This would be a great monitor to play FIFA on.

Only 130 in cs2? Weird…

Great GPU 😅🎉

Me running a 3440X1440 monitor on a RX 6600.

Damn extra wide looks interesting, but then i rarely play, any perspective games, it won’t help strategies and other more top view games. |:

Seeing this ultrawide monitor taking a lot of resources for peripheral vision makes me wonder if games could implement some kind of resolution scaling for edges of the screen, just like VR does. Maybe even make it a gradient, so the shift in quality is not too apparent.

It did well considering its age 👍👍 nice monitor 👍👍

isnt that a SUPER ultrawide monitor?

I use to roll an ultra wide but that one is way large and looks awkward in my opinion. The lack of cutscene support for ultra wides is usually what kills immersion for me.

It’s funny how an RTX 4050 running at just 30W while thermal throttling in the body of a Dell XPS 14 is still faster than even a GTX 980 Ti that ran at 250W in an entire tower

great video but damn you’re absolutely terrible at counter strike lol

I loved my 980. Used it for a couple of years on a 1080p ultrawide and it could keep up in most games I played. When i upgraded to a 1440p ultrawide, I sold it and upgraded, but it’s nice to see the 980 get some love. Can’t believe it’s now 10 years old!

I had 2 GTX 980 up until last year, too bad SLI died out the last few years of their life 🙁

I’d be interested to know what resolution closest matches the human field of view. Ultraside looks great, but I do wonder if it’s unnaturally wide.

New camera?! You have a 4K option now??

Ah the nostalgia, I really wanted one of these back in the day but only could afford the 960 ;_;

And what same older titles like Far Cry 3 or similar?

Can someone please tell me the name of the monitor?

why??

The Maxwell GPUs were awesome cards! I still have a 750ti in my wife’s PC although she doesn’t do any gaming on it these days. Also, that monitor is stupidly wide but my wife would probably love one just like it for work!

Nah no biased, I agree that FH4 is much better less brown the seasons actually mean something, its got better city layout, heck even the map layout as a whole, thats coming from an American.

how times have changed…. were this the early 2000’s most games wouldnt even run on hardware half this old because of raytracing or something

The vignette on the bottom of the screen in CS2 is so obnoxious. Volvo won’t give a setting to turn off 🙁

Wow 4K video upload.

I think if you use lossless scaling the experience may be better

I’m running a similar setup! GTX 960 on a Samsung ultrawide 3440 x 1440 @ 60Hz. I don’t remember specifics but Mafia II (Classic) runs way OVER 30fps at max settings. GTA V though lags at medium graphics. Recently tried NFS:Heat and that at high graphics settings is fine but noticeable blurring, medium is better, low is smooth.

*A 12gig 980Ti would be very interesting to see*

i wonder what titles even have crossfire support XD i had a 7990 in the past but it sure wasnt fun having a 7970ghz “only” when new titles came about then again i was able to modify some game files when F04 was hot/new to support my gpu for duel gpu mode. Then i enabled VSR which was also nice.

Who is going to buy a £3Kv monitor and then onlyb a old 980? those card are great for 4K 60k cheap 4K screen at high at 60fps. 970 was the perfect ultra 1080p GTX V card. 4GTB mean high resolution game and new game are limited. but the fill rates are not that behind on older games. V-sync and you’ll get a smooth with these card on a 60hz screen. I had one and long with a 1070 last gen Nvidia was worth buying. Day after I brought my £370 AIO loop cooled GTX1070 they rocketed right up to £700 and so it was the only GTX card I didn’t get another down the line for SLI. I was going to get a second 1070 when price dropped but it never did it just went up and New Nvidia card are not worth it to me as I spend less time gaming new, also use open software so Nvidia is proprietary locked down crappy drivers.

Not a fan of such wide monitor for gaming, mostly because they are not big enough to go around my FOV, and the sides look too stretched in games (more of games fault tbh). Being too small, one begins to feel like there is not enough view from top and bottom. I think a big 38″ 21:9 is better choice.

G’day Random,
The reason I would want one of these 2x Wide Monitors is for “In Cabin” ETS2 Driving , but instead of just widening the image with the steering wheel still in the middle…
I would want it to have the steering wheel in the same position relative to the side of a 16×9 Monitor (LH/RH Drive) adding the passenger side view to the extra screen area

Awesome video! Please try the legendary 1080 Ti next!

I wonder how an r9 fury or r9 380 would hold up

I used the 980 back in the day in 4K until i got a 2070 super, since llast year the RTX 4070. My first graphics card i used in 4K was the GTX 770Ti 4GB in 2012, as far as i remember.

Ahem, sir…HOW DID YOU GET THE OG CRYSIS RUNNING ON Windows 10/11 ???

“Must have done something to upset someone” … throws grenade!

10 years time looks bigger than the screen

Good stuff I love your content. I personally use the Deco Gear 40. It’s only 75HZ 8 Bit or 10BIT 60Hz IPS 5120X2160. I personally use 8BIT 60Hz. I also use a High Polling Rate Razor v3 Pro Mouse. No need for High Refresh Rates with that mouse. I also use a 7800XT. I couldn’t get past the 4090 plug issue. To Risky for me.

These old cards could do many higher end resolutions. I remember even my GTX 680’s could do 4k 60Hz.

I did this back in early 2008! Almost 17 years ago. Two 30″ Dell panels powered by a Radeon X1950 Pro. 2560 x 1600 times 2 = 5120 x 1600. Games mostly freaked out but Google Earth was magical 😎

1440p super Ultrawide like in this video has 89% of the pixels of 4K. As a reference point to compare how hard these monitors are to run. I run a 6950XT with one at 240hz and I love the setup.

Youre actually right, 2560×720 would be the correct math!

PlayStation 5 has a 6700xt equivalent gpu! Must more powerful than a 980

Such an amazing card, my biggest regret was getting rid of mine, hoping to buy one back one day 😁

For VRAM you might try the Titan – essentially a 12 GB 980 Ti. My old one was still in service until last year.

I use a 1080 for a 5K 21:9 monitor. But almost never use the full resolution

I used such monitor with my Old rx580 8gb. Surprisingly it was acceptable 😀

What’s the make and model of the monitor?

Starfield with this dumb square double barrel is such a mess.

Back when Nvidia was innovating and generous. Crazy its been so long. So much of the 900 series was legendary. Had a 970 myself.

Ultrawide looks very cool to try, but when my monitors finally eat it, i will prefer to go for normal 1440p oled

Jumped from a 970 to a 6750. 10yo i7 4790 holding strong at 2K. I wanted the 4790K and the 980 atm (2014) but my pocket was at the limit. Case huge NXT 820 PSU XFX 500w and giant speakers Mictolabs 7c which I cant recomend enough

That 10 year old 980 still performs surprisingly well, especially with a modded 8GB VRAM. While it struggles with the latest AAA titles, it handles older games and esports titles well. Great benchmark.

Do you actually know the meadows of (fps)death in GTA? There are 2 of those that, if you turn the grass detail up too much, and you go there at night, it will reck your fps, like always…… I play in 4k and on a 3090 and I never managed to get that running at 60fps consistently.

Meanwhile, I’m watching this on a GTX285 and a dying Samsung plasma tv.

They were pretty good results for an old car like the GTX980. To be honest anyone still running one of these cards is not likely to be playing the latest games though. Great video!

i my self own gtx 980 ti 6 gb founders edicion and
I am happy

The fact that a 10 year old graphic card looks nearly as good as modern games is the main reason why newer game and consoles are not nearly as popular!!! I mean those games look GREAT and would never think they are not modern!

Keeping my Titan X cause it’s the last high end GPU with VGA.

Currently running a 57 inch samsung ultrawide off of an old EVGA 980, would not entirely recommend it (can’t get max resolution OR refresh rate), but hey, it absolutely still gets the job done!

I have that exact card, but stock. It holds up surprisingly well.

Have a 34″ ultrawide that’s 2560×1080. Any game I tried on it defaulted to 1440p, so I overclocked the monitor to 2560×1440 at native 75hz.
That’s with 2 980tis in SLI.😊
I retired my triple monitor setup w/3 GTX 470s for it…

I too love FH4 but my reasoning is something different bro. Bcz I live in India I can relate to the Left Lane driving like in Forza Horizon 4. Honorable mention – Sleeping Dogs ✌️😅

Sponsored by GTX980 in 2024.

980 is legend!!!

The 980 was the last gpu i got brand new. Im shocked it has been 10 years.

Me here with a 1050 2gb 😂😂 lol well am not using it now but still have that

Still have my Strix GTX 970 in the wifes PC…
Worthless for AAA gaming and sure as hell mot feasible for my 4k monitor , but she plays stuff like tropico ,planet zoo/coaster and other more CPU dependant games in 1080p.
Good enough with a bit of an OC on the core and the ram… 1450 on the core is possible

Another good contender for “10 year old card that does well” is a r9 fury x (or r9 nano with some tweaks) can still do pretty well on high res. The absolutely massive memory bandwidth really helps, but the 4GB is a little limiting.

10 years damn, I’m old lmao.

I had one of the 980Tis, gifted it to my friend in Russia when I bought the 1080ti, the jump to 1080ti for myself was really a big difference, but this card did feel like a beast at it’s time.

Glad to see you testing out higher ultrawide resolutions! It shows that old GPUs can handle some relatively modern titles even at high resolutions and shouldn’t be straight out thrown away.
If you turn down a few irrelevant graphical settings down, a mid-range GPU can run most modern/popular games at ultrawide (like 3440×1440) with a 60 fps aim. So you don’t really need to empty your pockets out in order to enjoy games at high resolutions. There are always exceptions with some of the most recent graphically intensive games like Black Myth Wukong so it depends on the range of games you play.
I am currently testing the best GPU for SFF PCs in Ultrawide in terms of price/performance which was also covered by RandomGaminginHD, I think 2 years ago: the RTX A2000 6GB which is close in raw performance to a GTX 980 TI with the extra that it has all the features available for 2nd gen RTX cards (since the chip it uses is a cut down version of RTX 3060). So far I am really impressed by it. It’s up to personal preference whether you want to play maxed out games, but don’t be too hasty in throwing your old GPU out and buying a new one.

Oh, so the price of the high-end Nvidia GPU has officially doubled in 10 years.
100% price increase. Should have been 20% according to inflation.
I hadn’t realised.

I still remember when this launched

You mentioned you have a 4060? I’d love to see you use that card in the scenarios you tested for this video; I am actually on the fence about getting a 32:9, but THIS gave me a lot of hope 😀

$540 80 class GPU. What a time! We took it for granted.

make sure you use the correct FOV to make out those extra pixels 😉

Memory modded😮 someone must have really loved using this card

GTX 980… now I feel old… this monitor is insane!

can’t believe Crysis only uses 1.6GB VRAM at that resolution

What’s the monitor?

Do you think a Vega 56 or 64 will run this fine despite lack of driver support?

In the last 10 years, my monitor has been my best upgrade and I’ve used at least 5 or 6 different GPUs.

I complain about Nvidia a lot when it comes to pricing but I have to give them respect for still supporting a 10 year old card. That’s a lot better than a certain other graphics card manufacturer.

What a monitor, that’s the best I’ve ever seen you play on Counter-Strike.

I love that monitor. It’s been my daily driver for the past year and it’s not let me down.

10 year old gpu with 4 gb vram running this kind of resolution. And still people will try to convince you that 8 gigs of vram is not enough for 1080 gaming..
Insane card btw

modding one of these with more vram would be awesome, lots of games limited by that and overclocking is usually limited by the 4 gigs.

did you use DP cable?

I’m curious can you play on a high refresh rate on lower resolutions like 1280:1024 at 165 or 180hz for example ? I was thinking on getting a budget high refresh rate monitor but on the pdf manuals the lower resolutions are at 75hz looking at the documentation . Or i need to select the resolution from the nvidia or amd drivers or create custom ones from there ?

As time goes on, I’d imagine modding gpu’s to eek out a few more years from them to become more commonplace, ampere and ada lovelace being what I’d assume to be modded most, given the 8gb problem. Though that will depend on whether or not denser memory chips become available.

I could just be completely wrong too, who knows.

High end 980 < lowest end 40 series card

They came in 8gb variants?

That wide FOV would make me spew my guts out!

I use an ultra wide but yours is wider.

Even a 2gb gtx 760 is enough for an ultra wide 1080p resolution.

Gosh is it really 10 years old now? I loved my 980-Ti, served me well for a long time.

That additional 4GB of RAM soldered on actually helped this card a tonne with this high a resolution.

It´s worth it it can run Crysis thanks to 8 GB Vram. If you wan´t to now wich card watch the Video this here is otherwise Spoiler Free 🤣

That ain’t ultrawide, it’s super ultrawide.

Now i feel old. Back in 2015 (GTA 5 launch for PC) i upgraded my Radeon 7850 to a GTX 970 to play this game (full HD).

Starfield really runs like crap… we’ll never see a VR version of the game unfortunately… it would have been interesting

I made the mistake of buying a VA monitor, never again

The 980 is a nice GPU! Is the 980 Ti much better? I have a 980 Ti, I really like it, but have to limit it to 60% power limit to keep it from reaching 90C.. I don’t have a correct heatsink, the heatsink I have on it is similar to the one on my 750 Ti, so it’s not good.

10 years? Are you kidding? :O Man I’m old!

Idk how people actually do games with this type of monitor 🥴

I have a soft spot for the 980 because it was my first GPU. Still holding it’s own ❤

this monitor is gorgeous, I need that!

Modern Graphics Card vs CRT Monitor

Looks like you needed a special camera lens just to get the entirety of that super turbo ultra wide monitor in frame 😅

i agree, the england setting was much cooler imho than mexico

what cpu u tested these games?

you could potentially be able to set a custom resolution with a higher refresh rate with cru as long as you stay within the bandwidth limitations with CRU

I have a 980ti just wondering what people think

I thought by the thumbnail and title you’d use the GTX 780, not the 980. Wtf I’m old??

can i ask what keyboard that is that you’re using?

I upgraded from a 980 ti, still have it too loved that card used it for like 8 years. 980, 980 ti still perform pretty well all things considered.

Would love to see a comparison video
between the Modded GTX 980 and stock GTX 980

It’s really easy to update FSR in RDR2. Might be worth looking into mate.

These Maxwell cards were known to be good overclockers, though not sure if that reference model can handle much more heat. Maybe with some voltage tuning 🙂 Great video again! <3

i don’t a game should be allowed to run worse than maxed crysis 1

Because the biggest issue affecting framerate these days is high resolution. Not graphics quality. Graphics quality has stagnated.

It’s why older cards are still good enough for most games at 1080p resolution on medium settings.

Not like the old days in the 90s and 2000s where it was all about big leaps in graphics quality every 1 to 2 years.

Dear gods, what a horrible aspect ratio. I will never understand why anyone thinks that is in any way good remove the vertical like that for an insane amount of horizontal, both in games and in movies/TV/videos…. It’s even worse for games, if this is any example. edit @2:05 – So much motion blur along the edges in Crysis, despite motion blur being turned off in the settings, for instance.

Nice i got the same model for a budget build. Repasting it is a pain in the ass with this model. Lots of little screws.

still good in 2024

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Nice one! Not a huge fan of ultrawide gaming(feels much more applicable towards workload rather than FoV mess for most games imo) but good old 980 surprised me.

My eyes aren’t compatible with that monitor never mind my gfx card 😂

find the correct driver’s… driver’s we need them

Maxwell still hanging on, in the Switch and your channel 👍

144 monitor baaaa 240 49inc ‘

Its too wide… Twss

I bet the monitor immerses you in the game like no other

On my back-up living room gaming PC I still use my GTX980 with an HPZ400 X5687 Xeon. It does great actually. Even Flight Sim 2020 plays decent. Does excellent PS2 emulation. For how old it is not bad!

the rx 590 is reflective equivalent

run at lower resolution and use a factor to upscale

980 is legendary

old hardware is where it’s at

980 is not old… wait, 10 years?

that’s one big screen

This could also have been an engineering sample 8GB 980.

30 seconds and 2 views, someones speedrunning YT

😀

Sup