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why would anyone want to buy a GTX 580 in 2019 I mean this god was released near the end of 2010 making it basically eight and a half years old now it also only has one and a half gigabytes of vram on board and it's renowned for being a toaster oven however there is one big benefit for this graphics card and that is right here in this case an OEM motherboard and it's not just any OAM motherboards these are the worst of the worst they don't have the option to disable secure boot or turn on CSM so practically every modern graphics card is out of the picture when it comes to compatibility with these motherboards know that you can't update the BIOS and unlock these features either because they've practically been abandoned because they're a bit old to but coupled with this graphics card which will boot on this motherboard you can still make some really good value considering this card here you can pick them up for next to nothing on local deals and these motherboards practically no one 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links in description below but I know you're waiting for waiting for that potato GTX 580 let's get back into it so now the card is a perfect fit to this motherboard however all is not nandi dandy in the land of takia City and that is because this graphics card actually had its support dropped from March 2018 of last year so any new games that come out for instance apex legends it won't get driver optimizations from Nvidia anymore however that's still not going to stop us from burning up the game and seeing how this thing rot so we just finished testing out Apex legends and we got 720p low settings to work and we got over 60 fps in this game and the funny thing was the 1% 0.1% lows weren't too bad a couple with a single channel of memory and an i5 3470 so I was actually quite surprised because if it can play apex legends then it can definitely play csgo dota 2 and even fortnight absolutely fine but let's try out some other more demanding titles in 2019 like Resident Evil 2 and then we'll move on to shadow of the Tomb Raider so now shadows of the Tomb Raider was really awkward we started off with 1080p settings the characters look like they had some plague or mosquito infestation on them and then dropping it down 720p this still existed this problem and so the FPS was like 42 and surprisingly the minimums were still okay ago like 25 so it wasn't stuttering or anything just the FPS on the lower settings possible 720p wasn't really that magical number of 60fps that you would want if you wanted to play shadow of the Tomb Raider so that games kind of a Miss but Resident Evil 2 lowest settings 720p actually did fine and we got over 60fps 17.1% loads were fine in this game so it's time to talk a little bit more about the GTX 580 now so now the GTX 580 in 2019 it's ok if you just want to get into PC gaming and as we said in the intro this card here one of the big benefits is it'll combine with practically any motherboard and work absolutely fine and now for power consumption it was ok we did get under 300 watts for whole system power draw this is with a mediocre 500 watt power supply so it was ok it wasn't that bad and the ambient temperatures in here at about 27 degrees at the moment so it is quite hot we're still coming off summer in Australia and so this whole system together wasn't that bad keep in mind you would want a much better case for cooling if you're going to put something inside this when I sell this I'm definitely going to tell the person who buys it just leave the side panel off otherwise it just get too much heat being dumped in the case and it's better for longevity but speaking of the gravis card itself the Fermi cards do indeed run very hot and this is a combination of course due to the GPU architecture running hot itself but also due to the cooling solution just not really paying that up to par some of the aftermarket cooling solutions like these Zeus models and stuff did a lot better of a job but still some of these cards even to this date I even looked on gumtree just recently you could pick one of these up for about 40 Ozzie dollars well that's the offer I put in I'm waiting for the guy to get back to me and then come up with a board that no one wants cheap i-5 a key buy stick of memory and a budget 250 gigabyte hard drive you'll have self a whole system that'll run pretty well so there it is with the GTX 580 and to answer the question of today's video is the GTX 580 still good for gaming in 2019 well the answer is yes and no because it depends on what type of gaming you're doing if you're playing competitive multiplayer titles that are easy to play then definitely yes and it's a good card to keep an eye out for with that benefit of basically meeting with any motherboard out there however on the flip side if you want to play some of the latest and greatest titles even on the lowest settings you may come into some troubles just like we saw with shadow of the Tomb Raider it also only has a 1.5 gigabyte frame buffer which again with some of those latest and greatest titles is going to present a problem for this graphics card in 2019 now also managed to run a quick fire strike score and the graphics core would put it somewhere close to that of a 2400 G from AMD maybe a little bit better but it's still not bad for a GPU that's almost nine years old so it's definitely one of those cards to keep an eye out for even if you sort of just come across one for maybe 20 30 US dollars or 40 Aussie dollars it's definitely going to make someone who's just looking to get into PC gaming on a budget happy and with that said guys I hope you enjoyed today's video if you did then be sure to hit that like button let us know also in the comments what you think about the GTX 580 have you tried one or are you in the market for one or is it one of those cards then you keep on your hot list love reading your thoughts and opinions as always and also if you've got a bit of time be sure to check out today's video 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