ram size only matters for texture resolution and actual resolution like 1920x1080, thats why you see videos like "is 2GB of Vram enough on a GTX 680" and thats because you have 1 card that can only push so many pixles so having a bigger frame butter doesnt matter. if you did SLI or Crossfire then naturally you can run at a higher resolution with higher textures etc, so in the case you want more memory.
Hitting 74fps on a card from 2006 on CoD 3, and GTAV 30 fps, Tomb Raider with up to 60fps great video that card was pretty much future proof all the way to 2021 👏👍✌
Holy s#!t, you and your channel are a gold mine! The hardware you find is simply amazing. Worthy of a museum. I dig every video. (somehow the audio is still a little off with this one, but could still be in YT processing though)
Wow it does better than I expected! Great video! Incidentally, back in the day there was a fan community based around these Sapphire cards. I tried joining but had to leave as it was toxic.
Great video man, pure pleasure to watch. I am still hunting for DDR4 unit of X1950 which became rarity over the years. Didn't even know that water cooled edition existed :)
Sweet, you found one! fyi that green corrosion is caused by the gpu block being aluminum mixed with the copper radiator. if you have the ability to open up the gpu block. Id recommend doing it to see the extent of the damage inside.
Considering how early this thing was in the water cooling space, I'd be shocked if the water block had internal fins fine enough to retain any galvanic buildup. He probably managed to get everything that was there the first time around.
I watch quite a lot of similar videos from several channels but this one I enjoyed so much more. It was great to see you replacing the old water and seeing the gunk getting flushed out and everything. It was exciting and I was rooting for you to bring the card back to full speed. Thank you for this video!
TALK ABOUT NOSTALGIA , i am this freaking OOOOOLD , looking at my XFX MERC 319 BLACK RX 6900XT today and remembering my RAADEON X1950 XTX Jeeez, Love the music at the end.
god i wish had some of the older Toxic's lol. such a sick find. i've watched this video through atleast 3-5 times now throughout the past couple years lol. just want to say thanks for the work you put into your videos, and love what you do.
Oh what a fantastic find! Any X1950 card i dreamed about having back when i had my FX5200. In fact i have just found one on ebay, an ASUS blower variant, and with a service it sprung to life and drivers installed, i can't wait to soon upgrade my first computer once i get a PCI-e motherboard, i'll definitely keep my eye out for one of these!
Man this is amazing! besides that GPU being one of the coolest things I ever seen. You gave it some respect by cleaning it and giving it green back! Top notch stuff!
So cool to see this in action man! I imported a brand new Gigabyte X1900XTX from USA to South Africa when they just released and it was a monster. This, coupled with the old school water cooling brings back awesome memories from many years back. Love the content, keep up the hard word!
G'day Fully Buffered, WOW! While the video is 3yrs old now so AWESOME to see the Sapphire get some love & a new life, Sapphire's Toxic & Vapor-X + HIS ICEQ GPUs had really "COOL" performing & looking designs. As this one is such a Special GPU just wondering if you still have it & if it gets a chance to have some fun gaming every now & then ??? I get so much more joy out of giving my old GPUs a chance to game on my Q9650 XP Testbench even at low fps in Super Fun Retro Games than seeing HUGE FPS on a STOOOOOPIDLY overpriced new GPU.
The golden age of GPU's. When ATi and nVidia actually competed with each other. I was for sure team red back in these days. 9600xt and than moved onto a x1650 pro. Finally went team green in the late 00's with a 9600gt though.
I just got into the PC hardware world from 2019 and digging right into the LGA775 platform and era, I always excited to find out about hardware things and how the world be like using and expecting it back in the past... Red, yellow, brown and even pink and purple colored motherboards, small coolers, big and clumsy tower PC cases... Really interesting!
You earned a sub from me today. The UA-cam algorithm doing good by me again! This was a great video. Really dug the minimalistic style and background music as well as the style of content presentation. It's nice to see what hard ware is like when it wasn't around in my time. Few small critiques though: 1. Gotta work on trying to fix that lav mic interference. It's really distracting from the videos experience 2. I wish there were more thermals to show the differences between the cards performance on screen after the refill of liquid and thermal paste application.
As exotic piece of history this thing is perfect, but in practice with such a small radiator and still 3 slots occupied I guess it would have been much better just use an oversized air cooler with a big FAN. What were the temperatures under load? Anyway you did a fantastic job, very enjoyable video, keep it up! 😎
4:00 omg, that looks like my first watercooling rig. I even had a VERY similar koolance cpu block. I actually still have mounted to my wall with a few other older pc parts. Also it's interesting sapphire marketed this as the fasted card on the market, when I'm fairly certain the 7950gx2 was the fastest card at the time. I actually had 2 of them for quad sli, man I miss the days of affordable high end gpus.
With much of the old card benchmarks basically lost or hard to find, I would love to see cards like these get a bench testing suite that makes sense for its time, with some overlap from newer cards that over took it that are included in newer benchmarking suites.
Go get coffee machine cleaner fluid dilute it by 1 part distlled water and run that through the card for 8 hours draining after the liquid turns a shade of blue (once you see it start turning blue set a timer for 2 hours, once the timer is up drain and refill with more diluted coffee cleaner for the remainder of the 8 hours)
I really wanted this card in 2006, the x1950 range was regarded as the one everyone wanted and the best. I laugh now as I have a 3070 bought at £469, i'm not sure the x1950 would be near that even adjusted for inflation!
Based on experience it still seems like that card was on its last legs. What you did breathed fresh life into it, but the ATI chips just can’t really recover from all that compounded heat
Looking at the card artifacting reminded me of my old X1950 Pro. Same exact symptoms, unstable both in games and in desktop, glitchy, and the clocks wouldn't go up. Must have been a common issue on these. Great find! Since the PCBs are so similar I wonder if it could be repaired by replacing the card with a working reference X1950 XTX and flashing the BIOS from the Toxic version.
Cool to see another fan of 1950 series!!! I had the AGP version for a VERY long time, with a custom turbine cooler,then,for a short time,a GT one,then XTX for pci-ex. Now,I have a pristine 1950 XTX variant,in original box, with all the goodies!! And so,one question remains - what is the best driver for the red buties ??? 8))))
I had a XTX back in the day, it was a beast. I really miss that back and forth competition we used to have. Now its one company always holds the performance crown and the other is always a better value...meh
It's smart to use reference pcb for later cooler change. I hope EU made it enforced to have 1 design for all 3070/3080 and 3060 card for better cooler capability and reduced e waste. Someone buying a high end 3080 end getting custom water cooler they could easily sell the unused air cooler and someone with a bad cooler 3080 or 3070 could get that cooler.
Whaaaat, this was the sickest GPU when it released. These GPU's died fast though, not physically, I mean performance wise. Only supporting DX 9.0C was the main reason. I remember playing Gears of War on my X1900XTX, it was absolutely terrible. In fact, thats what made me buy a Core 2 Duo and an 8800GT.
Simply completely unexpected performance from a card with just 512 MB of VRAM. What an enjoyable and educational watch 👍
Thanks!
not really, there were 512mb version of the HD4870 and that absolutely destroys this card, like no contest.
ram size only matters for texture resolution and actual resolution like 1920x1080, thats why you see videos like "is 2GB of Vram enough on a GTX 680" and thats because you have 1 card that can only push so many pixles so having a bigger frame butter doesnt matter. if you did SLI or Crossfire then naturally you can run at a higher resolution with higher textures etc, so in the case you want more memory.
Hitting 74fps on a card from 2006 on CoD 3, and GTAV 30 fps, Tomb Raider with up to 60fps great video that card was pretty much future proof all the way to 2021 👏👍✌
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Holy s#!t, you and your channel are a gold mine! The hardware you find is simply amazing. Worthy of a museum. I dig every video. (somehow the audio is still a little off with this one, but could still be in YT processing though)
Thank you! :D
As a Retro computer enthusiast I fully concur with you. Brilliant content
Wow it does better than I expected! Great video! Incidentally, back in the day there was a fan community based around these Sapphire cards. I tried joining but had to leave as it was toxic.
Pff haha, many thanks man ;)
why were they toxic tho its a sapphire card fan community
Your videos are always extremely informative and you definitely find some real old school gems.
Thanks for the kind words :D
Yeah, we can see tests of hardware that was not common.
Great video man, pure pleasure to watch. I am still hunting for DDR4 unit of X1950 which became rarity over the years. Didn't even know that water cooled edition existed :)
Thanks and good luck with the hunt :)
Sweet, you found one! fyi that green corrosion is caused by the gpu block being aluminum mixed with the copper radiator. if you have the ability to open up the gpu block. Id recommend doing it to see the extent of the damage inside.
Oh that's a good point. Unfortunately the block is a sealed unit, but I tried my best to get all the goo flushed out of it.
Considering how early this thing was in the water cooling space, I'd be shocked if the water block had internal fins fine enough to retain any galvanic buildup. He probably managed to get everything that was there the first time around.
What a fun project! Thanks for sharing! Well done.
Thank you!
I watch quite a lot of similar videos from several channels but this one I enjoyed so much more. It was great to see you replacing the old water and seeing the gunk getting flushed out and everything. It was exciting and I was rooting for you to bring the card back to full speed. Thank you for this video!
Man you really find the most beautiful cards out there.
Thank you!
TALK ABOUT NOSTALGIA , i am this freaking OOOOOLD , looking at my XFX MERC 319 BLACK RX 6900XT today and remembering my RAADEON X1950 XTX Jeeez, Love the music at the end.
I still have x1950 Pro somewhere in my house. It was monster back then.
All this work for it t run games as good as my UHD620. You are a true mad lad.
This is the card I wanted, but I stuck with my 9800xt for a few more generations at the time. Good video to take me down the memory lane.
god i wish had some of the older Toxic's lol. such a sick find.
i've watched this video through atleast 3-5 times now throughout the past couple years lol.
just want to say thanks for the work you put into your videos, and love what you do.
Good work, did well overcoming those finicky problems and it's a properly cool piece of legendary retro hardware.
Thank you!
you really do deserve more than 13k subs. your videos are great
Thanks man!
that patina in the block was awesome , great video dude.
man i love those old cooler designs, really cool and not boring
Incredible!!
You channel is simply amazing, great videos about old hardware.
Great job! Im happy see this card in good health!
keep going bro
still with u
Thank you, I appreciate it!
Oh what a fantastic find! Any X1950 card i dreamed about having back when i had my FX5200. In fact i have just found one on ebay, an ASUS blower variant, and with a service it sprung to life and drivers installed, i can't wait to soon upgrade my first computer once i get a PCI-e motherboard, i'll definitely keep my eye out for one of these!
Thanks!
Majestic piece of hardware and a good video.
What a gem of a card!, and it still works ! Great video as always 👍
Thanks man! :D
Man this is amazing! besides that GPU being one of the coolest things I ever seen. You gave it some respect by cleaning it and giving it green back! Top notch stuff!
Sweet piece of history you have there. I had a 1900XT back in the day, and it was a blast.
that is an awesome peice of gaming and PC history. i remember drooling over one of those back in the day when i was in college.
I had a x1950GT with 512GDDR3 my final AGP card... And I loved it.
So cool to see this in action man! I imported a brand new Gigabyte X1900XTX from USA to South Africa when they just released and it was a monster. This, coupled with the old school water cooling brings back awesome memories from many years back. Love the content, keep up the hard word!
Such a damn good video. Well done my friend. I hope you find that bowling alley!
Thanks Mike! One of these days I will find it haha
Fantastic video!
Thanks you! :)
Insane Performance for the time it went out! Love this, nostalgia!
I cant help but think a full length heatsink and a couple of fans would have done the job quieter and more reliably.
G'day Fully Buffered,
WOW! While the video is 3yrs old now so AWESOME to see the Sapphire get some love & a new life, Sapphire's Toxic & Vapor-X + HIS ICEQ GPUs had really "COOL" performing & looking designs. As this one is such a Special GPU just wondering if you still have it & if it gets a chance to have some fun gaming every now & then ???
I get so much more joy out of giving my old GPUs a chance to game on my Q9650 XP Testbench even at low fps in Super Fun Retro Games than seeing HUGE FPS on a STOOOOOPIDLY overpriced new GPU.
Thank you for buying and restoring such an old, obscure GPU!
My pleasure!
Awesome restoration!
This is mazing, thakn you for bringing back this beast back to life. great video and I'm quite jealous now that I now this thing even exists lol
The golden age of GPU's. When ATi and nVidia actually competed with each other. I was for sure team red back in these days. 9600xt and than moved onto a x1650 pro. Finally went team green in the late 00's with a 9600gt though.
Boy, you make only a handful of vids a year, but your content is top-notch! 👌
Thank you! :D
Oh man what great video's i found here. Great work!
Thanks!
It’s funny to note that year AMD was also producing the first generation Xbox 360 console graphics chip on the same manufacturing node. 11:10
I just got into the PC hardware world from 2019 and digging right into the LGA775 platform and era, I always excited to find out about hardware things and how the world be like using and expecting it back in the past... Red, yellow, brown and even pink and purple colored motherboards, small coolers, big and clumsy tower PC cases... Really interesting!
The coolant is basic Ethylene glycol antifreeze (if you want to get replacement antifreeze pick EG with Low/no silicate content
4:44 this Cooper Heatsink vor the DDR4 is absolutly crazy.
Cool! :)
Good work!
Thanks!
You earned a sub from me today. The UA-cam algorithm doing good by me again! This was a great video. Really dug the minimalistic style and background music as well as the style of content presentation. It's nice to see what hard ware is like when it wasn't around in my time.
Few small critiques though:
1. Gotta work on trying to fix that lav mic interference. It's really distracting from the videos experience
2. I wish there were more thermals to show the differences between the cards performance on screen after the refill of liquid and thermal paste application.
As exotic piece of history this thing is perfect, but in practice with such a small radiator and still 3 slots occupied I guess it would have been much better just use an oversized air cooler with a big FAN. What were the temperatures under load?
Anyway you did a fantastic job, very enjoyable video, keep it up! 😎
Thanks! Peak temperature was around 73C at 695MHz
More detailed and longer gameplay footage would be highly appreciated, but thank you anyway for the great video!
love the look of old cards, I have an msi rx1050 128mb of vram. It looks good on display on my shelf lol
Heel gaaf kanaal Guido! Ik heb niet veel van je gezien maar ik vind je videos erg goed en interessant, ga zo door :)
Groetjes Frank
Yo Frank!! Leuk weer van je te horen! :D Erg bedankt voor je comment, ga ik zeker doen!
Compare this with the RX 6900 XT toxic... time be passing fast
Also when did radiators use slots and stuff, just to see how big radiators have come
6900 XT Toxic (EE) master race!
4:00
omg, that looks like my first watercooling rig. I even had a VERY similar koolance cpu block. I actually still have mounted to my wall with a few other older pc parts. Also it's interesting sapphire marketed this as the fasted card on the market, when I'm fairly certain the 7950gx2 was the fastest card at the time. I actually had 2 of them for quad sli, man I miss the days of affordable high end gpus.
Wow really nice card. Never seen one before.
Thanks Lawrence! I believe I recognize you from the LTT forums (Jumper118?) 😁
@@FullyBuffered yes
I now think I know where Alienware got their idea for their Aurora R11 watercooled GPUs. Very impressive for 2006!
I would have liked to see TEMPS before and after all the work.
cool card indeed !
Miss Club 3d - X1950XT. Unfortunately, the fan broke and overheated. I bought it in 2007 and used it until 2016. My God.
very nice video card
Great stuff man...
thank you very much!
With much of the old card benchmarks basically lost or hard to find, I would love to see cards like these get a bench testing suite that makes sense for its time, with some overlap from newer cards that over took it that are included in newer benchmarking suites.
Thats the cutest rad ive ever seen
Like EVGA with the 970/980 GTX Hybrid (2015) or the Radeon R9 390x Devil (also from 2015). Very rare Cards!
Go get coffee machine cleaner fluid dilute it by 1 part distlled water and run that through the card for 8 hours draining after the liquid turns a shade of blue (once you see it start turning blue set a timer for 2 hours, once the timer is up drain and refill with more diluted coffee cleaner for the remainder of the 8 hours)
Better yet, go get some car radiator cleaner.
gotta love the og ATi fun fact snapdragon gpus are in part from ati before amd bought them they sold it to qualcomm who also bought amd a year later
I still have my Sapphire X1950 PRO and the box, used until i bought the 280x.
very nice video, you did a very good job! :)
It was a dream card, I wish I could have played Guild Wars with such a gpu !
Love it! Retro hardware are the best!
I had x1950 xt 256 mb - a very hot one.
i have an x1900xtx gddr4 in my powermac g5 using a custom bios
I really wanted this card in 2006, the x1950 range was regarded as the one everyone wanted and the best. I laugh now as I have a 3070 bought at £469, i'm not sure the x1950 would be near that even adjusted for inflation!
Dang I didn't realize the Sapphire LC legacy went this far back with GPU's. . 😳
*Looks at 6950XT Sapphire Toxic LC Extreme Edition* . . .
Based on experience it still seems like that card was on its last legs. What you did breathed fresh life into it, but the ATI chips just can’t really recover from all that compounded heat
Very cool! I had some old high end cards😁 but i Collecting Nvidia Cards
Club3D pimpin!!!!
I had a Club 3d - X1950XT. Unfortunately, the fan broke and overheated. I bought it in 2007 and used it until 2016. My God.
Looking at the card artifacting reminded me of my old X1950 Pro. Same exact symptoms, unstable both in games and in desktop, glitchy, and the clocks wouldn't go up. Must have been a common issue on these.
Great find! Since the PCBs are so similar I wonder if it could be repaired by replacing the card with a working reference X1950 XTX and flashing the BIOS from the Toxic version.
Cool to see another fan of 1950 series!!!
I had the AGP version for a VERY long time, with a custom turbine cooler,then,for a short time,a GT one,then XTX for pci-ex.
Now,I have a pristine 1950 XTX variant,in original box, with all the goodies!!
And so,one question remains - what is the best driver for the red buties ???
8))))
this is far superior to modern AIOs because you can just plug this into a normal loop if you don't wanna use the el cheaper rad pump thingy
I had a XTX back in the day, it was a beast. I really miss that back and forth competition we used to have. Now its one company always holds the performance crown and the other is always a better value...meh
Nice keyboard.
verrry cool
My x1950 Pro was eventually replaced by an HD6670 DDR5. More capable and more efficient, but not as dramatic.
Nice
I saw there was a rare sapphire card that had 2x x1950 pro gpus on 1 PCB, if you manage to find that card and do a review that would be awesome!
It's smart to use reference pcb for later cooler change. I hope EU made it enforced to have 1 design for all 3070/3080 and 3060 card for better cooler capability and reduced e waste. Someone buying a high end 3080 end getting custom water cooler they could easily sell the unused air cooler and someone with a bad cooler 3080 or 3070 could get that cooler.
"Delicious." :D
mafia 2 performance was somewhat underwhelming but the GTA performance was trully impressive.
I have a 7900 GTX in my sock drawer.
my HD4870 would get stuck on "2d mode" for certain games. pain in the ass.
Just think in 10 to 15 years people will say how the heck did people game on the rtx 3090
i want to buy this card just to reuse the water cool heat sink XD
Whaaaat, this was the sickest GPU when it released.
These GPU's died fast though, not physically, I mean performance wise. Only supporting DX 9.0C was the main reason.
I remember playing Gears of War on my X1900XTX, it was absolutely terrible. In fact, thats what made me buy a Core 2 Duo and an 8800GT.
thank you so much for tNice tutorials video sir!
you got your timeframe bit wrong
10:48 Hallo Jumbo! Ben je Nederlands?
Bro. Do a bong hit with me
......R9 280x days
is it bedder than my 6700xL?