Ohhh was hoping to see that 5970 working :( I bought one a few months ago and it was also broken, maybe it's for the best, crossfire is always a pain 😅
I just bought one too! €35.. I had some issues with it losing image when I was trying to play GTA V and Cyberpunk wouldn't even start... but I'll try it again on a clean install and different hardware, maybe it helps :)
I absolutely love how UK youtubers have this intentional "low budget" feel that becomes their charm and "thing". Like Ashens, guy has over million of subs and he just reviews random stuff on his sofa, just brilliant.
Dude I love that Ghost Recon 8800 GTS, I was trying to remember what game that was, went and looked it up and I was right. What a cool video, thank you for making it, your channel is one of my favorites!
I'd like to see tests of the FirePro V5800! That was the first graphics card I ever bought, and I slapped it into a Dell Optiplex 780 as my first ever "gaming rig"
Oven method saved my 780TI for several years. AFAIK the guy who bought it off me a year ago still has it going! While it only works sometimes, it is absolutely solution that does not warrant dismissing.
You would be amazed what taking them apart, give a good clean all over, blow out the monitor out connectors, put them back together and try them again. It usually will bring one or two back to life. Tech Yes did a good video on just this. Love your video although im a bit late to this one. Cheers
Untested = Not working = For parts Might as well get yourself a rework station, a hot air station and some soldering supplies and learn to repair those cards, it's actually quite fun
I've yet to encounter graphics card I could not fix with the oven method. Remove cooler, make some tinfoil supports so pcb won't touch oven plate, 200C 10min. Tried on 100% dead cards only, artifacts usually are memory problem.
Too bad that 5970 was dead. I had two back when they were new, quad Crossfire, it was crazy. Nowhere near enough VRAM though since they all, technically, share 1GB.
yeah its kind of the same concept, just sort of a cheap and iffy way of reflowing bga chips. Most people don't use any flux or add new solder, but if it works, it can be ok. Most of the components can handle heat, but I never like heating up capacitors.
If there's one thing I've learned from eBay it's that if someone says something is untested it usually means they know it's fucked and just want to get rid of it.
Yes you're actually saving them the cost of paying for WEEEaway disposal - anyone with 50 graphics cards to sell is probably a business that is more than capable of testing them.
On an individual basis, 50/50 shot. With batches of items, it's either somebody cleaning out their garage, or they purchased stuff at auction and are just flipping it. I've been pretty lucky, in that i've only gotten totally screwed a couple of times. then i just turn them into shelf decorations. lol.
@@Dedubya- capable?, maybe, but is it worth it? For a business, setting someone down and testing this many cards would be the better part of a day, for maybe a few dollars. The emphasis being 'maybe'. Unless all the cards sell, you could be out more in labor cost. I've got a couple boxes of gpus i've accumulated over the years, and i wouldn't even bother trying to test all of them if i was going to sell on ebay. And i do have the ability to test every one. It's just not worth it, financially.
Man I really love your work. You make the videos so much fun and welcoming, that I feel like I am having a chat with my friend or someone familiar. My comment has no other point than expressing my very positive opinion about your channel. Keep it up. We love you
Wasn't that card infamous for being pretty crappy? The 200 in its name implies it already, but back then there was a great leap in video game graphics and if you wanted to play any new games the lower-tier cards were a very bad idea.
I just bought one of those 780s. I thought it was faulty at first as I couldn't get any display on an x570 or b450 board even with csm enabled. I tested it on an old fm2 board and it worked perfectly. I changed the vbios on the card to one that supports UEFI boot and it's working perfectly on the newer boards now. It's quite a respectable performer for the price too!
@RandomGamingHD. I have had much success using a heat gun and an infrared gun to monitor temps. First clean the board with a toothbrush and 90+ % rubbing alcohol let dry, then heat the back of the board to 385 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit Idk what that is in Celcius lol..... And use the infrared gun to monitor temps making sure the whole board is even temp by slowly going across the whole board do this between 5 to 10 minutes you should see solder look a little liquid if you do not after 5 to 10 minutes increase them by 10 deg until u start seeing it shiny that means its hit the correct melting point which boards from 90's to nowadays can be different. If this does not work you could always use the Louis Rossman method mac repair RUclipsr lol... Use alot of flux and use a soldering iron and some extra solder, the flux will make the solder adhere to the other existing solder basically making a better connection. You can never have to much flux :) If u have 2 of the same cards and they both artifact you could use the soldering gun and just move the memory chips back and forth because usually, artifacting is due to memory.... Or you can just underclock the memory abit and see if the issue goes away if so you can use a bios editor to just manually set the mem speed to what is stable
Just don’t use the oven method with an oven you cook actual food in, you don’t want to give yourself lead poisoning. The heatgun method could work as well
@@marco56702 yup part of the reason we have to even bake or heat gun cards is due to non lead based solder, doesn't last as long through hot/cool cycles.
I've just rebuilt my rig and now have 2 980ti's to sell there great cards for 1080p. Don't want to scare you but make sure you save all the drivers and maybe get the back catolog of them nvidia tend to start fading out support for card over 6 year old and you nearly there I'm afraid.
@@martinblanch5828 thanks for letting me know! :) , although I dont think they will phase them out for another 2 years because they are great performing cards and alot of people still use them
Could you make a Discord channel, and post what you don't want for sale. There's some older GPU's I'm looking for. Maybe you could sell them? 5:49 I have 4 of those in Quad CrossFire with a AMD 64 x2 6400+ and 4GB DDR2 800mt/s C4 on a MSI MoBo.
the 'mystrycard' wasnt unlabled. It says 'fx5200' clearly and had the xfx variant if that card eith AGP :D. played FarCry 1 on it and run pretty decent. 128mb vram if i remember correctly.
I happen to have a Sapphire HD 5970 that works. If you want I wouldnt mind giving it to you for free to test it out (maybe if you fix the one you got 4 way crossfire? ;D) however I do live in New York so shipping may be pricey.
If you dont mind, i am looking for a gpu and if i was wondering if i could maybe take one of those off your hands. I really dont even need anything fancy just 720p high/medium at 60fps and i think some of those may be capable of that
That would be cool to try and 'repair' all those fake cards by flashing the bios ! 9:34 No ! Not a new fan, put some oil in it, it might fix the problem.
Ahh the good ol Single slot 8800GT,great cards back in the day but for some reason they all seemed to fail eventually, it would be interesting to see if that 8800gt holds up in test after test to see if its been baked back to life before as i managed to get one working with the oven bake method but only for a short few hours then it started artifacting again.
Ohhh was hoping to see that 5970 working :(
I bought one a few months ago and it was also broken, maybe it's for the best, crossfire is always a pain 😅
Yeah hopefully I’ll revive it with a heat gun or something, even if it works for just an hour or so 😂
My two favourite RUclipsrs!!!
I just bought one too! €35.. I had some issues with it losing image when I was trying to play GTA V and Cyberpunk wouldn't even start... but I'll try it again on a clean install and different hardware, maybe it helps :)
if you hope they work they will always be dead when you think there broken for some god reason it will run better then ever
how did they turn up without you realising you had won the auction, before you paid...?
I absolutely love how UK youtubers have this intentional "low budget" feel that becomes their charm and "thing". Like Ashens, guy has over million of subs and he just reviews random stuff on his sofa, just brilliant.
I love Ashens’ videos!
@@RandomGaminginHD me too, he's amazing
Everytime I watch RG vids , I think about Ashens and the sad onions.
2:20 he finally found a 6800XT! Wow, what a lucky guy! Have fun playing Cyberpunk with RT on!
Sophie: what are you doing with oven?
*RandomgaminginHD with a oven tray full of gpu's*: nothing
What do you got there?
A smoothie.
3:36 One thing I love about Quadro GPUs are these designs, they're so nice!
super wholesome, can't wait for the follow up videos going more in-depth, some great tech history right here!
Thanks :)
Damn you scored big! A 6800XT is like $1000!
So wholesome that your sister makes merch, i like that
2:16 woah you actually managed to get your hands on a 6800XT?! incredible
Dude I love that Ghost Recon 8800 GTS, I was trying to remember what game that was, went and looked it up and I was right. What a cool video, thank you for making it, your channel is one of my favorites!
0:55 The Box (video part)
Me: EEE OOO
I'd like to see tests of the FirePro V5800! That was the first graphics card I ever bought, and I slapped it into a Dell Optiplex 780 as my first ever "gaming rig"
Oven method saved my 780TI for several years. AFAIK the guy who bought it off me a year ago still has it going! While it only works sometimes, it is absolutely solution that does not warrant dismissing.
You really got the best PC content here. So many interesting ideas, realistic challenges.. Awesome.
I Still remember and miss My GeForce 8800GT Bliss 1GB . Ruby red and as big as an VHS Rental box :) what a beast
Really excited for videos to come after these many older GPUs in older titles to see how they hold up
Oh wow! I had that exact ATI HD 3870 years ago! I remember the lady character on the shroud. Good memories.
I love that this channel is evidence is that you don't need high end equiment to have a "succesful" channel.
You would be amazed what taking them apart, give a good clean all over, blow out the monitor out connectors, put them back together and try them again. It usually will bring one or two back to life. Tech Yes did a good video on just this. Love your video although im a bit late to this one. Cheers
You have no idea how many times I’ve almost bid on these kinds of auctions on eBay. I know my wife would be like wtf is wrong with you
It's like the equivalent of the 'Airplane Boneyard' 😂
Untested = Not working = For parts
Might as well get yourself a rework station, a hot air station and some soldering supplies and learn to repair those cards, it's actually quite fun
7:00 looks to be some kind of ATI Radeon 7000 from around 2003 or something base on it
I've yet to encounter graphics card I could not fix with the oven method. Remove cooler, make some tinfoil supports so pcb won't touch oven plate, 200C 10min. Tried on 100% dead cards only, artifacts usually are memory problem.
The 5970 required a really beefy psu and if you don't have enough amps in your rails, it wont boot at all
Awesome video, I still have an agp Windows me system with a 9550 for my dos fix, an 8800 for Windows 2000 fun
Just love love, much love too have chance to get something and testing things like you
7:00 That's FX5200 125MB (has sticker on front near IO)
It also says model name on PCB, next to heatsink.
Too bad that 5970 was dead. I had two back when they were new, quad Crossfire, it was crazy. Nowhere near enough VRAM though since they all, technically, share 1GB.
what's cooking tonight bro? 8800gt for starters, firepro for mains and fake 1050ti for desert!
dual gpu's always fascinated me. ashamed it didn't work.
I'm pretty excited for this series and now I know not to try to send this 8400GS (that I pulled out of an old Dell) to you from America.
That'll probably go for 1000 dollars right now
When you pay $70 for e-waste...
Honestly though, I love playing with old hardware. Brings back memories.
2:20 OMG YOU GOT A 6800XT!
Oh wait...
Wow a GPU in stock
Wow a broke boi without decent pre-order mindset
Always hasn't been
@@fortnitespecialty5003 | Very cool FortniteSpecialty
@@ouwebok3356 but are you cool enough to be cool or are u overheating?
not anymore, he bought them all
8:37 I like how the nVidia card had green line artifacts, while the AMD card had red line artifacts that went perpendicular to the nVidia ones.
"there are no accidents"
-Sun Tzu
Mom , can we have a 6800xt?
No, we have a 6800xt at home.
6800xt at home: 2:14
im sure there is a gamer that asked exactly this and got the old 6800xt as a present!
John wick let’s collaborate on a future movie you’ll star in.
seller : that's the OG version kido 😏
It would actually be a funny joke to give this old card to a gamer for his birthday
Just put it on ebay and see the prices go UP... If the buyer complains, just tell him he got a 6800xt!
So how many gpus you want?
Steve : yes
His name is Steve!!!!!
Steve???
@@fredrikkarlsson8594 Alan!
Your comment, pfp and name are like time capsules from last year.
Owh, i think it's Joe :(
New channel name: RandomUnboxingInHD
Damn
it might become a separate channel if he continues too do this
Well, channel used to be interesting back few years ago, he is clearly out of ideas... Not that much viewers aswell.
@@voicecrackerman5307 Yep
im down
Something fairly similar happened to me i accidentally bought 25 kids ill be testing the performance tommorow
do GIVEAWAY!!!
Wtf lol
@@hridayawesomeheart9477 will do
Performance hehe
Winner gets to stay?
Me: I got a 6800xt
someone: the new AMD card?
Me: nope just the nVidia one for 2£
Me waiting for 7000 series to finally be proud of my $20 7850 AMD card
The oven trick sounds like the old Xbox 360 ring of death, "wrap it in towel" technique.
Probably works as well too.
@Larry Bundy Jr for Xbox 360 tricks, it's probably more of the open case use hair dryer on motherboard components.
yeah its kind of the same concept, just sort of a cheap and iffy way of reflowing bga chips. Most people don't use any flux or add new solder, but if it works, it can be ok. Most of the components can handle heat, but I never like heating up capacitors.
it does!
lol i actually stuck forks in the fans of mine after repasting to fix it...worked for another 8 months
2:06
Bro, you got a 6800xt for £2!
Lol
He could sell it on Ebay for like $7,000 like everyone else is hah, jokes.
@@thephoenixking1086 and because it is technically a 6800xt, eBay wouldn’t make him refund 🤣
I was just about to comment that xD
Beat me to it *cries*
Exactly!
If there's one thing I've learned from eBay it's that if someone says something is untested it usually means they know it's fucked and just want to get rid of it.
Yes you're actually saving them the cost of paying for WEEEaway disposal - anyone with 50 graphics cards to sell is probably a business that is more than capable of testing them.
i bought an untested xbox 360 that was only fucked because it was full of dust and because the disc tray belt was fucked. its now fixed and being sold
On an individual basis, 50/50 shot.
With batches of items, it's either somebody cleaning out their garage, or they purchased stuff at auction and are just flipping it.
I've been pretty lucky, in that i've only gotten totally screwed a couple of times.
then i just turn them into shelf decorations. lol.
@@Dedubya- capable?, maybe, but is it worth it?
For a business, setting someone down and testing this many cards would be the better part of a day, for maybe a few dollars.
The emphasis being 'maybe'. Unless all the cards sell, you could be out more in labor cost.
I've got a couple boxes of gpus i've accumulated over the years, and i wouldn't even bother trying to test all of them if i was going to sell on ebay.
And i do have the ability to test every one. It's just not worth it, financially.
Got an "untested" motherboard. Took a punt and discovered 2 socket pins just needed straightening. All good!
I bought my first guitar for £25 on ebay. It was 6 cm long, which I wasn't aware of until the package arrived.
Yoooo it's tux
@@Lil_B_Fan47 indeed tis
@@memoryfoam2285 it's an honor to meet you
If it works it was worth it tho :D
Oh boo hoo, let me play a sad song on this tiny guitar
2:15 now you can say you got a 6800xt and everyone will believe you
haha yeah good point
@@RandomGaminginHD wow i cannot believe you replied im so happy
@@RandomGaminginHD Lol you could make a video titled "6800XT on a budget"
Stewie don't put your tongue up his pipe
@@PeterGriffin-vn3us what if I do?
Just about to jump in the shower, then saw this uploaded.
I've got my priorities straight.
Don't jump in the shower! Sounds like a miserable way to go
Slippery when wet. You're right, better sit in front of a pc than lying in the hospital...
Don't shower, think of the fish, they need the water more than you
Wow, you watch RandomGaminginHD while showering? - You're dedicated!
"accidentally bought 25 untested graphics cards" yeah man i always hate when that happens it happens every time
Damn I feel so old, I remember looking and dreaming to have those GPUs in PC Magazines and now they're almost trash tier. 😭
Anything under a 380 is pretty bad for today's standard, the 480 is already 4 1/2 years old, let that sink in lol
@@fran2911 *rx
@@OutOfRangeDE well duh..
@@fran2911 how old is the 750ti gddr7?
Man I really love your work. You make the videos so much fun and welcoming, that I feel like I am having a chat with my friend or someone familiar. My comment has no other point than expressing my very positive opinion about your channel. Keep it up. We love you
7:01 that card is a fx 5200, says it right on the pcb actually above the cooler & on the sticker on top of the what I'd guess is the s-video port.
ah thanks, my terrible eyes missed that haha
@@RandomGaminginHD The numbers on the sticker (9105210434) apparently mean that it's an AOpen branded card.
i used an fx5200 on my Pentium 4 :D good old days! gave me a solid 99 fps in cs 1.6.
It's more like printing than a sticker.
Wasn't that card infamous for being pretty crappy? The 200 in its name implies it already, but back then there was a great leap in video game graphics and if you wanted to play any new games the lower-tier cards were a very bad idea.
I just bought one of those 780s. I thought it was faulty at first as I couldn't get any display on an x570 or b450 board even with csm enabled. I tested it on an old fm2 board and it worked perfectly. I changed the vbios on the card to one that supports UEFI boot and it's working perfectly on the newer boards now. It's quite a respectable performer for the price too!
Looking forward to the "6800XT" Review
"Cameraman woman"
Isn't that just "camerawoman"?
yes possibly haha
He had a stroke
No! It will always be Cameraman Woman
Well technically it's correct, since the man in cameraman actually means human and not a male human.
@@NuDimon We should be careful maybe some feminist will understand this as an insult. Or maybe even we finish as racists
Ah... the legendary 8800 GT
I love it 😁
Your sister is awesome, my sisters would never help me film.
@RandomGamingHD. I have had much success using a heat gun and an infrared gun to monitor temps. First clean the board with a toothbrush and 90+ % rubbing alcohol let dry, then heat the back of the board to 385 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit Idk what that is in Celcius lol..... And use the infrared gun to monitor temps making sure the whole board is even temp by slowly going across the whole board do this between 5 to 10 minutes you should see solder look a little liquid if you do not after 5 to 10 minutes increase them by 10 deg until u start seeing it shiny that means its hit the correct melting point which boards from 90's to nowadays can be different. If this does not work you could always use the Louis Rossman method mac repair RUclipsr lol... Use alot of flux and use a soldering iron and some extra solder, the flux will make the solder adhere to the other existing solder basically making a better connection. You can never have to much flux :)
If u have 2 of the same cards and they both artifact you could use the soldering gun and just move the memory chips back and forth because usually, artifacting is due to memory.... Or you can just underclock the memory abit and see if the issue goes away if so you can use a bios editor to just manually set the mem speed to what is stable
Next video:
"My video card addiction!"
2:30 I have that exact card in my XP gaming rig. Bought it for 20e.
I think i have one as well in my fathers Pc...with a core 2 duo :)) good enough for Yt..
@@Szilagyicsabaistvan Nice
Did you say gaming rig? lol Nostalgia is great (～￣▽￣)～
Full XP gaming rig.
Just don’t use the oven method with an oven you cook actual food in, you don’t want to give yourself lead poisoning. The heatgun method could work as well
Absolutely, and the fumes would be quite toxic too.
I want to give myself lead poisoning. Thank you for the suggestion
No lead from any recent board (ROHS compliance), but many nasty stuff you don't want in your kitchen oven anyway
@@marco56702 yup part of the reason we have to even bake or heat gun cards is due to non lead based solder, doesn't last as long through hot/cool cycles.
There is no lead in modern electronics.
I bought a gtx 980 about a week ago, it arrived today and it's amazing! One of the reasons I bought it was because of your videos! Thank you! :)
I've just rebuilt my rig and now have 2 980ti's to sell there great cards for 1080p. Don't want to scare you but make sure you save all the drivers and maybe get the back catolog of them nvidia tend to start fading out support for card over 6 year old and you nearly there I'm afraid.
@@martinblanch5828 yup, I know that, but at least I'll still be able to use it...
@@martinblanch5828 thanks for letting me know! :) , although I dont think they will phase them out for another 2 years because they are great performing cards and alot of people still use them
7:55 the poor capacitor on the card on the right
Reminds me of an Only Fools And Horses scene
Del: They're not ordinary lawnmower engines
Rodney: Yeah?
Del: No, they've broken lawnmower engines
5:54 it's pronounced "DDR4 GT10thiddy”
I don't mind long videos as long as they are fun like this one
It would be great to see testing old GPUs 2-4gb Due new GPU Prices are INSANE
that moment when Random Gaming In HD manages to get a 6800 xt for less than $50 in 2021
Could you make a Discord channel, and post what you don't want for sale. There's some older GPU's I'm looking for. Maybe you could sell them?
5:49 I have 4 of those in Quad CrossFire with a AMD 64 x2 6400+ and 4GB DDR2 800mt/s C4 on a MSI MoBo.
Would love to see more of this content, along with some repair attempts!
I had 6800 GT and 6800 GT SLI back in day. After that HD 3870 Crossfire. My brother had that exact 8800GTS model from asus
Man this guy is so chill and generally looks like a nice guy. Man i like people like him
Nostalgia is hitting me
6800GTS < Elders scrolls oblivion
8800GT < can’t remember
HD 5970 < some battlefield game
when are you making a discord server?
RandomDiscodServerInHD?
No wonder why there's gpu shortages 🤣
I'm buying a Used GPU , for DaVinci Resolve
GTX 970 4gb vs RX 570 4gb
Which one should I buy ?
Is AMD bad for Editing & Encoding ?
This is cool, I clicked so fast
the 'mystrycard' wasnt unlabled. It says 'fx5200' clearly and had the xfx variant if that card eith AGP :D. played FarCry 1 on it and run pretty decent. 128mb vram if i remember correctly.
me watching the video on 144p and still don't even have a card lmao
I happen to have a Sapphire HD 5970 that works. If you want I wouldnt mind giving it to you for free to test it out (maybe if you fix the one you got 4 way crossfire? ;D) however I do live in New York so shipping may be pricey.
Next week "I build a mining rig...."
I can't believe they said there wasn't any 6800 xt stock. AMD has too much stock, they had to dump them since the warehouses were full. SMH
"there are no accidents" master Oogway
I have an XFX 6800XT too... wonder if I could sell it with not lying at all in the listing but marking that price up
Hmmm
hi can't you give me gpu hehheheheh in Philippines so expensive gpu i cant buy because I'm very poor.... hayst..🥰🥰 love you...
If you dont mind, i am looking for a gpu and if i was wondering if i could maybe take one of those off your hands. I really dont even need anything fancy just 720p high/medium at 60fps and i think some of those may be capable of that
That would be cool to try and 'repair' all those fake cards by flashing the bios !
9:34 No ! Not a new fan, put some oil in it, it might fix the problem.
My friend once swap a faulty 7970 with a bottle of Pepsi . He reflowed it and revive the card . It was useable for about a year
Wow... my first ever gpu was Asus 8800 GTS and u have it 😅✌
That 8800 caught my eye. Aspired to own one when growing up.
People struggling to get their hands on the 6800 xt and this man bought one for 2 pounds
I've been told I sound like you today (along with 73 other channels from the UK). There's a chance you're my closest voice twin 😂👑
Yo he got a XFX 6800XT for £2!!!!!!!
Yes I am joking
Or Welcome to an episode of showing gaming garbage to subscribers.
When all of the ancient graphics cards are still better than your intel igpu :(
7:12 I've got a Sapphire HD 5970 that does still work - getting very rare now.
oh wow he got a 6800XT for that cheap! oh wait.. that's the old 6800XT...
Could you please test core 2 quad q9500... Very curious to know how it performs against modern games.
Ahh the good ol Single slot 8800GT,great cards back in the day but for some reason they all seemed to fail eventually, it would be interesting to see if that 8800gt holds up in test after test to see if its been baked back to life before as i managed to get one working with the oven bake method but only for a short few hours then it started artifacting again.
for that price, i sold my amd r9 280 in working conditions :D