Ashley MLP Fangirl

This will be a look back at the GeForce 9800GTX+. i bought one for my collection of gpu's, and discovered it's in perfect working order. so, i decided to test what it could do in 2019, considering i bought it for less than €10. 
 

Looks

The card looks dated, but it still looks good IMO. i especially like the graphic on it, i wish GPU manufacturers still did this. 
 
 
Drivers
The nightmare of everyone who uses old hardware, drivers. i first tried it on Windows. i DDU'd the newer drivers, rebooted and installed the driver the nvidia website gave me (342). that failed bigtime. while installing the driver my pc locked up and the screen went black. this happend twice and then i gave up. 
 
Happily i also have Pop_OS on my pc. i booted into that, and removed my existing nvidia drivers with one command (sudo apt remove nvidia-*) and then i installed the 340 drivers, rebooted and i was greeted with my OS in glorious 1080p. however, it locked up twice while i was testing things and after the second one i was left with a black screen upon bootup. i swapped my GTX 690 back in my pc and then it was fine, so the drivers are unstable to say the least. 
 
 
Tests
i tested Minecraft, CS:GO and Dota 2 on Pop_OS. i used the 9800GTX+ in my main pc which has: Phenom X4 955 @ stock, 16GB of ram and a 1TB ssd. 
 
Minecraft ran surprisingly well. with everything on low, particles set to decreased and 6 chunks, at 720p i was able to get a consistent 60fps, except when i was flying around, then it dipped to the mid 50's. 
 
CS:GO did not launch. 
 
Dota 2 did launch, and at 1080p with everything on low it hovered around the 40fps mark i assume (couldn't monitor it), but i had massive screen tearing. enabling vsync helped with that, but it locked the framerate to 30 (again assuming, but it looked like 30). 
 
 
Conclusion
The 9800GTX+ is simply too old to be useful, mainly because of the driver hell and considering the low prices of better cards than it.
 
i am still happy to own it, and it will go nicely in my collection, but other than retro gaming builds, the 9800GTX+ is ready for retirement in 2019. 

This will be a look back at the GeForce 9800GTX+. i bought one for my collection of gpu's, and discovered it's in perfect working order. so, i decided to test what it could do in 2019, considering i bought it for less than €10. 
 

Looks

The card looks dated, but it still looks good IMO. i especially like the graphic on it, i wish GPU manufacturers still did this. 
 
 
Drivers
The nightmare of everyone who uses old hardware, drivers. i first tried it on Windows. i DDU'd the newer drivers, rebooted and installed the driver the nvidia website gave me (342). that failed bigtime. while installing the driver my pc locked up and the screen went black. this happend twice and then i gave up. 
 
Happily i also have Pop_OS on my pc. i booted into that, and removed my existing nvidia drivers with one command (sudo apt remove nvidia-*) and then i installed the 340 drivers, rebooted and i was greeted with my OS in glorious 1080p. however, it locked up twice while i was testing things and after the second one i was left with a black screen upon bootup. i swapped my GTX 690 back in my pc and then it was fine, so the drivers are unstable to say the least. 
 
 
Tests
i tested Minecraft, CS:GO and Dota 2 on Pop_OS. i used the 9800GTX+ in my main pc which has: Phenom X4 955 @ stock, 16GB of ram and a 1TB ssd. 
 
Minecraft ran surprisingly well. with everything on low, particles set to decreased and 6 chunks, at 720p i was able to get a consistent 60fps, except when i was flying around, then it dipped to the mid 50's. 
 
CS:GO did not launch. 
 
Dota 2 did launch, and at 1080p with everything on low it hovered around the 40fps mark i assume (couldn't monitor it), but i had massive screen tearing. enabling vsync helped with that, but it locked the framerate to 30 (again assuming, but it looked like 30). 
 
 
Conclusion
The 9800GTX+ is simply too old to be useful, mainly because of the driver hell and considering the low prices of better cards than it.
 
i am still happy to own it, and it will go nicely in my collection, but other than retro gaming builds, the 9800GTX+ is ready for retirement in 2019. 

it does, according to the nvidia website at least. it gave me a driver. it didn't work so there's that, but it did give me a driver. 

This will be a look back at the GeForce 9800GTX+. i bought one for my collection of gpu's, and discovered it's in perfect working order. so, i decided to test what it could do in 2019, considering i bought it for less than €10. 
 

Looks

The card looks dated, but it still looks good IMO. i especially like the graphic on it, i wish GPU manufacturers still did this. 
 
 
Drivers
The nightmare of everyone who uses old hardware, drivers. i first tried it on Windows. i DDU'd the newer drivers, rebooted and installed the driver the nvidia website gave me (342). that failed bigtime. while installing the driver my pc locked up and the screen went black. this happend twice and then i gave up. 
 
Happily i also have Pop_OS on my pc. i booted into that, and removed my existing nvidia drivers with one command (sudo apt remove nvidia-*) and then i installed the 340 drivers, rebooted and i was greeted with my OS in glorious 1080p. however, it locked up twice while i was testing things and after the second one i was left with a black screen upon bootup. i swapped my GTX 690 back in my pc and then it was fine, so the drivers are unstable to say the least. 
 
 
Tests
i tested Minecraft, CS:GO and Dota 2 on Pop_OS. i used the 9800GTX+ in my main pc which has: Phenom X4 955 @ stock, 16GB of ram and a 1TB ssd. 
 
Minecraft ran surprisingly well. with everything on low, particles set to decreased and 6 chunks, at 720p i was able to get a consistent 60fps, except when i was flying around, then it dipped to the mid 50's. 
 
CS:GO did not launch. 
 
Dota 2 did launch, and at 1080p with everything on low it hovered around the 40fps mark i assume (couldn't monitor it), but i had massive screen tearing. enabling vsync helped with that, but it locked the framerate to 30 (again assuming, but it looked like 30). 
 
 
Conclusion
The 9800GTX+ is simply too old to be useful, mainly because of the driver hell and considering the low prices of better cards than it.
 
i am still happy to own it, and it will go nicely in my collection, but other than retro gaming builds, the 9800GTX+ is ready for retirement in 2019. 

This will be a look back at the GeForce 9800GTX+. i bought one for my collection of gpu's, and discovered it's in perfect working order. so, i decided to test what it could do in 2019, considering i bought it for less than €10. 
 

Looks

The card looks dated, but it still looks good IMO. i especially like the graphic on it, i wish GPU manufacturers still did this. 
 
 
Drivers
The nightmare of everyone who uses old hardware, drivers. i first tried it on Windows. i DDU'd the newer drivers, rebooted and installed the driver the nvidia website gave me (342). that failed bigtime. while installing the driver my pc locked up and the screen went black. this happend twice and then i gave up. 
 
Happily i also have Pop_OS on my pc. i booted into that, and removed my existing nvidia drivers with one command (sudo apt remove nvidia-*) and then i installed the 340 drivers, rebooted and i was greeted with my OS in glorious 1080p. however, it locked up twice while i was testing things and after the second one i was left with a black screen upon bootup. i swapped my GTX 690 back in my pc and then it was fine, so the drivers are unstable to say the least. 
 
 
Tests
i tested Minecraft, CS:GO and Dota 2 on Pop_OS. i used the 9800GTX+ in my main pc which has: Phenom X4 955 @ stock, 16GB of ram and a 1TB ssd. 
 
Minecraft ran surprisingly well. with everything on low, particles set to decreased and 6 chunks, at 720p i was able to get a consistent 60fps, except when i was flying around, then it dipped to the mid 50's. 
 
CS:GO did not launch. 
 
Dota 2 did launch, and at 1080p with everything on low it hovered around the 40fps mark i assume (couldn't monitor it), but i had massive screen tearing. enabling vsync helped with that, but it locked the framerate to 30 (again assuming, but it looked like 30). 
 
 
Conclusion
The 9800GTX+ is simply too old to be useful, mainly because of the driver hell and considering the low prices of better cards than it.
 
i am still happy to own it, and it will go nicely in my collection, but other than retro gaming builds, the 9800GTX+ is ready for retirement in 2019. 

i'm looking at doing that. i wanna know how old SLI is. newer SLI works well in my experience in supported games (i have a GTX 690 in my main pc) so i wanna try old SLI. 
 
i'm looking for a matching 8800GTX so i am gonna try that. 

i just got these 2 beautiful cards. the left one is a 9800GTX+ and the rigfht one is an 8800GTX. i got them for €25 including shipping. 
i'm not sure what i'm going to do with them. i might build an XP machine soon and then the 8800GTX will go in that, but if i don't they are just for my old gpu collection. 
 
 

 
when i pulled these out of the box my brother who is 14 saw the graphic on the 9800GTX+ and screamed "FORTNITE".... i've never facehooved so hard in my entire life. 

i just got these 2 beautiful cards. the left one is a 9800GTX+ and the rigfht one is an 8800GTX. i got them for €25 including shipping. 
i'm not sure what i'm going to do with them. i might build an XP machine soon and then the 8800GTX will go in that, but if i don't they are just for my old gpu collection. 
 
 

 
when i pulled these out of the box my brother who is 14 saw the graphic on the 9800GTX+ and screamed "FORTNITE".... i've never facehooved so hard in my entire life. 

i just got these 2 beautiful cards. the left one is a 9800GTX+ and the rigfht one is an 8800GTX. i got them for €25 including shipping. 
i'm not sure what i'm going to do with them. i might build an XP machine soon and then the 8800GTX will go in that, but if i don't they are just for my old gpu collection. 
 
 

 
when i pulled these out of the box my brother who is 14 saw the graphic on the 9800GTX+ and screamed "FORTNITE".... i've never facehooved so hard in my entire life. 

i just got these 2 beautiful cards. the left one is a 9800GTX+ and the rigfht one is an 8800GTX. i got them for €25 including shipping. 
i'm not sure what i'm going to do with them. i might build an XP machine soon and then the 8800GTX will go in that, but if i don't they are just for my old gpu collection. 
 
 

 
when i pulled these out of the box my brother who is 14 saw the graphic on the 9800GTX+ and screamed "FORTNITE".... i've never facehooved so hard in my entire life. 

IDK, snip and sketch is far worse than the sniping tool IMO.
 
Instead of just being able to take a screenshot and then share it, now you need to 1)take a screenshot, 2)click on a notification about that screenshot, 3)Click on a tiny "copy" button.
 
The whole workflow feels much more sluggish, and aimed at grandmas, instead of being an actual tool.

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imma sit here while everyone else yells about posting guidelines. 

imma sit here while everyone else yells about posting guidelines. 

imma sit here while everyone else yells about posting guidelines. 

why do reviewers always critisize systems for the bezels? who cares? on a thicc 17" machine it makes no sense to have ultra thin bezels because it will look big anyway. on an ultrabook maybe, but a 17" gaming laptop? seriously who cares?
 
also, i like bezels in general. i want as much of my fov either filled with display or black bars when i'm using my computer/laptop so that i don't get distracted by things behind my screen. 

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ok turns out i'm stupid. i disabled some stuff in the bios and now it's fine.

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