This makes a GT 710 good graphics card.

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

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.

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

9:24 Don't tempt me now 😏

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

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 not buying a new motherboard just for this card Dawid.

Plays minesweeper with this card, clicks mine, card explodes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This is nostalgia for me. Although i didn't own this particular card model, I have had several ATI cards aimed for 2D work, like hardware video encoding and stuff.

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

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

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

Well for a server (at least for most use cases), it would do the job, as you just need a video output and nothing more than that. The other thing is, that my server requires a PCI Express video card, so I had to go for the famous GT710.

To test older hardware like this, you should use a AMD FX or Opteron system and use virtualization with PCI passthrough. You should be able get Windows 9x and DOS running just fine with that.

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!

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.

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

If you're using a SATA drive make sure that you have set to ATA or Compatibility Mode in the BIOS, as AHCI won't work with anything older than Vista. If you plan on using AHCI you must either slipstream SATA AHCI drivers or use Vista/7 as they will run XP drivers.

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

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.

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

Wow. I think that thing is even slower than my first video card, the Voodoo 2 12MB. I'm amazed that it works on Windows 10.

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

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.

The win xp thing its your sata drivers play with the mode(emulated IDE generally works best) to get it working. The later sp cds will work but they will be harder to find as they were generally just available to businesses or people who mastered a custom cd.

Oh man, that beings me back. Never had the Rage, but had a Matrox Mystique (years earlier) and then a TNT 2. Always wanted one of the Voodoo 2 cards. Weird times then, going from 2d accelerators to 3d.

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 remember sometime in the 90s running a demo of original the Doom in a window the size of a index card on a W95 (W98?) system to get it to run. Still, it was my first 3D game and it seemed like magic. 100s of megawads later I'm still playing Doom.

this is making my laptop seem like some sort of scrap metal compiled together

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

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.

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

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.

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

Dawid: "1998? This card is almost as old as I am." Me: "you'd have to dig a PCB out of a ColecoVision before I could say that about tech hardware."

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

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

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!

you need to follow this up with one of those USB connected vga cards, or the modern usb3 hdmi versions. It would be hilarious. They're all over the place on ebay. Not to be confused with the usbC DP passthrough adapters.

Believe it or not a ton of servers still rock this chip as part of their remote control/video out. That’s why you can get it running at all in win 10. Also this thing can be overclocked with powerstrip. I used to have mine clocked at 100 mhz

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.

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

I'm pretty sure I had this graphics card in my iMac B back in like 1998. But it only had 4MB of VRAM. I rocked Unreal Tournament at 640x480 at about 15 fps.

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

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.

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

Which one do you think is more powerful. Intel HD graphics 4000 or the gt 710

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

Intel HD graphics: finally an opponent I can beat

The challenges to overcome finding an really old motherboard with pci slot and a monitor with vga..... looking right next to me at my rig, it has both. 😢

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

Nice, the perfect card for a slideshow in gaming!

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.

I'd be willing to bet that the grief with Windows XP was caused by missing AHCI support out of the box. You can integrate this into the install media (easiest) or retroactively enable AHCI after installing in IDE mode (fiddly but doable).

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)

The cooler on that pc is kinda sick looking whats it called and do you think they make a intel 1700 socket style for it

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

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

7:43 Thats why you are supposed to keep a hard drive with Xp, 7 , Vista and Linux either with dualboot or on separete hdds

2:49 lol most of mine have one, agp on the other hand is really hard to find, everything is to old, to new, or to in between. Like even 2006 stuff is to new for AGP slots at all.

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.

ngl when this man said "whopping 8mb of VRAM" I nearly spat my drink xD

Were you using the VGA to HDMI converter while trying to install WinXP?

How do companies get away with producing such disgustingly low quality parts.

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

Me running a GT210: Impressive, finally a competitor.

A good example of early dedicated video processing if you're showing it off with its intended Win98 hardware. It's not a "graphics processing unit" in the same vein as the GeForce 256 and onward. Rather, it does a series of VGA acceleration by passing signal into the accelerator, which then spot renders an analog sRGB signal.

“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

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

I had an old ATi Rage card similar to that one ages ago, the drivers never worked with it anyhow. Thankfully it was a planned for replacement anyhow but yeah, in the mean time it never even worked properly.

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

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

2:17 Directx 6 😂😂 I cant stop lauphing

The new ibuypower prebuilts are definitely gonna have this now

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

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

Dawid: "This is a really old card" Me: *Cries as i realise im really old*

I can test this Video card, I have a old Windows Xp desktop that surprisingly still runs

hah, i remember the days when one used to buy a graphics card like that,...yeah no fancy coolers needed at that time and it was like the Top. happy days.

I just love it when a GPU is older than me

Someone call Graham Norton... Dawid has stolen his laugh!

Dude, I had the ATI Rage Pro on my very first PC back in the days! That thing was fast for its time!

Wait since when did you hit 100k congrats lol

**sad geforce 2 noises**

I like how witcher 3 geralt is on the box but it wont even render geralt on paint

I remember the 8400 gs (an entry level card from 2006) was still available up until about 2018 or so, it even had lightning deals every year on black Friday