Ah yes, the 3.5GB card

I still fondly remember going to best buy and picking up a GTX970. This was before the days of GPU's in locked cases.

Team RX 580. Boombastic.

I never saw this host on this channel before but I really like him.

the GTX 970... already 10 years old and is a capable graphics card as ever we don't talk about the vram

The green msi design...I love it so much. I remember playing WoW legion with all the green magic everywhere and looking into my pc with the 979 glowing. It was beautiful

I had the red version of this MSI card. Since everyone knows red makes your PC go faster, this test is inaccurate.

I had a GTX970 until last week when it finally failed. It had serve me 8-9 years. While it wasn't able to play any newer game at high fps, it still gave me great value and good gaming performance at medium setting for quite a lot of games.

i actually hav a gtx970 gigabyte edition in pc next to me wit i7 4790 cpu,actually does run cyberpunk on medium settings no probs at all,today its playing horizon forbidden west so gtx 970 is still a mini monster in 2024,cheers guys happy gaming!!!

The 970 was my first nvidia card. I had it paired with a FX6300 in 2017 and used that build until 2020. The 970 will always have a place in my heart!

I've found 3 gtx 970's that works fine out of the recycling center electronics container & around January 2023 i did buy one as a Christmas present for my younger brother to upgrade from his gtx 460, yeah his pc was quite outdated at the time, its less outdated by now but 4770k 2x8 gb ram & gtx 1070 still reels it in pretty well in terms of performance, especially with an ssd or two & a light overclock to 4 ghz on the cpu.

Kyler brings it home again. Like the time and effort to show the relevancy of older cards and some of the minimum requirements for games

Good video Kyler. Keep up the good work!

So many games are CPU limited. I've seen 1080s for like $80 that's still a solid GPU. That's plenty for people getting into PC gaming

I believe a main factor, in how a game runs, that's involved is a game's dependence if it is CPU or GPU intensive, still own my GTX 970, bought new when it first launched in late 2014, running in my media PC, been repasted two times now, and pads replaced, it can still run games (newer present more taxing games, well kinda, lets just say sorta, LOL), was my stable GPU for some years, and recall getting a rebate check for around $10 I believe, for it's false advertising of claiming in having 4 GB (3.5 actually) VRAM.

Mustaches are what separates real men from boys. Uncategorically awesome mustache

this video is a good example of chaotic goodness. Keep making them kyler

Make a series about second hand pre builds how to upgrade how to play games with heat temperatures. How to undervolt and underclock in the heat of the summer.

Kyler! Bringing it. Nice work man.

bro lets goo like keep the vids up my guy

I got the GTX980 and is getting old, but still useful for all the indie games. Besides, new 3A games are getting worse and worse so I'm not worried yet 😅

My goat was the white aSUS GTX 970 turbo. Loved it and wish I never sold it.

I have seen videos of memory being replaced for more. There is a guy in Russia that has done it many times. I wonder how well it would run if it’s changed out to double the ram? Doing good man. Hope you keep up with the videos

Still using GTX 970 here, have not upgraded single thing on my PC since I got it in 2015. Next year when W10 support ends im finally gonna buy entirely new rig, propably going for RTX 5070 or 5060 if the price is right or possibly RTX 4070. 12GB GPU anyway

Great job on the video!

I'm still running a EVGA NVIDIA GEforce 9800 GTX+ on an older i5-2500K 4core system on my network.

I still remember having my dual EVGA 970 SSC gpus

GTX 970 is 10 years old? Fuck I'm getting old :(

I still run a 970 its an evga model i may never get rid of it. Its definitely showing its age but it absolutely loves dx9. She gets real hot and real loud when your pushin lots of frames in dx11. And 4gb ram fills up fast. Plays skylines and thats good enough for me.

Awesome job kylar 👏👏👏

i have that same msi gaming x green dragon gtx 970 (special edition). i have it as a display under my screen, but it still works.

I built a pc with i7-4790k +970 in 2015. It still runs fine most things.

I think this is exactly what I'm going to do. I'm sitting on a 970 rig as is, and have been for the past 7 years and it's starting to not keep up anymore. Not enough CPU cores etc. Been wanting to upgrade to an AM5 system, but graphics cards have gotten so expensive I figured I'd buy a 1650 or a 3050 6gb to carry me over while I save up for something better. Though after finding out these cards are barely better than what I already have, I decided to just wait until I could get something more decent like a 4060 or 6600, or find a good deal on the used market. Nah, this video convinced me. Upgrading everything but the GPU for now. The good old 970 will keep for another year or so and won't cost a dime while I save up for something better.

As long as i kept to 1080p, It carried me trough Battlefield 3/4/1/5, and it held its chin high trough Dark Souls 1/2/3. Does it run Crysis? Well, yes, it does, all of'em, and the Far Cry games as well, as does GTA 4 and 5. At one point though, it was holding me back. I care not about the max frames, its the minimum that bothers me, and if it can't hold a minimum of 60fps, we have a problem, which is why after 10 years with it, i finally upgraded, and bought a 4080. Should last me a long time at 1440p.

My card! Edit: it worked quite well in the video! 🎉 my only issue with this card + my cpu is that they don’t handle local coop in BG3 - too many crashes 😢

I am still running this in my desktop Gamer, Regular Desktop with a 4670K and 32GB Ram, WIN 10 Home, lots of storage, I can run most, if not all my steam library games. Most recently, STRAY, since I added WIN 10 back in December, I will most likely keep it until Win10 support is gone. Looking to get a gaming Laptop, with 4000 series or wait for 5000 series. I can run a thunderbolt dock with my monitors.

Buying a 970 and gta v in 2015 felt good man

aha, im still rocking one of these, starting to stutter a bit now lol. thinking of upgrading to a 4060 lp (for my sff pc)

This feels like the perfect amount of chaos to start my day with.

Ive had to change back to my old 970, my 2070super died on me over a year ago 😞 So hard for me to save up for a new gfx card, have been skipping lunch to try to afford one...looks like i wont be eating any lunches for about another year for maybe a 5070 or what i bet will be 5060ti 16gb...need something with more than 8gb of VRAM for my 3440X1440 display.

I did this with an rx 570 while waiting on my 7900xtx. The 7800xD pulled some performance out of that card i didn't think was possible at 3440x1440.😂

Wouldn’t the 7800x3d’s igpu be a better option than this? I thought it was supposed to pretty good,or am I thinking of the wrong one?

Just gave my kids a pair of these as hand me downs from mine and my wife's computers. They don't care for triple A titles, just fortnight. We ran these as our primary until we got handle downs from our friends from their upgrades. The 900s are still good. The 1ks are still good. And AMDs 6k seriest are still great cards.

@ufd tech, could you please do an AMD vr benchmark list

I have a gtx 960 and it works for me well

Still rocking a GTX 970

Ready or not, can you actually run somewhat on a 730

if Kyler actually ends up reading these comments just to let you know the VR problem was due to Ram speeds differing on the video card. With it rendering two videos signals with a half a gigabyte of slower ram

1:15 thanks Kyler. Uh btw what's canoodling?

More vr benchmarks please. We lack them.

you did somthing wrong with fortnite DX12 - I get more than 100 fps at 1080p low / high draw distance. On my gtx 970.

Was still running a 980ti recently as a gaming pc but now a plex box . but still worked well.

My favorite youtuber isnt alive anymore.

Ha - I had one of these exact cards during the 2016/2017 mining boom.

my first pc had a 970, the memories :D

My friend offered to sell me his MSI 970 special edition for $50 in 2020 because he spilled spaghetti on his rig and wasn't sure anything was still working. After cleaning everything the only thing that worked was this GPU. Sorta wish I kept it instead of selling it a year or two later because it looked cool.

The 970 was so glorious! That's when NVIDIA used to care...

The GTX970 was the only Graphics card I regret purchasing in my 30+ years of home computing. They were bad when they were released and never got any better. I replaced it with an 8 gig RX480 Nitro a year or so after and never looked back.

GTX970 should play VR games. Most likely an issue with Meta/Oculus app or not enough VRAM to support the high resolution of a Quest 3. HTC Vive Original should run perfectly fine on it. GTX 960 was the old minimum for Vive games.

Damn I must be old if the GTX 900 series is 10 years old But it is a testament to the power of the cards though. Can you imagine any card from 2004 running 2014 games?

My wife uses my old 970 after my upgrade way back in 2022. It is fine.

Best GPU I have ever owned. Now it sits on a spare pc which I use some times. The last time I used it, it was for my wife to play Palworld with me. Runs just fine.

Lol, still the card in my machine. As my machine is 99% gaming wise for Civ 6 and Holocure...

Hey, i have that same graphics card, but I have it in an older pc with xp 64 bit. Just to run older games with an i7 4770 lol

I figured "frick it" 4k Love ya'll

Fsr 3.0 ??

Wat mouse are you using?

I got a gtx 1050 with a intel i7 7700hq with 16gb ram and my pc doesnt run anything as smoothly as his even though he has a more outdated graphics card😅 anyone know why?

Had a GTX 9 7 0 SLI setup

I still have this as a spare card, the ASUS Strix version and it still perform fairly good, better than the 1650 at least

Pro move on saying Lego, singular! 😁

told my dad you said "hi". He said "stop telling me that youtube guy said hi. you made me put my hearing aids in for that again?" also, looking AROUND the computer to see the bottom right 1/4 of the screen is hilarious.

huh, what s coincidence,i was planning to buy gtx 970

Damn I miss how thin cards were

I would juts get a 1650 gddr6 NEW for the same price as of this year as it runs better and uses less Power , yes in terms of video editing its a little slower but for gaming is Better

The GTX 970 is the last card to get Win XP drivers. For the retro gamers out there, if you want to build an “ultimate XP” PC this is the ultimate Nvidia card.

At least it's better than My i5-6100U inigrated graphics

I'd like to see the frame rates when you're two hours into monsoon on RoR2

All the new buggy games- it's good playing old games.

Henry Potter in Minecarft💀💀🧌😦😨😰😭

I deff got paid for the 970 FIASCO !

Like ! like! like! GTX 970....10 Years Later? Really, I'm still living ten years in the past... It goes by so quickly... Finally for the graphics card, Because the rest: 7500f b650 ddr 32 giga 5600 (oc 6200). Using it daily for my games and the rest, I ask myself the question: should I change it? The desire is there, that's for sure but I don't think I'll change the resolution (1080p) and the price of the new CGs annoys me. Still, putting more than €400 into a graphics card drives me crazy! So honestly, I'm waiting for either Black Friday or a golden opportunity. I am, I think demanding 16 giga and unfortunately nvidia. I have a suspicion on AMD (ati) because of their drivers which they do not maintain over time. I experienced it over time on laptops where I had to go to Russian sites to generate drivers compatible with the new Windows and even for fixed tower PCs. For me, it's a shame in itself, it's planned obscelesance... Yes ok who keeps a graphics card for 10 years? Well me!

Try running it on age appropriate hardware. I got a gtx970, FX-6300 and 16gb of ddr3 and I'm lucky to get 28fps in rust with lowered settings on my old rig 😂

Oh, that's my video card

Acutally... I did exactly that, I buyed an 7800X3D, 32GB of RAM and a 980 Ti... Cuz I'm too broke for a newer Card, but I will replace it as soon as I can

Honestly the 900 series has been basically obsolete since the 40 series. Even the highest end Titan card from that generation is slower than the mobile 4050. GTX 10 and newer are the only GPUs you should be buying

And I’m Kyle!

Henry Potter - WTF? I swore it was Harry Potter.

I still have my evga 970, I kinda want to memorialize it in epoxy resin for eternity. RIP EVGA (gpus)

wait... its 10 years old..?

I bought this in mid of 2015 around $450 with tax in India when I was new to computer market and got destroyed when nvidia released 10 series. I still have this and want to buy new graphics card but there's no valuable for money graphics card.

Someone is selling a 980 ti on my local fb marketplace for $50, I kinda want it even though it's worse than both of the gpus in my current machines. Just to mess around like this lol.

4 gigs of vram is a tough sell but 40 bucks it's okay I guess. Build in graphics are free though. Worse but free.

This might be a wishful thinking but I just only hope that the Strix Halo 40-CU won't cost like $999. 😢🤞

error at 11:43 duplicated graphs

11:20 I think you used the wrong chart; it doesn't match the script and it's identical to the next chart.

R9 390 was much better back in the day because of the 8gbs of vram and a massive 512 bit bus width which even the 4090 doesn’t even have 😂

henry potter

Still playing on my GTX970 and i5 4460, there is no game that didnt run on at least 30-40 fps on all high fullHD.... So its lika owning a console but I dont need to pay for playing online 😉

I own one of these things, I have a $700 setup with a 970... No I am not upgrading it.