegomontilva6039]

666$ Spooky

[@davijazzz]

Scary Skeletons

[@lizardinthelites]

*uploaded on october 6th*

[@terminalj6943]

thought same thing

[@Ascendance2001]

Tis the season

[@ma55aracin9]

Man......i really H-A-T-E that number as it reminds me of the possibility of doomsday. Besides, what an HORRIBLE GPU it was. Not only it was noisy. It could make newer titles like MK10 and the Dirt series (the latest installments, that is.) look like those were being played on a office-spec machine on integrated graphics. No wonder it failed so miserably. Greetings.

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Oddly enough this is one of the only cards I have that doesn't work. Exact same model too.... Very odd

[@nenad_gtabc7503]

You should include cod4 in evry video with old hardware but when doing so do it on multiplayer :)

[@spookyghost7524]

the card is cursed..and very badly designed, the heat from the gpus just transfers over to each other making the fan useless and the failure rate high

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

@@spookyghost7524 If,I get it correctly,You got 2 of them ,and one,then do not work ? Or,one of the duo ? You got to XRay the GPUs,plus,it can acquire some moisture, in between the PCB's layers. So,it will do You good to dry it in a special closet. Or send it my way,where I could try to renew the balls on the GPU's. Anyway,good luck!!!

[@kbotev]

666 the number of the beast B)

[@tacheres4313]

✔️

[@therealpizzagirl]

2008 hardly feels like a decade ago. Crazy how time flies.

[@JorgeAraujo97]

ikr? so weird how 2008 feels just like yesteday.

[@bananya6020]

ikr edit: im not even that old also

[@maxwellj4897]

Ikr. Even though I was only 3-4

[@zealotmaster1]

well when your a kid you can wait to grow up that's why it seems like it take forever but when you do you just want time to stop

[@souljatoad]

(10 years from now)Hello everyone and welcome to another video! Remember the RTX 2080ti? What a controversial card it was at launch. Anyway, I picked one up for 20 quid off ebay...

[@cosmin1518]

for 666 bucks it better summon the devil

[@RetroAmateur1989]

Well, to be fair it does get very hot.

[@y55en45]

It should run doom perfectly

[@chincemagnet]

Lol nice

[@sd1839]

Despacito Devil better be in my mind now.

[@jtenorj]

It actually launched with a price tag of 600 US dollars, not 666.

[@tylerwillems9358]

"Replace the Paste" - Life advice from RandomGaminginHD

[@chincemagnet]

I love these videos with the older GPUs revisited. Really cool, thanks. I wanna play Crysis now. Except I think I'll be playing Crysis Warhead.

[@pallavthaker2020]

Why so? Why not the OG? It's much better.

[@saibarcafi]

I liked Warhead a lot more, it depends what you want, if you want to explore more, Crysis is better, if you want more action, Warhead is the best bet. Warhead is my favorite Crysis ever.

[@pallavthaker2020]

@@saibarcafi Hmm I think I'll give it a try. Thanks.

[@goa141no6]

Good choice, warhead is better fix the ridiculous Koreans AI (Aim/High resistance to silencers) and minimize dead time between sections.

[@wangkevin3431]

Well since its based on one small fan, I guess you could say it has a pretty small fanbase

[@WH250398]

Fan-tastic joke

[@IDK-yx2lr]

These 2 comments are perfection

[@GeorgiRachev06]

So fanckin' spooky

[@WH250398]

We seem to be fanatics when it comes to wordplay.

[@YarugumaSou]

*Badum tsssk*

[@WitchVulgar]

While watching this video, my Windows 10 crashed. Haunted video card confirmed.

[@jm036]

Or it's just Windows 10.

[@paulph12002]

More likely that it's Windows 10.

[@lekonai]

69 likes

[@tiborklein5349]

Given its original price it's safe to say that this card is possessed.

[@jtenorj]

600 not 666

[@PatGamingApasStyle]

$666 ! Nvidia is illuminati confirmed ?

[@alexandrenganda4650]

There's satanic

[@asifkaka5052]

We just noticed it was illuminati long ago.

[@cosmin1518]

In my country envy is translated to "invidie" or "invidia"

[@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka]

First Appe-1 also was sold for 666

[@slim420-e8v]

Their logo is the all seeing eye !

[@maverick6c631]

Have something for new video title. What first consumer gpu for crysis 1 maxed 60fps 1080p ?

[@hf1re240]

Easy to answer, gtx 1080ti X4 running in quad-SLI

[@chincemagnet]

Probably a 480. I had 3 way SLI 280s and I used to run Crysis at 1080P with 16xAA at 60 fps. Which was unheard of prior to that. But a single 280 couldn't do it, not at maxed settings. A 480 I bet could, but not with more than maybe 2-4x MSAA.

[@chincemagnet]

Of course a GTX 295, a dual GPU card may have been able to. Although not a single GPU, a single card.

[@jm036]

@@chincemagnet I wonder what happened to the 300 series? Guess they ended up kinda like the 800 series.

[@mbsfaridi]

Fanuel Hodaviah There have been GPU that can do that for a while but the CPU becomes a bottleneck even with a overclocked 8700k and can drop way below 60fps.

[@TechOrigami]

I actually wanted to buy this one. But got the GTX 260 instead since the 9800 GX2 was perpetually unavailable. I waited for months, but no dice. GTX 260 turned out to be damn good too :D

[@siqu7071]

I think the gtx 275 would've been the sweetspot

[@TechOrigami]

Oh absolutely, but it wasn't even launched when I bought the GTX 260 Core 216 edition.

[@siqu7071]

True

[@ceexbee]

I've still got my xfx gtx260 core 216+ haha

[@ceexbee]

Came with a copy of farcry 2

[@unnamed715]

You forgot to sell your soul to Satan. Had you done that, you would've gotten 60fps on ultra settings for every game you played on it.

[@sammymorini9748]

Nvidia's Halloween card.

[@CuttingEdgeRetro]

These cards basically cooked them selves to death even in a well ventilated case. Quiet hard to find these days in full working condition sadly.

[@snchez2106]

Poor things.

[@zackakai5173]

The VRM on mine fried itself after above five years. Remarkable how long it lasted given I was running out of a case with exactly shit ventilation (in my defense I chose that case when I was 16, it was 2008, and cases were designed to look like racecars and spaceships first and to move air second).

[@dreadlock17]

RTX off

[@Micecheese]

RTXecuted

[@liddle1234]

You can make a creepy pasta out of this

[@lorenzobarchiesi2058]

ThEn BlOoD cOmEd OuT oF tHe Pc

[@liddle1234]

+lorenzo Barchiesi ThEn ThE FaNs FLiCkeRD oN AnD OF

[@unapersona100real6]

@@liddle1234 "when i started crysis screen was red like blud and the KPA dudes screamed like they were tortured and they bled HYPER REALISTIC BLOOD"

[@Di3mondDud3]

Glad to see this channel has a more definite direction, when you blew up it got a little confusing because the budget area has kinda not changed since your early videos

[@drkRoss89]

I'm pretty sure your 9800GX2 is the Kazuhira Miller of GPUs. Some say that if you play MGS 5 and mute all sounds, you hear: "Why are we still here? Just to suffer?..." coming from the card itself.

[@WickedGamerCollector]

That is a wicked game card.. I like that one 😈

[@havoc010101]

"Replace the paste"... words to live by when buying used hardware. Great video, keep the content coming!

[@gandrurass]

I had one, from BFG back in 2010, it had one of its GPU's die on me in the first month I had it, and then a couple of months later it died completely, I'm pretty sure no other card had this many problems in my history.

[@silverhawk7324]

3:17 lol wrecked! That tank was just waiting for you.

[@phyrexiancoffee6324]

I have the older 7950GX2, and man was thing a beast in it's day. It's actually the card I used to get my dad back into the wonderful world of PC gaming for the first time since 1998

[@ArtifactSkyline]

Funny how that works. A friend of mine gave an Evga version of this card to me and said that it was giving him problems. Now I like to mess with hardware as much as the next guy, but this card was cursed for me aswell. Sticking it in my system caused several BSODs and after I finally got it working, I messed with it for a bit. Afterwards however when I went to put my main card back in, for some reason games would stutter like they were running on a GT 210. Turns out that this card ended messing up my CPUs lane allocation and my graphics card wasn't being feed enough bandwidth. For two weeks after this card was pulled it messed with me. All I am saying is just watch your back.

[@pauls4522]

I remember a lot of people complaining about similar problems with the 9800gx2 back in the day (2008). Oh how the market has evolved.

[@johnnyappleseed4794]

Why would Nvidia price it at such a price that Satan would cut the lifespan of the 9800 GX2 down to only a third?

[@DeanDoom]

The bad lucks effected me too with this video randomly buffering............

[@EscapeEFT]

Used to have one from EVGA. That thing ran so hot you could cook an egg on the casing. Probably why one of the GPUs on my card started to glitch after one year.

[@MadIIMike]

I have a 9800GX2, too... one of only 2 Cards that died on me (other was a HD4850, which I had for a long time) - ironically both died back when Planetside 2 launched or shortly after (the 9800GX2 was supposed to replace the HD4850 that died). The one I have actually has a metal casing instead of plastic, meaning it would happily kill a PCIe slot if not supported.

[@matc3115]

I got a Gtx 295, for £23 I believe, similar to this card I think? being a Tesla card :) Also bought from CeX, and mine is also a dual pcb version, Shame it played up, and well; keep up the great content! 👍

[@Boogie_the_cat]

When you slot that into a PC, that allows the demons to travel from the possessed card into your own PC (through the PCIE slot. This is where science meets ancient magic) and that's how the demons get into your house. It's like when Jonathan Harker goes into Dracula's castle, and Dracula says he can go into his room and "make his toilet" (victorian-speak for "taking care of basic hygiene. Which is not a euphemism for taking a slash, it means washing your face and related stuff) and silly Mr. Harker "makes his toilet", thereby using Dracula's haunted "sitting room". The book kinda glosses over this part, and it's not in any of the movies. But read the book. Dracula says "velcome to my house" and a paragraph later, he tells Jonathan to make his toilet. At 12 years old, I assumed Harker was going to Dracula's house to install modern plumbing.

[@EmperorDank]

3:45 Oh god its LITTERALLY 2 GPUs glued together...wow

[@xBINARYGODx]

This was my first dedicated GPU after graduation from gaming laptops (the kind from the early 2000's - so shitty compared to what you can get today). It was great, especially considering it only had to power a 720p HDTV, but in retrospect, I think one of the other options available to me would have been better (and cheaper).

[@xBINARYGODx]

You should be getting better frames in Crysis than that, given your specs otherwise - some changes that should not make a different in the nv control panel might need to be changed - and look, I am necroing myself!!!

[@shouldbecouldbe]

Very specific number on that pricing, huh?

[@GoldSrc_]

It was $599/600 though, not 666, and even then the "number of the beast" is 616 not 666 :P.

[@shouldbecouldbe]

Gordon Freeman huh, never knew that. I guess I’ve lived a lie.

[@BoomBox02]

This is a must have card if your building a period correct high end gaming rig. With period correct games this card was a beast.

[@surrealmemes3518]

So tripple fan 9800 GTXs in sli is probably the only good way to do this. With good case airflow as well.

[@cobrastomas]

I had a 9800gtx+, I wanted the GX2 but was to expensive I love your videos, plz dont stop making. CHEERS from Portugal!

[@ozzytinman941]

I just bought a brand new one. Debating on trying it. Looks good on my wall.

[@ozzytinman941]

I might just put it in a xp build. That would be fun. Play wow 1 and quake 3 all the old games I used to play. Star craft 1. Ummm idk.

[@Charlie6969]

The thermal pads looked a bit tired aswell, maybe add replacing them to your routine too.

[@BxPanda7]

Fun fact, if your pc is louder than your speakers, just put it behind them and voilà ! Ever since i put my pc behind my screen and speakers, i can max out the fans if i want i'll still hear my games perfectly, footsteps and everything :)

[@wegmisbruiker]

Your videos inspired me to work at CEX, now I know what a trash store it is. But it's good no money. Thanks for making these videos

[@bytesizeddev]

What misfortune did it bring?

[@Brodda-Syd]

I remember drooling over this cards release like yesterday. I'm wondering what I will feel about my 4090 in 15 years time

[@MegaTechGuy]

The case with the bad airflow is the reason the system crashed, not enough air flow to keep two GPU's cooled. You'd need a full sized case to keep those GPU's cooled, like the be quiet! Dark Base 900. Back in the day the only type of people who would buy this GPU would people with a case like the CoolerMaster Cosmos.

[@rd946]

Ah, I still have my "old" gaming rig, with dual 9800GX2 SSC cards. What can I say, I came into a little bit of money back then and decided to have some fun with it.

[@IchRockeInDerDisco]

Have you ever tried the rolls of thermal pads for memory chips ? I just saw that on Gamers Nexus channel and thought about buying some given that when repasting old hardware it's sometimes hard to repaste memory properly when it had pads.

[@te0nani]

Crysis: looks amazing on old Hardware Every modern game: looks like Minecraft on old hardware. Crysis wasn't so bad after all.

[@umeshsonkar4177]

Minecraft :hold my rtx mods

[@RuruFIN]

I almost got one in 2009, but my friends said that there's just no sense since I had a HD 3870X2 already.

[@mattchase87]

I spent $650 on this card right when it came out, built my first computer, had a QX6850 3.0 ghz Quad Core Extreme in it, with $600 DDR3 4Gb right when DDR3 came out, I remember loading up crysis thinking for sure this insane system I saved all my money for would run anything, and having it not run on max settings. I was so upset haha

[@EdgarFriendly-op3rn]

I bought a GTX 295X2 a while back just to mess with. It "worked" but it can be used as a furnace just in case I need extra heating in my home during the winter.

[@zackakai5173]

I had one of these from EVGA back in 2008 and it ran stuff pretty well up until 2013, when it fried itself. I had to upgrade to a 660 (which was what I could afford at the time, being in college), which I was then saddled with until early 2018 when I finally managed to find a GTX 1060 6GB not selling for $700 (this was during the crypto bubble so getting anything for even relatively cheap was a crapshoot). Thankfully Pascal turned out to be a beast so the 1060 is still holding up fine for 1080p, although I'm hoping to jump on a 3070 next year.

[@thebirthmother2539]

Hey from Germany. Keep it up!

[@ashflint23]

What motherboard did you use for your ryzen apu?

[@TheNike0223]

6 66 the number of the beast, sacrifice is going on tonight

[@nutcrackzengine1232]

is that taken from number of the beast by iron maiden?

[@RatbagTheCoward]

@@nutcrackzengine1232 No. It's a Katy Perry song.

[@Richard_HD]

666 isn't the number of the beast.

[@halosam2963]

"The number of the beast" is what it is called in Revelations, the last book in the New Testament/second book of the Bible. It's where the number being "the number of the devil" comes from.

[@Richard_HD]

@@halosam2963 Fragment from Papyrus 115 (P115) of Revelation in the 66th vol. of the Oxyrhynchus series (P. Oxy. 4499).[15] Has the number of the beast as χιϛ, 616. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_Beast

[@dharkZun]

Bought two of them when they came out to get "quad sli", beast machine at the time, but the temp problems never ended:(

[@Kev971king]

when you test a gpu with cod 4 you should get off the fps limiter (open console and put com_maxfps 0) great video as always !

[@tmansimpson1]

Had the normal 9800 in my old PC, so many good memories. Ran games brilliant for how old it was (2014-15).

[@renigade234]

Was super happy when I bought a 9800 GX2 years ago (Didn't know too much about hardware at the time). Preformance was great. Sadly it got hot as hell and I had to get it replaced 3 times under waranty. Was thanklfull to replace it after it broke out of waranty. It got replaced by a 750 TI.

[@udalix]

I had one of these, It just straight up died on me one day used for maybe a year. Prob caused by the thing idling around 70C , higher under load lmao... I tried to shove it in the oven to reflow it, thinking that might help, but it didnt. I still have the card "buried" in a box somewhere.

[@Albatrox]

Finally dude ! this is what i want to see the good old gx2

[@ceexbee]

Back when EVGA and XFX were the top NVIDIA brands.. still got my XFX branded gtx260+ lol

[@arudanel5542]

Actually, I had an old Titan I found in storage a while ago (the original Titan) and had all sorts of similar issues. I think it's just the overall compatibility problems getting such an old card to work with new hardware. It had plenty of power for 1080p medium to high gaming still, but holy crap did it do some weird shit. Several reboots, USB on the motherboard failing, one CPU that just stopped working, but worked again once the card was out and the bios was flashed back to default. Really weird stuff, maybe it's all the workarounds they used to get so much performance out of the old PCI-E slots, maybe it's something they did to cheap the bandwidth, maybe it's just a really wonky power draw due to aging caps. I have no idea, but yeah. Avoid old GeForce cards like the plague, I've had them do all the same stuff yours did.

[@chincemagnet]

The 9800GX2 lol, an awesome single card back in the day. Except the 8800 Ultra was better than a GTX 9800 and 8800 Ultra SLI was way better than this card. There was a bit of performance gain on the single 9800, but it actually had less VRAM than the 8800 Ultra. So in games like Crysis where you needed that extra VRAM, it would lag and stutter. You should set the fan to 100% and see how far you can OC it. Probably not much. VRAM might OC without too much extra heat.

[@pegasusted2504]

You may be wrong there mate, I had one of these. It isn't a single card with 2 chips, it is 2 full cards in the same case. It was the first card I could play Crysis on full everything. The card is in sli to begin with. It had the most performance of ANY card at the time. I had it paired with a QX9650, now that was a beast of a chip with 12MB L3 cache :~)

[@Bassjunkie_1]

Mine was pared with my 3.6gig oc q6600, the best times in overclocking i ever had

[@madfrosty5228]

I used to own one of these , I wanted the best card money can buy at the time , what a disappointment this one turned out to be , driver issues , blue screens , shitty performance, most games didn’t want to cooperate and only used one of the gpu’s . And to finish it all off the card died when it was one year old , funny thing is that I have hardly used it as I did no have much time back then and I have set the fan curve settings to blow more air on the hot mess of a card , it was loud but I have shaved loads of heat from the card . Still it went belly up in the end and I have wished that I have just bought the cheaper 9800gtx .

[@Peanut-Butter-Banana-Rama]

There is nothing strange about how badly that GPU performs, problems like the ones you have experienced are common across all variants of that specific GPU. The reason being is because it has a faulty architecture so it's not just a driver/thermal issue and even then you can only get certain drivers versions to work on it.

[@TsvetanVR]

I used to have one of these back in 2009 paired with a phase-change cooled QX9650....ah, good times! :)

[@pcclassics3421]

Great Video Randomgaming

[@jamescalvert7765]

after buying a few cards from cex they tend to have dried up thermal paste and are very dusty. they probably just test the card for a video signal and call it a day.

[@postmann1000]

This was what you want for crysis back in the old days. I still have 2 xfx 9800 gx2 in box

[@DakalaShade]

Ah, yes, the dual 100C blast-furnace. Had twins of those back in the day. They run stupidly hot.

[@danielsylvester3725]

i remember having this card, and being the envy of my high school friends at our lan parties. crazy to think its worthless

[@XxViciousxX]

Hey I use one of these as a coaster. Used to have 2 in quad SLI.

[@zybch]

I've still got one of these in a working system, but I think it was based on a better pair of GPUs. Its certainly got the GX2 moniker though, and was an absolute beast.

[@EmperorDank]

5:15 If you choose to bury it i hope we get an emotional funeral video

[@vlcglavni6608]

Could you test if it works without the top PCB card? So a regular 9800? ;)

[@MaxMustermann]

I still have 2 GTX 9800GX2's here. Used them back in '09 for stuff like mining and hash bruting.

[@hadi6212]

Keep it,something tells me it is going to bring you a lot of money in the next few months or years This guy is going to be a collectors item

[@ScottieNiven]

I have one of these cards in my collection too. Unfortunately it has suffered the same fate, mine is dead :( No amount of home reflowing or cleaning will bring it back. It does appear the primary card in mine is dead, but the secondary card does function if you have another GPU in the system. It used to be in my Dual X5450 xeon workstation and was a perfect match.

[@nico5179]

I had a 7950GX2 which I sold recently with a 2007 build, I tried to game on it but titles that do not support DX9 were not going to run.

[@gabrielangcao1171]

It might be poor solder between the cores and/or ram chips.

[@middleclassthrash]

...Crysis nostalgia... -Climbs into coffin_

[@salvi016]

i have this exact model and it stopped working, it just revs the fans up all the way when booting up

[@chincemagnet]

Try getting a GTX 295, GTX 590, a 4850x2, a 4870x2, a HD 5970, HD 6990 and HD 7990. Do battle of the dual GPU cards! That would be epic. I used to have a 4850x2 and a 5970 in x-fire. The 4850x2 had incredible value for its performance. The quad gpu x fire with 5970s was insane for its time. Not enough vram though. I should have gotten either 3 or 4 5870 2gb cards. And a 3870x2 also. 7950x2 would probably be hard to obtain and expensive.

[@czrptr6849]

Can you review the lenovo ideapad 330 with ryzen 5 2500u?

[@Kraiord_]

I always wondered what that card was that teksyndicate had in their older videos. Now I know :D

[@zaptheporcupine1578]

666$ for 2 High End Graphics cards... Now we get the 2080ti for double that.... AND THAT'S ONE CARD ;-;

[@iGF3R]

The exact same design of the GTX 295 i had back in the day, it had overheating issues from the first day i had it, the fan ran at around 80% speed pretty much from turning the pc on

[@ianrotten4453]

I had two of these babies in SLI. I was very disappointed in the performance. My single 8800 GTX beat them by leaps and bounds.

[@FredoPL]

You have replaced the paste but you have forgotten to replace thermal pads on RAM which is also important.

[@swag-cc4uc]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Did you try turning it on and off again?

[@Doom2pro]

For the price, I'm surprised you didn't test DooM 3.

[@aceleon8081]

Talking about gtx performed...still wonder if eletric bill will rise if using gtx 1060 or another gpu that having high watt since it feel not giving worth good budget for pc if getting high bills just for long gaming user...about psu types i know about 80 plus but it is still worth saving your months bills?just wondering and still not understands even looking at webside..

[@lm_dccxl4078]

mmmm that ending... BugdetBuildsinHD???

[@TheMasterOfSafari]

Can you please show us the settings instead of saying mixed? Thanks!

[@UncommonKnowledge587]

My Oukitel k6000 Pro smartphone runs its memory at 666MHz and it's still working like a champ. Bought in 2016.

[@PrincesStarlightDash]

Hey if you don’t want the card I’d gladly take it off your hands! I could add it to my collection or use it in my early raid array considering that doesn’t have a GPU yet. It won’t be running any games, but at least it will get some use out of it right? It will live a cushy life.

[@piecaruso97]

i have this exact card in working conditions, and it's funny to use because it's kind of very powerfoul for it's time, but it's very noisiy, which makes me avoid it to use it in an actual old pc build

[@Elinzar]

you may do the old DIAWA strategy with that cursed thing

[@cncgeneral]

"Directional pad up" in Crysis, are you really using a gamepad for a shooter on a PC? Did the card break your mouse too?

[@mashirohakase]

I'd also flash the card bios, just in case :) Also.. can we we a comparison to an actual GTX9800 SLI setup? :D