Little known fact: The flame decals on the card increase your PC's overall performance by 20%!

@gamergrill9629

5 жыл бұрын

Ultimate power? :O

@at2735

5 жыл бұрын

@E.LA.O 45.00013% get it right you uncultured swine.

@Motleyguts

5 жыл бұрын

I miss BFG's box art. It was one of the main reasons I chose that brand. Their font spelling out "Lifetime Warranty" really drew me to them haha :D

@Aviatorchik

5 жыл бұрын

Also makes it 20% cooler!

@davesbudgethardware8657

5 жыл бұрын

All it needs now is RGB

unique features : -flame cover decal

Fellas I know this video may have a few quirks, this is because: 1. I did not have access to my camera, and most of this video was shot on a phone. 2. My Windows 10 Install died, taking away my project files and some B-Roll 3. Due to the project file mis-matching there were issues with the rendering, which is mostly fixed. I hope you enjoy, as the video was quite the project.

@gamergrill9629

5 жыл бұрын

Impressive video for all your limitations with it! :D

@detmer87

5 жыл бұрын

And you failed to remove two screws from the I/O bracket and therefore couldn't remove the cooler from the PCB.

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

@@detmer87 Congratulations on watching the video, the screws were bored, and therefore couldnt be removed....I mention this twice.

@eightmegsandconstantlyswap8862

5 жыл бұрын

Liiinux tiiiiiime :dab:

@GrockleTD

5 жыл бұрын

@@eightmegsandconstantlyswap8862 Yeeeeeeee!

As i am now crippeled for next 5 months or so, i will dedicate my time making drivers for old ATI cards, i might actualy make a website for that

@TheBcoolGuy

5 жыл бұрын

Just make sure to relax during Christmas!

@nap8187

5 жыл бұрын

BoomWithPeter Got a twitter?

@jamessmith99731

5 жыл бұрын

Wat happen

@blopplop1568

5 жыл бұрын

Did you end up doing it?

@shaggyboombastic1058

5 жыл бұрын

@@blopplop1568 is windows vista and on guru3d. look up guru3d modified amd gpu drivers. youll probably have to find a go to new site button as well and navigate to modified videocard drivers

Those flame decals make a man want to do rebellious activities

@goldengibus6300

5 жыл бұрын

I got banned from his discord, apparently Hamish is really sensitive about his fingernails.

@luisgonzalez5482

4 жыл бұрын

Golden Gibus what’s wrong with his nails? Lol.

The 8800 GTX, and its many off springs, was very difficult to compete with. I do remember getting a 4850 a bit later, that card was really good value.

@TheMetroRetro

5 жыл бұрын

@Dalle Smalhals No I think it's a Pentium® 4 channel

@badass6300

5 жыл бұрын

@PhilsComputerLab the hd4870 was only 15-25% slower than the gtx 280, while costing 2.15x times less and consuming less power too and having 2.2-2.4x times smaller die size.

@mmllmmll22

5 жыл бұрын

Phils i own Asus reference pcb 4850 512mb /Works fine at 70°C idle

@likeclockwork6473

5 жыл бұрын

The problem with competing with the 8800s were how hard Nvidia pushed that series. That was about as powerful a GPU Nvidia could possibly make with that architecture. This was a GPU nearly impossible to compete with within that gen. ATI had moved power consumption up in the generation prior and what would be accepted at the time was up in the air. The HD3870 was a much better card since its power consumption and clock speeds were a lot better.

@talvisota327

5 жыл бұрын

hd4850 was a great card for its price back in 2009.

Awesome video 👏 I believe the 1803 update is the real issue with W10. Ever since I’ve installed it my 2900 XT has been nothing but problematic. Glad you installed Windows 7 to get Fortnite working. Oh yeah and thanks for the shoutout! 🤟

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Oddly enough I deliberately avoided 1803 when testing this GPU, I was on a 17XX Update, and it was definitely Stabler than 1803, but gaming performance was the same regardless of Windows 10 17XX or Windows 7, just more games ended up working on Windows 7 mostly.

@Face2FaceHardware

5 жыл бұрын

Budget-Builds Official Interesting. Like you said, Windows 7 is just a much more stable experience on these cards. Sniper Elite 3 will constantly BSOD on Windows 10 1803. Most newer games will run the same on both Operating systems, but I noticed in some older titles that Windows 7 does exhibit better performance when using older drivers that are officially supported. Frame times are still pretty bad though.

@Jarmundx

5 жыл бұрын

👏Videocard 👏 review (?)

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Oddly enough I didn't see much of a performance increase from dropping from Windows 10 to 7. The largest difference was GTA V although even then it was a case of single digit FPS (The game could hit 30-40Fps in 720p Regardless of using Windows 7 or 10) but given the awful frametimes it bought down the average massively. It'd be interesting to go through and test from Vista through to Windows 10, and see just which OS is optimal for a GPU like this. I would have gone through that myself, but unfortunately after loosing the video once, I think it'd be better suited to it's own video.

@stevin47

5 жыл бұрын

same with my asus ares 5879x2 from what ive read its uefi bio's directx11 and below have legasy bios enen the newer boards have problems with them but the 1803 does'nt support these cards have issuses amd drivers disappearing and random black screens on start up on my b450 motherboard can choose dual boot legasy and uefi it helps but any driver from amd besoide 15.7 and all hell breaks loose but after few wks problems corrupt and have to reinstall windows

I calculated most of it out... you've spent closer to $1300 US this past year on computer junk for your channel. I love the dedication you have to your craft. Thank you for putting in the money, time, and effort to make this content. We all enjoy it so much. :)

@thatxonexguy5438

5 жыл бұрын

He made all his money back with youtube and patreon like a jew he is, so it doesnt really matter for him.

As an epic gamer, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Also pro gamer tip: Flames = 5GHZ

The inclusion of the Athlon II GE really puts things in perspective. That little integrated GPU has some really impressive performance compared to older flagship products.

This was very well made. This channel NEVER lets me down quality-wise.

@amused7928

5 жыл бұрын

Pentium D inside

This video gets 9 APUs out of 10.

@amused7928

5 жыл бұрын

Vega 8 out of 11?

I'm gonna be honest, the fact this 12 year old card ran these games in any way is pretty impressive.

Are the flames a stylistic choice or foreshadowing?

@IRQ1Conflict

5 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, smartass ;P

@wayge

5 жыл бұрын

both

@akeiai

5 жыл бұрын

both

Came here from EposVox's channel - I am very interested in what you have to offer. Awesome work!

I really appreciate the amount of work you put into these videos. A definite cut above a lot of channels comparatively.

This card lives or dies by its driver. It's definitely one I've had to fiddle around with multiple Catalyst versions just to get it to where it's expected to be, eventually settling on 11.1. It's a bit of a janky architecture that depends a great deal on its software support to get any sort of efficiency out of it.

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Very well said actually. Probably one of the worst aging architectures in recent years because of this. The performance isn't bad, it's just crippled so much by the instability, and varying issues that newer (or older) drivers can cause. I tend to opt for the Catalyst 10.X Series for a lot of older titles, it tended to help with frametimes ever so slightly. Cheers for stopping by the channel.

After watching your videos for a while I finally decided to build my own PC. Thank you for giving me some much needed knowledge on how something's work.

Damn DVI molex screws anyway. Love seeing testing like this, that card just looks cool. Great vid.

My favorite card of all time! I still have the 1GB variant, but I think it may have issues. ATI had a habit of creating cards that awakened further down the road, as games began to support their features, like the 1800XT. So it's if no surprise the 2900 XT does better down than when first reviewed.

Honestly Hamish this is one of the best video I've seen in awhile on youtube, I really liked it how you brief history on the card and explained it also I can tell how much hard work has went into this video with the multiple benchmarks and I think that what makes Budget Builds Budget Builds unlikely "I get fake benchmarks" but again man great video keep it up p.s bird in the background is the show stealer

Those songs... Shigeo Sekito. Mass respect! Great Video!

Great video mate!

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers man

Actually really loved this card. I bought two of them and crossfired them back in the day, still have them both boxed away in my shed in perfect condition. They were fantastic with Team Fortress 2, which I played basically all day every day haha. I really wanted to just get the XTX card but it was way too pricey and almost impossible to find even back then... I'd love to try and find one today to buy and play with and ultimately put it on the shelf of pride when I finish building it lol. I've kept pretty much every single GPU I ever bought, going back to my GeForce 256, TNT2 M64, god knows what else. I miss the wild west days of the GPU wars, god what a time that was. Awesome video, thanks for the blast of nostalgia!!

you never fail to entertain. Love the channel. just wish they were abit more frequent

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Please see pinned comment. Also if you want to support the channel please do consider Patreon, as it would help fund new videos

@sirFlukie

5 жыл бұрын

@@BudgetBuildsOfficial will do 😁

Was happy to see the Nvidia GT610 in the benchmarks lol. That was my first GPU, and I was stuck with it up to 2017. I loved it so much, and still do.

Thanks for the video

Mmmm OpenTTD music.

Discord is way faster than KZread notifications.

@XanGalea

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@juaneduardovitoria

5 жыл бұрын

Even a messenger pigeon is way faster

Minecraft a game that could literally be powered by a potato.

@EvilTurkeySlices

5 жыл бұрын

CyphaBorg not so much anymore.

@professionalseal8230

5 жыл бұрын

the very first time you get it, yes but then every version you get after that just makes the game chug progressively more until you have to render 4 chunks and everything on low

@professionalseal8230

5 жыл бұрын

lRaziel1 specs contribute too, but from personal experience that tends to be how mc is after a coiple downloaded versions

@HavenMarches

5 жыл бұрын

Well unless you do the TNT test.

@trviis

5 жыл бұрын

Back in 2013, I played minecraft at 30fps using my dad’s old windows vista laptop on very low settings

Gotta love the Transport Tycoon music in the background

I remember when crossfired 2900XT’s and an OC’d Q6600 were part of my dream Crysis PC. I also remember having to settle for an 8600GT and Athlon X2 7850BE. Simpler times.

Shame you couldn't get killing floor working, but cheers for the mention

Your voice soothes me :D

as soon as i saw that this video existed, i knew my evening was about to get a lot better

@nnogalaxy4951

5 жыл бұрын

@@danwhitear2440 ...

@R1ndar

5 жыл бұрын

@@danwhitear2440 ..

Fantastic video. I bet will run good on an XP machine :)

@x_x_wz

4 жыл бұрын

What about a vista

Some say there's one man who can save budget gaming. Budget-Builds official.

i found this card in goodwill....

Great video!

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Cheers

Anything is better with flame decals on it. Great video! :D

@skychoiryt5567

5 жыл бұрын

So if my tablet suck in emulation and i want to make it faster i should stick flames to it? (I know its sarcasm)

Nice to see the xt branding is still around

Yeah, this remembers me of my old 8800 GTS from XFX (back when XFX was on the green side and had a weird dog as mascot). It had amazing performance, loved it

Hello Budget Builds Official, great video despite your limitations! Just one thing though, the DiRT3 results (which I presume were done with the DX9 rendered since the card had no DX11 support) seem a bit lower than I would expect though. I had a ATI Mobility Radeon 4670 which had the same shader core count (320) paired with a Core 2 Duo T9550 laptop and managed to get 60 FPS constant with much higher settings at 900p for DiRT3. Could be a Windows 10 driver issue though, I was running the game with Catalyst 11.11a performance drivers on Windows 7 x64 SP1 and the Legacy Drivers are known to have degraded performance even compared to the earlier drivers.

The flames give it a style that makes it look like the GPU of choice for Pro Wrestlers and energy drink enthusiasts everywhere.

Awesome video And you need gamer nexus mat.

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Nope

love the openttd music

@haseenabadshah5381

3 жыл бұрын

opening*

I have one dead serious question, did you blow up at least ONE TNT during the Minecraft benchmark?

@xFluing

5 жыл бұрын

That's a CPU benchmark though.

Oh my God! This reminisce me of old times that I used to own an HD 4890... It was rocking by that time!!!

@kitsunemitsu2463

5 жыл бұрын

Dude, you're lucky,my first gpu was a 4550HD, and I hate that card

I know the pain of watching you struggle with that cooler! There is a cheeky little screw on the bracket near the DVI ports!

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately the screws were bored.

Great trip down memory lane. Struggled to read the left hand legends on the graphs though unfortunately. White text on the dark background might work better for those of us with sight issues :)

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Will correct them soon as new idea

Aww this Sims soundtrack's so good!

Video is great. Can you cover AMD k 6-2 processor from the 90’s? I used that processor until 2006 because my pc was actually capable of running xp really well

8:25 i was expecting the "someting is not responding" box.

Ahhhh the 8800 GTS. My first graphics card. It was amazing. Good memories

10/10 papi hamish 👍 cya in BBOP 😘

Aww damn, i remember that card. You can't forget those tribal flames and the jet engine of a sound that fan produced 😃

One of my dreamcards, and still being for a retro gaming machine :D

The fact it can play games at all is amazing . I think my voodoo 3 was only useful for 4 years and the last year it was a bad card .

I very briefly owned a pair of Sapphire HD 2900GT's (cut down 2900XTs) until I found out the hard way that only the bundled drivers supported Crossfire and I needed updated drivers out of the box for fixes for some of my games. I quickly dumped them for a pair HD 3870s before finally settling on a pair of HD 4850s. I kept one of my HD 4850's around for 6 years - that was a solid card. BTW: Not sure if was different elsewhere but at least in North America, while 2900XT was the first post-AMD buyout Radeon card released, AMD continued to use the ATI branding up until the end of the HD 5000 series, with 2010's HD 6000 series being the first 'AMD Radeon' branded card.

you should do a vid on the hd5450, ive used it for about a month and honestly, older games run well , very playable

The sims music is so nice!

I hear that Sims 4 music in the background!

I hear the Sim City 3000 theme song in the background :)

Good video as always,never heard much about these cards until recently

I got Fortnite runinng on a nividia Geforce 8400 gs with 256mb ddr2 vram😂 It's not really playable but its running stable with 7-10 fps.

@Jtwizzle

5 жыл бұрын

hmm that has me hpeful for a 8600gts!

@AchiragChiragg

5 жыл бұрын

But why?

@benezkt4189

5 жыл бұрын

Achirag Chirag Just for fun and by the way on an core 2 duo

@EvilTurkeySlices

5 жыл бұрын

The 8400 gs is garbage.

@benezkt4189

5 жыл бұрын

EvilTurkeySlices Yes

10:40 Nice Wallpaper!

please will you try AMD Radeon HD 6850 GPU ? also good video

I still have two of those puppies laying around. And the 4870 that replaced them. Man those things are hot, loud and hungry!

Hey, do you know any good resources for cleaning your PC parts? I love watching your videos of you cleaning the hardware, but I don't know how - and I'd like to, my GPU is really running hot these days. 91C under full load, 50C when running idle with 100% fan! I guess that's what happens when you don't clean your pc in 2 years. But, anyway, do you have any general guides or videos that could help educate me on the topic?

i had a 2900 Pro which was a lower binned version of the XT. You could flash the firmware to turn it into an XT version of the card. It always ran at like 100 degrees and 80 decibels but it worked quite well

@maxdamage4919

Жыл бұрын

yes the 2900PRO, lol, in the 2007 have one of that for 3 years. and switch to 5770

You need to upgrade your camera to be more HD the videos will be much better, still amazing videos.

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

See the pinned comment.

I have a high end pc, yet I still love watching videos like this, what is wrong with me?

@DerpySnake

5 жыл бұрын

Everything. But, is there anything wrong with having everything wrong with you?

I can tell you from direct experience what a person who bought it at launch, reserved preorder actually, thought about it. It was shit. That was my conclusion and largely my take on Dx10 for quite some time after. A pair of 7950Gx2's were about the same price about when I bought them not that long after, and were for all intents and purposes faster.

I had an ATI 1650 XT, that I sold and picked up an "HD 2900 XT" when it came out - had always stuck to AMD until the 1070 i'm on now (purchased back in Feb 2017 just before the mining craze)

The next video you upload is your 100th!

Nice video, btw i just got a rx 570 for 120$ was it worth? P.S: it was a sapphire + also

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Yes it was

It was always interesting to me that ATI was a year ahead of the game to unified shaders in the Xbox 360 GPU, which was regarded very well. But they came in late and underwhelming to the same technology on the PC side. I think the buyout threw off their cadence for a while there.

I had the cheaper 2900 pro edition which could be unlocked to a XT presenting good value. Was ok paired with the Q6600 system I had at the time could play Crisis and Bioshock two of my favourites back then.

I had the ATI HD 2600 XT 256mb! looked the same, with flames and all

Heya, been folloing you a long time, give "Beasts of Bermuda" a try, It's a UE4 game with some really impressive graphics, it's rather demanding but it's really decent in gameplay and graphics, The community is decent and it was released 22nd December, also give The Isle a shot too, their graphics are pretty sweet too, though community sorta ruins the game! As always, amazing videos, hey from North East of the UK and what can you do with a Radeon 7310?

Crysis was actually designed around lower FPSs like 24-30 FPS. It had a motion blur effect to compensate

best tech channel on youtube, i still have a xp laptop form like when i was a kid, it runs morrowind like shit

@nUck_DragonBall

5 жыл бұрын

aw heck yea he hearted it

Did you unscrew those 4 at DVI port? Looks like thats the reason cooler wont come off, there is one screw fastened from the other side that keeps the I-O plate in place.

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

As said the screws were bored

It was so beautiful

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

That it was

Can you make a video on the R9 390X?

This is seriously better than my gpu other than the API support and power consumption

Where did tech chat #4 got?The one that was really funny and just rambling I can't find it anywhere more

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

A participant requested it's removal unfortunately

nice video, can you review the geforce 8800, i want to see the fps of the games like gta 5, thank you!

Fucking. Finally. You're the best, sir. Cheers.

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

Much thank

“-as there’s a lot we-else we could discuss” 3:54 really threw me off.

Literally matches my r5 240 pretty well, just high power consumption and older drivers

I think I got a really good value for my PC. I bought an i3 7350K off a Spanish market used for only £40, 16GB DDR4 2400 dual channel RAM refurbished from a PC repair store for £50 ish, Paired with 2 GTX 780Tis in SLI which I got off craigslist for only £100 from a guy who had no clue what he was selling. And my friend had an old PC which he wanted to upgrade completely, So he gave me a case, 850W Great Wall 80+ silver power supply and a Z270 asus motherboard for free. And for the storage, I found this really dodgy off brand SSD called “Calensharia” with an unusual 375GB capacity for only £20

Funny because around 2007-8, while playing Combat Evolved, (while I don't remember the exact models of both cards) I switched from an NVIDIA card (8000-7000 something?) to an ATI/AMD one (2000 something?), and the ATI one was significantly better. And that was with Vista installed I think.

Ive been waiting...

FLAMES OF LOVE

nice job. could you please compare vega 3 in 200ge to hd 5750/5770?

I loved this card for doom 3!! Obviously not the best card, but it sure as shit worked.

I remember lusting after the 8000 series. Never got one. To this day, that’s the reason now that I always get the big bad boy graphics card anytime I replace a graphics card. Nothing less than a xx80.

I still use an AMD R9 290, in an ASUS flavor. My TV is 1080p 60Hz, so it does fine for what I play. It does struggle with higher than 1080p, however. The 290 was released in late 2013, and my specific card was early 2014. I bought mine in November 2014 for Cyber Monday. So I have had it over 4 years now.

@Cooperdaleit

5 жыл бұрын

DustyTheDog I had a sapphire 6870 up until last summer. Amd fine wine!

My HD 2900XT was released under the ATI name and so was my HD 4870X2s. The first cards released under the AMD Name was the HD 6000 series in 2010.

@BudgetBuildsOfficial

5 жыл бұрын

See description.