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.
8 Comments
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 17 pts · 87d
Lame ass ai bullshit thumbnail.
SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 87d
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:
RiskRig91@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 86d
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.world · 3 pts · 87d
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.zone · 4 pts · 87d
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?
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)
RiskRig91@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 87d
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!
SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 87d
Yes, I figured as much :)
GustavoM@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 86d
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.