Fun fact: Back in 2008/9 Maxishine and Trubritar were the only two enthusiast level channels I remember. Good ol youtube days eh. Linus was just starting back then with the unboxing videos.
In my experience with the card, the normal fan curve is pretty damn bad, after changing a few settings in the bios, it actually runs pretty cool (for a card of this caliber), I think what happens with these cards (including yours and my 5970 and an old 4870) is that the memory overheats and dies, causing the artefacts that get progressively worse as it gets hotter.
The blower was effective if the fan actually broke 23% The reference 4870 I had would cook before speeding up the fan. Modded the BIOS to run at 35% at its slowest speed and the GPU stayed cool, only hit 50% occasionally, when under load. I quit giving it an opportunity to get overheated early on and that kept it from ever overheating.
I had this exact model! The most beautiful card I ever had the pleasure to install in a rig! Simply gorgeous! Cost me €480 new back in 2008. Xfire'd the thing with a third hd4870 gpu... back in the days when one could get a new top-tier AMD GPU for €200-250. Sold the set in 2010 to get the HD5970.
I used to have a 4870 x2. I got it off eBay for under $100 back in 2011. The GPU would run hot when idle, then it was like a flamethrower when I would run a game. My computer became the most expensive heater in the house. Good times.
Used the AMD Radeon 4870 X2 on one of my desktops for 11+ years, on average running for 12+ hours every day. Still works like a charm (mechanically), never had any trouble with it, even the dual fans still operate as well as they did on the day that I bought it. Under max load it hits 70C, maybe clean yours out ;) I do agree that it is the most beautifully designed GPU I ever bought
czekaj czekaj, to wytlumacz mi. Jest to crossfire w jednej karcie ( a przy konfigu SLI/Cross VRAM się nie dodaję ) to jaki jest sens robienia czegoś takiego i pisanie że jest to karta 2 GB? Czytalem o tej karcie i wszędzie piszę że jest to 2GB wersja.
DiReCtiooNz- Home of TDM Gameplays ! Żeby wyglądało ładne i żeby ktoś nieświadomie kupił mogą tak napisać bo to prawda karta ma 2gb wiec w teorii nie kłamią ale to że może użyć tylko 1 to już inna sprawa
590 is a monster. I was using that thing for 5 years before it finally started to feel its age and it had more to do with the amount of vram not cutting it vs. The raw power not being enough for 1080p. I bet it can still run modern games pretty decently with textures turned down.
@@tHeWasTeDYouTh we are glad we have seen them. The 3d women fighters on the gpu boxes :) I had the ati hd4650 something like that. It was an AGP card. Could play cod4 and it was enough for me. Bought it for like 100 usd that time.
The fact that you spent time trying to resurrect it and showed how it's a card that was known to regularly die is actually more interesting than a review of an old functioning card. I'm quite new to your channel but I like your content.
Thay all have the same problem. Me and two of my friends had one each and they got all fried like this when amd overdrive got disabled for them. It was somewhat of a driver fault because during the time they got burned fan control was disabled in the driver. One of my friends extended the life of the card with 100 percent fan speed using msi afterburner after the other 2 cards got burned. Eventually all 3 cards succumbed to the heat issue. They are now just expensive paperweights. They were good cards. What a shame.
im using this card still. the card has been under heavy loads. Its honestly not a bad card, if you get a good one. It still allows me to play minecraft at 150 fps and fortnite at 30 on low. (Okay that sounds bad, but for a 10 yr old card, its not bad)
I had a Sapphire 4870x2 and it did not have this issue at all so perhaps it was just limited to this brand? However it was still hot as hell and acted as a spaceheaterx2. The biggest problem with these things is that only very rarely would you have both chips at load during a game. Eventually with more modern games you'd have one chip maxed and the other would rarely spike above 10-20%. After a few years nothing took advantage of this architecture or perhaps it was that AMD simply ceased supporting it, even legacy drivers would not help.
It looks like Asus (not sure about any others) actually made a model of the 4870x2 with a surprisingly modern-looking triple axial fan cooler design. I wonder if it holds up any better.
I'm on the hunt for this waifu card. I managed to find the 4850 waifu card which had art of her in landscape, now I need to find this card or a regular 4870 with the portrait art of her
I own a PowerColor 4870x2 in my retro PC and I probably have a thermal issue. The diagnostic led D5 (R323) goes to red after few minutes. It means GPU-1 isn't powered. Then after 15 minutes the video freeze and I can't go back to Windows after the reboot while it's hot. I opened the cooler system and cleaned it completely. I replaced the old thermal paste with a new one with a higer thermal quality. Fan is more quiet. But it doesn't fix. I updated the video card firmware with the latest one from the manufacturer, then now it displays glitches at the startup screen. To fix this new video glitches I have to rollback to a previous version firmware. I suspect a compatibilty issue with my motherboad's PCI-E. I never got similars problems with my previous motherboard, unfortunaty this one is dead. It cannot save BIOS setting whereas the lithium battery is new and fully charged. So to conclude, don't hesistate to load and try different firmware with your 4870x2 before trash it.
These were beastly old cards... So were the 3870x2s, which I remember watching Logan review on TigerDirect. Nearly bought me two of them... but then I spotted a HD 7950 for the same price as both cards... Quadfire would have been cool but I needed DX11 support more!!
I absolutely love the look of these cards. First real gaming card i ever bought was the 3870x2 and i still remember opening that box up for the first time and having those sexy eyes starring into my soul
I’ve got a ati Radeon hd4890 back at the parents home and was wondering if you think it could handle some of today’s games? I know it’s not broken it started up when I last visited my parents.
I had a brand new 3870x2 back in the day for a couple of hours , a short time after the 4xxx series launched . I bought it , installed it at home and right away the same artifacting started when I started a game so I returned it and bought a single gpu card from the new 4xxx series wich worked fine
Hey man I like your videos! I worked in a PC repair shop and got a PC with the same dual GPU card. The trick is to go to device manager within Windows and disable 1 of the 2 GPU’s which one it is you can’t really tell but you can get the card to a somewhat workable state!! If one of the GPU’s fails completely you can install a second GPU of the same generation and disable 1 of the 2 GPU’s that way. Hope you see this and hope this info at least helps you!
I had one years ago that had the exact same errors. I remember I was performing a ton of diagnostics on it, and somehow came to the conclusion that the ram had been damaged by the heat. The graphic issues, at least from what I read, were from bad/damaged memory. I cleaned and resat the heat sinks with all the appropriate thermal paste and precautions, and couldn't get rid of those artifacts. I did a ton of research at the time, and found a forum with graphical artifacts that were cataloged. I guess that's when I matched up the issue with the root problem. It was awesome till then....especially when it came to playing crysis and some other new games at the time.
That one isn't a TOP model is it? I'm just wondering as from what I can see it does not state it on the box like it did on the box of the one on the monitor at 4:05
I bought 2 of these today for 80$!!!! Paired to a q6600 core 2 quad @4ghz on an Asus rog board I paid 30$ for!! Out dated for today's standards..but for under 200$ build(including a 5$ vista install the shop had) I'm happy with it!
i just put mine for sale on ebay. 100% fully working.. but i have no idea what to charge for it because there is literally zero prices online that seemed normal.. there was ONE place i found that had it for almost 700$.. that cant be accurate. i put it for 350$ but allowed people to make offers. what do you think a good price for these are? i dont want to ask for too much (which i have a feeling 350 is) but i also dont want to rip myself off.
I have the normal ATI 4870 x2. its september 2018 and my card is still pulling strong. Its in my alienware from 2008. its actually in the computer that I am using right now.
I had a asus 9800gt and a 9600gt with the same sort of art but when I got my gigabyte gtx 275 super super over clock quite limited ive still got it in the box it was a beast just cant part with it 🙂
Hahaha I was just about to shoot you a message asking if you wanted to review my x79 MSI Big Bang XpowerII. Hope you are having fun with that one! Have you tried overclocking your Xeon? Is it the 1608/7 or something that is unlocked or something else?
I have a possible solution for those who own these cards that are still working: If you are handy with basic modification skills, you could add a heat wall that diagonally separates the two heatsinks from their shared airflow, thus creating 2 separate air channels from the intake, and allowing both to be cooled independently from the blower. This will also, incidentally, create a higher-pressure airflow for both sinks, which will be louder, but will produce a faster cooling-off rate of the fins. I actually came into possession of one such working model by Sapphire, and will attempt to make a simple modification that should help overcome the heating issue...that or I will end up fabricating a dual-chamber water-block for the damn thing and liquid cooling it like I do my twin R9 290X's.
My card doesn't have the crossfire tab when I disable catalyst AI and msi afterburner is only showing me usage for 1 gpu think my second gpu might be fried but not sure
Great video I had or actually still have one of these cards and I never had any issues with working in games that I played on it. My card did do the same thing as this card but was easy to fix. Right by the power connectors there are some power chips or shunts whatever they are called. Anyways one of the small chips blew and the card would heat up like crazy and then crash or make a mess on the screen. My fix was to replace the burnt chip and it worked again and ran at 68-78c like always. It worked for 7 months then did it again I just replaced the card at this point as it turns out my Tagan 700 watt PSU was the culprit because other little strange things started happening in the system. I took it apart and a dam spider got itself fried and I mean fried inside the psu and it wrecked one of the 6 power stages which I fixed by replacing the part but that psu was put in another system and I never had any farther issues with it...it actually still works today. I never did fix the ATI card a second time but it is on display at my store with the rest of my gaming cards I got over the years behind glass in a case. It's surprising how many people just stop and stre at the old glory cards from the past and ask questions about them...lol
ATI/amd learned after the 5990, the 6990 had a blower in the middle. The 7990 had a triple fan setup. The 295 had water cooling. Then they forgot everything again with the radeon pro duo and remembered again for the consumer market.
My ancient laptop has crossfirex 3870's so that will be interesting. It's even got the q9300 extreme, 8gb of ram and an SSD. May have to clean it up and see what it can still do. Without melting it.
And here we are in 2018 where a Radeon Vega M which is a tiny graphics chip designed for thin ultrabooks completely destroys this behemoth of a graphics card. Our progression in technology is amazing.
I had two 4870x2 cards for four-way Crossfire. Contrary to popular opinion at the time, scaling was very good in nearly all games, including Crysis. The only real bottleneck was the 1GB of graphics memory, which prevented me from using 4xAA at 2560x1600 in Crysis. The GTX 295, incidentally, was no more than 10-15% faster in some situations. I ran those cards for quite a while, and never had any failures, and still have both in working condition. I only upgraded (to an absurdly expensive 5970 4GB card) due to the memory limitations, which I was increasingly running into with my larger-than-normal playing resolution.
The top end was 4890 and I had 2 of them which I threw away when I moved, one didn't post so couldn't be bothered. I regret it now though. sweet old nostalgic crossfire setup..
Hey dude, I recently bought the same card, I have taken it apart, cleaned it and added new thermal paste and thermal pads, works perfectly. If you like I could run some benchmarks on it for you and give you the results?
I got a 4870 (not the X2) at launch it was a great card lasted me until I replaced it with a GTX 980 :) The main reason it lasted it so long was I use a 720P (actually higher but some odd res like 760P or some crazy crap) so not using it to push 1080P lol Edit: I still have my 4870 and it still works great, I am keeping it for a planned XP retro system :P lol
I just took mine out of my computer today. Runs Flawlessly after all these years running round the clock. Took it out to give the computer to my wife and wanted a cooler running card.
I have a XFX and a Sapphire 4870. XFX overclocked the RAM too aggressively and caused artifacting. I was able to verify this with overclock settings in CCC then afterwards I flashed it with a BIOS mod. You should have tried to downclock the RAM.
Hey Timmy Joe, big fan. Just came across your channel which u actually inspire now that im back doing youtube again where im gonna do a bunch of "Re-Visit" Vlogs on older Tech to New. Anyways, I have a BRAND NEW 3870x2 , (Used) SAPPHIRE 4870x2 & THE BEAST (Basically New) ATI 5970x2 (dx11+gddr5) DUAL GPU'S, Unfortunately i dont have the 6990, but i got the next best thing which is the (2X) XFX Radeon HD 6970 XXX 900M Editions in crossfire to somewhat replicate the 6990.....as well as many others. So, if u need me 2 "Loan" you a review sample id be happy too. Take it easy & keep up the awesome work!
Timmy I’ve got two fully working 4870X2 identical to that one. You are welcome to borrow them if you want to attempt some crazy old school crossfire fun. Or frustration. Take your pick
I have one of these that is still functioning decent... Looking to upgrade some time soonish. I'd be interested in sending it off to you once I do if you are still interested!
I still have this card as a museum part. I was one of the lucky where it didn't artifact.. However i put a 3th party cooler on it. Ran and still runs games however directX10.1 doesnt do well on new one's.
these cards are beast ever, in my third gaming rig under dx10 im using two 4850x2 by Sapphire to run assetto in fhd maxed out @ stable 120 fps in quadfire ... the biggest problem is the high nuclear power consumption...
Hey Timmy Joe, if you have a single 4870 then try 3 way crossfire, just make the single 4870 the display card, see if that works. You can also 3 way crossfire a 4870x2 with a 4850 or 4890.
I've been running a Diamond Radeon 4870x2 in this Machine since 2008 and Have had really only one issue, that was of overheating in 2014 which I removed the cooler and re-thermal pasted it and it was working very well after this... I am as of 2020 Retiring this PC and all of its parts. The P5Q Pro Mobo The Core Two Duo E8400 The Radeon 4870x2 The TWO, FOUR GIGABYTE STICKS OF DDR2 (That people in 2008 called me crazy for using) and the Antech 1200 with 3 fans replaced and 1 currently dead. I will be saving the 2x 1gb Caviar Black drives and moving them into the newer machine we built my wife a few years back. to give that machine a total of 4TB of space. This 4870x2 has been running pretty much constantly since 2008 driving at first TWO Samsung T220 16x10 Monitors and then when those died it's been drving 2 Benq 24" 16x9 Monitors (in all cases by DVI) RIP Dimitri,
i remember my first video card was a 4850x2 makes me sad to know how rare they are and that i dont have it anymore, havent seen any listings for one anywhere
I had one myself, and it actually cooked itself you are right. It also cooked my motherboard, leaving the red PC totally black all around the PCI slot. Card died much earlier than that board though... Double GPU cards.. Never again.
Lol got that mode with the exact picture on it, artifacts like crazy so it's a show case piece on my shelve as i haven't had the motivation or interest to try the oven trick on it
Lovely card. I have the XFX one. Also benchmarked and yeah. Lovely beast. Also have the GTX 590 And wow, nice that you showed Maxishine. Really an underrated tech guy. To bad he dont make any more videos though :/
This might be a wierd request, but have you tried baking each core on the graphics card "individually", using foil as a protective barrier?, just to say though, you'll need to verify its a gpu flaw and not a memory/vrm one. but all-in-all I'd say its worth a go, just don't touch the memory with the foil 'at-any-time' very important. You'll do well if the baking is done in a 100% accurate fashion on the graphics chip.
I like the story on the chief @ "halo-combat-evolved" and as much as I have played it, I have realised I could use a directx 10 capable card to re-live those moments in real-time.
Oven method is not a 100% myth lol i have baked a few Nvidia cards a couple GTX 480's and a ATI 4850x2 they worked until i moved houses and some magical way a few boxes went missing.
That F2F Tech guy is a real piece of work. Rather watch Logan Paul...
smh logang for life who the hell does this f2f guy think he is smh my head
lol
f2f could you do a 290x video. I have one that doesnt post maybe you culd try to fix on your channel and keep?
Tom Hyer I’d love to. Send me an email. It’s found in the about section of my channel. Thanks!
i emailed ya. title is 290x maybe
Fun fact: Back in 2008/9 Maxishine and Trubritar were the only two enthusiast level channels I remember. Good ol youtube days eh. Linus was just starting back then with the unboxing videos.
lakicar1989 gde je nestao Ivan Stam....maxishine ?
lakicar1989 and 3dgameman
Stara dobra vremena.. :)
I miss the maxishine forum
Nikola Karovic 3dgameman bio dosadan u pm. Smarac klasicni.
This dude is so over the top... please never change
In my experience with the card, the normal fan curve is pretty damn bad, after changing a few settings in the bios, it actually runs pretty cool (for a card of this caliber), I think what happens with these cards (including yours and my 5970 and an old 4870) is that the memory overheats and dies, causing the artefacts that get progressively worse as it gets hotter.
The blower was effective if the fan actually broke 23% The reference 4870 I had would cook before speeding up the fan. Modded the BIOS to run at 35% at its slowest speed and the GPU stayed cool, only hit 50% occasionally, when under load. I quit giving it an opportunity to get overheated early on and that kept it from ever overheating.
This is my ex, she died a noble death in 2011(((
I had this exact model! The most beautiful card I ever had the pleasure to install in a rig! Simply gorgeous!
Cost me €480 new back in 2008. Xfire'd the thing with a third hd4870 gpu... back in the days when one could get a new top-tier AMD GPU for €200-250.
Sold the set in 2010 to get the HD5970.
God 10 years already? I remember buying 2 4870’s and then this thing comes out and I drooled over it. Feeling old now
I need that card in my life...just as a decoration. God I miss the waifu graphics on gpus >
Is that true, I had no idea, is this in real-life as well?
MrMilkyCoco yeah I was looking at picking up an older sapphire card because of that exact thing
Yeah I hade this exact one
MrMilkyCoco I have an EVGA version with a different chick on it
I used to have a 4870 x2. I got it off eBay for under $100 back in 2011. The GPU would run hot when idle, then it was like a flamethrower when I would run a game.
My computer became the most expensive heater in the house. Good times.
Used the AMD Radeon 4870 X2 on one of my desktops for 11+ years, on average running for 12+ hours every day. Still works like a charm (mechanically), never had any trouble with it, even the dual fans still operate as well as they did on the day that I bought it. Under max load it hits 70C, maybe clean yours out ;) I do agree that it is the most beautifully designed GPU I ever bought
2GB card in 2008 is like quadro m6000 24gb these days :D
DiReCtiooNz- Home of TDM Gameplays ! Its 1 gb
DiReCtiooNz- Home of TDM Gameplays ! Vram does not add up
czekaj czekaj, to wytlumacz mi. Jest to crossfire w jednej karcie ( a przy konfigu SLI/Cross VRAM się nie dodaję ) to jaki jest sens robienia czegoś takiego i pisanie że jest to karta 2 GB? Czytalem o tej karcie i wszędzie piszę że jest to 2GB wersja.
DiReCtiooNz- Home of TDM Gameplays ! Żeby wyglądało ładne i żeby ktoś nieświadomie kupił mogą tak napisać bo to prawda karta ma 2gb wiec w teorii nie kłamią ale to że może użyć tylko 1 to już inna sprawa
O gtx690 też pisali że 4gb mimo że mogła użyć 2gb
590 is a monster. I was using that thing for 5 years before it finally started to feel its age and it had more to do with the amount of vram not cutting it vs. The raw power not being enough for 1080p. I bet it can still run modern games pretty decently with textures turned down.
Radeon HD 5970, I wanted that card so bad along with the picture of those twin girls. loved when GPUs had pinup 3d girls
Good old days
@@vankedisitv5413 I never thought the good days would end....
@@tHeWasTeDYouTh we are glad we have seen them. The 3d women fighters on the gpu boxes :) I had the ati hd4650 something like that. It was an AGP card. Could play cod4 and it was enough for me. Bought it for like 100 usd that time.
The fact that you spent time trying to resurrect it and showed how it's a card that was known to regularly die is actually more interesting than a review of an old functioning card.
I'm quite new to your channel but I like your content.
I always dreamed of this beauty, any time i see a pic of her i feel so oh my good wish i had her... Nice vid, keep it up!
The design on this card is still beautiful!
Reference is one of the best looking ref. ATI card I seen.
Nvidia needs to put half naked women on their new cards. I'll buy 2.
(Roughly a year after Patrick PTMonk posted this comment, Yeston released an AMD card with a waifu on it and everyone lost their minds)
Awww the memories, when I got this card it was like a dream come true
Thay all have the same problem. Me and two of my friends had one each and they got all fried like this when amd overdrive got disabled for them. It was somewhat of a driver fault because during the time they got burned fan control was disabled in the driver. One of my friends extended the life of the card with 100 percent fan speed using msi afterburner after the other 2 cards got burned. Eventually all 3 cards succumbed to the heat issue. They are now just expensive paperweights. They were good cards. What a shame.
im using this card still. the card has been under heavy loads. Its honestly not a bad card, if you get a good one. It still allows me to play minecraft at 150 fps and fortnite at 30 on low. (Okay that sounds bad, but for a 10 yr old card, its not bad)
I had a Sapphire 4870x2 and it did not have this issue at all so perhaps it was just limited to this brand? However it was still hot as hell and acted as a spaceheaterx2. The biggest problem with these things is that only very rarely would you have both chips at load during a game. Eventually with more modern games you'd have one chip maxed and the other would rarely spike above 10-20%. After a few years nothing took advantage of this architecture or perhaps it was that AMD simply ceased supporting it, even legacy drivers would not help.
It looks like Asus (not sure about any others) actually made a model of the 4870x2 with a surprisingly modern-looking triple axial fan cooler design. I wonder if it holds up any better.
I've got my old 3870x2 sapphire wife edition on my desk.
I'm on the hunt for this waifu card. I managed to find the 4850 waifu card which had art of her in landscape, now I need to find this card or a regular 4870 with the portrait art of her
man I am also looking her for a mod to my graphic backplate :( you found artist? or name?
I own a PowerColor 4870x2 in my retro PC and I probably have a thermal issue. The diagnostic led D5 (R323) goes to red after few minutes. It means GPU-1 isn't powered. Then after 15 minutes the video freeze and I can't go back to Windows after the reboot while it's hot. I opened the cooler system and cleaned it completely. I replaced the old thermal paste with a new one with a higer thermal quality. Fan is more quiet. But it doesn't fix. I updated the video card firmware with the latest one from the manufacturer, then now it displays glitches at the startup screen. To fix this new video glitches I have to rollback to a previous version firmware. I suspect a compatibilty issue with my motherboad's PCI-E. I never got similars problems with my previous motherboard, unfortunaty this one is dead. It cannot save BIOS setting whereas the lithium battery is new and fully charged. So to conclude, don't hesistate to load and try different firmware with your 4870x2 before trash it.
Love that time when he just shows footage of how he tweaks things with some chill music
Hmm maybe they shouldn't have put such a HOT chick on card.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhh snap
*zooms in on girl* "its so hot you can't even touch it"
*rimshot* your welcome
Duffimus Prime hahaha
I still use this card in 2019. Been using it ever since 2009. Mine is the MSI version of it.
These were beastly old cards... So were the 3870x2s, which I remember watching Logan review on TigerDirect. Nearly bought me two of them... but then I spotted a HD 7950 for the same price as both cards... Quadfire would have been cool but I needed DX11 support more!!
I happen to own a Gtx 295, the dual pcb version; very hot running it idles at roughly 58-60c and that’s apparently normal
as always; great content!
LOVE the OLDSCHOOL computer stuff! nobody does it better
My first full on build was a Phenom II 965BE and 2 HD 4850 cards in XF. The 4000 series holds a special place in my heart.
yup. had a 4870, got fried. my friend had a 4890, got fried even faster
I absolutely love the look of these cards. First real gaming card i ever bought was the 3870x2 and i still remember opening that box up for the first time and having those sexy eyes starring into my soul
I’ve got a ati Radeon hd4890 back at the parents home and was wondering if you think it could handle some of today’s games? I know it’s not broken it started up when I last visited my parents.
I had two HD 4850s in Crossfire and that experience cured me of ever wanting to Crossfire 2 Graphics cards ever again :(
I love seeing old gpu and cpu’s reviewed, I keep all my old part even though I should sell them to make some money back.
I've just dug this one out the cupboard and mine still works fine.
I had a brand new 3870x2 back in the day for a couple of hours , a short time after the 4xxx series launched . I bought it , installed it at home and right away the same artifacting started when I started a game so I returned it and bought a single gpu card from the new 4xxx series wich worked fine
Hey man I like your videos! I worked in a PC repair shop and got a PC with the same dual GPU card. The trick is to go to device manager within Windows and disable 1 of the 2 GPU’s which one it is you can’t really tell but you can get the card to a somewhat workable state!! If one of the GPU’s fails completely you can install a second GPU of the same generation and disable 1 of the 2 GPU’s that way. Hope you see this and hope this info at least helps you!
I had one years ago that had the exact same errors. I remember I was performing a ton of diagnostics on it, and somehow came to the conclusion that the ram had been damaged by the heat. The graphic issues, at least from what I read, were from bad/damaged memory. I cleaned and resat the heat sinks with all the appropriate thermal paste and precautions, and couldn't get rid of those artifacts. I did a ton of research at the time, and found a forum with graphical artifacts that were cataloged. I guess that's when I matched up the issue with the root problem. It was awesome till then....especially when it came to playing crysis and some other new games at the time.
Hey quick question, what CPU are you running in that x79 system?
Is it the mythical e5 1680v2?
I have 2 hd5870 and when I try to cross fire them the bottom cards fan ramps up and doesn't detect and they both work
Thats probably the vram over heating
That one isn't a TOP model is it? I'm just wondering as from what I can see it does not state it on the box like it did on the box of the one on the monitor at 4:05
Long shot here, but what if you were to apply liquid cooling to it? If it's even possible?
I bought 2 of these today for 80$!!!! Paired to a q6600 core 2 quad @4ghz on an Asus rog board I paid 30$ for!! Out dated for today's standards..but for under 200$ build(including a 5$ vista install the shop had) I'm happy with it!
i just put mine for sale on ebay. 100% fully working.. but i have no idea what to charge for it because there is literally zero prices online that seemed normal.. there was ONE place i found that had it for almost 700$.. that cant be accurate. i put it for 350$ but allowed people to make offers. what do you think a good price for these are? i dont want to ask for too much (which i have a feeling 350 is) but i also dont want to rip myself off.
I have the normal ATI 4870 x2. its september 2018 and my card is still pulling strong. Its in my alienware from 2008. its actually in the computer that I am using right now.
I had a asus 9800gt and a 9600gt with the same sort of art but when I got my gigabyte gtx 275 super super over clock quite limited ive still got it in the box it was a beast just cant part with it 🙂
Hahaha I was just about to shoot you a message asking if you wanted to review my x79 MSI Big Bang XpowerII. Hope you are having fun with that one! Have you tried overclocking your Xeon? Is it the 1608/7 or something that is unlocked or something else?
I have a possible solution for those who own these cards that are still working:
If you are handy with basic modification skills, you could add a heat wall that diagonally separates the two heatsinks from their shared airflow, thus creating 2 separate air channels from the intake, and allowing both to be cooled independently from the blower. This will also, incidentally, create a higher-pressure airflow for both sinks, which will be louder, but will produce a faster cooling-off rate of the fins.
I actually came into possession of one such working model by Sapphire, and will attempt to make a simple modification that should help overcome the heating issue...that or I will end up fabricating a dual-chamber water-block for the damn thing and liquid cooling it like I do my twin R9 290X's.
My card doesn't have the crossfire tab when I disable catalyst AI and msi afterburner is only showing me usage for 1 gpu think my second gpu might be fried but not sure
I have a 4850x2 that I paid 20 bucks for. In it’s heyday It actually beat the HD 4870 X2 in high resolutions. What drivers are you using?
Great video I had or actually still have one of these cards and I never had any issues with working in games that I played on it. My card did do the same thing as this card but was easy to fix. Right by the power connectors there are some power chips or shunts whatever they are called. Anyways one of the small chips blew and the card would heat up like crazy and then crash or make a mess on the screen. My fix was to replace the burnt chip and it worked again and ran at 68-78c like always. It worked for 7 months then did it again I just replaced the card at this point as it turns out my Tagan 700 watt PSU was the culprit because other little strange things started happening in the system.
I took it apart and a dam spider got itself fried and I mean fried inside the psu and it wrecked one of the 6 power stages which I fixed by replacing the part but that psu was put in another system and I never had any farther issues with it...it actually still works today. I never did fix the ATI card a second time but it is on display at my store with the rest of my gaming cards I got over the years behind glass in a case. It's surprising how many people just stop and stre at the old glory cards from the past and ask questions about them...lol
ATI/amd learned after the 5990, the 6990 had a blower in the middle. The 7990 had a triple fan setup. The 295 had water cooling. Then they forgot everything again with the radeon pro duo and remembered again for the consumer market.
My ancient laptop has crossfirex 3870's so that will be interesting. It's even got the q9300 extreme, 8gb of ram and an SSD. May have to clean it up and see what it can still do. Without melting it.
And here we are in 2018 where a Radeon Vega M which is a tiny graphics chip designed for thin ultrabooks completely destroys this behemoth of a graphics card. Our progression in technology is amazing.
I had two 4870x2 cards for four-way Crossfire. Contrary to popular opinion at the time, scaling was very good in nearly all games, including Crysis. The only real bottleneck was the 1GB of graphics memory, which prevented me from using 4xAA at 2560x1600 in Crysis.
The GTX 295, incidentally, was no more than 10-15% faster in some situations.
I ran those cards for quite a while, and never had any failures, and still have both in working condition. I only upgraded (to an absurdly expensive 5970 4GB card) due to the memory limitations, which I was increasingly running into with my larger-than-normal playing resolution.
Bro I need that card, is the card still being sold around the net?
The top end was 4890 and I had 2 of them which I threw away when I moved, one didn't post so couldn't be bothered. I regret it now though. sweet old nostalgic crossfire setup..
Hey dude, I recently bought the same card, I have taken it apart, cleaned it and added new thermal paste and thermal pads, works perfectly. If you like I could run some benchmarks on it for you and give you the results?
i wish graphics card companies would bring back this old school style
Ohhhh man Maxishine is a blast from the past. Wish he still made videos :( his forum was the best back in the day
I got a 4870 (not the X2) at launch it was a great card lasted me until I replaced it with a GTX 980 :) The main reason it lasted it so long was I use a 720P (actually higher but some odd res like 760P or some crazy crap) so not using it to push 1080P lol
Edit: I still have my 4870 and it still works great, I am keeping it for a planned XP retro system :P lol
IMO meaningful results were obtained by the firework display you've captured on video. Incredible it was doing anything.
That 4870 x2 looks like it's artifacting at a very impressive frame rate. Two thumbs up.
I just took mine out of my computer today. Runs Flawlessly after all these years running round the clock. Took it out to give the computer to my wife and wanted a cooler running card.
I have a XFX and a Sapphire 4870. XFX overclocked the RAM too aggressively and caused artifacting. I was able to verify this with overclock settings in CCC then afterwards I flashed it with a BIOS mod. You should have tried to downclock the RAM.
Can't wait for the quad SLI vid. Don't worry about the end result of what you did, I'd watch your vids even of you get defeated.
Hey Timmy Joe, big fan. Just came across your channel which u actually inspire now that im back doing youtube again where im gonna do a bunch of "Re-Visit" Vlogs on older Tech to New. Anyways, I have a BRAND NEW 3870x2 , (Used) SAPPHIRE 4870x2 & THE BEAST (Basically New) ATI 5970x2 (dx11+gddr5) DUAL GPU'S, Unfortunately i dont have the 6990, but i got the next best thing which is the (2X) XFX Radeon HD 6970 XXX 900M Editions in crossfire to somewhat replicate the 6990.....as well as many others. So, if u need me 2 "Loan" you a review sample id be happy too. Take it easy & keep up the awesome work!
Could you review the bfg 7950 oc 512mb and compare it to sli-ing with the same card? I'm getting one and would love to someone's take on it
I wish I had that 4870x2 on my wall.... Where can I get one?
Timmy I’ve got two fully working 4870X2 identical to that one. You are welcome to borrow them if you want to attempt some crazy old school crossfire fun. Or frustration. Take your pick
email me :0
I have one of these that is still functioning decent... Looking to upgrade some time soonish. I'd be interested in sending it off to you once I do if you are still interested!
Timmy Joe, the name of that cooler? I want a YELLOW fanned beast AM3 cooler....
This card is for a time a high end video card was something really special and the art on it helps that
I built a system with this bad boy in it in 2008. Great card!
i had a 4870x2 when they were new(ish), sounded like a turbo spooling under load
I still have this card as a museum part. I was one of the lucky where it didn't artifact.. However i put a 3th party cooler on it. Ran and still runs games however directX10.1 doesnt do well on new one's.
these cards are beast ever, in my third gaming rig under dx10 im using two 4850x2 by Sapphire to run assetto in fhd maxed out @ stable 120 fps in quadfire ... the biggest problem is the high nuclear power consumption...
Hey Timmy Joe, if you have a single 4870 then try 3 way crossfire, just make the single 4870 the display card, see if that works. You can also 3 way crossfire a 4870x2 with a 4850 or 4890.
i had a hd4870 back in the day, it was a beast
Reballing should fix if it's CPU. Try reflow oven method if ya really wanna give it another go
I've been running a Diamond Radeon 4870x2 in this Machine since 2008 and Have had really only one issue, that was of overheating in 2014 which I removed the cooler and re-thermal pasted it and it was working very well after this... I am as of 2020 Retiring this PC and all of its parts.
The P5Q Pro Mobo
The Core Two Duo E8400
The Radeon 4870x2
The TWO, FOUR GIGABYTE STICKS OF DDR2 (That people in 2008 called me crazy for using)
and the Antech 1200 with 3 fans replaced and 1 currently dead.
I will be saving the 2x 1gb Caviar Black drives and moving them into the newer machine we built my wife a few years back. to give that machine a total of 4TB of space.
This 4870x2 has been running pretty much constantly since 2008 driving at first TWO Samsung T220 16x10 Monitors and then when those died it's been drving 2 Benq 24" 16x9 Monitors (in all cases by DVI)
RIP Dimitri,
This Card was a Skillet.
i remember my first video card was a 4850x2
makes me sad to know how rare they are and that i dont have it anymore, havent seen any listings for one anywhere
What is the most powerful and last released card with a beautiful picture on the card?
I loved my 4850 until I tried to pencil mod it and fried it. Replaced it with a 4890. Awesome cards.
i had a hd 4890 back in the day, absolute beast of a card
ran one of those into 2016 the thing could run gta5 drew so much power it was insane, often overdrew my 1000watt powersupply with my i7 965x
I'd love to have a shirt like that haha :) and about the 4870 you can use it as a fancy coaster ;)
I had one myself, and it actually cooked itself you are right. It also cooked my motherboard, leaving the red PC totally black all around the PCI slot. Card died much earlier than that board though... Double GPU cards.. Never again.
Lol got that mode with the exact picture on it, artifacts like crazy so it's a show case piece on my shelve as i haven't had the motivation or interest to try the oven trick on it
Lovely card. I have the XFX one. Also benchmarked and yeah. Lovely beast. Also have the GTX 590
And wow, nice that you showed Maxishine. Really an underrated tech guy. To bad he dont make any more videos though :/
launched in 2008, had ddr5, why are we still stuck on ddr4 motherboards 10 years later?
i bought a dell xps 730 back in the day with TWO of these in crossfire, i still have them stored, i should send him them xD
This might be a wierd request, but have you tried baking each core on the graphics card "individually", using foil as a protective barrier?, just to say though, you'll need to verify its a gpu flaw and not a memory/vrm one. but all-in-all I'd say its worth a go, just don't touch the memory with the foil 'at-any-time' very important. You'll do well if the baking is done in a 100% accurate
fashion on the graphics chip.
I like the story on the chief @ "halo-combat-evolved" and as much as I have played it, I have realised I could use a directx 10 capable card to re-live those moments in real-time.
i still have this card. i still love it
keep it up. id watch u do your laundry. your entertaining enough
notification squad!!!! congrats on another successful video my friend! should see what you can do with a quad CPU computer xD
Oven method is not a 100% myth lol i have baked a few Nvidia cards a couple GTX 480's and a ATI 4850x2 they worked until i moved houses and some magical way a few boxes went missing.
Man, that would deserve a vertical mount, tilted 90 degrees.