Following up from my HD 3870 video — this time I picked up an untested HD 3850 from 2007 for $9.90. Cleaned it, repasted it and threw it at 6 games on a Core 2 Duo rig. • GTA San Andreas • CoD4 Modern Warfare • Tomb Raider Underworld • Just Cause 2 • NFS Most Wanted • Crysis Temps hit 106°C but it survived.

  • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    For $10, that’s quite impressive. I’m familiar with several of those games, including Just Cause 2, which I have run on i7-4785t (iGPU only) at 630p, hitting 69fps (albeit it AA off etc, AF 4x, textures high, shadows low, medium water and object details etc).

    OTOH, the i7-4785T doesn’t hit 90+ degrees to do it :) (sits around 70) and sips ~40W.

    EDIT: from the video, the test rig was -

    Test Bench Specs:

    • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 3.8GHz OC
    • RAM: 8GB DDR2
    • GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3850 512MB
    • Storage: 1TB SATA SSD
    • PSU: 450W 80+ Bronze
    • OS: Windows 7 x64
    • RiskRig91@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      18 hours ago

      Haha yeah the temps were wild! The i5-4785T is way more power efficient. The whole point here was to see if this ancient dedicated GPU could still hold up — and somehow it did despite trying to melt itself!

  • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    At that rate, you’d be better buying one of those minipc’s and game on it instead.

    t. I have a orange pi 5 max and I’m quite sure I can run most (if not all) games you’ve mentioned.

    • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Pressing x to doubt on the orange pi 5 - box86 ain’t that good, yet, surely? :)

      PS: OP appears to have a VERY old rig - perhaps they can’t (or don’t want to) upgrade to mini-pc?

      • CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E7500 @ 3.8GHz OC
      • RAM: 8GB DDR2
      • GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3850 512MB
      • Storage: 1TB SATA SSD
      • PSU: 450W 80+ Bronze
      • OS: Windows 7 x64

      FWIW, I can run all of the games demonstrated on my Lenovo M93p tiny at good speeds (and that only takes about fifty watts of power / cost $50-70 USD)

      • GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Nowadays it’s all about FEX – they’ve done some significant changes thanks to valve. Including reducing all the “chit-chat” between layers, making the game be as “native-like” as possible. Also, what you’ve said/implied seems to be the case regarding OP’s rig – no comment on that.

      • RiskRig91@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Haha the old rig is intentional — it’s a retro build for testing old GPUs. That’s kind of the whole point of the channel!