I had a evga 960 ssc 2gb (sell it 3 months ago) and still pretty decent for gtav and competitive games, i thought it could run newer games but 2gb struggled too much
@@takehirolol5962 I'm thinking about putting it in an old i7 3770k pc thet I have in storage, might be good for wii/switch emulation. Though XP is too old even for the GTX 960. Windows 7 or 8 would suit it much better!
I have this exact model... been using it for 9 years, bought it since it was new. Paid 600€ for it. My god what a card, it still doesn't let me down! And they told me back in day, that I couldn't possibly build me a pc that would last me more than 4 years, and here I am, in 2023, still playing some games even on 1440p.
Oh really? What games can a GTX 980 run at 1440p with only 4gb of VRAM? Please enlighten me. Definitely not any demanding games, or even slightly demanding. E-sports titles maybe. But the GTX 980 was never a 1440p card even when it was new. And it definitely is not now.
@@yeetus59 I'm pretty sure the last forza horizon 5 can be played with decent settings at 1440p. Apex Legends off course. Any game that doesn't require much more than the Vram of that card. You would be surprise how some people can run big games with older hardwares. Ultra settings is so demanding compared to let's say a mix of medium-high settings, and you still have that eye-candy. I usually buy myself a new pc every 5 years or so, and even my older pcs can run games at decent settings and resolutions. Take care.
Its a nice upgrade. I wanted to do the same but i could not power up a gtx 970 with only one 6+2 pci cable form my psu. So i end up going for the next one i can afford wich was the Rx 570 wich still worth the upgrade but not quite as much as the 970. The rx 570 compete with the 1650 while the 970 compete with the 1650s.
@@alan138 That's not quite true. Both the RX 570 and GTX 970 are quite similar in performance, between a 1050 Ti and 1060. 1650 Super competes with 1060, just with smaller Vram Edit: RX 570 is better than 970, I stand corrected
@@SanHydronoid There are mulitple versions of a 1060 but an RX 570 allows for actual control in overclocking, this puts it above a beyond the fastest of 1060s
@@alan138 Not quite true. The RX 570 is much closer to the GTX 1650 Super and 1060 6GB and faster than both the 1650 and the 970. The GDDR6 1650 comes close to the slowest RX 570s but still mostly loses. And the 8GB RX 570 can be overclocked and BIOS-modded into being faster than both the 1650S and RX 580. That's what I did with mine and I'm really glad I got it for half the price of a 1650S back in 2020. Having 8GB of VRAM really helps a lot in games from the last 4 years.
The GTX 980 can kick some serious butt. If devs put some more effort into optimizing the games released today, the 980 would still be performing way better than it does. Forza 5 is a perfect example. Jedi Survivor is an example of horrible optimization.
I used to have a GTX 980 by Zotac which I got as a hand down from a friend. I then gave it to a friend of mine, who later on gave it another friend. And 4 owners later, after 8 and a half years of constant use, it's still alive and kicking. I will probably try to get it back a some point as a memento. I also remember what an eye opener that thing was for me back in late 2016, having used an GTX 770 2GB until then. DOOM 2016 went from "barely playble" at medium to "buttery smooth" at ultra.
It's always refreshing to see the "revisiting old GPU" videos when the entire internet is flooded with the discussion about the release of new RTX today Definitely needs more content like this
this is exactly the reason why i love this channel so much, it has its own "rythm", doesn't really care about the newest trends yet always delivers with very interesting ideas & great execution.
@@RandomGaminginHD please stay like that, there are too many uncreative "the newest of the new" channels, yours has creativity and soul and that's a rare thing nowadays. also; great narration!🙂
I will never get tired of recommending new people to older graphics cards, period. You only even need a brand new GPU for brand new games running at 4k anyway. I pretty much can't think of needing anything above a 1080ti for any brand new games, period. A 1080ti should run Cyberpunk all ultra 1080p, maybe not full 60 but still run it well. So for like 96% of games you are only even going to need a GTX 980 and like a, overclocked 2600k or a i7 3770 or something like that. Even at 1080p you can pretty much get by on less than $300 to game an enjoyable experience. It's solely for 4k kiddies being bougie with a $700 graphics card. I mean even 1440p the 5700XT fell to $200 now and that card can do most games at QHD, and the GTX 980 being at half that price on ebay makes it a fantastic consideration for all DirectX11 games at 1080p. It's really down to that or the RX 580/590 I think in terms of great value graphics cards.
What I really love about your gpu & igpu videos is that you are not too dependent on upscaling methods, you show the true potential of the GPU and only turn on upscaling unless it is truly necessary.
Yeah, I really miss when GPU makers were more honest and just said what the performance was going to be, no nonsense about these muh features, no lying about performance by talking about upscaling as if it mattered for most games (devs need to hard code it in like raytracing, it isn't a magic performance button, it comes at the cost of visuals and even then only is available on a few dozen games)
I upgraded from a PNY GTX 980 (looks very founder’s edition like) a little over a year ago. I have the 980 in an older machine I keep around for legacy things. It’s nice to know it’s still capable for modern games.
@@harryhazza626 I got that card last week from CEX (UK) & just gave it back as did not want to spend more than the £90 price tag on mini to full size DP & HDMI port adapters, but it was in 1st class condition from them.
Yeah!, honestly I feel the GTX 980 is the better pick compared to the GTX 980 ti for legacy stuff e.g. windows xp it's way more than powerful to run anything from that era and has a much lower TDP.
Yeah I was just watching something on another channel where they tested a 980 on newer games and the thing actually ran cyberpunk. I was astounded. I mean it was still getting drops into 25 fps once in awhile that was almost certainly due to running out of VRAM, but overall it was still hitting the low 40s fps which is pretty playable, maybe screw with the settings more and you can play Cyberpunk smoothly-ish on a 980, and if you can get Cyberpunk to work, you can get anything to work. Well unless it has DirectX 12/2 API. I haven't tested Vulkan either.
For me it was always my little 4th gen intel thermal throttling my laptop. You can run 1080 for generations but a old cpu can't handle the new computer advancements. Today i have a i7 12700h with rtx 3060. I have faith itll last another decade
I just let go of a GTX 980 pc I built in 2014. For the time I got out of it and the headaches I put up with from the fx 8350 in the build I think it served me very well over the years. The build sported the gtx 980, fx 990 mobo, 16gb ddr3, fx 8350 BE and 1 tb hdd with a 1tb ssd. It even had the good old disc drive. Aside from thermal paste and regular cleaning it served us very well. The last games played on it were Elden Ring and Hogwarts as recently as last night. The new owner picked it up for a nifty £150 which, all considering, was a steal for a very well maintained pc that had all the boxes/manuals and even the stickers for all the components. I personally wont miss it as I think the 1080ti has dropped to a very reasonable price for budget gamers and it wont set anyone back a mint. Im sure that ASUS TUF sticker will do the new owner a good turn 🤣
As a previous owner of an FX 8320 I feel your pain. I'll never forget running through Cherno in Dayz with less than 10 fps on that piece of garbage XD. Ditched it for an 8600k and haven't looked back since
I wish I have gotten the FE, it's gorgeous! But I bought mine on the peak of crypto mining so I ended up overpaying for a Zotac GTX 1070 Mini. Still great, though
I also got a gtx 1070 msi for 125 usd, loving it right now cuz i'm able to render faster and edit smoothly in Lumion due to its 8gb Vram and a nice amount of CUDA cores and also play games smoothly at 1080p
If the games were properly optimized, the 980 would still kick ass. Devs are just throwing the games out there no matter the condition they might be in.
from 9 series I owned a wonderful 970 Phantom from Gainward. The fans were between the PCB and the finstack. the were removable with a thumbscrew for easy cleaning. I liked it a lot despite the 970 VRAM problems
I had a 580 Phantom back in the day, the cooler design was awesome, very industrial looking. This gpu cooler vertically mounted in a black Fractal North with a black cpu heatsink would look really cool.
Man... These are surprising results. I've just tested a i7-3770 / GTX1060 3GB / 16GB RAM combo, and your setup totally outperforms that. I guess that new i3 is pulling its weight as well. It would be cool to see a GTX1060 GB vs 980 comparison. You may have added a new card to my search list for budged build parts. Thanks for a great video.
You know I think that, while far from ideal for a number of reasons, probably the biggest limiter to the 980 can be gotten around by simply SLI'ing it but then again I guess that kind of defeats the point when now you're running a 324w 2 card system that costs probably $200 at minimum and then it's really easy just to compare it to the 225w 5700XT 8gb at that point anyway than get an enthusiast grade 2-way SLI to getting 2x4gb of memory. Which I guess back in the day nVidia's bad VRAM could be compensated for more easily by...just wasting your money an additional GPU you hadnt needed lel. Idk I think 980ti SLI is a monster in terms of TDP but it could do better than one 1080ti iirc it's just that, well you'd needed a couple grand to spend on 2x80ti cards, you'd needed over 510w dedicated just to GPU solution, and you'd needed a case with airflow/fans to match. But, it does always strike me as really neat just from that nerdy enthusiast type of perpsective. I never could've ever afforded it back then, and so I kinda want my redcar computer, you know? Like take an old 980, and then get myself a 3770k board with overclocking potential to stick another 980 on it and see if it can perform at close to 1080 or better.
A Maxwell-like architectural improvement is desperately needed right now, with rumors of NVIDIA sticking with 4 nm for the 50 series because of very high 3 nm costs. It was incredible what they were able to achieve on the same node as Kepler. The 970 was one of my favorite cards (if you ignore the VRAM issue that popped up later on).
GTX 900 series, Maxwell gen. Supports DX 12_0 feature set if I'm not mistaken, so plays all of today's games as RGinHD said. Maxwell is on the tail end of supported chips though, and that's why they're so cheap. I have an MSI blower-style GTX 980 Ti 6GB card. It was pulled from a decommissioned Dell Precision workstation. It was a great card! It was, because unfortunately one of the memory chips has failed so it will post but show garbled picture. I think I'm just going to give it away
The overclocking on these things is pretty great. I swapped my sons 980 today for a Vega 64 and through the 980 in one of my backup builds and messed around. Stable OC of +155 core clock in Afterburner and +594 on the memory. Ram a bunch of benchmarks and netted me around 25% FPS performance while still keeping temps around 68-70 degrees. No crashes and buttery smooth!
@@RandomGaminginHD Honestly, if I wanted 4060 content today, I'm sorted. It's everywhere. But a look at a former flagship that's a good budget option? It's mostly just you, mate. So good on ya.
I love your content. It calms me down when I'm upset and brings good feelings to my afternoons! Thank you so much for keeping posting such high quality content!
I hope that Nvidia is still supporting these 900er series a little longer. The 970 is also still good for most e-sport games and the GTX 980Ti is still great for newer games. 🙂
I think that (albeit poor) native DX12 support from the beginning is one thing that's helped its lifespan a bit, otherwise NV probably would have dropped support the same way AMD did for the Rx 200/300 series.
Yeah even with modern gpus i think it's better to dial down the ultra settings to more optimised ones , you get 95% the same quality and sometimes a big performance boost
@@lynackhilou4865 yeah exactly. I think marketing and stuff with "Ultra" and even to some degree "High" settings has really brainwashed us into worrying too much about fps numbers etc. I think if we just focus on playing the games as long as it's in a playable framerate, GPUs can really last a long time.
I've had this card for over 10 years and I only changed it last year when its fan broke. It was one of my longer running cards and it was simply so good!
Might be able to fix the fan, mine suddenly started having all kinds of weird performance issues that I traced to overheating, I just dismantled it and reapplied the thermal paste and it kept going strong until I finally retired it last year. Still sitting on a shelf waiting for me to put it in a future PC, may end up giving it to one of my kids.
I have this exact card in my 58 machine. It performs well still, and it’s a good mag h for the x5675. Although in some games it actually holds back the x5675(cyberpunk mostly)
This is amazing. I have started using my old PC which has GTX 980 as sort of a gaming console by hooking it up with TV in living room. It's actually really powerful for the games up till 2017 but even on medium for games after that period, it performs wonderfully. This way I can clear up my PC backlog. Thanks for the video.
My GTX 1080ti just recently bricked. My backup GPU I have in right now is an RX 570 8GB but I also have a GTX 980ti kicking around. Might swap them just to see what works best.
The 980 is a really solid GPU and has really held on, trading blows with the 6 gig 1060 and RX 4/580. It's really starting to fall behind now sadly. I had a reference card for what feels like ages and it was a great buy. The 1080 i upgraded to was an enormous leap though.
I'm glad you started doing tests with fsr off because to tell the truth I would prefer not to use it unless it's a must because you can slightly feel input delay when on and the tv look it gives games I'm not the biggest fan of.
Brought my 980 back in 2014 at 12 from saving up years of birthday money for a Minecraft pc (ofc). It's that exact ASUS Strix spec. ... I'm still using it, and it's still smashing it! I do need an upgrade soon though
I see these go for around $75-$90 on my local OfferUp so a little more expensive than the 1060 3GBs (I got an MSI one for $50 for my mum’s system) but I still think 1070s are the best NVIDIA GDDR5 card if you want one if you’re trying to score an older GDDR5 card in this price bracket
Today the 1060 3gb dropped to £70 from the higher priced cex. The gtx 980 should drop to the £60 mark next month after Computex. These are still very good 1080p cards and the price is reasonable.
@@Liminal.Headspace In 2 weeks they will drop. The taxes and tariffs for importing are shocking. My brother sent me his old 6700xt free from the states and when the airport got it they made me pay £200 tax for it on top of the £90 he paid to ship it thinking it would save me money on a backup gpu, I was raging. That is the lasting effect of the miners. 200 euros for any 10 year old gpu is mental
@@Liminal.Headspace here in Canada it's still ridiculous but not as insane, they sell for around the same price as the ti version and the 1070, around 140 to 180 CAD
Saw the thumbnail and going that's my graphics card! Damn really had it this long that's its old but it still does the job for me. Got it about 4 years ago in someone's build for £200, sold all the other cars so the card cost me net around £75 and put into ryzen 7 3700x build
I picked up a used Asus 980 Matrix for $60. Got it as backup for my rig that doesn't have integrated graphics and as a display model for my bookshelf. Glad it still peforms quite well at 1080p.
550$ 10 years ago(2014) had the buying power of 771$ today. so essentially high range gpu's were far cheaper back then, and generational performance gap was a lot bigger. we're getting scammed nowadays.
I don't mind a 40 dollar increase per generation. Development of features gets harder and harder, but its like Nvidia charges 100 dollars per generation bump. It's nuts. AMD is no better, they could easily undercut Nvidia and get more market share but they persist with selling GPUs in the wrong price brackets. They've become the "best used GPUs" company which doesn't really help prices of new mid-high cards. And Intel might not even have any now. Is our last hope china?
Great longevity, but it was expensive. Can't remember if you've revisited the 970 which was an absolute midrange monster. Great price, thermals, size, etc. I went for an R9 390 as I wanted to try out an all AMD build. Bit of a mistake on bot the CPU and GPU as the 2015 AM2+ CPU I bought was basically just as effective as my old Phenom II X4 from 2009... Bad purchase decicions were made.
One of my friends is still rocking a 980ti and he's never really had any problems with it. He's also using a 4k display and downsamples where necessary/reduces the framerate for a native 4k experience.
I bought me a 980 in January 2015 to go with a new build and thought I was pretty hot shit as my previous card was a 570. My single goal was to run the Witcher 3 at high frame rates when it came out and the 980 acquitted itself beautifully.
My trusted GPU.. Zotac Amp! 980.. been loyal with me since 2015ish. Too bad this early year it declined so bad, maybe getting tired and showing its age. It start to having grey screen crashes when I playing game, so I decided to giving it rest and bought PowerColor Red Devil RX 6700 XT as replacement.
bought a reference version of this card right at the edge of the mining price bubble (i.e. too much money, but probably the best deal I could find at the time) to replace a dust-clogged GTX 560. It was quite the upgrade at the time to pair with my aging i5 2500K. nice to know it might sing well enough in a newer system as well!
I had dual 680's that did fine if you wanted to play the game. It looked great. I have a 1070 that is still operating very well in todays gaming. A lot of the "older" graphic cards perform fine if you are intending to play the game. If you are trying for the fastest frame rates, of course it cannot compete with the current gen, but for playing a game they are fine.
I also love all the mafia games, all of them are underrated imo, even mafia 3 which had some repetitive gameplay but an amazing story just like the previous two
I have a 980 in one of my many rigs here, this one is in the kids pc (i7 4970K, 16gb DDR3, Gainward GTX 980, 1tb SSD) and it plays everything they want. I occasionally use this pc to run World of Tanks and it does this at the highest of settings (though it may be in SD not HD mode, i dont recall now). The monotor used is a 1440 27".
Both my daughter's pcs both still run 980 founders with zero issues...playing overwatch, roblox, sims, and many other games at 1080...works perfectly for them 👍..still very capable cards
I've had a EVGA GTX 980 Classified since 2015. Nothing until the RTX 30 series was a convincing upgrade. It just kept going and going, playing everything and making everything new look like terrible value! I finally upgraded to a second hand 1080ti in 2021, then to a rtx 3080 early this year. Still have it working in my wife's PC though!
Never had one but always wanted one back in the day.....I just couldnt justify the cost. Good to see that it can still kick it today though, I think previous flagship GPUs still have a place in todays world. Hope my 3060ti FE lasts for a while
You finally made a video about my card! This beast from gpu was first bought by my friend in late 2014, he was pretty sad because he first bought 970 from the store by sort of mistake and then the store owner suggested that he'd add a little money and he could return it and get 980 instead, and from there his story with beast gaming started, till today! and in the end of her career I bought it from him for like 60$ and here I am using it, playing everything, either by lowering settings or using FSR and I am getting really nice experience! I was able to play gta 5 and 4 on 4k and I'm glad this card offered me 4k experience in some games! Even in forza! Thanks for talking about my gpu ♥ I have the MSI model by the way
As for GTA 5, I discovered not few days ago that you have to enable FXAA through nvidia control panel specially for gta 5 and have it disabled from the main settings or else FXAA will cause you issues with your visuals in some programs like VIsual Studio Code. FXAA really does a decent job especially in 1080p. That made me get rid of msaa and gain more fps and save temps!
Played the RE4 Remake with most things set to medium. Finished the game multiple times, framerate between high 40s and 60. The full game is more optimised than the demo and is phenomenal as a remake, you should check it out!
i used to own 980TI Asus Strix-Gaming.. it's still rocking few new game like chad. But now i'm using 2060s meanwhile 980TI sitting on glass shelf display with other OG GPU i own
The closest thing you get in nowadays GPU is the RX 6400, it's only consume 35-50 Watts and cost 120-150 USD now (you can get it for less than 120 bucks if you are lucky) Also there's some options like GTX 1650 and 1660 Super if you want more performance for roughly the same budget
Still on my 980 from 2015 and zero problems... no melted connectors, no sagging and no broken edge connector... WOW it's almost like they used to know how to make video cards that weren't garbage right out of the box!! lol
I bought a used 980ti ( asus strix one with oc) and paired it with my 5600g ( it was 2021 and the shortage was insane so this was my only option) and i dont regret my decision till this day. 980ti is such op card while it was overclocked it could do 5 % better than the 1660ti ( the card i was initially wanted to buy but the shortage happened). So i would highly suggest people on budget to buy old flagship gpus ( like 1080ti, rx 6600 s etc) those are some real bargain although they take more wattages so make sure to have a 600w+ psu.
I'm still using my 980, and run most games at 1440p, except for very recent ones. Also, a lot of games are fine to lock to 30 fps, then you can bump the settings up a surprising amount.
I can heartily recommend the £45 Lexindar RX580, OK its the 2048 with a slight lowering of shader counts etc but for the money its a new card with quite a capable cooler. They said it was refurbished but I examined every inch of the damn thing, the edge connector immaculate, never been inside a connector and apart from changing the thermal pasta for a phase changing thermal pad its running sweet as a nut after a 5 mins undervolt and overclock sesh. Got Forza on pause as I type this, running about 30 deg. £60 on Alibongo and the forty thieves will get you a much better 590 8gb and I am kicking meself not going for that one but the 580 I know will last a good while, handled WD:Legion earlier like a champ and did some Da Vinci Resolve editing and mastering and I say its about 10% faster than the 570 it replaced.
What makes it even better is the fact the maxwell card can be overclocked like hell, my 980 ti gaming 6g can sustain about 1550 mhz with crappy asic quailty back in the day.
Here's an idea. What about pairing the GPU's you have, with some of those pre-built, HP/Dell systems, etc! And if you have an external GPU dock, you could try the GPU's out with those SFF factor PC's, like some of the BLINK systems, for instance. Look, I don't comment often, or as much as I should. You're a good guy. You deal with the budget items, and that helps folks out. On that note, old Xeon systems can be awesome, for gaming and production. Another video idea, if you have a 980, a 1080, and even a 2080, would be cool to see a comparison. Hell, you could add in a 1060, 1050Ti, 1050, and 1030! Look, I believe the problem is with the consumer. Too many folks think that as soon as something new comes out, their tech is now all of the sudden rendered useless! This is not the case! And you show that to folks. Thanks for what you do for people. You're a good man. o7 And You have a great dog too! I have a Jack Russell Terrorist, myself! Wonderful dogs!
i had gotten the GTX 980 ti when it first came out. i just replaced it this month with a 4070. it was a great card though and lasted forever... now if CPUs would last as long...
it seems similar to the 1060 6gb but I would still prefer the 1060 for the 6gb of vram, those 2 extra GB can save the texture resolution in a lot of new games, you can also OC the 1060.
I have a 980 ti powering my windows xp machine. My daughter has a 980 ti in her system. Both are zotac amp extreme models. My son’s system has a gigabyte gtx 960 wind force OC(the blue one). Maxwell was a fantastic architecture. Almost as good as Pascal. Nvidia has been so so ever since with Turing ampere and now Lovelace. My own system has a zotac gtx 1080 amp extreme and I also have a zotac gtx 1070 ti which will go into my son’s system if he ever decides to play something a bit more demanding than overwatch. And my last gpu which is new in the box is a powercolor rx 580 red devil which is a cool looking card.
Maxwell to Pascal was a serious jump in performance in just 1 freaking generation (around 60/70% jump in performance). Sold my 980 for around 160 $ and got a 1070Ti for 220 $......crazy bump up for just 60 $.
I'm still going pretty strong on my GTX1080. I don't play a lot of AAA titles but the games I do play I can typically play on very high and ultra settings. If I recall correctly, I was averaging around 60-80 fps in Red Dead Redemption 2. So I'm not going to bother upgrading until my card either dies, or they finally come out with a card capable of running 4k, 240hz monitors at ultra settings with ray tracing enabled, for under $800. We should have been there 3 years ago, but the manufacturers are screwing us.
Having a 980 in 2014 must have been amazing, it was a time when having a high end rig actually made sense, and it sure lasted a long time, you could keep it running till 2020
These Cards overclock really well . 1500 Mhz core + 500 mhz Dram is no Problem without Bios editing which was able at the Time. You can get 15 - 20 % more Performance for free which was nice.
I still have a GTX 960 somewhere in a drawer. Sadly it's the 2 gig version of it, so basically useless in any game released post 2020.
Indeed, the best use with a 960 is a Retro Windows XP PC.
I had a evga 960 ssc 2gb (sell it 3 months ago) and still pretty decent for gtav and competitive games, i thought it could run newer games but 2gb struggled too much
@@takehirolol5962 I'm thinking about putting it in an old i7 3770k pc thet I have in storage, might be good for wii/switch emulation.
Though XP is too old even for the GTX 960. Windows 7 or 8 would suit it much better!
@@WhyDoINeedOneOfThese nice, I have the white and black version of MSI, used it from 2015 up till early 2020
I have a 650 1gig and I play almost everything until 2019.
I have this exact model... been using it for 9 years, bought it since it was new. Paid 600€ for it. My god what a card, it still doesn't let me down!
And they told me back in day, that I couldn't possibly build me a pc that would last me more than 4 years, and here I am, in 2023, still playing some games even on 1440p.
Same here
Well, you certainly got your money's worth!
Oh really? What games can a GTX 980 run at 1440p with only 4gb of VRAM? Please enlighten me. Definitely not any demanding games, or even slightly demanding. E-sports titles maybe. But the GTX 980 was never a 1440p card even when it was new. And it definitely is not now.
@@yeetus59 I'm pretty sure the last forza horizon 5 can be played with decent settings at 1440p. Apex Legends off course. Any game that doesn't require much more than the Vram of that card. You would be surprise how some people can run big games with older hardwares. Ultra settings is so demanding compared to let's say a mix of medium-high settings, and you still have that eye-candy. I usually buy myself a new pc every 5 years or so, and even my older pcs can run games at decent settings and resolutions.
Take care.
@yeetus Destiny 2 for example, I don't play new AAA games anymore that's true.
I just "upgraded" from a gtx 1050 2gb to a gtx 970 for 50 bucks, and I gotta say the 970 can still keep up today
Its a nice upgrade. I wanted to do the same but i could not power up a gtx 970 with only one 6+2 pci cable form my psu. So i end up going for the next one i can afford wich was the Rx 570 wich still worth the upgrade but not quite as much as the 970. The rx 570 compete with the 1650 while the 970 compete with the 1650s.
@@alan138 That's not quite true. Both the RX 570 and GTX 970 are quite similar in performance, between a 1050 Ti and 1060. 1650 Super competes with 1060, just with smaller Vram
Edit: RX 570 is better than 970, I stand corrected
I just upgraded for my 970 to 1080 ti. I need all that vram for Skyrim modding
@@SanHydronoid There are mulitple versions of a 1060 but an RX 570 allows for actual control in overclocking, this puts it above a beyond the fastest of 1060s
@@alan138 Not quite true. The RX 570 is much closer to the GTX 1650 Super and 1060 6GB and faster than both the 1650 and the 970. The GDDR6 1650 comes close to the slowest RX 570s but still mostly loses. And the 8GB RX 570 can be overclocked and BIOS-modded into being faster than both the 1650S and RX 580. That's what I did with mine and I'm really glad I got it for half the price of a 1650S back in 2020. Having 8GB of VRAM really helps a lot in games from the last 4 years.
The GTX 980 can kick some serious butt. If devs put some more effort into optimizing the games released today, the 980 would still be performing way better than it does. Forza 5 is a perfect example. Jedi Survivor is an example of horrible optimization.
Absolutely. I feel like all we do these days is throw massive amounts of power at unoptimized games just to get them to a playable level
exactly, my 750 ti should be able to launch the game at least!
980 = 1060
The problem is also with NVIDIA dropping driver support for older cards.
I saw that on my old 980 ti
I used to have a GTX 980 by Zotac which I got as a hand down from a friend. I then gave it to a friend of mine, who later on gave it another friend. And 4 owners later, after 8 and a half years of constant use, it's still alive and kicking. I will probably try to get it back a some point as a memento.
I also remember what an eye opener that thing was for me back in late 2016, having used an GTX 770 2GB until then. DOOM 2016 went from "barely playble" at medium to "buttery smooth" at ultra.
It's always refreshing to see the "revisiting old GPU" videos when the entire internet is flooded with the discussion about the release of new RTX today
Definitely needs more content like this
this is exactly the reason why i love this channel so much, it has its own "rythm", doesn't really care about the newest trends yet always delivers with very interesting ideas & great execution.
@@TH-cam-Censorship-Police I just go with whatever idea pops into my head haha.
@@RandomGaminginHD please stay like that, there are too many uncreative "the newest of the new" channels, yours has creativity and soul and that's a rare thing nowadays. also; great narration!🙂
I will never get tired of recommending new people to older graphics cards, period. You only even need a brand new GPU for brand new games running at 4k anyway. I pretty much can't think of needing anything above a 1080ti for any brand new games, period. A 1080ti should run Cyberpunk all ultra 1080p, maybe not full 60 but still run it well. So for like 96% of games you are only even going to need a GTX 980 and like a, overclocked 2600k or a i7 3770 or something like that. Even at 1080p you can pretty much get by on less than $300 to game an enjoyable experience. It's solely for 4k kiddies being bougie with a $700 graphics card. I mean even 1440p the 5700XT fell to $200 now and that card can do most games at QHD, and the GTX 980 being at half that price on ebay makes it a fantastic consideration for all DirectX11 games at 1080p. It's really down to that or the RX 580/590 I think in terms of great value graphics cards.
@@RandomGaminginHDcan you revisit the r9 390x aka the hottest 8 gig card out there (and I do mean temps) or the 290x cuz why not
What I really love about your gpu & igpu videos is that you are not too dependent on upscaling methods, you show the true potential of the GPU and only turn on upscaling unless it is truly necessary.
Yeah, I really miss when GPU makers were more honest and just said what the performance was going to be, no nonsense about these muh features, no lying about performance by talking about upscaling as if it mattered for most games (devs need to hard code it in like raytracing, it isn't a magic performance button, it comes at the cost of visuals and even then only is available on a few dozen games)
I upgraded from a PNY GTX 980 (looks very founder’s edition like) a little over a year ago. I have the 980 in an older machine I keep around for legacy things. It’s nice to know it’s still capable for modern games.
PNY? was that the one which had Mini HDMI & DP ports only on it?
@@jonathanwright1507 yep it is. , I had the exact same (trying to buy it back , cos it's sexy) that's card has wicked , great overclocker too
@@harryhazza626 I got that card last week from CEX (UK) & just gave it back as did not want to spend more than the £90 price tag on mini to full size DP & HDMI port adapters, but it was in 1st class condition from them.
Yeah!, honestly I feel the GTX 980 is the better pick compared to the GTX 980 ti for legacy stuff e.g. windows xp
it's way more than powerful to run anything from that era and has a much lower TDP.
Yeah I was just watching something on another channel where they tested a 980 on newer games and the thing actually ran cyberpunk. I was astounded. I mean it was still getting drops into 25 fps once in awhile that was almost certainly due to running out of VRAM, but overall it was still hitting the low 40s fps which is pretty playable, maybe screw with the settings more and you can play Cyberpunk smoothly-ish on a 980, and if you can get Cyberpunk to work, you can get anything to work. Well unless it has DirectX 12/2 API. I haven't tested Vulkan either.
Still using that i7-4790k and gtx 980 combo since 2015.
that combo will serve you a good few years still, considering it's faster than my dead i5-9300H GTX1650 laptop
For me it was always my little 4th gen intel thermal throttling my laptop. You can run 1080 for generations but a old cpu can't handle the new computer advancements. Today i have a i7 12700h with rtx 3060. I have faith itll last another decade
I just let go of a GTX 980 pc I built in 2014. For the time I got out of it and the headaches I put up with from the fx 8350 in the build I think it served me very well over the years. The build sported the gtx 980, fx 990 mobo, 16gb ddr3, fx 8350 BE and 1 tb hdd with a 1tb ssd. It even had the good old disc drive. Aside from thermal paste and regular cleaning it served us very well. The last games played on it were Elden Ring and Hogwarts as recently as last night. The new owner picked it up for a nifty £150 which, all considering, was a steal for a very well maintained pc that had all the boxes/manuals and even the stickers for all the components. I personally wont miss it as I think the 1080ti has dropped to a very reasonable price for budget gamers and it wont set anyone back a mint. Im sure that ASUS TUF sticker will do the new owner a good turn 🤣
As a previous owner of an FX 8320 I feel your pain. I'll never forget running through Cherno in Dayz with less than 10 fps on that piece of garbage XD. Ditched it for an 8600k and haven't looked back since
Recently god a GTX 1070 fe for 120€ love it!
Excellent purchase
I wish I have gotten the FE, it's gorgeous! But I bought mine on the peak of crypto mining so I ended up overpaying for a Zotac GTX 1070 Mini. Still great, though
@@Patrick77001 It plays all my games. I am thinking of upgrading from an 9100f to a 12600kf. Will the 1070 bottleneck it?
I picked up an ASUS TURBO 1070 and DUAL OC for $80 and $85 respectively as well. Local market is full of folk letting them go for $100 or so!
I also got a gtx 1070 msi for 125 usd, loving it right now cuz i'm able to render faster and edit smoothly in Lumion due to its 8gb Vram and a nice amount of CUDA cores and also play games smoothly at 1080p
4:04 , me running a 11600k with my old 980 & 32gb of ram 😅
I had the asus strix 970 and this card was soooo reliable.
Switched to a 2070 super and I'm still very happy about it.
I have this card works well, but modern games beat it down pretty hard
If the games were properly optimized, the 980 would still kick ass. Devs are just throwing the games out there no matter the condition they might be in.
Modern games beat everything down pretty hard though...
@@DJ_Dopamine Truer words have never been said
from 9 series I owned a wonderful 970 Phantom from Gainward. The fans were between the PCB and the finstack. the were removable with a thumbscrew for easy cleaning. I liked it a lot despite the 970 VRAM problems
I always really liked the look of that model/cooler. Tried to pick one up cheap on a number of occasions in the past (though I failed)!
I had a 580 Phantom back in the day, the cooler design was awesome, very industrial looking. This gpu cooler vertically mounted in a black Fractal North with a black cpu heatsink would look really cool.
Man... These are surprising results. I've just tested a i7-3770 / GTX1060 3GB / 16GB RAM combo, and your setup totally outperforms that. I guess that new i3 is pulling its weight as well. It would be cool to see a GTX1060 GB vs 980 comparison. You may have added a new card to my search list for budged build parts. Thanks for a great video.
@@kishirisu1268 Hi! In my testing I was not CPU bound, nor did the RAM seem to be a bottleneck. But these things are not linear I guess.
@@kishirisu1268 according to userbenchmark it's only 38% to 95% faster, not 500% like you claim
Also xeons for that socket are E3 models not E6
Go with 1060 3gb over the 980... longer term driver support, similar performance.
@@desktopstu4145 3gb?!
I believe cpu throttling massively impacts gpu.
Oh no... RandomGaming is covering my GPU... must be a sign that I'm finally due an upgrade.
Would love to see the 980 TI in action , with it's additional VRAM and clocks it still is one great card
It is a GREAT card ,,,, my son had that in his first gaming PC I built during the GPU horror pricing years.
You know I think that, while far from ideal for a number of reasons, probably the biggest limiter to the 980 can be gotten around by simply SLI'ing it but then again I guess that kind of defeats the point when now you're running a 324w 2 card system that costs probably $200 at minimum and then it's really easy just to compare it to the 225w 5700XT 8gb at that point anyway than get an enthusiast grade 2-way SLI to getting 2x4gb of memory. Which I guess back in the day nVidia's bad VRAM could be compensated for more easily by...just wasting your money an additional GPU you hadnt needed lel. Idk I think 980ti SLI is a monster in terms of TDP but it could do better than one 1080ti iirc it's just that, well you'd needed a couple grand to spend on 2x80ti cards, you'd needed over 510w dedicated just to GPU solution, and you'd needed a case with airflow/fans to match.
But, it does always strike me as really neat just from that nerdy enthusiast type of perpsective. I never could've ever afforded it back then, and so I kinda want my redcar computer, you know? Like take an old 980, and then get myself a 3770k board with overclocking potential to stick another 980 on it and see if it can perform at close to 1080 or better.
Daily driving a 980 Reference model and absolutely love the look, plays all the games I want too. Great video as always!
I’ve got a GTX 980 Matrix and it overclocks like a dream. So awesome to play modern games with it
Still rocking a 970 (until I get the cash for a 6700XT ) struggles in Tarkov without FSR.
it's going to be a pretty massive upgrade, that
A Maxwell-like architectural improvement is desperately needed right now, with rumors of NVIDIA sticking with 4 nm for the 50 series because of very high 3 nm costs.
It was incredible what they were able to achieve on the same node as Kepler. The 970 was one of my favorite cards (if you ignore the VRAM issue that popped up later on).
GTX 900 series, Maxwell gen. Supports DX 12_0 feature set if I'm not mistaken, so plays all of today's games as RGinHD said. Maxwell is on the tail end of supported chips though, and that's why they're so cheap. I have an MSI blower-style GTX 980 Ti 6GB card. It was pulled from a decommissioned Dell Precision workstation. It was a great card! It was, because unfortunately one of the memory chips has failed so it will post but show garbled picture. I think I'm just going to give it away
The overclocking on these things is pretty great. I swapped my sons 980 today for a Vega 64 and through the 980 in one of my backup builds and messed around. Stable OC of +155 core clock in Afterburner and +594 on the memory. Ram a bunch of benchmarks and netted me around 25% FPS performance while still keeping temps around 68-70 degrees. No crashes and buttery smooth!
Every other channel: RTX 4060 has dropped yo!
RGHD: Let's look at an eons-old flagship!
This is why we love you.
😂
@@RandomGaminginHD Honestly, if I wanted 4060 content today, I'm sorted. It's everywhere. But a look at a former flagship that's a good budget option? It's mostly just you, mate. So good on ya.
9 years old and still kicking it
I love your content. It calms me down when I'm upset and brings good feelings to my afternoons! Thank you so much for keeping posting such high quality content!
Thanks for watching :)
Same! Even when I had a mental health breakdown in 2020 and I didn't want to watch anything, I'd watch his videos.
@@MarcosCodas I think Steve will be very glad to read this..?
The 980 is simply an iconic card that nothing can compete with 💪. (except better cards)
Sorry I own one of these but that one was funny lmao
I hope that Nvidia is still supporting these 900er series a little longer.
The 970 is also still good for most e-sport games and the GTX 980Ti is still great for newer games. 🙂
I think that (albeit poor) native DX12 support from the beginning is one thing that's helped its lifespan a bit, otherwise NV probably would have dropped support the same way AMD did for the Rx 200/300 series.
I'm still rocking a 970 but with a modern/cheap AMD CPU xD
Still hitting 60s and won't upgrade until i decide to get a new 120Hz monitor
Still have a 980Ti 6GB with a 4790, still works great!
Man shows you can really stretch the life out of GPUs if you are willing to just dial some settings down. Good stuff
Yeah even with modern gpus i think it's better to dial down the ultra settings to more optimised ones , you get 95% the same quality and sometimes a big performance boost
@@lynackhilou4865 yeah exactly. I think marketing and stuff with "Ultra" and even to some degree "High" settings has really brainwashed us into worrying too much about fps numbers etc.
I think if we just focus on playing the games as long as it's in a playable framerate, GPUs can really last a long time.
I've had this card for over 10 years and I only changed it last year when its fan broke. It was one of my longer running cards and it was simply so good!
Might be able to fix the fan, mine suddenly started having all kinds of weird performance issues that I traced to overheating, I just dismantled it and reapplied the thermal paste and it kept going strong until I finally retired it last year. Still sitting on a shelf waiting for me to put it in a future PC, may end up giving it to one of my kids.
2014?! I still remember when 1080Ti came out and people was like (in memes): your 980Ti is now crap. Damn
and me still using a GTX 960: 👴💀
I have this exact card in my 58 machine. It performs well still, and it’s a good mag h for the x5675. Although in some games it actually holds back the x5675(cyberpunk mostly)
You should review the RTX 4060 when it comes out, 8GB GDDR6, 300 euros and 115W consumption
This is amazing. I have started using my old PC which has GTX 980 as sort of a gaming console by hooking it up with TV in living room. It's actually really powerful for the games up till 2017 but even on medium for games after that period, it performs wonderfully. This way I can clear up my PC backlog. Thanks for the video.
This didn't surprise me at all. I still use 970s in budget builds and they preform great paired with an old 4th gen xeon.
My GTX 1080ti just recently bricked. My backup GPU I have in right now is an RX 570 8GB but I also have a GTX 980ti kicking around. Might swap them just to see what works best.
GTX 980 Ti mops the floor with the RX 570, no doubt about it.
@@cosminmilitaru9920 I will give it a try.
The 980 is a really solid GPU and has really held on, trading blows with the 6 gig 1060 and RX 4/580. It's really starting to fall behind now sadly.
I had a reference card for what feels like ages and it was a great buy. The 1080 i upgraded to was an enormous leap though.
I'm glad you started doing tests with fsr off because to tell the truth I would prefer not to use it unless it's a must because you can slightly feel input delay when on and the tv look it gives games I'm not the biggest fan of.
Brought my 980 back in 2014 at 12 from saving up years of birthday money for a Minecraft pc (ofc). It's that exact ASUS Strix spec.
... I'm still using it, and it's still smashing it!
I do need an upgrade soon though
I see these go for around $75-$90 on my local OfferUp so a little more expensive than the 1060 3GBs (I got an MSI one for $50 for my mum’s system) but I still think 1070s are the best NVIDIA GDDR5 card if you want one if you’re trying to score an older GDDR5 card in this price bracket
Today the 1060 3gb dropped to £70 from the higher priced cex. The gtx 980 should drop to the £60 mark next month after Computex. These are still very good 1080p cards and the price is reasonable.
They go for 200 Euros here. Absolutely ridiculous when you can find 1080's for slightly more.
@@Liminal.Headspace In 2 weeks they will drop. The taxes and tariffs for importing are shocking. My brother sent me his old 6700xt free from the states and when the airport got it they made me pay £200 tax for it on top of the £90 he paid to ship it thinking it would save me money on a backup gpu, I was raging. That is the lasting effect of the miners. 200 euros for any 10 year old gpu is mental
@@Liminal.Headspace here in Canada it's still ridiculous but not as insane, they sell for around the same price as the ti version and the 1070, around 140 to 180 CAD
Saw the thumbnail and going that's my graphics card! Damn really had it this long that's its old but it still does the job for me. Got it about 4 years ago in someone's build for £200, sold all the other cars so the card cost me net around £75 and put into ryzen 7 3700x build
Still have my Zotac GTX 980 AMP addition and stills run like a champ, no surprises here great video mate.
I picked up a used Asus 980 Matrix for $60. Got it as backup for my rig that doesn't have integrated graphics and as a display model for my bookshelf. Glad it still peforms quite well at 1080p.
550$ 10 years ago(2014) had the buying power of 771$ today. so essentially high range gpu's were far cheaper back then, and generational performance gap was a lot bigger. we're getting scammed nowadays.
I don't mind a 40 dollar increase per generation. Development of features gets harder and harder, but its like Nvidia charges 100 dollars per generation bump. It's nuts.
AMD is no better, they could easily undercut Nvidia and get more market share but they persist with selling GPUs in the wrong price brackets. They've become the "best used GPUs" company which doesn't really help prices of new mid-high cards.
And Intel might not even have any now. Is our last hope china?
@@ICCUWANSIUT Best thing you can do is quit gaming all together and go work instead, far better usage of your time. thats what I did.
been rocking this bad boy since 2015, it has served me well and can keep a decent 60-120 fps on FHD
Great longevity, but it was expensive. Can't remember if you've revisited the 970 which was an absolute midrange monster. Great price, thermals, size, etc. I went for an R9 390 as I wanted to try out an all AMD build. Bit of a mistake on bot the CPU and GPU as the 2015 AM2+ CPU I bought was basically just as effective as my old Phenom II X4 from 2009... Bad purchase decicions were made.
One of my friends is still rocking a 980ti and he's never really had any problems with it. He's also using a 4k display and downsamples where necessary/reduces the framerate for a native 4k experience.
Bought the 980 Ti a year ago when all this crisis with gpus was a thing (still kinda is), works like a charm plays everything at 1080p, what a gem.
I bought me a 980 in January 2015 to go with a new build and thought I was pretty hot shit as my previous card was a 570. My single goal was to run the Witcher 3 at high frame rates when it came out and the 980 acquitted itself beautifully.
My trusted GPU.. Zotac Amp! 980.. been loyal with me since 2015ish. Too bad this early year it declined so bad, maybe getting tired and showing its age. It start to having grey screen crashes when I playing game, so I decided to giving it rest and bought PowerColor Red Devil RX 6700 XT as replacement.
bought a reference version of this card right at the edge of the mining price bubble (i.e. too much money, but probably the best deal I could find at the time) to replace a dust-clogged GTX 560. It was quite the upgrade at the time to pair with my aging i5 2500K. nice to know it might sing well enough in a newer system as well!
i'm most impressed by the low power consumption for what once was a high-end GPU. 165W is midrange territory now at best
I had dual 680's that did fine if you wanted to play the game. It looked great.
I have a 1070 that is still operating very well in todays gaming.
A lot of the "older" graphic cards perform fine if you are intending to play the game. If you are trying for the fastest frame rates, of course it cannot compete with the current gen, but for playing a game they are fine.
Older stuff isn't the problem, system requirements have gotten out of hand for various reasons.
Amazing video, as always! Hearing you give the framerate numbers for each game sounds like the Sports statistics! 😅😅😂😂
Impressed! I will consider getting this card for my next budget build.
I have a Strix 970 sitting in my closet buddy had it for awful. Played MWII for him! Now he has a 1660 and is way better off
Nice upgrade :)
I have 970 it works like charm.
Nice :)
@@RandomGaminginHDI sold one of those in 2018 for $200 US.
It’s crazy to think you could still use it today.
I also love all the mafia games, all of them are underrated imo, even mafia 3 which had some repetitive gameplay but an amazing story just like the previous two
I have a 980 in one of my many rigs here, this one is in the kids pc (i7 4970K, 16gb DDR3, Gainward GTX 980, 1tb SSD) and it plays everything they want. I occasionally use this pc to run World of Tanks and it does this at the highest of settings (though it may be in SD not HD mode, i dont recall now). The monotor used is a 1440 27".
Both my daughter's pcs both still run 980 founders with zero issues...playing overwatch, roblox, sims, and many other games at 1080...works perfectly for them 👍..still very capable cards
I've had a EVGA GTX 980 Classified since 2015. Nothing until the RTX 30 series was a convincing upgrade. It just kept going and going, playing everything and making everything new look like terrible value!
I finally upgraded to a second hand 1080ti in 2021, then to a rtx 3080 early this year. Still have it working in my wife's PC though!
Quite impressive. Maxwell 2 has still got it.
Yeah for sure
Halo infinite and Marvels guardians of the galaxy runs like shite on gtx 900 cards.
Never had one but always wanted one back in the day.....I just couldnt justify the cost. Good to see that it can still kick it today though, I think previous flagship GPUs still have a place in todays world. Hope my 3060ti FE lasts for a while
Don’t let Mike catch you here away from his channel 😅😂🤣
@@michaelthompson9798 I'll say nowt if you don't buddy lol
Last week i went from my 980ti to a 4070, what a diffrence it made while being lower powered than the 980ti.
Nice. All the drama about todays gpus with "only" 8gb - and here is a 4gb gpu doing through modern games nicely.
You finally made a video about my card! This beast from gpu was first bought by my friend in late 2014, he was pretty sad because he first bought 970 from the store by sort of mistake and then the store owner suggested that he'd add a little money and he could return it and get 980 instead, and from there his story with beast gaming started, till today! and in the end of her career I bought it from him for like 60$ and here I am using it, playing everything, either by lowering settings or using FSR and I am getting really nice experience!
I was able to play gta 5 and 4 on 4k and I'm glad this card offered me 4k experience in some games!
Even in forza!
Thanks for talking about my gpu ♥ I have the MSI model by the way
As for GTA 5, I discovered not few days ago that you have to enable FXAA through nvidia control panel specially for gta 5 and have it disabled from the main settings or else FXAA will cause you issues with your visuals in some programs like VIsual Studio Code. FXAA really does a decent job especially in 1080p. That made me get rid of msaa and gain more fps and save temps!
Played the RE4 Remake with most things set to medium. Finished the game multiple times, framerate between high 40s and 60.
The full game is more optimised than the demo and is phenomenal as a remake, you should check it out!
i used to own 980TI Asus Strix-Gaming..
it's still rocking few new game like chad.
But now i'm using 2060s meanwhile 980TI sitting on glass shelf display with other OG GPU i own
I got a used 980-Ti around 2018, and it served me well until last year. Still a good card if you can find one cheap.
Thing with units like this is that it might be fine now, but in a few months driver support - or lack of it - could be an issue.
Yeah definitely worth keeping an eye on support for sure
for newer games yeah.
For other use it's *mostly* fine anyways. Like using a 780 or 680ti now works fine as well
@@RandomGaminginHD there are some hacked 3rd party drivers that can help.
165W card though, recent GPU's have easily halved that performance per watt, so you'll still save some pennys on electricity bill. 😁
The closest thing you get in nowadays GPU is the RX 6400, it's only consume 35-50 Watts and cost 120-150 USD now (you can get it for less than 120 bucks if you are lucky)
Also there's some options like GTX 1650 and 1660 Super if you want more performance for roughly the same budget
proud owner of that version of the gtx 980 and also own a matrix edition of the old maxwell beast , maxwell has aged well in the long run
Still on my 980 from 2015 and zero problems... no melted connectors, no sagging and no broken edge connector... WOW it's almost like they used to know how to make video cards that weren't garbage right out of the box!! lol
bought a 980 a couple of months ago as a tideover after my r9 390x went pop. Paid the princely sum of £50, which i considered a steal 🙂
I bought a used 980ti ( asus strix one with oc) and paired it with my 5600g ( it was 2021 and the shortage was insane so this was my only option) and i dont regret my decision till this day. 980ti is such op card while it was overclocked it could do 5 % better than the 1660ti ( the card i was initially wanted to buy but the shortage happened). So i would highly suggest people on budget to buy old flagship gpus ( like 1080ti, rx 6600 s etc) those are some real bargain although they take more wattages so make sure to have a 600w+ psu.
I'm still using my 980, and run most games at 1440p, except for very recent ones. Also, a lot of games are fine to lock to 30 fps, then you can bump the settings up a surprising amount.
I can heartily recommend the £45 Lexindar RX580, OK its the 2048 with a slight lowering of shader counts etc but for the money its a new card with quite a capable cooler. They said it was refurbished but I examined every inch of the damn thing, the edge connector immaculate, never been inside a connector and apart from changing the thermal pasta for a phase changing thermal pad its running sweet as a nut after a 5 mins undervolt and overclock sesh. Got Forza on pause as I type this, running about 30 deg. £60 on Alibongo and the forty thieves will get you a much better 590 8gb and I am kicking meself not going for that one but the 580 I know will last a good while, handled WD:Legion earlier like a champ and did some Da Vinci Resolve editing and mastering and I say its about 10% faster than the 570 it replaced.
got the windforce version in my lil bros pc and tbh it still holds its own verrrry well .
cant complain
oh god the memories. my dad got me one of these when they were new, for my 21st birthday
My kids machines have an 980 and 980 ti in them. Still loads of legs in terms of performance, still supported drivers and great value.
My exact Gtx 98o model, still going strong with me at least
What makes it even better is the fact the maxwell card can be overclocked like hell, my 980 ti gaming 6g can sustain about 1550 mhz with crappy asic quailty back in the day.
Here's an idea. What about pairing the GPU's you have, with some of those pre-built, HP/Dell systems, etc!
And if you have an external GPU dock, you could try the GPU's out with those SFF factor PC's, like some of the BLINK systems, for instance. Look, I don't comment often, or as much as I should. You're a good guy. You deal with the budget items, and that helps folks out. On that note, old Xeon systems can be awesome, for gaming and production.
Another video idea, if you have a 980, a 1080, and even a 2080, would be cool to see a comparison. Hell, you could add in a 1060, 1050Ti, 1050, and 1030!
Look, I believe the problem is with the consumer. Too many folks think that as soon as something new comes out, their tech is now all of the sudden rendered useless! This is not the case! And you show that to folks. Thanks for what you do for people. You're a good man. o7
And You have a great dog too! I have a Jack Russell Terrorist, myself! Wonderful dogs!
I wonder how much better the GTX980ti will be? I can imagine the vram limitations of the GTX980 has lowered it's performance slightly.
Yeah quite a bit better i think
Well upgrade the ram.
Lol.
A lot of people do it today even with new cards lol
i had gotten the GTX 980 ti when it first came out. i just replaced it this month with a 4070. it was a great card though and lasted forever... now if CPUs would last as long...
it seems similar to the 1060 6gb but I would still prefer the 1060 for the 6gb of vram, those 2 extra GB can save the texture resolution in a lot of new games, you can also OC the 1060.
Hi ! Impressive result for an older GPU like that ! It's amazing and surprising too ! Good video ! Keep up the good work !
I have a 980 ti powering my windows xp machine. My daughter has a 980 ti in her system. Both are zotac amp extreme models. My son’s system has a gigabyte gtx 960 wind force OC(the blue one). Maxwell was a fantastic architecture. Almost as good as Pascal. Nvidia has been so so ever since with Turing ampere and now Lovelace. My own system has a zotac gtx 1080 amp extreme and I also have a zotac gtx 1070 ti which will go into my son’s system if he ever decides to play something a bit more demanding than overwatch. And my last gpu which is new in the box is a powercolor rx 580 red devil which is a cool looking card.
Maxwell to Pascal was a serious jump in performance in just 1 freaking generation (around 60/70% jump in performance).
Sold my 980 for around 160 $ and got a 1070Ti for 220 $......crazy bump up for just 60 $.
very nice kept up the good work [i've been following you since the start
I'm still going pretty strong on my GTX1080. I don't play a lot of AAA titles but the games I do play I can typically play on very high and ultra settings.
If I recall correctly, I was averaging around 60-80 fps in Red Dead Redemption 2.
So I'm not going to bother upgrading until my card either dies, or they finally come out with a card capable of running 4k, 240hz monitors at ultra settings with ray tracing enabled, for under $800. We should have been there 3 years ago, but the manufacturers are screwing us.
Having a 980 in 2014 must have been amazing, it was a time when having a high end rig actually made sense, and it sure lasted a long time, you could keep it running till 2020
Got this exact model for 45€, it is just an amazing value for the money !
I use one of these (reference version) and it just works for me :)
Just upgraded the gtx 660 in my spare pc to a gtx 980 which I picked up for £40 amazing value card I plan to give this pc to a family member
I always enjoy these. Thank you brother 😃
These Cards overclock really well . 1500 Mhz core + 500 mhz Dram is no Problem without Bios editing which was able at the Time. You can get 15 - 20 % more Performance for free which was nice.