I got this GPU for $75!!! Did I get scammed?
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- I found this GPU on Ebay for CHEAP and I couldn't resist buying it... let's see how it does against today's games!
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My takeaway from this is, get a modern good CPU, pair it with a used decent GPU, and don't be greedy with graphics settings. This will keep you playing almost everything out there, and should help ''force'' new cards to drop in price because there's less people buying them. A win-win, all around.
Agreed
Lossless Scaling is less than $10 and lets you run scaling and frame gen on older GPUs in most games (I have only found one where it didn't work so far). It let me play Forza Horizon 4 at 1440p60 on a GTX 670. Lossless scaling is a must have for people using older GPUs.
only downside is not having modern features like Ray Tracing and Path Tracing, (The Path Tracing only available for RTX3090/RTX4070Ti), and 4K resolution. and not all old cards will play modern or even semi modern titles.
@@danthompsett2894 You're also going to be stuck on medium settings on a lot of games. Considering the iGPUs on AMD's latest mobile parts can do the same FPS and settings, it's a toss-up. If you had one of these and wanted to upgrade your rig piecemeal, you could certainly keep using it while you buy the mobo/CPU/RAM, but if you are piecing the entire system together on a budget, but it would be hard to recommend paying $75 for one of these plus all the rest of the needed components over a Ryzen AI 300 based mini-PC -especially if you consider the power that this thing sucks down and the heat it puts out.
coming from 10 dollars salary a month i always did that and i am still on gtx 1050 laptop lol
Fun fact, the 980ti is the last consumer card to be able to output analog video.
You can get an analog DVI-I cable to use it with a CRT and get a true 0 input lag monitor.
So it still has a niche.
Edit: added the specific DVI port it had, since not all DVI variants support analog output.
The 980ti had DVI-I, which natively supports analog video; some 10 series and even 20 series cards had DVI-D, which does not support analog output.
Not counting the Maxwell Titan X because it's not a consumer grade card and it's technically just a 980ti with more VRAM.
Still goes through a digital to analog conversion chip on the card itself so it's still not true 0 input lag.
So what you're saying is the perfect card for retro lovers with CRTs monitors/tvs ?
Fun fact it was actually the zotac rtx 2070 blower.. (i know because i still have mine..)
And can run windows xp!
(With a little tweak)
@@blackstar-genXsounds like it yeah
Greg Salazar: "Let's clean these dirty computer components very delicately while also wearing gloves to protect myself"
Jay: *Gives decade old GPU a blow-job*
Notice how Jay is a spitter
@@sys-administratorso he's no Daniel Plainview... He won't drink her milkshakes down? Poor wife 😮😊
He did go on about "top and bottom" SLI for a bit too long as well, and "choking off"
Screw Greg honestly. One hit wonder until he couldn't make any more interesting content.
@@sigmablock I still watch his stuff. Nothing wrong with it.
Yeah FSR saved my 980ti 8700k setup for modern titles, it’s pretty impressive how these old cards hold up.
No way dude, I have the same setup!
fax, fsr is nutz
Jensen Huang: "We consider that our greatest failure."
Tbh, the 8700k still holds up and can play virtually any modern game at high quality settings when paired with a more powerful GPU like a 2070 super or 2080ti.
My old EVGA Z390 test bench with my 2080ti in it still games like a beast.
I honestly don't notice much if any difference at all between that and my more modern ryzen 5700x and rtx 3090 gaming pc.
These cards doesn't hold up anymore, FSR keeps their lifeline. You should thank AMD for that, Nvidia just decided that these old cards are obsolete with their hardware level upscaling.
It shows just how awesome FSR can be..... Thanks AMD for making that a thing and not locking it down to newer cards like some other GPU makers have done... *cough* Nvidia! *cough*
Yeah, I think AMD did it in part to take a dump in Nvidia's yard. Nvidia made it clear that was DLSS was meant to drive upgrades, limiting DLSS focus to RTX cards, announced DLSS 3 / frame generation locking to 40 series, FSR gave AMD a way to make Nvidia look like the greedy pigs that they are, which didn't bother Nvidia as they've completely owned their greed with pride.
FSR isn't perfect, but it allowed me to build our 13yr old neighbor a completely usable rig out of almost exclusively leftover parts from previous builds and about $130 for a used Gen3 NVMe, case and 550W PSU. Ryzen 3600x + B450 + 2 x 8GB DDR4 and a GTX 980 (non-Ti) and he can play nearly anything, cyberpunk, helldivers II, COD warzone, all at beyond playable framerates on a 10 year old GPU that you can often pickup on ebay or marketplace for about $50. Buddy on discord gets nearly the same performance with a 1050 Ti and he managed to get FSR 3 frame generation working with a mod, again not perfect but I like to see people stretching the life of old hardware rather than it going into a landfil..
yeah lol what was nvidia thinking? Lets add it to brand new cards that dont need it and make sure people stuck on old cards cant! Its not like the people on those old cards that would use it were the ones that were going to be buying new expensive cards.
What's beyond absolutely fucking stupid though is the fact that AMD will let any Nvidia card under the sun have access and use things like FMF but yet when it comes to their OWN RDNA product like, line like the 5700xt series, we get fucked
and for no reason other than fuck us I guess...
FSR is excellent but it isn't just a throwaway decision for Nvidia not to have DLSS on older GPUs or AMD GPUs. It's because the technology is implemented in the hardware whereas FSR is a software-only upscaling technology. Both are excellent tech and I really appreciate AMD managing to create tech that is nearly as good using only software!
AMD sucks
Millennials realizing 980ti have become Antique Hardware 😢
As a Millennial should I keep my mouth shut about S3 Trio then?
Why you using such a high end gpu.. living 960 4gb life with 6600k 6700k was to expensive.
I have one of those floating around still 😅😅 was in use until 2022 😅😅
Im still on an x4 880k and 570 gaming x. The computer was an hp prebuilt with a locked lotus motherboard and an a10-7700k, no gpu. Couple small case mods, 5 pipe single tower, 600w gold psu, a88xm plus mobo, and all my old hardware went into building my grandmas current pc after she had caps fail on her mobo.
I'm still using a GTX 760 in my ITX build. Very antique at this point, but still works well enough for less demanding games. it's a very cute card, so tiny 😂
I just gave a 980ti I had on my shelf to a friend of mine for his sons computer. He doesn't play any graphics intensive games since he's 10 so it actually worked out perfectly since it was just on my shelf in the original box collecting dust.
I just snagged a 1080TI for $100 recently, was pretty stoked tbh.
Same! Got one for $150 CAD (~$110 USD) and it's just such a great card for budget builds right now.
Just got a 5700xt for £120. Bargain
i have a perfectly fine 1070 framed on my wall. it's got "break glass in case of emergency" written on it.
cause i know that since i game so much at 1080p, if i need that card, it's still perfectly viable.
Same, picked up a 1080 Ti founders edition last week for a very low price. Previous owner had it watercooled so I had to replace all the removed thermal pads and paste the CPU die up and it's running with the stock cooler as good as new. Still a capable card!
@@FilthEffect My brother in law was still using my old RX 580 Pulse, so i sold him my 5700 XT Aorus for €135 ish, he's so happy with it. Of course, it doesn't seem super powerful compared to a 4090 or 7900 XTX but it's still capable of a great gaming experience and in the 100-150 price range, it's really a great value card.
Result of the Cyberpunk run was pretty shocking, pleasantly shocking to say the least. 980 Ti owners would have got more than their money's worth if they have been using this card since day 1 of its launch almost 10 years ago.
ever since 1.5 theyve been optimizing the shit out of that game. it runs bafflingly well on the steamdeck where it only pulls like 10-15w for the whole chipset
Doug cameo was elite
As someone who had been using GT220 until 2023, at that moment, ANYTHING will be an upgrade.
I once even considered the 980 or 970. But upon further research, I decided on 1080TI for around $200, and it's been AMAZING. I cannot tell you how fulfilling it is to finally have a proper GPU.
I went from a 670 to 2070 super... Feel the pixels 😂
1080ti strix here, and its a beast!
in 2019 i went from a geforce 605 (not even a GT grade card lol) to a GTX 1060. amazing
Went from a 770 to the 1070. was amazing! Currently rocking a 3060ti
I bought the 1080 ti, the week it launched, and used that card until dec 2023, then I decided to upgrade to a 3090 ti cause I found one for 700 bucks, And ill be honest, its an amazing card, nearly 70% faster then the 1080 ti, but It just doesn't have that insane boost that the 1080 ti did when it first launched lol, truly is the BEST Gpu of all time lol. ( Ray tracing is a completely different story though XD )
Recently scored a brand new RX 6600 Powercolor Hellhound for $130. Couldn't be happier.
Sips 100W as I play Cyberpunk 2077 at 1080p ultra at a locked 60fps.
as it is a 1080 card, this is the proper way to use it. Can confirm my Sapphire RX6600 can do the same.
@@dikbozo The RX 6600 has more than double the performance of the Xbox Series S. It will keep playing current games at 1080p for years until studios target the next gen.
go to nexus and download the DLSS-enabler mod for Cyberpunk. It enables frame gen on the 5000/6000 series cards, it is incredibly easy to install and use.
@@dikbozo RX6600 dual fan too, thing is a 1080p budget CHAMP
~a random canadian subscriber dude
Yeah, it's a shame that AMD just killed the 6600. The only truly worthwhile budget card on the market is gone now.
Still running evga hybrid 1080ti 7 years later.
Great stuff, mine died months ago otherwise I would've continued running it. Run it till dead especially if stuck on 1080p monitor
so?
ROG strix 1080ti. You will have to pry it from my cold dead hands 😂
Asus strix 1080ti here 7 years. Dread when it's time to upgrade given these prices
@@groenevinger3893 so?
The nod to Doug made me smile, it is great to know there are other car nut nerds out there.
consider the most commonly used resolution on Steam is 1080p, this card is a viable option still. I knew this was going to be the result. 10 years of solid value. I expect the RX580 to be somewhat in the same boat in a couple of years.
Got 2 homies still on rx580 playing tarkov and all! One of my boys is getting my 2060 super off of me I upgraded to an 4080 super. But yeah it very impressive to see this stuff I’m pretty much gonna keep my 4080S to at least 7 years 😂 probably more I had the 2060S for close to 6
My nephew got a lot of use out of my old R9 Fury playing at 1080p until I got him a new RX 6650XT for Xmas last year. He doesn't play a lot of AAA games but when he does he tends to turn the visuals down since he's more for performance than eye-candy. The 6650XT got him some decent fps gains on Fortnite with decreased visuals even on his old Ryzen 1600.
@@lightest2385 No you will not, or at least should not. A 4080S is gonna hold its value well enough for you to sell it close to MSRP.
Then you put the proceedings towards the upgrade. Holding cards is a bad strategy.
@@luganox2844 Why upgrade pointlessly if you don't feel the need for the performance uplift.
I have both a 980Ti and a 1650, and for most non-gaming uses like web browsing and streaming video, the 1650 is better, but for actual gaming, the 980ti is about twice as fast as the 1650, for four times the power usage.
Maxwell Architecture is next on the chopping block for driver updates. That's the only downside right now. But the latest driver release should handle everything and anything the card can handle playing.
yup, when 50 series launches. it'll get downgraded to security updates only until the 60 series.
I love your "fuck around and find out" videos.
Thank you gentlemen for doing what you do. Phil,Nic and Jay
"Oh hi. I'll take this!" Haha this is why I love Jay. He has fun with these sort of benchmarking videos. And I'm shocked that thing can run Cyberpunk even at 1080p. That's kinda awesome (okay granted, with FSR but still awesome)
What it also shows is how well optimized state they got Cyberpunk into, only to get rid of their engine
It scales down to play on Maxwell cards but only scales all the way up to break a 4090 to deliver what was the cutting edge graphical experience
You can pick up 5700XT for around $75 can run some games in 1440 at good frame rate mostly for 1080p I bought a few to make some gaming pcs to sell
Flaw is people will pay many times more for a 980ti because it’s nvidia. Doesn’t matter if it’s slower
@@timothygibney159 yep, spoken to a few resellers and Intel and Nvidia names sell the PC
People would read AMD drivers causing issue or lack of updates and now thats AMD in general, even when we all know AMD cpus are best in class, maybe not always the fastest but then they dont need their own PSU
My son has an old system which needed a new GPU. He is getting a new PC for Xmas so didn't want to spend a lot of money, found a 980Ti EVGA (God I miss them) for £60 (UK) and it's worked a treat.
It was a great card and man I miss EVGA
I built a PC for my 15 year old about 4 years ago with a Ryzen 5 3600 and a 1660 for under £300 and he still uses it today for all his gaming needs. He uses it more than his Xbox series X which was £150 more. My other son at 16 has a 1050Ti system on an older platform, DDR 3 ram and a 4th gen i7, which he games on and that was built for about £150. Both systems run fine and play everything they want to especially with Xbox cloud gaming being a thing now. I also think for parents to get their kids into computing and share the hobby with them is a wonderful thing (as is being a LFC supporter)🤣🤣👍👍
The 700 series also had the first K|NGP|N endorsed graphic card. The EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Classified K|NGP|N Edition, and it even came in at just under 900 USD. That's a pretty good example of how pricing for top tier GPUs has changed. The one graphic card that I regret selling now that EVGA has left the graphic card market. That was my second "balls out" GPU that I owned. I had some other graphic cards before the K|NGP|N card, but the first "balls out" GPU was a 3DFX Voodoo2. Yes, I'm old.
If that makes you old, then I'm not going to talk about my Canopus Voodoo 1. Or my 8MHz Z-80 (from when 6MHz was the fastest, but a board maker was rating pick of the litter chips for 8MHz and putting them under a passive heatsink before people started putting heatsinks on chips.)
I had 780ti , 980ti, 1080ti....they all performed exceptionally well and they were worth the jump.... then... i felt the need to chage only when the 4080 came out.
My 1080ti still lives in a friend of mine computer that I assembled for him.
That's a big jump. Ha
I've had...
Gt630, 660, 960, r9 390, 980ti, sli, 1080 ti, sli, 3070, 3090, and now 4090.
My old 980ti is still in use today, I finally upgraded last year to put the 980ti into my daughters first pc for her birthday. It has no issues playing any games she wants at 1080, Minecraft, sims, fallguys, etc. Hilarious as the GPU released when she was only 1!
I been running a 3600 amd and no complaints, but I got a 5900x for 140 used and I’m happy. Oh and I’m still running a 1660 super.
Primary pc is a watercooled Threadripper 2920X w a 2080ti. VR machine is an air cooled X99 I7-5820k w an EVGA 3080ti. Wife's machine is a Ryzen 7 7700x and a 4070. Only the Threadripper CPU and the 4070 were purchased new. All the rest was used.
Remember, when blowing strange video cards always use protection.
Good advice from. . . The Greatest Technician That's Ever Lived!
/giggles
A cool game to add to future testing could be Avatar Frontiers of Pandora as it is very resource intensive and can eaisly draw 400+ watts from RTX4090. Its engine is snowdrop so its a bit different than unreal engine and could be a good addition for testing GPU and CPU performance.
£75 for a RX590 for my eBay Lego pc 😂
My first custom rig was a 6700k and a 1070 that i used until 2023. Am currently typing this on a 13700k and a 4070ti crazy to see how well that old hardware holds up
a couple people mentioned it already, but the 1080ti is a better pickup rn imo. card was so good it more or less invalidated the 2000 series lmao. we wont have a card like it for a long time
The GOAT 🙌🏻
Indeed. With some titles the 6GB VRAM of the 980Ti becomes the first issue you encounter. The 1080Ti with it's 11GB is much more fit, I mean so many of NVidia's current gen cards only come with 8GB, you have to get atleast a 4070(Super) to get to 12GB.
Sure, there are midrange cards these days that, at a good second hand price, might be just as good of an option (RX6600, an Intel Arc GPU), but nothing wrong with a 1080Ti if you can get it for around 125-150 max.
Current system. Ryzen 7 3700x, GTX 1070, 64gb DDR 4 3600. Plays modern games just fine. Starfeild, Jedi Survivor, Halo Infinite. All medium to high settings.
A 980ti for $75usd is actually insane.
That was literally a top 3 card when it came out worth over $350..
I'm AMAZED someone felt comfortable selling it for that cheap.
@@SegmentW It's not really that surprising given the glut of supply and general lack of demand.
Heck, 1080 ti's are hovering around $150 on ebay right now
Most of these older cards really aren't worth it, unless you're on a really tight budget, and have really cheap electric.
I just upgraded from a GTX 1070, to an Rx 7600 Xt that I picked up for $200 this last week. I've been enjoying the upgrade so far.
kewl story
Considering that it overclocked nicely, with some cleaning that beast would score even better.
Grabbed a RX 6600 for $100 brand new a bit ago 👍🏻
US Dollar? Which brand?
@@KamisatoPotato yep, sapphire pulse
in my country, the cheapest RX6600 is MYR 799 @ USD 192 from PowerColor Fighter brand.
And you bought new for 100% , crazy bargain.
Also the fact that it basically was a "plug n play" experience is kind of crazy since that's an almost 10 year old card.
Most importantly eating ALL the electricity....
the card may be cheap, but that electricity bill is not lol
Compared to a 4080??
I appreciate all of these videos. I was gifted a PC last October by a good friend running an Intel Core i9 4820k @ 3.7 GHz and a GeForce GTX 1660 6gb Ram which has been great for me to do some light gaming and content stuff. Watching your videos has made me realize that I most likely can build a new pc or at least know what I want in a new on when I can get it. Thanks for all the tips, tricks, info and entertainment.
The average joke was great 😂😂😂
meh
For $75 or less you get a nice RX 580 8GB that also supports FSR upscaling, comes with 2 more GBs of VRAM and lower power consumption.
YALL EVER FEEL LIKE YOU GOT ONE STUCK IN THE CHAMBER BUT NO MATTER HOW LONG OR HARD YOU PUSH IT JUST KEEPS WANTING TO PLAY PEEK A BOO
Bro… what?
peek a poo*
Eat more beans, drink more water.
you need more fiber in your life
Hell yeah brother. You're not alone.
I've been out of the pc space for some years, I still have my PC with 4790k and 2 evga 980ti hybrids... it did have the 5960x but that died and had to switch from my donor PC. Mad how this world has changed and how out of the loop I am now 😂😂
Yep. That was me two years ago until I built a rig for my kid in ‘22. I had to relearn everything all over again. Before that, the last two PCs I built was in ‘95 with parts from Fry’s, EBay and PC Club. And just this year, I built one for myself. With hardware, etc., a few things have evolved, but finding finding compatibility is a WHOLE lot easier. I remember back in the day to find compatible parts you had to go down some obscure rabbit hole to make sure everything worked together especially to avoid bottlenecks.
Yet there's still a large pat of the PC community saying there's no point buying a 4070 it's no good 😂😂
Well, good but not good at pricing these days lmfao
@@mukkah yep pricing is a joke and it's not gonna change, they've discovered we are all idiots 🤣🤣
I think most people saying its bad are referring to for its price.
@@stewart9540 well, I've done my share of stupid so I'm not tossin' any shade, for sure lol
but I'm still rocking budget arse RX6600 and for my 1080p needs, it's a champ heh
But ye, if you want 2/4k, you gottah accept the gouge, sucks as a consumer
~a random canadian subscriber dude
@@mukkah I'm at 1440P with a 1060 6GB. 60+ in games i play, mainly because i don't really care for visuals, but i like more pixels. Also i barely play anything newer than 2018 anyways so the 1060 6GB can actually handle delivering 60+ at 1440
I replaced my 980ti in my main gaming rig earlier this year and stuck it in a SFF build. Still love it and intend to keep using it in some capacity as long as it keeps physically working.
Graphics cards also suck because, when npoopidia saw no one was buying their graphics cards, they made rtx stack and abandoned optimized game engines. Also, 👎 for the tiktok ad
What?
what?...
I think nvidia rtx will not be able for me but we can ensure that they will not adversely affect the amount of the individual spec's in their current series of cards for the use of gaming.
When PC-Gaming world become the new hobby for 40 years old seniors with a shit-ton of money blocked in their houses during pandhemic..then all start to go shit.
Don't forget even if there's no DLSS or FSR etc built into a game there's options like the Lossless Scaling injector that can add upscaling and frame gen into any game or emulator to keep your old GPU's going. Will save you alot of money for years to come and even overcome any CPU bottlenecks
I have always worked and played with PCs.
Starting with a Celeron at 300Mhz (overclocked to 450 with hardware mod, melted the socket plasic shroud.... ingnorance is bliss) for CPU and GPU I have always used a rule that has served me well. Second hand best or second best of the previous generation as soon as I have an increase of at least 50%/75% of performance on what I have. All watercooled. It has always meant 70% of the performance of the latest current hardware at a third of the cost. I have immensely appreciated the transition from 25 to 60/75 FPS and the transition to 144Hz over 1080p resolution was very enjoyable. Beyond that? Maybe I'm too old but I have not seen appreciable improvements beyond 1440p and 144Hz (I don't think in any case that it is an advantage for the game except for the stats of the 1000 best top pro players of first person shooters) We just don't have the right "hardware" in our eyes and brains.
Definitely worth looking locally. I’m in a small city and found a little used hardware shop and snagged a 3080 for 210 after tax with 60 day warranty
it s 250W , no way ! It s insane power draw
I was running AMD 3800x with a MSI 1080ti from 2020-2023 and it performed amazing. Even able to run HP reverb and every game at 1440. Almost every game was 60-80FPS
I still think the original flat desktop cases were the best design as heat moves up away from the boards rather than roasting the next item above it...
Nice! I just bought a Titan XP for 300. 1080tis are also still a good option today for cheap gaming!
I just picked up a 750ti for an xp/7 retro build, still some good deals out there if you do your homework
Hardware has progressed far beyond what most games call for. Honestly, most games today don’t look all that much more impressive than Xbox 360/ps3 era games. Yes, there’s obviously a difference, but it’s more or less just slightly higher detail each passing generation. The jump from ps2 to ps3 truly felt next gen. The jump from ps3 to 4 to 5 felt more like turning settings from medium to high.
I still have my pair of 980ti cards tucked away from back in 2020 when I was inspired by you to do my first build!!
I paid 200$ for my EVGA 980Ti Hidrocopper in 23. Did not regret it.
I play diablo 4 in 4k with FSR on my tv and I get a nice constant 60 FPS. Sure, not doing hard core, but man is the story mode enjoying on a gigantic TV. The 90-10 series were fantastic!
And I agree, FSR is the king, thank you AMD!!
Great video Jay!
Cool to see, I remember selling my 980ti at the start of covid to get a little extra cash to get by. Think I got like $200 for it. We met up in person and it was some younger kid, was happy to see he was going to get some more use out of my old card for a good deal.
I bought the exact same card towards the end of last year from eBay here for just £50 delivered which was amazing. Came in great condition as well and performs really well for the price.
I'm at home on my normal PC right now, but for almost all of Uni i was using a second PC with a 1070ti and a 2600x. The 1070ti had been mine since launch and honestly, it refused to ever give up. I'd get similar FPS in cyberpunk (albeit at 1080p medium no FSR) and the CPU was definitely holding the card back, but I didn't really feel like I was missing out on much having a more budget oriented PC whilst I was there. Its definitely possible to make a very capable build for the price of a console these days, the older 10 series cards are still slogging on. If you can pair one with a modern Ryzen 5 which I have seen for some very low prices recently, you could definitely get a great rig with great upgrade potential.
I'm still on a GTX 1080, and everything I've been playing has been fine, but I've also been avoiding most of the high-fidelity single-player games in the last few years until I can afford to upgrade. I've been playing Path of Exile, Diablo 4, Last Epoch, Elden Ring, Valheim, Helldivers 2, Dyson Sphere Program, Monster Hunter Rise and World, and Space Engineers. But I'm also on a 1080p 60 hz monitor from 2009. Pretty sure that thing doesn't even have an LED backlight.
RX 400 and 500 8GB series cant be beat for price to performance. Will run most games at 1080p no problem. Its a good place to learn V BIOS modding and undervolting. Only downside is that you will likely need to reflash your cards stock VBios to it if you dont have a dualbios card as many of them have modded bios on them as they were used for mining, but that's easy to do by following a guide online.
Thank you JZ for proving my point, everyone I meet are all like you can't game on a 10yr + old gpu and be competitive, I've been doing it on 1080's and 2080's tbh not a big increase in performance from the 2080 to the 1080s , in benchmarks yes, in game play not that noticeable
i recently bought a Titan X maxwell as well, not using it right now more for collecting / display, but cool to see it get a mention
I used a Gigabyte GTX 980Ti Windforce 3X OC with an i7-4790K from early 2016 until 6/2024 when I upgraded the CPU to an i9-9900K (with appropriate MOBO upgrade). I am still using the same 908Ti. It works just fine for the games I play maxed out at 1440p @120 fps. It does get too hot to comfortably touch the backplate while gaming, but only warm otherwise. The fans do not get to %100 unless I manually set them there. I use dual monitors, the main is a 32" 1440p 144 Hz and the secondary a 24" 1080p 75 Hz.
My other PC is still rocking my MSi GTX 970! It was my first ever build back in early 2015.
Until my regular 10yr PC upgrade last month, I was running a 6850K on a Rampage 5 Edition 10 with 64GB 3200 DDR4 Dominator Platinum SE, and a 1080Ti (all custom water cooled). Honestly never had an issue with any title I wanted to run on a 3440x1440p with High to ultra settings, (This includes running Black Myth Wukong last week on it). I never settled for less than 60-70 FPS, but rarely went below my ASUS PG34Q's 100Hz limit. Now I'm running 7800x3D with 64GB DDR5 and a 4090, in a NZXT built machine (I felt like hitting the easy button, and it was a killer deal), and honestly the gaming experience is not night and day,.. Load times are for sure, but the overall enjoyment is not ridiculously better on the new machine. Still happy with the new machine and the deal, as well as just flicking everything to Ultra and not caring, but the 2015-2016 system was still very enjoyable to game on and use day to day.
Definitely recommend a repaste. I have cleaned a few of these and bad paste spread from the factory. They do actually run cooler as well.
This is so funny, I just found an old gaming PC at the dumpsters in my apartment complex which seemed to be built around 2014. Has a 3770k, 16 gbs of DDR3 and a GTX 980. I'm gonna take all the parts out and transplant them onto a test bench rig. Mostly gonna use it for decoration but would like to play with it a bit.
Nice Vid Jay!! I run a 4790K with a MSI 1060ti (Bought 3 years ago for €200) and DDR3 1333MHZ 16GB RAM. I play GTA V and F1 2023 on 1080p no problem. (50FPS+)
Now i mostly play strategy games and city builders. So for Cities Skylines 2 I do need to upgrade. It's going to be an AMD 5800X and a 4070 SUPER in the near future.
Oh man, 980ti, what a GPU. I had the watercooled version from Gigabyte for almost 5 years, my brother has it now and it is still doing well in modern games.
glad to see the tubers showing a realistic view for lower income folks
My first build was a 4690k and a 980ti it is still running and going strong for my kids as a living room PC. So even with an era appropriate cpu it can still run Cyberpunk well at 1080 quality as stably as your test bench did. Mine was an after market gpu, so was pre-overclocked and ran just under what you got yours to (1390), though with better temps because of the better cooling. My main worry for that system now is the ram failing as it's DDR3. Anyway enjoyed this vid even though I knew the result due to my first rig still being heavily used today.
Still running my 6700k + 980ti setup.
The 980ti is great because it’s easily bios flashable/overclockable. I have mine watercolored running at 47 Degree Celsius.
But today was one of the days where I thought „is it finally gonna die“. (Crashed the whole time) But here I am, and it’s still working… will still upgrade at beginning of next year. (For WQHD these cards are pretty terrible)
EVGA GTX 1080 FTW cards can be had on ebay for about $130 shipped, and are between 10-30% faster than the 980ti, and 8GB of RAM vs 6GB of ram on the 980ti. Just another data point to add to the comments section.
My guest gaming machine runs a GTX 1060 6GB card with a 1080p monitor, and still runs basically everything thrown at it, while my gaming machine runs an RTX 3070 with dual 1440p monitors. It's actually surprising/amazing how long the older cards are holding up as being usable.
For what it's worth, I built my brother a system while he was in college that used an EVGA GTX 1080 and an i7-6700, so I'm not sure that the 980ti being paired with the 6700k was the common occurrence, but it definitely seems like the right era. (Not sure if the i7-6700 launched, then Nvidia released the 10-series late enough to have the 980ti be paired with the 6700 earlier in the i7-6700 lifecycle or not). I feel like maybe that is correct though, as I seem to remember the GTX 1080 being really hard to find in stock that summer when I was doing the build.
In any event, interesting video, and it's wild to see these old cards holding up like this.
I still use a GTX 1080. At one point I had that 1080 paired with a 980 Ti that was used for PhysX. These were in my Gaming Rig that had an AMD FX-9590 CPU in it. All 3 components I bought used so that CPU only cost me $130 and it came with an AIO that I still use. Although none of these 4 items are in the same case anymore.
OMG Jay, it would be extremely cool to have an OG Skunkworks rebuilt, SLI and all. Might not be practical, but damn it would be nice to see in the back drop!!!
I was testing several 980ti variants over the past few months. The Zotac Amp! Extreme came out on top. If you can keep them cool, they rock.
I just could not live with the power draw. I ended up with a GTX1070 which is not quite as good but now my lights don't dim when I turn on the PC LOL.
For correct SLI you want cards from the same manufacturer to have less issues.
Also if mix matched put slowest one in slot 1.
Due to two different gpus each has different clocks on core and mem.
This was the dream for when i was getting into pcs. Just pure nostalgia
Maxwell still putting in work. Pascal was still my favorite workhorse for defying expectations on usability and dealing with abusive runs, but that was a nice take on memory lane.
Upgraded to a 4070ti in march of last year cause my Asus strix 980ti died because of my idiocy. Before it died, i got to play cyberpunk in 1080p with mostly high settings and no fsr...over 60fps everywhere, except inside V's building . Best card i ever had.
My plan was to keep my 980ti for 8-10 years. Had it for 8, sold it a year ago and got £100 for it. Definitely dont need to upgrade every 1 or 2 gens. FSR is a godsend for older hardware.
I'm still running i7-7700 / RTX-1070, I haven't had any issues yet with any games. I need to go to 720p sometimes but have yet to run into any games that are unplayable. Cyberpunk played great.
The tip of a older GPU still being useful is a good one.
Until like 6 months ago I was using a AMD Fury X GPU and it held up pretty well, even for 4K gaming where titles like Far Cry 5 was payable.
I’m still running a fx9590 over clocked to 5ghz and a gtx970 over clocked to 1400mhz just finished playing still walks the deep which is impressive for a pc over 10 years old
The used GPU market can be really interesting, especially if you try to build a full system at a budget. Like f.e. a good friend recently asked me to put together an entry level gaming PC for a max of 300€ as a Christmas present for his son and as everyone knows, with hardware prices as they are this can be quite tricky since 300€ is a insanely tight budget. Luckily he already had a Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor for the system so those didn't need to be bought and I still had a few parts sitting around, additionally I got a few deals on used parts so I managed to put together a quite decent 1080p rig for that price with a Ryzen 5 3600 (platinum grade chip from my personal parts "stash" that will run with a 4.5 ghz all Core OC all day long with just 1.26 volts), Be Quiet Pure Rock 2 Tower cooler, MSI B550M Pro-VHD Mainboard, 2x8 Gig DDR4 3200 CL16 Ram, a 1TB Lexar NM710 NVME SSD, an MSI RTX 2060 Ventus OC, a Be Quiet Pure Power 11 600W PSU and a Aerocool Atomic Lite mATX tower.
I winced at the price when I bought my HD4850X2 and then winced again even harder when I upgraded my rig with a 980. When I saw the 40 series pricing barely budged after the crypto crash I got up and went and bought a PS5. Haven't regretted my choice once.
Before I got an 4070ti super I was rocking a Strix 1080ti, solid as a rock, good temps, good fps, nice looks man I love that card. I still have it in al altar lol.
Thank you for making me feel better about my 10900K and 3080ti. I still got some time!
Still running my 970 (3.5gb variant). It is definitely beginning to show its age, but stuff like Sea of Thieves if perfectly playable.
7 days to die does turn into a slide show from time to time, but it's mostly playable.
Her in the UK the RX580 8GB seems to be the best bang for buck older GPU. They're at between £50-£75 on Ebay at the minute but I've been rocking a 1050Ti which for budget gaming is great. I know it struggles with modern AAA but if you manage your expectations it's fine for most games and you can build a capable system for under £200ish.
Wow, very surprising but pretty good results. As you said, having a modern CPU did help....
My concern is that the 900 series will be dropped here soon because when my GTX 680 hit 10 years old, Nvidia dropped support for it (during the worst time possible - a chip shortage).
Wow this is a crazy coincidence. I literally just upgraded my brothers rig today from a 710 (yes, really) to my wife's old 980 Ti. Poor guy has been trying to play Lethal Company and CoD on the gpu equivalent of electrodes in a lemon. He booted a game up and was amazed it ran at 60fps.
FSR is the real GOAT here. Got a pair of 1080 that were replaced for 3060ti on my PC and my daughters PC and they were still kicking butts with FSR.
I recently found a GTX 1070 8g gpu on my local used site for 150$ Canadian . It's not in my main tower , but as a gpu for my 2nd tower I'm not going to complain (10th gen 10900k cpu ) .
I used to always buy blower style GPUs only because they blow the hot air outside the case. With current style GPUs they blow the heat into the case do the fans are recirculating some of the hot air back into the GPU.
I would rather have an air on my GPU so that I can get as much of the hot air blown outside the case. Or some kind of ducting to help blow the hot air out of my case.
I know adding lots of fans will help blow heat out of the case but even at that the GPU is still blowing a lot of heat into the case and unless you have a lot of airflow that hot air will still be there blowing back into the GPU.
2:06 Jay casually ingesting another virus from back in a day xD