From the time when "GTX" wasn't the series, but the suffix meaning the highest in it's bracket above stuff like GT, GTS and GS The 9800 GTX+ was also rebranded into the GTS 250 btw.
It reminded me of some thermal paste I had to scrape off the northbridge of a Westmere era SuperMicro server board recently. Literally took me two hours solid of scrubbing I burned through 20+ alcohol wipes. I eventually resorted to using my fingernails at the end. Remarkably the northbridge die survived unscathed.
I used this card from February 2009, for about 200 USD, and used it until 2018, when I got a 1080. Initially it had a 3 year warranty, but EVGA later offered 10 years warranty for it. Though I mainly bought it because of PhysX, if I had known PhysX would become what it is today (irrelevant), I would have probably bought something else. Still, it hold it's ground for almost 10 years, happy customer. Perfect card!
I bought a GTX 260 c216 and a GTX 285 in a combo deal from a friend. Sold the 285 because I couldn't keep it cool. 260 c216 was 95% performance with 50% the heat. Bizarre.
Honestly surprised how well this old girl did, I seen so many variants of the gt 8000 series chug hard on GTA V and here this card is, flipping them all the middle finger.
@@shadowguardian3612 No. The 9800GTX was just a higher clocked 8800GTS G92, and this is just a higher clocked die shrink of that. G92 is quite different than G80 on the 8800GTX.
I can't believe how well these hold up. My second GPU ever was a 8800 GTS 320MB and I was using this for years before finally building a new system. Unfortunately I sold it last year, as you put it there's still quite a high price associated with the 8800 cards. I did pick up a HD 4870 512MB for a fiver a couple of days ago so will be giving that a bash soon - it will be interesting to see how they compare!
Funny story: I actually used to use one of these after my dad gave me it, and, surprisingly, i still have it today (i dont use it anymore obviously). Twas an EVGA card and it apparently only had one 6pin connector
Yeas, the 9800GTX+ ! Back in late 2010 to early 2011 I was running a second hand Q6600/x48 machine with two eVGA 9800GTX+ cards in SLI. I can remember being disappointed when I found out GTA IV didn't support SLI. I sold the cards in late 2011 to a guy who said he wanted to get three of them in SLI and watercool them to play Battlefield 3. I'm still curious how that turned out... Anyhow, great vid! The card seems to have held up quite reasonably just like the the other iterations of this Tesla chip.
I really like these videos. They're amusing, informative and pretty damn good. I learned how to clean, put together my pc, overclock and many things just from your channel. Good job mate
Still use this card, an evga with the nice heatsink/fan it came with. Total powerhouse for it's time. It was a 250gts if you overclocked it if I remember correctly and was a hell of a lot cheaper. Crushes Fear on high settings with an x2 and ddr 400 without overclocking. It handles everything 2014 or so and prior.
The other day I was able to get my hands on one of those, made by Asus. As often happens with the older cards, it needs to be serviced and the thermal paste and pad needs to be replaced. Looking forward to testing it in games, so big thanks for making this video!
My first card was an EVGA version of this exact card back in like 2010, and let me tell you that meant I had the best PC among all my friends for quite a few years.
Civ 5 is a "relatively new strategy game"? It is 10 years old. 2 years less than the card. I hope a card can handle a title that came out only 2 years after the cards release.
8800 gtx reminds me of the polaris rx 480, new architecture with a new node. 9800 gtx is like the rx 580 and this 9800gtx+ is like the rx 590. same architecture but a smaller node.
Ah man, I had a GTS 250 (which was basically the final rebrand of this card), that i picked up for like 50 bucks in 2011. I picked it up as a physx card that I used alongside my Radeon 6950, and then just kept it as a spare card. Honestly as a backup card it was solid for years, floating around from build to build when i needed to test with something that required a PCIE power cable, and had more grunt than a basic display adapter.
i like your simcity music! thank you for the content! as a kid in highschool the 8800 ultra and the GTx280 were the cards i always wanted and thought id never be able to afford.
Something not mentioned, having had numerous 8 series cards, they all need 100mV bump on core volts and they run 100+ MHz faster without even blinking.
i had a GTX 9800 back in the day , was cool until the day i tried playing Hitman Absolution on it, man ! she couldn't handle it in most crowded levels, memory limitation , but other than that this cards was worthy the investissement.......but because of Hitman i replaced her with a GTX 660 ...and yes , i had her for almost 6 years , and she served me well ...but man !going from a 9800 to a 660 was like night and day!
@Dalle Smalhals add game devs pushing new features and wont bother to optimize for older cards. Look at Doom Eternal for example. Its weird seeing there is no huge outrage over it. I know it ran well on AMD cards, but come on thid is gameworks bullshittery taken into the next level
I had a 9800GTX+ That died on me after like 3 years of mild use. Not only that pretty much, anyone I know who had 8k and 9k series cards had to replace them at one point because it died for no reason. That pile of cards you showed, I have one such pile too, and there are a lot of 8k and 9k cards that I have to throw out because they have died. The 285 I got in 2010, is still alive in the computer I sold to a friend, while the 970 I got 5 years ago to replace the 285, is still going strong.
I'm still rocking EVGA 9800 GTX+ on xeon w3565 16gb 1600mhz triple channel XD great to see this card coming up on this channel loved it, btw i get around 158 fps in csgo 1600 x 1200 and it hardly drops at 80fps. Though mine is quite a lot overclocked, and my temps really doesn't exceed 70c.
1:39 i fully expect you to just Start Blasting it with a Garden hose now pushing it across the stone. wreklessly then taking a STEEL wirebrush to it.... lol gg
This was my first ever dedicated GPU. When I got it it was already years old, but considering I was in high school with no job and little money, for my first ever PC build it did just fine. To go from playing TF2 at 480p at not even a full 30fps at times to running at the game maxed out at 1080p at 60fps was insane for me.
Computers are amazing. No matter how old they get, most still have uses. Mainly older games and emulation. And before that, DOS and native games. And can you do a video on HD 7570 1GB GDDR5 (NOT DDR3 VERSION!)? It's one of the best value low-end cards.
I used a 8600 GTS for a long while back in the day. I'm surprised to find out that that generation of card was so disliked. The card still sits quite happily in a friends office PC where the only time it stretches its legs these days is to play Rome: Total War or The Battle for Middle-Earth.
I remember the 9800GTX+. I had an EVGA card. I later sold it to my brother and he still has it. It's his emergency "Aw, crap!" card. It's been put back into service at least once when his then current GPU died.
I have twin EVGA 9800 GTX+ cards sitting on a shelf collecting dust along with the SLI bridge. Last blower cooler cards I ever used and they worked great for years.
Budget builds official in 2032: Today we are going to look back at the RTX 2080 ti, the forgotten flagship.... At that point we may have quantum computing at home, who knows.
I had a 9800 GTX+. I also had a GTS 250, which I learned was a re-badged 9800 GTX+. I tried to re-flash the 9800 GTX+ so I could SLI it with the GTS 250. The re-flash worked, SLI did not...
I have a Geforcr 8800gts I found in a Mac. Haven't had a chance to actually put it to use yet, but this makes me want to. Does this one take a PcIe power cable or no? Wasn't sure gow much that node shrink helped power consumption lol.
I have my PNY GTX 9800+ I pulled from a Asus Striker Extreme 1 build I picked up in 2014. Guy finally retired his 2008 - 2009 build it was a very nice build but all I wanted was that GPU. Did end up parting out the components from that build to people who needed them or wanted them at least.
I mean. I have two of these GTX+. They work to this day, both have 512mb. Worked in SLI at the time. Both were replaced with a 285 GTX+ With a gig of ram a couple years later.
I had one of these cards, it ran well until it died, it was replaced with a 285 card which ran a bit better than this until it also died, that was replaced with a 560Ti which ran even better until that also died which was replaced with a 770 card which ran very well which actually last too. but for the 9800+ it was running Crysis well until you got into the snow part and here it did not run Crysis well at all
I had a 8800GTS and playing HD videos caused it to stutter. I remember trying to run Heroes 6 and it struggled on low. Darksiders ran on AMD x1600 but was unplayable on the 8800GTS.
i have the same card in my second pc. I dont use this for gaming i only use it for watching youtube at 1440p or 1080p. This GPU does well at 1440p video playback and theres an issue with it. Every so often the screen goes black and shows red lines and it only lasts for like 4 seconds and goes back to normal. Anyway when i launch furmark and stress test it, it shows lines and artifacts on the display. The card is dying and like 2 days ago i bought a GTX 550 Ti for a small upgrade.
The only thing I can say here is at the time ROPs were vital and memory interface of 256bit memory interface was the goal. At the time at the 512MB video memory mile stone we started to judged a graphics card by the memory size and prayed for more ROPS We're still doing that and we usually buy the next card in the stack with double the memory when we upgrade. It will not be that way much longer as we approach parody with work station memory sizes.
I still use a zotac 610i running both Windows 98 and Windows Xp. This is not a dual boot system. However i decided to go with an Acard 9010 ddr ram ssd. The drive is only 32gb and only 27gb useable but when you are using software everything seems instant. It also allows for backup of the installed os, on a 32gb flash card. So i turned my pc into something from the 80s, being i install only certain programs on different flash cards making it like a cartridge system :)
This card still works in a lot of titles even to this day. Sure you have to play it on low, but in a lot of games, its got just enough to work with that it can run most games just fine.
You are probably gonna find weird that this card is still manufactured in Brazil because for some reason people think DDR3 computers need GDDR3 graphics cards and I have no idea where that bullshit started.
The GTX+ was also known as the GTX KO, I have one with each branding from EVGA. IIRC they switched from the KO to the plus designator but I could have that backwards.
I used my 9800 GTX+ for many years (until I finally upgraded to a GTX 970) and it was pretty handy. I remember I could play Tomb Raider (2013) at 1080p Medium/High settings at 60 fps.
Good old memories. Had a XFX 9800GTX+ 512MB 765MHz. Worked great at the time, even though my E6600 was struggling to keep it fed. I remember paying 250 dollar for it. Now thats a price for a Flagship GPU.
I think people just were confused why the flagship card only has 512mb Ram, while the previous flagship modells (8800 GTX & Ultra) had a whopping 768mb. Even if these numbers do not matter much, cause the 9800+ could use the VRAM more efficiently, it was still relevant to buyers back in the day. And the direct compeditor, the AMD 4850, was available with a whole gigabyte of ram. So I blame this on bad marketing. Well, at least nvidia finally realized that VRAM was a huge marketing aspect with the GTX970...
I have a 9800 that I got from a recycling center bin. Had the rest of the era appropriate PC attached.. a p55 asus tuf and an I3 540 was a neat snapshot of an era before I got into hardware. The start of were we are today
One of my first GPUs I've used and could say owned. Got it from a friend who had upgraded, but I didn't buy it, but rather he loaned it to me. Anyway, paired with the Celeron G1840, this GPU let me play GTA IV. V and Mafia 2 on my own PC for the first time, and I remember it dearly for that :)
Kinda late to the video, but those things can still be found being sold as "high end REALLY GOOD AMAZING ULTRA PERFORMANCE GFORCE NVIDIA GPU" on the Brazilian used market
I liked the 9800 gtx + as it clocked like mad and didn't run as hot as the 65nm version, the gts 250 was often built to a lower quality and didn't have as good of a vrm and cooling wasn't great either being treated as more of a budget card.
I actually have a GTX 9800+ in my retro PC! Partly because it's slightly better than the 8800, partly because I also have an ATI 9800 Pro (for Windows 98 and other pre-XP titles) and I wanted to be able to meme about how the machine has dual 9800s.
still have a pny xlr8 9800gtx+ on my wall. went to a 550ti after then to sli 550ti for bf3 then 7970ghz and 7970ghz xfire with an overlocked xfire 1440p monitor back in the day that would do 100hz+. those were the fun times
What I still know is that I have to stick the 8800 and 9800 serie the fuck up chip with soldering. So you have us a hot oven to repair it. Good thing I use a ati card in that time
@@Rainbow__cookie If you mean the games made until 2025 yes, qafter that the card will start to weaken a lot, as the new games will demand a lot of memory and procesing power along with the new tacnologies written on the new processors.
From the time when "GTX" wasn't the series, but the suffix meaning the highest in it's bracket above stuff like GT, GTS and GS
The 9800 GTX+ was also rebranded into the GTS 250 btw.
Shows how big of a leap 200 series was.
and when FX was a geforce series
You are correct.
Omg that was my card until 2011 :0
I still have a GTS 250 on my shelf, and it is still working.
I had the 512mb Asus "Dark Knight" version of this card. I had to RMA it and they sent me the rarer 1gb version
I just had a look at that card and Jesus that's a beefy cooler for the time
thats some real cement based thermal paste right there
I have the same exact one from eBay , cost me 1.99 good temps
@@MozrowDrops I think that Scelly is referring to the stuff that was dried and removed from the old gpu, not the stuff that B-BO applied.
Keeps the GPU stone cold.
It reminded me of some thermal paste I had to scrape off the northbridge of a Westmere era SuperMicro server board recently. Literally took me two hours solid of scrubbing I burned through 20+ alcohol wipes. I eventually resorted to using my fingernails at the end. Remarkably the northbridge die survived unscathed.
It is a thermal brick
8:58 So you’re saying that due to the cars the card can’t keep up and it may be a _driver_ related issue... 👀
As a car guy I really appreciate this one
@@the_motherfucker r/ihavereddit
hehe, dad joke, and i understood it and chuckled a little :D
I used this card from February 2009, for about 200 USD, and used it until 2018, when I got a 1080. Initially it had a 3 year warranty, but EVGA later offered 10 years warranty for it. Though I mainly bought it because of PhysX, if I had known PhysX would become what it is today (irrelevant), I would have probably bought something else. Still, it hold it's ground for almost 10 years, happy customer. Perfect card!
Do something on the GTX 285, it idles at 200w
really bro?? 200 Watts. Damn
@SemperFidelis2006 ok so your youtube display pic moves.
I bought a GTX 260 c216 and a GTX 285 in a combo deal from a friend. Sold the 285 because I couldn't keep it cool. 260 c216 was 95% performance with 50% the heat. Bizarre.
Other times, impressive
Many many moons ago I had 3 bfg 285s in tri sli.... What a disaster that was 😂
Honestly surprised how well this old girl did, I seen so many variants of the gt 8000 series chug hard on GTA V and here this card is, flipping them all the middle finger.
Well its basically a refresh of 8800 Gtx ultra on smaller and more efficent node.
@@shadowguardian3612 No. The 9800GTX was just a higher clocked 8800GTS G92, and this is just a higher clocked die shrink of that. G92 is quite different than G80 on the 8800GTX.
I can't believe how well these hold up. My second GPU ever was a 8800 GTS 320MB and I was using this for years before finally building a new system. Unfortunately I sold it last year, as you put it there's still quite a high price associated with the 8800 cards. I did pick up a HD 4870 512MB for a fiver a couple of days ago so will be giving that a bash soon - it will be interesting to see how they compare!
Funny story: I actually used to use one of these after my dad gave me it, and, surprisingly, i still have it today (i dont use it anymore obviously). Twas an EVGA card and it apparently only had one 6pin connector
Yeas, the 9800GTX+ ! Back in late 2010 to early 2011 I was running a second hand Q6600/x48 machine with two eVGA 9800GTX+ cards in SLI. I can remember being disappointed when I found out GTA IV didn't support SLI. I sold the cards in late 2011 to a guy who said he wanted to get three of them in SLI and watercool them to play Battlefield 3. I'm still curious how that turned out...
Anyhow, great vid! The card seems to have held up quite reasonably just like the the other iterations of this Tesla chip.
I really like these videos. They're amusing, informative and pretty damn good. I learned how to clean, put together my pc, overclock and many things just from your channel. Good job mate
u should do a series about forgotten but still capable GPUs!
isn't that the entire point of this channel?
I never see him review gpu's like old fire pro those cards are interesting.
@@jjaze9831 or old Tesla line. The K series are still great especially if you need a proper 10-bit output.
@@jjaze9831 But apparently most of those old workstation GPUs are still expensive, considering this guy mostly bought things from sub-$10 category.
@@hahaiseewhatyouredoing9086 yeah here in ph
Some of them are like $200 but some I found around $35.
Still use this card, an evga with the nice heatsink/fan it came with. Total powerhouse for it's time. It was a 250gts if you overclocked it if I remember correctly and was a hell of a lot cheaper. Crushes Fear on high settings with an x2 and ddr 400 without overclocking. It handles everything 2014 or so and prior.
Let's see the 9800 GX2 ;)
^
The other day I was able to get my hands on one of those, made by Asus. As often happens with the older cards, it needs to be serviced and the thermal paste and pad needs to be replaced. Looking forward to testing it in games, so big thanks for making this video!
My first card was an EVGA version of this exact card back in like 2010, and let me tell you that meant I had the best PC among all my friends for quite a few years.
Civ 5 is a "relatively new strategy game"? It is 10 years old. 2 years less than the card. I hope a card can handle a title that came out only 2 years after the cards release.
And they found out later it actually could settle with one 6 pin ;)
The OC capability might be better in the 9800 GTX+ over the GTS 250.
So glad you're putting out more videos again.
8800 gtx reminds me of the polaris rx 480, new architecture with a new node.
9800 gtx is like the rx 580
and this 9800gtx+ is like the rx 590. same architecture but a smaller node.
if only it performed a 590....
When you have a oc'ed 6900xt and a 4k monitor but get almost more joy out of this than gaming in 2021.
10:56 it’s funny you mentioned the 550 Ti as I was literally holding it in my hand when you said it
Nice video, I find satisfying and calming watching your videos in this oven of the days.
Ah man, I had a GTS 250 (which was basically the final rebrand of this card), that i picked up for like 50 bucks in 2011. I picked it up as a physx card that I used alongside my Radeon 6950, and then just kept it as a spare card. Honestly as a backup card it was solid for years, floating around from build to build when i needed to test with something that required a PCIE power cable, and had more grunt than a basic display adapter.
Thanks, your videos are one of the few things worthy of taking up my time.
i like your simcity music! thank you for the content! as a kid in highschool the 8800 ultra and the GTx280 were the cards i always wanted and thought id never be able to afford.
I have a GT120 with 1GB of VRAM and mine can barely play WaW, and you can play GTA V.
Nice...
What settings in WaW?
As I have said time and time again. VRAM =/= Performance
Yeah, I know, it's still pretty bad tho...
@@MozrowDrops medium at slightly under 720p.
Isn't that card also available for the old mac pro ?
Something not mentioned, having had numerous 8 series cards, they all need 100mV bump on core volts and they run 100+ MHz faster without even blinking.
simcity music never gets old. nice video!
i had a GTX 9800 back in the day , was cool until the day i tried playing Hitman Absolution on it, man ! she couldn't handle it in most crowded levels, memory limitation , but other than that this cards was worthy the investissement.......but because of Hitman i replaced her with a GTX 660 ...and yes , i had her for almost 6 years , and she served me well ...but man !going from a 9800 to a 660 was like night and day!
@Dalle Smalhals and they left kepler with no extra optimization now. Sad really, as theyre quite capable actually
@Dalle Smalhals add game devs pushing new features and wont bother to optimize for older cards. Look at Doom Eternal for example. Its weird seeing there is no huge outrage over it. I know it ran well on AMD cards, but come on thid is gameworks bullshittery taken into the next level
Isn't it the same card as the GTS 250 ?
Yes it is!
nice, i managed to find this video when it was uploaded after 3 minutes
14 minutes for me. Cool!
Ok.
"What was it"?
A perfect topic for an amazing BBO video
:) Stay safe!
SimCity 4 music threw me off, I'm listening to this video and playing SimCity 4 lol
I had a 9800GTX+ That died on me after like 3 years of mild use. Not only that pretty much, anyone I know who had 8k and 9k series cards had to replace them at one point because it died for no reason. That pile of cards you showed, I have one such pile too, and there are a lot of 8k and 9k cards that I have to throw out because they have died. The 285 I got in 2010, is still alive in the computer I sold to a friend, while the 970 I got 5 years ago to replace the 285, is still going strong.
I had a Asus 9800GTX+ dark knight, upgraded from 7300gs, damn It was a good card
I'm still rocking EVGA 9800 GTX+ on xeon w3565 16gb 1600mhz triple channel XD great to see this card coming up on this channel loved it, btw i get around 158 fps in csgo 1600 x 1200 and it hardly drops at 80fps. Though mine is quite a lot overclocked, and my temps really doesn't exceed 70c.
I had a 8800GTS and a 9800GTX. Those were so great at the time. I remember running stuff like Crysis on those.
1:39 i fully expect you to just Start Blasting it with a Garden hose now pushing it across the stone. wreklessly then taking a STEEL wirebrush to it.... lol gg
I hear simcity 4 in the background, nice choice of bg music :D
This was my first ever dedicated GPU. When I got it it was already years old, but considering I was in high school with no job and little money, for my first ever PC build it did just fine.
To go from playing TF2 at 480p at not even a full 30fps at times to running at the game maxed out at 1080p at 60fps was insane for me.
Computers are amazing. No matter how old they get, most still have uses. Mainly older games and emulation. And before that, DOS and native games.
And can you do a video on HD 7570 1GB GDDR5 (NOT DDR3 VERSION!)? It's one of the best value low-end cards.
Lol the “Pixelated” lighting @ 3:48
I used a 8600 GTS for a long while back in the day. I'm surprised to find out that that generation of card was so disliked. The card still sits quite happily in a friends office PC where the only time it stretches its legs these days is to play Rome: Total War or The Battle for Middle-Earth.
Nice video mate, waiting for a another live stream of yours as i have tech based questions to ask you about... again -POTTU98
Might be streaming some Fable Anniversary tomorrow
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial that would be brilliant, around the same time as before?
Id imagine so 👍
@@BudgetBuildsOfficial excellent, i hope to talk to you tomorrow, good night
got one of those still. quite a nice card for a retro build.
Dat Sim City 3000 music in the background! Ah yis!!
I remember the 9800GTX+. I had an EVGA card. I later sold it to my brother and he still has it. It's his emergency "Aw, crap!" card. It's been put back into service at least once when his then current GPU died.
Shoutout to 13y/o me when I bought a 9800 for my Inspiron 530 and couldn't figure out how to install it so we just sold it lmao
I have twin EVGA 9800 GTX+ cards sitting on a shelf collecting dust along with the SLI bridge. Last blower cooler cards I ever used and they worked great for years.
I love the SC4 music in the intro!
Should have used that new fancy texture streaming feature in cs go
I'm genuinely impressed how well this ancient graphics card did on some very respectable titles
3:00 That`s some concrete evidence you got there :D
Budget builds official in 2032: Today we are going to look back at the RTX 2080 ti, the forgotten flagship....
At that point we may have quantum computing at home, who knows.
I played crysis on a friends pc at the time i think he had this graphic card, it was amazing at time!
I love how you get better performance with that card than me with 8GB of RAM, a 1050ti and in I5 7700HQ I get about 13 fps on very low...
I had a 9800 GTX+. I also had a GTS 250, which I learned was a re-badged 9800 GTX+. I tried to re-flash the 9800 GTX+ so I could SLI it with the GTS 250. The re-flash worked, SLI did not...
I have a Geforcr 8800gts I found in a Mac. Haven't had a chance to actually put it to use yet, but this makes me want to. Does this one take a PcIe power cable or no? Wasn't sure gow much that node shrink helped power consumption lol.
this is the first ever graphics card i bought in 2010 lasted me until 2014 since it had no dx11
waiting for my rx 570 to be reviewed by someone in 10 years time
I have my PNY GTX 9800+ I pulled from a Asus Striker Extreme 1 build I picked up in 2014. Guy finally retired his 2008 - 2009 build it was a very nice build but all I wanted was that GPU. Did end up parting out the components from that build to people who needed them or wanted them at least.
You always find something to surprise us :D
I mean. I have two of these GTX+. They work to this day, both have 512mb. Worked in SLI at the time.
Both were replaced with a 285 GTX+ With a gig of ram a couple years later.
@ Budget-Builds Official
But can it run F.E.A.R.2 in 720P???
Finaly someone includes BeamNG in his benchmarks (That Game itselve is a made high demanding benchmark xD)
The GTS250 was the exact same card. Used to have one. Some people would flash GTS250 bioses on the 9800gtx+
I had one of these cards, it ran well until it died, it was replaced with a 285 card which ran a bit better than this until it also died, that was replaced with a 560Ti which ran even better until that also died which was replaced with a 770 card which ran very well which actually last too. but for the 9800+ it was running Crysis well until you got into the snow part and here it did not run Crysis well at all
I had a 8800GTS and playing HD videos caused it to stutter. I remember trying to run Heroes 6 and it struggled on low. Darksiders ran on AMD x1600 but was unplayable on the 8800GTS.
i have the same card in my second pc. I dont use this for gaming i only use it for watching youtube at 1440p or 1080p. This GPU does well at 1440p video playback and theres an issue with it. Every so often the screen goes black and shows red lines and it only lasts for like 4 seconds and goes back to normal. Anyway when i launch furmark and stress test it, it shows lines and artifacts on the display. The card is dying and like 2 days ago i bought a GTX 550 Ti for a small upgrade.
The only thing I can say here is at the time ROPs were vital and memory interface of 256bit memory interface was the goal.
At the time at the 512MB video memory mile stone we started to judged a graphics card by the memory size and prayed for more ROPS
We're still doing that and we usually buy the next card in the stack with double the memory when we upgrade.
It will not be that way much longer as we approach parody with work station memory sizes.
I still use a zotac 610i running both Windows 98 and Windows Xp. This is not a dual boot system. However i decided to go with an Acard 9010 ddr ram ssd. The drive is only 32gb and only 27gb useable but when you are using software everything seems instant. It also allows for backup of the installed os, on a 32gb flash card. So i turned my pc into something from the 80s, being i install only certain programs on different flash cards making it like a cartridge system :)
I used to have one of these! The EVGA one. None of the software knew it was 55nm, everything always said it was 65nm
Great video, thanks! I recently put together a sempron 1250le with a 8500 gt and 8800 gts, still pretty good.
This card still works in a lot of titles even to this day. Sure you have to play it on low, but in a lot of games, its got just enough to work with that it can run most games just fine.
You are probably gonna find weird that this card is still manufactured in Brazil because for some reason people think DDR3 computers need GDDR3 graphics cards and I have no idea where that bullshit started.
The GTX+ was also known as the GTX KO, I have one with each branding from EVGA. IIRC they switched from the KO to the plus designator but I could have that backwards.
At least they didnt change name like "RX 580 - RX 590"
I used my 9800 GTX+ for many years (until I finally upgraded to a GTX 970) and it was pretty handy. I remember I could play Tomb Raider (2013) at 1080p Medium/High settings at 60 fps.
I got a XFX 9800GTX+ for my first gaming pc with a Core 2 Duo E6600. Still have it with the box retired on my shelf.
BTW, CRC electronic cleaner easily cleans off baked on thermal paste.
Cool video! Haha... Better than my integrated graphics.
Good old memories. Had a XFX 9800GTX+ 512MB 765MHz. Worked great at the time, even though my E6600 was struggling to keep it fed. I remember paying 250 dollar for it. Now thats a price for a Flagship GPU.
I think people just were confused why the flagship card only has 512mb Ram, while the previous flagship modells (8800 GTX & Ultra) had a whopping 768mb.
Even if these numbers do not matter much, cause the 9800+ could use the VRAM more efficiently, it was still relevant to buyers back in the day.
And the direct compeditor, the AMD 4850, was available with a whole gigabyte of ram.
So I blame this on bad marketing. Well, at least nvidia finally realized that VRAM was a huge marketing aspect with the GTX970...
I have a 9800 that I got from a recycling center bin. Had the rest of the era appropriate PC attached.. a p55 asus tuf and an I3 540 was a neat snapshot of an era before I got into hardware. The start of were we are today
I used to love my 8800gtx, handled battlefield 2 (2005) like champ. Wow I'm getting old 😖
I had the 9800 GTX+ superclocked in SLI. It worked amazing for quite a few years.
Got a 768 mb version of the 9800 gtx+ here with a reference cooler, does surprisingly well for what it is at 720p or 1366x768 in borderlands 2.
I had two watercolor with ful copper blocks in sli and a 9600gt doing only physx crysis was buttery smooth
One of my first GPUs I've used and could say owned. Got it from a friend who had upgraded, but I didn't buy it, but rather he loaned it to me.
Anyway, paired with the Celeron G1840, this GPU let me play GTA IV. V and Mafia 2 on my own PC for the first time, and I remember it dearly for that :)
Kinda late to the video, but those things can still be found being sold as "high end REALLY GOOD AMAZING ULTRA PERFORMANCE GFORCE NVIDIA GPU" on the Brazilian used market
I liked the 9800 gtx + as it clocked like mad and didn't run as hot as the 65nm version, the gts 250 was often built to a lower quality and didn't have as good of a vrm and cooling wasn't great either being treated as more of a budget card.
I actually have a GTX 9800+ in my retro PC!
Partly because it's slightly better than the 8800, partly because I also have an ATI 9800 Pro (for Windows 98 and other pre-XP titles) and I wanted to be able to meme about how the machine has dual 9800s.
still have a pny xlr8 9800gtx+ on my wall. went to a 550ti after then to sli 550ti for bf3 then 7970ghz and 7970ghz xfire with an overlocked xfire 1440p monitor back in the day that would do 100hz+. those were the fun times
I had a water cooled 9800gtx back in the day paired with a core 2 extreme had alot of fun with that rig
What I still know is that I have to stick the 8800 and 9800 serie the fuck up chip with soldering.
So you have us a hot oven to repair it.
Good thing I use a ati card in that time
I wouldn't call the 9800 GTX+ a flagship at the time, as it was released after the GTX 280 which was the new flagship
I got a question. Ok my set up is. CPU - FX-4300 GPU - MSI RX 570 OC RAM - 2 x 8gb ddr3 Is this a good setup or a bottleneck?
GTX 1080 TI is still a beast card nowadays.
Wonder if it's good in 10 years I mean we have alot of good games will people play those in 10 years
I have this card.
@@Rainbow__cookie If you mean the games made until 2025 yes, qafter that the card will start to weaken a lot, as the new games will demand a lot of memory and procesing power along with the new tacnologies written on the new processors.
I remember playing Skyrim on a HD 4850, I don't remember having 60 fps, but that might be because I maxed the settings.