“This is your captain speaking, thank you for flying MSI Airlines on Flight 6950... Weather forecast is clear skies, and will be a little hot today... It will be a bit noisy today with our new GPU engines today...”
@@Xenoray1 Don't be such a fangirl !!! Fan = Fanatic , Girl = Pu$$y ... All companies have a history of poor designs. Don't forget, it's not actually AMD or Nvidia making these, it's all contracted companies and R&D . I worked for Diamond and ATI for 8 years. I also worked for Cyrix for 2 years. I've been in the field
@@RandomGaminginHD Thanks! BTW. sice you're here. Let me thank you for something else. You actually inspired me to make my own budget-tech, crappy-pc TH-cam channel. Unfortunatelly - despite that I'm living in Sotland - it's all in Polish :V
The problem with everybody looking into Metro Exodus is that like first 30 minutes are NOT a good representation, I had over 60 FPS, once you get to the open world area, 20-ish FPS on average... (If you "face" the open world, if you "look away" to where the map ends I still got 60)
Watching other big TH-cam channels, it’s easy to feel like our PC setups are inferior when all you see is 2080ti this and Titan Z that. That’s why I come here and watch all your vids. They’re practical, turning old into new and about getting the most out of any setup whether it be new or old.
Dickert Lardfart I played Fallout 4 and GTA V on HD 6870 (same design as this card, also very loud and hot) and the difference between 1080p and 720p was indeed not as taxing as some of the settings (namely godrays in FO4 or antialiasing in GTA). Although generally, 900p was a go-to resolution for most of games from 2015. _Then it overheated and died._
You're on of my favorite tech channels man! Most everybody is testing the newest and latest. You're trying to breathe life into adequate older tech. My kinda stuff
5:15 for those whom are running JC4 FitGirl crack; before you fully install the game, there is an option check box whether to install high quality textures or not.
I love your channel because I do this locally with flea markets and Craigslist. I enjoy doing it, and my friends call me the "PC man" because I always hook them up after LAN parties and give them the PC they played on :)
Sometimes you can't flash a BIOS from a different card onto the GPU with the GUI version from atiwinflash. Instead you need to use the commands. This way I flashed the Sapphire RX 570 Pulse BIOS on an RX 570 Pulse ITX Card, which didn't got recognized from the driver. Now it's working. Even an HD7950 can be reflashed this way with an R9 280 BIOS to get the UEFI BIOS for faster boot and a bit higher clocked.
Until recently I was running a 6970 which also sounded like a jet engine and I found that 900p was the best resolution for most games. It also means you can turn some more important settings up such as render distance
I don't know if you guys noticed but he was screen recording and it shows on the left corner under the framerates which then in itself takes a heavy toll on ingame frame rate and I'm assuming this card does a little better than what it shown in the video if that's the case. If I'm wrong please tell me. Speaking from experience.
Usually flashing a card to unlock extra stream processors is a bit of a gamble. A lot of times the reason they're locked is because cheaper cards are often just poorly binned higher cards and enabling those stream processors could cause instability.
9 years ago that was the high tier amount. 3 years ago its entry level. I agree It's weird at first glance though. Think of how 4 GB ram was overkill or enthusiasts only at the early 2000's, and was considered minimum for office tasks for early 2010s. Also GPU cores, core clock, architecture etc play the majority of the role when it comes to performance. Vram amount is just a tiny part of it
I got a Sapphire HD4890 a few months back that was completely sealed by dust and other debris, it was making an awful noise, yet nothing close to what this 6950 was making on arrival.
It's pretty impressive to see this card perform so well at 1080p. But realistically speaking 720p or 1280x1024 would be a more reasonable resolution for this card as it was probably the resolution it was designed for back in the day with the 2gb VRAM. Also really happy to see you got it fixed and working, even though practically you would be better off buying an RX550 or 560 at this point and get a similar performance with less power draw and better driver support.
You’ve got to be kidding me, I bought one for 10 dollars and had the same issue. I got the drivers for it and it was still sounding like an ac-130 so I just ditched it. And all I had to do was clean it? Unbelievable
Could be that there was dust in the fan or between the gpu die making one part of the gpu really hot, or caused the fanspeed pwm to fail. But yeah, rip. Though there are now better options on the market. Had a 6850 myself at one point.
@@obp8390 Like used 7,9,10 series novideo cards and from amd you might find 290/390/380 for cheap. I was just too lazy to word my comment properly to the point where it was hard to grasp
@@accelerator5524 Got a reference R9 290 in September for around 100€, now I know, why it was a good decision in Dec 2013 that I bought a Asus GTX 780 DirectCuII OC, R9 290[X] was available but at this time only reference versions, I replaced the blower cooler in October with a Raijintek Morpheus II and yes, I've cleaned the heatsink and replaced the Thermal Paste before, but still it couldn't even hold the base clock and ran into thermal throttling...
@@kuchenblechmafiagmbh1381 nice. what a lot of people dont know is that r9 290 and 290x also have very high double precision perfomance. so if you will be a scientist ot mathematican you will like the card too;D
I don't live in your house or anything, but here in the US to "sound proof" between units or homes we Build walls like this. DDWSWDD D = Sheet of 5/8ths drywall W= Wooden studs (usually 2x4) S = Space of speraration as little as a half inch, so the walls don't touch making sound transmission harder. It's pretty effective, more so than adding loads of fiberglass insulation, or sound deadening insulation. While that may be less than ideal, even just doing a double layer of 5/8ths drywall on both sides can do wonders. This is ofcourse assuming you own your home.
Did you just clean the gpu or did you also replace the thermal paste? i didn't hear you mention that. plus if you're on celcius you're running quite hot.
You can lubricate old fans and that can quiet them up. You may have to dig in the plastic some to find the bearing though. I have a video adapter with a bad fan on it and it howls. But after a drop of oil it runs fine for months.
I always make sure to have headphones on while playing fortnite or apex with my friends. It's just LOUD and nearly unbearable. I'm going to order some thermal paste as it is just comically loud at this point.
No suprise, the PS4 Pro's Heatsink is a joke for the TDP far above 100W: imagescdn.tweaktown.com/news/5/4/54940_8_ps4-pro-reportedly-melting-case.jpg Xbox One X's is around twice as large I guess, also includes a vapor chamber: edge.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/half.jpg
Watch out for these HD 6950's, I have a pair of them and one literally caught on fire this morning and nearly caught my house on fire. These power-hungry cards always made me a little nervous. My friend gave me the pair because he was mining bitcoin with them, but I could never stand to run them paired because they're so damn noisy, even just running them single.
ok so here's one for you - i have HD7970 dual-x witch i bought used - one of the fans was not spinning, so i just put a random fan on the card with zip tights, and it was working fine for 3-4 years. then i put together a new build, but i was a bit short on money, so i decided i'll use the 7970 for another year or so. i ordered brand new set of fans for it, cleaned it good and put the new fans - it was running like brand new for 3-4 months, and then, just like that, fans where on 100% speed from the second i would turn the pc on. works as it should in terms of performance, and obviously temps are even better because of the fans stuck on 100%, but WHY is it like that? and what could i do about it?
I got my hands on a (free) Radeon 6870 recently. Supposedly dead, but it worked fine. Also with the stock cooler and quite noisy, but no where near as noisy as the one in your video. It ran quite hot, around 80ºC during load, so changed the paste, but didn't help either (maybe 1 or 2 degrees). I did notice the heatsink of my 6870 was way smaller than the heatsink of your 6950. I mean, the card has the same size, plastic shroud and such, but the heatsink itself is small on the 6870 and it's no suprise that it gets so hot and loud! I didn't run any modern titles on it, but stuff from it's era, and it was a major upgrade compared to the Radeon 5770 I was using in that PC up until then.
Have you ever heard a HD5970 or HD6990 when it ramps up the fan? :D I had a dual 5970 rig and it was like a jet taking of. After a while, I switched to water cooling.
Awesome.the 6950 was my first gpu upgrade.bought it for 18 euros.Eventually fitted a chipset waterblock and watercooled it for fun.Worked great until i tried pulling off the vram heatsinks i installed.Rip 6950.Great video!
not sure if u read old comments, but whats the compressed air u buy and is it safe to use on your hardware? im from england too not sure where to buy some
is it just me or did you just slap the cooler back on without cleaning off and replacing the paste? Also would have been helpful if the Temp OSD was enabled before and after the cleaning :/
Now that you mentioned it during the Metro part, can you please reintroduce the "Playing Games at Min/Recommended Requirements" series? I really enjoyed that. You can even keep using the Ryzen bench system, I don't care.
Would be cool of you got your hands on one of the legendary dual GPU HD5990 or HD6990. Used to drool over those cards back in the day, would be curious of their performance in the present.
I've upgraded my X58 system with a Xeon X5650 6 core CPU last week and I see a lot of improvements and it's TH-cam channels like these that makes me want to buy more abandoned hardware and build more PC's
Who else was watching this video 2 in the morning and had your ear right up to the phones speaker, trying to hear it at 1:20, untill it then blurts out the noise right into your ear. (Man, it hurted)
Ah I think I remember this card. It came out like in 2012 or something right? Remember looking up vids of it just for the noise. It startled me when 1 dude reved it up. Dam that thing is loud than if your neighbors heard it threw the wall.
These cards did run very hot on reference cooling designs. I had an aftermarket 6970 and it also got hot, however they were very well priced against its nvidia counterparts. Card lasted me a solid 6 years before I felt I needed to upgrade. They were great cards for the time!
Really surprised it's that bad in newer titles. I mean performance wise it beats the xbox one gpu by quite an margin and that still has playable performance on stuff like jc4. That goes to show how much optimizing games really helps.
Apex is actually a pretty demanding game. My friend tried playing on integrated graphics even with everything set to low and dropping resolution, still chugged. It’s lighting especially is demanding and the foliage density as well.
Neighbours: why the f**k were you vacuming at midnight Me: na m8 found a bargin gpu on ebay 3 days ago, runs well but sounds like its a boeing 747 flying.
Now I can play Microsoft flight simulator with a card that sounds like an actual plane.
Super realism mod
@@RandomGaminginHD imagine putting 4 of these in actual turbines 😂
Now Prepar3d is much more realistic
WHAT?
Xplane 11 is better , this would go well with the fmod sounds haha
That's no graphic card, that's a jet engine!!
ohh boi, you never heard about nvidia.. haha heard.. they have a legend jet enginge card, it louder then this here, just search
@@Xenoray1 lol what
@@Xenoray1 yeah the FX 5800 ultra
@@Xenoray1 It's not a matter of company, it's these poorly designed cooling systems
Yah it was basically designed to be shitty from.the factory so it's not surprising
Neighbours: Why were you ramp starting an F16 at 11pm?
lol
Ahahahaha
stop
"So what Performance do you get from your GPU"
*I get around 300*
"Whoa 300 FPS?!!"
*300 Decibels*
*louder then a bomb*
300 Degree Celsius
Ah yes. A graphics card 32,000x louder than a plane.
Horse Power
Watts
For 15£ you got a pretty cheap jet engine
I've got one in my windows xp retro rig. Does pretty well with the older stuff!
Someone needs to tell Cleetus McFarland about this, so when Mullet breaks they can afford a new jet for it.
You should create mini jet case to make it look like a real (mini) jet
£15 dumbass
EweToobUsername pc nerds don’t know about cars or Cleetus McFarland 😂
LOL, I had the closed captioning on, and when the gpu started, the cc read [APPLAUSE]
Lol that's amazing
Me too lmfao
LMFAO - pretty much the exact opposite in reality!
LMAO
🤣
I didn't know AMD made vacuum cleaners.
My RX580 is an overclocked vacuum
Mine Too, but I have an RGB vaccum. @The Real Bleach
@@TheRealBleach how about using your hands and searchong for undervolting tutorials ?
@@Xenoray1 My RX580 is defective, it has a memory problem so it needs more power than stock. Otherwise it shuts off
@@supercool3663 Lmao, the entire PC
now i know why MSI has F-22s and F-35s on their boxarts
Underrated
Lmao
“This is your captain speaking, thank you for flying MSI Airlines on Flight 6950... Weather forecast is clear skies, and will be a little hot today... It will be a bit noisy today with our new GPU engines today...”
too many todays
Today or tomorrow?
@@mylesthomas511 Todorrow
Gendines :P
@@ioutra6121 3
AMD Radeon.
Vacuuming the Competition.
Nvidia GT.
Killer of Ears.
@@Xenoray1 Don't be such a fangirl !!! Fan = Fanatic , Girl = Pu$$y ... All companies have a history of poor designs. Don't forget, it's not actually AMD or Nvidia making these, it's all contracted companies and R&D . I worked for Diamond and ATI for 8 years. I also worked for Cyrix for 2 years. I've been in the field
Sucking since the hd 6000 series xD
Or
Blowing their competitors out of the water.
Zing! 🤣
Sucking*
Wanted to listen to the fan noise after cleaning and with the new drivers.
Nice! I bought a whole PC for £40 today - Radeon HD 6850, Phenom II x4 945, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 1TB HDD and 550W PSU. And the case looks amazing :V
Nice find :)
@@RandomGaminginHD Thanks! BTW. sice you're here. Let me thank you for something else. You actually inspired me to make my own budget-tech, crappy-pc TH-cam channel.
Unfortunatelly - despite that I'm living in Sotland - it's all in Polish :V
Redaktor Kebab just reinstall windows to change the language and clear out the system
@@mickystone7530 he's talking about his channel is polish
That's pretty nice!
Vacuuming at 11pm haha
1:23 That 6950 blows so hard its moving the dust around LOL!
*A reverse vacuum cleaner*
Hate cleaning your pc? Slap in one of these and your good
😂😆
*a leaf blower*
So it sounded like a original ps4
(Edit) its a joke don't take it so serious
@The Reaper95 yeah but that's stuff you have had to do, and most people wouldn't dare take anything apart especially being console peasants
@The Reaper95 r/wooosh
@The Reaper95 joseph's comment was a joke and you took it seriously
the whole time i was actually being sarcastic -_-
@The Reaper95 the slim is the louder one uve had both lol
A 15 dollar gpu
Or...
THE CHEAPEST JET ENGINE EVER
Your neighbors complain made me laugh xdd
MsMagicsproductions laught 🤦♂️ do you even pass 1st grade granma
@@MalakianTNW Ye Bruh Dan't warry, eberry one cammit mistakeZ
@@MalakianTNW i use mouse and keyboard on xbox one games
Neighbours can go fuck themselves.
@@MalakianTNW g r a n m a
Me: Watching this video
Me: *Looks at my computer* "If you ever sound close to this, I'm putting you up on Ebay, never to see you again. Got it?"
"Why are you vacuuming at 11 pm?!"
"So, yesterday I got a great deal on a graphics card, and I'm quite a gamer."
The video was entertaining, but more importantly, I see your Photoshop skills have been improving!
Sounds better then this years f1 cars
Jake Cullen2672 Sounds better than any f1 car since 2014
_Hard to swallow pills_
@@pepega1061 true miss the v10s
Than*
Than my f type :(
The problem with everybody looking into Metro Exodus is that like first 30 minutes are NOT a good representation, I had over 60 FPS, once you get to the open world area, 20-ish FPS on average... (If you "face" the open world, if you "look away" to where the map ends I still got 60)
Especially Desert chapter
I had to lower setting to high even i have v56
running metro exodus with a 2010 card is pretty impressive
Watching other big TH-cam channels, it’s easy to feel like our PC setups are inferior when all you see is 2080ti this and Titan Z that. That’s why I come here and watch all your vids. They’re practical, turning old into new and about getting the most out of any setup whether it be new or old.
I'd use this card on 720p with high settings instead of 1080p low.
1080p High with Textures on Medium are fine for all titles on the market.
@Dickert Lardfart With driver support, it's just slightly slower than a 7850, which is about 15% faster than the base PS4.
900p medium
Dickert Lardfart I played Fallout 4 and GTA V on HD 6870 (same design as this card, also very loud and hot) and the difference between 1080p and 720p was indeed not as taxing as some of the settings (namely godrays in FO4 or antialiasing in GTA). Although generally, 900p was a go-to resolution for most of games from 2015.
_Then it overheated and died._
@@raresmacovei8382 Isn't the PS4 a HD7870?
You're on of my favorite tech channels man! Most everybody is testing the newest and latest. You're trying to breathe life into adequate older tech. My kinda stuff
1.2K likes, 7 dislikes. I guess 7 people couldn't fix their 6950s.
40
@@awesomecomputers7076 jesus christ. 139 now....
@@nekomimi man that's a lot...
@@matthew-emerson-cadmer-74094 More added to that head count, 254 now
Just had to leave a comment to say your drawing of a semi-detached house is absolutely magnificent
Never underestimate the power of a good cleaning
5:15 for those whom are running JC4 FitGirl crack; before you fully install the game, there is an option check box whether to install high quality textures or not.
Nice video, but we need more car videos
Gt 86 vs gt 1030
@@plzsubtome4010 Quattro vs Quadro
@@amnottabs lol
RICARDO
Ricardo
I just had to grin so bad when you said your neighbours asked you why you've been vacuuming at 11pm lmao
this is genius: if you have a Secret Military base, with jets Starting (like kingsman), just use this card and noone will notice the jets.
I love your channel because I do this locally with flea markets and Craigslist. I enjoy doing it, and my friends call me the "PC man" because I always hook them up after LAN parties and give them the PC they played on :)
Still doing better then Ryzen 5 2400g with single ram xD
EinPercy u need fast duel channel ram for a apu idiot
I know bro, but hadn't got the money so I just wanted to buy it later :)
See if you can find a 4 GB stick of DDR4-1866 for maximum anti-performance.
Ultimate experience
@@IJoeAceJRI JEDEC specifies down to DDR4-1600.
You can force modern drivers on these cards rather easily by modding the drivers so you get quite substantial performance improvements at times.
SMGJohn yeah there's a program called FLEM that let's u add all the files
Sometimes you can't flash a BIOS from a different card onto the GPU with the GUI version from atiwinflash. Instead you need to use the commands.
This way I flashed the Sapphire RX 570 Pulse BIOS on an RX 570 Pulse ITX Card, which didn't got recognized from the driver. Now it's working.
Even an HD7950 can be reflashed this way with an R9 280 BIOS to get the UEFI BIOS for faster boot and a bit higher clocked.
Now that's a physic realism mod for Xplane11.
6950 can't handle 6970 memory settings. U can just unlock shaders with the bios editor if you want...
Until recently I was running a 6970 which also sounded like a jet engine and I found that 900p was the best resolution for most games. It also means you can turn some more important settings up such as render distance
I bought a r9 390x 8gb for 100 euros is this a good deal?
Yes.
Man u can upload the videos, keep it up, i look forward to them daily and u don't disappoint
i know the issue what the fan is having either its hitting the shroud or the fan really needs oil
I don't know if you guys noticed but he was screen recording and it shows on the left corner under the framerates which then in itself takes a heavy toll on ingame frame rate and I'm assuming this card does a little better than what it shown in the video if that's the case. If I'm wrong please tell me. Speaking from experience.
Yeah, it's pretty loud. But is it louder than a ps4? I don't think so.
Mine put a crack in would after I left It on overnight
I bought pc just because of that reason. My ps4 made so much sound that my family couldn't even sleep 😱
My Vega 64 reference card doesn't get that loud even at 4000 rpm on the blower.
I really need to clean my card at some point. Thanks for the reminder.
this fan noise is my jam! WHY WOULD ANYONE COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS!?!?!?!?
Usually flashing a card to unlock extra stream processors is a bit of a gamble. A lot of times the reason they're locked is because cheaper cards are often just poorly binned higher cards and enabling those stream processors could cause instability.
U L T R A HD. 4K
Whats ur recording capture software? Plz reply
9 year old gpu: 2gb vram
3yr old gtx 1050: 2gb vram
Me: 😮
Also me: i am confusion
Benficakld3 hey I have a 1050 too, we can be poor buddies
what an awful joke
Hi confusion Im Panama
9 years ago that was the high tier amount. 3 years ago its entry level. I agree It's weird at first glance though.
Think of how 4 GB ram was overkill or enthusiasts only at the early 2000's, and was considered minimum for office tasks for early 2010s.
Also GPU cores, core clock, architecture etc play the majority of the role when it comes to performance. Vram amount is just a tiny part of it
good thing my laptop has the 4 GB version.
I got a Sapphire HD4890 a few months back that was completely sealed by dust and other debris, it was making an awful noise, yet nothing close to what this 6950 was making on arrival.
I'm still using hd6970 since 2012
As long as it does the job for you it is all that matters.
@@DeViLzzz2006 best reply i've seen in a while , we need more people like you
The title should be:
The Graphics Card That Caused a Noise Complaint | POLICE CALLED
That's a server
It's pretty impressive to see this card perform so well at 1080p. But realistically speaking 720p or 1280x1024 would be a more reasonable resolution for this card as it was probably the resolution it was designed for back in the day with the 2gb VRAM. Also really happy to see you got it fixed and working, even though practically you would be better off buying an RX550 or 560 at this point and get a similar performance with less power draw and better driver support.
You’ve got to be kidding me, I bought one for 10 dollars and had the same issue. I got the drivers for it and it was still sounding like an ac-130 so I just ditched it. And all I had to do was clean it? Unbelievable
Could be that there was dust in the fan or between the gpu die making one part of the gpu really hot, or caused the fanspeed pwm to fail.
But yeah, rip. Though there are now better options on the market.
Had a 6850 myself at one point.
@@obp8390 Like used 7,9,10 series novideo cards and from amd you might find 290/390/380 for cheap.
I was just too lazy to word my comment properly to the point where it was hard to grasp
@@TheIdiotPlays i bought a firepro w8100 8gb for 150€ (r9 290) a year ago
@@accelerator5524 Got a reference R9 290 in September for around 100€, now I know, why it was a good decision in Dec 2013 that I bought a Asus GTX 780 DirectCuII OC, R9 290[X] was available but at this time only reference versions, I replaced the blower cooler in October with a Raijintek Morpheus II and yes, I've cleaned the heatsink and replaced the Thermal Paste before, but still it couldn't even hold the base clock and ran into thermal throttling...
@@kuchenblechmafiagmbh1381 nice. what a lot of people dont know is that r9 290 and 290x also have very high double precision perfomance. so if you will be a scientist ot mathematican you will like the card too;D
I wonder if some lithium grease in the fan bearings would have helped even more.
you fix it by throwing it away and buying a gtx 1060
wait for 3080 xt for 2070 performance
Wanted to upvote until GTX 1060. RX 580 is cheaper, equal performance and has more VRAM so it will age better.
I don't live in your house or anything, but here in the US to "sound proof" between units or homes we Build walls like this. DDWSWDD
D = Sheet of 5/8ths drywall
W= Wooden studs (usually 2x4)
S = Space of speraration as little as a half inch, so the walls don't touch making sound transmission harder.
It's pretty effective, more so than adding loads of fiberglass insulation, or sound deadening insulation.
While that may be less than ideal, even just doing a double layer of 5/8ths drywall on both sides can do wonders. This is ofcourse assuming you own your home.
Even my 60 lbs server isn’t that loud
I knew what you were going to do as soon as I saw the title lol. I did the same thing many years ago. Bios switch allowed me to flash 6970.
That's nothing when I'm playing terria my pc is nearly as loud as a car
I'm not joking
This, and the blower on the Vega 64 - why why WHY underneath the shroud did they use ALUMINIUM FINS ON A TINY HEATSINK?!?!
lol you should hear my 1gb hd 9650 it sounds even louder
Did you just clean the gpu or did you also replace the thermal paste? i didn't hear you mention that. plus if you're on celcius you're running quite hot.
You could have actually put a headphone on your head rather than photoshoping it
You can lubricate old fans and that can quiet them up. You may have to dig in the plastic some to find the bearing though. I have a video adapter with a bad fan on it and it howls. But after a drop of oil it runs fine for months.
If you want a jet engine try a ps4
I always make sure to have headphones on while playing fortnite or apex with my friends. It's just LOUD and nearly unbearable. I'm going to order some thermal paste as it is just comically loud at this point.
@@noahherritt6452 hehehe
@@theavidgamer6213 Mine sounds like a jet engine on Netflix.
No suprise, the PS4 Pro's Heatsink is a joke for the TDP far above 100W: imagescdn.tweaktown.com/news/5/4/54940_8_ps4-pro-reportedly-melting-case.jpg
Xbox One X's is around twice as large I guess, also includes a vapor chamber: edge.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/half.jpg
Watch out for these HD 6950's, I have a pair of them and one literally caught on fire this morning and nearly caught my house on fire. These power-hungry cards always made me a little nervous. My friend gave me the pair because he was mining bitcoin with them, but I could never stand to run them paired because they're so damn noisy, even just running them single.
69 nice
ok so here's one for you - i have HD7970 dual-x witch i bought used - one of the fans was not spinning, so i just put a random fan on the card with zip tights, and it was working fine for 3-4 years. then i put together a new build, but i was a bit short on money, so i decided i'll use the 7970 for another year or so. i ordered brand new set of fans for it, cleaned it good and put the new fans - it was running like brand new for 3-4 months, and then, just like that, fans where on 100% speed from the second i would turn the pc on. works as it should in terms of performance, and obviously temps are even better because of the fans stuck on 100%, but WHY is it like that? and what could i do about it?
I've just bought a gtx 1060 3gb from ebay I'm so happy that I can finally swap out my gtx 1050 2gb
Yeah but I bought it for £103 so for that price I'm pritty happy
What a poor choice should of went the with the 6gig version
Yeah but as I have stated I got it very cheap and I didn't have a lot of money
Got an rtx 2070 for 440€ just recently :O
Got an r9 290x for 80€ back in November
I got my hands on a (free) Radeon 6870 recently. Supposedly dead, but it worked fine. Also with the stock cooler and quite noisy, but no where near as noisy as the one in your video. It ran quite hot, around 80ºC during load, so changed the paste, but didn't help either (maybe 1 or 2 degrees). I did notice the heatsink of my 6870 was way smaller than the heatsink of your 6950. I mean, the card has the same size, plastic shroud and such, but the heatsink itself is small on the 6870 and it's no suprise that it gets so hot and loud! I didn't run any modern titles on it, but stuff from it's era, and it was a major upgrade compared to the Radeon 5770 I was using in that PC up until then.
NO! NEVER!
The HD 6990 it's still the most horrible :D goo.gl/ZeP1Tc
Have you ever heard a HD5970 or HD6990 when it ramps up the fan? :D
I had a dual 5970 rig and it was like a jet taking of. After a while, I switched to water cooling.
I love playing 🔪E
Incredible what you can get out of such an old card. If only I still had my Matrox Mystique & PowerVR...
Literally sounds like a vacuum cleaner 😂
Edit: lol the neighbors thought so too 💀
was there an option on replacing the blower style fan with another solution?...never did like those blower style cooling systems
I died when I heard your neighbor's complain .
Awesome.the 6950 was my first gpu upgrade.bought it for 18 euros.Eventually fitted a chipset waterblock and watercooled it for fun.Worked great until i tried pulling off the vram heatsinks i installed.Rip 6950.Great video!
Don't dudge me for that) but why my Intel Core Duo quad core Q6600 does 68 °C when I open some games? (I have a good graphics card)
What card?
@@hugo9016 gigabyte gtx 970
@@_salvo234_ wow why arent you upgrading the cpu? Big bottneck
@@hugo9016 because I don't have money to afford someone new so I'm looking for some second-hand cpu with motherboard and ram, but I'm not finding them
@@_salvo234_ oh okay cool!
5:25 whoa dude what mods did you use on that minecraft world.
not sure if u read old comments, but whats the compressed air u buy and is it safe to use on your hardware? im from england too not sure where to buy some
@0:43 - how many takes did it need to get the 'msi' to face the right way? :)
is it just me or did you just slap the cooler back on without cleaning off and replacing the paste? Also would have been helpful if the Temp OSD was enabled before and after the cleaning :/
Now that you mentioned it during the Metro part, can you please reintroduce the "Playing Games at Min/Recommended Requirements" series? I really enjoyed that. You can even keep using the Ryzen bench system, I don't care.
What software do you use for your FPS and other info?
Would be cool of you got your hands on one of the legendary dual GPU HD5990 or HD6990. Used to drool over those cards back in the day, would be curious of their performance in the present.
I checked out the 6990 a while back :)
I had a 6990 and a 6970 in xfire was awesome
But was alittle loud lol
@@RandomGaminginHD ooh really? Most definitely will check that out.
I've upgraded my X58 system with a Xeon X5650 6 core CPU last week and I see a lot of improvements and it's TH-cam channels like these that makes me want to buy more abandoned hardware and build more PC's
sounds like its fan curve program is broken and its ramping up past its set limits so if its left like that it will probably explode the fan blades
Who else was watching this video 2 in the morning and had your ear right up to the phones speaker, trying to hear it at 1:20, untill it then blurts out the noise right into your ear. (Man, it hurted)
What camera are you using? You should really get an upgrade.
Ah I think I remember this card. It came out like in 2012 or something right? Remember looking up vids of it just for the noise. It startled me when 1 dude reved it up. Dam that thing is loud than if your neighbors heard it threw the wall.
These cards did run very hot on reference cooling designs. I had an aftermarket 6970 and it also got hot, however they were very well priced against its nvidia counterparts. Card lasted me a solid 6 years before I felt I needed to upgrade. They were great cards for the time!
Really surprised it's that bad in newer titles. I mean performance wise it beats the xbox one gpu by quite an margin and that still has playable performance on stuff like jc4. That goes to show how much optimizing games really helps.
Apex is actually a pretty demanding game. My friend tried playing on integrated graphics even with everything set to low and dropping resolution, still chugged.
It’s lighting especially is demanding and the foliage density as well.
Neighbours: why the f**k were you vacuming at midnight
Me: na m8 found a bargin gpu on ebay 3 days ago, runs well but sounds like its a boeing 747 flying.
*Boeing 737-MAX xD
Wish I could flash my 7950 to a 7970. I remember trying bios flashing back when I had a GTX 280 to try a GTX 285 swap, didn't work that well!