Rare Old Hardware | The First Asus ROG Graphics Card
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- ASUS' Republic Of Gamers products are designed with enthusiasts in mind. The ROG branding was first assigned to top tier performance motherboards but eventually made it's way to graphics cards. Today we're taking a look at the first card to get this treatment, the 9800GT Matrix, a now pretty rare piece of hardware.
Test Specs:
i5 3330 @ 3GHz
8GB DDR3
9800GT ROG Matrix 512MB (x2)
Windows 10
Thanks for watching :)
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A card from 2008 being classic now makes me feel old...
so many games from that year are instant classics
I feel your pain. I remember paying a few hundred for a X1650XT. It was glorious to young student me. Lol. Recently I rebrought one for about $10 because sentimental reasons. I feel old too :/
im only 20 my interest in computer building started 3 years ago, so luckily i havent felt this yet
It released in the year I was born
Zaf BRUH SAME
I’m glad brands are noticing you more, your channel is quite wholesome.
Liked the video, this card is quite fancy for its price
yea, there's only a handful of tech reviewers that really do reviews on stuffs that is sufficient for usual gaming needs while not breaking your bank. I guess the brands are seeing issues that people stop buying overhyped expensive parts but value ones. The moto of RGHD: "It gets the jobs done"
ye doesn't act like every other youtuber who make "builds" for 1k acting as if normal people can purchase those pc's too...
ASUS having you on their radar is a good thing. I have a en9500GT still floating around.
What a coincidence I am still using it but my is from sparkel
If it can run crysis then it is a graphics card.
But can it run MSPaint?
@@lionelpolo221 *bUt CaN iT rUn WiNdOwS 95?*
@@PsychoKern Can it run -dos?-
No, my graphics card defiantly doesn't run, hes way to lazy.
@@retropcscotland4645 can it run unix tho?
S-Video and HDMI on the same card, 2008 was an interesting time indeed.
It even has SPDIF output, that is amazing.
@@lonzodaman never seen this before
@@lonzodaman the apdif output was in case you wanted to alternate between HDmi audio and spdif because this card does not actually have HDmi audio, it needed an external chip for that(the motherboard header in this case). Nvidia had HDmi audio since GeForce fermi.
@@abcdefg9613 So was it only a passthrough?
@@lonzodaman yes.
I had a MSI 9800gt 1gb "eco-tech" that didn't use a 6pin power adapter, I used it for years until died, it was great "back-up" video card.
Reflow it with heatgun. It may work
BTW, The first ROG motherboard was the Crosshair - AM2 motherboard with Nvidia chipset (yes, there was a time when this happened). This is why a lot of people were incredulous that Nvidia was forcing Asus into GPP, as ROG motherboards started as AMD boards.
That's so nice of them to do that. I'm not sure about all departments but Asus has, in my experience, one of the most pleasant support staff I've ever had the pleasure to deal with.
That's super cool. I always did like Asus' stuff. And it's really awesome they picked up on your channel and sent those out to you.
I always love going back and looking at "high end" graphics cards from back in the day and seeing how much smaller and cheaper they were compared to modern ones. Good example being the Radeon HD 4890 that I found going through some of my things... highest performing single-GPU radeon of the DX10 era, launch price of only $249, and only 190W (2x 6pin), and a modest sized card at 9.5 inches in length
Fairpaly Asus, lovely little Christmas present for one of my favorite channels.
Gotta say after a little more than a year of watching i still love your content. Originally i found your channel when looking for budget stuff. Now i have 6700k and a brand new rtx2070. But still your videos interest me :D keep doing what you're doing!
ew. rtx.
@@youtuberobbedmeofmyname I was guessing someone would say that but here in finland they are pretty good price to performance. Mine was 550€ wich is the same price as a strix 1070...
Don’t listen to him. The 2070 is an excellent card
@@Jimmeh RTX is overpriced (really), that's why it's bad. But the 2070 and 2060 aren't that overpriced since the 2070 is as powerful as the 1080 and they both have the same price (+ DLSS (and RTX) so it's technically more powerful)
Wow, awesome Asus sent you two of them!
@speemus no, he's just saying it's scool that Asus sent him 2 of them.
really cool that they sent these to you, great content as always
GTA IV has a "unofficial community patch" that I used, and it seemed to work out pretty nicely. Stutter was tremendously reduced, though the frame dips still occurred, they weren't as intense. Maybe you can give it a try?
Great video! Can I make a suggestion on card reviews to put things like the TDP, clock speed, ram etc in the description? Loving your work tho dude you’re one of my favourite channels and I really look forward to your videos :)
Dude, how awesome is that by ASUS!
That's so cool Asus contacted you since they knew you like to collect old/rare graphics cards!
Fantastic video and video card!
Those cards look beautiful in SLI on that motherboard!
haha Awesome Video! Im new to your channel , but i really love going back to videos like these! I love old Gpus Especially the Matrix cards and kingpin/classifed cards/ lighting z cards.
I owned a 9400 GT and Believe it or not i actually found my old build from 2008, A pentium 4 With HT. 2GB of DDR2 , 500GB HD and the 9400 GT. Im a bit of a tech hoarder! I even have an old Nvidia G100 . Not many people have heard of the G100
I'm a card collector as well :) I love some of the old FX series cards... My favs that I own are the FX 5950 Ultra (reference), FX 5900 (reference w/ the black heatsink looks sooo sick). The extremely rare FX 5800 (dustbuster) reference card has remained on my list for several years! It's truly a collector's item...
Its on sale for 300 usd if u want jt
210usd i mean
I had no idea the rog lineup was around back then. I never saw any rog stuff until pretty recently and I've been an ASUS fanboy for years
Build a dope late 2000s SLI setup featuring a 775 nForce motherboard.
😒👍 775 good stuff
I’d say a p45 board.
@@EvilTurkeySlices No, I would really go with an nForce board. That is what makes it special!
At least back then nForce 780 was the solution if you wanted the best chipset AND SLI.
The Intel solution was X48. The board manufacturers often got custom SLI chips onto the boards to get the SLI license.
Edit: forget that. I was talking BS. SLI chips were on AMD boards (and maybe on the 5400 Skulltrail Board). Intel did not support SLI on their chipset before X58.
The difference between X48 and P45 is that X48 has 32GPU lanes (Full crossfire) vs only 16 on P45
TheRailroad99 that's interesting to know about x48
Im trying to collect parts for a build like this
The 9800 was a good graphics card but it was weak when it came to HDMI audio. I was building HTPCs so I switched to AMD because they were supporting native HDMI audio. I know this is a weak argument but, at that time, audio fidelity was an important feature when building a home theater.
The days when it was all about deinterlacing performance and tuner cards to record broadcast TV. The lack of free Blu-ray playing software has killed htpc's dead. Very annoying.
I think these cards look really neat. Wouldn't mind displaying them
Another great video! Glad companies are starting to find out about your channel. I hope more start to send you stuff.
To 1,000,000 subs!
Really go of Asus to send these cards for you to share with us.
@RandomGamingHD those are mad cards I have a mate who used to rock 1 of these bad boys back in the day and to say I was jealous was an understatement
This my friend, is why I subbed to this channel
You can tell it’s in solid condition and wasn’t pushed hard for a long time since it still hits stock speeds after 14 years
I have XFX 9800GT version, with hdmi output as well somewhere in my "box with pc parts". No 6-pin power required version. Awsome retro card for retro pc.
Nice one Asus! Great retro review as usual.
I still own working 9800GT Matrix and HD 5870 Matrix... the only graphic card i never have heart to sold it... Btw great review...
I love the look of those cards!
I had a pair of 9800gt's with a q6600 up until 2014 when one of them die. Not gonna lie if was always a battle to get them to run correctly.
NICE! I recently got my hands on an old EVGA 9800gt for about $10, so assuming it works, it's good to know what I might be able to expect from it when I drop it in a retro build.
Ah the 9800gt. One of my sought after cards a decade ago along with the 9800gtx+!😃
Dude I feel it would make a better video to compare the performance of sli with all the games. Great vid though and nice of them to send these cards to you.
The heat pipe going to the front is really cool
Just got my first strix card today. Rx 560 strix 4gb paid 60 bucks. I'm happy with my purchase. : )
My first gaming computer was an asus laptop from 2008. It had either the 9600m or the 9800m in it. It was atleast for me an amazing experience. To get to be able to play crisis for the first time... to know I didn't have to think "can my computer play this?" And just grab a game that looked fun knowing it would run. Had a lot of fun.
This should be a series on your chanel
The design of these is astounding
Man i like your videos. They make me relaxed 😊
That Metro resolution might be because the SSAA (Super-Sample Antialiasing) setting is on 0,5x or Auto(which might drop it to 0,5x) so it is downsampling it even further.
From what i've seen, that is very likely given the aliasing. I did manage to get the non redux version to run on a 7900GS playable at 800x600 cause of that ssaa 0.5x. Ran mostly in the 30's and 40's though
My first card that I bought with my own money was in 2008 was the 9800gtx+. Don't remember what brand, maybe gigabyte! Best card ever!
I remember when I saw that VGA on my magazine (yes, an actual paper magazine. It was years ago). And thinking "woah, this card looks so damn handsome"
An easy video idea. Find a first generation ATX PC. One of those with the PSU fan on the bottom of the PSU drawing air into the case. Preferably one with a real cooker of a hot CPU. Measure the inside temps in various places. (After blowing dust out of everything!)
Step 2. Remove the PSU fan and flip it over to blow outward. This may require taking the PSU apart. (Time to blow the dust out.) Use aluminum tape to seal off all slots and holes on the PSU that are inside the case, so all the air the fan blows through will go out the back. Measure the temps again.
Back in the day I did that to a lot of 1st gen ATX PCs and on the high-spec ones I could feel the difference on the case sides. It wasn't a smart engineering choice to pull outside air through a toasty PSU then blow it over a HOT CPU and expect it to "cool" it.
Nice dust wandering around in front of the camera :D
It is honestly a beautiful looking card.
I swear I remember getting better fps than that back in the day on similar cards
you should do another video and run a bunch of games from it's time period and see how well it holds up for it's own time period yull be more then surprisingly pleased!! :)
I was surpirsed to see that the ASUS and ROG logos are the exact same today as they were 10 years ago
Another good ASUS card was the HD 5870 ROG, great card that still runs strong even today for the price. Best thing is I picked one of these up for $5 at a goodwill store. The downside was the massive amounts of crap that smelled like tobacco on the card. Took me over a week bit by bit to clean :(
Asus reaches out to you? Congrats man! That’s really awesome
Very cool card, the design still holds up.
Did you know that you can overclock the i5-3330 on the Z77 (or Z68) platform? The 2nd and 3rd gen locked CPUs that have Turbo Boost have a limited overclock of 4 bins over the max turbo boost. The i5-3330 stock clock table is 3GHz on 4 cores with turbo boost of 3.1GHz on 3 cores and 3.2GHZ on 1 or 2 cores. It can be overclocked to 3.4/3.5G/3.6GHz.
Give it a try sometime. It worked on my i5-3470, and it's turboing to 3.8/3.9/4.0GHz.
might aswell make another where you overclock the crap out of it and put liquid metal on the card :P Thanks for all the great content m8.
Personally I love how this looks. Don't know why some reviewers disliked it's looks at launch
I am still playing GTA IV Episodes from Liberty City. It runs really good on current systems. Doesn't have the problems from the main game.
Those are good temps. I had a 9800 GT that got up to 90 Celsius. Changed thermal past and same thing. Was an EVGA card, don't know what it's issue was.
Nice rims on that car when crysis bench started
Uffff… Great SLI... So good… Back in the days my pc had 4xHD 3870 CFX...
I think you should put both of these into the Alienware case you have with a Q6600 to make a cute 2008 build :D
I've had a 9600 GT that can run GTA V with a i5 3570K, it's a CPU based title but it still amaze me that it can still run it with only 256MB of RAM.
A pair of those in sli would be neat in my I7 930 testing rig for sure.
It would of been much nicer to see the card taken apart & to talk about the hardware of it(VRAM, VRM, design of the cooler, etc.).
Cool card (no pun intended). My First DX card was a "bought for 10 bucks shipped off a forum friend" 9800 GT. It actually played Metro 2033 at low settings, but was not happy with L.A. Noire. Lol.. Unfortunately I super-fried that card with diatomaceous earth. Damn cat fleas!
I use a 9600m gs 256mb version and its holding up kinda well
My first gaming pc had the 1GB 9500gt GPU. Still got it somewhere. Was weird since it had no fan, just a heat sink
It's not unusual for lower tier cards to have passive cooling.
Always a great video to look forward to love yuh ♥️
This is crazy... Very good 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😱😱🤩🤩😎
It's kinda weird, but good that MSI Afterburner is used by so many people who don't have MSI cards (including me with a Gigabyte)
not gunna lie but this card looks cleaner than most cards today
Damn I always wondered PC gaming was in the past and just seeing this gives me an idea how things were.
I hope you learn about the cards that came pre unified shaders. They used to have Pixel and Vertex Pipelines instead of stream processors or cuda cores whatever you want to call them. The Nvidia 7000 series and ATI(AMD owned now) X1000 series were the last generation of these cards.
This definitely wasn't the first ROG card. I remember seeing a passively cooled ROG 7300gs.
Edit: I'm probably wrong but this Matrix wasn't the first, as one reply has mentioned
mmhhhh, definitely nope ... literally 0 reference about a ROG 7300GS from Asus and i highly doubt Asus would label a measly 7300GS under the ROG division (and certainly not a passive cooled one )
1 year late, but still ... baffled no one picked that up ...
ROG HD 3870 X2 is first one if released dates posted on internet are to be believed.
@@sijedevos2376 You're definitely right about that one, it released in Jan 2008 while the Matrix came out six months later in July 2008.
@@reiverblade I must've gotten confused, although I do remember seeing a passively cooled, very entry level card with a rog logo on it. I don't remember anything about its model name, though.
if you get time check out the ATI "ASUS Radeon HD 4870 X2" IMO it has one of the best looking decal stickers, the card looks amazing!
It's amazing how far we've come
i once bought a computer, because it had an added in graphics card, that had its own cooling fan... if it had a fan, it MUST be amazing.
if you haven't yet, then you should test sli with the normal connector and the high bandwidth connector. I dunno if your Ryzen came with the high bandwidth connector though as I don't know if every board did.
I have two factory super over clocked, flagship gtx 580 3gb variants from Point of View. I'd love to get in contact with you and work something out since i've been holding on to them for someone like you who would appreciate it for what it was. Gonna copy paste and hope you see. These cards have the beautiful green graphics and I have taken very good care of them
The cooler looks amazing!
Be sure to update us as to whether or not they let you keep them.
Whoa, a 9800 GT with 3-way SLI possibility? I don't remember seen any other 9800 GT with two SLI fingers.
Two things come to mind, a) how the frame drops might be affected by the 512MB VRAM limit and whether you could run 1080p instead of 720p if there was more, b) whether the frame drops are being made worse by using an i5 instead of an i7 (maybe it's a more recent phenomenon, but some games don't play well with non-HT CPUs). I have this model of ASUS 9800GT (1GB version):
www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/EN9800GTDI1GD3/overview/
Slightly lower base clock, but it oc's very well, above 700 IIRC.
they overclock nicely too
alternate frame rendering 2 helps a lot of SLI results
I remember I had the exact same one! Oh those memories PS.: Never mind, it was the 9600 GT
i have a Palit 9600GT somewhere
Pretty cool looking
Would love asus to make a rtx 2080 TI remake
Just with les visible circuits
@3:30 the sli system in thix config looks amazing :)
In regards to your last video about the Alienware pc you bought, i have an old 7600 GT AGP pgu i would gladly send over to you for testing. its in good condition and i have no use for it since my ancient pentium 4 pc got thrown out years ago.
Love ur channel and I think that you should do a video where you make a whole gaming budget setup for less than 400 including monitor keyboard and mouse
So that'll be 250 dollars for the pc and 90 dollars for monitor 50 dollars for keyboard and mouse and mousepad
@@sheikhrayan9538 Ye I guess
I can't believe you didn't mention the OPTICAL AUDIO PORT!!
Can I suggest that you use a nicer font when showing specs suchas ubuntu or Helvetica
The current one looks good tho
Comic sans or riot
It honestly looks like a glitch more than an intentional design choice. I recommend Montserrat and Roboto, personally.
When you actually think of it, these cards consider 1080p as 4K at those times so.. if these played well in 1080 today, these cards were totally the real OG
I wanted one of these badly back in the day.
Asus sent these to you? That is so awesome.
Hmm, if you have 2 graphics cards connected the bottom one will be always cooler than the top one because as the top one sucks in air, it sucks the air over the lover graphicscard, so it's also pulling a little of the heat out of it
Damm getting noticed by Asus congrats I was here when u had 2 subs hahah