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I bought a $10 Radeon HD 3870 from 2007 — tested it in 2026 (lemmy.world)
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I picked up a Radeon HD 3870 for $9.90 — seller had no idea what condition it was in, no tests, no returns. Cleaned it, repasted it, threw it in a Core 2 Duo rig and ran benchmarks on CoD4 and Crysis. The temps alone made me nervous. Full video here: https://youtu.be/WuTVt4ZCmoY Curious if anyone else has run old ATI hardware recently.

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[–] [S] 1 point 5 months ago

Haha a keychain from the die would actually be awesome! And yeah, when that display corruption showed up I genuinely thought it was dead — was shocked that a clean and repaste fixed it. The oven bake trick is impressive, glad you got your data back!

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