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Picked up a used Gigabyte HD 4850 with Zalman aftermarket cooler for $10. The Zalman cooler kept temps at just 53°C — massive difference from my previous HD 3850 that hit 106°C! Tested on a Core 2 Duo rig with GTA SA, CoD4, Crysis and more. Full video here: https://youtu.be/0ORqQPk7kjs
I thought Crysis was more CPU intensive so gpu performance isn't that important.
I think I had one of these... Is this the one that came with Half-Life 2? Maybe it was the 4750 🤔
That would have been the first or second PC I built entitely from brand new parts and not Frankensteined together from other PCs. My dumbass paired it with a Celeron tho. It was cheaper than a Core 2 Duo and had four cores instead of 2! 😩
Hey, much better this time around! And I got to be your first view on the video!
Assuming you’re still open to feedback, these are my personal takes:
Thanks for being the first view and for the detailed feedback! These are my first videos so I'm still finding my style. I've already noticed the pacing issue myself — by the time I reach the HD 5000 series the videos will be faster and tighter. I'm also trying to improve the quality with every new video. On the music, YouTube's copyright system is very strict so options are limited, but I'll keep experimenting. Really appreciate the honest feedback!
Yeah, I’ll go one step further: if I see any evidence of AI slop being used in someone’s work, I dismiss the work and don’t engage it further. That’s people’s water, being chugged by those data centers, for mediocre and untrue bullshit. It directly harms people.
Put the AI in the garbage and use actual elbow grease and real thought.
I had one of these :-)
Edit: I liked the video! I love old hardware :-)
I agree on the music with the other comment - either make it stand out/vary it or remove it, it gets monotonous after a while. Narration would be nice, but it's not required.
I found myself fast forwarding quite a bit - i appreciated the level of detail you went with cleaning the card for example, but one gets the gist after seeing how the die and the first part of the pcb got cleaned, no need to show the whole process in full length/normal speed + the cooler, and show the reassembly after already seeing the disassembly when there isn't anything to watch out for when doing it in reverse.
Thanks for the feedback! When I made these first videos I wanted to show the full process step by step — in case someone wants to do it themselves and needs a reference. But I agree it gets tiring after a point. After the HD 5000 series the videos will be faster with fewer scenes. On the music I'm still searching — YouTube's copyright system is very restrictive. Really appreciate you taking the time to watch and comment!
If there's something you want to show in detail, I would suggest making a separate video specifically for that, and then saying, there's a longer video to show you exactly what I did over here if you're interested, otherwise, just keep watching.
This is also very helpful if it ends up being something that's very similar to something else that happens in the future, because then you can reuse the one DIY how-to video as a reference point for all of the future videos.