- And you thought GPUs were expensive.
Hello everybody, and welcome back to another video.
Now, in today's episode,
we're gonna be diving into this box of garage sale GPUs.
Yes, that's right, all of these GPUs were acquired
at, believe it or not, a single garage sale.
And you wanna know the absolutely ridiculous price?
I mean, ridiculous in a good way.
$3! That is $0.75 per GPU
because there's four GPUs in here.
So the goal for this video is quite simple.
We're gonna be testing these four GPUs in a test bench
and see if we can get them to output a display signal.
I should say we're gonna test these three right here
because I've already tested the GTX 770,
and the yes, believe it or not, it works totally fine,
which is super awesome.
So let's see if we can keep that trend going
for these other three cards here.
Now, I do wanna talk a little bit
about this card I found out in my testing.
This is a two gigabyte EVGA GTX 770SC.
It's not the four gigabyte model.
It would have been nice if it was,
but I mean still $0.75,
even $3 for this thing is a steal
because this particular card goes
for $80 to $100 on eBay right now, used.
So I'd say that $0.75 is a really good price.
Now, I'm not gonna be selling this.
I do have a use for it in mind,
but I just wanted to let you guys know that it works,
which is super cool.
So we're gonna set it aside for now,
and we're going to move on to these other three cards.
Now, I should say, right as I set it aside,
that this is the most powerful card in here, obviously.
It's a 700 series card, a higher end 700 series card
that was released in 2013,
but it is not the newest card that we have here.
That title goes to this Gigabyte GT 730
that was released in mid 2014.
And you can still buy this card new today for $89,
which is pretty insane.
Used, it'll go anywhere from $25 to $70.
Though, if you're gonna pay $70,
you might as well just buy this thing new,
or save your money
and put it towards a more powerful card.
But yeah, we're gonna test this out.
We're gonna go newest to oldest.
So this is the newest card here.
And the second newest out of these three on the table here
is this EVGA GTX 285.
A 200 series card from either late 2008, or early 2009.
I got some conflicting info there.
I mean, what else is new?
But yeah, it's really interesting
about this card in particular
because on EVGA's website,
they still have a page for this up.
You don't have to go through the Wayback Machine.
On their current website,
they still have a page for this up,
like the page that told you about how new it was,
how great it was,
how you could play the latest games
like "Call of Duty: World at War."
So yeah, that really dates this thing here.
So yeah, this here either has one gigabyte of memory,
or two gigabytes of memory.
A two gig model came later on.
So we'll find out how much memory this has
later on in the video once we test it out.
And then we'll move on to our oldest,
and only non Nvidia card.
This Radeon X300LE from 2004.
This card has 64 megabytes of memory.
And you can buy it used on eBay for like $15.
So yeah, we'll be trying this one out as well.
And yeah, I'm really excited.
I hope all of these work like the 770, but we'll see.
Without any further ado,
let's get right into it.
All right.
So here's our makeshift test bench.
It's actually one of my old OEM computers from 2008.
This is a Windows Vista machine.
Yeah, so we're really going back.
Let's go ahead and get the GT 730 in here.
And there we go, it is installed.
Now, I do have a 710 watt power supply
you can see here.
And that is because the GTX 770 required more power.
This is only like a 250 watt power supply here,
so that is not adequate for that GPU.
So we're going to be...
I mean, I've already got it hooked up
to the motherboard and everything,
so we're just gonna be using it for the other two cards
that certainly don't require that much power.
Here's the moment of truth.
We're gonna flick on the power supply,
and I'm gonna reach over here and turn on the machine.
So the fan on the card is spinning up,
and there we go, we've got a signal.
(computer beeps)
Now.. Oh yeah, I forgot to plug in a keyboard and mouse.
Look at that.
Ah yes, HP advisor,
definitely an 'essential' piece of software here.
Yeah, this is pretty much a clean install of Vista
that I have on here.
So it's got all...
I mean, this is restored back to factory settings.
So yeah, we've got all this classic HP bloatware on here,
so we'll go ahead and...
Yeah, isn't...
Look at that, isn't that beautiful?
So yeah, booted up, we got a signal,
but we don't have the proper driver installed.
Now, I do have in new folder here.
I've got all the drivers and CPU-Z.
So we can view the graphics card information,
and see how much memory it has, all that good stuff.
So we'll just run it here,
and see what it currently says.
I mean, the driver's not installed,
so it's not going to recognize much.
So, yeah, right now, if we go to graphics,
it's gonna recognize the GT 730,
but it's not gonna say anything about clock speed,
or memory size and type
because we don't to have the driver installed.
(the signature MJD timelapse music)
And there we go.
So all that's left to do is restart the system.
So let's do it.
(the signature MJD timelapse music)
Hooray! It's an HD resolution.
Isn't that awesome?
So let's go to new folder here.
And yeah, by the way, this is not going to be
a comprehensive test, or anything like that.
We're not gonna be playing any games,
and seeing how the cards perform in each of those games.
This is literally just... do these cards work?
Can we plug them into this test bench?
Does it output a signal?
And can we install a driver and launch CPU-Z,
and view the specific information about the card?
So this has a core clock speed
of 135 megahertz. Memory, 405 megahertz.
We have two gigabytes of DDR3.
Samsung is the vendor in this case with a 64 bit bus.
Okay, that's really all there is to say about this one.
We're gonna go ahead and shut down the test bench.
And we're gonna swap over to the GTX 285.
We'll plug both of our leads
in there to the top of the card.
And we'll plug the system back in,
flick on the power switch,
and here's the moment of truth,
let's press the power button.
So yeah, we got a fan.
Do we have an output? Yes, we do.
This is the card that I'm most interested in checking out
and seeing if this is the one gig, or the two gig model.
We'll go through here.
Yeah, I wanna try to see if we can...
Whoops! I don't wanna do that.
I wanna go to properties here,
and yeah, we don't wanna start the sidebar
when Windows starts
because we don't need it running in the background.
So we'll exit that.
Let it extract everything here.
(the signature MJD timelapse music)
All right. So we're back.
We've got the graphics driver installed,
and we're launching CPU-Z to figure out once and for all,
if this is the one gig or the two gig version.
I'm gonna bet it's the one gigabyte version.
It is the two gigabyte version! Okay.
Two gigabyte GDDR3,
300 megahertz core clock speed,
600 megahertz shader,
100 megahertz on the memory, 512 bit bus
that I did find when I was doing research on these card.
Dang! Okay, so I was not expecting that.
I thought for sure this was gonna be the one gig version.
So that's pretty awesome.
So that's the GTX 285.
All right, so last but not least,
we're going to install the Radeon card.
It's in,
and of course, we don't have to use
those connectors from the power supply
as this card does not require as much power, certainly.
I'm gonna plug in the power supply, flick it on,
and here's the moment of truth.
So let's see if we get a signal... and we do!
Perfect.
All right, everybody.
So we've got the proper driver installed
for the Radeon card.
And I mean, yeah, we're still up and running.
I mean, this has gone way better than I expected.
I thought for sure, we were gonna have
some sort of issue with at least one of these cards,
but all of them, including of course,
the GTX 770, work totally fine.
And I'm really, really impressed.
So yeah, there you have it.
Definitely some really incredible finds.
Now, of course, this was just a basic testing video
to see if these cards even work at all.
We didn't do any benchmarks.
We didn't do any gaming tests,
and see how these cards handle various games.
Really, the only two I'd be interested
in doing gaming tests in would be the 770 and 285
because I mean, this card in here right now,
again, it's from 2004, it's not gonna be able
to run (giggles) any modern games at all.
I mean, so those are the only two cards
I'd be really interested in doing proper benchmarks.
And I mean, maybe we can do benchmarks on all of them,
but gaming performance,
yeah, it would be worth maybe doing a video on that.
But I would wanna get a different system
because this system right here
is running a Pentium E2220,
which is a processor that came out in early 2008.
And it's only got, I believe, four gigabytes of memory.
This was just the only system
that I had lying around at the moment
that I could assemble this all together,
and just to do this quick little video here,
but hopefully you guys enjoyed it for what it was.
I certainly had fun making it.
This was really cool just to see if these cards work,
and I mean like I said,
I guess MJDness isn't gonna make an appearance today
because they're all working.
So super awesome.
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