Don't Overpay For This Old Flagship GPU...

The HD 6970 was a beast back in 2010, and for $369 it traded blows with the GTX 570. These days, it's limited by more than just lack of driver support, but it can still be quite expensive...

0:00 Introduction
1:42 Call of Duty Black Ops
2:49 Mafia 2
3:54 Assassin's Creed Origins
4:54 Battlefield V
6:02 Fortnite
6:41 Grand Theft Auto V
7:23 The Elder Scrolls Skyrim Special Edition
8:01 The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt and Final Thoughts

Thanks for watching :)

[haythemsnakos]

Bought the hd 6950 back in the day, flashed it with the 6970's bios, it was really cool to gain performance for free.
Gave the card to my cousin in 2014, it still works after 10 years of use.

[konstantinlozev]

I just sold and old PC of mine, i5 3570 + HD 6850 1gb for EUR 150 altogether. The person whom I sold it to was very satisfied. That person was a budding CS GO gamer and that combo shot up to around 130 fps on medium.
I am very happy the HD 6850 found a new home and a happy host 😁

[TheIndianBudgetGamer]

woow .. considering this GPU is 12 years old .. it holds very well

[NiCO-jovh]

For Black Ops, you can remove the cap by editing "config" and "config_mp" inside the "players" folder.
You can add a key bind like this: bind P "com_MaxFPS 0"

The zero is to remove the cap itself, you can add any desired number there instead if you wish to cap it to a certain framerate.
You will bind the command to the "P" key. You can set any key you want if you so desire.

This method also works for CoD 4 and WaW.

[jacobthatguy]

Almost 500k subs. How freaking deserved, love the vids

[Beetlejuicer]

GTX 1080's are at an all time low right now. Can get it for around $200-$250. And 1070ti's for $170

[Kanivalos]

Another factor to consider these days beside perforamance/$ is watt consumption. These energy hungry cards might be cheap but id rather use a 50w overclocked 750ti than these 200+w heaters. (own a 7870xt, the taxiti one)

[_RedsTech_]

Always look forward to your next video mate! Appreciate what you contribute to the budget building community :)

[DavisMakesGames]

Interesting to see the HD 6970 doing so well compared to the HD 5870 - I've tested it and it performs like Ryzen integrated graphics in some titles!

[LoveBbyJay]

I love the piece of dust falling on the right hand side around 1:35
also love the video keep up the great work!

[TrusteftTech]

I know it's a couple of years old, but the way you ended the Witcher clip was hilarious. Well done.

[asimepuse]

When you paused after "this is going to be my last video..." my heart skipped a beat D:

[dirtydoge]

I had that same card, except it was a 6950. Thing was a damn beast. I had it paired with a Phenom II 960T. Tried to unlock those two extra cores, but nothin' doing. That, paired with 8GB of DDR2 and I was in hog heaven. Played the absolute shit out of Just Cause 2 and Battlefield 3/4 on that rig.

[kitvr]

I recently picked up a gtx 580 for like 20$ I can't wait to test it and see how it does now adays lol

[mattwright]

I just got back my main PC that was a FX 8370 GTX 980 Build with 16gb of 2133MHZ.. I replaced it with a much more capable 5950x RTX 3080 System running 32GB of system memory. The person I sold it to, had bought it for a son, who stickered up the PC and ran it into the ground as I would also do if I were that age. I was given the PC back because the family no longer used the system (since PS5 released) and it was in the garbage pile in the garage if no one wanted it. I repaired the case damage, and cleaned the system thoroughly. After a fresh windows 10 install and all drivers installed, I netted a PC that I first enjoyed for years, sold and got money for, received back, and is now my main home theatre PC. It is where this comment is being left right now. Keep OLD PCS ALIVE EVERYONE. Every PC has its place. Keep E-waste out of the landfill and find a purpose for something if you can. This PC hands down has been literally the workhorse at this house since 2010. Cant believe its back.

[Chaos_God_of_Fate]

Ahhh, I remember the 5870 (I know this is about the 6870). I remember I already had one and found out about bitcoin- mined a coin a day when the price was around 1-2 dollars- it was one of the best mining card back then, before ASICs or other specialized mining hardware existed, it was all GPU mining back then and AMD cards were the best you could have, I was lucky I had one instead of whatever the nVidia alternative was at the time. I ended up owning 5 or 6 of them which all paid for themselves from mining. I so wish I'd held onto some of those coins, mined a few hundred of them total and made a small profit but everyone I knew in real life thought I was getting scammed... I love rubbing it in their face since they were main reason I stopped mining- I should not have and I should have saved some- hindsite 20/20!

Another grand video! Love this old hardware! You've got to include the original Crysis benchmarks with these older cards though! I am a bit bias though, I did a boat-load of modding with CryEngine back when this was a new card... Mechwarrior: Living Legends is still alive! I made Rift and finished Sandblasted/Mirage along with a lot of other smaller things.... god those were good times!

[RAL-AIM]

Keep on trucking with these videos man and showing kids what we had to deal with back in the day and even not too long ago... Lol
I understand software is becoming far more demanding, but people without a doubt are still leaving tons of performance on the table. I remember when games dropped and not many people could max them out. I remember when 1080p was the "4K" lmao

[TheSpotify]

6:55 You're taking a Coil Voltic, one of my favorite cars in the game :D

[thegaminglel]

Ah the sapphire one, I used to have the exact same card and I played a lot of tomb raider with it. I would love to see a tomb raider games test with it since I know you can get +30 fps in some of the newer ones.

[Behdad]

I ran Mafia II on a GT430 and, since I wasn't into the concept of counting the FPS back then, I enjoyed it a lot. After a few years and becoming aware of "the higher the fps, the better the experience" I benchmarked the game. I averaged these numbers give or take on these games:
Mafia II (Probably lowest settings): ~ 45fps
GTA V (Ultra reflections): ~35-55 fps
Black Ops 1 (Lowest settings): ~40-60 fps
This was my rig back then: 4GB DDR3 Ram / Core i3 540 / Zotac GT430 1GB / 1600*900 monitor which I still use to play games on my 1660 Super and R5 3600XT rig 😂