GustavoM comments on I paid $9.90 for a 19-year-old Radeon HD 3850

I paid $9.90 for a 19-year-old Radeon HD 3850 — it hit 106°C and still gamed (www.youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago by RiskRig91@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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Following up from my HD 3870 video — this time I picked up an untested HD 3850 from 2007 for $9.90. Cleaned it, repasted it and threw it at 6 games on a Core 2 Duo rig. • GTA San Andreas • CoD4 Modern Warfare • Tomb Raider Underworld • Just Cause 2 • NFS Most Wanted • Crysis Temps hit 106°C but it survived.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

At that rate, you'd be better buying one of those minipc's and game on it instead.

t. I have a orange pi 5 max and I'm quite sure I can run most (if not all) games you've mentioned.

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[–] RiskRig91@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 5 months ago

Haha the old rig is intentional — it's a retro build for testing old GPUs. That's kind of the whole point of the channel!

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 point 5 months ago*

Nowadays it's all about FEX -- they've done some significant changes thanks to valve. Including reducing all the "chit-chat" between layers, making the game be as "native-like" as possible. Also, what you've said/implied seems to be the case regarding OP's rig -- no comment on that.