Old 9800 GX2 Playing BF4

[ollietech]

I found a rather cool beefy looking graphics card in the garage. Its defo my brothers from many years ago. Now im a newbie to the PC/gaming scene so I had to do some youtubing/googeling to find out exactly how old it was and boy it seems this cards about 7 years old haha thought id hook it up just for fun :lol: was a little ify at first as I didn't know if it was faulty and could damage other components during the testing but though sod it lets just see what happens!

Hooked it up, everything booted up fine and then I installed the newest drivers from Nvidia and loaded up BF4!! Loool it actually plays on low settings giving me over 60fps!!!!! how does a 7 year old card do that lol. Some low end cards these days would struggle to give you that. Anyway thought id share my story if anyone wants me to record some gaming footage id be more than happy to and show you the full force of the 9800 GX2 :lol:

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63 FPS MAX and 37 lowest.

If I hooked this up to my i5 2500k 4.5ghz I think it would do even better

 

[SavageCupcake]

what res is that running at :L only thing i remember about them was the heat/power draw :L

 

[ollietech]

1920X1080 at the moment. Im going to connect my 1680x1050 monitor and see what frames a can get

 

[SavageCupcake]

Bloody hell 0.0 rather impressive. was expecting something like 720p

 

[ollietech]

Yes it gets hot, about 90c lol but its all good from what I read on the forums. Youl need a good few fans on that!

No 1080p hehe

So what you rekon on 1680x1050? Ohhhh I need to hook this up to the i5!

EDIT

Just reinstalled back to Windows 8 and now using a old school 160GB hard drive instead of the SSD, getting around 76FPS not into a battle yet but I will see what it can do. Will also try a lower resolution of 1680x1050 to see if the frames improve This game/card runs better with win 8

 

[Netroxen]

Blimey, that's an old card - Then again, I seriously milked my 2900XT back in tha day.
Overclock it!!

 

[SuB]

9800 series were beast, nice find!

 

[ollietech]

I got some videos I uploaded on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiilNyuTVPo

I think this card wasn't ever used in its lifetime until now. I just had a word with my bro he told me it came out of a customer returned Gaming PC bought from PC World most likely, and at the time was the most expensive computer in the shop, he said around £2400.

Next mission will be to hook it up on my i5 2500k @ 4.2ghz