Buying The First Graphics Card I See On Craigslist...

on a whim I decided to play fast and loose with  fate and buy the first graphics card that shows   up in my local Craigslist used section and  it seemed like fate was on my side for this   video because I very nearly bankrupted myself  but before we look at the graphics card that I   did end up getting if you like my t-shirt  and you also want to be transparent about   the loser that you are go check out the merch  store with the link in the description below [Music] thank you foreign straightforward we just go to computer parts oh  that is a dodgy listing of a very old Quadro I   love how they just used the stock tech power up  photos of it that's always very promising but at   least it wasn't an RTX 4090 so I don't have to  like mortgage my cat or whatever funnily enough   I did actually scroll further down the listings  and there was an RTX 4090 just a couple graphics   cards lower although in hindsight considering  how the last couple of days have gone I would   have happily bought the RTX 4090 instead [Music]  okay the graphics card is in that package which   according to Anna who actually did the Craigslist  Alleyway knife battling for the graphics card she   bought it from a man wearing silk pajamas at  like three on a Tuesday afternoon so he is   clearly living the life [Music] okay so apparently  we're starting off with the back where we've got   some some heatsink for the back of the vrm it does  also have an SLI finger so if pajama man happens   to find another one of these to sell we could run  them in Sri wow this old Nvidia Quadro FX 4400 is   in pretty good condition considering that it was  launched back in 2005 for 2400 US dollars so the   35 Canadian dollars we paid for it was clearly  a bug oh wow okay there's actual copper heatsink   under there that's very nice so once I'm done  with this graphics card I can melt the heatsink   down and sell it for like three pennies oh on the  fan we've got a Nvidia logo that Harkens back to   my youth is a foul-mouthed Drifter that is an  old Nvidia logo oh there's this weird connector   on the board that I don't recognize it looks a  little bit like an internal audio header but I'm   not sure let me know in the comment section down  below if you recognize that and then finally at   this end we get a single six pin supplemental  power can connector so yeah it shouldn't draw   too much juice and then on the back we've got rear  i o That's nice and period correct we've just got   two DVI ports and I think that's an S Video Port  so considering the advanced age of this random   Craigslist pickup we're not going to be able to  play any remotely modern games on it I think it   only supports DirectX 9 and I don't even think  that's going to be the limiting factor for stuff   we can play on this geriatric card but before  we worry about that let me quickly tear it down   it is now the future and I officially hate this  octogenarian graphics card but anyway uh let's   tear it down and have a closer look at its insides  that comes off first oh I see and then we have the   heatsink under there that is a pretty serious bit  of copper in that heatsink which is something you   don't really see in modern graphics cards it's  mostly aluminum fin arrays so that's pretty cool [Music]   someone broke and then there's the heatsink now  first off the thermal paste is bone dry I actually   think that is the original Factory application  it's just a solid Billet of copper that they   milled the heatsink out so this this is the bit  that I'm gonna melt down later this is a whopping   512 megabytes of gddr3 you know you gotta get a  lot of vram for that two thousand four hundred   dollar asking price oh and there is our Korea  GPU very interesting uh as far as I understand   this is actually the same GPU that's in the 6800  GT this is just like the quadro version of that   card and the die was made using 130 nanometer  process compared to like seven nanometers today   oh now here is the back of that heatsink with  thermal pads that make some real complete contact   with the video memory under that so these  are actually the same memory modules as the   ones that weren't covered by a heatsink the only  reasonable explanation is that this discrepancy   exists as a metaphor for classism it's always  really cool having a look at old Hardware like   this even if it is a massive pain in the ass to  interact with which I think brings me to the next   part of the video [Music] now first things first  I'm curious to see how Windows 10 deals with this   18 year old graphics card so I'm gonna drop it  in this test system and just see what happens a few moments later it is refusing to post  so clearly gotta figure something else out   I'm gonna use this x58 based platform which is  one of the older platforms I have lying around   it's still many years the junior of that  FX 4400 but yeah hopefully it works in here that took weirdly long to set up so hopefully  it works I'm going to be pretty upset if it   doesn't let's the next minute was tense with  posting seeming less and less likely until oh   yes oh it scared me a bit there now  it may have posted but Windows 10   refused to boot which I was kind of  expecting considering the age of the   graphics card so I decided to install  Windows 7 to see if that worked instead [Music] oh yeah this motherboard has killer  ethernet in it so it doesn't have drivers   okay I need to go download that on a different  PC system check it passed that bit driver was   not successfully installed uh now in case it  wasn't already clear from my defeated demeanor   at this point I had already spent most of  the day struggling with this graphics card   why is this system behaving like it's  relapsing it's a new Windows 7 install   on a beast system what's going on I  actually just realized I plugged the   SSD into a SATA 2 Port so that may be why  the system has been so infuriatingly slow so when I plugged it into the sata 3 port it  it wouldn't boot and then I plugged it back   into the SATA 2 port another Windows install is  broken at which point I reinstalled Windows 7 but   nothing changed drivers still wouldn't install  and the system just generally behaved like it   was recently lobotomized I'm gonna test it with  a different graphics card to see if Windows 7 is   still going to throw a tantrum with this GTX  960 just to get a better indication of where   we stand with this FX 4400 quite concerningly the  moment I plugged the GTX 960 in everything worked   perfectly I'm not surprised about that at all  but because it doesn't have Alma plugged into   it the system's super happy all of a sudden  yeah whatever I'm done for today [Music] ah   it is now the next morning and I've recovered  from the desire to blend the graphics card down   and feed the GPU smoothie to pajama man and I've  come up with a new plan as well I went and found an LGA 775 based system I think there's a Core  2 Duo in here I can't quite remember but we'll   find out soon enough and I'm gonna use this  with the old FX 4400 well this time it's the   rest of the system not working so I I guess  that's a nice change of pace I then tested   four other system configurations none of which  worked with the FX 4400 which meant I had to   abandon all dignity and crawl back to the x58  system but this time trying something different now getting Windows XP running on this system was  a complete nightmare which I'm not going to walk   you through because otherwise this video is going  to be two hours long but basically trying to find   a working Windows XP ISO to download in 2022 feels  like covering yourself in chum and going swimming   in Hearts by and then getting the Windows virus  Edition that you just downloaded to install is   even more harrowing here's a brief explanation  of the process from crazy David at this point it   feels like I've been trapped in purgatory with  it for the last two days this really is my idea   of hell because every single step something  breaks and then the way in which it breaks   requires like three steps to fix the broken thing  and then at every one of those steps something   breaks as well so it's like a fractal of just crap  breaking the whole time but at the end of quite a   while I managed to get Windows XP working install  graphics card drivers and get a game running yes   something has launched we even have an overlay  okay things are going very well now we are we   are cooking with gas here and we're getting  over a hundred and forty frames per second   at 1080p so this pajama man graphics card is a  complete monster I want to set the graphics up   a bit more whoa even with cranked Graphics in  lock on modern era combat we're getting about   50 frames per second this graphics card is a  monster apparently it's zero percent you tonight   lization okay it's definitely running on the  graphics card though because we don't have an   igpu other than that we're only using about 140  Megs of our video memory and the temperatures   are sitting at about 53 degrees Celsius so that  copper heatsink is putting in some work oh yeah   let's see this detail look at that ground  oh yes we've got trees there's smoke we've   got some buildings so with that what did we learn  in today's video well if you buy a graphics card   from a man wearing silk pajamas you're likely  going to end up wrestling great whites in the   dodgier corners of the internet and until  the next video thank you for watching bye [Music]

Channel: Dawid Does Tech Stuff

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Length: 11min 15sec (675 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 05 2022