Trying to game on the Least Powerful "Video Card" on Amazon 

Dawid: *buys worst video card Seller: Yay, some idiot bought it.

You will be full of “Rage XL” when this gives you low FPS in your games

This makes a GT 710 good graphics card.

I spent 10 minutes of my life, watching a video on a GPU that I would never buy. Not only would I never buy it, I would never consider it, nor would I even look for it or even know it exists.

Used to work for ATI many years after this card came out, and found we were still selling tons of them (along with the Rage128). I asked around how this was possible, we had FAR better graphics chipsets at the time (Radeon 9700 and newer), and yet were still fabbing these things. The answer was simple: servers. Many servers of the day used these chips as basic graphics chips to drive the local VGA connector. I wouldn't be surprised if a not much newer successor was being used even today for VGA out on servers.

9:24 Don't tempt me now 😏

Plays minesweeper with this card, clicks mine, card explodes

I'm not buying a new motherboard just for this card Dawid.

This card is not intended for gaming, but for servers and industrial systems. The Matrox G200 is also still being produced and is used in industry and servers. These cards and chips from back then are robust, energy-saving and have proven themselves. So you can still buy them.

I'm just impressed at the ability to use the VGA cable to support the card as you wave it around.

RU-vid after recommending dozens of 10000$ builds and showing me how bad my pc is Here you go you can take a break now

I can't wait to try 1640:320 resolution 👀

Me: “Mom can we get graphics card?” Mom: “no we have graphics card at home.” Graphics card at home:

That's the type of video card you get for free on a Choco Krispis cereal box.

my first GPU was a 4mb rage pro....and it turned my gaming world upside down and I never looked back to console. Jedi Knight @ 800x600 (might have been 1024x768) was mind blowing.

Litteraly most of the schools: "I'll take your entire stock"

0:24 there is no such GPU as a "GT 210" - only a "GeForce 210" :^)

I was cleaning out my attic and found an ATi Mach 64 from 1995. It pretty much had the same purpose as this Rage XL. Just a 2D accelerator. According to Techpowerup it runs on a 600nm process with 1 pixel shader and 1 ROP. Ultimate gaming power!

Title:the slowest video card My video card: im finna end this whole video card career

The new ibuypower prebuilts are definitely gonna have this now

The fact that at first i screamed "What, a GT 710" at first was not lost on me lol

Pretty sure for this card, you'd want something like Windows 98 :-)

Your XP endeavours may have been hindered by the use of SATA drives. You might have needed to check whether your bios chipset instructions were set to IDE mode and not AHCI mode.

Omfg i actually had this card back in like 2017 in an old server i found in the trash, i remember searching for W7 drivers and seeing these 10 year old threads (2008) already calling this card old and obsolete lmaoo

Idk how nvidia can keep the oldest, crustiest, shittiest cards in max stock, but they still struggle to keep everything else in stock.

Technically, you can't keep calling this a _GPU_ (or even the ATI term _VPU_ ) as the RAGE series is comparable to nVidia RIVA series, and predates Hardware T&L.

VGA actually has a few tricks up it's sleeve which makes it quite impressive, 1600x1200 16-bit is more of a limitation of the generic driver you are using, though this card might not be able to handle it. But I've managed to get up to 1920x1440i at something like 90hz on VGA, and it looks fantastic on an authentic CRT.

Wait wait.... Half-Life actually came BEFORE Unreal Tournament. Like a whole year before. Still love you !

The trick with Windows XP is running your hdd controller in IDE mode and have 3GB of ram or less connected. Some motherboards have a OS type selection. Putting that to DOS/Linux tends to help on modern boards

Me: Mom i need a graphics card Mom: we have graphics card at home

Still gets more frames than intel graphics

I remember being happy to get this card 😂 it was far better than the S3 Trio64+ we had in the Pentium 166MHz

I want to play "Graphics up the butt 9", where can I buy it?

The rage XL was pretty popular for servers for a long time way into the 2000s and still has a lot of support on many OSes. Id assume that's why its still for sale on major retailers.

This GPU fails the social credit test 6:54

I purchased this GPU and it served my needs perfectly! I needed a PCI GPU to boot into my NAS' bios (Xeon E3 1230v2 has no integrated graphics, and my mobo didn't have PCI-e). If you read the reviews, you'll see that most people purchase this card for similar reasons.

GT 210: Finally a worthy GPU, our battle will be legendary!

Intel HD graphics: finally an opponent I can beat

My school: Perfect! Yea, the computers in my school crash when you paste more than 3 images in paint.

Me watching the intro: ... Me looking at my GT710: Hey, buddy...

i fell of my chair laughing when you showed "it was essentially the gt710 of 1998" with that face

I had a card similar to that back in ‘98, paired with a VooDoo for the proper 3D stuff. Honestly back in the Win 9x days having a display adapter with an 8 megabyte frame buffer, for 2D/Windows stuff, would’ve been really nice. Like you say pre-2000 games it’ll be fine, when installed on period correct hardware. It should play nice with Doom and Duke 3D for example.

Im feeling a bit disapointed. This is the equivalent to go looking for a 1940's car and then complain is bad.. of course is bad... is a 22 year old card! The question is why do they sell it still, and well, the answer is simple: For people with 30 yr old computers that need a video output! Back then, the cpus didn't had integrated graphics. The igpu of those days, if it had one, it was part of the motherboard, and some had 1 or 2 mb of memory and they would struggle even playing videos. It wasn't like today that any budget cpu comes with integrated graphics good enough to watch youtube... well almost all of them, you know what i mean. Back then it was common to have both the sound and the video as pci cards. And the 2d video cards, let's call them that, were actualy more common then 3d acelerated graphics cards. This card was never meant to play games. It was literaly a video output card so you could use your pc and thats it. I know that realy sound like the gt 210... but is not realy the same... You see... the 210 exists in an age, where dedicated gpus are considered 3d acelerators, and not display outputs... where the basic video output is handled by the integrated gpu INSIDE your cpu and noone would think to buy a dedicated gpu just so they can watch youtube and dvd's. This card in the other hand, existed in a time were you needed to use a video card just to get video out. HELL this card existed in a time where 3D CARDS and video cards were 2 SEPARATED THINGS. You used THIS card along another pci card which function was to render the 3d graphics for your games, and you would plug the vga output of your video card into the 3d acelerator and then use the 3d acelerator output to plug your monitor! IT WAS CRAZY!

When I was a student I had an ATi Rage 128, 8MB in my gateway PC. I played The Sims, Monster truck madness 2, StarCraft, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit. Fun times. Then one of the 2MB chips died and it started artefacting in 3D mode. I still keep it to this day, poor thing.

I unironically purchased this card for a NAS that couldn't boot in headless mode. Totally worth it.

That BSOD was a stop 7B. It is an inaccessible boot device. You can get that if you install Windows XP from a USB stick, are in RAID mode, etc... You may just need to find the mobo drivers for SATA and use F6 to load them during Windows setup. You may also want to be sure you have an XP SP3 install disk with those SATA drivers.

*Rings tech Support* Client: My Rage XL Video Card struggles running Windows Tech support guy: Did you try turning it 180°?

I am amazed that Amazon posted this card. I could expect Ebay listings, for vintage hardware is significant today and quite pricey actually. Heck, try to pick up a used, vintage Voodoo graphics card today.

XP drivers will install in Windows 7 32bit. (Vista as well). They may work in Windows 10 32bit but I've not tried it. (You may need to run the OS in unsigned driver mode since XP drivers were not usually signed)

These cards do actually serve a quite important purpose, and that is keeping legacy systems for businesses and governments in top notch shape until they can be phased out. Take the example of a hospital, for example. They just bought some insanely expensive equipment which is handled throuch a computer interface. Advance 10 years and you have a perfectly working machine paired to a PC that starts showing its age and components slowly start getting busted. As many old machines won't properly interface with newer computers, it's essential to have a market of new old stock for replacement parts in order to keep thousands of systems running way past their prime, and these cards (as many other components you can find) look to cover that need.

Well... i had an apu that can‘t even handle agario, a 2d circle game .-.

Back then there were many gaming VGA manufacturers like S3, 3dfx, ATI, Matrox and more. People used mostly 14-15 inch CRT monitors so 8MB video RAM were sufficient.

9:11 Dawid's next video "I try to SLI 3x Rage XL's"

Pretty interesting that your monitor did not have a native VGA port, given that many monitors today, even high-end and gamer-oriented ones, still have one.

That card is less "Rage" and more "Slightly irritated".

“Old monitor with VGA” Me: Has VGA on my monitor and uses DVI on my 1680 x 1050 monitor

8:58 I laughed way to hard on this XD

Nobody in 1998 said: Got my new Rage XL, love the framerate boost in Rogue.

No VGA isn't limited to 1600x1200. VGA can display 1920x1080 and does it natively.

"We aren't talking about the GT 710 and neither GT 210, instead, we are talking about the glorious GT 10"

0x0000007b on XP means you have enabled AHCI in BIOS and didn't load drivers. Try enabling IDE mode

In the right vintage build this would probably be pretty good. Had some rudimentary 3d acceleration functions, but was basically a 2d card, right? Really needs to be attached to a 3DFX. This is 95/98 era tech.

Mom can we get a pc. Mom : we have a pc at home , the pc at home:

Bro was a low-end budget GPU before GPU's were even required to play most games

I honestly have no idea why I keep fucking binging your videos. But it's honestly the best XD

Wait since when did you hit 100k congrats lol

I had a Rage Pro back in the day, with the memory expansion. It was my 2d card to my voodoo2

To use some VERY rough numbers, I found synthetic benchmarks for the Rage XL on Hardware Museum (2.8). I also found a value for the Radeon 7500 (48.3). That's important, because you can find the Radeon 7500 on a more modern benchmark, like Passmark, where it gets a 3. It's worth noting, the $125 RX 570 has a Passmark benchmark of 6967. Using the Radeon 7500 as a scaling benchmark (the Rage XL is 5.8% of the Radeon 7500), that means we can rough out the Rage XL's Passmark at 0.2. This makes the RX 570 (a good value card, but still a value card) almost 35000 times more powerful than the Rage XL. Even the lowly GF 710 gets a Passmark of 621, or 3100 times more powerful, just to give an idea of scale. Not sure why I felt the need to work this out, but I did.

prebuilt gaming pcs on amazon:

Great purchase for a retro gamer restoring a Windows 95 PC. Like me. I think it's mostly for keeping old servers running.

"If that's something that you're into" LGR Fans: *YES*

A Rage XL chip usually used in server motherboards as just a display output. That's kinda the reason it exists at all :D

Windows XP might not work due to you trying to use AHCI instead of IDE, AHCI wont work if you dont have drivers

You call it pointless, I call it entertaining. I mean, look at the money you're saving us by doing the crap we want to do but don't have the budget to blow on stuff we don't need. Plus the insults that go along with it are just pure joy to my ears. You find ways to word things that are just out of my consideration range.

Likely the XP install failed because you had your SATA controller set to AHCI mode instead of IDE.

0:08 I can see the Gpu I am saving up for to put in a pc. (hint: it has a yellow box)

Schools be like: I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK!

**sad geforce 2 noises**

Man, I never noticed when we stopped using the term video card and now called graphics cards instead. I remember calling them video cards all the time, but I guess when their focus shifted from just displaying images to rendering games and videos I guess that's when it happened.

When a GPU is so weak that the CPU's like "Fine, I will do it myself".

You've beaten me hands down. My ''worst'' gpu is a Voodoo 3000 16 MB

Was planning to buy this as an upgrade to a POS system with a 450Mhz AMD CPU, but holy hell this is worse then I thought... Thanks for saving my wallet XD

Schools: I’ll take your entire stock!

i dont know whats more awkward, the fact at one point this would have been cutting edge tech or that i actually would have a use for one right now...

This GPU is older than I am, shocking actually

discord notification is faster than the RU-vid one, I am even faster than the notification squad, I’m a proud member of of the discord notification squad

My first computer came with one of these integrated to the main board. Yeah I updated to a Geforce card right away. A Guillemot's Hercules 3D Prophet DDR-DVI with 32mb of ram for $319. What an upgrade!

This video card/gpu was one of most common to find in servers at time. Often integrated straight to motherboard (ati xl was used like that for years). Still there was more funny things that should be 3d capable yet sucked compared even to rage xl... like SIS... lol. Have 8mb sis agp card that somehow manages to stay on par with 4mb pci rage 2 at best XD Edit: Recheked, even have some P4 prescott server boards with ati xl on board :) Also, You didn't try cryptomining on this?? Why? It would show You hashrates You never imagined possible :P

The title was cut off, and I was excited about the prospect that you might have scored an S3 Virge, my first 3D "accelerator" card

sometimes there are industrial uses for old hardware like this, i gave away some old stuff to a guy who needed it for an old pc that was used to run a machine with windows 95

3:40 vga isn't limited to 1600x1200

I can't count how many times one of those ATI Rage XL pci video cards have saved my ass. At one time I had salvaged a small stack of them and they enabled me to build and learn alot about older machines back when I got started. I think I still have one around as my saving grace for whenever I play around with my oldies. Reliable af.

These cards were in Dell PowerEdge servers that lacked onboard graphics, circa 2003 (Pentium 4/Celeron). I guess Dell found it cheaper to leave out mobo video, and instead, bulk-buy Rage XL's from an e-waste warehouse...they were obsolete even in 2003.

1998 I was rocking a Voodoo2 that could do 800x600 because it was the fancy 12MB edition, 640x480 was perfectly normal for 3D gaming back then.

People will never understand that before video and sound cards came along, we had to operate computers by touch alone.

“Gotta watch Dawids new video” *insert an anecdote after every sentence.

This isn't a gpu for graphics processing, it's only meant to provide video output for servers for console outputs, most if not all of which don't even include pci express .connectors.

That PCI connector made me think this could be useful for a Windows 98 build that only has PCI ports. But Jesus, that card even makes other PCI graphics cards look like absolute beasts in comparison...

LOL the GT 710 is basically a card you use to see if the motherboard is working, and your old GPU is dead.

Windows 7 will run windows xp drivers, but only 32 bit versions can do this.