For some weird reason really i love this old ass gpus, every time you open a game it's a surprise, you don't expect them to run anything at all but they still do, and every second that passes is like a russian roulette in which they can die at any moment.
@@SpartanArmy117 dude I remember the times when GTX 590 was the BEAST, and I always told myself that one day I will own one! I think the time has come lol if I can find one
Great video, I bought a new in box Asus GTX 470 in 2017 ($90 CAD) from Amazon Canada. Used it for about a year, as my only graphics card. Then I got a RX 580 4GB and used that for a coupe of years. My grandson wanted to start a TH-cam channel, so my son and I grabed some old parts we had laying around build him a computer to run his channel from. Yep the Asus GTX 470 was in there for about a year and then my son exchanged cards with him and now my son uses it on their home computer and my grandson has a GTX 970 in his computer. It's nice to see it's still useable...
That's awesome! My uncle's 580ti went in to the player 2 PC when he bought a 980ti and then it was replaced with an RX580 8GB off pre-mining ebay when I started editing videos on that computer. I actually disassembled the card and mounted it to a display board on my shelf, right next to my now-dead HD7970.
Impressed by the footage of Stray - even on lowest settings it looks really good and it seems to be well optimized! Impressive result for a 12 year old GPU.
@@RandomGaminginHD True! Looks like it's held back by its 1,28 GB VRAM. A GTX 750Ti with 2 GB VRAM would probably still be a good low spec GPU for this game
yep on my ryzen 5 2400g at 1360x768 im using a 1360x768 18.5'' ips screen i get around 55fps - 60fps mostly stays at 60fps for an apu that is not overclocked its great
@@savagesam205 a GTX 760 in my Media PC and it still does fairly well, running Assassin's Creed Odyssey on Low settings. It's the old saying of "manage your expectations" that come into play with these old cards.
Stray runs pretty well on my gtx750, but when new level loads or zommed in on the cat, the framerate drop from 50 fps to 25fps (reloading checkpoint does fix the issues tho)
I bought a GTX 470 back in 2015 for 50 euros. I played GTA 5 on a core 2 duo with about 40 fps Today i saw a pc with an X58 mobo, i7 930 and GTX 470 for 50 euros
X58, yeah! I really want to build myself something X58 based, yes I know it's not the most modern, but with a 6 core 12 thread Xeon (and an overclock), you'll get decent performance, as well as up to 48GB RAM and a healthy amount of SATA ports to boot.
The fact that a 12yr old card can play modern games is truly amazing! In 2010 a 12yr old card wouldn't have even been able to start games let alone run the operating system!
its the difference of what to do with enough money for a console in 2022 vs 2010. if you had 300 bucks in 2010, a PS3 was literally the most power you could get for that buck, and both that or an Xbox 360 would be better options for a gamer. that same amount of money now, especially after the crash of the crypto market early this year, could be used to build a PC at the same or better spec than a PS4 Pro or Xbox One's equal revision
@@raptorduck8785 nah , there are big differences between crysis and games today , but the advancements made year by year at that time were more noticeable compared to now
it's disastrous! it just shows how little we have achieved during the last years and that moore's law is dead! i hate how i'm not amazed anymore by graphics. remember GTA IV? that was amazing for 2007...honestly 15 years later games haven't advanced much graphically speaking and probably decreased in the physics department. my little brother still has my 4c/8t intel i7 860 PC from 2009 and it's still holding up! this is a bad sign.
@@L3nny666 Yeah I have a i7 3770 and a 1060 and I play almost everything at 1080@60 or more. I paid 100 bucks for the i7 3770 + mother + 16 gb ram, and 75 bucks for the 1060.
i had a palit gtx 460 from 2010-2016 and it really did a great job on 1080p for me. damn that was 175 euros new. dont think gpu prices will ever be that low again. love your content as always
The gtx 470 was certainly impressive as a space heater, but the upcoming 4070 will be even better. Thermi wasn't bad, the coolers on the reference cards were just a bit underpowered. Now with better coolers on the new cards we are going to see a massive increase in heating performance, I reckon 600 W on the 4090 will be quite casual.
Yeah the room will get quite hot! and 600W just for a gpu plus the cpu, ram, and etc will take up too much power and possibly make your electric bill quite a bit more expensive! 250W is good for a high end card, but 600W is too much!
LOL it didnt really have much to do with the wattage as it was only pulling 250-300 it was the super high TDP temp. I still have a gtx 480 I haven't used it in years but it would go all the way to 105c before it throttled which is madness. I didn't have to use the heat in my studio apartment in the winter if gaming.
I was running the EVGA version of this card all the way up until the GTX 960 came out. I got it second-hand from eBay to replace a GTX 260 Core 216 that died in dramatic fashion, and for some reason I still have it laying around. I played a LOT of Mass Effect on it, good times.
I bought a pair of these at launch (EVGA models) and paired them with my QX6700 that ran at 3Ghz. Due the motherboard layout, I had to sandwich my X-fi sound card between the two GTX 470's. Needless to say, within a year, the prodigious heat from the 470's roasted the sound card and it failed. About 3 months after than the top card also failed, likely due to excessive heat. I RMA'd the failed card, and EVGA sent me a GTX 570 as a replacement, which meant that SLI wasn't possible. So I called them back and they said that they didn't have any replacement GTX 470's , but said that if I sent them the working 470, they'd send me another 570. Which sounded good to me. So I sent them the remaining 470 and sure enough, they send me a new 570 and I was back in the SLI business. The GTX 570's seemed to run a bit cooler, I never had any trouble with them, they were just short on VRAM.
My dad has my old 470, it died once when it was 2 years old. I baked it in the oven and it's survived 5 years now. He uses the computer a lot in the winter to heat his room.
I had a fermi card back in 2012, it was gtx 550 ti. I remember having so much fun with it, playing nfs most wanted, gta 4, prototype, etc as it was my first pc build
I have a GTX 480 Twin Frozr II, a GTX 580 from EVGA, an Asus DCUII 3-slot OC GTX 580, and a 560 ti 448 Classified from EVGA(a 560 ti based on a GTX 570 die) that 560 ti is one of my favorites as I enjoy cards with unusual upgraded specs.(like my GTX 260 216)
Part of me wonders, because I saw some overclock and modding forums bring up that these chips had an integrated heat spreader, and this could shave some of those degrees if delidded. I tried, and failed, with a 460, but at least I was able to reuse the cooler on a gtx 960.
Yea changing out the old dried out bird shit does drop the temps a fair bit and in some cases keeps these old gpus alive for a good bit longer when in regular use.
I love seeing the shrouds of these old GPUs. It's nice seeing how they grew from these tiny fans on a small extruded heatsink to the big chonkers we have now.
I just picked up a box of old computer parts in my area for cheap. In the box was several items including a brand new gaming motherboard from the old beginnings of Intel four core and core 2 duo days and also had three of these old fermi graphics cards including the one you showed. I love building these old systems because parts are cheap and plentiful and it helps me to scratch the itch I have for building computers. Not having any money to build modern systems can really be a bummer but I recommend building these older systems with mixed and matched parts for fun. It is also very educational.
I bought a GTX 570 second hand in about 2013 for my second PC. I had just got GTX 760 in my main PC at the time and I was really impressed with how well the GTX570 stood up.
@@RandomGaminginHD With the new fast pace Valve has been shipping them, if you made a reservation in the last couple of months, you should be able to get one by Q4. This thing is amazing, I highly recommend it
videos about old gpu stuff always the stuff that i liked imo. It always amazes me when they ran modern games even though technically they aren't relevant in this modern day and age.
I was using a system with an FX 8320e overclocked to 4GHz with a 650ti (2GB) from 2016 up until last Summer. Covid made me get back into PC gaming so I started using it again. I was actually impressed with how many newer games would actually run on it with the settings turned down. I eventually upgraded to a GTX 1650 GDDR6 card when I was able to get one at a decent price. I have a new computer now but that old machine is still up and running to test new games to see how they run on it. Definitely interesting to see old systems still being able to run newer games.
Why wouldn't they run ? CPU is rough equivalent to PS4 CPU . 650Ti is slightly worse than PS4 GPU but you could drop the settings a bit and there you go.
@@aleksazunjic9672 the PS4 basically had a Radeon 7870 GPU which is about 20% more powerful than a 650ti. PS4 is better optimized for it's games as well. There were games that had issues running even with the settings turned all the way down. Outriders was one of them.
@@craig71686 As I said, GPU on PS4 is slightly better in everything else PC has the advantage. PS4 for example has only 8GB of united RAM and VRAM, you likely have double of that. PS4 had HDD, you likely have SSD etc ... In practical terms, you could play all games released for original PS4 in at least 1080p med, and some at 1080p high. Outriders would run at 40 FPS with your GPU although this games was actually released for PS4 Pro.
@@aleksazunjic9672 as I mentioned, Outriders had issues running in general. Struggled to hit a consistent 30FPS even at low settings. My system had 8GB of DDR3 at the time while PS4 has 8GB GDDR5 which is faster plus another 256MB of DDR3 for the system. PS4 are also optimized for that hardware. You can't really compare PS4 to PC like that because a PC has a lot more overhead in the background. So no, not all PS4 games would run well enough to be considered playable on my system that had a 650ti.
@@craig71686 Then you did something wrong because Outriders get more FPS on similar or even weaker systems . You have video on yt called OUTRIDERS - GTX 650Ti / AMD FX 8120 / 8GB RAM ( 2012 Hardware ). GDDR5 is actually not good for general purpose CPU tasks so you have advantage there too (this is the reason why PS4 has DDR3 for some critical tasks) . Only thing that could hinder PC is some bloatware process in Win 10, but that could be turned off. Overall, games on PC equivalent of PS4 actually run somewhat better due to manual optimization by user and game developers, while on PS4 everything is pretty much locked down.
Great review of this nostalgic graphics card, I remember when I built my first gaming PC back in 2012, I used a GTX550Ti. Around 2015, I obtained a GTX 570 and used the 570 as my primary GPU power while I used the GTX550Ti as a PhysX card. Shortly after my GTX570 started to artifact, I retired both cards in 2016 and upgraded to a GTX1060 SSC 6GB. It's interesting how gaming was back in the days with 1GB of VRAM.
Your dog 🐶 is such a cutie 🥰 . Despite its 🔥🔥fiery history, it’s a semi-decent GPU. I actually had the GTX590 which saw a small but decent drop in temps and gave impressive performance in it day.
My Furmi card was awesome. I got GTX465 Asus edition and ran that baby for years. I still use that old rig today for some emulation on my tv and to watch movies and listen to music Great card.
Very nice. My brother had a GTX 460 768mb variant in his Phenom 2 build and that was a daily PC from 2010-2017. Before I built my GTX 760 PC in 2015 I would play games on his computer. The the way the GTX 460 felt is how I gauge newer graphics cards today. I recently purchased a 460 1gb variant for $30 USD and will be seeing how that plays various games in another build I will do soon.
Steam Deck is almost twice as powerful while it's GPU is consuming less than 10W (remember the 15W TDP is for CPU and GPU combined)... crazy how far we've come.
Looking at that RDR2 gameplay, i forgot how nostalgic a locked 10 FPS was. I played a lot of Quake 4, Mass Effect 2, and Battlefield Bad Company 2 at 10 to 15 FPS back in the day
New to me NVS 5400M Thinkpad has been a real treat. I'm devising a diverse set of games under 70gigs to have on it's ssd. Focus is my top 10 favs & couch multiplayer. Some N64 and SNES emu as well but trying to keep the system around 100games or so, half of those being inside of a few emus. It's really great though portable and unlocked Runs PC versions of PlayStation 3 era games flawlessly. Dark Souls, Street Fighter IV Vanilla, Bomberman 64, Dirt 3, NFS Carbon, Gauntlet Legends, RE6 & Remake, QuakeDP, Zandronum.
@@HeyItsJonny Not sure if I've tried that one or not but I have played a bit of gzdoom ultimately the last builds I tried a little over a year ago I preferred Zandronum though. Kind of got tired of modding so I just strip it down and usually play PSX Brutal doom 13.3 or 13.1 can't remember offhand on my main rig and on this rig I just setup all out pc doom with brutal modern 20 although I may go with a older version of brutal mostly because too burnt out to un mod this version of brutal, the custom sound effects are too loud as usual and it takes a day usually to get it all toned down. I think I prefer 19 overall but I love the pistol idea in newer brutals it would be worth the time to make sort of a balance between brutal and vanilla doom.
@@Bawkr right on, whatever works for you. Zdl is just a gzdoom mod manager, basically it loads all of your mods with a selected source port and allows you to set a load order. It's like vortex for skyrim.
@@HeyItsJonny ah I just lay it all out in the .ini by pasting the file dir in my load order. Sometimes I'll make a separate entire instance something like a Wolfenstein mod. But yea lately I just play a few levels of psx brutal. If I need to swap setups I can simply have BAK1233 etc. of the ini file or even name them something like Strife, Wolfenstein, Brutal19, etc.
I had this gpu in 2010 and mine did overclock by a lot. I think i pushed it from 608mhz to 815mhz and it actually got ALOT faster. I wished you had tried it! Damn I miss the old overclocking results :(.
My 470 would overheat to the point of crashing. Until I added a 3" fan screwed onto the shroud blowing into the blower fan. 4 slot wide Twin-Turbo Fans TM
It's a great card for sure to warm these cold winter nights. I didn't expect Stray to run as it did, even on low 720p or GTA V at 1080p. Seems there's still some life left on the 470.
Used to run 3x gtx 480s in sli back in the day. They got up to 105deg c with a oc. Never had a issue. One of my mates still run one. The vram was the main killer in the end. Plenty of raw grunt.
Problem with these card is, they draw up to 215W. With energy bills way up, it will be very expensive in the long run. The GTX 950, on the other hand, is a 90W card with +0.8GB VRAM, +50% performance, and they're very cheap. Heck, I run a GTX 1650 GDDR6 laptop which tops out at 35W and it's 2-3 times faster than this card.
They could be actually great for winter, in countries like Switzerland where they limited room temperature to 19 degrees Celsius :D "But officer, I was just running some GTA 5 on my PC " :D
The GTX 470 was my first video card in the high-end segment, and also my first nvidia video card. In my city we have very cold winters, but the GTX 470 kept my room properly heated while I played Crysis 2, Metro 2033 and Alan Wake. In my case it was an EVGA GTX 470 (the FTW model)
Here is some information to help you. Especially in Linux systems, if these GPU cards (400 series, 500 series fermi) are used in a dual core or quad core low-power PC, the net power consumption for the PC is modest. For example, I have a dual core system for linux (1.6 to 1.8GHz although it can be overclocked) which can run at 18 watt but can largely do about 12 Watt and so paired with a card like this, the PC net power consumption would not be massive even though it is all mainly on the GPU. It is good for ecology to learn about computer repair and electronics too on the other educational and science/technology software one might install from a software centre or find on the rescue DVD or CDROM itself. In particular Linux Kernel 3.1 has nouveau open source drivers support for the aforementioned GPU cards and it works in Knoppix 7.1 _(which does rescue CD stuff, like UBCD538 does, and a bunch more software which can use the GPU)_ and also LinHES _(for the CD 685MB iso of LinHES 8.2 has kernel 3.13.6 thereby allowing some video and audio techniques to be used)_ and even the oldest version of Ubuntu 14.04 if one uses wubi.exe to go into and out of cloop linux by MSwindows. This is also useful to know that cards in that range for older system allow for a person to use an HDD (spindle and platters) for a journaling filesystem like Reiser4.04 so as to not need a large amount of RAM like ZFS can do and yet it is still fast _(and you can use swap space on such drives)._ Older Linux has that File-System on the kernel _(although you can still get it on some custom debian distros nowdays)._ Performance wise for an HDD, that Reiser4.04 filesystem is one I recommend. This knowledge is worth learning about and helping others with. That is a thing I do here and there. I have a blog linked on my YT About Page showing how and am adding computer articles in multiple languages like Urdu and some computer learning tips and (e.g. linux) links that could be read in a language that could be understood by Ethiopians for example. My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.
I would like to add that, when the multilingual websites I link to (above) are taken down as websites (some of which were), my link still works because I provided more links for backups and cache the data because it is usually creative commons or public domain or GPLv2 or similar. Now, I have thereby added twice as many links including for slackware and squid server instructions in urdu with crontab guides and computing basics (hardware component guides). Taking down the larger hydra head of GNU and linux cannot be done since we all have iso files of kernels and the man pages including how on CDROM number 3 and 4 of slackware, the slackbook guidelines are stored for all to learn from. See more for linux guidelines as examples in urdu and amharic.
Example linux instructions to follow in urdu and english ہمیشہ کی طرح ، میں آپ کو میلویئر انسٹال کرنے کے لئے نہیں کہہ رہا ہوں ، یہ سرکاری اسکویڈ وکی سے ہے ، چیک کریں As always, I'm not asking you to install malware, it's from the official Squid wiki, check crontab میں کام شامل کریں کرون کیا ہے؟ کرون نام یونانی Chronos سے آیا ہے جس کا مطلب ہے "وقت"۔ یونکس آپریٹنگ سسٹم میں ، کرون ایک باقاعدہ بیک گراؤنڈ پروسیس مینیجر (ڈیمون) ہوتا ہے جو باقاعدگی سے وقفوں پر عمل کرتا ہے یا اسکرپٹ (مثال کے طور پر ، ہر منٹ ، دن ، ہفتہ ، یا مہینہ)۔ عمل جن پر عمل درآمد ہونا ضروری ہے اور جس وقت ان پر عمل درآمد ہونا لازمی ہے وہ کرونٹاب فائل میں بتائے گئے ہیں۔ Add work to crontab What is Cron? The name Kron comes from the Greek Chronos, which means "time" In a Unix operating system The Cron is a regular Background Process Manager (Daemon) that follows regular intervals or scripts (e.g., every minute, day, week, or month) The processes that must be implemented and the time they must be implemented are described in the Crontab file
Can you put Doom Eternal in your test benchmarks? Since it's a very well optimized modern title, it'd be interesting to see how well older cards can run it.
Would be cool to see the amount of power these older cards pull in comparison to newer cards. Especially as the more recent cards seem to becoming more and more power thirsty
Bought a gigabyte 460 1gb dual windforce a few months ago for $10 at the local thrift store. In came in the OG box with everything still inside and looks brand new. Still works well with the exception of the rear fan bearing starting to go which is likely why is was retired.
Videos like this are why I went out and bought a 3060. Rather than buy a new low end card every 3 years or so, go a bit out of my usual budget and get something that will still perform to an acceptable level for 6-7 years, possibly stretched to 10 considering I don't typically play many AAA titles.
Got one for free a year and a half ago in some recycling center (i live in spain), te catch is that it was the board only, no heatsink, so i spend 20€ and 6 months looking for a compatible aftermarket cooler (or a dead card with a compatible cooler), i ended up with a zalman aftermarket cooler, and when i launched the first game (Nier Automata with a mix of mid's lows and high settings at 900p) it honestly surprised me how well it ran the game, the same for the rest of games i tried with it, dropping from 1080p to 900p or 720p it's a good tradeoff to gain some extra frames, unless you wanna run newer games i these 400/500 series gpu's are still quite worthy.
Graphics cards were incredibly cheap back then, I‘ve just looked up that I bought a GTX 460 for 148€ in 2011. But CPUs as well, in the same order was an i5 2500k for 170€, which was quite powerful at the time.
I had a Windforce GTX480... 2 of the 3 fans failed and I kept going with it since it was under warranty. The bastard card didn't die through a whole playthrough of Alan Wake... at 114ºC!
Ran a EVGA GTX 480 1.5GB from 2010 to 2014 I just remember it running really hot under load (90-91C) but it was stable at least, the single blower style cooling used back then just wasn't very good especially on higher end gpu's.
I have a 460 and had a 470 for a while. I'm a temp weenie and seeing it get up to 90 - 95C after about two minutes was just too much for me. Like you, I really love those older cards. I can't imagine how bad this would be in a really bad case like a NZXT 500 or Thermaltake A500. Matter of fact, why are so many case manufacturers '500' model cases so bad?
I still run this gpu, ive had it for 10-15 years minimum. I dont play any heavy games, but i play a LOT. Mostly tibia, runescape and diablo 2, but some other titles aswell. It just works perfectly fine for me so why upgrade. It does sound like a fighter jet from time to time.
You can remove the shroud and replace the original fan with a random 80mm fan and it should lower the temps, i remember someone on OC forums did this a long time ago.
I used a GTX 460 from January 2011 up until October 2016, when I upgraded to my still used GTX 1070. The performance of the 470 should be comparable to that of a GT 1030 although the 1030 has newer drivers and more VRAM and also needs much less power. My 460 is still alive and it's fine for running older games like Starcraft II for example.
This was a 215 watt card. As i remember it, that was why i did not get one. I moved from a gtx285 to a gtx670. This is also the reason i did not get a +200watt rtx3070 when it launched.
I'm not sure about later "blower" style cars, but the 200 and 400 series had some really complex coolers. You needs to take a LOT of screws off especially if there is a backplate on these cards and it's a tricky process. It's typically very easy these days, though EVGA does throw a "hidden" nut in their high end cards to make it more difficult to take apart.
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For some weird reason really i love this old ass gpus, every time you open a game it's a surprise, you don't expect them to run anything at all but they still do, and every second that passes is like a russian roulette in which they can die at any moment.
That’s exactly why I enjoy testing them 😁
@@SpartanArmy117 dude I remember the times when GTX 590 was the BEAST, and I always told myself that one day I will own one! I think the time has come lol if I can find one
Prior to the energy crisis of 2022, technology that produced decent amounts of heat was definitely undervalued.
I was slightly regretting my 3070 Ti PC over the summer, yet now it seems like a blessing in disguise for the chilly nights and high energy costs.
You should go back to school, learn some proper sentence-structure. 🤦🏻♂️
@@Dead_Metal try undervolting. There are some pretty good guides for the 3070ti that end up with lower power draw, and higher boost clocks.
@@secularargument I'll admit the original comment was a stroke-giver
@@johnjson I preferred the original, the revision is boring.
Great video, I bought a new in box Asus GTX 470 in 2017 ($90 CAD) from Amazon Canada. Used it for about a year, as my only graphics card. Then I got a RX 580 4GB and used that for a coupe of years. My grandson wanted to start a TH-cam channel, so my son and I grabed some old parts we had laying around build him a computer to run his channel from. Yep the Asus GTX 470 was in there for about a year and then my son exchanged cards with him and now my son uses it on their home computer and my grandson has a GTX 970 in his computer. It's nice to see it's still useable...
That's awesome! My uncle's 580ti went in to the player 2 PC when he bought a 980ti and then it was replaced with an RX580 8GB off pre-mining ebay when I started editing videos on that computer. I actually disassembled the card and mounted it to a display board on my shelf, right next to my now-dead HD7970.
Impressed by the footage of Stray - even on lowest settings it looks really good and it seems to be well optimized! Impressive result for a 12 year old GPU.
Yeah it’s a great looking game, shame about the sudden slow down!
@@RandomGaminginHD True! Looks like it's held back by its 1,28 GB VRAM. A GTX 750Ti with 2 GB VRAM would probably still be a good low spec GPU for this game
yep on my ryzen 5 2400g at 1360x768 im using a 1360x768 18.5'' ips screen i get around 55fps - 60fps mostly stays at 60fps for an apu that is not overclocked its great
@@savagesam205 a GTX 760 in my Media PC and it still does fairly well, running Assassin's Creed Odyssey on Low settings. It's the old saying of "manage your expectations" that come into play with these old cards.
Stray runs pretty well on my gtx750, but when new level loads or zommed in on the cat, the framerate drop from 50 fps to 25fps (reloading checkpoint does fix the issues tho)
I bought a GTX 470 back in 2015 for 50 euros.
I played GTA 5 on a core 2 duo with about 40 fps
Today i saw a pc with an X58 mobo, i7 930 and GTX 470 for 50 euros
worth a punt if it works, as it would be a good retro gaming machine
Hot damn, what a great deal!
Depending on what it is, the X58 mobo alone can go for easily double that.
X58, yeah! I really want to build myself something X58 based, yes I know it's not the most modern, but with a 6 core 12 thread Xeon (and an overclock), you'll get decent performance, as well as up to 48GB RAM and a healthy amount of SATA ports to boot.
I still use an X58 board as my main gaming rig. 👍
I love how you record outside and not a boring room inside 🤘👍
Better lighting too 😁
@@RandomGaminginHD natural 🤣
Yeah his got a nice garden
The fact that a 12yr old card can play modern games is truly amazing! In 2010 a 12yr old card wouldn't have even been able to start games let alone run the operating system!
its the difference of what to do with enough money for a console in 2022 vs 2010. if you had 300 bucks in 2010, a PS3 was literally the most power you could get for that buck, and both that or an Xbox 360 would be better options for a gamer. that same amount of money now, especially after the crash of the crypto market early this year, could be used to build a PC at the same or better spec than a PS4 Pro or Xbox One's equal revision
Thats cause the games reached the top on 2007 with Crysis, since then all the graphical games are the same.
@@raptorduck8785 nah , there are big differences between crysis and games today , but the advancements made year by year at that time were more noticeable compared to now
it's disastrous! it just shows how little we have achieved during the last years and that moore's law is dead! i hate how i'm not amazed anymore by graphics. remember GTA IV? that was amazing for 2007...honestly 15 years later games haven't advanced much graphically speaking and probably decreased in the physics department.
my little brother still has my 4c/8t intel i7 860 PC from 2009 and it's still holding up! this is a bad sign.
@@L3nny666 Yeah I have a i7 3770 and a 1060 and I play almost everything at 1080@60 or more. I paid 100 bucks for the i7 3770 + mother + 16 gb ram, and 75 bucks for the 1060.
That was my first gpu in the computer i got in december 2010. She gave me great gaming times untill she died 5 year ago, RIP my gtx 470.
Love your content and humble personality that sparks through your words.
i had a palit gtx 460 from 2010-2016 and it really did a great job on 1080p for me. damn that was 175 euros new. dont think gpu prices will ever be that low again. love your content as always
Thank god, a space heater on the cheap for the coming winter.
The gtx 470 was certainly impressive as a space heater, but the upcoming 4070 will be even better.
Thermi wasn't bad, the coolers on the reference cards were just a bit underpowered. Now with better coolers on the new cards we are going to see a massive increase in heating performance, I reckon 600 W on the 4090 will be quite casual.
Yeah, but the problem is it'll make your room incredibly hot.
Yeah the room will get quite hot! and 600W just for a gpu plus the cpu, ram, and etc will take up too much power and possibly make your electric bill quite a bit more expensive! 250W is good for a high end card, but 600W is too much!
@@anakinlowground5515 perfect for winter
LOL it didnt really have much to do with the wattage as it was only pulling 250-300 it was the super high TDP temp. I still have a gtx 480 I haven't used it in years but it would go all the way to 105c before it throttled which is madness. I didn't have to use the heat in my studio apartment in the winter if gaming.
I guess from now on people would buy winter cards and summer cards 😁
I was running the EVGA version of this card all the way up until the GTX 960 came out. I got it second-hand from eBay to replace a GTX 260 Core 216 that died in dramatic fashion, and for some reason I still have it laying around. I played a LOT of Mass Effect on it, good times.
do a test which is better at cooking your breakfast the gtx 470 or an rtx 4080 and see which lasts longer at doing such a thing🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@raven4k998RTX 4080 cooks safer while the GTX 470 might burn your chicken instead of heating it...
@@FloatSamplesGT710 no no no silly you need a 4090 they cook better then a cool running 4080🤣🤣
I bought a pair of these at launch (EVGA models) and paired them with my QX6700 that ran at 3Ghz. Due the motherboard layout, I had to sandwich my X-fi sound card between the two GTX 470's. Needless to say, within a year, the prodigious heat from the 470's roasted the sound card and it failed. About 3 months after than the top card also failed, likely due to excessive heat. I RMA'd the failed card, and EVGA sent me a GTX 570 as a replacement, which meant that SLI wasn't possible. So I called them back and they said that they didn't have any replacement GTX 470's , but said that if I sent them the working 470, they'd send me another 570. Which sounded good to me. So I sent them the remaining 470 and sure enough, they send me a new 570 and I was back in the SLI business. The GTX 570's seemed to run a bit cooler, I never had any trouble with them, they were just short on VRAM.
This channel is chill af, gets straight to the point, no over edits, no bs. Love it
My dad has my old 470, it died once when it was 2 years old. I baked it in the oven and it's survived 5 years now. He uses the computer a lot in the winter to heat his room.
I have one of these gaming heaters. Solid card. Could be used as a replacement house brick or an anchor when it dies.
wow my radeon r5 m330 from 2015 ran gta 5 800x600 30fps and this thing from 2010 ran it at 93 what a beast
The GTX 470 and 480 are the best space heaters Nvidia ever made.
Until the RTX 40 series that is.
I miss my 3 way sli gtx 480s.
Man was that a jet engine system... but man was it warm gaming at 80-90
That’s awesome
I bought exactly this card back in the day when I was single, without kids and tons of money.
I had a fermi card back in 2012, it was gtx 550 ti. I remember having so much fun with it, playing nfs most wanted, gta 4, prototype, etc as it was my first pc build
Great card, I wanted one for ages 😁
I have a GTX 480 Twin Frozr II, a GTX 580 from EVGA, an Asus DCUII 3-slot OC GTX 580, and a 560 ti 448 Classified from EVGA(a 560 ti based on a GTX 570 die) that 560 ti is one of my favorites as I enjoy cards with unusual upgraded specs.(like my GTX 260 216)
Part of me wonders, because I saw some overclock and modding forums bring up that these chips had an integrated heat spreader, and this could shave some of those degrees if delidded. I tried, and failed, with a 460, but at least I was able to reuse the cooler on a gtx 960.
Yea changing out the old dried out bird shit does drop the temps a fair bit and in some cases keeps these old gpus alive for a good bit longer when in regular use.
I love seeing the shrouds of these old GPUs. It's nice seeing how they grew from these tiny fans on a small extruded heatsink to the big chonkers we have now.
Back on my first homebuilt PC, I had a GTX 570 howling away below my OC'd i7-950. I miss the ol space heater. Thanks for the memories!
I just picked up a box of old computer parts in my area for cheap. In the box was several items including a brand new gaming motherboard from the old beginnings of Intel four core and core 2 duo days and also had three of these old fermi graphics cards including the one you showed. I love building these old systems because parts are cheap and plentiful and it helps me to scratch the itch I have for building computers. Not having any money to build modern systems can really be a bummer but I recommend building these older systems with mixed and matched parts for fun. It is also very educational.
it would be cooler in a case as it would also have case fans cooling it as well
I bought a GTX 570 second hand in about 2013 for my second PC. I had just got GTX 760 in my main PC at the time and I was really impressed with how well the GTX570 stood up.
Kinda crazy to think that the Steam Deck, with its 15w SoC and an integrated GPU, is faster in games than a mid range card from 2010
Yeah I must try and find one of those
@@RandomGaminginHD With the new fast pace Valve has been shipping them, if you made a reservation in the last couple of months, you should be able to get one by Q4. This thing is amazing, I highly recommend it
Get one , it’s replaced my gaming laptop ,I love it
@@valley_robot Same! I've been impressed with the games and emulation that I can throw at it.
videos about old gpu stuff always the stuff that i liked imo. It always amazes me when they ran modern games even though technically they aren't relevant in this modern day and age.
I think it'd be neat to compare the 400 and 500 series on temps just to show how much better fermi 2 was
I have an MSI Twin Frozr II GTX 480, it’s still hot running but much quieter than the blower style.
I was using a system with an FX 8320e overclocked to 4GHz with a 650ti (2GB) from 2016 up until last Summer. Covid made me get back into PC gaming so I started using it again. I was actually impressed with how many newer games would actually run on it with the settings turned down. I eventually upgraded to a GTX 1650 GDDR6 card when I was able to get one at a decent price. I have a new computer now but that old machine is still up and running to test new games to see how they run on it. Definitely interesting to see old systems still being able to run newer games.
Why wouldn't they run ? CPU is rough equivalent to PS4 CPU . 650Ti is slightly worse than PS4 GPU but you could drop the settings a bit and there you go.
@@aleksazunjic9672 the PS4 basically had a Radeon 7870 GPU which is about 20% more powerful than a 650ti. PS4 is better optimized for it's games as well. There were games that had issues running even with the settings turned all the way down. Outriders was one of them.
@@craig71686 As I said, GPU on PS4 is slightly better in everything else PC has the advantage. PS4 for example has only 8GB of united RAM and VRAM, you likely have double of that. PS4 had HDD, you likely have SSD etc ... In practical terms, you could play all games released for original PS4 in at least 1080p med, and some at 1080p high. Outriders would run at 40 FPS with your GPU although this games was actually released for PS4 Pro.
@@aleksazunjic9672 as I mentioned, Outriders had issues running in general. Struggled to hit a consistent 30FPS even at low settings. My system had 8GB of DDR3 at the time while PS4 has 8GB GDDR5 which is faster plus another 256MB of DDR3 for the system. PS4 are also optimized for that hardware. You can't really compare PS4 to PC like that because a PC has a lot more overhead in the background. So no, not all PS4 games would run well enough to be considered playable on my system that had a 650ti.
@@craig71686 Then you did something wrong because Outriders get more FPS on similar or even weaker systems . You have video on yt called OUTRIDERS - GTX 650Ti / AMD FX 8120 / 8GB RAM ( 2012 Hardware ). GDDR5 is actually not good for general purpose CPU tasks so you have advantage there too (this is the reason why PS4 has DDR3 for some critical tasks) . Only thing that could hinder PC is some bloatware process in Win 10, but that could be turned off. Overall, games on PC equivalent of PS4 actually run somewhat better due to manual optimization by user and game developers, while on PS4 everything is pretty much locked down.
It's a powerhouse for DX9 titles at 1080p.
DX10 and older DX 11 titles too. Also games like Crysis and Fallout New Vegas will run way nicer on one than most modern cards.
@@EvilTurkeySlices both of those game you mentioned still run poorly on modern hardware, specially New Vegas.
@@durchfaII yeah, that’s my point.
Great review of this nostalgic graphics card, I remember when I built my first gaming PC back in 2012, I used a GTX550Ti. Around 2015, I obtained a GTX 570 and used the 570 as my primary GPU power while I used the GTX550Ti as a PhysX card. Shortly after my GTX570 started to artifact, I retired both cards in 2016 and upgraded to a GTX1060 SSC 6GB. It's interesting how gaming was back in the days with 1GB of VRAM.
Your dog 🐶 is such a cutie 🥰 . Despite its 🔥🔥fiery history, it’s a semi-decent GPU. I actually had the GTX590 which saw a small but decent drop in temps and gave impressive performance in it day.
My Furmi card was awesome. I got GTX465 Asus edition and ran that baby for years. I still use that old rig today for some emulation on my tv and to watch movies and listen to music
Great card.
Brings back memories of my triple SLI setup of evga 470s. Overclocked and a triple monitor setup. Toasty memories......
Great for the europeans in this winter, with the gas prices :D
It did better then i expected in some games. 🙂
@El Cactuar 🤓
Very nice. My brother had a GTX 460 768mb variant in his Phenom 2 build and that was a daily PC from 2010-2017. Before I built my GTX 760 PC in 2015 I would play games on his computer. The the way the GTX 460 felt is how I gauge newer graphics cards today. I recently purchased a 460 1gb variant for $30 USD and will be seeing how that plays various games in another build I will do soon.
Unrelated but in the winter I’ve been leaving my computer running raytraced minecraft all night to keep my room warm
I still need more video of your amazing dog.
Perfect for the upcoming harsh winter with energy cuts.
Steam Deck is almost twice as powerful while it's GPU is consuming less than 10W (remember the 15W TDP is for CPU and GPU combined)... crazy how far we've come.
Compare the stripped vs normal nvidia drivers for the possible difference in performance
Brings back memories this one. Was using it until 2015 when ARK came out and it just wasn't enough and had to move to GTX 970
My office pc at work has a 2600k and GTX 470, when we got nothing going on i still play battlefield 4 on it.
This is a card from the hay day of PC gaming. I remember them fondly.
the little bro of legendary thermi series
I used to have two Nvidia GTX 460s. That was when SLI was still a thing that actually could work.
Looking at that RDR2 gameplay, i forgot how nostalgic a locked 10 FPS was. I played a lot of Quake 4, Mass Effect 2, and Battlefield Bad Company 2 at 10 to 15 FPS back in the day
I used to put those 460s/470s into cheap gaming PCs for the kids in the village a couple years ago, because you could get them for
New to me NVS 5400M Thinkpad has been a real treat. I'm devising a diverse set of games under 70gigs to have on it's ssd. Focus is my top 10 favs & couch multiplayer. Some N64 and SNES emu as well but trying to keep the system around 100games or so, half of those being inside of a few emus. It's really great though portable and unlocked Runs PC versions of PlayStation 3 era games flawlessly. Dark Souls, Street Fighter IV Vanilla, Bomberman 64, Dirt 3, NFS Carbon, Gauntlet Legends, RE6 & Remake, QuakeDP, Zandronum.
Using gzdoom with zdl3.1a has always been gold to me for doom modding.
@@HeyItsJonny Not sure if I've tried that one or not but I have played a bit of gzdoom ultimately the last builds I tried a little over a year ago I preferred Zandronum though. Kind of got tired of modding so I just strip it down and usually play PSX Brutal doom 13.3 or 13.1 can't remember offhand on my main rig and on this rig I just setup all out pc doom with brutal modern 20 although I may go with a older version of brutal mostly because too burnt out to un mod this version of brutal, the custom sound effects are too loud as usual and it takes a day usually to get it all toned down. I think I prefer 19 overall but I love the pistol idea in newer brutals it would be worth the time to make sort of a balance between brutal and vanilla doom.
@@Bawkr right on, whatever works for you. Zdl is just a gzdoom mod manager, basically it loads all of your mods with a selected source port and allows you to set a load order.
It's like vortex for skyrim.
@@HeyItsJonny ah I just lay it all out in the .ini by pasting the file dir in my load order. Sometimes I'll make a separate entire instance something like a Wolfenstein mod. But yea lately I just play a few levels of psx brutal. If I need to swap setups I can simply have BAK1233 etc. of the ini file or even name them something like Strife, Wolfenstein, Brutal19, etc.
I actually have this card laying around, I was a amazed how pretty well it performed for its age.
I had this gpu in 2010 and mine did overclock by a lot. I think i pushed it from 608mhz to 815mhz and it actually got ALOT faster. I wished you had tried it!
Damn I miss the old overclocking results :(.
My 470 would overheat to the point of crashing.
Until I added a 3" fan screwed onto the shroud blowing into the blower fan.
4 slot wide Twin-Turbo Fans TM
i'd love some actual heating in my room, the warmest component in my room is my monitor
first card i owned i could rightfully call a beast and i had the best times ever with it.
It's a great card for sure to warm these cold winter nights. I didn't expect Stray to run as it did, even on low 720p or GTA V at 1080p. Seems there's still some life left on the 470.
Used to run 3x gtx 480s in sli back in the day. They got up to 105deg c with a oc. Never had a issue. One of my mates still run one. The vram was the main killer in the end. Plenty of raw grunt.
The fact you're running with AA on is kind of impressive for this old heat-pusher.
I had a GTS 450 back in 2010, when I played AVP 2010 with DX 11 effects for the first time and damn that card was heating up too.
Ah, I was wrong on Twitter about what card you were reviewing.
Problem with these card is, they draw up to 215W. With energy bills way up, it will be very expensive in the long run. The GTX 950, on the other hand, is a 90W card with +0.8GB VRAM, +50% performance, and they're very cheap.
Heck, I run a GTX 1650 GDDR6 laptop which tops out at 35W and it's 2-3 times faster than this card.
They could be actually great for winter, in countries like Switzerland where they limited room temperature to 19 degrees Celsius :D "But officer, I was just running some GTA 5 on my PC " :D
The GTX 470 was my first video card in the high-end segment, and also my first nvidia video card. In my city we have very cold winters, but the GTX 470 kept my room properly heated while I played Crysis 2, Metro 2033 and Alan Wake. In my case it was an EVGA GTX 470 (the FTW model)
The years I had dual gtx 460's and then dual gtx 680's I never had to heat my room during a Minnesota winter.
Used to be the proud owner of a gtx 560 ti, and the fans ran at 1000% percent at all times, sounded like a mini vac
I still have my Palit 1.2gb VRAM model, it really is undying
Here is some information to help you. Especially in Linux systems, if these GPU cards (400 series, 500 series fermi) are used in a dual core or quad core low-power PC, the net power consumption for the PC is modest. For example, I have a dual core system for linux (1.6 to 1.8GHz although it can be overclocked) which can run at 18 watt but can largely do about 12 Watt and so paired with a card like this, the PC net power consumption would not be massive even though it is all mainly on the GPU. It is good for ecology to learn about computer repair and electronics too on the other educational and science/technology software one might install from a software centre or find on the rescue DVD or CDROM itself. In particular Linux Kernel 3.1 has nouveau open source drivers support for the aforementioned GPU cards and it works in Knoppix 7.1 _(which does rescue CD stuff, like UBCD538 does, and a bunch more software which can use the GPU)_ and also LinHES _(for the CD 685MB iso of LinHES 8.2 has kernel 3.13.6 thereby allowing some video and audio techniques to be used)_ and even the oldest version of Ubuntu 14.04 if one uses wubi.exe to go into and out of cloop linux by MSwindows. This is also useful to know that cards in that range for older system allow for a person to use an HDD (spindle and platters) for a journaling filesystem like Reiser4.04 so as to not need a large amount of RAM like ZFS can do and yet it is still fast _(and you can use swap space on such drives)._ Older Linux has that File-System on the kernel _(although you can still get it on some custom debian distros nowdays)._ Performance wise for an HDD, that Reiser4.04 filesystem is one I recommend. This knowledge is worth learning about and helping others with. That is a thing I do here and there. I have a blog linked on my YT About Page showing how and am adding computer articles in multiple languages like Urdu and some computer learning tips and (e.g. linux) links that could be read in a language that could be understood by Ethiopians for example.
My comment has no hate in it and I do no harm. I am not appalled or afraid, boasting or envying or complaining... Just saying. Psalms23: Giving thanks and praise to the Lord and peace and love. Also, I'd say Matthew6.
I would like to add that, when the multilingual websites I link to (above) are taken down as websites (some of which were), my link still works because I provided more links for backups and cache the data because it is usually creative commons or public domain or GPLv2 or similar. Now, I have thereby added twice as many links including for slackware and squid server instructions in urdu with crontab guides and computing basics (hardware component guides). Taking down the larger hydra head of GNU and linux cannot be done since we all have iso files of kernels and the man pages including how on CDROM number 3 and 4 of slackware, the slackbook guidelines are stored for all to learn from. See more for linux guidelines as examples in urdu and amharic.
Example linux instructions to follow in urdu and english
ہمیشہ کی طرح ، میں آپ کو میلویئر انسٹال کرنے کے لئے نہیں کہہ رہا ہوں ، یہ سرکاری اسکویڈ وکی سے ہے ، چیک کریں
As always, I'm not asking you to install malware, it's from the official Squid wiki, check
crontab میں کام شامل کریں
کرون کیا ہے؟
کرون نام یونانی Chronos سے آیا ہے جس کا مطلب ہے "وقت"۔ یونکس آپریٹنگ سسٹم میں ، کرون ایک باقاعدہ بیک گراؤنڈ پروسیس مینیجر (ڈیمون) ہوتا ہے جو باقاعدگی سے وقفوں پر عمل کرتا ہے یا اسکرپٹ (مثال کے طور پر ، ہر منٹ ، دن ، ہفتہ ، یا مہینہ)۔ عمل جن پر عمل درآمد ہونا ضروری ہے اور جس وقت ان پر عمل درآمد ہونا لازمی ہے وہ کرونٹاب فائل میں بتائے گئے ہیں۔
Add work to crontab
What is Cron? The name Kron comes from the Greek Chronos, which means
"time"
In a Unix operating system
The Cron is a regular Background Process Manager (Daemon) that follows regular intervals or scripts (e.g., every minute, day, week, or month)
The processes that must be implemented and the time they must be implemented are described in the Crontab file
Been using a 670 in a separate build and it’s been surprisingly capable considering the market we just saw.
You should review the RX 6700 it is £300 and good at 1440p gaming, one of the best value cards at the moment imo
I’ll have a look :)
The RX 6000 series is gonna age like fine wine.
@@Odinsday Yeah, prob even better than how RX 400/500 Series did (and is still).
@@peters.7428 No, only nvidia is fine wine, amd is old bad moldy cheese with fungi
@@lnfinyx the 780 says hi
My god I was not prepared for the RDR2 footage. I think I need to stand down.
Some surprising results.
Can you put Doom Eternal in your test benchmarks? Since it's a very well optimized modern title, it'd be interesting to see how well older cards can run it.
Would be cool to see the amount of power these older cards pull in comparison to newer cards. Especially as the more recent cards seem to becoming more and more power thirsty
Bought a gigabyte 460 1gb dual windforce a few months ago for $10 at the local thrift store. In came in the OG box with everything still inside and looks brand new. Still works well with the exception of the rear fan bearing starting to go which is likely why is was retired.
I used a GTX 470 for a long time and it was a workhorse. Amazing when I think about it.
Videos like this are why I went out and bought a 3060. Rather than buy a new low end card every 3 years or so, go a bit out of my usual budget and get something that will still perform to an acceptable level for 6-7 years, possibly stretched to 10 considering I don't typically play many AAA titles.
Had an Asus model...worked about 1 year...wotlk killed IT 😁😁😁
Got one for free a year and a half ago in some recycling center (i live in spain), te catch is that it was the board only, no heatsink, so i spend 20€ and 6 months looking for a compatible aftermarket cooler (or a dead card with a compatible cooler), i ended up with a zalman aftermarket cooler, and when i launched the first game (Nier Automata with a mix of mid's lows and high settings at 900p) it honestly surprised me how well it ran the game, the same for the rest of games i tried with it, dropping from 1080p to 900p or 720p it's a good tradeoff to gain some extra frames, unless you wanna run newer games i these 400/500 series gpu's are still quite worthy.
the memory's ^^ had a gtx 480 back in them day's.. kept my room heated whole winter .lol
Graphics cards were incredibly cheap back then, I‘ve just looked up that I bought a GTX 460 for 148€ in 2011. But CPUs as well, in the same order was an i5 2500k for 170€, which was quite powerful at the time.
this gives me some hope for my 3080, maybe it'll last another 5+ years before 10GB isn't enough
I'm surprised it still works!
i love older blower style coolers they just look so nice compared to todays rgb and sh1t cards
I had a Windforce GTX480... 2 of the 3 fans failed and I kept going with it since it was under warranty. The bastard card didn't die through a whole playthrough of Alan Wake... at 114ºC!
Wow that’s warm 😂 awesome that it survived though
@@RandomGaminginHD I wanted it to die so the warranty would send me a new one xD
Ran a EVGA GTX 480 1.5GB from 2010 to 2014 I just remember it running really hot under load (90-91C) but it was stable at least, the single blower style cooling used back then just wasn't very good especially on higher end gpu's.
Gtx 460 was my first gaming graphics card that time i loved it so much
My first gaming graphics card(for modern games) was an R7 350 2GB.
I JUST installed a GTX 470 in my friends computer yesterday because she had a Radeon 6700hd
This has made me want to play Witcher 3 but we're still waiting for the big update 😬
I have a 460 and had a 470 for a while. I'm a temp weenie and seeing it get up to 90 - 95C after about two minutes was just too much for me. Like you, I really love those older cards. I can't imagine how bad this would be in a really bad case like a NZXT 500 or Thermaltake A500. Matter of fact, why are so many case manufacturers '500' model cases so bad?
I still run this gpu, ive had it for 10-15 years minimum. I dont play any heavy games, but i play a LOT. Mostly tibia, runescape and diablo 2, but some other titles aswell. It just works perfectly fine for me so why upgrade. It does sound like a fighter jet from time to time.
You can remove the shroud and replace the original fan with a random 80mm fan and it should lower the temps, i remember someone on OC forums did this a long time ago.
Looking at the gas prices the EU/UK will likely have for this winter, those cards might be a good investment.
I used a GTX 460 from January 2011 up until October 2016, when I upgraded to my still used GTX 1070. The performance of the 470 should be comparable to that of a GT 1030 although the 1030 has newer drivers and more VRAM and also needs much less power.
My 460 is still alive and it's fine for running older games like Starcraft II for example.
My first great gpu. Man I loved this thing, especially after the dismal 3870x2 I bought for $450.😎
I have a mint gtx 470 you could use for a SLI video if you want to really warm things up.
This was a 215 watt card.
As i remember it, that was why i did not get one. I moved from a gtx285 to a gtx670.
This is also the reason i did not get a +200watt rtx3070 when it launched.
i do not remember my 560ti running that hot
I'm not sure about later "blower" style cars, but the 200 and 400 series had some really complex coolers. You needs to take a LOT of screws off especially if there is a backplate on these cards and it's a tricky process. It's typically very easy these days, though EVGA does throw a "hidden" nut in their high end cards to make it more difficult to take apart.
Hidden nuts are tight (cit.)