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Still daily a 9800gtx+ 😊

8800 GTX is my dream GPU back then (With Core 2 Extreme QX 6800), i was playing Crysis on my 8600 GT with Core 2 Duo E6300, it's laggy as F, and i only able to play Crysis with "stable framerate" at 28-35 Fps at 1024x768 resolution. today i have RTX 3090 Ti but i didn't have a time to play games 😅, that's why i didn't even upgrade towards RTX 4090 since my PC just collecting dust all the time.

It's also crazy how 600$ back in 2007 are now 900$ due to inflation. I only had one 8800GTX back in 2009-2010, but it broke on me after a few weeks. Managed to resurrect it by a techno-necromancy ritual of "oven baking" :)) I have not used it since around 2010, but something tells me it would still run if i plugged it in to a retro machine.

I have my AM2+ rig ready to go soon, it has had 2 Asus 8800GT Golds in SLi waiting as i repaired pins and binned a stack of Athlon II X2 chips and finally got one that crossed the 4Ghz mark, Athlon II X2 250, much more effecient than K8 64 X2 chips, i have 3 motherboards to bin northbridges and some more athlon II chips for DDR2 IMC stability vs AM3 DDR3 platform, cannot wait to see this setup sing! Was my dream setup back when i was still struggling on Sempron and FX5200. Still have sealed games that i haven't opened, ready to re-live gold games of the past. For the price of 1 new AAA title i built a whole PC with a games catalog built overtime, seems like the better way to spend my money :)

Hi, sorry if you told that..what OS did you used? Win 10?

Many 8800GTX cards suffered from bad solder connections causing many cards to fail over time. I saved mine two times by putting it in the oven to but it only fixed the problem for a short time. After that I upgraded to a GTX 570.

Too new for Win98se retro gaming builds... Too old for respectable WinXP retro builds...

Awesome cover on this legendary 8800 GTX 👍

I have 2 8800 Ultras that I am going to put into a retro XP build.

Introduction of GF 8800 was giant step for everyone. These brought insane performance gain for just one generation step up. Unfortunately their cooling design, albiet quite good in terms of radiator size, sufferes from awfully slow fan. It's not pushing enough air trough resulting in high temps. This is part of the reason why a lot of them are dead now.

Need revist of HD 5970 in 2024

Hi I actually have a pair of water blocks for 2 8800 GTX, not sure what to do with them, I'd like a replacement 680 sli NVIDIA motherboard as the one I have is faulty, was gonna do a water cooled tribute build but never seem to have the time, and I also have the 280 GTX which is newer.

GTA 4 was such a horrendous port on release (and basically still is) that it didn't really matter what GPU you had. You had a crap experience 🤣 🤣

Only idiots or people with to much money uses SLI.

I have one in my collection *.*

You should put hd630 next to them 🤣

Did not own a pair of 8800 GTX-es; I did get a single 8800 GTX though recently, and I plan to get it warmed up in STALKER, just to see how it handles it.

I know it doesn't fit the era of the cards, but I wonder how GTA IV would run with DXVK.

cool video. Neat seeing these GPUs of the past

the 8800 gtx in sli was so freaking great

Good video, My only note of concern is 1080p gaming was rare when the 8800gtx's were released. 22" lcd monitors with 1680x1050 resolutions were the monitors to have then, most people had around 720p lcd displays, some people still had crt's with higher resolutions.

The migraine man

Good video. Back in the day.. I had a tri-SLI 8800 gtx setup. I remember I had 14th on the 3D Mark leaderboard for about a week. 3 cards had way too much stutter for games so I went dual SLI and eventually used the 3rd card for PhysXs.

Another awesome video. I’ve been looking forward to more vids from you.

Can u test some throw-away pro hardware?

I was building and selling pcs back then, I personally had an 8800 ultra, but I got to test out the gtx while building pcs, and it really was a great card. Hell the whole 8800 line up was awesome back then.

Gainward GTX 260 (+) my first card but always wanted to have SLI setup... ;-)

I'm working on a "retro" WinXP gaming build and considering SLI 8800GTXs for it, along with CF HD4870s and SLI GTX 285s.

I do have 2 8800 GTS 640's and 2 8800 GTX's all matching. 1 of the GTX cards has an artifacting issue that needs to fixed before I can use it. Amd and Nvidia have both put out some excellent cards in the past and I have 2 AMD 8990's in CF without any issue so far besides being Space heaters. Back in the day when these rivals were hawking their goods they were Un-Affordable for me and even the 8990's were not cheap used. I have collected a number of various GF cards over the years and I still don't get tired of playing around with them. When I get some systems up and running I might start selling them as complete packages.

I always wanted to have one of those back in the day. Either that or the 9800GTX.

I OWNED ONE SOLD IT FOR A 5970 NO REAL DIFFERENCE.. GREAT CARD FOR ITS TIME

Frankly I wish AMD (and board partners) would release more ITX sized cards like the Fury that are not low end models. Heck even a ITX RX7600 would be better than nothing.

I don't understand doing CPU throwback by pushing GPU to limit and not the CPU. This way even Phenom CPUs are relevant nowadays

I still have a 3570k oc'd to 4.7ghz. It's d-lidded with liquid metal and likely the highest performing 3570k alive today. Funny thing is, its running 40c cooler as it is than stock. Good cpu, wish it had hyperthreading.

i've had FX 8300 with ASRock 970M Pro3 motherboard, it wasn't bad but i also had H81 motherboard for LGA1150, i bought cheap 30 dollar Xeon E3 1270V3 on AliExpress and it doestroyed AMD FX 8300

Bad single core perfromance Need for high end 990FX motherboard Need for 1600mhz and higher RAM speed it wasn't worth it even back in 2013-2016

9590 💩 5950 🗿

as someone who actually used an i7 965x, the official max memory size MAY state it supports up to 24GB, but realistically it supports up to 48GB. the specification sheet was written before larger 8GB DDR3 Sticks were available i had 48GB of DDR3 ram in my old 1st gen extreme system. unfortunately i had to ditch it in 2016 and use my 2nd desktop with an i7 3770k because games started requiring instruction sets that the 1st gen intel CPU didn't even support. kinda sucked, because any game that didn't require AVX ran so much better on my 965x than on the 3770k... and nowadays i am absolutely fucked because i'm still using that 3770k but games now start requiring AVX2.0 which the 3770k doesn't support lol i was hoping for Intel to introduce a brand new HEDT platform ever since the midlife of X299, so i held myself back from buying it because i was hoping that they finally go 7nm with an HEDT platform. looking back at it now, i probably was smart not to jump in on the 10980XE because it seems like the 12900k and the 13900KS dwarf it entirely with performance right now i'm hyped for the i9 Ultra 285KS, hopefully it will have much more PCIE lanes than the dogshit intel has been doing in the past 5 years - it seems every year they been removing more and more PCIE lanes just to increase their CPU performance or to add support for DDR5 or whatnot. i find it annoying that my computer from 2011 has more PCIE lanes available (and i used almost all of them) than a flagship CPU from 2024... this is ridiculous

8GB 2060 Super is worth looking for, they're all very similar to GTX 1660 Ti though. Slightly faster, RT isn't worth enabling on them really. DLSS support might be worth it though, have seen 2060 go for £100 or less though which is a good bargain.

I worked for Intel from 2005-2014, watching the tictok the whole time, getting new CPUs every year. My i5 3330 was used from 2012-2019 and likely is still being used somewhere, it was sold to fund my first Ryzen build. Although Ryzen has taken over my current household performance systems...AM4 is so upgradable..I still have a i5 2400 running daily in a office machine. I had a 3770k for a few years in there also and would use one again in a second. Those Sandy/Ivy bridge leaps were Intels last huge releases to me.

omg, a new nexus tech vid!!!, it has been a while, my first experience with rt was my current card the rx 6600... kinda disappointing... but still pretty to look at in 40 fps lol.

Hi there! Love your content!

Display driver working, but the hdmi audio driver not working

Picked up a whole system with a12 9800, 16gb ram and 500gb ssd for $21. Seemed like a good deal to me.

i don't really like "overclocked" charts. In my almost 30year experience using pc i have overclocked many CPUs, and my final conclusion is that you can do one of these things: 1) do a small overclock, almost unnoiceable, just by tooning an extra 100 to 200mhz on the base clock while using the default config, a mid to high end mobo and an aftermarket cooler. This will allow a minor boost beyond stock settings but wouldn't be taxing or produce a noiceable reduction in CPU and components lifespam 2) you can push a mid-tier overclock, by boosting 300 to 500mhz the default settings, and get a very good improvement, but asuming the extra cost in terms of high end motherboard and good cooling solution... but also asuming you will get components degradation after a couple of years, so don't really expect the Motherboard to work without any fail for 10+ years, also CPU will be degraded overtime making it hard to stay overclocked without throwing much voltage. This is the overclocking path many people take at least at some point in their enthusiast life... but the gain won't be enough to justify all the extra cost and trouble. 3) you can go extreme 600 to 1500mhz above stock (give or take depending on sillicon lotery, CPU model and generation), pretty much like in this video, and get outstanding charts, but working in an extremely unrealistic enviroment for anyone watching this, since you know that components will degrade very fast, and after 2/3 years your pc will be screaming in pain. Of course you can go from stock to OC'ed back and forth, but changing BIOS config all the time isn't the smartest move for anyone who has its workstation with most of family memorys and work and personal stuffs in it. well, at the end of the day... stock charts are the only ones relevant, since it is what 95% of the ppl will use anyway

I was have this card and the drivers was absolutly terrible even with 3,5ghz q9550 the card was stuttery af

My first gaming pc also had a sandy bridge cpu, the classic i5 2500

I had one of these babies for mining, boy did it make my bedroom hot.

still using my powercolor edition, hdmi's broke on my 3060 ti so i slapped the 6870 in tandem with it to use all 4 of my monitors xd

I was using this from 2013 till 2020, water cooled for most of the time and It ran just fine still pulling 60 fps maxed setting in major cities on WoW and in large raids up into 2020.