Big thanks to our channel artist for some 25p renderings: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pthhl9Z3vdGnYJs.htmlsi=Eq80xlQ0FrXZroAm

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

i think its time you make another 1 dollar pc

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.

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

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.

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.

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

It makes me so happy to see that you're still making videos like this in 2024. Gives me some hope in humanity.

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.

CeX & torn label, name a more iconic duo.

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I'm so happy I ran into this channel. First of all, your voice is soooo soothing haha. Secondly, I love putting together PC's. I've likely put together over 100 PC in my life. And I especially enjoy bringing to life old hardware to see another day of life. Now you sir, you pick up older hardware than I do. But, either way, I love the channel.

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.

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

Nice transport tycoon music. 🎵

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!

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.

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!

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

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

I loved the SC3K outro music nostalgia hits

Been watching for 6 years what a throwback

He's at it cooking again

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

Had a HD5850 in the build I made when I started college. Used it for years before I ultimately upgraded and donated it to someone who had even weaker GPU. For all I know it still works, though I'm not so sure it's in use anymore.

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.

Just found a deal on Facebook marketplace in Denmark, where a full computer setup is costing 700 DKK (£75) with this card in it. Full specs: MSI P55-GD65 Motherboard Intel i5 750 2.67 GHZ CPU 8 GB Corsair XMS3 DDR3 RAM XFX ATI Radeon HD 5850 Grafikkort 256 GB Samsung EVO 840 SSD 160 GB Seagate Barracuda HDD DVD-RW drev Antec SLK3700-BQE Case FSP HyperS 600W PSU Samsung SyncMaster T220 monitor (22" 1050p @60Hz) Compaq Mouse and Keyboard PS/2. Yes... Beige. Honestly... a solid WinXP runner, if you ask me.

Got to love CEX.

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

For 7-ish generation console gaming era you cannot really complain, very sensible option for creating time relevant PC

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.

Even for £7, that card is a steal. I remember wanting one of these cards so bad when they were new.

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'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.

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

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

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

One thing I miss about the 00s, is shroud and cooler designs. It feels like these days it's rare, and you'd just never been able to tell one card apart from the other if you covered up branding with tape or something.

Kudos to including Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord in there. Imo this game is so good and replayable that if you manage to build a budget built to run it smoothly - that's a big win!

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

Next thing we'll see is another bargain bin competition? I wonder what you can run with a half broken laptop motherboard in a pizza box with pci x4 gpu connection.

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.

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.

Kudos for the TTD music. :D

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!

5300 times cheaper than CeX's cheapest 4090. And the performance gap isn't what you'd expect given the price difference. I loved my 5850 and had it for years. Great video.

It's these bonkers videos I live for!

Sapphire was the only AMD affiliate that made cards like this, where they didnt meet the "high end" 70 or 90 series but made a perfectly great cutdown 50 series. I think the 5870 was based off the 4890 which makes the 5850 (or 4860 if you were lucky enough to find one) fairly high performance, which meant you were gonna get some serious results for a lot less money.

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.

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.

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 😄

6:45 even the bee is impressed

Great Vid mate... I swear by CEX for all cheap PC components. I built a low powered PC, that I come across on the street. Thanks to CEX with their reasonable prices, I've built a reasonable PC. AMD Case Asrock Motherboard 300w PSU A10 6700 £10 GTX 750 TI Plait StormX 2 GB £35 16GB DDR3 1866 £20 TLC 40" TV £110 (I thought I'd throw this in lol)

I have nothing of substance to say.

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...👍

I had a 4870 back in the day. Absolute weapon of a card. AMD really were on a roll in the late 2000's.

How much I miss the days of my 5850 crossfire setup, later to be replaced by a 780 that lasted me 7 years 😂.

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.

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

Man, I remember this card, picked one up super cheap to replace my 4870 and replacing it with an Nvidia 980 from my first job.

I've got a 6870 HD here. I'm holding out for 50p before I let it go though.

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

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.

I would love to somehow transfer that cooler a newer card. I love my new features and performance, don't get me wrong, but something about those older cooler aesthetics put a smile on my face.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

As that guy in Robocop said: I'd buy THAT for a dollar!

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.

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

25p is a steal for this, I remember wanting one so bad when it came out

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!

Other than the lack of an antistatic bag that was some good packaging

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!

What is nuts is that it had a 256bit bus. Even modern GPU's tend to have less bandwidth unless you buy a high tier card.

Nice one! Did not had a 5850, but 5870 1G, 7770 1G, 5750 1G, 6850 1G (passive cooling! stable at 3 figures C°...), 7870 2G, R7 250 1G, GT740 1G, GTX460 1G, GTX550Ti, GTX650 1G, GTX560 1G (and other less powerful ones), and I have to say, these old mid-higher end cards can be still impressive! (My -"fairly modern" comparsions are the 940MX in my laptop, GT710 2G ddr3 than GT1030 2G ddr4 in my Futro S920, and RX460 4G than RX570 4G in the main rig, and that 7870...)

Congrats to this awesome find, even a well-preserved one with fresh thermal paste 🙂. The glorified traffic simulator 🤣. Same, I also prefer to see my cities grow nicely, and a lower fps number is enough for me, too. I watched a few videos from your channel after I saw your iMac video by chance because it was shown to me in the suggestions on the right. Your videos are great, they are relaxing and interesting for me. You explain very well and in such a way that you include a lot of information but don't overwhelm. I especially like that you have such quiet, relaxed music and patterns and textures in the background in the form of curtains, walls tablecloth and so on. You remind me of @AtomicShrimp, that your videos are about technology, cheap and obscure technical things, creative implementation and problem-solving, for him, it's about food, cheap and obscure food and also creative implementation and problem-solving. You are similar in your style of narrative, and both have colourful patterns and textures in the background.

I LOVED my old 5850. So much freaking value for money it was insane. Lost it to h2o being bad for computers.... I could push that POS Power Colour to 1.1ghz if I wanted to but I honestly never needed to with the games I wanted to play.

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

Bro you look in shape