The Graphics Card That Caused a Noise Complaint | Fixing a £15 ($20) HD 6950
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- Опубликовано: 23 фев 2019
- Today I decided to see what was causing a Radeon HD 6950 I bought online to produce an unbearable noise. A noise so loud in fact that my neighbours complained. Once a $299 powerhouse the 6950 lacks any modern driver support, but does that stop it from running some of the latest titles?
We'll also be checking out the unlocking feature of this GPU which should let us essentially turn it into a 6970, a graphics card that cost $80 more than this one brand new.
Thanks for watching :) 
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Now I can play Microsoft flight simulator with a card that sounds like an actual plane.
Super realism mod
@@RandomGaminginHD imagine putting 4 of these in actual turbines 😂
Now Prepar3d is much more realistic
WHAT?
Xplane 11 is better , this would go well with the fmod sounds haha
That's no graphic card, that's a jet engine!!
ohh boi, you never heard about nvidia.. haha heard.. they have a legend jet enginge card, it louder then this here, just search
@@Xenoray1 lol what
@@Xenoray1 yeah the FX 5800 ultra
@@Xenoray1 It's not a matter of company, it's these poorly designed cooling systems
Yah it was basically designed to be shitty from.the factory so it's not surprising
Neighbours: Why were you ramp starting an F16 at 11pm?
lol
Ahahahaha
stop
"So what Performance do you get from your GPU"
*I get around 300*
"Whoa 300 FPS?!!"
*300 Decibels*
*louder then a bomb*
300 Degree Celsius
Ah yes. A graphics card 32,000x louder than a plane.
Horse Power
Watts
LOL, I had the closed captioning on, and when the gpu started, the cc read [APPLAUSE]
Lol that's amazing
Me too lmfao
LMFAO - pretty much the exact opposite in reality!
LMAO
🤣
I didn't know AMD made vacuum cleaners.
My RX580 is an overclocked vacuum
Mine Too, but I have an RGB vaccum. @The Real Bleach
@@TheRealBleach how about using your hands and searchong for undervolting tutorials ?
@@Xenoray1 My RX580 is defective, it has a memory problem so it needs more power than stock. Otherwise it shuts off
@@supercool3663 Lmao, the entire PC
For 15£ you got a pretty cheap jet engine
I've got one in my windows xp retro rig. Does pretty well with the older stuff!
Someone needs to tell Cleetus McFarland about this, so when Mullet breaks they can afford a new jet for it.
You should create mini jet case to make it look like a real (mini) jet
*THE US AIRFORCE WANTS TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION
£15 dumbass
“This is your captain speaking, thank you for flying MSI Airlines on Flight 6950... Weather forecast is clear skies, and will be a little hot today... It will be a bit noisy today with our new GPU engines today...”
too many todays
Today or tomorrow?
@@mylesthomas511 Todorrow
Gendines :P
@@ioutra6121 3
now i know why MSI has F-22s and F-35s on their boxarts
Underrated
Lmao
AMD Radeon.
Vacuuming the Competition.
Nvidia GT.
Killer of Ears.
@@Xenoray1 Don't be such a fangirl !!! Fan = Fanatic , Girl = Pu$$y ... All companies have a history of poor designs. Don't forget, it's not actually AMD or Nvidia making these, it's all contracted companies and R&D . I worked for Diamond and ATI for 8 years. I also worked for Cyrix for 2 years. I've been in the field
Sucking since the hd 6000 series xD
Or
Blowing their competitors out of the water.
Zing! 🤣
Sucking*
Nice! I bought a whole PC for £40 today - Radeon HD 6850, Phenom II x4 945, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 1TB HDD and 550W PSU. And the case looks amazing :V
Nice find :)
@@RandomGaminginHD Thanks! BTW. sice you're here. Let me thank you for something else. You actually inspired me to make my own budget-tech, crappy-pc RUclips channel.
Unfortunatelly - despite that I'm living in Sotland - it's all in Polish :V
Redaktor Kebab just reinstall windows to change the language and clear out the system
@@mickystone7530 he's talking about his channel is polish
That's pretty nice!
Wanted to listen to the fan noise after cleaning and with the new drivers.
Vacuuming at 11pm haha
1:23 That 6950 blows so hard its moving the dust around LOL!
*A reverse vacuum cleaner*
Hate cleaning your pc? Slap in one of these and your good
😂😆
*a leaf blower*
You're on of my favorite tech channels man! Most everybody is testing the newest and latest. You're trying to breathe life into adequate older tech. My kinda stuff
The video was entertaining, but more importantly, I see your Photoshop skills have been improving!
A 15 dollar gpu
Or...
THE CHEAPEST JET ENGINE EVER
So it sounded like a original ps4
(Edit) its a joke don't take it so serious
@The Reaper95 yeah but that's stuff you have had to do, and most people wouldn't dare take anything apart especially being console peasants
@The Reaper95 r/wooosh
@The Reaper95 joseph's comment was a joke and you took it seriously
the whole time i was actually being sarcastic -_-
@The Reaper95 the slim is the louder one uve had both lol
Just had to leave a comment to say your drawing of a semi-detached house is absolutely magnificent
Man u can upload the videos, keep it up, i look forward to them daily and u don't disappoint
Me: Watching this video
Me: *Looks at my computer* "If you ever sound close to this, I'm putting you up on Ebay, never to see you again. Got it?"
Your neighbors complain made me laugh xdd
MsMagicsproductions laught 🤦♂️ do you even pass 1st grade granma
@@MalakianTNW Ye Bruh Dan't warry, eberry one cammit mistakeZ
@@MalakianTNW i use mouse and keyboard on xbox one games
Neighbours can go fuck themselves.
@@MalakianTNW g r a n m a
Watching other big RUclips channels, it’s easy to feel like our PC setups are inferior when all you see is 2080ti this and Titan Z that. That’s why I come here and watch all your vids. They’re practical, turning old into new and about getting the most out of any setup whether it be new or old.
I love your channel because I do this locally with flea markets and Craigslist. I enjoy doing it, and my friends call me the "PC man" because I always hook them up after LAN parties and give them the PC they played on :)
Sounds better then this years f1 cars
Jake Cullen2672 Sounds better than any f1 car since 2014
_Hard to swallow pills_
@@pepega1061 true miss the v10s
Than*
Than my f type :(
"Why are you vacuuming at 11 pm?!"
"So, yesterday I got a great deal on a graphics card, and I'm quite a gamer."
Great video ! I like using old hardware and tweaking it to the max :) Like the Radeon 9500 era where you ended up with a 9700 ! Or the X2 athlons :)
I knew what you were going to do as soon as I saw the title lol. I did the same thing many years ago. Bios switch allowed me to flash 6970.
running metro exodus with a 2010 card is pretty impressive
Never underestimate the power of a good cleaning
Great video! I like taking old FirePro cards and using them as cheap gaming cards for older builds.
Incredible what you can get out of such an old card. If only I still had my Matrox Mystique & PowerVR...
The problem with everybody looking into Metro Exodus is that like first 30 minutes are NOT a good representation, I had over 60 FPS, once you get to the open world area, 20-ish FPS on average... (If you "face" the open world, if you "look away" to where the map ends I still got 60)
Especially Desert chapter
I had to lower setting to high even i have v56
this is genius: if you have a Secret Military base, with jets Starting (like kingsman), just use this card and noone will notice the jets.
Awesome.the 6950 was my first gpu upgrade.bought it for 18 euros.Eventually fitted a chipset waterblock and watercooled it for fun.Worked great until i tried pulling off the vram heatsinks i installed.Rip 6950.Great video!
It's pretty impressive to see this card perform so well at 1080p. But realistically speaking 720p or 1280x1024 would be a more reasonable resolution for this card as it was probably the resolution it was designed for back in the day with the 2gb VRAM. Also really happy to see you got it fixed and working, even though practically you would be better off buying an RX550 or 560 at this point and get a similar performance with less power draw and better driver support.
Nice video, but we need more car videos
Gt 86 vs gt 1030
@@plzsubtome4010 Quattro vs Quadro
@@amnottabs lol
RICARDO
Ricardo
this fan noise is my jam! WHY WOULD ANYONE COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS!?!?!?!?
The EXACT moment you said, "... but it sounds like this..." My city's tornado sirens went off!
Now that's a physic realism mod for Xplane11.
Sometimes you can't flash a BIOS from a different card onto the GPU with the GUI version from atiwinflash. Instead you need to use the commands.
This way I flashed the Sapphire RX 570 Pulse BIOS on an RX 570 Pulse ITX Card, which didn't got recognized from the driver. Now it's working.
Even an HD7950 can be reflashed this way with an R9 280 BIOS to get the UEFI BIOS for faster boot and a bit higher clocked.
1.2K likes, 7 dislikes. I guess 7 people couldn't fix their 6950s.
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@@awesomecomputers7076 jesus christ. 139 now....
@@nekomimi man that's a lot...
@@matthewpaanotorres73094 More added to that head count, 254 now
I got my hands on a (free) Radeon 6870 recently. Supposedly dead, but it worked fine. Also with the stock cooler and quite noisy, but no where near as noisy as the one in your video. It ran quite hot, around 80ºC during load, so changed the paste, but didn't help either (maybe 1 or 2 degrees). I did notice the heatsink of my 6870 was way smaller than the heatsink of your 6950. I mean, the card has the same size, plastic shroud and such, but the heatsink itself is small on the 6870 and it's no suprise that it gets so hot and loud! I didn't run any modern titles on it, but stuff from it's era, and it was a major upgrade compared to the Radeon 5770 I was using in that PC up until then.
These cards did run very hot on reference cooling designs. I had an aftermarket 6970 and it also got hot, however they were very well priced against its nvidia counterparts. Card lasted me a solid 6 years before I felt I needed to upgrade. They were great cards for the time!
Still doing better then Ryzen 5 2400g with single ram xD
EinPercy u need fast duel channel ram for a apu idiot
I know bro, but hadn't got the money so I just wanted to buy it later :)
See if you can find a 4 GB stick of DDR4-1866 for maximum anti-performance.
Ultimate experience
@@IJoeAceJRI JEDEC specifies down to DDR4-1600.
U L T R A HD. 4K
The house drawings are awesome.
I've upgraded my X58 system with a Xeon X5650 6 core CPU last week and I see a lot of improvements and it's RUclips channels like these that makes me want to buy more abandoned hardware and build more PC's
I'd use this card on 720p with high settings instead of 1080p low.
1080p High with Textures on Medium are fine for all titles on the market.
@Dickert Lardfart With driver support, it's just slightly slower than a 7850, which is about 15% faster than the base PS4.
900p medium
Dickert Lardfart I played Fallout 4 and GTA V on HD 6870 (same design as this card, also very loud and hot) and the difference between 1080p and 720p was indeed not as taxing as some of the settings (namely godrays in FO4 or antialiasing in GTA). Although generally, 900p was a go-to resolution for most of games from 2015.
_Then it overheated and died._
@@raresmacovei8382 Isn't the PS4 a HD7870?
9 year old gpu: 2gb vram
3yr old gtx 1050: 2gb vram
Me: 😮
Also me: i am confusion
Benficakld3 hey I have a 1050 too, we can be poor buddies
what an awful joke
Hi confusion Im Panama
9 years ago that was the high tier amount. 3 years ago its entry level. I agree It's weird at first glance though.
Think of how 4 GB ram was overkill or enthusiasts only at the early 2000's, and was considered minimum for office tasks for early 2010s.
Also GPU cores, core clock, architecture etc play the majority of the role when it comes to performance. Vram amount is just a tiny part of it
good thing my laptop has the 4 GB version.
Nice vid got the same problem with the 7000 version, and fix it with a modded fan, no noise anymore on high speed👍
Great video.
One tip, if I may: after unlock, overvolt the card. Lots of time they lock shaders if the card needs more voltage to be stable.
As you overvolt, no hurt to try a higher clock speed too.
terrible idea. best thing you do with blower style cards is leave them at stock speeds and undervolt them as far as they'll go stably instead. noise has to be carefully managed. not worth squeezing the shitty improvements you get from heavy overclocking.
i know the issue what the fan is having either its hitting the shroud or the fan really needs oil
6950 can't handle 6970 memory settings. U can just unlock shaders with the bios editor if you want...
as always nice vid!
Until recently I was running a 6970 which also sounded like a jet engine and I found that 900p was the best resolution for most games. It also means you can turn some more important settings up such as render distance
I'm still using hd6970 since 2012
As long as it does the job for you it is all that matters.
@@DeViLzzz2006 best reply i've seen in a while , we need more people like you
I bought a r9 390x 8gb for 100 euros is this a good deal?
Yes.
i had a quite magnificent experience with the reference limited edition Vega 64. it was load as hell, like... this HD6950. it was fairly audible downstairs, and i received tons of noise complaint during playing AC Origins, which is one of my favorite X(
btw i replaced it to a non-reference one with 3 fans on it as a exchange. quiet and even more powerful now...
I have a HD 7850xt with blower design when I first started it my dad thaught I was vacuuming my room. I feel your pain.
Even my 60 lbs server isn’t that loud
That's a server
This video brings back memories...i spent a lot and bought the amd 6990hd when i ordered my new alienware aurora. it was suppose to be the fastest video card in the world with the most memory, so i thought it would last me a long time. Man was i disappointed, because it was basically build in sli it would give problems on a lot of games, some games wouldn’t even work at all on it. I remember waiting up till 12AM just so i can play watchdogs at launch, and of course the game would never work with my 6990hd. I gave up on amd shortly after and have only bought nvidia since. Then there was the fan noise, and omg was it loud. I had to wear headphones all the time when gaming, i honestly thought there was something wrong with it when i first started gaming because it was so bloody loud. For sure the loudest gpu i have ever owned.
I like the repairing old cards and seeing how they perform on modern titles.
Yeah, it's pretty loud. But is it louder than a ps4? I don't think so.
Mine put a crack in would after I left It on overnight
I bought pc just because of that reason. My ps4 made so much sound that my family couldn't even sleep 😱
lol you should hear my 1gb hd 9650 it sounds even louder
I used to own a HD 6950 back in the day. Really smooth performing card for the titles at the time, and I never had any issues with mine.
I had the Sapphire 2GB model, with dual fans, so cooling was significantly better than with the blower versions.
This card had the BIOS switch on it, that let you switch between a standard 6950 and a 6970.
It was not that stable if you ran it at 6970 speeds, but you could still clock it down to the levels of a standard 6950, and it ran like a dream, with all shader units unlocked. I got it stable at +50 on the core and +200 (total frequency) on the memory
Love ur vids cheers geez
You’ve got to be kidding me, I bought one for 10 dollars and had the same issue. I got the drivers for it and it was still sounding like an ac-130 so I just ditched it. And all I had to do was clean it? Unbelievable
Could be that there was dust in the fan or between the gpu die making one part of the gpu really hot, or caused the fanspeed pwm to fail.
But yeah, rip. Though there are now better options on the market.
Had a 6850 myself at one point.
@@obp8390 Like used 7,9,10 series novideo cards and from amd you might find 290/390/380 for cheap.
I was just too lazy to word my comment properly to the point where it was hard to grasp
@@TheIdiotPlays i bought a firepro w8100 8gb for 150€ (r9 290) a year ago
@@accelerator5524 Got a reference R9 290 in September for around 100€, now I know, why it was a good decision in Dec 2013 that I bought a Asus GTX 780 DirectCuII OC, R9 290[X] was available but at this time only reference versions, I replaced the blower cooler in October with a Raijintek Morpheus II and yes, I've cleaned the heatsink and replaced the Thermal Paste before, but still it couldn't even hold the base clock and ran into thermal throttling...
@@kuchenblechmafiagmbh1381 nice. what a lot of people dont know is that r9 290 and 290x also have very high double precision perfomance. so if you will be a scientist ot mathematican you will like the card too;D
you fix it by throwing it away and buying a gtx 1060
wait for 3080 xt for 2070 performance
Wanted to upvote until GTX 1060. RX 580 is cheaper, equal performance and has more VRAM so it will age better.
the hd6950 1g shader unlock was my first graphics card but a windforce model in like 2011 i got it for around 200 dollars and ran well with my cheapo build with a amd athlon x4 645, i waited for the 750ti to come out and that was my next used buy at 40 dollars still a great deal. nowadays tho i got a 970 as the cheaper powerhouse
Hey mate, you should try fix the fps at 60 and I think you will have more consistent frame rates. It won't peak, so will have some rest and will be more ready when is time to work harder. Cheers, happy new year!
I've just bought a gtx 1060 3gb from ebay I'm so happy that I can finally swap out my gtx 1050 2gb
Yeah but I bought it for £103 so for that price I'm pritty happy
What a poor choice should of went the with the 6gig version
Yeah but as I have stated I got it very cheap and I didn't have a lot of money
Got an rtx 2070 for 440€ just recently :O
I bet the used market will flood with 3gb 1060s from deprectiated crypto setups
69 nice
I come back here from time to time. For the ASMR.
Sounds great
That's nothing when I'm playing terria my pc is nearly as loud as a car
I'm not joking
If you want a jet engine try a ps4
I always make sure to have headphones on while playing fortnite or apex with my friends. It's just LOUD and nearly unbearable. I'm going to order some thermal paste as it is just comically loud at this point.
@@noahherritt6452 hehehe
@@theavidgamer6213 Mine sounds like a jet engine on Netflix.
No suprise, the PS4 Pro's Heatsink is a joke for the TDP far above 100W: imagescdn.tweaktown.com/news/5/4/54940_8_ps4-pro-reportedly-melting-case.jpg
Xbox One X's is around twice as large I guess, also includes a vapor chamber: edge.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/half.jpg
I just had to grin so bad when you said your neighbours asked you why you've been vacuuming at 11pm lmao
I have the exact MSI 6950 which I bought it from my friend (who had it since 2010) in 2015 and still works fine. But mine doesn't make this kind of noise. But I think you got it for a stellar deal, as it's not a graphics card but a Jet Engine! :D
NO! NEVER!
The HD 6990 it's still the most horrible :D goo.gl/ZeP1Tc
I love playing 🔪E
5:15 for those whom are running JC4 FitGirl crack; before you fully install the game, there is an option check box whether to install high quality textures or not.
Before my current GPU which I got in early 2016 I had an AMD card and it was very noisy. I could never remember what it was called but thanks to your video title I think it was this one. Possibly a 6850.
I played the original Metro when it came out on that card. So I'm not that surprised that the latest one works on yours.
You could have actually put a headphone on your head rather than photoshoping it
Aww,the HD6950.had one,also unlocked to a 6970.loved that beast
Ah I think I remember this card. It came out like in 2012 or something right? Remember looking up vids of it just for the noise. It startled me when 1 dude reved it up. Dam that thing is loud than if your neighbors heard it threw the wall.
I had one of those! I loved that card.
👍!👍! Lol, "& 1 noise complaint later." Good job on the vid.
I had two 6970s for two years. Those two winters were my warmest.
great card, was perfect to use for my win xp 32-bit build! running all the xp era games in max details and max AA!
Also yeah the hd 6950 drivers suck, i ended up re-selling mine for £20 when i managed to get a hd 7950 for just £40, much better drivers!
Was given this card about 3 years back, first computer I hooked it up on I thought had a problem but after hooking it to 3 different computers and looking online I realized I wasn't the only one.
hi, i know my comment is 3 years late.. but i had 100% thie exact same card the same look everything hd 6950,, but my card was not that noisy.. i cleansed it back then.. and did the 6970 hd flashing succsesfully and overclooked it til 6970hd level.. could even oc it further.. it was probaly the very best stable card i ever had.. it was solid.. and it would probably even today runs well with no problems.. i loved this card, but was hungry for more performance so sold it and upgraded.. but yes i believe this model you had there was probably most stable reliable card i ever had. and i did had a vega64 liquid once
I've got one of these cards in a box because one day it just decided to sound like this, might have to take it part and have a go with the drivers
My Vega 64 reference card doesn't get that loud even at 4000 rpm on the blower.
I really need to clean my card at some point. Thanks for the reminder.
I have an XFX reference one and its not a bad card.I flashed it a 6970 bios and overclocked it fairly high.Swapped the cooler with a Hyper 212 Evo and the temps are amazing.It holds about 50c on max load with 60% fan speed.
I had one of these back in the day, (2011) bios flashed to a 6970 and it run fine for a few years.
Watch out for these HD 6950's, I have a pair of them and one literally caught on fire this morning and nearly caught my house on fire. These power-hungry cards always made me a little nervous. My friend gave me the pair because he was mining bitcoin with them, but I could never stand to run them paired because they're so damn noisy, even just running them single.
Usually flashing a card to unlock extra stream processors is a bit of a gamble. A lot of times the reason they're locked is because cheaper cards are often just poorly binned higher cards and enabling those stream processors could cause instability.
Now that you mentioned it during the Metro part, can you please reintroduce the "Playing Games at Min/Recommended Requirements" series? I really enjoyed that. You can even keep using the Ryzen bench system, I don't care.