Advice on 2 x 5970

[ScreamWorker]

Hey guys,

so i got hold of 2 x 5970's today in a old water cooled rig. The motherboard was toast but i was interested in getting a 4th gaming PC in the house so nothing too fancy.
The issue is both have blocks on, i know they are old cards, is there anyway i can get some air cooling solution or as im thinking its just best to not bother with them ?


Thanks in advance !

 

[TaKeN]

Good cards back in the day, but I wouldn't go spending money on them now!

 

[JediFragger]

Nah, dead money man.

 

[FlyingScotsman]

Total waste of cash mate

 

[willhub]

Not worth it, that's like trying to run a horse with no legs in the Grand National.

 

[Kaapstad]

Save your money as they are not worth it.

I actually own a pair of HD5970s and there is very little I can use them on.

To put it in prospective the 5970s have 1gb of VRAM per GPU and the PC I am using to type this has 24gb of VRAM per GPU.

 

[Armageus]

Main issue is the vram limitation, as otherwise they are almost as fast as a geforce 1050 or Radeon rx560.

Drivers will be another issue, as support for anything older than the 7xxx series was dropped ages ago.

Replacement coolers will cost more than the cards are worth now, so worth just trying to move them on to someone building a "retro" gaming rig.

 

[LtMatt]

Last supported drivers for the 5000 series is 16.12.1 FYI.

 

[CapitalOne]

Mount them on the wall as tech art - buy a vega 56 for your 4th PC if you fancy an AMD setup. Full disclosure I have always run at least 2 gaming machines, 1 AMD gpu and 1 nVidia it’s fun to play with the different platforms.

 

[koooowweeee]

Wow brings back memories. I had a pair of them too.

Just use them for weight lifting

 

[P.B]

Water of time even if they was supported that's quad fire set up which wasn't the greatest even when new cool cards must have been some rig in its day

 

[Kaapstad]

Water of time even if they was supported that's quad fire set up which wasn't the greatest even when new cool cards must have been some rig in its day

Back in the day quadfire 5970s worked very well and was much better than anything NVidia had.

NVidia did eventually come up with a faster option - Quad SLI GTX 480s but not even I was crazy enough to want to put 4 of those hot running cards in a PC.

 

[koooowweeee]

Back in the day quadfire 5970s worked very well and was much better than anything NVidia had.

NVidia did eventually come up with a faster option - Quad SLI GTX 480s but not even I was crazy enough to want to put 4 of those hot running cards in a PC.

Back them xfire and sli were much better supposed. It's a shame really.

 

[ubersonic]

Ahh the HD5970, AKA the god of mining, never again shall crypto know it's like.

 

[Rannoch]

7990 was a good mining card, even when I haven’t noticed the connectors melted it still done it’s job.

 

[Diagro]

I'd buy them off you to clean up and display in my classroom at work

 

[Kaapstad]

I'd buy them off you to clean up and display in my classroom at work

Unfortunately with only 1gb of VRAM per GPU your blackboard can probably hold more data.

Having said that if anyone wants to take my 5970s off my hands for a small fee they are welcome.

 

[Diagro]

Unfortunately with only 1gb of VRAM per GPU your blackboard can probably hold more data.

Having said that if anyone wants to take my 5970s off my hands for a small fee they are welcome.

I was serious haha.

The 5970 has a nice PCB, would look nice on my Hardware wall display. With a screw through it..

 

[Matt26LFC]

How much Kaapstad?

 

[Kaapstad]

How much Kaapstad?

I am open to offers but you can not talk prices on the forum.