Now I can play Microsoft flight simulator with a card that sounds like an actual plane.

That's no graphic card, that's a jet engine!!

Neighbours: Why were you ramp starting an F16 at 11pm?

“This is your captain speaking, thank you for flying MSI Airlines on Flight 6950... Weather forecast is clear skies, and will be a little hot today... It will be a bit noisy today with our new GPU engines today...”

"So what Performance do you get from your GPU" *I get around 300* "Whoa 300 FPS?!!" *300 Decibels*

For 15£ you got a pretty cheap jet engine

LOL, I had the closed captioning on, and when the gpu started, the cc read [APPLAUSE]

I didn't know AMD made vacuum cleaners.

now i know why MSI has F-22s and F-35s on their boxarts

AMD Radeon. Vacuuming the Competition.

Wanted to listen to the fan noise after cleaning and with the new drivers.

Nice! I bought a whole PC for £40 today - Radeon HD 6850, Phenom II x4 945, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 1TB HDD and 550W PSU. And the case looks amazing :V

Vacuuming at 11pm haha

1:23 That 6950 blows so hard its moving the dust around LOL! *A reverse vacuum cleaner*

A 15 dollar gpu Or... THE CHEAPEST JET ENGINE EVER

Me: Watching this video Me: *Looks at my computer* "If you ever sound close to this, I'm putting you up on Ebay, never to see you again. Got it?"

Your neighbors complain made me laugh xdd

The video was entertaining, but more importantly, I see your Photoshop skills have been improving!

Just had to leave a comment to say your drawing of a semi-detached house is absolutely magnificent

Watching other big KZfaq channels, it’s easy to feel like our PC setups are inferior when all you see is 2080ti this and Titan Z that. That’s why I come here and watch all your vids. They’re practical, turning old into new and about getting the most out of any setup whether it be new or old.

So it sounded like a original ps4 (Edit) its a joke don't take it so serious

"Why are you vacuuming at 11 pm?!" "So, yesterday I got a great deal on a graphics card, and I'm quite a gamer."

Sounds better then this years f1 cars

The EXACT moment you said, "... but it sounds like this..." My city's tornado sirens went off!

running metro exodus with a 2010 card is pretty impressive

Never underestimate the power of a good cleaning

You're on of my favorite tech channels man! Most everybody is testing the newest and latest. You're trying to breathe life into adequate older tech. My kinda stuff

Now that's a physic realism mod for Xplane11.

1.2K likes, 7 dislikes. I guess 7 people couldn't fix their 6950s.

The problem with everybody looking into Metro Exodus is that like first 30 minutes are NOT a good representation, I had over 60 FPS, once you get to the open world area, 20-ish FPS on average... (If you "face" the open world, if you "look away" to where the map ends I still got 60)

I love your channel because I do this locally with flea markets and Craigslist. I enjoy doing it, and my friends call me the "PC man" because I always hook them up after LAN parties and give them the PC they played on :)

I used to own a HD 6950 back in the day. Really smooth performing card for the titles at the time, and I never had any issues with mine. I had the Sapphire 2GB model, with dual fans, so cooling was significantly better than with the blower versions. This card had the BIOS switch on it, that let you switch between a standard 6950 and a 6970. It was not that stable if you ran it at 6970 speeds, but you could still clock it down to the levels of a standard 6950, and it ran like a dream, with all shader units unlocked. I got it stable at +50 on the core and +200 (total frequency) on the memory

Nice video, but we need more car videos

this is genius: if you have a Secret Military base, with jets Starting (like kingsman), just use this card and noone will notice the jets.

I knew what you were going to do as soon as I saw the title lol. I did the same thing many years ago. Bios switch allowed me to flash 6970.

Awesome.the 6950 was my first gpu upgrade.bought it for 18 euros.Eventually fitted a chipset waterblock and watercooled it for fun.Worked great until i tried pulling off the vram heatsinks i installed.Rip 6950.Great video!

Still doing better then Ryzen 5 2400g with single ram xD

I'd use this card on 720p with high settings instead of 1080p low.

Watch out for these HD 6950's, I have a pair of them and one literally caught on fire this morning and nearly caught my house on fire. These power-hungry cards always made me a little nervous. My friend gave me the pair because he was mining bitcoin with them, but I could never stand to run them paired because they're so damn noisy, even just running them single.

I got my hands on a (free) Radeon 6870 recently. Supposedly dead, but it worked fine. Also with the stock cooler and quite noisy, but no where near as noisy as the one in your video. It ran quite hot, around 80ºC during load, so changed the paste, but didn't help either (maybe 1 or 2 degrees). I did notice the heatsink of my 6870 was way smaller than the heatsink of your 6950. I mean, the card has the same size, plastic shroud and such, but the heatsink itself is small on the 6870 and it's no suprise that it gets so hot and loud! I didn't run any modern titles on it, but stuff from it's era, and it was a major upgrade compared to the Radeon 5770 I was using in that PC up until then.

9 year old gpu: 2gb vram 3yr old gtx 1050: 2gb vram Me: 😮 Also me: i am confusion

U L T R A HD. 4K

1:38 " and that's before we even get into a game" lost my shit at that

I just had to grin so bad when you said your neighbours asked you why you've been vacuuming at 11pm lmao

this fan noise is my jam! WHY WOULD ANYONE COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS!?!?!?!?

Sometimes you can't flash a BIOS from a different card onto the GPU with the GUI version from atiwinflash. Instead you need to use the commands. This way I flashed the Sapphire RX 570 Pulse BIOS on an RX 570 Pulse ITX Card, which didn't got recognized from the driver. Now it's working. Even an HD7950 can be reflashed this way with an R9 280 BIOS to get the UEFI BIOS for faster boot and a bit higher clocked.

It's pretty impressive to see this card perform so well at 1080p. But realistically speaking 720p or 1280x1024 would be a more reasonable resolution for this card as it was probably the resolution it was designed for back in the day with the 2gb VRAM. Also really happy to see you got it fixed and working, even though practically you would be better off buying an RX550 or 560 at this point and get a similar performance with less power draw and better driver support.

I don't live in your house or anything, but here in the US to "sound proof" between units or homes we Build walls like this. DDWSWDD D = Sheet of 5/8ths drywall W= Wooden studs (usually 2x4) S = Space of speraration as little as a half inch, so the walls don't touch making sound transmission harder. It's pretty effective, more so than adding loads of fiberglass insulation, or sound deadening insulation. While that may be less than ideal, even just doing a double layer of 5/8ths drywall on both sides can do wonders. This is ofcourse assuming you own your home.

I bought a r9 390x 8gb for 100 euros is this a good deal?

i know the issue what the fan is having either its hitting the shroud or the fan really needs oil

Man u can upload the videos, keep it up, i look forward to them daily and u don't disappoint

Incredible what you can get out of such an old card. If only I still had my Matrox Mystique & PowerVR...

6950 can't handle 6970 memory settings. U can just unlock shaders with the bios editor if you want...

I'm still using hd6970 since 2012

I've bought old cards with descriptions that read "fans incredibly loud, overheats quickly BUYER BEWARE PURCHASE AS IS NO REFUND" I pop that sucker apart, clean it up, wipe off the cement that was probably once thermal paste, put it together again, and customize the fan curve. Boom, runs at 30c idle and tops out at 65c in KOMBUSTER (which is aptly named) and never breaks 35db. It's amazing what people want to Chuck away.

I've upgraded my X58 system with a Xeon X5650 6 core CPU last week and I see a lot of improvements and it's KZfaq channels like these that makes me want to buy more abandoned hardware and build more PC's

Yeah, it's pretty loud. But is it louder than a ps4? I don't think so.

Even my 60 lbs server isn’t that loud

hi, i know my comment is 3 years late.. but i had 100% thie exact same card the same look everything hd 6950,, but my card was not that noisy.. i cleansed it back then.. and did the 6970 hd flashing succsesfully and overclooked it til 6970hd level.. could even oc it further.. it was probaly the very best stable card i ever had.. it was solid.. and it would probably even today runs well with no problems.. i loved this card, but was hungry for more performance so sold it and upgraded.. but yes i believe this model you had there was probably most stable reliable card i ever had. and i did had a vega64 liquid once

I had two 6970s for two years. Those two winters were my warmest.

you fix it by throwing it away and buying a gtx 1060

You’ve got to be kidding me, I bought one for 10 dollars and had the same issue. I got the drivers for it and it was still sounding like an ac-130 so I just ditched it. And all I had to do was clean it? Unbelievable

I have the Sapphire edition, with 2 fans, fortunately the gpu has maxed out the fans only 3 times in his life, but I can say that noise is a thing you will remember for all your life

This video brings back memories...i spent a lot and bought the amd 6990hd when i ordered my new alienware aurora. it was suppose to be the fastest video card in the world with the most memory, so i thought it would last me a long time. Man was i disappointed, because it was basically build in sli it would give problems on a lot of games, some games wouldn’t even work at all on it. I remember waiting up till 12AM just so i can play watchdogs at launch, and of course the game would never work with my 6990hd. I gave up on amd shortly after and have only bought nvidia since. Then there was the fan noise, and omg was it loud. I had to wear headphones all the time when gaming, i honestly thought there was something wrong with it when i first started gaming because it was so bloody loud. For sure the loudest gpu i have ever owned.

I've just bought a gtx 1060 3gb from ebay I'm so happy that I can finally swap out my gtx 1050 2gb

lol you should hear my 1gb hd 9650 it sounds even louder

The title should be: The Graphics Card That Caused a Noise Complaint | POLICE CALLED

Having General Electric involved turned out to be a brutal leasson learned for future future projects.

That's nothing when I'm playing terria my pc is nearly as loud as a car I'm not joking

That's a server

I come back here from time to time. For the ASMR.

I have a HD 7850xt with blower design when I first started it my dad thaught I was vacuuming my room. I feel your pain.

69 nice

If you want a jet engine try a ps4

Was given this card about 3 years back, first computer I hooked it up on I thought had a problem but after hooking it to 3 different computers and looking online I realized I wasn't the only one.

Neighbour : What are you doing with jet engine over there?

You could have actually put a headphone on your head rather than photoshoping it

NO! NEVER! The HD 6990 it's still the most horrible :D goo.gl/ZeP1Tc

Usually flashing a card to unlock extra stream processors is a bit of a gamble. A lot of times the reason they're locked is because cheaper cards are often just poorly binned higher cards and enabling those stream processors could cause instability.

Nice. I have an old Sapphire 6950 flashed to a 6970. Haven't touched that card in years, but it's safely stored away in it's box 😁

I love playing 🔪E

that encounter with the neighbour... hahaha imagine trying to explain the noise... I SWEAR IT WAS THIS BROKEN GRAPHICS CARD

That card was loud, but no worse than a GeForceFX 5x00 was. I'm actually still running a Radeon 6970 on one of my machines today. Works well with an overclocked Athlon X4 870K.

My Vega 64 reference card doesn't get that loud even at 4000 rpm on the blower. I really need to clean my card at some point. Thanks for the reminder.

Aww,the HD6950.had one,also unlocked to a 6970.loved that beast

Really surprised it's that bad in newer titles. I mean performance wise it beats the xbox one gpu by quite an margin and that still has playable performance on stuff like jc4. That goes to show how much optimizing games really helps.

LOL I remember buying one of these to give ATI a chance, and returning it within a day. Ran absurdly, dangerously hot, even with the fan turned up, and insanely loud too. Got an Nvidia and haven't looked back. Also tend to run closed-loop water cooled cards only now, much quieter and better cooling.

mom: what is all that noise 1:23 babuska: having a hear atack granpa: the germans are atacking me: oops 1:32

Great video. One tip, if I may: after unlock, overvolt the card. Lots of time they lock shaders if the card needs more voltage to be stable. As you overvolt, no hurt to try a higher clock speed too.

Haha vacuuming in the middle of the night. It reminds us that we have to appreciate today's computer parts, they are so quiet (at least my computer although it's fully decked out with like a 9900k and 2080), on load it's quieter than even the noise of heater air going through the vent.

Graphics card: Is running Subtitles: *Applause*

that's the best gpu purchase i ever made. bought mine in 2011 (i think) REALLY cheap and it was way overpowered then. used it for 4 years and sold for the same price i paid for it, and it was STILL a good card then (about the power of a gtx 1050 more or less) . infinite value. mine wasn't blower style though. still pretty hot, reached 85c pretty easily. i upgraded it when i ran an unreal engine 4 demo and it was like 7 fps for some reason when my cousin's laptop gtx 870 or something, which was about the same speed in older games, ran it 60 fps. this card does not like some of the newest shaders. but it runs gta5 pretty damn well. btw this performs more or less on par with a base ps4. it is more powerful than a ps4 (same speed memory but 2.2 teraflops against ps4's 1.8) but console optimization means the ps4 actually has a slight edge nevertheless.

Until recently I was running a 6970 which also sounded like a jet engine and I found that 900p was the best resolution for most games. It also means you can turn some more important settings up such as render distance

Literally sounds like a vacuum cleaner 😂 Edit: lol the neighbors thought so too 💀

I loved this card. It was an absolute beast in it's day.

Neighbours: why the f**k were you vacuming at midnight Me: na m8 found a bargin gpu on ebay 3 days ago, runs well but sounds like its a boeing 747 flying.

"why are you vacuuming at 11" lmaooo badass card you got there boi, but i guess replacing the fan or cooler would fix it easy, or add some oil to the bearing of the fan

I died when I heard your neighbor's complain .

damn you got a real nice jet engine there

Great video ! I like using old hardware and tweaking it to the max :) Like the Radeon 9500 era where you ended up with a 9700 ! Or the X2 athlons :)