Had the 8800 GT (upgraded from a GeForce 3 Ti 200, which I bought in early 2002). That card was a beast of a card for its time, and I paid for it less than $150... Insane!
@@kubixon28 Yeah, Crysis was (obviously) the first game that I tried after purchasing the 8800GT. 😁 It ran quite well for the time (although I was very CPU bottlenecked with the CPU I had at the time, which was an overclocked Core 2 Duo E 7200).
Ohhhhh I had a 8600 gts, crysis on medium/high was playable... sometimes not so much but I really loved that game!!! The remake didn't make it for me sadly...
Had a 8800GTS from Bfg, the most iconic design I've ever owned on a GPU ever, also it was a bomb, played Call Of Duty Modern Warfare so well. It takes me back because it was the most high-end GPU I've ever owned from any series, and it didn't cost me a kidney, good times.
@@phalxorI had an MSI 8800 GT that I paid $230 for and it included The Witcher, what finally did that card in was moving to 1080p. Not enough VRAM to handle the resolution. I was really into Mafia 2 at the time and it was awfully slow.
"Good thing is, the new games are crap anyways and the older ones are much better" I totally agree. Would love to see more older GPUs such as this one.
I have had this exact GPU back in 2009 in my first ever pc, as a kid. I remember playing alot of games back then, including GTA IV. Beautiful times man.
lol no, prices for a good gpu was in the 500+ range back then, some were even higher... if i remember correctly the 9600 gt had like 60-75% of the raw compute power of the flagship for 1/3 the cost
holy cow this was my first dedicated gaming gpu ! this single handedly carried me through my childhood gaming journey until it got fried during a thunderstorm.. still not sure how that happened and fun fact, this has a wider bus width than the 4060ti lol
Thank you for this type of content !! I just boot some old pc with an hd3650 and was amazed of all I was able to play quiet smoothly.. keep the hard work you are the man, seeing some old stuff being back from the dead is so cool :D
Man i really Love your Videos they're always Fantastic btw I had this card back then I had alot of fun with it was a beast of a card for me .. Your my favourite youtuber i've never seen Any one put this much effort then u bro I hope You Reach 1m asap ..
Thank you so much!! 🥰 I wish I had a 9600GT back in 2008, I was chugging along with a G103M which was terrible. Actually that was 2009 I think, I had a mobility Radeon card that got 4 fps in L4D1 in 2008 🤣
Wow! When Ark came out I was playing it on a 560 Ti. I remember how much difference there was between it at launch and years later playing on a GTX 970 but actually seeing it on low now is shocking. PC gaming has come a long way in a decade. I can't wait to see what ARK 2 looks like when it comes out.
I used to play L4D and L4D2 on my laptop with 4gb of ram and a 9600m gt with 512gb of vram. I think the cpu was a core 2 duo p7450. It worked fairly well, until the thing heated up beyond the surface of the sun and everything started to get throttled. I believe the 9600m gt also only had ddr2 ram, but it was still my first real gpu.
Kryzzp I just want to say thank you for the videos that you make! And all the time and effort you put into making them. You are one of my favorite RU-vidrs and I have been watching for over 2 years, and I can’t wait to watch this one! I’m sure it will be great as always! Thank you again my friend we are all very grateful for the content that you make! 🙂
Yes, I was gaming during a time when mid range cards were $200 and were thin and compact and could be powered by a single 6pin. I miss those times. Good video.
I miss those times, that's when I started pc gaming, had started with a 8400gs, then upgraded to a 9800gt Played Mass Effect, GTA 4, SA-MP, APB, RE5, Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Borderlands....I feel like these games had better atmosphere, simplier etc. Also everything was cheaper to buy.
I love all of your videos but there is something really cool about those videos when you test older gpus. It's just so interesting to see what they are capable of these days and to see that you can still have a lot of fun with them.
This takes me back to the eVGA 8800GT (single slot ) I bought when I built my first gaming pc back in 2008. Technology has evolved significantly in the last 15 years.
This was my GPU back in 2009 had a Palit model paired with intel core 2 duo played the hell out of Far cry 2, Crysis, Dragon Age then Skyrim and so on, good memories man
Yeah the prices gotta change man, I am stuck on a 1050 and getting a new gpu is a big no for me. I wish more people would stand up to nvidia and amd and not buy the new gpus until they start reasonably pricing their products.
@@gozutheDJ Yeah the 6600 is so much better than my 1050, yes no doubt. This gpu is 200 usd used (on my market), so god knows what it was used for these days. Still not a bad thing but in the not so distant times I used to buy a part and use it for many years to come. Now, if I'd but that card, how long will it last with the incompetence of the game devs and those insane requirements? In a year or two how will my 200 usd go down?
@@pidojaspdpaidipashdisao572yeah but you can’t be playing the kind of games you’re worried about on a 1050? theres a lot of fear mongering going around
@@gozutheDJ well if i'd upgrade i would expect to be able to play everything with decent visuals for a few years. When the 3070 came out I wanted to upgrade but the price on the local market was almost 800 usd (converted). Which was an instant no for me. I always tend to go for nvidia even though I play games on linux. Because for me nvidia cards never failed in any case. The amd cards I usually don't even look at because all of my amd cards have failed in one way. The nvidia gives a nice performance but the price hit that comes is pretty hefty. Before this 1050 i had a rx 570 which would just give me screen issues. It would turn off the display and give the windows disconnect sound and would turn it on again and it would keep doing that in a loop, the one after was a 1060 which was a card to beat. It could run everything and I paid less than 150 usd what 5 years ago? That card can still game. Even if this 6600 does live 5 years from now to be a decent card, will it still be comparable to the 1060? No because I paid less than 150 usd for it and this one goes a bit above 200 usd here. So if they last the same the price is higher for the newer card. Again I don't know if amd improved, they might have but I'm just not buying their card again. That's my view, so still something has to change and there is no fear mongering here it's just a realistic view. The 3070 used goes for around 300 usd here, now if that card holds for another 5 years like my previous 1060, will it be value? No, again here I'm paying 300 usd and that one was half the price. Do you see the problem here?
Bro Far Cry 3 is probably my mostly favorite game ever because when it released it was so fun, it has an awesome story and is still enjoyable to this day. Amazing game all round and so easy to run
@@zWORMzGaming Fantastic idea! I had a 7800GT with an SLI motherboard but I never got around to buying the second GPU. I always wondered how much extra performance I would have got.
@@zWORMzGaming I wanted to do so but I cannot get a mobo with two pcie connectors and I sold one of the cards as part of a computer. But doing SLI vids with old cards is a great idea
Props for paying respect to dino month! I was a little irked when these cards came out because I was piecing together my Q6600 system paycheck-by-paycheck and the 9000 series came out a few months after I finished assembling it with an 8800GT. I've been on a huge retro kick lately and am having a hard time talking myself out of building a late-00s PC to go back and relive XP-era gaming.
I remember having a PC with dual GPUs from that series. It was so good! Lasted me for about 6 years with World of Warcraft, some Skyrim, Far Cry, GTA 4 etc. It was on XP, so RAM was limited. But it was a smooth experience for that time period of gaming. I can't remember exactly what card it was in dual, but damn I enjoyed it.
Had the XFX 1 GB version that served well for 7 years until upgrading to a GTX 970. A few months back wanted to make a Retro Windows XP SSD build with it, but sadly a capacitor popped and the card retired forever. Put the 970 instead with modded drivers, after finding out that GT cards available in the market (210, 610, 710, 730) are not an upgrade from it. As you said, GTX 750 Ti or such was the direct upgrade from this, other series could be skipped. The 8800 GTX and 9800 GT were beasts too, but 9600 GT was the best bang for buck back in 2008-09.
I had Zotac version, also 512MB. Replaced only when framebuffer become a problem but friend of mine use it for at least two years later until it finally died from probably combination of terrible Zotac cooler and supstrate issues nvidia had at that time.
Man kryzzp you never disappoint with a video its always nice to wake up to them it was nice seeing you test out gta 4 since it's really a demanding game and black ops 2 man you really took me back yo the fun good old times on the 360
Great job man, I am happy that you do this work because I get to see what i need. I am greatful for you and thank you. Ive been watching for a while now and I am just confused of HOW MANY GPUs you have like how bro? Anyways, I just wanted to say thank you.
man... I remember having a GTX 280 with some anime esc woman on it lol. ASUS model I think it was. Looking back at the older cards is always so much fun, I have kept all my older cards just because I love looking back at what was once top tier. Great vid as always
Dude I have questions. Can you play Assassin's Creed Odyssey on your GTX 280? If yes how much fps you getting? What is the newest AAA game that you can run on this card? Please answer. I'll reply even if you answer after 5 years lol Now I regret I didn't got the GTX but the 9600GT. But anyway. Had great times.
@@ps4games164 dont think the card can really play anything past 2015 ish. And if it could even boot any games up it would suck hard. Thing came out in 2008, aint no way its playing anything today.
@@lilpain1997 Playstation 4 came out 2013 but playing anything 2022. One guy on youtube nearly maxed out Tomb Raider 2013 on 1368x768 no AA and got 30fps on that card. So Assassin's Creed Odyssey 720p/medium/24fps would probably be possible according to my rough "calculations".
@@ps4games164 that's not how it works, a console and PC are not comparable at all. I don't even think the GTX 280 has the latest APIs at all to even start newer games let alone actually get anything playable. Literally dont think it can run anything with DX11 at all. Unless the game has DX9 10 modes you aint starting the game up at all.
I already be happy playing Warcraft 3 on that thing, you could also play Starrcraft II, SPellforce 2, even Crysis was possible to play with that card at low/mid. Lineage 2, Half-Life 2, Dune 2000, The Sims 2 (3 maybe), BioShock, Unreal Tournament 2004 (perfectly), Quake 4, Lineage 2, WoW, COD 3,... It was a big jump in the game library having this card and the price making PC-gaming accessible to everyone world-wide. 8800GT was the true monster of performance back in the day but that one cost ton of money (600$ MSRP) and this new 9000 series lower prices to half or less.
I've used at the time a 900p monitor, and the fan died. But I did some makeshift coolers over the years that kept me going until I wanted to play overwatch... A few year later I got a 1050 ti and a i5 7400
I had the XFX 8800GT 512MB. Really was outstanding performance and value for money. Ended up putting 2 of them in SLi paired with a Core 2 Quad Q6600. Never had love for a PC like I did that one.
19:03 every time I hear this I get chills haha. And also every time I see a system run Crysis I’m like: “wait… no. It’s running, that’s not supposed to happen!” 🤣
very detailed benchmark, i'm impressed, lots of effort was put into making it, looking for & waiting for team fights in dota 2, multiplayer battles in bf3, explanations about differences versus console, explanations about gta 4 about gt 710 - 9600 GT 512MB is actually ~20% faster than gt 710 , though gt 710 have 1GB of VRAM so that may come into play too in some games about gt 630m - 9600 GT 512MB is actually ~20% faster than gt 630m (so you were not wrong about noticing it!), though gt 630m have 2GB of VRAM so that may come into play too in some games i used to have 9800 GT and don't know much about 9600 GT other than it's a decent bit weaker model than 9800 GT, but i know that it's still stronger than lots of laptop gpus and some non gaming desktop gpus which you also mentioned i also know that 9800 GT can easily be flashed to above than 9800 GTX+ performance (did that for mine through nibitor back in the days) so perhaps 9600 GT can get some decent boost through flashing as well, not sure though.
With the games that you have a problem with the cursor appearing, something I do which helps many times is to alt+tab in and out of the game when the cursor stops appearing.
The problem with the "newer" GT cards (such as the GT 620 etc.) is that they don't process particles, and they offload them to the CPU, which is why a 9600 GT would sometimes outperform them.
This was probably the most common card at the time other than the good old 8800 which was a beast. I had an AMD Athlon 64x2 6000+ (3ghz dual core) system at the time and ran an ATI 4890 HD. Thing was an absolute beast with Windows 7 and 4GB of ram 😂. Time flies.
Still got a 9600 GT 512MB. Had it from new! But it's an OEM version and so looks like something from the 1970's with no plastic shroud. Has a bright red PCB however. The fan was mounted vertically! I modded it to fit horizontally however as that was just weird. The card supports DX11, it will run BF4 for example. But it only supports hardware feature 10. It overclocked quite well. I could play Rocket League at 60 fps and 1080p with most settings turned to minimum. I later upgraded to a 750 Ti and the difference was jaw dropping. But as it still works (not bad for a card from 2008) I decided to keep it all these years.
I still have a 9600 GSO version and a 9800 GT. Got the 9600 just for a free game bundled with it. Both only 512mb of vram. But the 9800 GT ran Arkham Asylum so good back then!
I used to have this card and a phenom 2 1045t overclocked to 4.2ghz with 16 gigs of ddr2 and trust me since you have a much newer faster cpu all this runs 2-3x better lol. About 25-40fps difference. Pretty much all games I played was a mediocre experience back then. 20 fps in Crysis at medium. 20fps in GTA 4. 30fps on normal in Modern Warfare 2. 30fps Skyrim. but also at the time I was running games on a 1050p monitor. You just weren't cool if you had a tiny monitor back then xD Was a beautiful picture monitor though (probably the best picture I ever seen even today) though I believe it was a Sony one that had the liquid Crystial in it? Idr but it was sick. Some of this might be way off on my part because it was so long ago, but keep on making great content!
This was a really good GPU at the time. Essentially an 8800GT Lite. I could play Crysis at High settings and manage over 30FPS which was monster performance when this card was new. Anything less demanding than Crysis it could just plain max out. Left 4 Dead 2 is a great test for this card and this is basically the GPU I first experienced the L4D games on. At the time I ran both games maxed with 2x MSAA at 1680 x 1050 and they played great. Black Ops 2 is hard on this card but it played WaW, Black Ops 1, MW1, and MW2 maxed no problems. The jump from oldschool pixel pipes to unified shaders was massive, and the 9600GT is probably the largest leap we've ever seen out of an Nvidia x6xx/xx6x GPU ever. 8600GT and GTS were just refreshes of the 7600GT performance-wise and were lame.
i surprisingly like this content alot, but i've noticed you dont really have any videos on the 2gb variant of the rx550 (my current) or any videos on the rx 460. im running an optiplex with a 4th gen i5 and the prices of the rx6400 and gtx1650 heck even the 1050ti are way too expensive right now, so maybe a video on the rx 460 would probably help me decide which gpu to purchase when i have money. thanks kryzzp!
Ah the good old days. I remember feeling like crap cuz I bought the 8600 GT only to find out the 9600 GT was like double the performance level or something crazy like that for near the same money? 9600 GT was legendary
Kryzzp, you really should update that low end system to Haswell. Haswell is now the bottom of the barrell. Ivy bridge lacks AVX2 at the least and is slower than Haswell to boot. I recommend Haswell for gamers on a tight budget and Sandy/Ivy Bridge for people that don't really play games but need a PC for office/school/productivity/Entertainment as they do all that well. I also recommend them for a custom NAS or any other type of server from DNS to Email. An i7 4770k was the most common. 4790k was the fastest. I would go 4770k to keep it real.
In 2008 PNY Released a 1GB Version of this. I bought it and the 1GB of VRAM made the card relevant years after it should have been dead. I rocked that cad until 2011 when I ordered an HD6870 1GB. The card was a lemon so 3 RMAs and a year later I received an HD 7850 2GB as a replacement for the HD 6870. That lasted me until 2015. I went 1440p 120 Hz and I wanted a card to match it. I got an RX 480 8GB and was very satisfied. But then I got a GTX 1080 just 2 months later on a lark and was blown away. It was my first flagship since the 1950XT in 2006. And I was just as impressed. I had gone cheap a while as I was playing console games more often than PC. PC was still getting late ports from last gen consoles. I hated that. Skyrim forced my upgrade from the 9600GT. Skyrim's 2016 update forced my upgrade from the HD 7850 to the RX 480 8GB and Battlefield V made me swap my 480 for the GTX 1080. Sadly I sold that 480 and I have missed it since. I lent the HD 7850 to a friend that couldn't use it and never got it back. I guarantee it's sitting in a desk drawer across the country. lol.
I bought one in 2008. It came in a fancy green acrylic case, not a regular cardboard box, and Tomb Rider Anniversary DVD. It costed more than my one month salary 😁
I remember owning a similar gpu than this in my first pc build with an athlon 64 in it. Now I have a 13900k and a 7900xtx oh how times have changed lol.
The 9600 GT was a cut down 9800 GT. It was as close to an 8800/9800 you could get without actually having one. My card came overclocked and performed very closely to the 8800 GT.
I remember that great card :) , it was a great upgrade after my crappy 7600gs and i had the 9600GT from Gainward with 512 mb Vram. I was very happy because i made the upgrade to 3 GB of DDR2 Ram and then i was ready to play Bioshock Crysis and Far cry 3 ( Cpu was by the way intel core 2 duo 2x1.86 GHz ). It makes always fun to watch your Videos and i smile or laughing often thanks for your great work both of you :) .
Had the same card, 4 core Intel. For Crysis Ive got 24 fps, 1280x1024 on settings way beyond the very high ones by using an official 8kbyts mod with just simple tweaks. Also got HDR settings (colors) with this mod. It was fantastic, very colorful experience. Beat the game countless times. Memories I'll never forget. UT3 was another game just too good to be true. Both games were like something coming from distant future. Got 30fps on everything max including max AA. Good times. The present games doesn't offer anything different at all. Not even a bit. I'm worried to be honest. 15 years nothing new.
I gamed on a 9500 gs 1gb and a core 2 duo, from early 2015 until late 2016 when I got a 1050 ti for Christmas, then in 2017 may I got a r5 1600, 8gb, and b350 tomahawk it was such a relief to play gpu bottlenecked rather then cpu.
Regarding COD Black Ops 2 20:26, you can play the game online "safely" using Plutonium servers, which are actually very popular (So popular that even Faze Jev has been playing using it lately), it also supports Modern Warfare 2, 3; Black Ops 1 and World At War.
