A blast from the past - Nvidia GT 240

Quartz · 24 May 2021 at 18:20

I was going through some of my tech boxes trying to find a trackball and came across some of my old video cards, including an Nvidia 7600 GS and GT 240. My cards older than the GT 240 are all AGP (though I think I have a Cirrus Logic VLB card somewhere), so not compatible with today's PCs, but I wonder how the 240 will fare if I put it in my spare PC?

I now have the card out alongside my old GTX 780 Ti. I currently have a Maxwell Titan in my spare PC (i5-11400). Which benchmarks should I run?

Cooler running · 24 May 2021 at 18:48

I don't exactly trust userbench, but I'd expect, based on the below it would be worse than the IGPU in the Intel 11400.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GeForce-GT-240-vs-Nvidia-RTX-3090/m7947vs4081
https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GeForce-GT-240-vs-Nvidia-GTX-1070/m7947vs3609

Quartz said:
I now have the card out alongside my old GTX 780 Ti

Are you saying you have the GT240 running or the 708ti? 780ti isn't great but it should boot Windows 10 and outperform most of the Nvidia cards on sale on OCUK at the moment (as sad a statement as that is lol).

Quartz said:
Which benchmarks should I run?

If you can run heaven on it, that might be a bit of a giggle.

Quartz · 24 May 2021 at 18:54

Cooler running said:
Are you saying you have the GT240 running or the 708ti?

No, they're both sitting on my desk beside me.

Haggisman · 24 May 2021 at 19:26

What's the hashrate?

I recently threw out an Ati x1900xtx, I wonder how well that would have held up these days. I would have kept it, but it didn't have a cooler

Andythe Random · 24 May 2021 at 19:29

Haggisman said:
What's the hashrate?

I recently threw out an Ati x1900xtx, I wonder how well that would have held up these days. I would have kept it, but it didn't have a cooler

Kind of makes me wish I still had my old ati x850

Axil · 24 May 2021 at 19:31

Still got a Matrox Mystique in my PC parts box - Completely useless except for nostalgia value

Rroff · 24 May 2021 at 19:35

Got a Voodoo 1 Obsidian board still in my parts box

Seems I chucked out more cards than I remember at some point - still got a 6800 Ultra Extreme on an AGP board, bunch of GTX470s for some reason as well as the newer cards but some of the other notable cards are gone like the 7950GX2.

Cyber-Mav · 24 May 2021 at 22:22

got gtx 260 lying around and a gt 240 too.

queamin · 24 May 2021 at 23:26

Got a 5850 and 9800pro but not sure where that is at moment.

MagicBoy · 25 May 2021 at 00:11

Still got my Orchid Righteous Voodoo 1. Pretty much threw everything else out though.

Grim5 · 25 May 2021 at 02:57

I don't have space to keep all my junk, if I kept all my old pc parts I'd need another room in the house

BUDFORCE · 25 May 2021 at 08:30

I'll give you £900 for it.

drakulton · 25 May 2021 at 08:38

Rroff said:
Got a Voodoo 1 Obsidian board still in my parts box

Seems I chucked out more cards than I remember at some point - still got a 6800 Ultra Extreme on an AGP board, bunch of GTX470s for some reason as well as the newer cards but some of the other notable cards are gone like the 7950GX2.

I still have my 7900GX2 it came with a free set of ear defenders.

Rroff · 25 May 2021 at 08:45

drakulton said:
I still have my 7900GX2 it came with a free set of ear defenders.

I bought the spacer kit for my GX2 and after-market heatsinks - substantially improved the cooling performance. IIRC the 7950GX2 was a lot quieter than the 7900 card as well out the box.

drakulton · 25 May 2021 at 13:11

Rroff said:
I bought the spacer kit for my GX2 and after-market heatsinks - substantially improved the cooling performance. IIRC the 7950GX2 was a lot quieter than the 7900 card as well out the box.

Yeah, the crappy single slot coolers sandwiched together, was never going to be one of the quietest cards.

i had to de-rivet and rivet the drive bay rack to move it a couple of inches further forward just to fit the card in the case. What a faff!

Aretak · 25 May 2021 at 13:31

Haggisman said:
What's the hashrate?

I recently threw out an Ati x1900xtx, I wonder how well that would have held up these days. I would have kept it, but it didn't have a cooler

That's a real shame. You could have bought a brand new cooler for it for a tenner on Ebay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111961326649

scotty63 · 25 May 2021 at 14:35

I've hung onto the first PC i built, It's got an Athlon 2500+ Barton and an ati 9800pro with a massive artic freezing? Heatsink and fan on it! One day i'll get around to popping a new cmos battery in it and see if it still fires up.

PrincessFrosty · 25 May 2021 at 15:16

drakulton said:
I still have my 7900GX2 it came with a free set of ear defenders.

Wasn't that the dual PCB (SLI in a single card)? I had one of them back in the day, found unboxing pictures in an old backup folder of that and various old builds. Shame we don't see more crazy stuff like that these days. I reckon with 2.5 and 3 slot cards you get today you could get something like that up to 6 slot easy.

drakulton · 25 May 2021 at 19:07

PrincessFrosty said:
Wasn't that the dual PCB (SLI in a single card)? I had one of them back in the day, found unboxing pictures in an old backup folder of that and various old builds. Shame we don't see more crazy stuff like that these days. I reckon with 2.5 and 3 slot cards you get today you could get something like that up to 6 slot easy.

That's the one. Some joker on youtube had two cards = four boards running in SLI. he had a towel wrapped round his neck due to his bleeding ears.

HangTime · 26 May 2021 at 00:57

scotty63 said:
massive artic freezing? Heatsink and fan on it!

I think I came across that the other day on one of my old motherboards, it looks hilarious because it is so tall. Like, it's as tall as the motherboard is wide lol.