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Hardware Acquisitions 8: Unboxing a BIG Retro PC Parts Donation!
In this video we unbox a very generous retro hardware donation by a viewer of the channel. I know I just did one of these videos but there's a lot of amazing stuff here and I think you guys will be excited to see what's coming next.
Links
Discord: discord.gg/m4UJGwjtZ6
Patreon: www.patreon.com/SPNG
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
1:00 - A sweet treat from Germany
1:27 - ASRock 775Dual-VSTA & Core 2 Quad Q6600
2:21 - ASUS TUSL2 & Pentium III-S 1133
4:10 - ASUS V8200 T5 (GeForce3 Ti 500)
4:56 - Heatsink for the PIII
5:27 - ASUS V9980 Ultra (GeForce FX 5950 Ultra)
7:04 - Radeon 9700 TX
7:56 - SDR RAM
8:58 - Corsair XMS Pro DDR (with LEDs!)
9:47 - Radeon X850 XT PE PCIe
10:42 - Radeon X850 XT AGP
11:42 - Outro
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Did Drivers Save The Radeon 8500?
Переглядів 5 тис.Місяць тому
In this video we take a look at the Radeon 8500, ATI's flagship from 2001 that was well known for being an underwhelming graphics card. Over time however driver development saw this card slowly but surely improving. In the end, was it enough to make this card a beast? Let's find out. I was going to launch this video on Patreon a day before the UA-cam release, but the only Patron that this is ap...
Hardware Acquisitions Vol. 7: Huge AMD FX Donation, More Cards and Channel Announcement
Переглядів 8702 місяці тому
If you're interested in supporting the channel directly, consider becoming a member on the new Patreon: www.patreon.com/SPNG This time around we're taking a look at a generous donation from a viewer of the channel as well as some other odds and ends that I've picked up! Links Discord: discord.gg/m4UJGwjtZ6 Timestamps 0:00 - Intro & Announcement 0:50 - Huge AMD FX System Parts Donation 3:42 - Ra...
Upgrading a 2005 Gaming PC for Early 2006
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A special thanks to tamw for donating the hardware showcased in this video. This time around we upgrade and bench the 2005 Gaming PC with a dual-core CPU, high quality RAM, and a fast DirectX 9 GPU. Is it now ready for the demands of some games of 2006 and beyond? Let's find out. If you haven't watched it yet, I suggest you check out the first video here: ua-cam.com/video/7Rj5C-1xeWU/v-deo.html...
GeForce3 Ti200 vs Radeon 9200 - Graphics Card One on One
Переглядів 1 тис.5 місяців тому
In this video we pit the GeForce3 Ti200 against the Radeon 9200, to see how well an early mid-range graphics card in the DirectX 8 era holds up against a late entry-level one. This battle was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be initially, and these cards share a lot more in common than you might think, so come along for the ride in this third installment of Graphics Card One on On...
Hardware Acquisitions Vol. 6: Awesome CPUs, RAM, and More Video Cards!
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Been a while since I've done a Hardware Acquisitions video! Here we have some very nice pickups, including some CPU and RAM goodies coming from a viewer of the channel! Thanks to tamw for sending those CPUs and RAM over! It's going to make a fantastic video for sure! Links Discord - discord.gg/m4UJGwjtZ6 Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:14 - CPU and RAM Goodies 1:53 - NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro 2:49 - VisionT...
GeForce4 Ti 4400 - NVIDIA's Unloved Middle Child
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I haven't done a proper review on GeForce4 Ti in a non-Xbox context yet, so let's change that by looking at the card that had a more lukewarm reception compared to its counterparts. Technically I did review my Ti 4200 way back in 2019 but it's not a good look back at all, and with me having fixed up my Ti 4400 that gives me the perfect excuse to replace my crappy first review. Links Discord - d...
Building and Benching a 2005 Gaming PC
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In this video I show off my take on a gaming PC from 2005, and find out how it performs in some period-correct games. Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 0:37 - Motherboard 0:54 - CPU 1:25 - Graphics Card 1:52 - Memory 2:07 - (Wonderful) Case 2:39 - Storage and PSU 2:51 - Booting the system up 3:18 - OS 3:33 - Testing Methodology & Overclock Settings 4:57 - Benchmarks 9:03 - Cinebench 2003 9:23 - 3DMark 05...
Testing Radeon X1900 CrossFire
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In this video we look back at an old, rare and interesting CrossFire setup of early 2006, and find out how it holds up in some games of and past its time as well as some tests against its successor. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:48 - Brief Overview on Classic CrossFire 2:08 - Details on the X1900 CrossFire Edition card 2:53 - Testing Methodology & Test System Specs 3:47 - Benchmarks 8:31 - Power D...
GeForce 8600 GTS vs Radeon HD 2600 XT - Graphics Card One-on-One
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In this video we see how the 8600 GTS and 2600 XT compete over a decade and a half after release in a suite of 8 games, and find out which would have been the better buy if you were in the market for a cheap card back in 2007. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:27 - Specs 1:38 - History 4:11 - Testing Conditions & Test System Specs 4:53 - Benchmarks 10:27 - Power Draw Figures 11:24 - Conclusion & Post ...
Finding out if a decade old AMD FX 6300 still has it
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In this video we have a look at the 10 year old AMD FX 6300 at stock settings, and test it out in a suite of 7 modern games to see whether it's still capable or better left behind. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:07 - Motherboard 1:32 - RAM 1:51 - GPU 2:04 - Power Supply 2:19 - CPU Cooler 2:30 - Storage 2:42 - Case 3:01 - Testing methodology 3:57 - Overclocking (woes) 4:16 - System Summary 4:26 - Be...
SPNG Q&A: Thanks for 2K!
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Thank you all so much for helping me hit this amazing milestone! I really appreciate all the amazing support, you guys rock. This time around we did a Q&A, there was many interesting questions and it was definitely a fun one! Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro and Thanks 0:34 - Q1: Which GPU surprised you in performance? 1:11 - Q2: What was your first system like? 1:48 - Q3: First GPU? 2:09 - Q4: Whats t...
Can you build a PC Equivalent to the Original XBOX?
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In this video we build and bench a system with very similar specs to the Original Xbox, and find out if it can keep pace with the real deal in gaming performance. Consider joining my discord server: discord.gg/m4UJGwjtZ6 Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:30 - Refresher on the XBOX Specs 1:48 - Motherboard 2:15 - CPU 2:44 - GPU (and some background) 4:13 - RAM 4:42 - Case 4:54 - PSU (woes) 5:36 - Stora...
The GeForce 8800 GT: NVIDIA's Affordable Powerhouse
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In this video we'll be reviewing one of NVIDIA's most popular and best value graphics cards to date - the legendary 8800 GT. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:40 - Specs 1:06 - History 3:35 - A look around the card 4:08 - Overclock Settings & Test System Specs 4:53 - Benchmarks 9:04 - Power Draw Figures 9:43 - Closing Thoughts
Hardware Acquisitions Vol. 5: More Cards & A Special Donation!
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A shorter episode, but we have some really cool stuff this time around. Check out PixelPipes here, he makes some wonderful videos: www.youtube.com/@PixelPipes Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 0:22 - Radeon X1950 XTX CrossFire Edition 1:36 - Special CrossFire VHDCI Cable 2:45 - EVGA GeForce 8800 GT SC 3:27 - PowerColor "Red Devil" RX 5700 XT 4:32 - Outro
The GMA X4500: Some Intel iGPU from 2008
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The GMA X4500: Some Intel iGPU from 2008
The GeForce GTX 280: NVIDIA's Monster Flagship of 2008
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The GeForce GTX 280: NVIDIA's Monster Flagship of 2008
SPNG Setup Tour: Thanks for 1K subs!
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SPNG Setup Tour: Thanks for 1K subs!
ATI's Ambitious Radeon HD 2900 XT
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ATI's Ambitious Radeon HD 2900 XT
Hardware Acquisitions Vol. 4: New Year, New Video Cards!
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Hardware Acquisitions Vol. 4: New Year, New Video Cards!
Radeon 550: Stock & Overclocked Performance Tested in Late 2022
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Radeon 550: Stock & Overclocked Performance Tested in Late 2022
The Popular GTX 1060 3GB vs High-End Cards of Yesteryear
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The Popular GTX 1060 3GB vs High-End Cards of Yesteryear
Hardware Acquisitions Vol. 3: October & November Pickups
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Hardware Acquisitions Vol. 3: October & November Pickups
The Radeon X1650 PRO: ATI's Underwhelming Mid-Range of Late 2006
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The Radeon X1650 PRO: ATI's Underwhelming Mid-Range of Late 2006
Gaming in HD on the Original XBOX's Graphics Card
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Gaming in HD on the Original XBOX's Graphics Card
Radeon HD 4870 CrossFire: Two Mid-Range Beasts to Make One High-End Setup
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Radeon HD 4870 CrossFire: Two Mid-Range Beasts to Make One High-End Setup
Hardware Acquisitions Vol. 2: Video Cards Galore
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Hardware Acquisitions Vol. 2: Video Cards Galore
GeForce 7900 GTX vs Radeon X1900XTX - Graphics Card One-on-One
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GeForce 7900 GTX vs Radeon X1900XTX - Graphics Card One-on-One
GeForce GTX 770: Overclocked Performance Tested
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GeForce GTX 770: Overclocked Performance Tested
The Radeon HD 4850: ATI's Ultimate Budget Card of 2008
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The Radeon HD 4850: ATI's Ultimate Budget Card of 2008

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @slipperymuffins
    @slipperymuffins 3 години тому

    as with some of the other commenters, I had the pci-e version and was able to run Bioshock REALLY well when it came out. actually held onto the card until like 2012-2013 rofl but eventually when it turned half my screen into fractals so I had to upgrade.

  • @ViollinneElizabeth
    @ViollinneElizabeth 21 годину тому

    It's 2024 and I'm still using my FX6300, Gigabyte 990FX, and RAM I bought more than a decade ago, paired with a RX6600. It's bottlenecked to heck obviously, but still capable of some gaming and it still run quite smooth with very minimal problems for my daily use. I want to upgrade, but with the economy and my finances being pretty unwell, I'm just thankful the old girl still runs very well @ 4.1GhZ daily.

  • @brendonlaucheekeong636
    @brendonlaucheekeong636 4 дні тому

    Titanium 4200 with 128mb ram lasted for 5 years 7 months and that time I wanted to buy mx460 with 128mb ram direct x 7 but my younger brother persuade me to buy titanium 4200 and I did because it supports direct x 8.

  • @Sitharii
    @Sitharii 5 днів тому

    My secondary PC is an FX8370/ *GTX 580 3GB* (Palit) /16GB RAM/windows10 and few months ago I installed and Played Minecraft (windows edition) in this PC. Since you tested Minecraft I have to ask you : Did you benchmarked Minecraft for long-time 🤔? Initially i was using very high game-details(windows edition as said) while I was playing ,and after 30-40 minutes my PC shut-down. This was repeatable so I played Minecraft in windowed-mode and opened windows task-manager to check hardware utilization : My GTX580 3GB was hitting 100% while on those game-settings and my CPU was also stressed ,though not always 100% like the GPU. I lowered some game-settings to lower utilization ( I think GPU dropped to around 70% utilization) and the PC-shutdown stopped. Do you have any idea what was triggering the shutdown ? Was the fact that GPU was operating 100% for long time(can this trigger a PC-shutdown?🤔 ) , was it because the CPU(CPU cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer 13 CO ) was also stressed ,though not as high as the GPU ,or was it the PSU( EVGA G3 850watt) which triggered some sort of OTP(over temperature protection) due to PCs overall heat-output (tower: Corsair Carbide series spec-03 mid-tower) ? I’m sort of lost of what exactly was triggering the PC-shutdown… --P.S. Great video by the way ... Fermi-lineup is my most nostalgic architecture(it was combined with a very good perion of my life ,so my nostalgia for Fermi is sky-high )

  • @HardWhereHero
    @HardWhereHero 7 днів тому

    I have a silicon lottery 5.2 Ghz 6350 on water with a rx 480 that still runs mostly everything. its on a 990 FXA board which still fetches a heavy price used. The kids us it mostly cuz I don't want them using my rig. :)

  • @kevincampbell989
    @kevincampbell989 8 днів тому

    I have fond memories of the fx chips. They got me through my college years. Started with an FX-4100 on a tiny 21inch 720p monitor paired with an HD 6870 1GB. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I experienced my first steam summer sale in Summer of 2012 thanks to this build. I would later try upgrading to an FX-8350 unfortunately it did not go as planned. I managed to bend some pins during the install and had to revert to the 4100. Not my finest hour given I was studying IT at the time lol. A friend tried bending the pins back and we did managed to get it into Windows but it kept crashing. I suspect there was still a bent pin we missed. So we just kinda gave up on it.

  • @prezeskodaty4637
    @prezeskodaty4637 9 днів тому

    two graphics cards geforce 8800 ultra connect via sli cable to one nvidia quadro 6000 fermi100 6gb videoram nvidia maximus in the second computer with windows vista ultimate 64 bit because people underestimate geforce 8800 ultra

  • @prezeskodaty4637
    @prezeskodaty4637 9 днів тому

    two radeon x1900 xtx crossfire I would take for windows xp

  • @StressedRuby
    @StressedRuby 9 днів тому

    bro's french when he talks about star wars i guess 😂

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 9 днів тому

      Fighting a war on 🥐

  • @daspec
    @daspec 14 днів тому

    The original XBOX is a hybrid Intel Pentium/Celeron 3 / 733Mhz with 64MB of RAM (upgradable to 128 by soldering 2 extra chips) and 10 or 20MB IDE HDD. I had mine like that and it run Linux. It is technically possible to mod it and upgrade to a 1.4GHZ Tualatin with a clock doubler. Microsoft deliberately crippled the XBOX to avoid having users turning it into a PC, out of fear that OEMs will be angry that they would have their own hardware. Ironically, that is exactly what Microsoft did some years later, by selling their own "surface" tablets/laptops thus directly competing with their own hardware customers. After the success of the XBMC software that turned the XBOX into a multimedia machine, there was a wave of small computers trying to win the set-top-box niche, with everyone fail, and eventually smart TVs used Android to merge the STB experience inside the TV itself, but failed to turn smart TVs into console-ready platforms until today. Not even SONY was able to do that, by offering a Playstation inside a TV. They all opted to make separate devices for the living room / home cinema experience. XBOX & Playstation could have had the "Alexa/Cortana/Siri" ability back then. I know because I developed such a platform years before Smart TVs and Smart phones even existed.

  • @VrILLR
    @VrILLR 15 днів тому

    Lol this WAS my PC in 2005, minus the ssd. Great times in computing. Case modding was kicking off, and the golden age of overclocking, imo.

  • @fartcruncher98
    @fartcruncher98 17 днів тому

    Dude! 775 motherboards with both PCI-E and AGP slots are super rare! Would totally love seeing videos on that

  • @foxpants
    @foxpants 19 днів тому

    I'm jealous of the contents of that entire box, that's thousands worth if eBay listings are anything to go by, some real collector pieces.

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 16 днів тому

      It's insane for sure! Lots of stuff was crossed off my list that I never, ever expected to get!

    • @foxpants
      @foxpants 16 днів тому

      @@SPNG 5950 ultra alone... Wow

  • @Enemisses
    @Enemisses 20 днів тому

    You know its funny, my main rig just died and I pulled my old FX-6300 with board and RAM out of the garage and threw my (UNIRONICALLY) 5700XT and SSD onto the build. Glad to see this old girl is still capable.

  • @dualpapayas
    @dualpapayas 20 днів тому

    8:42 Supposedly Half-Life 2 is also one of the few games to take advantage of the card's DirectX 8.1 support, it will run at mat_dxlevel 81 on the Radeon 8500 but only mat_dxlevel 80 on the GeForce3.

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 20 днів тому

      Yep! This is because GeForce3 lacks support for the right pixel shader version.

  • @retroianer3835
    @retroianer3835 22 дні тому

    I had a Ti 4200 128MB from Chaintech in 2002, but this card was broken after 1 mounth. I took a Asus Ti 4400 128MB for 299€, about 60€ more than the Ti 4200, a good price. I used it (overclocked to 310MHz core and 690 MHz memory) until I have upgraded in 2003 to a Hercules 3D Prophet 9800 Pro 128MB. The 4400/4600 cards also have a better quality PCB than the Ti4200 cards. Only Asus had a special 4200 128MB with the 4400/4600 PCB and faster BGA memory chips.

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 16 днів тому

      This card was pretty good if you wanted to get flagship performance for cheap, almost all 4400s should be capable of doing 4600 speeds! Pretty cool that you could more or less get a top of the line card for upper mid range money.

  • @AlexHusTech
    @AlexHusTech 24 дні тому

    *Goodie box! :)*

  • @Mini-z1994
    @Mini-z1994 24 дні тому

    I don't know if the board would support it, but could be worth looking for the core 2 duo e7600 for a 3.0 ghz cpu with 1066 mhz fsb, as the core 2 quad q6600 works it probably has a modded bios that added in a bunch of extra cpu microcode. If you happen to have any E7xxx series core 2 duo around test that one first in the board too see if you have the cpu microcode for them before buying one in that case. It should be basically on par with the core 2 duo e8400 so plenty of cpu performance for testing agp cards instead of a bit worse single core performance of the core 2 quad q6600 at 2.4 ghz. Also not sure if the board would do ok with the bsel pad mod too 1333 fsb on the core 2 quad q6600, but that might also work & then disabling 2 cpu cores in windows too spare the motherboard a bit while getting faster single core performance.

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 24 дні тому

      Good idea, I do have an E7500 so I could try it out in there to see if it'll work! Alternatively I also have an E6700 if I want to squeeze out a little bit more single core performance, I don't think I'll see much benefit with 4 cores in older games.

    • @Mini-z1994
      @Mini-z1994 24 дні тому

      @@SPNG By the time you do the gpu's will probably hold the system back anyway for those benchmarks, we're talking like Far cry 2, Crysis 64 bit & the orange box version of half-life 2 here around the end of the Direct X 9 era for benchmarking on a quad core. Speaking of which I'd say 3dmark2001se, 03, 05, blastfromthepast's Opposing Force Benchmark & maybe Doom 3 or Quake 4.

  • @kevinbeefchips
    @kevinbeefchips 25 днів тому

    "some pretty amazing stuff in here that I'm really excited to check out on the channel and I think you will be too" man im excited for anything on this channel

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 24 дні тому

      I'm really glad 😄

  • @thachad098
    @thachad098 25 днів тому

    I had that Asrock Dual mobo back in the day... it really helped transition my old system with AGP and DDR to the newer PCIE/DDR2 standard

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 24 дні тому

      Seems like the typical use case for them, they ended up becoming awesome retro boards!

  • @tamw
    @tamw 25 днів тому

    Oohh, very nice. I just got a pair myself of the same line of corsair ram, only mine are 2x1gb pc3500 cl 2-3-2-6. They are so damn cool, went into my main 939 winxp gamer with a glass sidepanel. What a score you got there, the x800/850 cards are indeed getting hard to find without going broke. I have a x800xl 512mb as my only 800 series card. Can't wait for the reviews!

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 24 дні тому

      Sounds like a super sweet build, I need to do something like that with them! These are two 512MB sticks so maybe something on the older side... And yeah for the longest time X850/X850 cards were completely unobtainium for me due to the inflated prices, so glad they're finally crossed off the list.

  • @PixelPipes
    @PixelPipes 25 днів тому

    I still reserve the right to first dibs!! lol it really tickles me that these parts went to someone that can really appreciate them. ☺

  • @Pillusch
    @Pillusch 25 днів тому

    Aaaw 🤩 Cool that you did an unboxing. I did not expect that. I'm glad you like the stuff. I'm already working on more supplies for you, but that will probably take a while...😅 anyway, thank you very much for accepting my donation. I'm always happy to help if I can.🤗

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 25 днів тому

      I thought I'd show a little preview of all the stuff! Thank you very very much for sending everything over, might take me a while to get to everything but videos are coming! It'll be fun to see everything in action 😄

    • @PixelPipes
      @PixelPipes 25 днів тому

      You really did an awesome deed here!

  • @NAZ2222222
    @NAZ2222222 25 днів тому

    Maybe you can change the cooler from the x850 AGP to the PCI x850XT PE, I think they are the same! ;)

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 25 днів тому

      It should work! I just don't want to spend the time swapping coolers every time I test one or the other 😕

    • @Pillusch
      @Pillusch 25 днів тому

      but but.... the x850 AGP is a much cooler card...

  • @maxeluy
    @maxeluy 25 днів тому

    Thx Chris for that huge donation to all of us basically, because thanks to you now we could expect even more interesting content 👏

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 25 днів тому

      Yeah kudos to him! Excited to check all of this stuff out in videos 😀

  • @wiatrudotyk1
    @wiatrudotyk1 25 днів тому

    Wow great stuff ❤

  • @mrmcguru163
    @mrmcguru163 25 днів тому

    loven it! such a great channel, I could see you being fairly big one day!

  • @SPNG
    @SPNG 25 днів тому

    Hope you all enjoy the unboxing. This is definitely more of a raw video, I'm still pretty bad at unscripted stuff so excuse the repetitive commentary haha. Let me know what you guys are most interested in seeing next.

    • @AlexHusTech
      @AlexHusTech 24 дні тому

      I get you, I'm the same, I just go with the flow and then cringe when I play it back lol

  • @ditroia2777
    @ditroia2777 27 днів тому

    I put in a powercolor 8500 into my Athlon 10000. Upgrading from an nvidia card. Never had any issues with it.

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 16 днів тому

      That would have been a nice combo for the time 👍

  • @frozenflame8319
    @frozenflame8319 28 днів тому

    it was a flop during making its was a flop when it released and its pure garbage now

  • @jonchapman6821
    @jonchapman6821 Місяць тому

    I’ve got a 4200ti and a 4600ti, I didn’t know that I wanted a 4400ti until I saw this video.

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 16 днів тому

      I'm happy with my 4200 but some people have a soft spot for this card, I can understand why given it can easily reach a 4600 in clock speeds!

  • @Stermy57HW
    @Stermy57HW Місяць тому

    Good build overall however if I were you, I would use a Radeon R5xx instead, ATI is faster and have better image quality with a dedicated X-FI sound card. Talking about Os i would pick Windows 2000SP4.

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG Місяць тому

      Check the follow up video I did on this system, I think you'll like it 😄

  • @Stermy57HW
    @Stermy57HW Місяць тому

    I remember those days. What a poor period for a low budget build. I was lucky enough to buy a HD2900GT 256mb for 70€ that was probably around 50$. Not my best GPU ever but better than these two. Ps: if I were you, i would not use a GeForce 8600GTS without the PEG connector. You will kill your mainboard. Believe it.

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 16 днів тому

      Yeah... for a little while it was the dark ages for mid-range parts, kind of funny given (at least NVIDIA's) high end parts were held in much higher regard at the time! When the 8800 GT and HD 3850 came out things got so much better in that segment, but I would be so disappointed with the performance if I had gotten one of these cards back in the day. A 2900 GT would have been a decent cut above these cards for sure. And thanks for the tip, I saw a few other people mentioning that as well 😬

  • @mrmcguru163
    @mrmcguru163 Місяць тому

    Dude this is soooo fricken good would to see more videos like this! Subbed!

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG Місяць тому

      Much appreciated man, welcome to the channel 🙂

  • @mrmcguru163
    @mrmcguru163 Місяць тому

    How did you delid it? Also whats the name of the cooler you have?

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG Місяць тому

      It came like that when the viewer sent it. Not sure how he did it, but there should be a few old guides online if you want to find out how. The cooler was just a Phenom II stock cooler by AMD

  • @mrmcguru163
    @mrmcguru163 Місяць тому

    I built a ultimate 05 pc, a 2GHZ AMD x2 OCED to 2.3, 3GB of ram, a tsunami dream case from thermal take and (7950GT originally) upgraded to a 8800gtx

  • @jotabe1984
    @jotabe1984 Місяць тому

    well i do think games are kind of cherrypicked, except for cyberpunk i'd say that there is no game as demanding here... there are no 2023 tittles, and GTAV its just a 2015 game... a game of the era in which Fx cpus were aging but still on sell brand new. In fact, it was only in 2017 the 1st gen Ryzen replaced the 7yr run of the Fx (Bulldozer and Vishera) CPUs back into fx6300, the six-core CPU wasn't that good at stock, but had a huge OC potential, so it was a very good bargain to buy it with a 970 board and a Hyper 212, and made it 4.3/4.5ghz which was very doable at safe temps if half decent case cooling was in the mix. That way Fx6300 was superior to 2nd/3rd gen i3 and near low tier i5 in games, but on pair with i5 on some productivity tasks. That being said, the Fx cpus didn't do well on Dx11 games, ever, so by 2016 when Vulkan and Dx12 started to became mainstream, the AMD cpus gained kind of a new life as valuable 2nd tier budget CPUs for the used market... But now in 2024... i think that ship has sailed... you can't really expect for an Fx6300 to handle a GPU better than a 1050Ti without a lot of bottleneck except on cherrypicked games. At this point the only realistic Fx cpu able to handle some decent gaming is Fx8350/8370 (and the rare and dumb Fx9370 and Fx9590) that can be paired (with some struggle) with GPUs in the order of a GTX 1060 6gb or Rx 580 8gb (but more realistic would be the Rx570 insted). I know it since i had my Fx8350 with an Rx 570 4gb (which was replaced at march 2023 with an Rx 580 4gb) and 16gb of ram as main rig since 2017 (originally purchased in 2016 with an R7 370 4gb) up to feb. 2024. So i know in detail how much the Fx8350 barely hold with an Rx 580 using all its 8 cores at 4.0ghz, which was aliviated the times i OCd it to 4.4ghz (good improvement but not worth the risk). So... to all looking at an Fx 6300... yes... it will serve you well as an improved ofimatic CPU (way better than Phenoms, Celerons, Pentiums i3 and AMD APUS of the DDR3 era) that might allow some pro-user features like a lot of tabs in Chrome and multitasking... that will allow for modest gaming purposes (some indy, older and MOBA games will run fine with a GTX1050ti) and able to get some upgradepath (Fx8350) but don't expect it to compete with anything in the Ryzen lineup... and by the time an R3 1200 enters the debate with a DDR4 mobo with more modern features like PCIE-3, maybe nvme m.2 slot and the upgrade path for up to Ryzen 5000.. there's no point in this Fx cpu (or anyone to be honest) no matter the prize, since a 1st gen low tier Ryzen with an A320 or even B350 mobo its quite cheap this days

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG 16 днів тому

      Games are definitely something I'm gonna work on for the next video. I want to get ahold of a really proper suite but new games are expensive 😅 It's the main thing stopping me from doing the follow up video. Gonna be taking a look at a bit more than the FX 6300 as well, you may be surprised 👀 The point wasn't to suggest this CPU as a viable budget option for modern games, rather if someone is still hanging onto them these days maybe they should consider waiting a little longer before an upgrade. I still think these CPUs do better than most people think.

  • @alexandreconfiant-latour2757
    @alexandreconfiant-latour2757 Місяць тому

    Great video ! Just wondering if this driver speed improvement is still significant on period correct hardware like an Athlon (Thunderbird / Palomino), Pentium 3 (Coppermine / Tualatin), Pentium 4 (Willamette / Northwood) The Athlon64 X2 is faster and supports more features than previous generations CPUs. For instance, Pentium 3 supports MMX and SSE while the K8 Athlon64 x2 supports MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and have 2 cores. The 2005 driver build could be newer enough to take advantage of some of these features to increase the performance gap. (As 2 cores cpu entered the consumer market in 2005, the same year that the driver you're using. And SSE2 and 3 were already here for a year or two already) I really love this short early programmable shaders era. With a DirectX release every year. Things were moving fast. Games had multiple rendering paths because DX7 class cards were (and would remain) widespread for years. DX8 lifespan was short in comparison. With only ATI R2xx, Nvidia GF3/4ti (and not to forget Matrox Parhelia).

  • @AJ-po6up
    @AJ-po6up Місяць тому

    Shoddy drivers have always been the bane of ATI/AMD even to this day, I've been using their cards for over 16 yrs and this is a pattern that always repeats and gives the win to nvidia, in the beginning at least. For example even my current RX 7900XTX has gotten better with each driver update compared to the RTX 4080, I guess it's what some people call "FineWine'" but I wouldn't call it that myself. I'm just amazed that even in 2001 or even before, this was happening.

  • @PixelPipes
    @PixelPipes Місяць тому

    It's cool to see the driver evolution. This is definitely one case where ATI made some of their biggest strides.

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG Місяць тому

      Honestly I was a bit of a doubter of this card myself until I really tested it out... changed my mind about it very quickly, it's impressive!

  • @ThePuuFa
    @ThePuuFa Місяць тому

    I had one of these with a few pretty cool mods back in the day. I cut up a large slot1 heatsink for cooling the ram chips, mounted an amd k6-2 cpu cooler for the core and of course made a volt mod and maximum overclock! That thing was an absolute beast! Maybe some day I'll make another one just for the nostalgia😁

  • @ArnCiS96
    @ArnCiS96 Місяць тому

    What about test FarCry with FarCryInstincts ? Also would be interesting how this PC will handle FarCryParadiseLost its FCI port to PC for arcade machines.

  • @wowitsshit9734
    @wowitsshit9734 Місяць тому

    Use omega drivers

  • @shieldtablet942
    @shieldtablet942 Місяць тому

    I had one of these in black with 128MB. (8500LE). But I noticed performance was a miss in some titles and ended up trading it for a Ti 4200. I also had a 9800, of which my only complaint is the reliability. Great card that one.

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG Місяць тому

      I don't blame you, the Ti 4200 would have been a decidedly better card at the time! I'd imagine the 8500 LE would have closed the gap over the years though.

  • @PKmuffdiver
    @PKmuffdiver Місяць тому

    I still have mine. I mostly played Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. As I remember, I was very happy with the performance. I was paying, so it was a great choice at the time. Good video.

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG Місяць тому

      Much appreciated, glad you enjoyed. Nice that you hung onto your old card over the years!

  •  Місяць тому

    I had the 8500LE version back in the day (Gigabyte Maya 8500 Pro) - going from a noname GF2MX400 felt like such an upgrade...

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG Місяць тому

      Damn, that would have been a massive upgrade! The 8500 LE is not that much slower than the 8500 shown here, could overclock to 275MHz easily.

  • @MrGoneja
    @MrGoneja Місяць тому

    Loved my aiw 8500 back in the day

    • @SPNG
      @SPNG Місяць тому

      Would have been a great one card solution for a media center, especially if you wanted faster graphics for the time!

  • @dyslectische
    @dyslectische Місяць тому

    That stutter on this card is the reason i have sell it. And go for a geforce 3 ti200 @ GeForce 3 standaard card . Games go smoothly with the GeForce. I play a lot Warcraft 3 in that time. Special the online part of it.

  • @dyslectische
    @dyslectische Місяць тому

    You can flash it with a radeon 9000 serie drivers. I think the radeon 9100 or 9200 bios I had that done with my 8500pro in that time.

  • @XzPERFECTIONzX
    @XzPERFECTIONzX Місяць тому

    I have one in my basement! also a 6800 Ultra