For a video with a poo joke, it's awfully funny that the video URL actually has "Poo" at the end of the URL thanks youtube. 😎

210 as a gaming card is as good as those tiny USB fans as air conditioner.

The GT210 was gutless about 4 years before it even existed. An amazing feat!

I had a Gigabyte DDR3 variant of this card. I managed to basically max out the sliders in MSI afterburner before it black screened and never posted again.

During the GPU shortage this was the only card consistently in stock at EVGA

I loathe this card. Every single business PC I’ve seen with a GT210 or GT710 already had a superior iGPU.

Very few people understand GT210 success story. It was lowest tier Nvidia card, and as it became standard for this segment, it could run games released 5 years prior with low-ish settings. But gaming was not its selling point, playing compressed video was ! It was among first budget cards that could run compressed video clips at 1080p , which was a huge deal when it was released. DivX was a king in those years, most clips were encoded with H.264 and GT210 had hardware decoding for that - instead of relying on your (weak) CPU . Suddenly you had completely usable multimedia machine alongside usual office tasks.

I had a 210 for around 5 years as my main GPU when I was 12 years old, I played CS Source, Garry's Mod, Minecraft, TF2 and GTA SA, and other very old games like the first Far Cry. I didn't knew anything about computers at that time so I thought it was amazing, I have to thank that card for making me appreciate games a lot, and since I had to be tinkering so much it eventually leaded me into programming which is now my passion and way of living.

The GT210 had the perfomance of a card that was released 4 years before it's release

I had this gpu, back in 2010-2012 and it was ass-tier even back then. To see people use this gpu still is disturbing. Truly an awful gpu.

I got it for free with some old pc parts. Serves as emergency/test card pretty well

Man... The GT 210. I remember in 2009 or something the netcafe near my home received a full upgrade and every PC over there had a GT 210, I remember emulating Megaman X Command Mission on one of the machine using Dolphin and it was soo slow. But people didn't really care about it being powerful or not , the popular games at that time was a counter-strike clone made in Lithtech Jupiter, called Crossfire, the game tend to defaults to low settings and 800x600 resolution out of the box, the attitude was as long as it plays fine it doesn't matter, most people didn't even know what resolution settings were.

I've had this card for almost my entire childhood. Thankfully I've upgraded since then...to a Quadro 2000 I love living in Eastern Europe 2023 update: I am now the proud owner of a 6800 XT

There is a 205. 8 Cuda cores instead of 16 so as bad as the 210 is it can get worse.

It's amazing that they still make these. They're old enough that I've found three of them at an electronics recycler, but still in production.

i was one of the unhappy owners of this cursed GPU, used it from 2016 to 2020, when i bought a RX 580 8GB, to finally get my self rid of this old curse

I used to play warband and fallout 3 on this exact card, with a pentium dual e4something and 1 gig of ddr2 667. It was an lga775 chip, and I swapped it for a e6700, 4gb of low density ddr2 800, and a r7 250 later on and it ran so much better on windows 7.

A few years ago a friend of mine asked for a new graphics card for his birthday (he was playing with integrated graphics on whatever cheep second hand CPU he was using). Long story short his parents bought him a brand new 210 from amazon. When installed in his PC it ran at about half the proformace of his integrated graphics and for fear of his parents being upset we spent about 20 minutes in the bios/random windows settings to disable the card so he didn't have to remove it. The card may be designed to be a display adapter but it is not marketed as such misleading non tech-savy people (such as my friends parents).

Before even watching the video, let me just type I do appreciate your in-depth insights on tech stuff. It's a nice little history lesson few channels dive into, especially the parts showing contemporary (at the time) reactions to them. That research takes some time both to find and analyze! There are so many versions of the GeForce 210 I have to wonder how awful the best version is. I have one that supposedly has 24 shading units according to GPU-Z which probably isn't right but let me tell ya, even with the extra shaders, GDDR3, and decent clocks... it's still pretty bad in games. As a display adapter... well it works. BUT considering they were still sold new as recent as 2021... terrible. There were and still are far cheaper and better options especially if looking used. I remember wanting one, before I knew what GPU really were for my old Pentium 4 system back in the day.. then I found out the motherboard can't support the GeForce 210s that were available. That's when I knew it was time to upgrade everything!

Great vid. I love watching your cheap old laptop benchmarks and reviews. I hope you get to 500k soon. Cheers

Honestly, I've bought these as well - these are excellent framebuffers for machines that have CPUs without iGPUs (eg when I do a Ghetto Xeon build with one of those chinesium 'X79' or 'X99' boards). They've got excellent driver support as well, and if it's just to operate an ESXi/Linux/WinServer console this is more than good enough. I know that there are other framebuffers you can abuse for this purpose, but since this card has been around for so long, it's got decent drivers for just about any OS you want to use with it - you can even get it to work in high res/256 colour mode on Win3.11 or NT 3.5

With the resources wasted by this card, we probably could have achieved world peace instead.

I just found this channel this week, and im loving it m8 !

Think of the GT210 as good for 640*480 games up till 2006. This GPU also was in the Nvidia ION and ION2. Basically, this beats a Wii. No, not a Wii U, a Wii.

I'd like to share a budget build of mine that I'm absolutely giddy over. I got a Dell optiplex 990, old office station. With Intel graphics and 4 GB of slow ram, it got 20 fps in GTA V with below lowest settings. But I added 16 GB of ram, and threw an RX 550 in it, and now I have 60 fps on GTA V, Fallout 4, and CSGO with Medium and High settings at 768p. This is so awesome for me because I've only ever had potatoes before, nothing capable of running these games like this. It was only 150 American Dollars, and with only 8 GB and a more competitively priced Optiplex, one could probably build it for 100.

Love when new videos roll in!

You are my favourite tech channel by far, quality content every time. Thank you

This card did have a little plus, it did provide a cheap way for home servers to output to a display

the 210 was indeed one of the more hated cards for a very long time, it however has changed in recent years to the gt710 among the younger/modern people as they slowly forget about the 210 or never learn about it at all over the years. before the 210 there, it was the legendary 8400gs. before that, the obnoxious geforce 6200, heh.

I respect your willingness to put any GPU you buy in your PC, I would be very worried to do that

Your videos may not have the best hardware, but I love them good job bro 👍👍👍 I’d love to see some more full builds tho

Holy crap these are still selling! This is pure madness, although I can see why after that period of stupid prices due to Covid and now inflation hitting. Like you said much more affordable cards out there that are much more powerful, I think I saw a GTX980 in CEX the other day for £125.00.

This card was great when you just needed a display on a system and the mobo didn’t have an output. Of course the pci tridents were always much more preferable.

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Around 2010 I ended up with an old first gen Athlon64 X2, since I didn't have any PCIe video cards I ran out and picked up the cheapest one I could find. I was quite horrified to find the 210 was about half the speed of my AGP GeForce 6600 GT, a mid range card from 2004.

I thought I upgraded once from a 9400 GT to a GT 210. how little did I know back than. Although the water in diablo 2 seemed to look better with it.

This alongside the GT430 and GT610 were a must have if you build Hacintosh. Mac OSX just works with them and getting Intel HD to work was a nightmare

Oh dude this card was my first ever GPU, my dad got it for me and I had a prebuilt Dell Optiplex running only Intel Integrated Graphics. Needless to say it felt like a huuuge bump in performance even though I couldn’t run games smoothly like AC3, but was I happy kid. Good memories and I have you to thank for making this video on the GT210. Cheers mate

This card was the main reason why most of us completely stay away from prebuilts back in the day

I remember really wanting to get one of these when I was in Maplins years ago. Bare in mind I had a Radeon HD 6450 at the time, which was actually more powerful. Just glad that the staffmember there told me to put more budget towards something better.

I remember this well, I used it to show H.D. vids as proof-of-life in super-cheap budget rigs of the day....I'm SO glad those days are over...lol.

Morning breakfast with budget build videos = peaceful Life

11:01 Minecraft is actually a really good and fun game to tweak. I got 1.19 running at 100fps semi-stable on a mobile Core 2 Duo and Intel GMA X3100 graphics, be it on Linux with some shader hacks and low resolution, but it is actually working! The GT 210 should be 65% faster than that (according to UserBenchmark), so it would be really nice to see how well it would perform with those settings :D

7:44 I can feel the pain, I got a tecra a9 around 2012 and I remember spending my time trying to run games at insanely low settings

The best case for this card is steamlink. Because it can accelerate h264 I've been able to use an old one for remote play. That also means it can basically be used as terminal for your more powerful PC once you quit big screen

Amazing. A graphics card sold today that my Iris Xe iGPU in the i7-1165G7 would completely decimate. Feels good man.

Truly a display adapter, not worthy of the title "graphics card". Definitely deserves recognition for being a good multi-monitor 1080p video decoder at it's price point back then.

I purchased one of these a few years ago, no not as any kind of gaming card but for a 1080p picture? A lot of cpu's have no inbuilt graphics, you get a problem with your GPU you are fried. I seriously cannot imagine buying this for gaming, but it is excellent for getting a picture output. I love mine as a trusted backup.

12:19 I got a rebrand of a HD 6450 (R5 230 which unfunnily works with HD 6450 drivers) which I gave to my friend once I bought myself a decent machine that did not have a Pentium 4 531 with 1GB RAM

Oh man, this is bringing back memories of when me and my step brother tried playing games on a Geforce 9400 back when that was the best GPU I had. I'd gotten it for free, along with most of the other parts I mashed together to give him a PC in 2015 or so. But hay ... it was at least better than the 7300le he had before that, which doesn't have Windows 10 drivers.

I remember the GT 210! It was the very first GPU I bought for the very first computer I built. I played so many Flash games with it, back when I didn't know Steam was around.

I woke up kinda shitty, then KZfaq popped up that Budget Builds had a new vid. No longer shitty. Gonna be a good dayyyy

Thanks budget builds love the video 😊

To be honest, I used to have a PC with no iGPU that I transformed in a NAS/server and I needed some kind of "graphics adapter" because I kept the RTX I had for my newer beast gaming PC. One friend gave me this for the price of a vodka and I'm more than happy with that low end very low power card for what I do with it. Ofc, I tried to "game" on it just for the laughs, and damn, I would never think of this for a gaming PC lol. Meanwhile, it can be a fun thingy for a retro gaming PC... Oh, and BTW, those cards are often raped asf in MSi Afterburner 😂

Just as I wrote that this card was called just "GeForce 210", not "GeForce GT 210", you said it in the video.😀 Seems like even nVidia did not dare put the "GT" moniker on it. OTOH, I can see the original purpose of this card, and even the reasons for its success. The Core2 and early Core-i CPUs did not yet have iGPUs. Belive it or not, the majority of people aren't gamers. For cheap, it was either (similarly misearable) chipset graphics or this. Perfectly viable solution for 2D office applications and did even play video reasonably well (for the time).

Back in 2017 I had no fucking idea about PCs. I got a Dell Optiplex with 4x2GB of ram and a 2nd gen Core i5 so I thought "hey if I could get a graphics card for this machine I could play a lot of good games" so I sold my PS3 and got a brand new Gigabyte GeForce 210 for $50. You can't imagine my immense disappointment seeing that it performed worse than the iGPU. I begged the man who sold it to me on facebook to give me back my money but he refused I ended up reselling it for $25 (plus a vga cable) After that experience I started to learn a lot about PC components and got a GTX 1050 Ti. Now that was fucking great

I love GPU Storys. More of that please. Its entertaining :O

Thoroughly enjoyed that, thanks

I have managed to find a use case for a brand new 210: connecting two older, VGA-only monitors. Nowadays the 210 is the only GPU sold new which can have both VGA and DVI-I at the same time

A dude build his PC at 2019. His RTX 2060 Super was delayed by Amazon for some issues so, for two weeks he had to use his new Ryzen 5 3600 with a GT 210 for working lmao.

the fact that this GPU handles Mount&Blade Warband worse than my Intel integrated GPU from 2013, + the 240p CS:GO made me laugh for quite a while, ngl, it's almost unbelievable that there's a card this worse than an INTEL INTEGRATED GRAPHICS THING, on a LAPTOP, that's only 4 years younger (it's the i3 4005U with it's Intel HD 4400 and now 8GB of RAM btw)

my dad's dell dimension 2400 had the pci version of this for awhile till he upgraded to a pci gt 610, btw he's still using that pc..

My first GPU when I bought my first "gaming" PC was the GT510

"You might notice GTA V looks a lot like Notepad++" That intro to the GTA V benchmarking made me crack up

I bought a BFG (remember those guys?) GTX 280 launch week in 2008. $650, which now is about $900. It was a brilliant card, but even at the time it was considered completely overkill and most didn't buy it. I kept it around a LONG time, but frankly, it's 1gb vram, performance, and DX10 limitations means it aged horribly. So I cannot even fathom living with a GT210. I mean I have to assume even my Intel 2600K I got in 2011 would equal this thing in GPU and decoding power.

Nice brief feature of DoD @ 14:50

Bindpoo is actually quite a fitting name if they're still manufacturing these things.....🤣

Cards like this do have real use cases. Once I needed to convert an old office PC into a family-room computer for my mom and I needed to add an HDMI port to it because I didn't want her to have to deal with DisplayPort converters.

I put this in a thousand computers that were never going to be used outside an office.

Well, the PC I use in the office has a GT710 lol. I just plugged the VGA cable directly to the mobo - that Lenovo ideacentre has an i7 of some sort, and the benchmark for the iGPU gave better results than the 710. I should probably bring it home as decoration or something.

I love this card for the sole reason It made me able to play Half Life 2 at a reasonable framerate when I picked it out of a scrap PC when I had no money. Stuck with a Core 2 Duo 8400 in 2015, this thing was a life saver me.

Geforce 210 kept being produced even after the original card was discontinued. Nvidia rebranded it as 310-315 or something and even made laptop versions. My laptop gpu is 315M, but under Linux I can see that it's 218M, which is the name of the chip Geforce 210 uses.

GIGABYTE GT210 was the first GPU I got in 2011-12 after begging my father who then instructed my brother-in-law to get me a GPU. At the time I didn't understand the intricacies of gaming hardware so I just requested a graphics card and that's what he brought me. It was definitely an upgrade over what I had considering my whole PC would shut down after a few hour of gaming session at what I assume now was 12FPS. I played all the Assassin's Creed games up to IV Black Flag at lowest settings smoothly thanks to this card. Albeit Black Flag would visibly lag compared to III which ran smoothly without crashing. But then Unity came out a few years later and it wouldn't run at all. So I begged my father again and this time my brother-in-law got me a brand new PC with Intel Core i5 4th gen and a... GT730. This card was barely an upgrade and Unity ran at terrible FPS on low. I remember requesting a GTX960 or something but for some reason he got me this instead. The card quickly became extremely outdated by just 2016. And I still used the same PC with the same card until this year when it finally died. Now I'm just using the internal GPU which is much worse. At this point I just got too used to having a crap PC. I basically accepted that I'll never get the gaming PC experience I always wanted.

I had this.... in 2012 I upgraded 2015 to the gt 610 Man i do not want to remember those times

I still have a GT 220 in a drawer, and a GT 320. First played Crysis on the GT 320. The GT 320 had 72 CUDA cores, compared to the 36 CUDA cores on my laptop GPU. (Paired with an Intel E6700.)

I remember my parents had a PC with a Nvidia 210. In MSI Afterburner I could more than double the GPU and memory frequency and it ran a bit better. It was no gaming card, but at least Chrome was less laggy.

There is a kepplar refresh of 210. Basically 630's lil sister. It's passive and overclocks by 50% without voltage control, but you need to point a fan at it.

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This was actually my first ever "gaming" gpu in 2012 it was ddr3 though, i managed to play gta 4, tomb raider 2013, cod black ops 2, max payne 3 etc, it did ok, i never paid too much attention on fps and stuff, overall it i did enjoy and i loved it for what it was back then.

It is a beast card for IT or computer repair shops/ youtubers/everyone. Thanks for the igpu-less cpu's. This and the 710 is the best. Don't need much power, can run 1x speed perfectly fine, would never break, never burn etc. It won't even get hot.

It reminds me of Pineapple on Pizza, something everyone hates because the Internet told you to when in real life it is not that bad and pretty good. The GT210, 710 and 1030 are all cards like this, they are made for a reason which is NOT gaming, just a display output but because "GAMERS" said you must hate it, everyone hates it. Not everyone wants an RTX 3090 TI in their PC just to watch some KZfaq videos, use Microsoft Word, in a school etc. These cards can do all that easily so a great, cheap and easy choice that uses nearly no power.

in hungary during the gpu shortges, someone sold a gt 210 for more money, than the MSRP of a gtx 1070

My friend has one of these. He was going to upgrade them to a GT 1030 and also add more RAM, if he had the money. His PC has been suffering to use and I just told him; "Buy the RAM and chuck the 210 somewhere far from your PC". That alone made his PC a lot more stable.

By the time the 210 was released I was still running a 512mb PCIe 6600 GT and I didn't know I could upgrade so much for so little money... Wow...

Slightly different perspective, but the 210 is actually kind of useful for DIY server builds when you don’t have an iGPU given that it’s a PCIe capable card, has been relatively cheap, and can be passively cooled. I only just recently switched to GTX 1030's in most of my own such builds, and that was only because I couldn’t find any 210's from reputable sellers anymore (and the 1030 is only a 35W card compared to the 210 being a 75W card). Old GPUs like this have always been a thing for such usage. At my previous job we were even still using old Trident cards even in 2019 for this, because we still had some pre-PCIe systems around.

I've actually got one of these in use now.....it's in an old optiplex system I'm using as a home server. I'm pretty sure the iGPU is better but the box doesn't have HDMI on the main board and this card dose have HDMI out. I had this card floating around as salvage from another optiplex system I snagged from work after a major hardware overhaul. It's by no way something I'd pay cash for myself but it serves the purpose well enough.

I brought my new gaming PC December 2009. It was a Phenom II X4 945 _(great processor)_ with a GT 240 1gb. With a set budget I prioritized processor, upgrade compatible motherboard and good PSU instead _(the latter is in my current PC)._

This video made me happy that I have and use a GT 1030 in my current system.

It's incredible how this card still sells new until this day

I remember playing so much Minecraft and Brutal Doom on one of these as a kid. Fun, terribly bad times c:

My eyes lit up when I saw some DoD footage in there, played it professionally back in the day. I wish there was the money in professional gaming then that we have now I would have done quite well for myself.

I had this card probably about a decade and some change ago. It ran minecraft 1.2 at maybe 25 FPS and really couldn't do much more. Oh and the awful thing was so loud when I swapped it out for a gt630 later down the line I thought something was legitimately wrong with my computer

I bought one last year. My old computer went BOOM one day and killed everything, so I decided to build a new one.

Its so sad that it looked like a beast for me back when it released cuz I only had a VIA Chrome 9. I'd still like to have one nowadays. Just to see how tf it would handle the things I'd have tried back then (beamng, vanilla java minecraft, lotsa need for speed...) Yeah, would run terribly, but I'd still like to see it myself. Cant be worse than my 7200gs experience latelly (just for fun)

Oh, man. I had this card on my old computer (2009-2016). It was an absolute pain. Almost any MMO games barely had 30-40 fps on lowest settings. I was still a kid at the time, but i've got a actual job just to buy a new card and get rid of this monstrocity... Good times

Holy crap i have that exact card, i've used it to get the video out of so many old pc's and i've had heaps of fun trying to run games on it.

Maybe it is because of the lower resource usage in general, maybe it is because the open source Nvidia driver still gets updates while the official drivers that support the 210 haven't been updated in years but I pulled one of these out of a drawer just a few weeks ago and slapped it in an old motherboard and put together a machine that handles streaming for my niece. No illusions about a gaming on it but it worked smoothly for 1080p streaming.

Now they just get stuck in Facebook marketplace "gaming" systems with a 3rd gen i5 from an optiplex all bundled in a rgb case for £500

I actually do have a Palit Passive GeForce 210, but it's currently missing a cooler as the heatsink is too tall to fit in the OptiPlex SFF case. Thanks, Dell.

This video brings back some PTSD... If I recall correctly, the GT210 the "family pc" had back then died a year in, and it was "upgrade" to a GT310, or was it a GT 315? Regardless, I remember it was barely better than the 9600gt I had before. As for the PTSD? Well, that's the GPU I played through Crysis on. Had to be modded in the config to be playable at all, and there was some artifacting going on. But I was able to enable SSAO and at least the people at high school couldn't say I couldn't even play Crysis...