The Worlds Most Powerful 128MB Card....
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Hello and Welcome to another Budget Builds Episode where today we'll be taking a look a the Nvidia Geforce 9500GT, one of the rarest cards i have had to get my hands on with the elusive 128MB Variant.
So before you jump to the comments (Which some of you probably have) there was indeed a release of the 9500GT with only 128MB of RAM, i know insane. It was released in certain regions of Europe, and Russia. With most coming from low end brands a few of us will recognise.
But that's only the start of the story, so join me as we take a deep dive into this card, and find out just how well 128MB of VRAM Holds up.
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Specs:
CPU: Ryzen 7 3700X
GPU: Geforce 9500GT 128MB Variant (and a 1GB GDDR2 Version)
RAM: 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz RAM
Windows 10 64Bit with Latest Nvidia Drivers for the card. (Older ones showed the same performance)
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I want to thank the community for noticing this beautiful piece of spelling on the box...Didnt notice it myself: i.imgur.com/1GYDzOT.jpg
also for anyone wondering if i flashed the card back to 1GB of VRAM, or ya know any higher amount, I did try, and the card would immediately crash, i did also try forcing lower clocks and the card would still crash, Id imagine its either dummy RAM or completely borked
GARPHICS. Twice and also capitalised.
Garphics Plus :D
To unlock the card with more vram you NEED to flash DDR2 bios, if you flash GDDR3 bios (like on regular 9500GT) it would not work. That's why you should try a vbios from a 9500GS which use DDR2 memory (so any G96 DDR2, it might also work with G96C DDR2 vbios)
@@TheQuentincc I do know how to flash a BIOS. So I can assure you I didn't flash a GDDR based BIOS.
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial just mod that bios and also make sure ram timings are correct
www.guru3d.com/files-details/nvidia-bios-editor-download-nibitor.html
i would try multiple 9500gt 1gb ddr2 roms
but i bet it was a timing issue just get the datasheet on those ram chips
30fps in GTA V with only 128mb VRAM on a old ass card. How is nobody else's mind blown by this
Playing GTA V on lowest setting with 800x600 and still get 30fps is just try to torture your eye. It really good that it can run GTA V but graphic is horrible than GTA SA.
@@hamashi1770 nah m8 it's fine
Yeah I Was Thinking Same Thing.
You can play gta5 in PS3, which is have even more older gpu and have only 256mb ram for the whole system.
@@Роман-д1й1ш ps3 has 256mb of vram and 256mb of ram.
I love the art on old gpu boxes
it’s always just someone holding a gun yet it’s still so cool
Check out the 3dfx voodoo graphics card boxes. Or some of the older nvidia ones.
@@midnightshade32 my voodo2 12MB had a viper or smth monster look.
I have a couple with some vintage 3d rendered waifus
Make more PSVITA stuff
Enough vram to make snake run at a stable 30 fps with minor dips in the high 20's
4:17 The Worlds Most Powerful Thermal Paste
The most stubborn thermal paste I've come across is the stuff that dates prior to 2004 or so. I remember at least one Pentium 4 with thermal paste so resilient that the heatsink came off with the heat spreader still attached, whilst the inadvertently delidded chip remained in its socket.
@@MixerVM haha i thought i was the only one. i want to delid my pentium d ... broke 2 other crap cpu while trying.
Thermal Glue exists...
@@MixerVM back when thermal paste was made to last.. my first laptop a 50mhz slc toshiba didnt even use a paste, just a thick ass thermal pad
Yep, thats KPT-8, soviet thermal paste
9500GT: hi athlon 64 long time no see
Ryzen: athlon 64 is my grand grand grand father.
Thunderbird*
Hey! That makes me feel old.
@@danhemming6624feel older now?
Features:
Can play DVDs on VLC
Occasionally opens Photoshop
Volatile
Multiple colours
VGA
Umm...
PCB
Don't forget mspaint
Is a PCI-E card
exists
@Mark Zimmerman And That's A Fact.
I'm so glad it have the PCB feature instead of the wires on a breadboard of the lower end cards.
GPU: Work extremely hard
CPU: It's time for me to sleep
The CPU was doing all the recording too, didnt break a sweat
@wUnp dang what pc do you have
Phantom Computing
He has the second one @@MaSTeRXDOfficial
I had to endure this card for 13 years, but it was the "normal" 512MB vram
Wellington Andrade demoman guess who i am
@@hah66-i6d BLOODY SPAI
Why did you have this GPU for 13 years? You could've upgraded at any point really for so low money.
@@raresmacovei8382 My old PC was so bad that i needed to change the entire PC, problem is that i live in a 3rd world country. When i got the means to build this current PC it still took 2 years.
Better than my situation, me being a mad man. I'm still using a dell inspiron 6000 laptop with 2 gb of ram and only 64MB OF VRAM to this day.
My first 128MB VRAM video card as a Geforce 3 ti200 back in 2002, and i remember the seller saying it was a ridiculous amount of vram and games would never need so much vram.
Such a strange card! 128mb is almost the amount of VRAM that interests me for retro PCs. So strange that this came out so recently!
it's crap, and you know its crap?
need a time machine, computer museum junck???
@@somerandompersonontheinter1835 You post Video's for ads, need the weirdo systems for that here?
The fact that GTA5 can be run at all even with the totally lowest settings and not be a literal slideshow is impressive
Looks worse than GTA4
3:15 my heart skipped a beat when it looked like the card was falling into water.
😂😂😂😂
Arguably it couldn't make it perform much worse.
8:54 THE RARE FOOTAGE *Crysis on 60fps*
Sup
"Not too long ago". Bro, Tesla came out *13 YEARS* ago.
november 2006, ah the glory days, still got my friends 8800 GTS he bought at launch.
andrecampana_ it’s a funny thing, the older you get, the nearer the past feels. I’m 42 and think of 14 years ago like it was only 4 or 5. I wonder if he suffers the same?
It's all about your frame of reference - 2000 isn't too long ago to me - I was working in bar and already a lot older than most of the people I was serving.
I had in 2008 an 8800GT with 1 GB of GDDR3 RAM.
it was 13 years ago but the card supports DX10, a few years back dx9 was still the mainstream and you could play with a 9800 gt or something (def not with this card tho lmao)
Now that was some stubborn thermal paste
that was horrifying, tech support core
me: sees 128mb card
also me:does it run crisis?
I finished the game on a 128MB 7600GS, not surprised it ran on that XD
But can it run Star Citizen?
@@Legion849
Nothing would run scam shittyzen
@@samuelcomeau6249 That's exactly the GPU used in PS3
This makes me curious about the higher vram count cards. What was the first 1GB card? 2GB? 4, 6, 8, etc.?
I know the GTX 480 was the First 1.5Gb Card & gets so hot you can cook an egg on it lol
I used to have a 9500 GT and it had 512 MB of VRAM. Pair it with an intel pentium E2200 and 4 gigabytes of ram and you get the PC on which I suffered for 5 years.
Gta 5 тянет(про проц не уверен).... Кс го тянет.... Что не так-то?
cool profile picture
I suffered on a Geforce 210 512mb DDR2 model with a Pentium 4 540 and 2.5gb of ddr2 ram for a good 2 1/2 years.
@@Dimondminer11 I'm stuck on a dell inspiron 6000 laptop from 2004 with only 2 gigabytes of ram and 64 megabytes of vram
Oh man, you had a better set up then me. My first personal computer had the same E2200, 2 gigabytes of ram, and (I think, I'd have to call up my dad to check my old closet for it) a FX 5200. Whatever the GPU was it was passively cooled trash that I loved. Had that PC for like 3 years before I got my first proper gaming PC.
How utterly ridiculous and obscure this is, love it! Good job on tracking one down, I had never heard of it until now. I also have no idea why they would cut the VRAM in the BIOS all the while having 8 times as much physically on the card. I would like to know just why such a thing was made...
I have no idea, but they did exist. For what would appear to be 0 reason what so ever...Other than a dirt cheap RPP of less than half what a standard card sold for
So I guess you could flash a bios and unlock the extra memory
@@Nurse_Xochitl please see pinned comment
Seems like a way to "recycle" already manufactured cards with bad VRAM. Just cut it down via BIOS to the smallest amount that can still be used for...err..something... and hope the bad VRAM chips are not in that region. Would've been interesting to see what memory chips are on that card and googling the size of them via their model number, then calculate how much is actually on the card. Because you can actually have a card with 256MB, flash a BIOS for a 1GB card and it'll work... for as long as you don't exceed 256MB. Then all hell breaks loose in terms of crashing and weird behavior. That's the main issue wie those chinese fake cards, except those are also claiming to be something more powerful
@@Knaeckebrotsaege I expect that’s why these exist too, just like how they used to sell 3 core CPUs that were actually just quad cores with a failed core. It reminds me of the time on my last pc where I ran it with only 4gbs enabled because one of my two 4gb sticks failed.
Not gonna lie,Was quite impressed that card was handling GTA V like it did,i thought it would be a stuttey 8-10 fps mess but actually it was playable even at 28-30 fps.
considering the game was optimized to run on oldgen consoles (with the PS3 having the equivalent of a Geforce 7800GTX with 256MB VRAM), this doesn't surprise mit *that* much
I remember my GeForce 9400 GT 512MB, moved to an HD 7770 GHZ 1GB in 2012 and finally to an RX 580 4GB a couple years ago. VRAM race baby.
nvidia quadro 48gb, up next!
i love the elmers wood glue used as thermal interface material
Is that a sli connection i see on it, if so i really want to see it in sli
If you do this you building a atom bomb 💣
6:06 GTAV looked like you installed a mod for GTA:SA to make it look like GTAV lol
I remember being here when you had 20k subs. Or i might just be mixing your channel up with some other but im pretty sure it was this one. Great videos, as always :)
Ah yes i remember when this channel (or possible someone elses) had 20k subs.
Depressingly this card is significantly more powerful than my 2007 PC. I used to run Minecraft at 480p on the lowest settings and get a stuttery 30 fps.
Great to see people spending so long trying to find a product and recording a very interesting video about it. How did the virus affect the shipping? as I am planning to order something in the near future
even the box has spelling mistakes on it...
"Garphics"
Unlisted? Odd... anyways, good vid dude.
Hold on...
damn you saw before everyone
He did indeed find the video on a playlist. RUclips made it unprivate.... No clue why.
There are sites that can view unlisted videos on channels. I won't link to them, but they are there and are working pretty well.
@@wssdude ive genuinely ran across unlisted videos just doing google searches. It was really confusing
Oh my god man, Thank god you exist, I've been wondering what is the most powerful GPU that comes in 64/128/256 Megabytes, I'm satisfied! LOVE THE VID
Glad you enjoyed it, expect more in each category...When i get the time to track them all down
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial I'm down for a 32mb one xD
That thermal paste took so long to get off.
Thermal paste? No that was gum that dried out.
Helps to run furmark on low for a bit to heat things up first. Then do your pull.
i still have a version of this bad boi (but with 1gb ram) running in one of my PC, paired with a e5300
runs windows 10 and web browsing like a champ, and even 2000s games pretty ok
It would be cool to see this vs a 9500 with a 384MB bios, in order to compare how 3x the Vram affects performance.
seeing this video 2 days after my 9500GT dies, and force me to come back to my GMA 3100
F
That factory pink thermal compound is more easily removed using toothpicks to scrape it off the surface of the GPU, then you can use your regular alcohol to remove whatever residue is left.
how advertisers would say this "the world's most powerful" ... "card can run GTA 5" 6:46 - 6:53
All advertising is lies bro
Fantastic video! Now i want to get one too.
Even though i have one with 512mb i wan to get another and desolder the memory to see if it runs on 64mb ;)
I love the consistency of the video delivery. It's like every Saturday BBO uploads whoo hoo.
i still have 9800gtx+ i used for high-end gaming rig back then.
That would indeed be a much better card than this
I remember running GTA V on the 128mb Nvidia Quadro NVS 135m in my Dell Latitude D630 from 2007.
The damn game is so well optimized that I was almost able to get a playable framerates (Granted I had it running at 320x240 with every performance mod possible).
"My main pc is overkill for this card."
yOU thINK?
Thank you for documenting this awful weird rare card
All of these tests are awesome. I didn't know 128mb could still handle that much in games.
No, in fact these cards are cards that were returned under warranty to the manufacturer, and should have been destroyed, but somehow ended up in China, and were modified to be put back on the market. I studied this for many years, China has been doing this for approximately 20 years, the peak of this was with the GTS450, in which they acquired thousands of them (perhaps used in mining at a time when the gains from mining were not worth the effort of using a card high-end), the Chinese took all those damaged or simply old boards, and transferred their components to a new PCB, and sold them. When the GTS450 was no longer in demand among the public, they modified the bios so that it would be recognized as GTX6xx, sometimes with more memory than the card actually had (and this led to the card BSOD in games that used more than 512 or 1GB that it actually had), I searched a lot for a solution for bios, I was on several Russian and Chinese forums, and everything led me to the name of a single Chinese man in the mafia, responsible for all kinds of crap that lands in other countries.
Imagine gaming on a 1MB graphics card...
0.001 fps guaranteed
I game on a 1-bit graphics card.
I have a 2MB graphics card.
Basicaly windows video adapter
(has 4-5mb vram) all the 3d rendering is done through the cpu power
Imagine using 1KB graphics card
ah yes. the most powerful 128MB "garphics" card
i should really upgrade my _GARPHICS_ card
I HAVE A QUESTION!?
since this Video adapter's ram memery is DDR2.... and we are currently on DDR4... shouldn't it go faster by starting to use the pc's ram instead of the graphic card's memory?
Ty
No vram and ram are two separate things.
@@chortles7515 I do follow. But the standard isn't similar?
I would really expect ram ddr4 to be faster than ddr2 vram.
Can science side of RUclips help.
Yeah,it probably used ram for textures that didn't get in the vram.Performance would be even worse if the ram was not ddr4.
You are still limited by PCI Express bandwidth. PCI-E 2.0 x16 = 8 GB/s, the DDR2 on this card = 16 GB/s.
I wonder if you could run it with the full vram if the memory clock was lowered? Granted system stability is the biggest issue. Also the silicon lottery is at play, you may, or may not be able to unlock the full amount with lower clocks.
I'd imagine the 6800GT would be a more powerful 128mb card in DX9 games like CS:GO although that might be hard to test if 128mb only is available on AGP variants,
Seeing how it has 1gig of ram installed on the board. Have you tried to unlock it?
I did, however it will just crash instantly.
Makes you wonder, were they cards with faulty RAM... would have to be a fault somewhere in the capacity, as I'm guessing it was all one bank, unless it could be chopped from 128 bit to 64 - any VRAM performance tests that could hint at that?
@@matthewday7565 not faulty..but some of theys cards where used in data centers and later sent back nvidia?i know that era gpus had high vram failure rate.so this gpu might been sent back and rebranded as 128mb gpu and ram limited to 128mb ram.worked nearly 30 years with computers and data enters here.
I remember how excited I was to play games in my 9300m laptop with 256mb back in 2009
I recall seeing cards similar to this. If I recall, they advertised "1GB" of VRAM, however what it was actually doing was using 128MB from the card, and then pulling the rest from system RAM.
And the funny thing is that the card would have had DDR2 and its using his system DDR4 :D
I actually had one like that for the "family" PC about ten years ago: HD4550. All it was really needed for was accelerating media playback and a little basic Minecraft use, which it managed admirably.
That's shockingly little VRAM. Even my Geforce 6200 way back in the day had 256MB
The time has come.. time to enjoy my tea while watching this 😎
Well, yesterday I was playing Quake III Arena with 32MB system and 16MB GPU RAM haha :D So 128MB is way to cool! :) Great video!
I remember having a graphics card with 128mb. I think that at the time I was running Windows 2000 and a resolution of 1024 x 768 which with a CRT monitor was fine.
Ati Radeon 9600 xD
Wow, vanilla GTA V without shadows or shaders literally looks like a high-poly mod for San Andreas.
Whats the purpose of posting this video? When its 2020 and we have GDDR5 launched new latest card? So who would give a look watching a DDR2 128MB card?
Fella. Its documenting the last 128MB Card. Same as i did with 256MB. What's the point of posting this comment? When its 2020 and we have useful comments in the comments seciton? So who would want to read you complaining about this video?
What the heck was the point of limiting the vram if it was physically on the board?
probably the same thing amd was doing binning cpus that had a faulty core, disabling that core and selling it as a lower core cpu. the ram was probably iffy and didn''t pass inspection so they probably just restricted the bad segments.
@@IvanOoze1990 AH that makes sense. thank you
I'm sure at this point that GTA V will actually run on anything
Man I felt your pain trying to whippe that thermal paste off. I did it once and it was horrible. Next time take a toothpick and brake it into two pieces, wood won't scratch metal because it is softer spray a little bit of alcohol and start scraping the surface with soft force.
Take care man and try it please it will help you a lot
CS: GO Minimum System Requirements
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 / AMD Phenom X3 8750 or better
RAM: 2 GB
HDD: 15 GB of storage space
GPU: Video card must be 256 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 3.0
OS: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Screen Resolution: 720p
Network: Broadband Internet Connection
Interesting video. That may be the most powerful card but I think the most powerful GPU paired with 128MB of memory that was commercially available in desktops would be the Intel® "Iris® Pro Graphics 6200"
in the Intel i7-5775C CPU. This CPU was the 1st 14 nm part released by Intel in 2015 that has 128MB eDRAM that when the iGPU was disabled acted L4 cache or if iGPU was enabled acted as dedicated 128MB for the iGPU... www.anandtech.com/show/9320/intel-broadwell-review-i7-5775c-i5-5675c/7
I could absolutely SWEAR the 9400 GT I had back in the day was also only running an eighth gig of RAM.
The crap is up with that thermal concre...spackl...years-old chewing gu...morta...um, paste?
My first gaming GPU was a Asus 9600XT with 128mb. Came with a free code for HL2 :) Good times!
Now I want to see a video where you try to play a game using both this card AND the Intel Celeron D that you did a video on. I want to see what the mother of all bottlenecks looks like.
Wow, have its bigger brother right besides me, a 9500GT with 512MB, my first GPU and still working great for my XP Gaming rig.
I don't know much but could you maybe run a diffrent bios on it to use all the vram? Be good to see if you could improve the performance
GTA running on this thing might be somewhat tied to the fact the Xbox 360 had around 512 or 522 Mb's of Vram ( I think )
G100: even when i use 512mb or 1gb, but im more weaker than 128mb 9500😔
I have one still working on a retro computer 😂
how did you get CS Go to play without crash on start up with only 128 of V Ram? unless your using software to bypass system requirements.
Russia, the land of sketchy GPUs, cheap surplus *things,* and food that lasts forever.
Perfect combination if you ask me.
Sketchy cpus and mobos too
Hey man I still have two 128mb graphic cards ATI & MSI. If you are interested I can ship it to you!
I got the 512mb gddr2 version of this card back in the day. It can run metro 2033 on medium settings at 1366x768 with an overclock. So yeah, it should've been a pretty decent card with enough vram installed on it.
Dare I say, back at it again?
I have the older version of this Card.. the 8500 GT 128mb of Ram. Still keep it around as it run fine in Windows..
Inno3d - a lower-end brand? What? I've never had a single Inno3D card letting me down, they actually are build solid, and the cooling is awesome.
all those first cards with megabytes, my first card had 512kilobyte connected to a greenscreen monitor
Well here I am still daily-ing a laptop with 128MB of VRAM.
I have a ThinkPad T43p with Fire GL V3200 with 128MB of VRAM (which was the higher end in 2005), I have a Latitude D630 and D830 with NVS135M also 128MB of VRAM, as well as a Precision M4300 with a much more powerful Quadro FX 360M that is also available in 128MB variants if you bought the smaller M2300 instead.
But yeah gotta say, with my NVS135M, all the daily tasks (For a 2007 laptop) work just fine (minus Windows Modern applications because they eat a lot of vram) as long as you don't open multiple things at a time and eat out the VRAM.
My friend also tried world of tanks on the NVS135M and the Quadro FX 360M. Despite being the same generation, the game simply crashes on NVS135M with 128MB of VRAM and works fine as casual maintance and replays for the FX 360M.
Also on these laptops, since some system RAM can be also allocated as VRAM, having dual channel RAM drastically improves the stability of games. In league you would see random stutters with 6GB (4+2) of RAM (Not related with amounts since with low settings it doesn't come close to 6GB) while those stutters are gone with 8GB. This is slow 667Mhz DDR2 speeds (chipset limitation), so using dual channel makes such a huge difference.
the dust around the die is gnarly lmao
I don't know how cheap that can be but Jan 2022 I picked up two working hd5770 for 2$. I still want one to put in my museum of horrors.
The most powerful 128mb card I've owned was a Geforce 6800. Ran Doom 3 and Half Life 2 on high settings like a dream.
Bruh my laptop has 128 mb vram and gets 40-55 fps in csgo
Wonderful video!
Insane that such old technology is still usable in 2020. Really shows that things in the past were made for future usage instead of being replaced every year just because of some "New feature" *Cough* Ray Tracing Cough*
I sold my Dell OptiPlex 755 MT and i bought a Latitude E4310
Silly decision
buy another one and run it in SLI! I can see the SLI Bridge!
That GTA 5 without shadows looks like San Andreas with graphic mod
hey, it's good that you said "One Of The" world's most powerful gpus ever made with 128mb vram, because(didn't watched video further past that point, sorry have no time now), i found a bunch of 9600 GT with 128MB vram from different weird named brands like Abit , Ahtec , FIC , ECS , in techpowerup vga bios collection in unverified uploads, as well as 2 of NVIDIA 128mb ones , NVIDIA ones most likely just didn't knew the brand one so they just put the NVIDIA as the brand,,,,,, basically the bios collection of unverified uploads for 9600 GT have Way Too Many 128MB variants , from different no name brands even, to be a false, yes sometimes the VRAM amount there is wrong just like how these 2 guys put NVIDIA as the brand's name on their bios, but this is not the case with the 9600 GT, apparently, i'm not sure if any other gpu is exist with 128mb VRAM which is even more powerful, probably it does, but i'm just lazy to search further, have a nice day!
Russia, a.k.a country with lots of old but tough af technologies
My 9600GT is suddenly laughing at that card now and that is my only desktop GPU I own!
I have a old Core 2 duo PC with a Nvidia Geforce 9600 GSO 768 MB. Bought it because it was cheaper in 2008.
PC Trash Talk Same, but it's been upgraded to a Pentium G4400
That's how to flex your old GT 9500 against rich boys with RTX 2080 Ti.
I actually still have the 8800gt series. Can't remember if it's the 256 or the 512. I just remember it use to run high Temps all the time. But worked for years and years.
Had this GPU from around 08 till 2011 when i replaced it with a gt 430. It wasn't necessarily a bad card, it was ok for its time
That is weird as I have that card in a personal computer installed into a m2n68-la (Narra3) GL8E motherboard but the the name is AUSTEK EN9500GT is a great card but really needs a PHENOM II X6 processor not an PHENOM II X3 but runs very well under Linux Mint 19.3 CINNAMON (Tricia) 64bit edition and is not my dads machine, the machine I am using now has the DAA78L motherboard with an A10-7800k and 16GB of DDR3 RAM.
I own the 512mb version 🤣
9500gs tho not gt.
Maybe try flashing a different bios to unlock the vram?
i used a 512Mb GT9500 alongside my GTX470 to run games triplehead (with softth, so the 470 was rendering and offloading the frames to the 9600) and 3rd desktop monitor (nvidia took way to long to allow more than 2 outputs on a single card!)
I had one of those about 8 years ago, a 1GB one but still a 9500GT