The Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 from 2009 

1.4 Billion processors, that's what I call a multicore!

11 years... it really doesn't seem that long ago!

I found one of these cards in a pc tossed out on the side of the road, it had an arctic accelero triple fan cooler attached to it, temps peaked at about 55c under load on that after a repaste. Took one dead stick of ram out of the core 2 quad system it was in and the entire thing booted up and posted and I just laughed.

The time when GPU must have lady innit

FEAR looks so good even to this day

That's crazy...i actually JUST YESTERDAY installed a GTX 285 in my windows XP rig! Definitely a great card. Doubled my frame rate in some games over my 9500 GT

back when high end gpus were actually affordable

One of the coolest things about these cards is the digital audio in (white plug next to the power plugs). Once it's enabled in the drivers the audio will be added into the HDMI signal. The Audigy card I used doesn't have a header for digital out, so I soldered a wire to the back of digital out plug and ran it into the video card.

Love your German Australian accent.

Great video - and perfectly on time for me - as I have recently bought a GTX 285 and plan on assembling a "dream Windows XP" machine during this very weekend! Thank you for your work!

Good Memories to this platform. Well done! Greetings from Germany!

love the old cover art on those old graphics cards, remember ATI Radeon's ruby?

Very nice video once again! Would love to see more of these types of graphics card focused videos with old high-end models like this GTX 285.

Such great content, thank you

GT 740 performance with 3090 power consumption! Lmao

I bought a GTX295 brand new in 2009, it cost me £550. Accounting for inflation it would be the price of a 3080 today.

Thank you so much for this video 👍🏻👌🏻✌🏻

Anyone else remember the days when 4gb of RAM was high end?

This card is still new for me coz ive not been playing since 2009

Very good video. You brightened the day for all retro hardware enthusiasts! Just keep it up, if you can do more AGP Videos card comparison! Thank you Phill....

Excellent! I picked up two of those cards for next to nothing at a garage sale a few years ago, intending to build an SLI system with them one day. Finding a SLI capable mobo that isn’t dead has proved to be a challenge, though.

I had the EVGA version of that card with an Intel Core i7-930. I dont have the video card anymore but still have the motherboard and cpu running an 680GTX. System is running an AIO water cooler for the cpu and it is still going. Great video, brings back some good memories.

"The future computer parts will be much more energy efficient" they said, 2009 GTX 285 2x6-pin conector, 2020 RX 6800/RTX 3080 2x8-pin conector...

Seeing Windows XP install screen.... Great memories. And of course great video 🙂👍

Awesome video. I have something very similar to this in the works. Already ran some stuff with the gtx 260, similar to the 285. Right now I'm into the gtx 580, I find it lightning fast, runs most of modern games. Thanks for the video Phil, always good.

Great video Phil. Can't wait..... Retro Windows Vista. So happy!

Another great video Phil. I'm looking forward to you overclocking that W3680!! Cheers Luke

This is what I have in my Windows XP gaming machine, which I built after being inspired by your channel. Picked it up for 10 euros!

The GTX 285 was one of my favorite graphics card. so two years ago I bought 3 of them for each 20€ at ebay and put it on my Rampage 2 Extreme with the Xeon CPU. The System was not the best for gaming (at least the graphics cards) but it looked very impressive, especially with the be fat bequiet dark rock pro 3 cpu cooler.

Another great video Phil! I remember the time when a high end GPU would cost 400 USD! I did not have the money back then but now I have 2 GTX 285 that make for a perfect high end Windows XP machine!

great videos as always

I have a GTX 295 with 2 chips. It was a beast a few years ago.

Haven't even begun the vid, still in the ad, and I'm giving it a like! I'm still underway on my XP dream build and continually looking at the perfs from the 8800GT all the way to the GTX 960. But knowing you Phil, I'm in for a treat 😁 Edit: Did not disappoint 👏

Struck out on finding a GTX 285 in good condition, but found a NIB GTX 470 instead. Can't wait to try it out and see how it stacks up. Thanks for the informative video!

Just got a real bargain, picking up two CRT Monitors for £10.00. They are becoming quite thin on the ground now and look and feel great at high FPS.

after the 260 black edition review from RGIHD, i was missing this one. great stuff for such old cards!

This has been stuck in my watch later for almost a year or more now, I have my boss' GTX 260 right behind me as I finish watching this video. Pretty good card for older games.

Such a great choice of games, thanks!

Had such a great time with my 285!

FWIW Phil, Creative Labs is the major company that pushed OpenAL, starting back with the Live and Audigy. It was seen as the future at the time.

Years ago i had the GTX 275 from Sparkle ( It had a white cooler, it was so cool ) and i was surprised by the performance ( specially because i bought it used for really cheap ). With a small oc ( didnt touched the voltages, i easily reached the limit of the cooler ), in Windows 10, it could run GTA V in 1080p, with the lowest possible settings you can set ,at 50ish fps. Anyway thanks for reviewing this old beast. I always wanted a GTX 285 but it was too expensive. Even today its not cheap for the performance that it offer ( i read that you could flash a bios for using it on some Mac Pros. Probabily thats the reason ) and yeah, as u said, a 750 or a 650 would be better but they are not the 285. There is something so fashinating about those old high-end components that i cant really explain.

My favourite Fridays are Phil Fridays!

love the 1366 platform.....very nice video Phil!...you always seem to get things running right..ive got the GTX 275 and an ssd and cant get winxp to work right ....like ever..so i stick to win7....loved that you showed that you play dead space....i hit a wall in that game and raged quit..lmao...

I remember when this video card was the boss! Just started high/middle school, these cards where the dream back then. I'm also looking forward to the review of that CPU, one of the best ones for 1366 IMO

Great video Phil! The condition of the GPU, considering its age, is mind blowing.

Nice video, specialy for me because its my favorite DX9 card

I have one of these cards and it works really well. I picked it up a couple years ago for cheap.

I got one of these back in the day! saved up for a few months, coming from a 6600gtx and it was SUCH a leap

RADEON 6800XT Killer‼️ 🤪

Love the 285/280 card, my dreamed xp machine may have two in SLI with core2 and 4gb ddr2 at 1066. BTW great video Phil thank you

Your voice is so relaxing!

I'm still using a gtx 275 as my daily driver! (I had integrated motherboard graphics before but i got the 275 at a thrift store for 4.99)

The boot loader in vista+ is pretty solid for dual booting XP. Just install XP first and make sure it's on the first partition. I'll use EasyBCD to fix the naming on the boot menu, it can be done in on the command line too.

Hi! I'm loving your videos. Been watching them lately. I hope you can also test the R9 285 from 2014. Would highly appreciate it! Take care.

Hi Phil. I still have 2 of these video cards. 1 is in my email pc and runs most videos pretty well even on Windows 10. Not used as a gaming video card, just a display. Things have moved on in the games world. Nice to see a review on it though. Thanks. F. E. A. R. was one of my favourite games in its time. Still a great game. Cheers, Mon from Brisbane

Id love to pay someone to build a custom retro pc for me. Wish i had the technical knowledge as well as the patience to build one of my own. Anyway, great video as always!

G'day Phil, That GTX285 looks well looked after, I have noticed a few on EBay at the moment between $50-$100AUD, every time I look for anything on Ebay I get distracted & end up looking at Graphics Cards 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Still got my GTX260. Always remember it came with a 10 year warranty. The good old days.

Nice video Phil. My curent xp gaming build is an Fujitsu esprimo c2d e8400 4gb ddr2 use xp32 bit so limitation is 3gb and radeon xfx HD6850 1gb ddr5. 500gb hdd very cheap and perform well.

Good review as always :) Just got hold of 2 x 285 GTX's + a 460 gtx here in Denmark for 76 AUD (converted) including shipping. A 3rd 285 were up for free, but sadly only via pick up, making it too costly. Going to try some SLI, but would have been fun with a triple setup

Love the video. I think you should really look at some of the patches, hacks, or game engine ports to give some modern look to these games and many are not that hard to setup. For example, there is a site that has widescreen fixes for most NFS games. I play them in ultra wide 2560x1080 and they look awesome. GZDOOM will actually find your original DOOM games (including Heretic and Hexen) from your Steam or GOG library and it is click and play, even supports Sound Canvas VA. I turn off the filtering for that satisfying pixel look. Again, awesome in ultrawide. For Wolfenstine 3D, I hda to find the latest dev build. The released version still doesn't support 2560x1080. Farcry's fixes fix the water reflection issue in Win 10. Doom 3 however, XP with EAX is the way to go. Fixes that re-enable EAX do not sound right and causes graphical issues. Maybe it doesn't like RX 580? Don't have a modern nvidia card to compare.

I still have my GTX 295 on display on my book shelve :) What an absolute monster it was back in the day ;) Hot AF doh !!

i had an EVGA 285 back in the day, was a great card!

Still have my ASUS ENGTX 285. Love that card. Remember running Crysis on it like a boss.

I had this exact same card back in the day. Sadly, it was overheating and I had to remove the shroud and slap a couple of 12cm fans on top of the heatsnik to manage the heat. I used it all the way up to the end of 2012 when I upgraded to a 660 Ti and all my games ran on it pretty well.

I recently managed to pickup my dads old GTX295 (effectively 2 x GTX275 running in SLI in one card) to replace the GTX260 in my retro gaming PC that I put together after finding your channel a few months ago.

I bought a bunch of retro parts from someone recently and he gave me a GTX 285 2GB model for free along with a case, motherboard, CPU and RAM. I paid next to nothing for the bundle. I never knew there was a 2GB model until I came across this one.

I still have one of these cards lying in a box of old computer parts.

Hello Phil! I actually made very similar build at the beginning of this year to celebrate Windows 7 EoL. I managed to install my copy of Windows 7 exactly on January 14 :) I have what I would consider top of the line 2009 components: Phenom II X2 550 unlocked to 4 cores and overclocked with HTT to 3,75GHz MSI 790FX-GD70 (basically the best MSI board I ever had. Even though I have mixed feeling about MSI boards, this one blows away AM3 Asuses and Gigabytes) 2x4GB of DDR3 memory @ 1600MHz CL9 1T GeForce GTX 280 at stock clocks undervolted from 1,18V to 1,11V Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi with 5,25" front panel I have it dual booting Windows XP and Windows 7. With 185.44 driver under Windows XP old games compatibility goes far beyond Far Cry ;) I tested all the games I know that make trouble under Windows 98 with late Nvidia drivers. Monster Truck Madness and Croc throw some artifacts because of crazy high framerates, but after forcing v-sync on for those titles, they work! And those are DirectX 5/6 games without any additional tweaks or patches. Need For Speed 3/5 works out of the box with NFS4 giving usual Windows XP problems that are fixable with additional patches. Midtown Madness 1/2 and Rayman 2 do not have any problems. Heck, even Star Wars I: Episode I Racer works and this one is known for its problems. Oh, and of course in every game D3D is enabled, so 3D acceleration is working properly. GTX280 gave me a lot of problems. When it arrived it just kept sitting at 105*C under 3D load no matter what. After disassembly I found that thermal pads are partially broken, but I didn't have replacements back then so I just repasted the GPU. That allowed me to use this card somewhat, but under artificial load (FurMark) it just kept sitting at 105*C. The reason is that GTX200/400/500 series of cards have heat spreaders just like modern CPUs and there is simple thermal paste used - just like with Intel's few generations of CPUs. I managed to take it off on my GTX 560 Ti but I do not want to repeat this procedure, as it requires a lot of force and during that process I thought that card won't work again. And I took IHS off from 3770k and 7800X CPUs before that to give you some perspective. Finally I settled for undervolted settings with custom fan curve stored in BIOS I made myself. That keeps temperature around 90*C in FurMark with 18*C ambient. Note that those cards precede any kind of turbo/throttling mechanisms, so it is going full blast in FurMark exceedings its TDP. Those temps are still very high comparing with old GPU-Z screenshots found on net (my cards GPU is 35*C hotter than its PCB, comparing that to ~10-15*C difference when card was new) and suggest problem with thermal compound between GPU and heat spreader. But hey, in games it sits around 70*C so I think thats ok :) All in all, this is great piece of hardware. Together with K6-III+/Voodoo 3/AWE32/GUS build it allows me to play all the games I ever played as a kid ranging from late 80' to 2010. All other games I can run just fine on my modern PC. GTX280 and its early drivers surprised me with great compatibility with older games I wasn't expecting. I just wanted to share my experience with you. Through years I have come to similar as yours conclusions and made very similar builds as yours. I enjoy watching your videos and appreciate involvement in many projects. Keep your good work Phil! :)

anyone knows where can i get like this bench test kit , with rubber mounting base ?

The best part about this card is the ability to run older drivers giving you great compatibility with early xp games and even windows 98 games running on xp. Great video Phil!

Hi , do you know why when i always take out my psu wire i have to always take out my cmos battery ? Otherwise my pc don't wanna start..

what is the little white connector next to the power connectors?

I have the same model in my retropc, this weekend I have work to do with the windows XP becose after few days i have a kernell32 error when i try to open a game and is the second time i have this issue, ¿ mybe easy2boot mess with my winxp Spanish edition? i will try with CD install this time

Phil..love the channel and looking to get back into xp gaming,have you had any issues using xp in terms of getting it activated as apparently it cannot be done anymore iss what I'm seeing on the net but I am already half way through an xp build🤦🏼‍♂️

I have an EVGA GTX 285 in my Phenom II X6 1100T with 8GB RAM and the X-Fi Fatality (probably the same card but with metal shield). Talk about overkill. Farcry at Ultra and 1600x1200 never dips below 100 FPS. Another good build to do is a high speed Core 2 Duo or Quad, generic DDR2 or DDR3 and a GTX 465. All spare parts I got free and really cheap.

I finally pulled the trigger and put together a very cheap but capable Windows XP system after watching your videos for years. I ended up going with: -Core2Quad Q6600 @3Ghz -4GB DDR2 800Mhz RAM -250GB Seagate HDD -Radeon HD 7570 1GB GDDR5

Love to see old card in newer games :)

I remember saving to buy this card as i was drooling over the review sites. After much consideration I finally later opted for the HD4870 1GB, i found it more impressive on paper. I still use my 4870 and i would love to get my hands on a GTX 285 just to see how the cards compare now that they have matured driver wise. If you have a 4870 it would be a nice theme to do a video.

To me this is peak XP. The Vista era was really an extended XP era given the sheer amount of people who "downgraded", so even 2008-2010 era I consider period accurate. To be fair, a lot of Vista's issues were lazy manufacturers claiming Vista compliance without real testing and I do respect Vista as an OS, but there's something poetic about higher end hardware on a more efficient and well tuned OS. I had 2 GTX 285s in SLI on an E8600 EVGA Nforce system, while that one awaits replacement of some visually hidden blown capacitors I have a single one with a single i5-750 for a "top tier Core 2 Quad" system running XP with the Daniel K PAE patch to allow for a full 4GB system RAM. Asus mobo with 8GB physical memory in dual channel along with a frankly ridiculous array of components, I've never had a better XP experience.

Hey! i just bought that card on craigslist for $10 USD. It's mint and came in it's original box and everything inside.

i loved this. i have a vintage alienware p4 extreme system, whats the best perioid correct gpu to use for it? ill be dual bootin xp and 10. and whats a good sound card under 100 for a logitech z5300 in windows 10? thanks in advance i absolutely get so excited and happy when i see videos from you because it brings back such nostalgia

Phil, where can I get/download a copy of Windows XP?

You are right about the price Phil, I still have a saved search for a GTX280 and 285, and I can't believe the prices that are being asked for them, my GTX295 cost me £13 BTW.

Also, the ATi Radeon X1950XTX worked in XP and Vista!

So, I'm not sure if this is something you'd care to do, but: I've been trying to find a good way to display to an older CRT TV using S-video and older video cards using Windows XP/Vista, along with finding the appropriate driver version that will support display scaling to make the image fit on TV. Do you know of any card/driver combination to go with for this? Or would you consider it a crapshoot at this point?

Ive got 2 of these, one if a oem geforce one and one is a MAC Edition card.I havent tried to install drivers for the MAC card but it does boot to my bios splash screen.Does anyone know if the MAC edition card work on a windows PC? I just never installed drivers cause I just didnt want to take the time lol.These arent expensive though.If you live in the US they have buy it nows on ebay for like 30 with free shipping dollars and auctions nobody is bidding on

Bought a Geforce GTX 280 a year ago but it came without the two slot connector bracket. Anybody know where to go for a replacement? Contacted EVGA and they didn't have any. Aliexpress came up empty also so any leads would be most welcome!

Hey can you make a comparison video with this and maybe something like the ATI HD 5770?

Awesome video, i liked how you rated the games as well 👌 Now i also kind of wanna see how much you could OC this cpu

I run a set of 280s in SLI but use the e8400 on P45 chipset. My I7 940 is right now a file server. And the e8400 is a little bit under powered but still does alright. It can play most of these games with pretty much the same experience. Windows XP will start to have ram addressing limitations with some games and settings on SLI as well, but for the most part it works ok. Reducing my CPU to an E7200 (2.93ghz 1066 bus 3mb cache) is slightly less performant than the E8400 but still provides a great experience. SLI however takes a larger hit though. And I am curious to dig out a lower core 2 and see how much SLI overhead becomes a factor.

My current XP rig has got a 500w power supply, is this enough for this card? Would love to get one.

I have one of these cards laying around. Might look to do a retro xp build with it

where did you buy that skeleton case you're using?

Just curious he did an ultimate windows xp build a while back with all used parts. Wonder what parts he'd use for an ultimate with more newer parts. Like the motherboard or CPU combo?

yes, enthusiast graphics - good direction for hardcore gamer

5:24 is that rust on the X-Fi card?

What do you guys think about zalman 650w psu ?? (I could not find anything better on market 🐄🐄)

Do you think they rendered the image one the gpu with another gtx 285?

I'm kinda wondering how modern a GPU would it take to completely fry an old, built-in CPU board. I found an ancient Compaq Presario I totally forgot about while putting the decs back in the loft so it might be an interesting experiment. I just don't fancy risking my card right now though.