Gadgetory

on account of the overwhelming popularity when it came to the $7 CPU video which you can check out in the cart above me I've decided to move on to a graphics card and in this case I have found after hunting for hours upon hours and NVIDIA g2 10 now this card is not powerful by today's standards or even the standards during the time at which this card was released it comes equipped with 512 megabytes of gddr3 2d or 5 a 64-bit memory interface and 16 count'em 16 cuda cores yeah so this card is not powerful now and it wasn't powerful back then but can it still run games that existed around the time that this card was released so I'm talking about games specifically like counter-strike minecraft in Crysis all of which are not very GPU intensive today but could result in some massive graphics card bottlenecks if the graphics card becomes too weak which I believe will be the case in this case so that's it those are the three games I'm going to try I'm also going to throw some modern triple-a titles at the 210 just to you know even see if they run but worst case you will have three titles from around the time that this card was released to test with and we'll go from there so let's go ahead and swap the cards out and see what happens so what I'll be doing is throwing this 2/10 into the rig behind me swapping that out with the cards currently in there the CPU is a Xeon twelve-thirty v5 which is a fork or a thread processor and it is currently overclocked to 4.4 gigahertz using the base clock method and we're also running to 4 gigabytes sticks of ddr4 currently clocked to 2133 megahertz okay a bag of mixed results let's talk first about csgo that card is still hot actually csgo and all honestly disappointed me of it when it came to this card I expected the graphics card to produce around 30 frames per second consistently consistently but that did not happen we saw a lot of frame stutters a lot of skips pretty much render this game unplayable especially a game like csgo I would not recommend this card for the simple reason that other people are running this game at like 144 Hertz and above and they're up seeing all those frames they're seeing 144 frames and up and in a game like this where things are very intense and you're moving around a lot those frames do count if you don't believe me check out the video above me enough again the surprised me but for a very good reason was GTA 5 I expected this game to just not open up altogether games like dirt rally didn't Tomb Raider didn't a few others didn't that I did try but GTA 5 was the only one that worked and that was that was phenomenal it might be the GTA 5 as DirectX 10 support where these other games don't I couldn't open a black ops 3 because the game is built on DirectX 11 and this car doesn't support DirectX 11 so kind of Sol there but back to GTA 5 I was actually able to run the built-in benchmark which was something I wasn't able to do on the $7 CPU build but I had to keep everything literally turned down all the way and I had to run the game at a resolution of 800 by 600 hence the very small window there another thing I should mention is the fact that GTA 5 has a minimum vram requirement that exceeds what is offered by the to 10 the game required about 800 megabytes of VRAM but this card of course only offers 512 megabytes of it which I believe cut into our frame rates more than we would have seen had we had sufficient amounts of VRAM around one gig or so as for minecraft well a subpar I think is the word that best describes the experience we were hovering around 18 fps the whole time needless to say I wouldn't recommend this graphics card even for a game like that one thing that was cool and noteworthy however was the fact that when I conducted the TNT detonation test with just a single block of TNT and then 27 blocks stacked against each other the detonations of those TNT blocks really did not result in a severe framerate dip and that believe is because of the fact that the CPU was pulling a lot of the weight in that case so those kinds of explosions in Minecraft do take a toll on the CPU and I've proven that in the video in the card above me but it was cool to see to see if you actually stepping in and kind of taking things over daring those specific scenarios in the game lastly Crysis can it run Crysis that answer is no the game would open up and I was able to kind of move around a little bit but I quickly ended the experience because it really wasn't all that great of an experience and when you compare Crysis to something like csgo Crysis is more intensive but I didn't think it was that much more intensive just goes to show you why that question has so much meaning even today can it run Crysis that answer is again no do I recommend this card the short answer is no the long answer is no not under any circumstance and let me tell you why if you wanted to purchase a card right now with a similar form factor and price that's also much more powerful you could purchase for example the GT 710 now this card isn't going to allow you to play GTA 5 1080p maxed out settings at 60fps but what it will do is allow you to play some of those older games without many hitches whatsoever you will be able to surf the web watch youtube videos in 1080p 60fps no problem the bad card I do recommend if that's all you plan to do with your PC but this card right here I do not recommend at all goodbye be sure to give the video a thumbs up if you thought the content was cool and unique give it a thumbs down if you hate everything about life click the subscribe but if you haven't already stay tuned for more tech related content here on the channel and just more sciency stuff in general to kind of bolster or name a bit this is science studio thanks for learning with you