I was gonna say it might be acceptable for Windows XP, but then I remembered you can still buy a new or lightly used GT710 for the same kind of money, and that will blow the 210 out of the water.
@@skraegorn7317 you could buy a 730 with gddr5 for the same price. Though I'd say just get a 750 (ti or not, whatever) for xp. You'd run literally everything at no less than 60fps if you're doing a retro rig
@@skraegorn7317 Or you could get a Ryzen CPU that has a Vega, which is considerably better than even a 710. Of course, that is only valid if you're basically building a machine from scratch.
@@aleksazunjic9672 No that's the thing, the GT210 was even slower than the 9400GT which it was meant to be replacing. It's probably the worst budget segment graphics card released by nVidia or AMD/ATi. Legit would have been better to just shrink the 9400GT and add in the new video decoder.
@@HappyBeezerStudios I regard the GT210 as worse simply because the FX5200 had an actual use-case - For years it and the FX5500 (Overclocked, die-shrunk version of the FX5200) were the most easily available PCI graphics cards that didn't require any external power when it was still reasonably likely to find PCs without any AGP or PCIe slots and proprietary PSU pinouts, and despite its lacklustre performance it still ran circles around any IGPs in those PCs and most of the other readily available PCI options that didn't require external power at the time. The GT210 even came in PCI as well funnily enough, but by then it was much rarer to find a PC where PCI was the only bus option so it wasn't as useful.
@@TheDemocrab 210 was not direct replacement for 9400Gt (220 could have been) . 210 was cheapest card with hardware decoding h.264 which was huge deal back then. Overall, it was cheaper to produce gt210 in 40 nm process than to continue with 9xxx series in 80 nm process.
I had a Gigabyte DDR3 variant of this card. I managed to basically max out the sliders in MSI afterburner before it black screened and never posted again.
One time the office got a new PC, we asked Dell not to include the GT730 because the intel 9th gen iGPU is better. You know what? Those bastards still included it with the $80 price tag. 4k 60fps videos from an iPhone does not play, removing the GT730 fixed it. And that was before the GPU prices went crazy, for that money you could have gotten a second hand RX470 or GTX970
Very few people understand GT210 success story. It was lowest tier Nvidia card, and as it became standard for this segment, it could run games released 5 years prior with low-ish settings. But gaming was not its selling point, playing compressed video was ! It was among first budget cards that could run compressed video clips at 1080p , which was a huge deal when it was released. DivX was a king in those years, most clips were encoded with H.264 and GT210 had hardware decoding for that - instead of relying on your (weak) CPU . Suddenly you had completely usable multimedia machine alongside usual office tasks.
It sits in that specific low performance bracket that is just barely good enough to run a screen and show video. Stuff like the GT 420/520, GT 610/710, GT 620, HD 4550, HD 5450, HD 6450, R5 230, etc Performance at the lowest end hasn't really progressed over the last decade. The fact that they still produce cards on the performance level of the 8800 GT that I bought used more than a decade ago is astonishing.
@@HappyBeezerStudios To be fair, GT 210 runs 1080p videos without problem . 710 would run 4K but at 30 FPS (Hz) which is good enough for movies etc ... Lots of people simply do not game. What is presently killing this lowest end market is advance of integrated graphics. Even UHD 630 could run 4K videos and more and more powerful CPUs came with iGPU which was not a thing in the past.
@@aleksazunjic9672 UHD can even run more modern games. as long as you don't push the settings high most game will run 1080*720 with low to medeium settings. *actually a accomplishment from intel at the time. Can't wait to se what arc actually brings to the table if they can manage it for at least 4 years and have a few good cards and decent drivers pushed out.... last time intel did dedicated was ahem yeah >.>
Yeah, fits about with the 7900 cards, so 5 years old high end is about it. Which is also why the GT 710 is much worse in comparison. 5 Years before that was, oh not 5 year old highend, but 5 year old midrange with the 9600.
And that was essentially what they were aiming for. A CHEAP card for basic use, that could also play video with hardware acceleration. Offices, schools, people who just wanted to browse the web etc don't need gaming performance. If you wanted a card primarily to play games, they made plenty of those too. It's no different today. A lot of computers have a basic iGPU or low end card for the same reasons.
I had a 210 for around 5 years as my main GPU when I was 12 years old, I played CS Source, Garry's Mod, Minecraft, TF2 and GTA SA, and other very old games like the first Far Cry. I didn't knew anything about computers at that time so I thought it was amazing, I have to thank that card for making me appreciate games a lot, and since I had to be tinkering so much it eventually leaded me into programming which is now my passion and way of living.
I ran a 710 for the longest time, and I ran EVERYTHING on it. Bendy, Minecraft, editing softwares, a lot of Blender renders, etc. It was a BEAST for what I put it through. :)
@@ChloeVFX I used blender too! I remember also using Cinema4d and things like that. Hahah what a time! Now I have a much powerful GPU but I don't enjoy gaming nearly as much as I did when I had the 210. As I learned about other GPUs, I remember thinking every day how much more fun could I have with a better one, now that I do I wish I was 13 and playing with my 210 again!
A few years ago a friend of mine asked for a new graphics card for his birthday (he was playing with integrated graphics on whatever cheep second hand CPU he was using). Long story short his parents bought him a brand new 210 from amazon. When installed in his PC it ran at about half the proformace of his integrated graphics and for fear of his parents being upset we spent about 20 minutes in the bios/random windows settings to disable the card so he didn't have to remove it. The card may be designed to be a display adapter but it is not marketed as such misleading non tech-savy people (such as my friends parents).
thanks to my dad giving me his old gaming computer my test gpu is now a 560 ti. But primarily going to use it in his old computer as a overkill windows xp machine
Man... The GT 210. I remember in 2009 or something the netcafe near my home received a full upgrade and every PC over there had a GT 210, I remember emulating Megaman X Command Mission on one of the machine using Dolphin and it was soo slow. But people didn't really care about it being powerful or not , the popular games at that time was a counter-strike clone made in Lithtech Jupiter, called Crossfire, the game tend to defaults to low settings and 800x600 resolution out of the box, the attitude was as long as it plays fine it doesn't matter, most people didn't even know what resolution settings were.
In my high school there was a teacher whose office was next to a computer lab and they'd let a bunch of us LAN unreal tournament during lunchtime especially on wet days, I was the only kid who knew you could change the resolution from the default 640x480. Computer lab had 9600Pros in it as it was also used for CAD classes, I cranked those graphics settings :D
I have this card wayback 2010, until my brother swapped it for gt220.. he installed this gt210 on the pc vendo machine he assembled for his customer, i also remember him testing this card playing crysis 1 on the lowest resolution on the lowest possible setting at 8 fps 🤣.. the GT220 he gave to me gives my installed games a little breathing room, i also obtained a copy of crysis 1 and game on 800x600 on low-medium settings at 25-30 fps..
To be fair, I think people who use it today just need a display adapter. Yes, you could get a much more powerful GPU for $15, like you could pick up a mid 00s near top-tier GPU. It will play Fable and HL2 better, but it will not support the latest APIs.
@@harryshuman9637 But neither does the 210 :D That is a DX10 card with no support for Vulkan, HEVC/h.265 or vp9, it lacks driver support for years. (the latest one is from 2016) It requires hd264ify to even accelerate youtube! In fact, a mid 00s top tier GPU would be something from the same lineup like a 9800 GT or GTX 260, which won't have hardware acceleration for those codecs or DX11/12 either, but but least they would play the old games better. This is still a mid 00s card, just a low-end one.
Honestly, I've bought these as well - these are excellent framebuffers for machines that have CPUs without iGPUs (eg when I do a Ghetto Xeon build with one of those chinesium 'X79' or 'X99' boards). They've got excellent driver support as well, and if it's just to operate an ESXi/Linux/WinServer console this is more than good enough. I know that there are other framebuffers you can abuse for this purpose, but since this card has been around for so long, it's got decent drivers for just about any OS you want to use with it - you can even get it to work in high res/256 colour mode on Win3.11 or NT 3.5
i was one of the unhappy owners of this cursed GPU, used it from 2016 to 2020, when i bought a RX 580 8GB, to finally get my self rid of this old curse
@pankoza2 once Nvidia can find a way to separate their extra features and hardware that are useful for software engineers and scientists from certain GPU's then give the savings to the average consumer GPU then it won't be that way but they won't. And that's why AMD will always be praised even if they are always 1 step behind with GPU's, also Radeon software is just straight up better to use.
I've had this card for almost my entire childhood. Thankfully I've upgraded since then...to a Quadro 2000 I love living in Eastern Europe 2023 update: I am now the proud owner of a 6800 XT
Oh dude this card was my first ever GPU, my dad got it for me and I had a prebuilt Dell Optiplex running only Intel Integrated Graphics. Needless to say it felt like a huuuge bump in performance even though I couldn’t run games smoothly like AC3, but was I happy kid. Good memories and I have you to thank for making this video on the GT210. Cheers mate
The actual worst of the worst is indeed an "OEM 210 PCI" It was basically the same as the g100/205 with the added bonus of being capped at 12w TDP instead of 30w due to the PCI (not PCIE nor agp) bus. It was about 20% slower than a 205, came with GDDR2 400 ram and was about 120mzh slower than the 205 on clock and about 300mhz in shader clock. Whats worse is that some OEMs were display locked, so they did work for video decode/encode but nothing else, you couldn't connect any monitor to the vga or dvi despite having them.
Before even watching the video, let me just type I do appreciate your in-depth insights on tech stuff. It's a nice little history lesson few channels dive into, especially the parts showing contemporary (at the time) reactions to them. That research takes some time both to find and analyze! There are so many versions of the GeForce 210 I have to wonder how awful the best version is. I have one that supposedly has 24 shading units according to GPU-Z which probably isn't right but let me tell ya, even with the extra shaders, GDDR3, and decent clocks... it's still pretty bad in games. As a display adapter... well it works. BUT considering they were still sold new as recent as 2021... terrible. There were and still are far cheaper and better options especially if looking used. I remember wanting one, before I knew what GPU really were for my old Pentium 4 system back in the day.. then I found out the motherboard can't support the GeForce 210s that were available. That's when I knew it was time to upgrade everything!
I used to play warband and fallout 3 on this exact card, with a pentium dual e4something and 1 gig of ddr2 667. It was an lga775 chip, and I swapped it for a e6700, 4gb of low density ddr2 800, and a r7 250 later on and it ran so much better on windows 7.
I purchased one of these a few years ago, no not as any kind of gaming card but for a 1080p picture? A lot of cpu's have no inbuilt graphics, you get a problem with your GPU you are fried. I seriously cannot imagine buying this for gaming, but it is excellent for getting a picture output. I love mine as a trusted backup.
Think of the GT210 as good for 640*480 games up till 2006. This GPU also was in the Nvidia ION and ION2. Basically, this beats a Wii. No, not a Wii U, a Wii.
Around 2010 I ended up with an old first gen Athlon64 X2, since I didn't have any PCIe video cards I ran out and picked up the cheapest one I could find. I was quite horrified to find the 210 was about half the speed of my AGP GeForce 6600 GT, a mid range card from 2004.
This card was great when you just needed a display on a system and the mobo didn’t have an output. Of course the pci tridents were always much more preferable.
the fact that this GPU handles Mount&Blade Warband worse than my Intel integrated GPU from 2013, + the 240p CS:GO made me laugh for quite a while, ngl, it's almost unbelievable that there's a card this worse than an INTEL INTEGRATED GRAPHICS THING, on a LAPTOP, that's only 4 years younger (it's the i3 4005U with it's Intel HD 4400 and now 8GB of RAM btw)
There is a kepplar refresh of 210. Basically 630's lil sister. It's passive and overclocks by 50% without voltage control, but you need to point a fan at it.
I remember really wanting to get one of these when I was in Maplins years ago. Bare in mind I had a Radeon HD 6450 at the time, which was actually more powerful. Just glad that the staffmember there told me to put more budget towards something better.
I played Battlefield 3 on this card. The enemy wouldn't even render on the lowest settings on 720p and it would stutter like crazy. Had to play the entire campaign at 800x600 resolution to get NPCs to render.
12:19 I got a rebrand of a HD 6450 (R5 230 which unfunnily works with HD 6450 drivers) which I gave to my friend once I bought myself a decent machine that did not have a Pentium 4 531 with 1GB RAM
11:01 Minecraft is actually a really good and fun game to tweak. I got 1.19 running at 100fps semi-stable on a mobile Core 2 Duo and Intel GMA X3100 graphics, be it on Linux with some shader hacks and low resolution, but it is actually working! The GT 210 should be 65% faster than that (according to UserBenchmark), so it would be really nice to see how well it would perform with those settings :D
That is really good performance. In fact, that is much better than my tests on a Pentium 4/GTX 660 Ti setup. Oh, and userbenchmark is really only good to compare the hardware with itself.
10:05 Thanks to that DirectX7 renderer one time I ran Mount and Blade With Fire and Sword on a Geforce 4 Mx440. Lowest settings of course and it did not run very well but after a while it stopped having freezes and would be playable if I was stuck on a deserted island with that computer
Well, the PC I use in the office has a GT710 lol. I just plugged the VGA cable directly to the mobo - that Lenovo ideacentre has an i7 of some sort, and the benchmark for the iGPU gave better results than the 710. I should probably bring it home as decoration or something.
I brought my new gaming PC December 2009. It was a Phenom II X4 945 _(great processor)_ with a GT 240 1gb. With a set budget I prioritized processor, upgrade compatible motherboard and good PSU instead _(the latter is in my current PC)._
I'd like to share a budget build of mine that I'm absolutely giddy over. I got a Dell optiplex 990, old office station. With Intel graphics and 4 GB of slow ram, it got 20 fps in GTA V with below lowest settings. But I added 16 GB of ram, and threw an RX 550 in it, and now I have 60 fps on GTA V, Fallout 4, and CSGO with Medium and High settings at 768p. This is so awesome for me because I've only ever had potatoes before, nothing capable of running these games like this. It was only 150 American Dollars, and with only 8 GB and a more competitively priced Optiplex, one could probably build it for 100.
Just as I wrote that this card was called just "GeForce 210", not "GeForce GT 210", you said it in the video.😀 Seems like even nVidia did not dare put the "GT" moniker on it. OTOH, I can see the original purpose of this card, and even the reasons for its success. The Core2 and early Core-i CPUs did not yet have iGPUs. Belive it or not, the majority of people aren't gamers. For cheap, it was either (similarly misearable) chipset graphics or this. Perfectly viable solution for 2D office applications and did even play video reasonably well (for the time).
I love this card for the sole reason It made me able to play Half Life 2 at a reasonable framerate when I picked it out of a scrap PC when I had no money. Stuck with a Core 2 Duo 8400 in 2015, this thing was a life saver me.
I have managed to find a use case for a brand new 210: connecting two older, VGA-only monitors. Nowadays the 210 is the only GPU sold new which can have both VGA and DVI-I at the same time
@@pygmalion8952 DVI/HDMI-to-VGA adapters are active, they convert the digital signal to analogue, so they cost a lot, at least much more than one would want to spend on such a thing; the 210 has a DVI-I, which combines both digital and analogue signals, so the needed adapter is just a bunch of cables, an it's usually included with the GPU itself
This video brings back some PTSD... If I recall correctly, the GT210 the "family pc" had back then died a year in, and it was "upgrade" to a GT310, or was it a GT 315? Regardless, I remember it was barely better than the 9600gt I had before. As for the PTSD? Well, that's the GPU I played through Crysis on. Had to be modded in the config to be playable at all, and there was some artifacting going on. But I was able to enable SSAO and at least the people at high school couldn't say I couldn't even play Crysis...
@@masterTigress96 the GT 210 was around $400+ at that time. it was around 180.000 HUF, so at that time around $400-450 EDIT: you mean what a GTX 1070 went for during the shortages? it went for around $800-1000, and an RTX 3090 was around $5500-6000
@@o-hogameplay185 Your mistake was quite helpful so don't feel sorry, I was initially interested in pricing for the 1070 but this paints a more complete picture. I feel sorry for my Hungarian brothers as these prices are insane. Thanks for the info and happy holidays.
The best case for this card is steamlink. Because it can accelerate h264 I've been able to use an old one for remote play. That also means it can basically be used as terminal for your more powerful PC once you quit big screen
I remember my parents had a PC with a Nvidia 210. In MSI Afterburner I could more than double the GPU and memory frequency and it ran a bit better. It was no gaming card, but at least Chrome was less laggy.
This was actually my first ever "gaming" gpu in 2012 it was ddr3 though, i managed to play gta 4, tomb raider 2013, cod black ops 2, max payne 3 etc, it did ok, i never paid too much attention on fps and stuff, overall it i did enjoy and i loved it for what it was back then.
A dude build his PC at 2019. His RTX 2060 Super was delayed by Amazon for some issues so, for two weeks he had to use his new Ryzen 5 3600 with a GT 210 for working lmao.
Oh man, this is bringing back memories of when me and my step brother tried playing games on a Geforce 9400 back when that was the best GPU I had. I'd gotten it for free, along with most of the other parts I mashed together to give him a PC in 2015 or so. But hay ... it was at least better than the 7300le he had before that, which doesn't have Windows 10 drivers.
Holy crap these are still selling! This is pure madness, although I can see why after that period of stupid prices due to Covid and now inflation hitting. Like you said much more affordable cards out there that are much more powerful, I think I saw a GTX980 in CEX the other day for £125.00.
I remember the GT 210! It was the very first GPU I bought for the very first computer I built. I played so many Flash games with it, back when I didn't know Steam was around.
Slightly different perspective, but the 210 is actually kind of useful for DIY server builds when you don’t have an iGPU given that it’s a PCIe capable card, has been relatively cheap, and can be passively cooled. I only just recently switched to GTX 1030's in most of my own such builds, and that was only because I couldn’t find any 210's from reputable sellers anymore (and the 1030 is only a 35W card compared to the 210 being a 75W card). Old GPUs like this have always been a thing for such usage. At my previous job we were even still using old Trident cards even in 2019 for this, because we still had some pre-PCIe systems around.
I still have a GT 220 in a drawer, and a GT 320. First played Crysis on the GT 320. The GT 320 had 72 CUDA cores, compared to the 36 CUDA cores on my laptop GPU. (Paired with an Intel E6700.)
GIGABYTE GT210 was the first GPU I got in 2011-12 after begging my father who then instructed my brother-in-law to get me a GPU. At the time I didn't understand the intricacies of gaming hardware so I just requested a graphics card and that's what he brought me. It was definitely an upgrade over what I had considering my whole PC would shut down after a few hour of gaming session at what I assume now was 12FPS. I played all the Assassin's Creed games up to IV Black Flag at lowest settings smoothly thanks to this card. Albeit Black Flag would visibly lag compared to III which ran smoothly without crashing. But then Unity came out a few years later and it wouldn't run at all. So I begged my father again and this time my brother-in-law got me a brand new PC with Intel Core i5 4th gen and a... GT730. This card was barely an upgrade and Unity ran at terrible FPS on low. I remember requesting a GTX960 or something but for some reason he got me this instead. The card quickly became extremely outdated by just 2016. And I still used the same PC with the same card until this year when it finally died. Now I'm just using the internal GPU which is much worse. At this point I just got too used to having a crap PC. I basically accepted that I'll never get the gaming PC experience I always wanted.
Geforce 210 kept being produced even after the original card was discontinued. Nvidia rebranded it as 310-315 or something and even made laptop versions. My laptop gpu is 315M, but under Linux I can see that it's 218M, which is the name of the chip Geforce 210 uses.
I had this card probably about a decade and some change ago. It ran minecraft 1.2 at maybe 25 FPS and really couldn't do much more. Oh and the awful thing was so loud when I swapped it out for a gt630 later down the line I thought something was legitimately wrong with my computer
i played WoW on this card at 5-10 FPS on release.. I think i had it already for 4-6 years before WoW released. I played all my favorite games on this card (at 5-45 FPS, usually somewhere around 15 FPS avarage) I was so HAPPY! It was my first "gaming" PC! I've never been more happy with a PC. Even today, with my RTX3090 , 5950X, 4Ghz DDR4, ITS JUST NOT THE SAME! xD
I had the geforce 205, in an old pentium 4 system that did pretty well for light gaming. People like to buy very cheap cards then complain when they don't have the power of the flagship model of that year. Just need to have realistic expectations.
I had the FX5200 years before the release of the (GT) 210, it was a similiar experience. :D But I was young and I had no demand for high fps or good graphics. (I didn't even know what it was.) It just worked for my games.
I never heard of it. My Desktop had a capable HD 4770 and in 2011-2014 I only used a laptop due to becoming a student. When my laptop died I upgraded to a 750 ti.
To be honest, I used to have a PC with no iGPU that I transformed in a NAS/server and I needed some kind of "graphics adapter" because I kept the RTX I had for my newer beast gaming PC. One friend gave me this for the price of a vodka and I'm more than happy with that low end very low power card for what I do with it. Ofc, I tried to "game" on it just for the laughs, and damn, I would never think of this for a gaming PC lol. Meanwhile, it can be a fun thingy for a retro gaming PC... Oh, and BTW, those cards are often raped asf in MSi Afterburner 😂
Cards like this do have real use cases. Once I needed to convert an old office PC into a family-room computer for my mom and I needed to add an HDMI port to it because I didn't want her to have to deal with DisplayPort converters.
Oh, man. I had this card on my old computer (2009-2016). It was an absolute pain. Almost any MMO games barely had 30-40 fps on lowest settings. I was still a kid at the time, but i've got a actual job just to buy a new card and get rid of this monstrocity... Good times
I've actually got one of these in use now.....it's in an old optiplex system I'm using as a home server. I'm pretty sure the iGPU is better but the box doesn't have HDMI on the main board and this card dose have HDMI out. I had this card floating around as salvage from another optiplex system I snagged from work after a major hardware overhaul. It's by no way something I'd pay cash for myself but it serves the purpose well enough.
I bought a BFG (remember those guys?) GTX 280 launch week in 2008. $650, which now is about $900. It was a brilliant card, but even at the time it was considered completely overkill and most didn't buy it. I kept it around a LONG time, but frankly, it's 1gb vram, performance, and DX10 limitations means it aged horribly. So I cannot even fathom living with a GT210. I mean I have to assume even my Intel 2600K I got in 2011 would equal this thing in GPU and decoding power.
Maybe it is because of the lower resource usage in general, maybe it is because the open source Nvidia driver still gets updates while the official drivers that support the 210 haven't been updated in years but I pulled one of these out of a drawer just a few weeks ago and slapped it in an old motherboard and put together a machine that handles streaming for my niece. No illusions about a gaming on it but it worked smoothly for 1080p streaming.
Looks like it runs smoother than my current rig, i3-380M running integrated graphics. Pretty much the only game I can comfortably play is Spore, so losing a 9700k and 2080S has helped me get back in touch with my classic game collection.
Truly a display adapter, not worthy of the title "graphics card". Definitely deserves recognition for being a good multi-monitor 1080p video decoder at it's price point back then.
For a video with a poo joke, it's awfully funny that the video URL actually has "Poo" at the end of the URL thanks youtube. 😎
The GT 210 is a crappy card after all
5VvDiIW7Poo = 5 Volt Diluted Windows 7 Poo 🤣
@@Collector123k haha yessss
Question: Is it worse than a HD4350? :D
@@gtasomogyi Probavly about on par. The Nvidia drivers are better than the AMD ones though.
210 as a gaming card is as good as those tiny USB fans as air conditioner.
I was gonna say it might be acceptable for Windows XP, but then I remembered you can still buy a new or lightly used GT710 for the same kind of money, and that will blow the 210 out of the water.
@@skraegorn7317 you could buy a 730 with gddr5 for the same price. Though I'd say just get a 750 (ti or not, whatever) for xp. You'd run literally everything at no less than 60fps if you're doing a retro rig
@@skraegorn7317 Or you could get a Ryzen CPU that has a Vega, which is considerably better than even a 710. Of course, that is only valid if you're basically building a machine from scratch.
@@fluttzkrieg4392 So how are the XP drivers on it?
@@HappyBeezerStudios Not bad, though they work much better if you don't use that as your main OS 21 years after its release.
The GT210 was gutless about 4 years before it even existed. An amazing feat!
Well, nope. It was usual Nvidia low(eset) segment card, and they target games released 5 years prior at low settings.
@@aleksazunjic9672 No that's the thing, the GT210 was even slower than the 9400GT which it was meant to be replacing. It's probably the worst budget segment graphics card released by nVidia or AMD/ATi. Legit would have been better to just shrink the 9400GT and add in the new video decoder.
@@TheDemocrab laughs in FX 5200, which was slower than the lowend card it was supposed to replace.
@@HappyBeezerStudios I regard the GT210 as worse simply because the FX5200 had an actual use-case - For years it and the FX5500 (Overclocked, die-shrunk version of the FX5200) were the most easily available PCI graphics cards that didn't require any external power when it was still reasonably likely to find PCs without any AGP or PCIe slots and proprietary PSU pinouts, and despite its lacklustre performance it still ran circles around any IGPs in those PCs and most of the other readily available PCI options that didn't require external power at the time.
The GT210 even came in PCI as well funnily enough, but by then it was much rarer to find a PC where PCI was the only bus option so it wasn't as useful.
@@TheDemocrab 210 was not direct replacement for 9400Gt (220 could have been) . 210 was cheapest card with hardware decoding h.264 which was huge deal back then. Overall, it was cheaper to produce gt210 in 40 nm process than to continue with 9xxx series in 80 nm process.
I had a Gigabyte DDR3 variant of this card. I managed to basically max out the sliders in MSI afterburner before it black screened and never posted again.
Niceeee!
@@SJPretorius000 or not
You probably did a favor to yourself by killing it.
Lmao I did that to my 970 when I got it lol don't drink and oc people
hats off to you for ending one of those abominations
During the GPU shortage this was the only card consistently in stock at EVGA
Rest In Peace, EVGA GPU unit.
@@solarstrike33 RIP in peace :,(
@@dotxyn rest in peace in peace?
I loathe this card. Every single business PC I’ve seen with a GT210 or GT710 already had a superior iGPU.
One time the office got a new PC, we asked Dell not to include the GT730 because the intel 9th gen iGPU is better.
You know what? Those bastards still included it with the $80 price tag. 4k 60fps videos from an iPhone does not play, removing the GT730 fixed it.
And that was before the GPU prices went crazy, for that money you could have gotten a second hand RX470 or GTX970
oh boy, i'm guessing you don't know gt705 exists do you? gt710 is a monster compared to that turd.
Wanna hear a joke?
I3 10100f paired with gt 710 or 730
@@bitelaserkhalif 5700G paired with GT 710 is even funnier
@@MultiDivebomber That's just one of those cheap gaming PCs on Amazon.
Very few people understand GT210 success story. It was lowest tier Nvidia card, and as it became standard for this segment, it could run games released 5 years prior with low-ish settings. But gaming was not its selling point, playing compressed video was ! It was among first budget cards that could run compressed video clips at 1080p , which was a huge deal when it was released. DivX was a king in those years, most clips were encoded with H.264 and GT210 had hardware decoding for that - instead of relying on your (weak) CPU . Suddenly you had completely usable multimedia machine alongside usual office tasks.
It sits in that specific low performance bracket that is just barely good enough to run a screen and show video.
Stuff like the GT 420/520, GT 610/710, GT 620, HD 4550, HD 5450, HD 6450, R5 230, etc
Performance at the lowest end hasn't really progressed over the last decade. The fact that they still produce cards on the performance level of the 8800 GT that I bought used more than a decade ago is astonishing.
@@HappyBeezerStudios To be fair, GT 210 runs 1080p videos without problem . 710 would run 4K but at 30 FPS (Hz) which is good enough for movies etc ... Lots of people simply do not game. What is presently killing this lowest end market is advance of integrated graphics. Even UHD 630 could run 4K videos and more and more powerful CPUs came with iGPU which was not a thing in the past.
Now imagine modern amd cards dont habe decoding
@@aleksazunjic9672 UHD can even run more modern games. as long as you don't push the settings high most game will run 1080*720 with low to medeium settings. *actually a accomplishment from intel at the time. Can't wait to se what arc actually brings to the table if they can manage it for at least 4 years and have a few good cards and decent drivers pushed out.... last time intel did dedicated was ahem yeah >.>
@@CotyRiddle True. Thus this lowest segment of x10 cards is slowly dying out.
The GT210 had the perfomance of a card that was released 4 years before it's release
I honestly wonder if even the 6800 Ultra has better performance, honestly.
And that's a flagship from *_2004._*
It did target games released roughly 5 years earlier, as lowest tier Nvidia cards do. Video decoding was its main forte, and it made it sell so well.
Yeah, fits about with the 7900 cards, so 5 years old high end is about it.
Which is also why the GT 710 is much worse in comparison. 5 Years before that was, oh not 5 year old highend, but 5 year old midrange with the 9600.
@@solarstrike33 it did LFMAO
And that was essentially what they were aiming for. A CHEAP card for basic use, that could also play video with hardware acceleration. Offices, schools, people who just wanted to browse the web etc don't need gaming performance. If you wanted a card primarily to play games, they made plenty of those too. It's no different today. A lot of computers have a basic iGPU or low end card for the same reasons.
It's amazing that they still make these. They're old enough that I've found three of them at an electronics recycler, but still in production.
I had a 210 for around 5 years as my main GPU when I was 12 years old, I played CS Source, Garry's Mod, Minecraft, TF2 and GTA SA, and other very old games like the first Far Cry. I didn't knew anything about computers at that time so I thought it was amazing, I have to thank that card for making me appreciate games a lot, and since I had to be tinkering so much it eventually leaded me into programming which is now my passion and way of living.
Hey, that is quite a heartwarming story actually, 210 was useful for once!
I ran a 710 for the longest time, and I ran EVERYTHING on it. Bendy, Minecraft, editing softwares, a lot of Blender renders, etc. It was a BEAST for what I put it through. :)
@@ChloeVFX I used blender too! I remember also using Cinema4d and things like that. Hahah what a time! Now I have a much powerful GPU but I don't enjoy gaming nearly as much as I did when I had the 210. As I learned about other GPUs, I remember thinking every day how much more fun could I have with a better one, now that I do I wish I was 13 and playing with my 210 again!
@@6LittleWendigo6omgg heyoo😊
A few years ago a friend of mine asked for a new graphics card for his birthday (he was playing with integrated graphics on whatever cheep second hand CPU he was using). Long story short his parents bought him a brand new 210 from amazon. When installed in his PC it ran at about half the proformace of his integrated graphics and for fear of his parents being upset we spent about 20 minutes in the bios/random windows settings to disable the card so he didn't have to remove it. The card may be designed to be a display adapter but it is not marketed as such misleading non tech-savy people (such as my friends parents).
I got it for free with some old pc parts. Serves as emergency/test card pretty well
For that use I have an HD4350. :D Tried once the last Carmageddon on it, ran, but was not fun. :D
thanks to my dad giving me his old gaming computer my test gpu is now a 560 ti. But primarily going to use it in his old computer as a overkill windows xp machine
I have a 1030 pulled out of a prebuilt as my backup
Man... The GT 210. I remember in 2009 or something the netcafe near my home received a full upgrade and every PC over there had a GT 210, I remember emulating Megaman X Command Mission on one of the machine using Dolphin and it was soo slow. But people didn't really care about it being powerful or not , the popular games at that time was a counter-strike clone made in Lithtech Jupiter, called Crossfire, the game tend to defaults to low settings and 800x600 resolution out of the box, the attitude was as long as it plays fine it doesn't matter, most people didn't even know what resolution settings were.
crossfire was the shit
In my high school there was a teacher whose office was next to a computer lab and they'd let a bunch of us LAN unreal tournament during lunchtime especially on wet days, I was the only kid who knew you could change the resolution from the default 640x480.
Computer lab had 9600Pros in it as it was also used for CAD classes, I cranked those graphics settings :D
Crossfire. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
I have this card wayback 2010, until my brother swapped it for gt220.. he installed this gt210 on the pc vendo machine he assembled for his customer, i also remember him testing this card playing crysis 1 on the lowest resolution on the lowest possible setting at 8 fps 🤣.. the GT220 he gave to me gives my installed games a little breathing room, i also obtained a copy of crysis 1 and game on 800x600 on low-medium settings at 25-30 fps..
Great vid. I love watching your cheap old laptop benchmarks and reviews. I hope you get to 500k soon. Cheers
I had this gpu, back in 2010-2012 and it was ass-tier even back then. To see people use this gpu still is disturbing. Truly an awful gpu.
To be fair, I think people who use it today just need a display adapter.
Yes, you could get a much more powerful GPU for $15, like you could pick up a mid 00s near top-tier GPU. It will play Fable and HL2 better, but it will not support the latest APIs.
I have 2:)
@@airmicrobe .....why
@@harryshuman9637 But neither does the 210 :D
That is a DX10 card with no support for Vulkan, HEVC/h.265 or vp9, it lacks driver support for years. (the latest one is from 2016) It requires hd264ify to even accelerate youtube!
In fact, a mid 00s top tier GPU would be something from the same lineup like a 9800 GT or GTX 260, which won't have hardware acceleration for those codecs or DX11/12 either, but but least they would play the old games better. This is still a mid 00s card, just a low-end one.
@@n0rsca392 I am sorry I confused with my grandfather 210. I don't have such a card gt 210. I only have 2x g 210. Nvidia GeForce g 210.
Honestly, I've bought these as well - these are excellent framebuffers for machines that have CPUs without iGPUs (eg when I do a Ghetto Xeon build with one of those chinesium 'X79' or 'X99' boards). They've got excellent driver support as well, and if it's just to operate an ESXi/Linux/WinServer console this is more than good enough. I know that there are other framebuffers you can abuse for this purpose, but since this card has been around for so long, it's got decent drivers for just about any OS you want to use with it - you can even get it to work in high res/256 colour mode on Win3.11 or NT 3.5
i was one of the unhappy owners of this cursed GPU, used it from 2016 to 2020, when i bought a RX 580 8GB, to finally get my self rid of this old curse
Switching from NVIdia to AMD Graphics is extemely popular now btw.
@pankoza2 once Nvidia can find a way to separate their extra features and hardware that are useful for software engineers and scientists from certain GPU's then give the savings to the average consumer GPU then it won't be that way but they won't. And that's why AMD will always be praised even if they are always 1 step behind with GPU's, also Radeon software is just straight up better to use.
I've had this card for almost my entire childhood.
Thankfully I've upgraded since then...to a Quadro 2000
I love living in Eastern Europe
2023 update: I am now the proud owner of a 6800 XT
i hope you'll be able to get smth better
@@vinylSummer Thanks man, yea, I hope so too
@@wallachia4797 român?
@@angeltzepesh1 da
I see a literal pandemic of people switching from NVidia to AMD GPU's
Oh dude this card was my first ever GPU, my dad got it for me and I had a prebuilt Dell Optiplex running only Intel Integrated Graphics.
Needless to say it felt like a huuuge bump in performance even though I couldn’t run games smoothly like AC3, but was I happy kid.
Good memories and I have you to thank for making this video on the GT210. Cheers mate
This card did have a little plus, it did provide a cheap way for home servers to output to a display
that is what that card is really meant for
There is a 205. 8 Cuda cores instead of 16 so as bad as the 210 is it can get worse.
I had a 205 and 210, I think the 205 was in a Acer pc a friend gave me.
The 210 was a fanless MSI model that had ATI branded Vram.
@@thepezfeo this sounds like the card to get ty
It's pretty much geforce g100 but with different name
The actual worst of the worst is indeed an "OEM 210 PCI"
It was basically the same as the g100/205 with the added bonus of being capped at 12w TDP instead of 30w due to the PCI (not PCIE nor agp) bus.
It was about 20% slower than a 205, came with GDDR2 400 ram and was about 120mzh slower than the 205 on clock and about 300mhz in shader clock.
Whats worse is that some OEMs were display locked, so they did work for video decode/encode but nothing else, you couldn't connect any monitor to the vga or dvi despite having them.
205 sounds like something you would buy your friend for april fools lol
Before even watching the video, let me just type I do appreciate your in-depth insights on tech stuff. It's a nice little history lesson few channels dive into, especially the parts showing contemporary (at the time) reactions to them. That research takes some time both to find and analyze!
There are so many versions of the GeForce 210 I have to wonder how awful the best version is. I have one that supposedly has 24 shading units according to GPU-Z which probably isn't right but let me tell ya, even with the extra shaders, GDDR3, and decent clocks... it's still pretty bad in games. As a display adapter... well it works. BUT considering they were still sold new as recent as 2021... terrible. There were and still are far cheaper and better options especially if looking used. I remember wanting one, before I knew what GPU really were for my old Pentium 4 system back in the day.. then I found out the motherboard can't support the GeForce 210s that were available. That's when I knew it was time to upgrade everything!
I respect your willingness to put any GPU you buy in your PC, I would be very worried to do that
I would have a specific test PC for that stuff. Just so that my main will not in any way be affected.
I used to play warband and fallout 3 on this exact card, with a pentium dual e4something and 1 gig of ddr2 667. It was an lga775 chip, and I swapped it for a e6700, 4gb of low density ddr2 800, and a r7 250 later on and it ran so much better on windows 7.
Holy hell, the pc specs sound like my pc specs 5 years ago. Fortunately, i upgraded to a 1060 back then.
With the resources wasted by this card, we probably could have achieved world peace instead.
Love when new videos roll in!
I purchased one of these a few years ago, no not as any kind of gaming card but for a 1080p picture? A lot of cpu's have no inbuilt graphics, you get a problem with your GPU you are fried. I seriously cannot imagine buying this for gaming, but it is excellent for getting a picture output. I love mine as a trusted backup.
Think of the GT210 as good for 640*480 games up till 2006. This GPU also was in the Nvidia ION and ION2. Basically, this beats a Wii. No, not a Wii U, a Wii.
Damn, not even 6800 Ultra-level performance?
The games do kind of look like someone attempted to port them to the original Xbox/Wii/GC/PS2.
Now they just get stuck in Facebook marketplace "gaming" systems with a 3rd gen i5 from an optiplex all bundled in a rgb case for £500
And the integrated graphics is better than the GT 210...
I remember this well, I used it to show H.D. vids as proof-of-life in super-cheap budget rigs of the day....I'm SO glad those days are over...lol.
I put this in a thousand computers that were never going to be used outside an office.
I just found this channel this week, and im loving it m8 !
This alongside the GT430 and GT610 were a must have if you build Hacintosh. Mac OSX just works with them and getting Intel HD to work was a nightmare
Around 2010 I ended up with an old first gen Athlon64 X2, since I didn't have any PCIe video cards I ran out and picked up the cheapest one I could find. I was quite horrified to find the 210 was about half the speed of my AGP GeForce 6600 GT, a mid range card from 2004.
The legends is back after 1 month,how are you?,we missed your content
This card was great when you just needed a display on a system and the mobo didn’t have an output. Of course the pci tridents were always much more preferable.
You are my favourite tech channel by far, quality content every time. Thank you
the fact that this GPU handles Mount&Blade Warband worse than my Intel integrated GPU from 2013, + the 240p CS:GO made me laugh for quite a while, ngl, it's almost unbelievable that there's a card this worse than an INTEL INTEGRATED GRAPHICS THING, on a LAPTOP, that's only 4 years younger
(it's the i3 4005U with it's Intel HD 4400 and now 8GB of RAM btw)
This card was the main reason why most of us completely stay away from prebuilts back in the day
I thought I upgraded once from a 9400 GT to a GT 210. how little did I know back than. Although the water in diablo 2 seemed to look better with it.
Newer equals better!!
This is bc gt 210 has dx 10.1 which diablo 2 uses it for while 9400gt uses dx10.0 in diablo 2
There is a kepplar refresh of 210. Basically 630's lil sister. It's passive and overclocks by 50% without voltage control, but you need to point a fan at it.
I remember really wanting to get one of these when I was in Maplins years ago. Bare in mind I had a Radeon HD 6450 at the time, which was actually more powerful. Just glad that the staffmember there told me to put more budget towards something better.
I played Battlefield 3 on this card. The enemy wouldn't even render on the lowest settings on 720p and it would stutter like crazy. Had to play the entire campaign at 800x600 resolution to get NPCs to render.
12:19 I got a rebrand of a HD 6450 (R5 230 which unfunnily works with HD 6450 drivers) which I gave to my friend once I bought myself a decent machine that did not have a Pentium 4 531 with 1GB RAM
11:01 Minecraft is actually a really good and fun game to tweak. I got 1.19 running at 100fps semi-stable on a mobile Core 2 Duo and Intel GMA X3100 graphics, be it on Linux with some shader hacks and low resolution, but it is actually working! The GT 210 should be 65% faster than that (according to UserBenchmark), so it would be really nice to see how well it would perform with those settings :D
In my opinion, he should use Garry’s Mod more as a benchmark.
Also, MCPE corrupts if you have more than 10MB of mods.
That is really good performance. In fact, that is much better than my tests on a Pentium 4/GTX 660 Ti setup.
Oh, and userbenchmark is really only good to compare the hardware with itself.
5:00 do you ever accidentally drop cards into that thing?
10:05 Thanks to that DirectX7 renderer one time I ran Mount and Blade With Fire and Sword on a Geforce 4 Mx440. Lowest settings of course and it did not run very well but after a while it stopped having freezes and would be playable if I was stuck on a deserted island with that computer
Well, the PC I use in the office has a GT710 lol. I just plugged the VGA cable directly to the mobo - that Lenovo ideacentre has an i7 of some sort, and the benchmark for the iGPU gave better results than the 710. I should probably bring it home as decoration or something.
I brought my new gaming PC December 2009. It was a Phenom II X4 945 _(great processor)_ with a GT 240 1gb. With a set budget I prioritized processor, upgrade compatible motherboard and good PSU instead _(the latter is in my current PC)._
I'd like to share a budget build of mine that I'm absolutely giddy over. I got a Dell optiplex 990, old office station. With Intel graphics and 4 GB of slow ram, it got 20 fps in GTA V with below lowest settings. But I added 16 GB of ram, and threw an RX 550 in it, and now I have 60 fps on GTA V, Fallout 4, and CSGO with Medium and High settings at 768p. This is so awesome for me because I've only ever had potatoes before, nothing capable of running these games like this. It was only 150 American Dollars, and with only 8 GB and a more competitively priced Optiplex, one could probably build it for 100.
Just as I wrote that this card was called just "GeForce 210", not "GeForce GT 210", you said it in the video.😀 Seems like even nVidia did not dare put the "GT" moniker on it.
OTOH, I can see the original purpose of this card, and even the reasons for its success. The Core2 and early Core-i CPUs did not yet have iGPUs. Belive it or not, the majority of people aren't gamers. For cheap, it was either (similarly misearable) chipset graphics or this. Perfectly viable solution for 2D office applications and did even play video reasonably well (for the time).
I love this card for the sole reason It made me able to play Half Life 2 at a reasonable framerate when I picked it out of a scrap PC when I had no money. Stuck with a Core 2 Duo 8400 in 2015, this thing was a life saver me.
Amazing. A graphics card sold today that my Iris Xe iGPU in the i7-1165G7 would completely decimate. Feels good man.
even iGPU from Sandy Bridge 2500k would decimate this card
I have managed to find a use case for a brand new 210: connecting two older, VGA-only monitors. Nowadays the 210 is the only GPU sold new which can have both VGA and DVI-I at the same time
Adapters are a thing. I use 1 hdmi and 1 vga monitor with a 3070
@@pygmalion8952 DVI/HDMI-to-VGA adapters are active, they convert the digital signal to analogue, so they cost a lot, at least much more than one would want to spend on such a thing; the 210 has a DVI-I, which combines both digital and analogue signals, so the needed adapter is just a bunch of cables, an it's usually included with the GPU itself
This video brings back some PTSD... If I recall correctly, the GT210 the "family pc" had back then died a year in, and it was "upgrade" to a GT310, or was it a GT 315? Regardless, I remember it was barely better than the 9600gt I had before. As for the PTSD? Well, that's the GPU I played through Crysis on. Had to be modded in the config to be playable at all, and there was some artifacting going on. But I was able to enable SSAO and at least the people at high school couldn't say I couldn't even play Crysis...
Your videos may not have the best hardware, but I love them good job bro 👍👍👍 I’d love to see some more full builds tho
in hungary during the gpu shortges, someone sold a gt 210 for more money, than the MSRP of a gtx 1070
Then I would like to know what a 1070 went for
@@masterTigress96 the GT 210 was around $400+ at that time.
it was around 180.000 HUF, so at that time around $400-450
EDIT:
you mean what a GTX 1070 went for during the shortages?
it went for around $800-1000, and an RTX 3090 was around $5500-6000
@@o-hogameplay185 Your mistake was quite helpful so don't feel sorry, I was initially interested in pricing for the 1070 but this paints a more complete picture. I feel sorry for my Hungarian brothers as these prices are insane. Thanks for the info and happy holidays.
@@masterTigress96 the prices are now normal, but back then it was insane
The best case for this card is steamlink. Because it can accelerate h264 I've been able to use an old one for remote play. That also means it can basically be used as terminal for your more powerful PC once you quit big screen
@@09f9 Right, any i3-2120 can do that job, and perform about as well as the 210
The best use, but not the best solution of course.
@@09f9 agreed that it's not the best solution, but it's the best outcome for the card itself
I remember my parents had a PC with a Nvidia 210. In MSI Afterburner I could more than double the GPU and memory frequency and it ran a bit better.
It was no gaming card, but at least Chrome was less laggy.
7:44 I can feel the pain, I got a tecra a9 around 2012 and I remember spending my time trying to run games at insanely low settings
This was actually my first ever "gaming" gpu in 2012 it was ddr3 though, i managed to play gta 4, tomb raider 2013, cod black ops 2, max payne 3 etc, it did ok, i never paid too much attention on fps and stuff, overall it i did enjoy and i loved it for what it was back then.
A dude build his PC at 2019. His RTX 2060 Super was delayed by Amazon for some issues so, for two weeks he had to use his new Ryzen 5 3600 with a GT 210 for working lmao.
Oh man, this is bringing back memories of when me and my step brother tried playing games on a Geforce 9400 back when that was the best GPU I had. I'd gotten it for free, along with most of the other parts I mashed together to give him a PC in 2015 or so. But hay ... it was at least better than the 7300le he had before that, which doesn't have Windows 10 drivers.
the 9400 pounced the geforce 210 into the ground in all aspect other than direct x support.
Holy crap these are still selling! This is pure madness, although I can see why after that period of stupid prices due to Covid and now inflation hitting. Like you said much more affordable cards out there that are much more powerful, I think I saw a GTX980 in CEX the other day for £125.00.
My first GPU when I bought my first "gaming" PC was the GT510
my first was the gts250
Morning breakfast with budget build videos = peaceful Life
I remember the GT 210! It was the very first GPU I bought for the very first computer I built. I played so many Flash games with it, back when I didn't know Steam was around.
Slightly different perspective, but the 210 is actually kind of useful for DIY server builds when you don’t have an iGPU given that it’s a PCIe capable card, has been relatively cheap, and can be passively cooled. I only just recently switched to GTX 1030's in most of my own such builds, and that was only because I couldn’t find any 210's from reputable sellers anymore (and the 1030 is only a 35W card compared to the 210 being a 75W card).
Old GPUs like this have always been a thing for such usage. At my previous job we were even still using old Trident cards even in 2019 for this, because we still had some pre-PCIe systems around.
What if you *forced* the two GT 210's in an SLI configuration?
Easily run Cyberpunk in all ultra while the universe renders in the background
5:42 how does this perform better then my gt120 or radeon hd from 2011
yeah makes sence i play at 720p
The HD 6450 gets a meager score of 200 on PassMark. If that's superior, what score does the GT210 get? Negative fifty seven?
Probably 20s. The FX 5200 though...it gets 8 points.
Nice brief feature of DoD @ 14:50
I woke up kinda shitty, then RUclips popped up that Budget Builds had a new vid. No longer shitty. Gonna be a good dayyyy
3:15 Re-assembling without removing stone-old thermal paste ? (from heatsink)
By the time the 210 was released I was still running a 512mb PCIe 6600 GT and I didn't know I could upgrade so much for so little money... Wow...
I still have a GT 220 in a drawer, and a GT 320. First played Crysis on the GT 320.
The GT 320 had 72 CUDA cores, compared to the 36 CUDA cores on my laptop GPU. (Paired with an Intel E6700.)
my dad's dell dimension 2400 had the pci version of this for awhile till he upgraded to a pci gt 610, btw he's still using that pc..
GIGABYTE GT210 was the first GPU I got in 2011-12 after begging my father who then instructed my brother-in-law to get me a GPU. At the time I didn't understand the intricacies of gaming hardware so I just requested a graphics card and that's what he brought me. It was definitely an upgrade over what I had considering my whole PC would shut down after a few hour of gaming session at what I assume now was 12FPS. I played all the Assassin's Creed games up to IV Black Flag at lowest settings smoothly thanks to this card. Albeit Black Flag would visibly lag compared to III which ran smoothly without crashing. But then Unity came out a few years later and it wouldn't run at all. So I begged my father again and this time my brother-in-law got me a brand new PC with Intel Core i5 4th gen and a... GT730.
This card was barely an upgrade and Unity ran at terrible FPS on low. I remember requesting a GTX960 or something but for some reason he got me this instead. The card quickly became extremely outdated by just 2016. And I still used the same PC with the same card until this year when it finally died. Now I'm just using the internal GPU which is much worse.
At this point I just got too used to having a crap PC. I basically accepted that I'll never get the gaming PC experience I always wanted.
Bindpoo is actually quite a fitting name if they're still manufacturing these things.....🤣
are we sure this thing is faster than integrated graphics or even just software rendering?
Geforce 210 kept being produced even after the original card was discontinued. Nvidia rebranded it as 310-315 or something and even made laptop versions. My laptop gpu is 315M, but under Linux I can see that it's 218M, which is the name of the chip Geforce 210 uses.
I had this card probably about a decade and some change ago. It ran minecraft 1.2 at maybe 25 FPS and really couldn't do much more. Oh and the awful thing was so loud when I swapped it out for a gt630 later down the line I thought something was legitimately wrong with my computer
i played WoW on this card at 5-10 FPS on release.. I think i had it already for 4-6 years before WoW released. I played all my favorite games on this card (at 5-45 FPS, usually somewhere around 15 FPS avarage)
I was so HAPPY! It was my first "gaming" PC!
I've never been more happy with a PC. Even today, with my RTX3090 , 5950X, 4Ghz DDR4, ITS JUST NOT THE SAME! xD
The Hackintosh card. This was the go to card if you wanted an easy to build Hackintosh up to around the High Sierra era.
I had the geforce 205, in an old pentium 4 system that did pretty well for light gaming. People like to buy very cheap cards then complain when they don't have the power of the flagship model of that year. Just need to have realistic expectations.
I had this....
in 2012
I upgraded 2015 to the gt 610
Man i do not want to remember those times
I had the FX5200 years before the release of the (GT) 210, it was a similiar experience. :D
But I was young and I had no demand for high fps or good graphics. (I didn't even know what it was.) It just worked for my games.
I never heard of it. My Desktop had a capable HD 4770 and in 2011-2014 I only used a laptop due to becoming a student. When my laptop died I upgraded to a 750 ti.
1:14 how did you get that 2013-2017 look of RUclips
To be honest, I used to have a PC with no iGPU that I transformed in a NAS/server and I needed some kind of "graphics adapter" because I kept the RTX I had for my newer beast gaming PC. One friend gave me this for the price of a vodka and I'm more than happy with that low end very low power card for what I do with it. Ofc, I tried to "game" on it just for the laughs, and damn, I would never think of this for a gaming PC lol.
Meanwhile, it can be a fun thingy for a retro gaming PC...
Oh, and BTW, those cards are often raped asf in MSi Afterburner 😂
This video made me happy that I have and use a GT 1030 in my current system.
Cards like this do have real use cases. Once I needed to convert an old office PC into a family-room computer for my mom and I needed to add an HDMI port to it because I didn't want her to have to deal with DisplayPort converters.
I bought one last year. My old computer went BOOM one day and killed everything, so I decided to build a new one.
Thanks budget builds love the video 😊
Oh, man. I had this card on my old computer (2009-2016). It was an absolute pain. Almost any MMO games barely had 30-40 fps on lowest settings.
I was still a kid at the time, but i've got a actual job just to buy a new card and get rid of this monstrocity... Good times
I've actually got one of these in use now.....it's in an old optiplex system I'm using as a home server. I'm pretty sure the iGPU is better but the box doesn't have HDMI on the main board and this card dose have HDMI out. I had this card floating around as salvage from another optiplex system I snagged from work after a major hardware overhaul. It's by no way something I'd pay cash for myself but it serves the purpose well enough.
I bought a BFG (remember those guys?) GTX 280 launch week in 2008. $650, which now is about $900. It was a brilliant card, but even at the time it was considered completely overkill and most didn't buy it. I kept it around a LONG time, but frankly, it's 1gb vram, performance, and DX10 limitations means it aged horribly.
So I cannot even fathom living with a GT210. I mean I have to assume even my Intel 2600K I got in 2011 would equal this thing in GPU and decoding power.
Maybe it is because of the lower resource usage in general, maybe it is because the open source Nvidia driver still gets updates while the official drivers that support the 210 haven't been updated in years but I pulled one of these out of a drawer just a few weeks ago and slapped it in an old motherboard and put together a machine that handles streaming for my niece. No illusions about a gaming on it but it worked smoothly for 1080p streaming.
Looks like it runs smoother than my current rig, i3-380M running integrated graphics. Pretty much the only game I can comfortably play is Spore, so losing a 9700k and 2080S has helped me get back in touch with my classic game collection.
Truly a display adapter, not worthy of the title "graphics card". Definitely deserves recognition for being a good multi-monitor 1080p video decoder at it's price point back then.