GAMING on a £0.25 Graphics Card! 

Big thanks to our channel artist for some 25p renderings: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pr1dsFXkC0g.htmlsi=Eq80xlQ0FrXZroAm

i think its time you make another 1 dollar pc

finally, a GPU I can afford in today's economy

The scrap value of copper in this card has to be worth more then 25p

25p? I expect only the highest quality of potato.

I love your software-render styling when you twirl the card around during the spec overview.

25p working GPU, shipped. works well. doesn't run hot. Deal of the Day, at the very least. Thanks bud. Your recent out put has been first class. And comparatively rapid fire. Quality AND quantity.

That card was so good I skipped the 6000 series and didn't upgrade until the HD7870 came out.

My media server PC has a 6850 and can run quite a few games from before 2010 decently. A 5850 can easily run some quite good games from the 2000-2008 era and even some more recent ones in lower resolution. No point letting a perfectly working card become e-waste.

I truly love how you put fable in every video even if it's just an into. best game ever, cant wait for fable4.

bro has everything to singlehandedly dominate the voice acting industry

LOL! You got our old one I'm almost certain. I'm the only person on the planet that would re-paste a 5850 b4 selling it off. This is 100% proof that CEX buys old ebay cards.

I did not realize you meant 25 pence when you were teasing this video, I was so confused lol

The hd 5850 was an absolute monster of a card when it launched. I got mine 2 days before it launched. There was absolutely nothing it couldn't play maxed out at the time. It decimated my 8800gtx.

loving the frequency of videos lately ty your videos are one of a kind as well the feeling is one off.

29:02 OH CMON.. I was so expecting you to say “Sometimes they can be 50/50… but this instance, it’s 5850!”

I really like the pacing of this video. I love that you’re getting higher and higher budget now (ironically) and I’m here for it. Keep it up! :D

Had one. Got it from a PC graveyard, was without a fan and shroud, just the PCB and heatsink but was in pretty good condition except a pretty big bend on the PCB. Swapped it with a r9 370 or whatever heatsink and fans (with some adaptation needed) and It was solid. Sold it in a fully built system (i3 2120, 8gb DDR3 1600, 500 GB hard disk and a repaired server tin box with 600w PSU) for about 70 bucks. It was solid NGL, old but works fine to this day, let my sis use it in her first PC before upgrading her to an 6500xt. 9.5/10 card for the time and hella good under 10 bucks card to this day.

Brilliant video glad you're back at it now I ran out of your videos so I'm so glad you've carried on now

Thanks for making this. Awesome to see the hd 5850 still going.

CeX & torn label, name a more iconic duo.

liking the new intro, and the content as always. Such a nice vibe to your videos

26:26 did you mean to leave that in 😂 Great review, so pleased when you went for the overclock as I was just wondering about it would do.

I mentioned this in the last video I saw, but I can't get over the low poly models you use. They are such a simple but pleasing detail in your videos!

I have nothing of substance to say.

it's crazy what this card could do for this price

I've watched your channel for almost 5 years at this point, the production quality skyrocketed compared to when i discovered your channel I love the new intro and the ps1 render of the thing you're talking about? Chef's kiss

I love your office/recording room! maximalist and colourful, looks cozy with the window and all the ferns outside.

I had that exact card and it was really good back when it first came out. I played a lot of Crysis with that card and it was a very good experience. I use to gel laughed at when people asked me what i ad for a video card back in 2013 or so, but I figured I had a pretty good card. that Sapphire Modern Warfare card was OP for sure. I miss that old system but i have moved on from that many upgrades since. Cheers and thank you for making a video that brings back some great memories.

Havent watched a vid in a bit, but you went through a glow up. Looking good man.

Great vid man, might end up picking up for my household pc.

Great video as always!

I did not expect this good of a performance on a device this cheap, I mean, I didn't think it was possible for a Terascale card to perform this well after all I've seen about them, goddamn

Nice find. Grats.

Every time I see your videos, it is so relaxing

Great vid as always

Nice to see you are having a mostly positive experiance for a change.

Wooooooo another budget builds video ❤

This was a great era for Radeon. I really dug into this card when I had one on custom water back in the day. With vBIOS mods, some very good cooling, a decent power supply, and most importantly, an unreleased version of the HiS iTurbo program that could trick the VRM overcurrent protection from kicking in, you could push these cards well into HD 7870 performance territory, and the bang for buck and performance was absolutely unbeatable at the time. Some 5850's could also be vBIOS flashed to unlock disabled shaders, which turned the card into a 5870 with lower overclock potential. But IMO, the ones that couldn't flash to a 5870 were actually the card you wanted if you planned to overclock, as the extra shaders didn't help performance as much as the extra clock speed in the majority of cases.

These were the most bizzare benchmarks I’ve ever seen. Not because of anything particularly weird in them but because a more than a decade old card for .25-7 buckies ran them really well.

I appreciate you testing both GTA and GTA Online, lots of people dont cover it because they simply dont know, but I played the game a lot and really noticed it on my i7-2600 and 1050ti when i first started playing it.

Been watching for 6 years what a throwback

Now this is true PC Master Race material! Being able to play games on something that cost less than a pound. Very interesting video. Thanks for uploading!

I look forward to the "25p RTX 4090" video 😉

I have been following sinse you had like 250 subs and this is the first time i have ever saw you lol

whoa is that a behind the scenes clip of your setup? Never knew that condenser microphone sounds so good!

Amazing video 🎉🎉

25p That just makes me laugh when you consider the fluctuating cost of GPUs over the years... to what it has become today. With top of the range cards costing more than whole mid-range setups! I still have an old ATI 1950XTX, and a Radeon HD 6870 x2 Dual GPU card in the roof space! So many fond memories tweaking settings to get the elusive stable +60fps back in the day. I still can't believe you got this for 25p! That's unreal! Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

Nice transport tycoon music. 🎵

It's these bonkers videos I live for!

that background music with the plucky guitar is very '90s Michael Jackson.

now THIS is a channel i can resonate with

I'd love some videos on cards from right around 10 years ago. The first PC I built had a 4GB 960 in it that still surprises me with it's performance today for everything but modern AAA, and I still use a 980ti in my backup system and I've yet to play a game that it can't run decent.

I really like that centrally mounted single fan cooler. Much more pleasant to look at that these modern 3 fan gpus riddled with rgb

I had two of these 5850s in crossfire but I think I went through about 4 or 5 different 5850s as a whole before eventually switching up to a pair of 6970s when they became available. When the 5850 first came out they offered absolutely incredible bang for buck and every tech website on the internet was singing the cards praises. A lot of the _'middle-end era'_ pre-AMD rebrand cards either get totally ignored or completely forgotten. A lot of my main gaming youth was spent on crossfired 4870s, 5850s, 6970s and GTX680s (I did run a fair few single GPu configs but when you worked 70-80hr weeks like I did back then you discovered you accumulated tonnes of money and didnt have a whole lot of spare time to enjoy it so I built the most sickass OTT PC setup I could care to throw money at to dunk on all my friends) Honestly great cards. The last game that I played on my 5850s before upgrading I think was Bad Company 2 on PC. 99% of the time the 5850s would eat the game up no problem but the little cutscenes at the end of the game after we've won a game of conquest would turn into a slide show.

those dell monitors you have are absolutely goated... old dells are great for even modern use

He's at it cooking again

Great video! I have a suggestion, maybe in future videos you can benchmark Euro Truck Simulator 2, I'd be really curious to see how various GPUs handle that game!

This is the BEST Sequel since GRAPHICS CARD DAMAGE BAD, I love this channel because I really do love Jank PC Components and there's nothing like that anywhere else recently

Kudos for the TTD music. :D

I'm still running one of these in a Phenom II build, it was my first proper gaming computer build. I plan on keeping it forever.

This is cheaper than the beans i had yesterday and i'd pick this GPU over the beans :P. I enjoy your content a lot and I wish you good luck finding more great deals like that.

Love it. What would be so cool would be a colaberation video with RGIHD!. Maybe a set budget and use components in between a set period of time and whoever gets the best benchmarks wins. You can use a list of games to benchmark! This would be a super cool video!

That was a fun video!

I remember me and my mom going to a shop to have check for PC parts and see what i could get new as a bang/buck computer back in early 2010. Think it was like a core i3-540 and a 5770. Sadly wasn't able to afford it back then, but got lucky a year later when a local PC shop was selling a dirt cheap system. an i3-540, 4gb ram, 1tb hdd and a 6850 for like 300e. Loved that card. Right now i'm rocking 5970's in an old build. Scaling is shit, but just the look of it is quite majestic.

What a steal honestly. and woah 30 min video heck yea

Man I love that fan in the middle GPU style

Can't believe how well this card performs. I've been there with OCing, sometimes its brilliant and sometimes it crashes even after it worked in a stress test 😄

Gosh dang 25p for a GPU is a shocking good deal! Happy for you dude. Also, I since watching your last video amd you playing Black Mesa. I keep looking into my issue, yet I can't find anything valid. I keep getting the textbox "Out of Texture Memory-Lower the Vram" every 10 to 15 minutes. Of course, I'm getting this on a RX 5500 XT 8gb, RX 560 2gb, and a GTX 1050 2gb. Still having fun playing Black Mesa. I played for over 4 hours while having it stop every quater within the hour. At least the save features help so much I'm not angry about it. So, coloured me surprised when I see you with a HD 5850 with 1gb of Vram hearing it is running flawlessly. And then with the condition it is in. The card is near perfect that I might end up getting a HD 5000 to 7000 series card all over again. It makes me wonder if it is a DX9 issue. Or a mixture of DX9 and DX11 by the Black Mesa team. The HD 5000 series might handle DX9 to DX11 very well. So, this is interesting to me for this one game. Either way, I always enjoy the videos. Been subscribed on many different accounts. Keep being you. Hope you have a wonderful day.

Good job with the bargain HD5850, I'm impressed it works - though the lenient power consumption as far as the usual figures for the TeraScale cards go probably helped a fair bit with the durability.

Impressive card, worth having in ones collecion for sure!

Ah the HD5850 i owned 2 of these and had them running in crossfire they were decent cards back then and very much worth the price and the performance was pretty damn good to thanks for the video mate another trip down memory lane

The open source drivers for this GPU on Linux are even better.

You picked a beast... that thing rungs Kingdom come deliverance... I know since I tried back in the day...

I did a retro build with one of these recently. It works shockingly well honestly.

I think your definition of a 'perfectly smooth framerate' differs from mine by quite a large margin, lol. I think you are undervaluing the meaning of the word 'perfect' in this video quite a lot of times.....in my humble opinion. Amazing you can get this for 25p though, that's gotta be the best price vs performance deal i've ever seen, that's pretty crazy but funny at the same time.

What a crazy deal! This is super impressive. The fact you can play some modern games on a .25 GPU is insane to me. I'd like to see what some other games you can get to run on this.

Not bad, and the drivers for this card were way, way better than the final drivers for that 2900XT, as well as all of the HD 3000 series (such as the 3450 that you reviewed before).

I had this card in day! Upgraded to the 5870, liked it at the time and haven't owned a desktop gpu since

The only way these builds can get any cheaper is if people offer to pay you to take their old hardware off their hands! 😆 It's really good to see regular uploads again though 👍 I forgot how much I enjoyed watching these.

I spent 20 bucks for a first gen i7-920 and a radeon hd 5870 back a few years ago the thing was thrashed but that thing was impressive with performance and heating performance still chugged along on my dx11 backlog when i tested it.

I picked up a HD5850 a few years back for £10.00. I chose it spedifically because it has really high double precision FP64 compute power. For FP64 it outperforms a GTX 1080TI and was great to use on the Milkyway@home project on Boinc.

Got to love CEX.

What a steal man nice job

I still have my ATI reference HD 5970 (Hemlock). Basically 2 of those Cypress Pro GPUs running on one PCB. Last time I used it was 2017 when my R9 280x fried itself. I picked up a ProMagix HD60 Core 2 Quad system in good condition for $80. Using wayback machine, I used their parts configuration page to figure out it retailed for nearly $4k back in '06-'07. Came complete with the acrylic side window option, aluminum case wheels option, and the cold-cathode case lighting option. The EVGA motherboard (complete with Nvidia chipset) was included, but the GPU was missing, so I'm thinking of giving it the 5970 since it's a closer match for the era ('09), and would mean I'd have Intel AMD and Nvidia all in one machine.

I ran this bad boy as a kid until 2017, it's fan was broken and so my dad simply taped a new one to it. I got the rx580 once we realized newer e-sport games started looking very rough, though I still got to plat in overwatch with it.

Awesome grab, AND she survived.

6:45 even the bee is impressed

My first real GPU was a Sapphire TOXIC 5850 way back in the early 2010's. It overlooked well past a 5870 base clock and I had it until I upgraded to a Sapphire 7870 2Gb. Never had an issue with either card. Sapphire made some quality cards back then. Good video...👍

Bro you look in shape

Had a HD6770 as my very first card (was a console gamer beforehand) thing ran Oblivion and GTA SA like a dream, its predecessor seems like a banger too here!

5850 was a legendary card! I had 2 of them in crossfire in my 2nd? or 3rd? gaming rig and they munched up everything at 1080P, 25p is a utter steal, had mine paired with an AMD Phenom II X4 955 CPU and 4gb DDR3

My first PC build had an XFX Radeon HD5850, it was a great card and got me, and my younger brother, through Uni. The card still works today, but my motherboard from back then failed.

OMG this Transport Tycoon music? :D Had a 5870 back in the days. Awesome card

Used this exact card for many years. Added another one later one which worked quite well at the time. Those Sapphire cards were awesome!

I always love these things. On one hand I'm in the medium price range for new cards, but this is is always amazing. The HD 5850 is a fun card. Performance should be somewhere between a 6870 and a 6950. At least it's faster than my old 4870 I still have around here. It will obviously do great in games of it's time in 2009, but should also play well in games up to 2011, and even some after that. I'm not really in the market for one, as the afromentioned HD 4870 and and a later bought HD 7770/R7 250X pretty much covers that area of performance. The interesting part is checking which chip runs on it. the 5850 should have a Cypress Pro, which wasn't even reused in the HD 6000 cards (only the Juniper from the HD 5750/5770 was in the HD 6750/6770) My first thought would be a rebadged workstation card, but no, the workstation and server cards with a Cypress chip also didn't come with 512 MB. The FirePro 3D V7800, V8800 and V9800 and the FireStream 9350 and 9370 came with 2 GB minimum. It also can't be a reflashed HD 5830, the smallest card with Cypress chip, that also had at minimum 1 GB The fact that GPU-Z reports it as 1 GB suggests it also isn't a partly broken card where part of the memory was disabled in the firmware. And I love the Batmobile 5850 shown at 5:29 that was truly a great visual design, even if cooling performance was what you expect from a blower style cooler. The Black Mesa results aren't too surprising. It's still Source Engine in DX9, so the card should perform well. Cities Skylines on the other hand will be CPU limited. No matter what CPU you have, at some point the city is large enough that it will limit. CS2 feeling sluggish and heavy is usually how I would describe the engine when vsync is on, but the result clearly shows that that isn't the case. And yes, Skyrim is a perfect example of a 2011 game that people would play on the card. Two years newer than the card, but still perfectly playable. And guess what, the old release of Skyrim also runs on a Core 2 just fine. Fallout 4 is as expected. The godrays run indeed much better on nvidia, but manually tweaking the settings massively improves quality and performance. And that it goes down in the city can be improved by tweaking the shadow settings. Not something in the launcher, but ini file editing. For overclocking I would look into the tools used in the day. TDP and voltage should be able to be changed through RBE. Either by manually editing a bios with higher voltages and higher CCC clock limits, or by using one from a faster card. Besides, the AMD GPU Clock Tool and MSI Afterburner seem to be the tools of choice back in 2009 And 1200 memory feels fine, that is also what the HD 5870 runs at. It seems some people were able to get their cards to 1000/1350, but that would basically mean putting about 1.16-1.21v on the core and 1.15v on the memory. And one additional thing for improving performance: Quite a few people had success flashing a HD 5870 bios on their HD 5850

I never had this card but I did have a couple 5830s I had bought on ebay years ago. They must have been used for mining as they had no shroud or fans. After applying case fans with zip ties they performed quite well for the games we played at the time. I think I spent around 20$ each. I still have one and used it a few months ago for testing a horribly cobbled external gpu setup with a modified powersupply before installing a good card. It survived lol.

my first Desktop Gaming GPU was a HD5850. unreal that you got one for just 25p... Had it running alongside a Phenom II X6

I know you said tempature looked good but you could try adding thermal pads or non conductive paste to the vram. Depending on how much clearance room you have between the chips and heatsink. It may help getting a bit higher performance from overclocked ram.

I had a Ati Radeon 5850 when I built my first PC back in 2015. It was actually an upgrade from the R7 240 that I first had lol. So I bought one off of eBay for $80 Aussie bucks and was extremely happy with the results. Smashed every game I threw at it back then which was BO1 BO2 CSGO Bioshock infinite and so on. The biggest thing that slowed it down was my Rubbish AMD A6 7400K APU that was OC to 5.86ghz and was still getting smacked by a i3 2100. After getting a Athlon X4 860K CPU and a small OC it was all good. I eventually got a GTX 960 but I still had that Radeon in another PC and it still works to this day.