When AMD Stuck 2 Graphics Cards Together - The HD4870X2
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- Опубликовано: 16 май 2019
- Hello and Welcome to another Budget Builds Official Video where today we’ll be taking a look at the AMD Radeon HD4870X2, which was one of AMDs most powerful GPUs at the time of release in 2008, and all reviewers agreed that they were onto something special, however, that was a whole decade ago. Just how well is this old GPU Holding up in 2019, is it a good buy, is it even useable. Join me today as we find out, the results may surprise you…
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@@BudgetBuildsOfficial hey, man i have the same issue with gtaV eversince i play the game i have tried everything, literraly and nothing seems to fix it.Please let me know if you figure it out im playing on a 1080ti and the gpu usage never goes over 65% and im stuck playing at 60 to 70 fps at max settings
The arrow goes just under your pfp so i cant click BUT i did decide to click the search bar all the way up
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I love the fact that it was a bug that permitted good performance in GTA 5...
I had one of these for a few years. It really was a beast back in the day. I remember playing games at 60fps in 1080p, it was like playing in 4k today.
when gpu's were still affordable
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They are affordable also today.. if you want GT 710 with 1GB GDDR3 memory.. :D
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Also, once found one of these for close to nothing here in Brazil
You forgot Green Ham Gaming
@@akepup6791 my bad, going to edit, also, it's been some time since I saw his last video, always had a blast watching
I just wish he uploaded a bit more
Yes brother
Don't forget about PhilsComputerLab :)
I remember the day I bought a HD 4870 and tried it on crysis, it was so beautiful.
Even with the mediocre xfire support, this card was practically made for that game. Pretty much the best way to hit 60fps at high settings.
No sick flames no performance
Take off the cooler and you'll get flames alright
On that era? They used generic waifus lol
Narathin the first batch of 2080 Ti’s had sick flames
No RGB, no performance as well.
0:50 I had severe anxiety watching the back of the card hanging above that puddle of water.....
wouldn't really do anything until he turned it on without drying out the traces, just saying, I don't mean to ruin your fun
Yeah, computer parts aren't easily breakable by water.
More than once I have cleaned off a GPU with distilled water and had no issues. In fact if you were to get a very very clean PCB and some extremely pure water you could even get it wet while it operates and not have any issues. Water is not conductive when it is ultra purified, so as long as there's nothing on the card to get dissolved into the water it would act the same as a mineral oil submersion. Obviously that's not really possible in practice though. Still as long as the electronics remain completely unpowered there's no danger at all in getting them wet.
@@KingHalbatorix even tho what you say is true, King nor is anyone recommending anyone should throw water on their PC while it is plugged in and turned on.
@@ezcoreg759 People do that with toasters. I'd personally do it with a computer if I could. Just because. But sadly, I don't have the fire department at the whim and ready. So there goes those dreams.
Edit: Then agian, Linus had one of his lackyes, erm I mean employee's do that while it was turned on.
I had two single 4870's in crossfire at the time. They were awesome.
I still have them in a box somewhere.
I feel like 1GB of memory with 2GB onboard and an outdated driver was causing newer games to over allocate memory. Causing crashing.
similiar to the 970 3.5bg issue.
I still used 4870 like year ago and the drivers were a big problem
(my notebook died and had to use something:D)
7:12 anyone else hear barking? or am i losing it?
*Don't listen to the voices*
@@Pumciusz
Don't listen to this guy. Voices are your friend,but watch out for the imaginary people you see.
You angered the god doge, may he have mercy on your soul Adam.
#include GaSLigHT.h
// Nothing to see here
//It's all in your mind...
i am totally not living in your walls.
Thank you for the shoutout, it's been a pleasure making the stream art.
Great video as always, keep up the good work and relaxing streams. Though I hope I don't have to keep adding graves.
For some reason I thought this was an F2F video and was really confused when you started talking lmfao. Great Video as always
Il ltake thats a compliment
I was digging through some boxes and I have 2 of these still.
Now I'm wondering how a 4 GPU Crossfire would work, if it'd work at all
planetfifa I have 4x Fury in my main system (100 fps in Crysis 3 at 4k Ultra, compared to 45 fps on my Titan Xp), that’s pretty much how most of my games go besides Fortnite (one of the few single GPU games I own, or at least of one the few that would otherwise benefit as most of mine either support it, or already run 300 fps at Ultra 4k with 16x AA and don’t really need crossfire).
crossfire them
Quadfire
The main problem with the 4870 X2 is the cooling solution. Two solid copper blocks with no vapor chambers or heatpipes. I mean, sure, the first copper block right behind the fan got cooled properly, the second block got heated by hot air, usually resulting with one of the gpu dies getting baked. I have two of these, a Sapphire model with the stock heatsink, and a second card with the aftermarket Arctic Cooling triple fan heatsink specific for that card. Funny enough, Arctic Cooling support actually tipped me off about the auction listing on ebay for the card when I asked them if they happened to have any of the heatsinks for this card in backstock somewhere. Once cooled properly, its a pretty beastly card that stayed relatively chill under full load and very overclockable, though I didn't try yet since I didn't want to ruin it. ^^;
I might try overclock it at somepoint or if I somehow manage to find either a second arctic cooling heatsink or juryrig some kind of liquid cooling situation for the four gpu dies and a bunch of small copper heatsinks for the vrm and memory chips.
I didnt attempt overclocking but with a custom fan curve we didnt see it ever go above 79C. VRMs, and VRAM seemed to be cooled alright by the blower, but they are some toasty GPUs
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial Sounds about right with what I saw on the stock sapphire one. Loud but cool enough given that its a dual gpu. The one with the arctic cooling heatsink on it was quiet given that its a triple fan cooler with a heatsink to rival that of some of the modern RTX heatsinks! xD I might break mine out and play with it again. I did just get my GTX 295 working so it'll be cool to see how they perform compared to each other. :)
Also, I was the one who just posted pictures in the normal discord chat with the two 4870x2s~ ;)
Budget-Builds Official ouch, My Titan can’t even stay that cool at 100% fan speeds stock... I’m impressed they got 2 GPUs to run that cool with a blower, that is some proper engineering! I remember my old ATI Fire-GL V8650 ran like 70c idle, and when overclocked 25% gaming with fan like a jet, I remember thinking “it’ll be fine, just don’t look at the temps...” and played great for like 2 hours on a super hard multi-player mission in Warface and one of the teammates said “ok, we’ve got this in the bag, nobody die..” and then my system shut off... Oh... great times... did hit 60 fps at 1024x1280 in that game though, but it was a beast to cool! (card is fine)
ugh I hate feeling old.. "2008? That's not that old... Oh wait" really makes you feel ancient lol
Coal Powered Steam Engines, and Henry Ford Releasing the new Automobile. Now that was an era.
I remember when the Egyptians made the pharoh. You kids these days have no respect for your elders
I actually have one of these cards running in a Mirror's Edge-themed Vista era build (also featuring a Phenom x4 9950 BE and 4x2gb OCZ Reaper DDR2). It's probably my favourite card design ever, but its insanely complex cooler design makes it pretty hard to work on and repaste.
I was waiting for this video!
And its real good!
I had this card back in the day...Loved it...Played anything in Ultra!
Terascale has done me dirty in the past, but this card seems to be pretty alright. Nice one Hamish, keep it up
Hamish?
Awesome video 👏👏 I’m glad you had a better time with this card than I did. Of course it could of been the games I was trying to get working, but glad to see it get more attention, as it’s certainly a beast.
I remember my first Mac pro upgrade a ATI 4870. It was nuts for what it was. I couldn't image two of them back in 2008/9 ish. Awesome review.
That little animation at 0:22 made me think it fell in the lake. Scared the crap out of me!
FineWine.™, Bellascale architecture
Best Friday....thank you for making this video
Thought I'd drop by to once again say we love you dude keep it up
played alot with this card, paired with an i7 920.
good old days....
Haha. I just bought a boxed one and one unboxed. Gave the unboxed one fresh paste and thermal paste and dumped it in a 775 (modded 771) build.
Xeon mod?
@@thefurrygamer1489 Yes. I bought a modded Xeon E5450 on AliExpress and dropped it in a MSI board. No BIOS microcode needed
@@GuybrushThriftweed How'd you pull that off? All mods I've seen of that required a modded bios.
This was the best GPU for a very long time
Still better than my GTX 750
@@snake4322 Nope
Cool to see these old cards run these titles. I had fun with my 4870x2 years ago. Good stuff
Gotta hand it to AMD really, taking on Nvidia AND Intel for years!
Ah, I remember my HD 4870X2. It died right in the middle of Crysis. RIP
wtf i have a radeon hd 6470M and i have no problems whit it (1280x1024 res, medium-high settings, over 50 fps)
Rest in piece , where can i put the flowers? Wheres the grave
@@costelli1 Problem was, I put on an aftermarket cooler, and I strongly suspect one of the capacitors didn't have proper contact with the heat sink. After about a year, poof...dead.
I really love the music in the background...
The R9 295X2 was AMD’s last dual GPU card and it mined really well and also can outperform even a 1070 or 1080.
For 2.5 Times the TDP tho. Like 500 watts is nothing for a 295
This is the videos i want keep it up man
@Intra Ignis im talking about gpu reviews
I use to have a HD4870 1 or 2 GB GPU back in the day, absolutely loved using it. Had nothing but fun times with it while I absloutely pined for one of these as well I just couldn't afford one.
I LOVE the Airline Tycoon music omg
got one of these. was a gift for building a mame cab
Awesome review of one of my favourite graphics cards!! It'd be great if you could review a GTX 295, which is Nvidia's response to this HD4870X2, and compare their perfomance :D
I have always wanted to get my hands on one of these!
R9 295x2 - was a beast for its time. Finally replaced it with a GTX 1080 a few years ago and then a Ti the following.
I'm rather late to the party here :D In any case great to see this old monster in action again. Good to see that Terascale drivers and Crossfire can work effectively under Windows 10 with some nice performance in quite a few cases as you showed 👍
I like how you put the Animals vinyl in the thumbnail
I had one! It introduced me to the world of artifacts and overheating problems.
Had an HD4850, purchased used in 2010 for the amazingly low sum of only $50 US. crazy how fast those cards depreciated. anyway, I loved gaming on it for that price and finally transitioned to a 1660 super 3 years ago. great card.
I owned the powercolor one. Brilliant card. Switched to it form a single slot sapphire 3870 512mb vaporx card which i bought only as a stand in. I remember initially buying a enermax 650w platinum modular PSU (that still runs brilliantly to this day) thinking that it will be enough for this x2 card. It wasn't. I ended up buying a 1200w akasa PSU (it still powers my i7 8700k GeForce 1080 rig) to keep up with this card. I had it paired with an core 2duo 8500 on an Intel x48 board, 4gb of corsair dominator ddr3 ram and Windows vista... Great days!
Ahh my uncle picked one of these for cheap back when it was relatively new and used it for years. It's in my collectibles bin.
I had the 3870 x2, the 4870 x2 and finally the 6990 x2 cards... before I upgraded to a GTX980 non TI. All of these cards where watercooled via custom loop. I even had DUAL 6990 x2's and DUAL 4870 X2's for quad Crossfire.
having had an HD4850 1gb edition and later second in crossfire, the crossfire ran very smooth. i was saddened to hear form my friend that crossfire was never that smooth again. now i stick to single gpu and run stuff like SSDs or 10G networking in the other free slots
nice Airline Tycoon music!
I had 2 of these and an i7 920, they were awesome
What's the name of the background music with the piano ? BTW great video!!! Absolutely love it
Very interesting. I wasn't into PC gaming when this was out, but it really is interesting ..the whole 2 GPU thing.
I have this in my rig right now temporarily it is quite capable
I had two of these in Crossfire. Things ran SO hot!
I have fond memories playing on my x2. I even picked up a 4870 for trifire but it wasn't really worth the effort. Nothing really scaled 3 GPUs that well. Awesome card!
I remember I had two of these in crossfire, had a nice heating in winter 🤣, still have them somewhere in attic as one died and I upgraded in meantime....
Best winter i ever had, when i bought this 4870x2. No more cold in the house.
I actually had one of these back in the day. Powerful, but boy was it ever loud.
heater in winter :P
Yeah, i still have one on a shelf in workroom, 4870x2...beside of my previous 3870x2...good old days when CX and SLi was supported across games. :(
But i think, despite the fact that AMD buyed ATi in 2006, these cards still have brand name ATi... :) (what i remember AMD cards start shows around 2010?)
Thanks you RUclips for recomendation... :D to amazement this video isn't old as others recomendations.. :D
i used to own a Sapphire 4870 and it was a really solid graphics at that time i had a much fun with it. i also had a 4850 which i still own. and a also used to own a 4890 all powered by Sapphire apart from the 4850 which was a asus model. i enjoy watching the video!
I subscribed to the other channel and turned on notifications
I use to have a HIS 4870, until 2018, it worked very well for me
Not too bad with headphones on. Yeah, good assessment.
Back in the day i had HD4870X2+4870 in crossfire , worked awesome in some games , i think FEAR scaled pretty much 100% , others not so much.
The music is from Airline Tycoon Evolution 💕
I had the HD5970 - was an amazing card.
Yey... youtube gives me no notification about this... 11hrs since you have posted it. EDIT: use shadows on low on csgo
The competitive and most used settings are shadows on high, which is how I do all my benchmarks.
In 2009 my work bought me 5x ATI Radeon HD 5970s for my flight simulator - they were hot and power consuming monsters and, despite having 2GB, it was only 1GB per GPU so, very quickly, my flight simulator outgrew them - which was a shame - because they were over £500 each and were briefly "The World's Fastest Consumer Graphics Card".
Many of the issues you're discussing here about the HD4870X2 would imply ATI did nothing in the year between the 4870X2 and my 5970s (and yes, drivers really did suck)
My 4870X2 ovrheated and died within a year
I used to have a 4870x2 back in the day. It was a beast but it was overkill, and not in a good way. It drew 480w under full load and mine would hit 100C until i put a custom cooler on it. It also sounded like a jet engine inside your case.
11:34 RIP Ringo
I enjoyed the video thanks :-) i run with a Sapphire R9 Fury tri OC (fury nitro) I'd like to know what you think about that kind of card... Honestly i can play games ultra settings no problem ..
I remember when this card came out around the release of age of conan and it was dominating that game in performnace while i was on a meager 9800GTX+
Been waiting for a video from one of my favorite youtubers
Airline tycoon music
I had the ATI XFX HD4890 that was a great time that time
I was using one of these cards until a few years ago. It was a nice card for the time but I never got the same performance with Windows 10 as I did with Windows 7.
I remember this card. Good memories
*time travels to the past with a rtx 2080 ti*
the shots of the pc hardware outside and sitting on the dirty ground/yard objects on the videos on this channel really drives me crazy
I don't think this is the channel for you then. But hope u enjoy the videos.
I have the same GPU and its very powerful
Good video
i had two of these back in the day! two of them running in crossfire
Hmm I remember the 295X2 but not this one, this one flew right under the radar many years earlier.
Great GPU! I still consider the AMD 4000 series one of the greatest made, and perfect for older titles. I have a HD4890 1GB GDDR5 in a bookshelf and it's something to keep.
7:12 huehuehuehuehuehuehuehuheuheuheuhuehue nice kewl dog in the backround.
7:16 Doggo approves
yeeee
This is a great GPU for me as the voices in my head drown out the GPU fan noise
this makes me miss my 8800 gt pair in SLI with my C2Q Q6600
i had one of these, this was my first enthusiast grade card. actually i still have it. i just wish it had better cooling. it ofc did die from overheating eventually.
Yep, mine too.. and very slowly indeed. You could see the card degenerating overtime.. First started showing stranger artifacts, like flashing groups of pixels, but without weird colors or the like...every month some more.. until it died...such a painful experience.
I love these videos
Was the card barking at you at around 7:14?
I had a HD 3870 x2 it was a beast of a card.
I remember saving all my money all summer to buy this card used it for years
Skyrim section begins
Borko borks
Pauses videos
Looks at Jack Russell on my bed to verify that no Borko borks has occurred locally
Resumes video
What spray do you use to clean the card?
sounds cool
Watercooling that Gpu!! 👍