This Decade Old AMD Radeon HD 6670 Has Never Been Opened... Until Today!
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- The other day I found a brand new HD 6670 from AMD on eBay for just £25. Once a perfect mid-range GPU for those on a budget, this ASUS model has remained boxed during what would have been it's most capable era. So what's it capable of these days?
0:00 Introduction and Unboxing
2:48 Fallout 4
3:52 Fortnite
4:11 GTA V
5:15 Overwatch
6:10 Rainbow Six Siege
6:57 The Witcher 3
7:50 Conclusion
Thanks for watching :) 
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Damn, i miss those colourfull boxes with rendered dragons and whatnot on it.Real nostalgia trip for me
I prefer the boxes with fairy titties.
@@DrearierSpider1 A man of culture I see
@@DrearierSpider1 a man of culture I see
@@DrearierSpider1 a man of culture I see
@@DrearierSpider1 lol
I love how you go outside for more light, yet, live in the UK.
Doesn't believe in light bulbs
I have my suspicions. If it's not raining or at least densely foggy, it's not the UK.
you are not wrong in the UK rain is like every day. Here in Pennsylvania USA it like 100°F for this week.
@@WilliamHollinger2019 I think my state moved to the UK.
I'm from Santa Catarina, Brazil, it's been raining and cloudy for 2 weeks and there's a cyclone coming.
@@gtPacheko brabo
As a graphics card, it’s nice to find hidden gems.
Hello graphics card.
Hey! Graphics card, where have you been i've been looking left and right for you recently...been busy being out of stock? mining?
Hi
😂
Are u an amd or nvidia card?
I really miss the video card packaging from the late 90s and early 2000s. The box art was always weird but loved it as a kid.
Yea yea...
3d waifus
@@MrMilkyCoco yep
Reminded me of Mario 64 promotional photos in the magazine's
PCYes and sometimes Asrock does that nowadays. Some even includes a big poster.
I absolutely loved this card. It came in a prebuilt I got for Christmas in 2011 paired with an i3 2100. Many good games were played on it until it died in 2018. I still keep it in one of my drawers as some sort of treasure. Glad you made a video on it.
I have the same story and timeline, except mine had a I7-2600 and a HD 6750. I'm still using the computer but the HD 6750 died 4 years ago replaced by a HD 7770(given to a friend), then a 6970(died, then given to someone who wanted the fan and cooler), and 2 years ago by an Asus Strix R9 380x 4Gb oc that I am still using, but I kept the 6750, and I will probably keep the Gateway FX it came in long after I replace it.
i still use the same specs today. i3 2140 hd 6670
@@alfredmorency8296 how did it die? Can gpus die?
2031: this decade old 3060 has never been opened.. It just arrived today
Scalpers today be like:
"Okay that's 650$"
Scalpers can kiss my ass. I cant wait for governments to start taking measures to devalue cryptocurrencies. Those miners will be off loading their GPUs to regain their investment cash so fast, RTX-3080s will be selling for £400..
Yeah but the market is just going To be flooded with ex crypto cards that gave been running 24/7 for 2 years...about to fail... Sold at the same price as standard used cards... With no real way to indicate it's history of usage before purchase.
You'll pay $400...then another $400 every couple months after they keep crapping out.
@@rexcatston8412 you'd be suprised at how well miners take care of their cards, they put them in nice and cool temperatures, make sure to repaste/replace the thermal pads, and they undervolt their gpus for the best experience.
@@dasuperdoge2050 yes the other guy has no idea what he is talking about
@@joemammaobama887 your username is fucking amazing
Had a 6870 10 years ago myself, I got maybe 6-7 years out of it before it died. It was a trooper and It gave me all it had. Couldn't even bear to dispose of it. I just keep it around for sentimental value
This was my first GPU back in 2012 when I got into PC gaming after owning a PS2.
Just sold it this week to a soul who'll get some extra life out of it, long live the HD 6670!
6670 must be from the future... I'm barely at 3000's D:
Not the future, an alternate reality.
It is AMD, this was released right after the 6700xt earlier this year.
which HD3000 series GPU do you have?
@@badass6300 3060
@@KentRoads I thought you meant AMD's 3000 series when you said you were barely on the 3000s as AMD had a HD3000 generation back in 2007.
You're a lot more energetic in this video. Loving it !
Thanks for including the temperatures!
That was my first Gpu!
It wasn't that one specifically but it was still a 6670!
same here, really good choice having the fact that nvidia cards here where super expensive
I had this specific one! The fan died on it after 3 years.
Had the DDR3 power color version. It's alive up to this day. Good to run up to 2012 games.
it was my first gpu too! i still have it and it works (msi 2gb ddr3)
I had the Sapphire version. Endless gaming on that card.
thx for showcasing my first ever graphic card!
Love your videos a lot. Keep it up!
funny how after all those years he is still bad at shooters
I love your videos.They are always interesting!
I love your unboxing of old new stuff, or new old stuff? So entertaining.
I farted
When he says "JAGGED EDGES" ❤️
So nostalgic! I have this exact card! I bought in 2013-2014, when my MSI 7600GT decided to leave me forever...
Wow, is that a winged Hussar on the box cover? The Metatron published a video on them just yesterday, on his YT channel. Cool serendipity!
Not the place I expected to see a fellow Noble One!
i love seeing videos of this the design of older gpu's are so nostalgic
You all love the sound of the anti static bag on camera, and don't you dare say otherwise. Also, good video, as usual.
G'day Random,
I really love your videos where you find something that may not have been cutting edge but is still interesting,
I find some of the older Radeon HD names a bit hard to follow so like to look them up on the TechPowerUp Database to see where they fit performance wise after watching your videos,
Keep up the Awesome work 🥰
omg, this is nostalgic as hell, still, remember back in the day when I got my first ever GPU which was the HD6570 2GB thinking it was the best purchase ever. I was only 12 years old back then with little knowledge about computers. Brings back a lot of memories just looking at this video, with the GPU I was able to enjoy games I never could before, like AC1, AC2, and such until I realized it was aging really quickly as I earned and garnered more knowledge about computers, plus the gaming industry and pc landscape was expanding rapidly back then.
See this is something I miss, the fabulous artwork on oldie graphics card packaging. There were some superb works of art........when we start getting GPUs back I hope the makers take note and start poshing up the boxes again !
I really kind of want that card :D Its not as bad as it all seems. I mean, I would not game on it every day but it has its applications! Love the videos man! Keep up the great work!
I saw a bunch of these exact cards on ebay and I was so tempted to pick one up, but managed to get a used HD7850 2GB for a little more money and hot damn am I glad about that seeing these numbers!
Oh god that box cover really brings back memories, this is my first ever gpu
I got this exact card for Christmas 2012 to upgrade my AMD x4 Phenom system, it’s still alive in a friend’s PC playing old sim games. Overclocked like a champ too!
The Graphic card cover is so cool it feel so Classic to me
I dig the "unboxing in nature" low key ASMR.
Amazing timing
Used to have one of these when the AMD Llano APUs came out and hybrid Xfire was a thing.
Yeah I remember that! Was awesome to mess around with
@@RandomGaminginHD I always fancied one back in the day, ended up buying the parts during lockdown and trying it out. managed to pick up what was then a high end Gigabyte board for it which was a bit odd as it was supposed to be a budget model. the best part about some of the old AMD GPU's is an unusually high double precision compute capability which is handy for certain Boinc projects (milkyway at home etc) strange to think that an old and cheap GPU like a HD 5850 outperforms a GTX 1080 at double precision.
@@ragnarsdad6065 so your saying if I found my old 5870 or 6970 I could outperform my rx 570 at a certain task
@@largejoe2195 Yes, in terms of processing power for double precision (FP64) computing the RX570 produces 318 GFLOPS of compute power v the 5870 at 544 GFLOPS and the 6970 with 675 GLFOPS. one of the best old cards is the HD7970/R9 280X which is close on 1000 GFLOPS. Nvidia nerfed the double precision on most of their consumer grade cards while AMD didn't. it doesn't apply to all of the older cards and it is worth doing your research before you try it. By the way the RX570 is more than double the single precision computing rate of the HD 6970 and consumes around 100 watts less so definitely worth sticking with your RX570 for standard computation but for double precision i would have a look at your older cards.
Back in the day I built my cousin a A8 5600k + hd6670 dual GPU crossfire PC, it was very good for 2012.
This is what I used all throughout high school, ahh the memories 😭
That was the GPU I bought building my first gaming PC out of a pre-built HP system. I upgraded it one part at a time until finally the mobo/cpu got swapped, then it had no pre-built parts left. Good fun learning how to build.
My first discrete GPU! I bought it to run in crossfire with my A8-6600K APU. Those were the days
I have a 6670 in my Home arcade machine I built during the last Lockdown, still really good for emulating things.
That played a lot better than I expected, I'm really suprised it could run Fortnite so well! I had the HD 6870 and I had to change it in 2016 when it couldn't even boot Batman Arkham Knight.
Have a 6670 (a GDDR5 model made by Diamond) in daily use on an internet PC . Still running strong.
I think this card is literally in one of my PCs so I thank you for making this video
Now I know what my spare can handle
Oh my God the box art is so nostalgic
I really like the design of the early amd cards, much more nicely put together
I had this GPU model with an AMD A8 3820 (oem cpu) in crossfire mode back in 2012/2013. It ran games fine at 1366x768 but many games that supported crossfire ran worse with it activated. Nice to see what my old gpu can do in more modern games.
Nice Timing
I had that card in my old PC (not anymore with us, sadly), I played games and watched your videos with it. Now when PC is broken and I have no PC (gonna build one soon), watching this on mobile, I am dissapointed that my 6670 couldn't live enough to see this video.
What a great time capsule. And I'm surprised it's still somewhat capable if we consider the fact this is a relatively cheap GPU from 10 years ago (it was around 80€ in Germany in 2011, those were the days I guess :D).
That card is definitely worth another for crossfire setup for games supporting it, although it is a pity you have no connector for a crossfire bridge. Some also say you'd notice the difference in witcher3, so I think it'd be worthwhile trying it out. Just keep the case open for cooling while testing until you've decided which card is hotter to put above or below its counterpart.
As an aside, maybe you should rip all your driver CDROMs to ISO files and make them available as a single torrent magnet link for viewers.
Got a Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 with original box displayed on the top of my shelf. Feels like an antique.
My 1st gaming PC was an open box Lenovo from Best Buy
i3 2120
4gb ddr3 1600
500Gb HDD
+
off the shelf XFX 6670 2gb DDR3 installed by Geek Squad to ensure I could play Diablo 3 at launch for around 350$, which I could barely afford at the time. Thanks to channels like this and the PC enthusiast community I've come a long way. Cheers
This was my first graphics cards, brings up memories playing bf3
I had one of those in 2012, the Sapphire Arctic Cooling one. It was great for Darksiders and some early Dolphin Wii/Gamecube emulation.
That's nothing. I have two sealed Hercules 3D Prophet Radeon 9800 PROs which are almost 2 decades old and I intend to keep them for at least another two decades in the same pristine state. I actually had three, but I just couldn't help it and opened one to build myself a 2003 dream PC :-)
Awesome :)
I remember upgrading to this same GPU from the HD 5570 back in 2011. The difference was like night and day.
1:50 Czech manual. Very nice.
No stickers! I used to love me some stickers! Got old cases covered in stickers 😋
My friend had one of these and i recently gave him my old 970. It was a very decent upgrade :)
My old graphics card. I used AMD HD 6670 from February 2013 to February 2016. Played a lot of games with this, especially AC IV, Crysis 2, Battlefield 3 and Far Cry 3. It was my first graphics card.
1:29 I remember when AGP was the standard for GPUs it was rare find to office PCs with AGP slot
Oh man! So much memories with the Msi dual fans version, it came with Dirt 3 at the time if am not mistaken.
it was special edition
My 6870 came with dirt 3. I still play it every now and then.
Great video! Any update on the smoking power supply?
I bought one of these not too long ago! Bought it off ebay brand new for £30. Great card for emulation! 😊
Nice video
Aaaw! New-Old-stuck :-)
Wait a minute! That heatsink and fan... I've seen that onna' GTX 550Ti from an 'ALDI' machine!!? (without the ASUS sticker...)
Unboxing part was a asmr video for me
These cards are awesome for old Optiplex systems with Core 2 or early Core family processors. Perfectly balanced with those systems.
They’re also great for Hackintoshing older versions of OS X as they’re more stable than Nvidia DX10 cards.
My first actual GPU ,damn nostalgia hits hard
I had the Gigabyte 2GB DDR3 version tho
Yoo!! This is actually the card I am using right now! although I have the Asus Passively cooled one
Just got same model today for testing :D
That's one gorgeous boxe
I once upon a time had the 6570 variant of this card. Had it since 2011 until sometime in 2017 when my old power supply popped and took everything that was once my ancient computer with it.
I got my Gigabyte 6670 oc in the fall of 2011. I used it for a few months until the hd 7950 released. I put the 6670 in my moms pc when I was done with it. She is still running it today. Her grandkids game on it most every day. Overwatch, Rocket league, Fortnight. It runs all of them just fine on her old granny pc. Best $75 I ever spent on a gpu.
Opening new old gpus never fails to amuse
I used to use this exact same type of 6670 for about a year or 2. It was in my mother's old machine so I was able to save money when building my first machine. It struggled a lot when I ran games such as TF2 and Star Trek Online. I don't own the card anymore and it always ran hot and loud but it was part of my gateway into Pc gaming circa, 2017 or 18. Wish I still had it so then I could use it in my Linux machine.
It would be fun if you tried OC'ing it , those old cars could overclock pretty well.
My sapphire 6670-GD5 retired in 2017 and was given all the PC honours.
It was succeeded by the 1060-6G.
I remember wanting a 6850 and then the 7000 series came out and I went all out for the 7970
That card was such a beast back then. It would run almost all games at Max settings with over 100 Fps and I used it for almost 5 years until Pascal came out
Whenever RandomGamingHD makes a video on an old GPU I always go to techpowerup to check the specs on the card. love that website
My trusty Sapphire HD 6670 is still trucking along. I have it semi retired to a back up PC/retro gamer and it works just fine, like in the video. No screamer but i find 900P to be a relative sweet spot for it. IIRC I paid somewhere around $100 for it new. Every new day of use for it raises its overall value for money just a littler bit higher. TeraScale 2 it will struggle with newer DX12 but does OK in DX11. Low power draw for those under achieving desktop office PCs that could stand a bit more GPU. Prices on these weren't too horrid when I just looked, at between $35 USD and $50. Reasonable availability so for the right situation, a decent value.
Do a video about the EVGA GTX 980 Classified :D, it's amazing how you can still find hardware like this...
I gt a new in box hd 6970 recently, got the same adapter. Phenomenal generation if it didnt lsoe driver support after only six years. Thanks AMD...
Legendary card! Still have it and it's running in my mum's computer, the 512GB GDDR5 version.
512MB
Next round of FM1 Dualgraphics Testing should be confirmed XD
This was my 1st gpu back in the day. I bought a gigabyte 1gb model for $50 off amazon and i used it for years.
Can you do the installation video? Like how to install it into the PC.
Do you plan on making a Days Gone Vs Minimum requirements video. It's really well optimized
When you used to get a Display cable when buying a GPU. I can't understand why they stopped that cos I would accept an extra display cable
I had the 2GB 6670 from VTX before getting a 750ti and now a GTX 1650.
Was the 2nd GPU I ever purchased! (Wish I could remember the one I had in my P3 desktop before that).
My first GPU was an Asus Radeon x 1300 :) good times
I had that same model card at one time. It was a nice card back in the day. Used it until the 1050 ti came out.
I got and Phenom 2 quad for free because my friends mom had a ton of viruses on it at the time and they just bought a new computer. I got this card and BF3 and gave it to my best friend for his birthday, who was a hardcore console gamer and changed his life forever. Definitely a great card for the time!
You know 2021 is down bad when we're looking at GPUs a decade old.
It was a very decent card for its segment in its moment: good performance and good energy efficiency. I had a 5670 and I still keep good memories of my old Sapphire. :). By the way, yesterday I also bought a brand new HD 3650 AGP version for experiments with my dear Pentium III Tualatin 1400S. (Giggles)
R6 looks pretty good, even with that "25% res scale"
Wow m8...
What kind of monster are you?
I bet you unpack Action figures and Pokemon cards too.
I am shooketh...
BTW never saw this. Never knew anyone who had Less than 6770 HD6 series. I had the Jet.
Do you know if this card will be an improvement paired with an A10-6700 APU in Crossfire than just the stand-alone APU
I had this gpu. Used to play at medium 720p 30fps. Those were Good times.
Literally still have this card kicking around. Mostly to do office pc conversion testing just like you suggested. I got the gddr3 version though, and i can't really say how much of a performance loss it is compared to gddr5 but i imagine it does suffer quite a lot, as proven by the 1030 ddr3 vs ddr5 testing. Still, i was a newbie pc gamer at the time and chose this to crossfire with an a10 5800k, and seemed to fit my very modest budget and it did ok with running ps3 era titles at 720p.
i have this card under my bed since 10 years ago and still work :D
this gpu must be a beast back in the days.
Would have loved a teardown with the disclaimer "this voids the warranty."