Well, you have choices of AMD, Nvidia, new, used, old, very old, lowed power, high power. Granted supply is short right now. But even 5 + year old cards are decent still. My 7870 wasn't bad.
@Monochromatik-Vision they say its the best platform but jesus christ is it the biggest mess. Your target is always to find the best in the least price and even if you think you did find the best deal, some a-hole on reddit goes "oH iT wAs GoInG fOr WaY lEsS oN tHiS sItE!". Everyone loves ryzen now and thinks that if you aren't going AMD, you're making one of your life's biggest mistakes and don't even get me started on the whole scalping scene. Since the xbox can support mouse/keyboard, I see less and less of a reason for a PC for gaming.
@Monochromatik-Vision ah you are a true man of culture. Reddit is indeed a dump and some gaming subs are overrun with consumerism. My config is an i3-9100f, 16 gigs of ram, and a 1650 super. It fits my buget and my needs for the most which are 1080p gaming, some music production, video editing and writing. I don't think I'll ever buy a ryzen but amd cards sure seem great. I think this 'best' platform argument was valid up to 2018 when you could buy a used optiplex and slap a 750ti and somewhat match the performance of a ps4 but since we have the series s, budget builds are taking the backseat. But again, budget does not mean 1080p with textures at high.
Good on you for being a decent person. You've had the opportunity to cash in during a certain crisis and exiting, and you weren't having any of it. Good job
Apple still uses them in the larger iMacs and labels them as 6-core processors... I could've sworn AMD landed in some hot water for doing something similar in the Bulldozer CPU SKU's 🤔
@@thetrueinferno7993 yeah had a 470 and 480 which were toasty af with their blower coolers. Acc won the silicon lottery with the 480 so fitted it with a hybrid aio solution
@@RandomGaminginHD If you'd like, I have an Nvidia 7950 GX2 modded with a spacer kit, so I could fit two zalman coolers - please reply, woud be 😎 to see my card on your channel.
The US is about to go to war with China, China troops in Canada, FEV, synths, robots, cold-fusion cars about to be released, bunkers are being sold, etc, etc 😂🤣😦😨😩
This is why I love this channel, not only do you want to show off this interesting card to us but you also want to fix it and constantly try giving it back. Such interesting content on these older gpus we all forgot about.
My man you are extremely honest by selling it and giving part of the profit to ex owner. I wish more sellers and people in general would be like you, world would be a better place
what does the curse do ? like its self aware and would purposely lag during gunfights in pvp games? lock difficulty to ultra in single players ? or like jams your controls randomly for a brief moment?
Man, I'd love to have a HD 6990 in my collection. I have two HD 4870x2s, a HD 5970, and a HD 7990. I just need a , a HD 2600 XT, HD 3870x2 and a HD 6990 to have all the GCN 1.0 and older architecture dual gpu cards. There's also the highly elusive Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition and the X1950 Pro Dual. Those two are probably some of the hardest dual gpus to find due to their age.
Dude, offering it back with tech advice? In this economic environment? That's righteous. One of the reasons why you're one of my favorite tech youtubers.
I bought a HD 6970 a few days ago for my personal desktop (upgraded from a GT 710 1GB GDDR5) and am genuinely surprised as it overclocks to the max avaliable options in afterburner without issue and performs 60+ fps 1080p on medium settings on most modern titles, no dx12 support but for the £15 I spent the value is ridiculous
The ryzen 5 3400g only has a x8 PCIe available for graphics and the HD6990 uses the PCIE to do the crossfire. This may have contributed to a few performance issues. The 6990 did have a dedicated chip on board to do the crossfire but it was never used. Also sniper elite 4 was the last game that had perfect sli and crossfire support.
30 FPS in a single player game like Kingdom Come is fine by me, had to do that for most triple A's on my old 760, but trying to play R6:Seige with 30fps is going to be pretty frustrating, fair warning to anybody attempting it. Competitive games, especially ones that involve precise aiming, really do feel so much better with at least 60, and people with higher FPS will have a small advantage over you. But it's good to try it out I suppose.
7000 series supported "for now", and very likely to be supported for a long time.. They are all 1st GCN cards (Terascale 7000 series aren't supported for years). GPUs as recent as R7 435/450 (released in 2016) Radeon 520 (relased in 2017) and Radeon 610 mobile (released in 2019) use the same 1st gen GCN architecture. Actively supporting these relatively new GPUs will automatically mean supporting cards as old as 7970 from 2012. If, lets say, AMD's policy is to cut support 5 years after product release, that mean support for Radeon 610 (last 1st gen GCN GPU) will end in August 2024. It will be another 3+ years before the lack of active support starts hurting compatibility. If supporting 1st gen GCN cards is not too different from supporting newer GCN iterations, well, GCN 5th gen cores is still produced in amd's brand new 5000 series mobile processors. We may use 7970 well into 2030s. All of this is technical perspective though.. If AMD deliberately cuts support for some other reason, that is a different story.
Your videos man, they always make my day. Everything you put out is always so interesting and entertaining. And it's you, your personality and your knowledge that makes it just so fun to watch. Thank you.
I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE DISLIKE YOUR VIDEOS FOR SOME REASON IF YOU DON'T FIND THE VIDEO INTERESTING LEAVE THE VIDEO AND PLEASE DON'T DISLIKE THIS MANS VIDEOS BTW LOVE YOU BRO
I literally had a HD 7850 up until yesterday, could run something like gtav with texture quality at normal and everything else at max but with the ever evolving world of game graphics, that card just didn't cut it anymore... its amazing having a new card though
The fan shroud is like that so multiple graphics-cards in one motherboard have good flow of air. This helps crossfire, or instead, Blender _(where one GPU does the render, while the other GPU handles the GUI)._
Wow, nice video. 👍👍👍 Suggestion (about video editing): try to put a drop shadow in white texts; it was hard to read the text "+5 avg fps" because of the background. Nothing else to say. 🔥👌
Back in the day I ran a dual XFX 6970 in crossfire. Did great, but when GCN happened, AMD dropped support for it faster than Tesla's stock after a federal recall. You can get Crimson 15 on it and that is about it.
You are the only youtuber that talks about kingdom come deliverance I have been playing it for a month straight now because of you and I cant stop it is such a fun game
@@RandomGaminginHD too bad they store the saves in window's "saved games" I backed up my appdata and documents before a windows reset and got angry but it's fine my new playthrough I actually know how to play
Don't buy those. Those are actually priced that way so that if it is faulty, you can't get a refund because the card is free, and you can't refund shipping.
I picked the GTX 590 instead of the 6990.... and I would have regretted it if it wasn't for EVGA having a lifetime warranty on that card. When the 590 died, EVGA sent me a GTX 970 as a replacement. The GTX 590 only had a reference version, so all cards were about the same. The earlier versions had a flaw in the power delivery system that would eventually ruin the card. I heard the second reversion still had problems.
I have a single 6950 and I've found that the 15.7.1 drivers work better. Folding at home wouldn't recognize the card with the 16.2.1 drivers that I see you're using. 5:22 Just something I found that may help get more games to work.
I had a R9-280X + 650W PSU having the same problem. The 650W has been splitted into 2 rails hence the OCP is triggered after running furmark ( even the actual power usage is only 450W ) Swapping to a stronger PSU ( 750W, same series ) solves the problem. For a 300W+ tier card, finding a PSU will be a problem (excluding mining PSU), hence people may consider throw out without investment once again.
The problem with dual GPUs is similar to that of dual CPUs - communication and scheduling. And since a GPU is typically highly parallel already, single chip solutions already have many, many specialised "cores". So multiple standalone GPUs on a single card isn't something I see making a comeback without some serious buyin from MS or Chronos folks (Vulkan) to handle the annoying parts.
Nice Video man, just want to let you know( If you already do, my bad) but if you have an AMD CPU with integrated GPU like the G series, it cuts your available PCIe lanes for the GPU in half. That is at least what mine did before I noticed 6 months after getting the CPU.
Man I low key wish I could give you my crossfire his hd 4830 ice q 4 cards. Back in they day, they could out perform a single 4870 on a budget. Worked great as long as you played games that supported it back then lol
I had a "performance issue" with these dual GPU cards... Dell decided to sell a XPS with a woeful power supply of 418watts which if the GPU was the only requirement would have been fine, however there was a pig inside squealing at me as it tried to power spinning discs, a motherboard, and a CPU. Where it just wasn't up to the job. IMO I swapped it out for better performance and one third power hungriness of a gtx750. The pigs went and all was well... It's always mindful to note that a dual card will almost use double the power of a single card and just short of two single cards.... And 300watts is not a fair measure as the Amps need to be there. I recall the 8800 when they launched and the power needs they had What you may want to try is two dual cards (quad crossfire) or if brave? as you will need a 1200watt PSU and plenty of money for the "testing".. Isn't it funny how it's a 2gb card in a 4gb world... Crisis1 was 512mb world.. Try a 128mb card as that was common then... 256 was "pro"..
Hey, RGIHD! When testing fallout 4, go into Boston, the large destroyed cit where diamond city is. That's a very intensive area for older and budget cards
Note that when you use a 3400G with an external GPU you only get 8 PCIE lanes rather than the 16 you might expect from the x16 slot. How much impact this will have on that GPU I don't know, probably not a huge amount.
if you can retest the card, use regular ryzen or intel cpu. 3400G is capped at x8 3.0 in pcie slot. if this card runs on gen2 pcie, it translates to x8 gen2 which is way worse also try modded 16.2 legacy driver from leshcatlabs. they patched some stuff if i recall compared to 16.2 WHQL
I saw so many of these double gpu cards on used markets. Half of them were broken. Two gpu's require all the other components to be "doubled" as well. There are too many parts on it. So, these cards are a big NO NO today. Nice work mate, greetings from Serbia. Be safe! :-)
Your numbers may be handicapped by the 3400G, it only has 8 pci-e lanes for a gpu and 4 for nvme, the other 8 lanes are dedicated to the onboard gpu. This card might actually need a full 16 lanes to be fully utilized. I had a 2400g and ran into performance issues with a gpu and they all went away when I swapped it for a 1600 AF that wasn’t dedicating lanes to its onboard video out
When I replaced my ATI 6970 for the then new GTX 1060 6GB in november 2017 there was little noticeable performance increase. I used that card for 7 years and it still was good enough.
Actually, I was really, really lucky a few weeks ago. I went to my friends house, and when I was about to leave, he asked me if would I like to play with him. I told him that, I would, but I have an integrated gpu, which can't really run a thing. (That was because I sold my gtx 760, for 69 euro). His dad was there, and he asked me if I have a desktop computer. I told him yes. He dissapeard for like 3 minutes, and came back with a gtx 960. It is perfectly working, it's in a box, it has user manual, it has the drivers on an official cd, it's actually almost like brand new. And I got it for completly free, and I don't have to give it back. The only reason why he gave me that almost brand new gpu, was that he has a gtx 1070, and he isn't using that gtx 960 anyway. Btw it's a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 2gb. It has WINDFORCE cooling, and DAMN BOY, I was playing far cry 5 (at high graphics, 40-60 fps) for 2-3 hours, and it was on 31° C.
my favorite gpu, had 2 of these power hungry jets in my pc long time ago and boi did they work well in cf supported games, just had to change some settings for few hours before it worked well, had 3x nexus rx-5300, 1 per gpu and one for everything else :D Edit: i see many of your test games arent using cf, you can usually force games to use cf.
this video has always been in my recomondetions i never wanted to watch it but it was always no matter how much i refresh but after watching its a really good video
I totally understand you, I sell everything to CEX now. I've been scammed as a seller enough times on eBay that I really isn't worth selling there more
Mate you are the best tech UA-camr IMO. Must be because fellow Englishman and not shouting about like and subscribe/over hyping shit. Keep up the good work 👍
3:36 wait what? you'll sell it and give them the money?! There is ethical integrity and then there is sanctity! Hats off to you, a real gentleman.
Saintity, hehe, I see what you did there. :) Saintity, something that for a normal person would sound more like insanity, right? xD
@@E5rael hehehe I wish I was that clever... it was a stupid mistake on my part, spelling for non native speakers sometimes is hard 😅
I'd hate to think anybody would profit off the backs of someone's misfortune. I couldn't live with myself.
@@shhmule the world needs more like yoy
@@shhmule Lol, ever heard of the 1%? Profiting off all our misfortune.
"When a free graphics card is better than your potato integrated card."
THAT HURT , OK ? YOU GOT ME RIGHT IN THE HEART
I don’t wanna say this but... I can relate...
@@pizzaeater69 i didn't know you watched this youtuber too.
“When a free graphics card is better than your dogcrap normal gpu”
This is *ME jumping of a cliff
Not a proper day until I hear that “hello everyone and welcome to another video”
He says that sentence in less than 2 seconds.
Hello everyone and welcome to another comment.
Hey guys,
I got a new video up
For a free card its ok...It will run Minecraft and can also play Fortnite (horrible game).
Just change the Low vibrational word of "Hell-low" to hi or something else and u have a sub lmao. dont tell me im wrong once u taste the word xD
"the beauty of PC gaming is that things can be fine-tuned to your liking"
More like fine tuned to your budget 😅
in my experience it's "fine tuned to the least bad experience" tbh
Well, you have choices of AMD, Nvidia, new, used, old, very old, lowed power, high power. Granted supply is short right now. But even 5 + year old cards are decent still.
My 7870 wasn't bad.
@Monochromatik-Vision they say its the best platform but jesus christ is it the biggest mess. Your target is always to find the best in the least price and even if you think you did find the best deal, some a-hole on reddit goes "oH iT wAs GoInG fOr WaY lEsS oN tHiS sItE!". Everyone loves ryzen now and thinks that if you aren't going AMD, you're making one of your life's biggest mistakes and don't even get me started on the whole scalping scene. Since the xbox can support mouse/keyboard, I see less and less of a reason for a PC for gaming.
Why didn't do a cyberpunk branch mark
@Monochromatik-Vision ah you are a true man of culture. Reddit is indeed a dump and some gaming subs are overrun with consumerism. My config is an i3-9100f, 16 gigs of ram, and a 1650 super. It fits my buget and my needs for the most which are 1080p gaming, some music production, video editing and writing. I don't think I'll ever buy a ryzen but amd cards sure seem great. I think this 'best' platform argument was valid up to 2018 when you could buy a used optiplex and slap a 750ti and somewhat match the performance of a ps4 but since we have the series s, budget builds are taking the backseat. But again, budget does not mean 1080p with textures at high.
Good on you for being a decent person. You've had the opportunity to cash in during a certain crisis and exiting, and you weren't having any of it. Good job
He seems to be a top fella. He gets a video out of it the card giver gets a little bit of cash back.
Crysis Avg FPS: 69............Nice.
Noice
Noice
Noice
Noice
Noice
*Still too expensive for me !? Do you have something cheaper we are all in a budget man*
Lol 😂 👌
I’d actually prefer if they pay me
Hmmm egpu on my laptop this woulf be the case uwu
A4 intergraded graphics cpu+gpu all in one
@@mockfry24 my laptop is celeron one
For a sec, I thought it was free from the manufacturer because of some freak accident.
Then I remembered that 3 Core CPUs existed.
ah yes the good old triple cores haha
Apple still uses them in the larger iMacs and labels them as 6-core processors...
I could've sworn AMD landed in some hot water for doing something similar in the Bulldozer CPU SKU's 🤔
PEELZboy Plays they did, it was a big thing. Big Misleading/false advertising lawsuit or something
@@Nza420 🤣
@@peelzboyplays6089 They don't use any tri core processors....
That cooler looks like SO AMD
gee... i wonder why
Because it is amd
@@benk9623 I guess he didn’t watch the video 2 minutes in
@@johnnyrocket6588 yeah probably
I've gotten the same video card and the cooler sounds like a jet airplane.
Me, a peasant: "donor"
200IQ Chad: "Giver awayer"
😂
What
You're likes are the ammount of refresh rate I want on my monitor
@@TheDiamondN0Ob bruh a 286 hz monitor idk about that
@@Carlos-lq7ey it was 244 but wutevah
Me with a Nvidia GPU: "oh shit! 70 degrees, time to adjust my fan curve"
AMD GPU owners: "80 degrees, she running cool today"
it's dual gpu card with reference cooler, nobody expect cold card. And about nvidia - we didn't forget fermi :D
FERMI: “hey bud, thems rookie numbers”
* FRYS EGG *
@@JonnesusButArchive not everyone, just kids who think that PC gaming is few years old thing
@@JonnesusButArchive I had a 660, that was actually hot enough
@@thetrueinferno7993 yeah had a 470 and 480 which were toasty af with their blower coolers. Acc won the silicon lottery with the 480 so fitted it with a hybrid aio solution
I love your channel especially the videos with old graphics cards running newer games, but can you make more videos with the 90's computer you have
yeah waiting on a couple of parts. The PSU failed on it the other day unfortunately
Well the power supply was like 20 years old so thats not so surprising.
@@RandomGaminginHD oh ok that's cool, also thanks for replying,
@@RandomGaminginHD If you'd like, I have an Nvidia 7950 GX2 modded with a spacer kit, so I could fit two zalman coolers - please reply, woud be 😎 to see my card on your channel.
@@weltirol3476 email him / msg him
Will watch every video on this channel, forever. Love it. Something about your voice is pleasing and calming, and a lot of times, funny.
Keep up the work man, love the vids👍
“Why not go nuclear” lmao we don’t want a irl Fallout game😂
The US is about to go to war with China, China troops in Canada, FEV, synths, robots, cold-fusion cars about to be released, bunkers are being sold, etc, etc 😂🤣😦😨😩
I love how an RTX 3080 is impossible to find but yet this is what RGHD can find for no price.
Really nice of you to be so great with the original owners!
If more people were like you we wouldn't be seeing $1,000 1080Ti's on Ebay. Thank you for sharing your experience 👍.
video's been up 33 minutes and already 10,000+ views . . . . man it's been nice watching this channel grow in viewers and subs. Congratulations!
"I'll sell it myself... and give them the money" - bro T_T
Great video. I've been watching you for years and I'm glad you're still making content.
Its So Cool How You make Daily content On many Different GPUs
@Mason Rose I mean the video with 25 cards kinda makes up for it doesn't it?
This is why I love this channel, not only do you want to show off this interesting card to us but you also want to fix it and constantly try giving it back. Such interesting content on these older gpus we all forgot about.
Damn dude out of all the youtubers I watch you have to have the most integrity with what you did with that card. Props to you bro!
My man you are extremely honest by selling it and giving part of the profit to ex owner. I wish more sellers and people in general would be like you, world would be a better place
"I mean we've already got a small power plant taking shape in my living room, so... why not go nuclear?"
I was this close to spilling my coffee.
how close?
@@oz7204 I was just about to commit to a long sip.
Still better than my old PC 😢
Are you gonna take a look at the new gt 1010 once it releases?
Plot twist : the gpu is cursed, thats why its free.
Vacuum Cleaner by AMD
2nd twist: curse applies only if you cash in on the free gpu :D
what does the curse do ? like its self aware and would purposely lag during gunfights in pvp games? lock difficulty to ultra in single players ? or like jams your controls randomly for a brief moment?
@@DanielCardei Curse of Binding, Great since I have no other gpu
I love the look of this card.
Man, I'd love to have a HD 6990 in my collection. I have two HD 4870x2s, a HD 5970, and a HD 7990. I just need a , a HD 2600 XT, HD 3870x2 and a HD 6990 to have all the GCN 1.0 and older architecture dual gpu cards. There's also the highly elusive Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition and the X1950 Pro Dual. Those two are probably some of the hardest dual gpus to find due to their age.
Can I just say that I fucking love genuinely good people like you? Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Selling it yourself and giving them the money if they don't want it back? Props
I was actually really surprised to see that blower keeping up with both gpus, I never understood the concept of blower fans
yeah I thought it was going to instantly overheat
I mean singl fan cooling 400W of heat impressive shit
@@dan2800 how is that even possible
I had a blower 1060 6gb and it wasn't that bad, my PSU fan was also silent compared to how it is now with a card with 2 standard fans
@@1GTX1 yes but gtx 1060 is powet efficient that one is a dual gpu hungry card
Dude, offering it back with tech advice? In this economic environment? That's righteous. One of the reasons why you're one of my favorite tech youtubers.
I bought a HD 6970 a few days ago for my personal desktop (upgraded from a GT 710 1GB GDDR5) and am genuinely surprised as it overclocks to the max avaliable options in afterburner without issue and performs 60+ fps 1080p on medium settings on most modern titles, no dx12 support but for the £15 I spent the value is ridiculous
Cool
You are not first,
You are not last,
But most certainly
Nobody asked
since you said nobody asked it means you asked so im not the last or first but im most certainly somewhere between them
exactly, nobody asked.
@@tauhid610 first-comment.com put in the link
I hope people in the future say 'U know what" instead of covid 19 like Harry potter
Wow 400k subscribers! Thats awesome!
If it’s decently priced I’d definitely consider buying it, it’d be a nice bit to add to my collection
There's kind of a Jumanji-vibe to this GPU. They just want to rid it from their lives
Other youtubers:
-Ryzen 5000
-RTX 3000
RandomgaminginHD:
-A GPU found in a yard
Oi, I found this GPU on some blokes front garden, let's see what it can do!
He sold his butt for his card
nah youtuber use RTX3090 or RTX3080
The ryzen 5 3400g only has a x8 PCIe available for graphics and the HD6990 uses the PCIE to do the crossfire. This may have contributed to a few performance issues. The 6990 did have a dedicated chip on board to do the crossfire but it was never used. Also sniper elite 4 was the last game that had perfect sli and crossfire support.
30 FPS in a single player game like Kingdom Come is fine by me, had to do that for most triple A's on my old 760, but trying to play R6:Seige with 30fps is going to be pretty frustrating, fair warning to anybody attempting it. Competitive games, especially ones that involve precise aiming, really do feel so much better with at least 60, and people with higher FPS will have a small advantage over you. But it's good to try it out I suppose.
1:43 6990
6969
_Niiiiceeee_
Turn down pop verity/density!! Personalty I would lower the texture settings :) Free GPU though you cant go wrong!
I've gotten the same card, it's a damn beast and i love it. Too bad that in recent games the dual GPU doesn't work.
7000 series supported "for now", and very likely to be supported for a long time.. They are all 1st GCN cards (Terascale 7000 series aren't supported for years). GPUs as recent as R7 435/450 (released in 2016) Radeon 520 (relased in 2017) and Radeon 610 mobile (released in 2019) use the same 1st gen GCN architecture. Actively supporting these relatively new GPUs will automatically mean supporting cards as old as 7970 from 2012.
If, lets say, AMD's policy is to cut support 5 years after product release, that mean support for Radeon 610 (last 1st gen GCN GPU) will end in August 2024. It will be another 3+ years before the lack of active support starts hurting compatibility.
If supporting 1st gen GCN cards is not too different from supporting newer GCN iterations, well, GCN 5th gen cores is still produced in amd's brand new 5000 series mobile processors. We may use 7970 well into 2030s. All of this is technical perspective though.. If AMD deliberately cuts support for some other reason, that is a different story.
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That fan looks like a washing machine
Your videos man, they always make my day.
Everything you put out is always so interesting and entertaining.
And it's you, your personality and your knowledge that makes it just so fun to watch. Thank you.
ITS FREE WHY NOT
Why did you change the name of your channel to "RandomGamin*gin*HD"
Great video, keep you the good work!
I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE DISLIKE YOUR VIDEOS FOR SOME REASON IF YOU DON'T FIND THE VIDEO INTERESTING LEAVE THE VIDEO
AND PLEASE DON'T DISLIKE THIS MANS VIDEOS
BTW LOVE YOU BRO
"why not go nuclear"
*shows fallout gameplay*
Love your videos, man. Love the humor.
I literally had a HD 7850 up until yesterday, could run something like gtav with texture quality at normal and everything else at max but with the ever evolving world of game graphics, that card just didn't cut it anymore... its amazing having a new card though
420k subs. Keep going buddy!
congrats on 420k :D also that gpu is a bomb i would actually use it
I think it plays fine. It looks good too. I would use it in some of my older PCs.
I commend your honesty. Thanks for being a decent person.
Nothing's more interesting than old dual-gpu cards, nice video!
I really enjoyed the video but what about the box of graphics cards? I hope to hear more about them soon :)
I love you so much man. You're big but I hope you get even bigger.
i ve always wanted this one and u got it for free|
hope u had fun with it
good video bro keep it going
I keep searching for cheapest PC builds on ur channel... Love ur work 🙌🏻
The fan shroud is like that so multiple graphics-cards in one motherboard have good flow of air. This helps crossfire, or instead, Blender _(where one GPU does the render, while the other GPU handles the GUI)._
Man I'm impressed, selling it and giving them the money even if they don't want it back, that is very nice of you
Wow, nice video. 👍👍👍
Suggestion (about video editing): try to put a drop shadow in white texts; it was hard to read the text "+5 avg fps" because of the background. Nothing else to say. 🔥👌
Back in the day I ran a dual XFX 6970 in crossfire. Did great, but when GCN happened, AMD dropped support for it faster than Tesla's stock after a federal recall. You can get Crimson 15 on it and that is about it.
You are the only youtuber that talks about kingdom come deliverance I have been playing it for a month straight now because of you and I cant stop it is such a fun game
Good to hear! Yeah it’s so much fun. Great for just exploring too
@@RandomGaminginHD too bad they store the saves in window's "saved games" I backed up my appdata and documents before a windows reset and got angry but it's fine my new playthrough I actually know how to play
Funniest part about this is the integrated graphics on that 3400g should provide similar performance as that card in single gpu mode
The Card: Free
The Delivery: $499 + Tax + Import Charges
Don't buy those. Those are actually priced that way so that if it is faulty, you can't get a refund because the card is free, and you can't refund shipping.
hello everyone and WELCOME to ANOTHER video
I picked the GTX 590 instead of the 6990.... and I would have regretted it if it wasn't for EVGA having a lifetime warranty on that card. When the 590 died, EVGA sent me a GTX 970 as a replacement. The GTX 590 only had a reference version, so all cards were about the same. The earlier versions had a flaw in the power delivery system that would eventually ruin the card. I heard the second reversion still had problems.
I have a single 6950 and I've found that the 15.7.1 drivers work better. Folding at home wouldn't recognize the card with the 16.2.1 drivers that I see you're using. 5:22 Just something I found that may help get more games to work.
I had a R9-280X + 650W PSU having the same problem.
The 650W has been splitted into 2 rails hence the OCP is triggered after running furmark ( even the actual power usage is only 450W )
Swapping to a stronger PSU ( 750W, same series ) solves the problem.
For a 300W+ tier card, finding a PSU will be a problem (excluding mining PSU), hence people may consider throw out without investment once again.
Would've been good to see you strip it down & clean it, thermal paste etc. Appreciate you've already done something similar on the 460 though!
The problem with dual GPUs is similar to that of dual CPUs - communication and scheduling.
And since a GPU is typically highly parallel already, single chip solutions already have many, many specialised "cores".
So multiple standalone GPUs on a single card isn't something I see making a comeback without some serious buyin from MS or Chronos folks (Vulkan) to handle the annoying parts.
Nice Video man, just want to let you know( If you already do, my bad) but if you have an AMD CPU with integrated GPU like the G series, it cuts your available PCIe lanes for the GPU in half. That is at least what mine did before I noticed 6 months after getting the CPU.
Man I low key wish I could give you my crossfire his hd 4830 ice q 4 cards. Back in they day, they could out perform a single 4870 on a budget. Worked great as long as you played games that supported it back then lol
I had a "performance issue" with these dual GPU cards... Dell decided to sell a XPS with a woeful power supply of 418watts which if the GPU was the only requirement would have been fine, however there was a pig inside squealing at me as it tried to power spinning discs, a motherboard, and a CPU. Where it just wasn't up to the job.
IMO I swapped it out for better performance and one third power hungriness of a gtx750. The pigs went and all was well...
It's always mindful to note that a dual card will almost use double the power of a single card and just short of two single cards.... And 300watts is not a fair measure as the Amps need to be there.
I recall the 8800 when they launched and the power needs they had
What you may want to try is two dual cards (quad crossfire) or if brave? as you will need a 1200watt PSU and plenty of money for the "testing"..
Isn't it funny how it's a 2gb card in a 4gb world... Crisis1 was 512mb world..
Try a 128mb card as that was common then... 256 was "pro"..
Hey, RGIHD! When testing fallout 4, go into Boston, the large destroyed cit where diamond city is. That's a very intensive area for older and budget cards
Note that when you use a 3400G with an external GPU you only get 8 PCIE lanes rather than the 16 you might expect from the x16 slot. How much impact this will have on that GPU I don't know, probably not a huge amount.
red piece on it be lookin like the cap of laundry detergent
if you can retest the card, use regular ryzen or intel cpu. 3400G is capped at x8 3.0 in pcie slot. if this card runs on gen2 pcie, it translates to x8 gen2 which is way worse
also try modded 16.2 legacy driver from leshcatlabs. they patched some stuff if i recall compared to 16.2 WHQL
Up!
I saw so many of these double gpu cards on used markets. Half of them were broken. Two gpu's require all the other components to be "doubled" as well. There are too many parts on it. So, these cards are a big NO NO today. Nice work mate, greetings from Serbia. Be safe! :-)
Your numbers may be handicapped by the 3400G, it only has 8 pci-e lanes for a gpu and 4 for nvme, the other 8 lanes are dedicated to the onboard gpu. This card might actually need a full 16 lanes to be fully utilized. I had a 2400g and ran into performance issues with a gpu and they all went away when I swapped it for a 1600 AF that wasn’t dedicating lanes to its onboard video out
When I replaced my ATI 6970 for the then new GTX 1060 6GB in november 2017 there was little noticeable performance increase. I used that card for 7 years and it still was good enough.
Actually, I was really, really lucky a few weeks ago. I went to my friends house, and when I was about to leave, he asked me if would I like to play with him. I told him that, I would, but I have an integrated gpu, which can't really run a thing. (That was because I sold my gtx 760, for 69 euro). His dad was there, and he asked me if I have a desktop computer. I told him yes. He dissapeard for like 3 minutes, and came back with a gtx 960. It is perfectly working, it's in a box, it has user manual, it has the drivers on an official cd, it's actually almost like brand new. And I got it for completly free, and I don't have to give it back. The only reason why he gave me that almost brand new gpu, was that he has a gtx 1070, and he isn't using that gtx 960 anyway. Btw it's a GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 960 2gb. It has WINDFORCE cooling, and DAMN BOY, I was playing far cry 5 (at high graphics, 40-60 fps) for 2-3 hours, and it was on 31° C.
I have the 7850 and glad he survived all these years
my favorite gpu, had 2 of these power hungry jets in my pc long time ago and boi did they work well in cf supported games, just had to change some settings for few hours before it worked well, had 3x nexus rx-5300, 1 per gpu and one for everything else :D Edit: i see many of your test games arent using cf, you can usually force games to use cf.
this video has always been in my recomondetions i never wanted to watch it but it was always no matter how much i refresh but after watching its a really good video
You are a good chap for saying if you sell it you will give them the money
RGinHD : ''yo I got a free graphics card''
Me : *suffers in GT 710*
Thank you for the Rainbow six siege benchmark, i love your videos
Dude, that's still an awesome find.
I totally understand you, I sell everything to CEX now. I've been scammed as a seller enough times on eBay that I really isn't worth selling there more
Mate you are the best tech UA-camr IMO. Must be because fellow Englishman and not shouting about like and subscribe/over hyping shit. Keep up the good work 👍