A Look Back At The Legendary Nvidia 8800 GTX | The First DX10 GPU 

“Back then, seeing 2 6-pin connecter was a huge thing” 3090: 3 8pins....

Wait a minute. A card that automatically closes Fortnite? Now I'm SURE it's legendary.

This card represents the timeframe that I built my first computer. I bought an 8600 gts, and felt like I was on top of the world. I remember looking at the 8800 the way that people would look at the 1080 ti nowadays. I remember thinking "Whoever has that card will probably never need to upgrade again in their life" crazy how much more advanced things have gotten since then.

10 years from now RGinHD's kid makes a video on RU-vid#2: A Look Back At The Legendary Nvidia RTX 2080Ti | The First Ray Tracing GPU.

Most kids in my school didn't work, or worked real hard in high school to get a car. F that, i did odd jobs and mowed lawns like there was no tomorrow just so i could buy new video cards. I bought an 8800 GTX about 1 year after launch, and it was one of my fav all time buys to date.

When you realized, the 8800 GTX beating the Playstation 3 allready at the point when both relased. Notice here: Along the comments below me, the Playstation 3 had the graphical part from Nvidia, called RSX (Reality Synthesizer) with 500Mhz and it was based from the Nvidia GeForce GTX 7800 (NV47). When Playstation 3 came on the market on March 23, 2007 (Europe Relasedate) the Nvidia 8800GTX that relased worldwide befor (November 8, 2006) had allready 768MB of RAM itself. Even the price was high, in comparison the PS3 cost at the same time here in switzerland about 1000 SFr. The graphic card about the same price (switzerland is very expenisve with taxes). So you could had a choice here allready.

At first I was mad that GTA5 took like 1.5 years to come with the PC release, but that you can even play this game in DX9 with a 12 year old card is mind gobbling!

I used to drool on the magazine picture of this card when I was in highschool.

I remember buying one used in the summer of 2007 and paid €480 for it :D Paired it with an overclocked C2D E6600. It was totally worth the money back then. What a beast!

When my HD4870 ( a beast in its own right) finally quit on me after 3-4yrs of hard gaming, a friend had his old 8800 GTS sitting in the closet and offered to send me it. That thing was really impressive, it allowed me to keep playing BFBC2 at decent settings with 60fps. To see its big brother handle modern games is even more impressive, great vid!

As I remember nobody had FHD monitors back when this card was released

Incredible. I remember a friend getting the 320MB 8800GTS and being absolutely blown away by the performance. Now, 11 years later it still holds up well enough, given everything. xD

Why would i even consider the 2080 when i can get this beast?

Always great to go back to these days, it was an exciting time in gaming!

Mister, it is so interesting to listen to you. Your videos are great, keep doing that way!

Great video, I love these old GPU reviews, please keep them coming!

I remember the card well. I'm not into gaming much anymore, But back in the day when I was into PC gaming this thing was a memorable beast! I used to spend stupid amounts of money on hardware, Got to the point where I lost interest and didn't see the value. It's a clever hold these companies have on their followers, This stuff is like an addiction!

In loving Memory of the 8800 Gtx, and gtx 750ti. Gone but not forgotten. Legends will live for ever.

Ahh...those were the golden days. I still have my MSI 8800 GTS. Thank you for this video ! Nostalgia hit me 🙃

These videos are so much better than what they were 6 months ago. Keep growing and doing your thing

I have 2 of them working perfectly and they're really legends.

Can you show us ur collection of GPUs? I'm really curious to see how many of them you have lying there

Great video, brings back great memories, thank you

So many epic memories thanks to this epic card. I was working for Dell back then and purchased an XPS420 with a nice discount. I think the first card lived for 5 years and have been used for many many hours, gaming and creativity. I got a 2nd one for a year until upgrading to a newer one. Still, like the video said, back then it was a BEAST. One to remember. Epic video!

I like the High-end version that takes only 1U and got metal shroud :D Like 8800 GT and 9600 GT ^_^ As for the GPU, this is one the best GPU that Nvidia has made and created the biggest leaps in Graphics cards ever. The King of GTX

In the msi afterburner settings, change the frametimes from text to a graph. It's really really nice to know how much stuttering there is and how bad each one is.

you are the best benchmark youtuber. i love watching ur vids, pls never stop!!!

Yea, 8800GTX can still run call of duty before 2013, battlefield 3 and 4, far cry 3 and 2.

Nice i had the same XPS 420 system with an 8800 GT and Q6600 cpu 4gb ddr2 ram 800mhz my 8800gt was the single slot model with the nvidia logo across the top of the cardi used the 8800gt up until 2014 till i got a 650 ti mostly playing Black Ops 2.

Do you have Fraps running in the background when you have MSI Afterburner running? If so, I had to open RivaTuner Statistics Server and set "Custom Direct 3D Support" to ON for CS:GO to launch when I have both of them running. I had the same issues with the game launching to a black screen until I did that.

Thanks for the video! When you think about it, it's remarkable how little improvement we've made with regards to graphics the last 12 years.

Surely better than RTX 2080Ti.

You losers are out here with your 2000 series cards, I'm already on an 8800 😎

Im enyoing this longer videos, keep it up!

i had two gts640s in sli overclocked and they lasted for years. i havnt had anything that ran so great for so long since

back when this was launched, I was still using a Geforce 2...

A lovely GPU, had one back in the day until certain nvidia drivers killed it.The friggin pcb bent due to overheating after drivers had tought it was nice to not use the fan :D.

in 2006 I bought one 880GTX that was my best Graphic card ever what a memories...Like your vid.

I had a Dell XPS 720 with this exact 8800 GTX. It was indeed a beast.

You should have done some test at 720p with higher settings, that res is probably more suited for this card

I found a 8800GT Alpha Dog Edition that someone threw out and I use it as my main card today

I had 2 of these in SLI, warmed up the room lovely no need for heating, great card and a monster electric eating device.

I've bought this card when it was released, it was so fast after the 6800GT! :D However after around 3 years, it just died, giving place to an HD4890. Great video! ^_^

Can you make a video using this card but in SLI please? That would be so interesting!

You should take a look at the workstation equivalents of the 8800 GTX and Ultra. The Quadro FX 4600 and 5600. The 5600 being the more interesting one since it has 1.5gb of video memory, double that of the ultra while being otherwise the same GPU. Might be a way to fix the performance in some games limited by Vram.

You should add the year the game was released in these kind of benchmarks. Keep up the wicked great work bud.

I am enjoying your ~10+ mins videos

I remember running two of these sli when oblivion dropped. 1650x1050 monitor coming out of the sewers like O_O

It’s got a handle!!!!

I was fortunate enough to have two of these beasts in SLI back in the day. Great times!

I had a budget version of this one, the 8800 GTS 640MB, and it was really powerful at the time. Coming from a Radeon X800, it was a serious step. I love GPUs from this era.

please put frametime in afterburner as graph so we can track stutters more easly

pls do artillery only

Question will the 8800gtx display on a 4k tv ? It will be used in a htpc so I just need it to be able give image trough dvi to HDMI cable and run browser and such. Thanks

Found an 8800gt for 3 euros in a recycling center a while ago, couldn't resist getting it. Even though I don't use it it's cool to have such a legendary card in my possesion.

Wondering if you would be interested in some parts including a 1050ti and i5 2500

I got 9500gt, poor life man

i played battlefield 3 and csgo on this back in 2012 and today i just got an rtx 2070 super what a long way ive came in the epic gaming world

Anyone know what is in the middle of the screen at 2:20? It looks like a processor but smaller

now you need to get your hands on a 9800 GX2

The most important question has been answered. Can it run Crysis? Yes., yes it can!!!

I found a 8800 Ultra at the local flea market (boot fair) for $5. Remembering the good ol' days with my 8800gts, I snatched it up for a haggled down $3. Works like a dream and I couldn't be happier using this card out in the PC in my workshop with my father's original ASUS RAMPAGE and a QX9650. It works as a PC and a space heater.

With this card I ran the orginal Crysis at very high 1024/768 and it blew my mind on my cubical PC screen. I'm pretty sure you could play modern games with this kind of resolution. You should try that to add those low res to your tests. Pretty neat throwback !

i cant flipping belive it , i found a graphics card at my school ,just sitting on the front desk saying free back in 2011 ,so i grabbed it just cause i thought it was cool (i was 13) now i just pulled it out of my closet 7 years later to find out i have this amazing card haha who ta think i grabbed it without even knowing it.

I hated Far Cry 2, gun jamming every 3 seconds and that, uninstalled it as soon as I finished it, was hesitant to buy Far Cry 3 because of how much I hated 2, but I actually liked Far Cry 3, much more like Far Cry 1, just using the Dunia Engine rather than the CryEngine

had one off those, and what a beast it was.

im very jealous of u. U have the perfect hobby! I always wanted to do what ur doing on ur vid but I cant buy stuff coz I don't have money so yeh. Keep up the good job

I was 4 months old when this card came out.

I remember buying an 8600 and wishing I had the money to buy two 8800's in SLI. I'm getting all nostalgic now thinking about PC gaming 15 years ago. I still remember what it looked like. It was a pink/red MSI board with copper piping coming out the sides. Damn, where did the time go? I remember playing a hacked version of the original Modern Warfare on that GPU.

My buddy bought the 320mb GTS for Oblivion back in ought six, fun times. This brings back memories, good show sir. Also anyone remember the raptor drives with the little glass panel on the top?

another great video ; )

I had this card in sli Loved running the F.E.A.R benchmark

Great Video.

I'm in love with blower style fan. It's very satisfying.

Really like your videos Man I'm tired of seeing all this new s***I mean I like seeing it get the information and then done but damn it's so much of the same thing I love to see the old school stuff thank you for your videos

i have still an 8800GTX its in our pc in the living room, being used for RU-vid and streams plus Netflix, it works real good so far

Man this card ran CoD 4/MW2 and WoW so good back in the day. I used it all the way until like 2014 playing GW2 n such lol with the legendary E8500 Core 2 duo.

my best upgrade ever has been long time ago when i bought my STB 3DFX V3 3000 to replace my 4 MB onboardchip. remember glide?... nice video

This was dream card for me back in 2007, then i bought core 2 duo e8200 clock at 2.9ght paired with hd 3870,best memories i had playing games

i paid 20 euros vor a 9800gtx plus and no matter what it does it overheats replaced pads and paste and added a copper shim but the heat pipes dont really get hot atm i just have the plastic gone and added a huge 80 mill fan to the heatsink and its doable right now but not ideal ofcourse any tips?

I still have it from 2008 and it works PERFECTLY! STILL LOVE THAT BEAST

I had two of these in SLI in my old rig. Yup she held out pretty well for awhile.

Hey man i love your vids, Can you test the radeon r7 250 they said it has a similar performance with the gtx 650.

I have this card...loved it.

How do you count the 1% and 0.1% lows? Is there any special software you use or can you do this with afterburner?

GREAT review , thanks for the memories !!! nvidia 's 8xxx series has indeed been legendary !!! One question though : what drivers did you use ? are there nvidia drivers for the 8800GTX which are compatible with windows10 ???

your the king of GPUs!

i still remember buying the 8800GTS - what a legendary card.

I got one of these back in 2007 and thinking that it could still run games like skyrim and infinite in a decent way makes me proud

I had dual 22" 1680x1050 with two 8800's back then. What bliss it was...No microtransaction rubbish or censored game chat.

One of my all time favourites.

how did you manage to record with msi afterburner without performance loss?

When i was 16 in 2006 i saved up for one of these and had it on laybuy for a few weeks paying it off slowly. That and an antec Neo 380w Bronze PSU. It was an 8800GT XFX Alpha Dog

It's worth noting that nobody played Crysis at 1080p back in 2007 even with 8800GTX. It was an era of CRT still. Very much everybody played it at 1024x768 - and 8800GTX dealt with it quite well.

damn was watching the news and see an upload from you! have to stop everyone for my fix of "hello everybody and welcome to another seagull"

what is the program on the top left that shows fps and frametime?

I’m still rocking this card

what version of drivers did you use for windows 10???

Im interested how do you measure the average FPS. In the gameplay you show the FPS doesnt go over the 'average'

you should test those old cards with old hardware, nice video though, reminds me of my first gpu, the 9500gt from BFG