Its Ruby or supossed to be, the old ATi mascot I had this exact VTX GPU but it had a red PCB, good times was used on a cursed FX8120 system I had for a long time Edit: Just noticed, small correction and probably why my GPU had a red PCB I had the 1gb GDDR5 version of this which should perform much better
@@Watermeloncatinyourbedroom I dont use it anymore, I had it years ago paired with a 5:4 monitor 1280x1024 or something like that lmao, the GPU died and I upgraded to a GTX950 at the time
@@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim6 months is ages in TH-cam time. I didn’t know there was a video last week. But we can always watch the old videos. I watched an old review of the X300 not that long ago.
I ran 2 Sapphire 7770's vapor-x back in the day, when crossfire was behaving and supported well performance was decent a fair bit below 7950 but that kinda in that ballpark just with all the issues of xfire and less vram.
Not worth it. Back in the time even if it was supportet you didn´t get more than 560ti levels out of it. Every 7850 will eat it for breakfast. Thats without the Problem that not every 7750 did come with the connector for the crosfire bridge
The 7750 is one of the rare cards that does not require a bridge, when paired with a matching 7750... It only needs one when paired unmatched with a 7770, etc.
Not sure in which scenario this card can worth 20 bucks. Its outperformed by a vile Ryzen 2200G, which Is an IGPU.. and you can buy It for 30 bucks ? right now. If you hace already an old working system, no sense to keep wasting money in obsolete hardware. If relatively knew, well, buy a proper card.
I check your channel every couple of weeks. Theres a certain void in my content variety that only you can fill. I even started watching Green Ham Gaming. While hes not bad hes not Budget Builds. Ive missed you dearly and I am glad to see an upload! Looking forward to more
I always perfer high settings over frame rate. Even with my GTX 1070, I always use the highest settings and go for a 30 fps target. You were talking about how some people think anything below 60 is unplayable, but even paying $100 for my GPU a little back I am completely fine with 30 fps.
I play games like Fortnite and Minecraft with shaders at around 30-45 frames a second anyway (GTX 1060). I too prefer high settings and fancy visuals over framerate a hundred percent of the time. I'm even so used to it that when my FPS actually goes higher than 60 in Fortnite, I actually perform WORSE at the game xD
A mate of mine had one of these in his "covid-special" pc (you know, built with the cheapest components in a shiny box) and I figured it was just going to be another GT710 type card but I was stunned how well it played his games (mostly gta5). I've got a soft spot for them now.
The early days of GTA5 I managed to run it on outdated cards but eventually the game got patched and with each 2nd or 3rd patch the performance was worse and worse to the point I lost few cards and eventually we all quit playing GTA5 anyway. Today I bet you need some silly high end CPU with 30+ RAM and some electricity hog of a GPU just to run it on mid settings ... Didnt touch that garbage in years, it was unplayable even back then. Usually people who say things like there is nothing wrong with PC games are blind or massochists or combination of both. There are always some issues and performance drops that basically can fry your eyes and brain.
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy Not sure why you posted this as a reply to my post. If you need to know how well GTAV runs on low end hardware, watch zWORMz Gaming. He regularly shows GTAV running just fine on low-end systems. Or not, up to you.
This wasn't actually that far off from the 900 series. GCN1 was what the last gen was based on, and GCN1 was competing with Kepler and Maxwell. (Yes, the Switch is Maxwell. That's because the TX1 was already old when they made the Switch, so that one is basically 10yr old tech still being manufactured rn.
@@zxcvb_bvcxz If you think that is ancient you must be young. For me it's just a few years ago. Ancient has to go back at least to like Riva TNT cards and Voodoo and ATI Rage. And even that can mostly be called old instead of ancient.
Good to see you return to TH-cam and that performance from that card really wasn't bad at all given the price! Even if not for their main system, I can see people wanting to build an older system for slightly older titles have no problems at all with this card. I wouldn't recommend it for modern gaming though as I'm pretty sure the box said it was DX11 only, and a lot of modern titles need DX12.
Great video, GCN proves its longevity once again. It's definitely showing its age, but a lot of GCN cards are far from unusable today. Even AMD cutting off the driver support couldn't stop these cards 💪
I have been following this channel for years, and while I was a hardcore PC Master Race snob from 2011 - 2023, this channel always takes me back to my Apple days from 2003 - 2011 where I would buy a "new" G3 iMac or G4 eMac every couple years or so for $100 - $150 and it was always an incremental upgrade. I FINALLY bought my dream Windows laptop from 2011 a month or so ago for $250. Sandy Bridge i7 with a 560M and most importantly of all, 3D Vision. It can run later PS3/360 games (Bioshock Infinite, Arkham City/Origins, Human Revolution, and Tomb Raider 2013) at console settings, but 1080p, and average mid 40s fps. Hell, 3D Vision certified games run at console settings, 720p (so 360p each eye), and is still well above 30 fps. That is more than good enough for me due to the age of the hardware, and I am a 3D fanatic. Booting it up and testing some games on it (final Fermi drivers from May 2018) gives me even more appreciation for this channel. Basically, if you're not a resolution or framerate snob, if you bought something like the 680, 980, 1080/Ti, or even the 2080, amd you were happy with at least console settings/resolution at at least 30fps, you would be set for at least roughly 4 or 5 years.
As far as I can tell VTX3D was a brand owned by TUL, the same company that owns the PowerColor brand, VTX3D as a brand was shut down about 7 years ago.
Really appreciate the BeamNG benchmark. It's been my game of choice for absolutely years and was the sole reason I decided to upgrade my PC recently so I could max the game out.
"Many of You never heard of this brand." I still have their (kinda broken right now) HD4850 1GB GDDR5 version (Yes I know it's weird because of that GDDR5 VRAM). It was loud but - it was also quite cheap at the time - I paid like 60-70€ for a new one in 2011.
I still have a VTX3D HD6670 with 1GB GDDR5 in my ITX SFF retro box.I bought it new but heavily discounted as it was already outdated at that point (about a decade ago). It was the most powerful slot-powered single-slot GPU (at the time I built it) that would fit in the extremely tight case I was trying to cram everything into (Chieftec BT-02B), in terms of thickness, length and height (how far it extends above the slot bracket)
I recently bought an HD 6770 for a PC with games contemporary with that GPU and paired it with a Phenom II x6 1055T, I would have liked to have had that PC in 2011, By the way, it's good to see you again.
I used to use a HD 6870 paired with a 1055T. I really liked that build until the gpu kicked the bucket in summer 2018. Back when I bought the GPU used it was the most performant GPU with r600g, and mesa in general for a good while. Made for a competent linux gaming machine with open source drivers.
The 7750 brings me back so many memories. Used it for my little brothers budget built I made for him back in like 2018, overclocked it a bit and he was happy playing games on it even if it was on the lowest resolution. My sapphire HD 7750 had relive working and hardware accel in Linux although it looked horrible. Idk how the situation with current drivers is
Hey! I love the HD7750! Have a half-height low profile version of the Sapphire card, absolute little trooper took me from all minimuims in a lot of games to max for about a year at the time.
2:06 Wow, just wow. I remember seeing the big side info floating card getting replaced with a much sleek, minimal card is really cool. Like, it's old enough you've been using the old style then boom new one and it's good.
Had 5770 once, the only card i had to actually underclock and undervolt because i blew all my budget on it and that meant no new psu. Still worked great.
I have a Sapphire 1GB GDDR5 varient I got used for $20 Canadian back in 2020 to go in a old HP Pavillion from 2007 with a Q6600 & 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 RAM, I plan on selling it at some point as a basic use/office PC that's capable of playing decade old games at 720P such as Tomb Raider (2013), Sleeping Dogs, GTAV & Sims 4 for example.
I checked my email archive... I bought a Radeon 7770 HD back in May of 2012. I quickly updated to a 7850 less than a year later. Thanks for the nostalgia.
I guess your video must have resulted in all of these getting sold. Not on Ali Express, not anywhere google knows about. This video may as well be from an alternate universe for how much this card even exists in my universe!
All good 😊My first thought was, well that card is great for Windows XP retro gaming and I love buying something that is brand new, so a great find, thank you for sharing.@@BudgetBuildsOfficial
Good to see you back! I think this has probably been said already but people like you are absolutely sorely needed when times are tough, just to prove some fun can be had even with cheap crap. Keep up the great work!
Comparing benchmarks with this card between windows and linux might be interesting. Because gcn 1 is still actively supported on linux through mesa whereas it's been dropped for a while now on windows
@@rustyshackleford3053 You have to pass a kernel parameter to get the more modern 'amdgpu' to work on the oldest GCN cards. "radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1" for Southern Islands/7000 series, and swap 'si' for 'cik' for Sea Islands/8000. Or heck, just do both si and cik to be sure. You can also do it in an /etc/modprobe.d conf file like "options radeon si_support=0 (linebreak) options amdgpu si_support=1". The older 'radeon' driver still technically works but it's completely unmaintained as you know, and I'm not surprised that some distros don't really work with it. And FWIW, on my own system with a weird GCN 1.0 mobile GPU, doing this makes it work fairly fine, definitely better than radeon even for these early cards. Not sure why it isn't the default driver other than people working on the kernel not really caring about these over 10-year old GPUs, which is fair but still sucks
I've got to admit I did not have even mid expectations when I clicked on this video...however! For a measly £15 This card has shockingly decent performance. Honestly pretty solid value for what you're able to get from it. I actually want to pick one up now just for the fun of putting together an ULTRA budget build hah.
Personal experience with a 7750. Not this brand/card but an MSI I bought over 10years ago. While the numbers look good in the video, people who will buy such a card are likely using a CPU that is just as old, with likely ~8GB ddr3. Performance will be significantly worse when the rest of your PC's parts are in the same category as this card. Temper your expectations and you will be fine. Do not expect to run modern titles (AAA or indie). This card is a good option if you want a PC to run some old school games or build something cheap for a child or older relative. The budget segment has truly been kicked to the curb. My card died about a year ago and I had to settle for a GT730. Older and worse and the card it was replacing. And it cost more than what the 730 did 10 years ago. Being poor sucks. Being middle aged and poor is worse.
Had a VTX3D HD5750 1GB GDDR5 in the first PC I built back in 2011. It was quite capable until around 2015 when the 1GB of VRAM became too big of a limitation. Early GTA V in 2015 was playable (30-40fps) at 1080p Normal with the sliders half-way, paired with an Athlon II X4 650. It has more shaders than the HD 7750 but it's on the older Terascale 2 architecture, so it's just a bit slower than the 7750, tho obviously the GDDR5 would've pushed mine above a DDR3 7750
Was using a Sapphire Radeon HD 7750 for five years on my Linux build. It finally crapped out. So I bought a MSI Radeon R7 250 to replace it. Seems to be equal in performance.
VCE works in two ways, hybrid mode where the GCN compute units are helping figure out the intra frames and motion while the VCE hardware figures out the minutia of the bitstream and then preforming the encode, then there is fixed mode where you don't really have much if any control over intra frames and motion detection because the VCE hardware is doing all of that itself. Those low spec GCN 1.0 cards don't have enough compute units to make hybrid mode work and despite having the physical hardware to do the fixed mode encoding AMD just never enabled it. That and they went from having everything run though AMD Media Package (codecs) which they shitcanned for AMF aka AMD Media Framework (API) which leaves it more open ended and easier to implement. A whole lot of less than ideal for the job but still capable (or capable at some point) with zero support for AMF or any kind of VCE support at all.
I bought the GDDR-5 version in 2013...and it is still happily purring away in my backup box paired with an equally ancient Phenom II 925, you really couldn't kill those things.
@@gabrielv.4358 Because GPU tech hasn't been progressing nearly as fast as CPU tech? Look it up on Tech Powerup, here is what they say "Launched Feb 2012, 1Gb GDDR 5 GCN 1.0"
5 years ago I bought a VTX3D HD 7970 X-Edition off my local market for $40 usd. A year later I sold it during the mining boom for $100. Really nice card.
i love GCN 7000 through vega . it aged sooooo well and m mainn card is a rare radeon pro SSG 2 technically vega 10 but 12nm with 24gb vram and 2tb ssds
7750 is in active use around here. I know 3 current 7750-users, 1 w/ 1GB GDDR5-version and 2 w/ slower 2GB -ones you tested. Actually used GDDR5-version myself quite a while around 2016-18. 7750 is mostly memoryspeed -limited, GDDR5-version is 25-30% faster even before any overclocking. Even little bit of overclocking improved older games quite a bit.
the main use case would be for older PCs that have terrible integrated graphics. Integrated graphics didn't get decent until around 2020 and later. (Edit, just realized this is a 4 month old comment)
VTX was owned by PowerColor's parent company T something and was shut down some years ago, they were a brand sold in eastern europe, i first saw them in Turkey when the HD 4000 series was out. very weird to see them now. iirc they were a new brand specifically for import requirements and if it didn't work it wouldn't impact the main Powercolor brand, which was already successful alongside gainward and sapphire, etc. in western europe, VTX was similar to "Club 3D" iirc and was the same physical factory, but different importer and market.
Welcome back You reminded me Star Wars Fallen Order in order to play it I had to use DXVK because the stuttering on DX11 on UE4 was mess regardless of the settings, still using similar method on other games that are stubborn when you can't wait forever for a patch from the developer/company anyways, most games for the most part are working okay but in this scenario is the worst case we talk about here.
the thing has been sitting in a box for a decade at this point, kind of crazy. i always find new old stock tech of any kind fascinating. when it was made i was fooling around in early elementary school and now im beyond highschool. really weird to think about it.
I used to own an XFX HD 7770 and I was running it with an MSI 970 Gaming MB with an FX8350 CPU and I had a lot of fun for years playing on this card until about 4 years ago when I upgraded to an GTX 1070 along with i5 10400 CPU with an NVMe drive and wow! what a massive difference. The HD 7750 or 7770 cards are great for watching 1080p movies and also it is sufficient enough to enjoy playing games from 2000 up until 2019 and more. So yes, Absolutely for that kind of money it is a great deal especially for a backup GPU.
I had a VTX3D HD7950 for a few years. I tortured it with bitcoin and ethereum mining when that stuff started to become popular, i overclocked the living hell out of it (1500Mhz Core clock!), i left it running for multiple weeks rendering things in blender, and ended up selling it to a friend as a cheap gaming card where it still is today, chugging along nicely.
Hey, my first decent PC build had a VTX R9 280! Fantastic card, ran for many years and made me very happy as a teenager. It was a bit of a scam tho- the naming scheme called it the "X-Edition", and the name was the "R9 280 X-Edition" which made me think it was a 280x..
I still got an HD7750. I just decommisioned it in my work PC a few months ago when I bought a 5600G to replace the Q6600+HD7750. That HD7750 was in my fiance's PC with a 2500k in it (and a 965BE before it). It could still play games like World War Z. I upgraded his GPU with my old HD7770 when I got my RX570. The only thing holding it back now is the 1GB of VRAM. Photoshop nowadays wants 2GB minimum.
In the past, I used two Sapphire 7770 Vapor-X graphics cards in a Crossfire. When Crossfire functioned correctly and was well-supported, the performance was decent. It was somewhat inferior to the 7950, but comparable, albeit with the typical Crossfire issues and less VRAM.
I used to have this exact card when I was 16, saved up 120 quid for one. played all my games. Good times playing Ether Saga online during collage. So many sleepless nights lol.
For some reason I feel all warm and fuzzy - it must be nostalgia. Thanks for the review. Idle curiosity: Have you reviewed a Tesla P4? Yes I know it's a 'compute' card with no output! But they are pretty cheap for what they can do (up to 50% faster than a GTX 1650 for me with more RAM and the same power draw) and with a little fiddling you can game on them.* *GRID Driver, Regedit - Search "AdapterType", Delete that Key, then add 32bit DWord EnableMsHybrid = 1. Carefully Superglue a 40x40x10 blower to the end of the card (maybe with a 1k Resistor), and Bob's your significant other once Windows is set to use it for 3D stuff. PS: The K80 is a bit slower with much more RAM for the same-ish price at the cost of a 300W vs 75W power draw.
Wow it even has a CGI lady on it, height of luxury
Its Ruby or supossed to be, the old ATi mascot
I had this exact VTX GPU but it had a red PCB, good times was used on a cursed FX8120 system I had for a long time
Edit: Just noticed, small correction and probably why my GPU had a red PCB I had the 1gb GDDR5 version of this which should perform much better
@@DisamerdScroll They really gotta bring back mascots. It was the golden age.
@@DisamerdScroll how can you play with 1 gb
@@Watermeloncatinyourbedroom I dont use it anymore, I had it years ago paired with a 5:4 monitor 1280x1024 or something like that lmao, the GPU died and I upgraded to a GTX950 at the time
ah a man of culture
Somehow, Budget Builds returned.
Dark science, cloning, secrets only the Budget Builders knew.
In this economy?
6 months isn't a long time ago, and he also uploaded last week
@@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim6 months is ages in TH-cam time. I didn’t know there was a video last week. But we can always watch the old videos. I watched an old review of the X300 not that long ago.
And In true Disney form.. No explanation 😂
This feels like a 2018 budget builds video
Don’t be ridiculous, this graphics card is more than its price range.
It really does!
The golden era
2015 era, 1080p low-med ... PC ports of early PS4 games, definitely late PS3 games ...
Must be, since he is review a graphics that is 2013 looking.
Order a second one for Crossfire...
I ran 2 Sapphire 7770's vapor-x back in the day, when crossfire was behaving and supported well performance was decent a fair bit below 7950 but that kinda in that ballpark just with all the issues of xfire and less vram.
I ran 2x R9 Fury in Crossfire for a while. It's not worth it
" Cross 'fucking' Fire "
Not worth it. Back in the time even if it was supportet you didn´t get more than 560ti levels out of it. Every 7850 will eat it for breakfast. Thats without the Problem that not every 7750 did come with the connector for the crosfire bridge
The 7750 is one of the rare cards that does not require a bridge, when paired with a matching 7750... It only needs one when paired unmatched with a 7770, etc.
I have the passive version of this card. Good for xp gaming. No power connectors or fans to worry about
Might be really good in a setting where no fan noise is required but there needs to be a dedicated gpu for whatever reason.
This was also the last gen with Windows XP drivers iirc
@@solcraftdev It would appear I can install windows XP drivers for an R7 250.
@@ArtisChronicles HD 7000 R 200 and 300 series are the same Cards
Not sure in which scenario this card can worth 20 bucks. Its outperformed by a vile Ryzen 2200G, which Is an IGPU.. and you can buy It for 30 bucks ?
right now. If you hace already an old working system, no sense to keep wasting money in obsolete hardware. If relatively knew, well, buy a proper card.
I check your channel every couple of weeks. Theres a certain void in my content variety that only you can fill. I even started watching Green Ham Gaming. While hes not bad hes not Budget Builds. Ive missed you dearly and I am glad to see an upload! Looking forward to more
Your profile picture...
It invokes a strange nostalgic feeling, did you comment often on this channel?
Random Gaming in HD??
I always perfer high settings over frame rate. Even with my GTX 1070, I always use the highest settings and go for a 30 fps target. You were talking about how some people think anything below 60 is unplayable, but even paying $100 for my GPU a little back I am completely fine with 30 fps.
Yep I always try to go to the absolute limit. 30fps is a good target. 😅
I play games like Fortnite and Minecraft with shaders at around 30-45 frames a second anyway (GTX 1060). I too prefer high settings and fancy visuals over framerate a hundred percent of the time.
I'm even so used to it that when my FPS actually goes higher than 60 in Fortnite, I actually perform WORSE at the game xD
Same with settings, but my preferable limit is 40 FPS target. 20-30 FPS if game is frame capped. Anything lower or unstable is no-no to me.
@@nikitamedvedev4696 yep 30 when worst come to worst is the absolute minimum.
I've heard that framerate is only a big issue when you're online, where suddenly you also have to deal with ping correction
Fun fact, the hd 7750 is listed as the minimum requirement in BeamNG on steam
oh god i play beamng on a hd 7570
@@thedumbassintheworks yeah, it runs on lower spec hardware (I should know). But not quite well
@@avtips4779 yes I run it at 30 fps at lowest I need to get a new gpu
Welcome back bud. I miss your videos 😅
Ditto! I hope he's been well.
Wow did I miss the Budget Builds content. Would love to see more please
I love to find Budget Built Computers!
A mate of mine had one of these in his "covid-special" pc (you know, built with the cheapest components in a shiny box) and I figured it was just going to be another GT710 type card but I was stunned how well it played his games (mostly gta5). I've got a soft spot for them now.
it eats the 710 for breakfast tbh
Must've been the gddr5 variant....
@@1NIGHTMAREGAMER GT710 has modern updated graphics driver as well. Great for non gpu ryzen cpus.
The early days of GTA5 I managed to run it on outdated cards but eventually the game got patched and with each 2nd or 3rd patch the performance was worse and worse to the point I lost few cards and eventually we all quit playing GTA5 anyway. Today I bet you need some silly high end CPU with 30+ RAM and some electricity hog of a GPU just to run it on mid settings ... Didnt touch that garbage in years, it was unplayable even back then.
Usually people who say things like there is nothing wrong with PC games are blind or massochists or combination of both. There are always some issues and performance drops that basically can fry your eyes and brain.
@@minmogrovingstrongandhealthy Not sure why you posted this as a reply to my post. If you need to know how well GTAV runs on low end hardware, watch zWORMz Gaming. He regularly shows GTAV running just fine on low-end systems. Or not, up to you.
Nice to see some older hardware straight after a LTT dual xeon gaming system with quad 980TI's. Shows that you can still game on older hardware.
this isn't just old, this is ancient
This wasn't actually that far off from the 900 series. GCN1 was what the last gen was based on, and GCN1 was competing with Kepler and Maxwell.
(Yes, the Switch is Maxwell. That's because the TX1 was already old when they made the Switch, so that one is basically 10yr old tech still being manufactured rn.
@@zxcvb_bvcxz it's classic!
@@zxcvb_bvcxzNo, a late 1970s or early '80s home computer is closer to being ancient. It's all relative. 😂
@@zxcvb_bvcxz If you think that is ancient you must be young.
For me it's just a few years ago.
Ancient has to go back at least to like Riva TNT cards and Voodoo and ATI Rage.
And even that can mostly be called old instead of ancient.
Good to see you return to TH-cam and that performance from that card really wasn't bad at all given the price! Even if not for their main system, I can see people wanting to build an older system for slightly older titles have no problems at all with this card.
I wouldn't recommend it for modern gaming though as I'm pretty sure the box said it was DX11 only, and a lot of modern titles need DX12.
Great video, GCN proves its longevity once again. It's definitely showing its age, but a lot of GCN cards are far from unusable today. Even AMD cutting off the driver support couldn't stop these cards 💪
I have been following this channel for years, and while I was a hardcore PC Master Race snob from 2011 - 2023, this channel always takes me back to my Apple days from 2003 - 2011 where I would buy a "new" G3 iMac or G4 eMac every couple years or so for $100 - $150 and it was always an incremental upgrade.
I FINALLY bought my dream Windows laptop from 2011 a month or so ago for $250. Sandy Bridge i7 with a 560M and most importantly of all, 3D Vision. It can run later PS3/360 games (Bioshock Infinite, Arkham City/Origins, Human Revolution, and Tomb Raider 2013) at console settings, but 1080p, and average mid 40s fps.
Hell, 3D Vision certified games run at console settings, 720p (so 360p each eye), and is still well above 30 fps. That is more than good enough for me due to the age of the hardware, and I am a 3D fanatic.
Booting it up and testing some games on it (final Fermi drivers from May 2018) gives me even more appreciation for this channel.
Basically, if you're not a resolution or framerate snob, if you bought something like the 680, 980, 1080/Ti, or even the 2080, amd you were happy with at least console settings/resolution at at least 30fps, you would be set for at least roughly 4 or 5 years.
As far as I can tell VTX3D was a brand owned by TUL, the same company that owns the PowerColor brand, VTX3D as a brand was shut down about 7 years ago.
So the card he got was probably New Old Stock?
I've been using a 7750 from cex in my batocera emulation pc running on a 300w PSU for a couple of years - very happy with it
57 FPS is actually really impressive for GTAV. Even at 720p.
If I were a dog I'd spin my tail so much,glad you're back man.I missed your videos so much,such nostalgia. You never get old for me.
Exactly! So excited!
Really appreciate the BeamNG benchmark. It's been my game of choice for absolutely years and was the sole reason I decided to upgrade my PC recently so I could max the game out.
Same here, and have now maxed my PC out to play BeamNG in VR hehe
"Many of You never heard of this brand."
I still have their (kinda broken right now) HD4850 1GB GDDR5 version (Yes I know it's weird because of that GDDR5 VRAM). It was loud but - it was also quite cheap at the time - I paid like 60-70€ for a new one in 2011.
I still have a VTX3D HD6670 with 1GB GDDR5 in my ITX SFF retro box.I bought it new but heavily discounted as it was already outdated at that point (about a decade ago). It was the most powerful slot-powered single-slot GPU (at the time I built it) that would fit in the extremely tight case I was trying to cram everything into (Chieftec BT-02B), in terms of thickness, length and height (how far it extends above the slot bracket)
I recently bought an HD 6770 for a PC with games contemporary with that GPU and paired it with a Phenom II x6 1055T, I would have liked to have had that PC in 2011, By the way, it's good to see you again.
I used to use a HD 6870 paired with a 1055T. I really liked that build until the gpu kicked the bucket in summer 2018. Back when I bought the GPU used it was the most performant GPU with r600g, and mesa in general for a good while. Made for a competent linux gaming machine with open source drivers.
The 7750 brings me back so many memories.
Used it for my little brothers budget built I made for him back in like 2018, overclocked it a bit and he was happy playing games on it even if it was on the lowest resolution.
My sapphire HD 7750 had relive working and hardware accel in Linux although it looked horrible. Idk how the situation with current drivers is
What distro? I‘m a linux user too
@@firestorm780was years ago on artix, but it looked horrible since the encoder is grabage
Yes, I missed this channel so much. Great video, man.
"Aldi version of Saphire"
So pretty much Medion tier.
Thank God, I thought we lost you! Great to finally get something from you again mate👍🏼👍🏼
Hey! I love the HD7750! Have a half-height low profile version of the Sapphire card, absolute little trooper took me from all minimuims in a lot of games to max for about a year at the time.
I put this GPU in my family PC. Latest driver from 2022
2:06 Wow, just wow. I remember seeing the big side info floating card getting replaced with a much sleek, minimal card is really cool. Like, it's old enough you've been using the old style then boom new one and it's good.
Had 5770 once, the only card i had to actually underclock and undervolt because i blew all my budget on it and that meant no new psu. Still worked great.
I have a Sapphire 1GB GDDR5 varient I got used for $20 Canadian back in 2020 to go in a old HP Pavillion from 2007 with a Q6600 & 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 RAM, I plan on selling it at some point as a basic use/office PC that's capable of playing decade old games at 720P such as Tomb Raider (2013), Sleeping Dogs, GTAV & Sims 4 for example.
I checked my email archive... I bought a Radeon 7770 HD back in May of 2012. I quickly updated to a 7850 less than a year later. Thanks for the nostalgia.
I guess your video must have resulted in all of these getting sold. Not on Ali Express, not anywhere google knows about. This video may as well be from an alternate universe for how much this card even exists in my universe!
It's AWESOME to see you uploading. I hope everything is alright in your life.
finally you're back after a long break, great brother, keep it up, keep posting something new!
Perhaps it could be a good option for some retro win xp machine as these HD cards were the last that had xp drivers
He's alive! Welcome back, friend. You were missed.
Regresó! En forma de fichas!! Saludos desde México. Extrañabamos tu contenido
I have one with 4GB Vram. I love it because of that 1U dimension.
BTW, Good to see you.
Wait what? Didn't there's only 1 or 2 GB?
so rare
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They must have clocked onto the video rather quickly. Shame that, I’ll try and find some more. Hope you’re doing well mate
All good 😊My first thought was, well that card is great for Windows XP retro gaming and I love buying something that is brand new, so a great find, thank you for sharing.@@BudgetBuildsOfficial
Dude, it's great to see you! I hope all is well!
Really good to see a new video from my favourite tec TH-cam channel
Good to see you back! I think this has probably been said already but people like you are absolutely sorely needed when times are tough, just to prove some fun can be had even with cheap crap. Keep up the great work!
Awesome to see you back!
What a time to see Budget-Builds Official return
It's good to have you back.
And it's good to see Ruby again.
Comparing benchmarks with this card between windows and linux might be interesting. Because gcn 1 is still actively supported on linux through mesa whereas it's been dropped for a while now on windows
How? I had to replace my old GCN cards with a GT210 years ago.
@@rustyshackleford3053 You have to pass a kernel parameter to get the more modern 'amdgpu' to work on the oldest GCN cards. "radeon.si_support=0 amdgpu.si_support=1" for Southern Islands/7000 series, and swap 'si' for 'cik' for Sea Islands/8000. Or heck, just do both si and cik to be sure. You can also do it in an /etc/modprobe.d conf file like "options radeon si_support=0 (linebreak) options amdgpu si_support=1". The older 'radeon' driver still technically works but it's completely unmaintained as you know, and I'm not surprised that some distros don't really work with it.
And FWIW, on my own system with a weird GCN 1.0 mobile GPU, doing this makes it work fairly fine, definitely better than radeon even for these early cards. Not sure why it isn't the default driver other than people working on the kernel not really caring about these over 10-year old GPUs, which is fair but still sucks
I've got to admit I did not have even mid expectations when I clicked on this video...however! For a measly £15 This card has shockingly decent performance.
Honestly pretty solid value for what you're able to get from it. I actually want to pick one up now just for the fun of putting together an ULTRA budget build hah.
Missed your content bro, glad to see another drop from yours truely
You came back
Welcome back... we need to see more of your video's!!
Finally! Welcome back man! :D
When the world needed Budget Builds the most, he returned.
Anyway, welcome back, and good stuff as always, mate. 😊
Oohh, I miss this content. I really do. Thanks for this video
Personal experience with a 7750. Not this brand/card but an MSI I bought over 10years ago.
While the numbers look good in the video, people who will buy such a card are likely using a CPU that is just as old, with likely ~8GB ddr3. Performance will be significantly worse when the rest of your PC's parts are in the same category as this card. Temper your expectations and you will be fine. Do not expect to run modern titles (AAA or indie).
This card is a good option if you want a PC to run some old school games or build something cheap for a child or older relative.
The budget segment has truly been kicked to the curb. My card died about a year ago and I had to settle for a GT730. Older and worse and the card it was replacing. And it cost more than what the 730 did 10 years ago. Being poor sucks. Being middle aged and poor is worse.
Welcome back m8 missed u on TH-cam
I thought u ended the channel for good.
In any case, it is good to hear from you again after such a long time
Had a VTX3D HD5750 1GB GDDR5 in the first PC I built back in 2011. It was quite capable until around 2015 when the 1GB of VRAM became too big of a limitation. Early GTA V in 2015 was playable (30-40fps) at 1080p Normal with the sliders half-way, paired with an Athlon II X4 650. It has more shaders than the HD 7750 but it's on the older Terascale 2 architecture, so it's just a bit slower than the 7750, tho obviously the GDDR5 would've pushed mine above a DDR3 7750
Welcome back dude, looking forward for your budget builds videos.
Was using a Sapphire Radeon HD 7750 for five years on my Linux build. It finally crapped out. So I bought a MSI Radeon R7 250 to replace it. Seems to be equal in performance.
VCE works in two ways, hybrid mode where the GCN compute units are helping figure out the intra frames and motion while the VCE hardware figures out the minutia of the bitstream and then preforming the encode, then there is fixed mode where you don't really have much if any control over intra frames and motion detection because the VCE hardware is doing all of that itself. Those low spec GCN 1.0 cards don't have enough compute units to make hybrid mode work and despite having the physical hardware to do the fixed mode encoding AMD just never enabled it.
That and they went from having everything run though AMD Media Package (codecs) which they shitcanned for AMF aka AMD Media Framework (API) which leaves it more open ended and easier to implement. A whole lot of less than ideal for the job but still capable (or capable at some point) with zero support for AMF or any kind of VCE support at all.
I bought the GDDR-5 version in 2013...and it is still happily purring away in my backup box paired with an equally ancient Phenom II 925, you really couldn't kill those things.
how could in 2013 exist gddr5, and we are in 2024 and ggdr7 is not even a thing?
@@gabrielv.4358 Because GPU tech hasn't been progressing nearly as fast as CPU tech?
Look it up on Tech Powerup, here is what they say "Launched Feb 2012, 1Gb GDDR 5 GCN 1.0"
I was just recently searching for Budget Builds after missing content for so long
Welcome back my king
You dropped this 👑
Great to see you back
Its been a hot minute, welcome back!
5 years ago I bought a VTX3D HD 7970 X-Edition off my local market for $40 usd. A year later I sold it during the mining boom for $100. Really nice card.
Missed you a lot bud! Glad to see you back.
i love GCN 7000 through vega . it aged sooooo well and m mainn card is a rare radeon pro SSG 2 technically vega 10 but 12nm with 24gb vram and 2tb ssds
7750 is in active use around here. I know 3 current 7750-users, 1 w/ 1GB GDDR5-version and 2 w/ slower 2GB -ones you tested. Actually used GDDR5-version myself quite a while around 2016-18. 7750 is mostly memoryspeed -limited, GDDR5-version is 25-30% faster even before any overclocking. Even little bit of overclocking improved older games quite a bit.
At this point, isn't it better to run games on integrated graphics, than put such a card in?
the main use case would be for older PCs that have terrible integrated graphics. Integrated graphics didn't get decent until around 2020 and later.
(Edit, just realized this is a 4 month old comment)
really glad to see you again! My man, you should make audio books of public domain titles...you'd make a fortune...great speaking voice.
My first card was a ASUS AMD 7770 2gb.
I thought it was the coolest shit ever back in 2013
you can volt mod the card with a bios mod and get 20% more on the core.
You back, welcome back budget builds
It's a Christmas Barnacle in March - welcome back!
Welcome home
VTX was owned by PowerColor's parent company T something and was shut down some years ago, they were a brand sold in eastern europe, i first saw them in Turkey when the HD 4000 series was out. very weird to see them now. iirc they were a new brand specifically for import requirements and if it didn't work it wouldn't impact the main Powercolor brand, which was already successful alongside gainward and sapphire, etc.
in western europe, VTX was similar to "Club 3D" iirc and was the same physical factory, but different importer and market.
Welcome back
You reminded me Star Wars Fallen Order in order to play it I had to use DXVK because the stuttering on DX11 on UE4 was mess regardless of the settings, still using similar method on other games that are stubborn when you can't wait forever for a patch from the developer/company anyways, most games for the most part are working okay but in this scenario is the worst case we talk about here.
the thing has been sitting in a box for a decade at this point, kind of crazy. i always find new old stock tech of any kind fascinating. when it was made i was fooling around in early elementary school and now im beyond highschool. really weird to think about it.
It's always a good day when there's a new BBO video.
I used to own an XFX HD 7770 and I was running it with an MSI 970 Gaming MB with an FX8350 CPU and I had a lot of fun for years playing on this card until about 4 years ago when I upgraded to an GTX 1070 along with i5 10400 CPU with an NVMe drive and wow! what a massive difference. The HD 7750 or 7770 cards are great for watching 1080p movies and also it is sufficient enough to enjoy playing games from 2000 up until 2019 and more. So yes, Absolutely for that kind of money it is a great deal especially for a backup GPU.
And when everybody needed him the most... He returned.
I had a VTX3D HD7950 for a few years. I tortured it with bitcoin and ethereum mining when that stuff started to become popular, i overclocked the living hell out of it (1500Mhz Core clock!), i left it running for multiple weeks rendering things in blender, and ended up selling it to a friend as a cheap gaming card where it still is today, chugging along nicely.
Hey, my first decent PC build had a VTX R9 280! Fantastic card, ran for many years and made me very happy as a teenager. It was a bit of a scam tho- the naming scheme called it the "X-Edition", and the name was the "R9 280 X-Edition" which made me think it was a 280x..
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Good stuff, buddy! Glad to see you in my notifications!
Ruby on a brand new graphics card box
Looks like it still has ATi on her badge too!
Man I was legit marathoning your old vids, and here you returned! This is a good day!
he's back
I still got an HD7750. I just decommisioned it in my work PC a few months ago when I bought a 5600G to replace the Q6600+HD7750. That HD7750 was in my fiance's PC with a 2500k in it (and a 965BE before it). It could still play games like World War Z. I upgraded his GPU with my old HD7770 when I got my RX570.
The only thing holding it back now is the 1GB of VRAM. Photoshop nowadays wants 2GB minimum.
Welcome ! I missed you !
Welcome back
The Return Of The King.
And when we most needed him, he returned
Lets go! hes back!
In the past, I used two Sapphire 7770 Vapor-X graphics cards in a Crossfire. When Crossfire functioned correctly and was well-supported, the performance was decent. It was somewhat inferior to the 7950, but comparable, albeit with the typical Crossfire issues and less VRAM.
Funnily enough I still have the old hd 7750, replaced it for an r7 250 for low power
I used to have this exact card when I was 16, saved up 120 quid for one. played all my games. Good times playing Ether Saga online during collage. So many sleepless nights lol.
For some reason I feel all warm and fuzzy - it must be nostalgia. Thanks for the review.
Idle curiosity: Have you reviewed a Tesla P4?
Yes I know it's a 'compute' card with no output! But they are pretty cheap for what they can do (up to 50% faster than a GTX 1650 for me with more RAM and the same power draw) and with a little fiddling you can game on them.*
*GRID Driver, Regedit - Search "AdapterType", Delete that Key, then add 32bit DWord EnableMsHybrid = 1. Carefully Superglue a 40x40x10 blower to the end of the card (maybe with a 1k Resistor), and Bob's your significant other once Windows is set to use it for 3D stuff.
PS: The K80 is a bit slower with much more RAM for the same-ish price at the cost of a 300W vs 75W power draw.
He's finally back!