Troubleshooting the Unboxing of a New Graphics Card: A Cautionary Tale of TeamViewer and GPU Utilization

As I began recording this video, I had high hopes for a straightforward unboxing experience. However, fate had other plans. While setting up my new 750Ti graphics card, I encountered a multitude of issues that forced me to get creative with troubleshooting. The first hurdle I faced was the lack of convenience in rendering out projects on the tower, which was located nearby. I ended up having to physically walk over to the tower to render out the projects, which was not only inconvenient but also frustrating.

To further complicate matters, my TeamViewer experience took a turn for the worse. In the past, I had used TeamViewer to manage all of my computers, but after it got hacked and various issues arose, I lost access to some of its features, including password management. When I tried to log in and change my password, I was met with an error message that refused to let me proceed. Undeterred, I decided to give TeamViewer another try, hoping that perhaps things had changed since the last time it had been compromised.

As I ran through the motions of attempting to access TeamViewer once more, I couldn't help but feel a sense of embarrassment. How could something as seemingly straightforward as using a remote desktop software become so convoluted and frustrating? But, as I finally managed to log in and begin using it again, I realized that this experience had taught me a valuable lesson: to always troubleshoot all available options before making large purchases or committing to specific hardware solutions.

In the end, my 750Ti graphics card proved to be a worthy upgrade. Not only did it offer improved performance over its predecessor, but it also reduced heat and noise output, making it a welcome addition to my setup. I was particularly pleased to find that the GPU utilization during certain parts of the project increased significantly when using the 4k 60 timeline with the 750Ti, although it did dip down to around 60-80% in other sections.

Another interesting observation I made during this process was the behavior of the 4K 60 footage. While native 4K 60 rendering seemed to utilize the full GPU capacity in certain parts of the project, other areas saw a significant reduction in performance, often dipping down to around 200-300% utilization at times. This led me to wonder whether some hardware configurations are better suited for certain types of tasks or workloads.

As I continued testing and experimenting with the 750Ti, I began to appreciate its capabilities even more. From reduced noise output to improved stability, this graphics card was a clear step forward from its predecessor. However, it also reminded me that different components can struggle with varying challenges and applications. Despite some quirks, my experience with the 750Ti has left me feeling satisfied with my decision to upgrade.

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Finally, I must take a moment to acknowledge that I was unable to reach the camera during the recording process. Despite my best efforts, it simply refused to cooperate. As with many technical endeavors, there are times when things don't go as planned, and sometimes we have to improvise or accept that certain obstacles can't be overcome.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello everyone my name is Adam repose box and welcome to a new unboxing I said before that I don't do these a whole heck of a lot and I'm doing a lot of them recently it's kind of weird today we're taking a look at a bit of an older graphics card today we're taking a look at a gtx 750ti from gigabyte but this one's a little special because it has 4 gigabytes of gddr5 memory which is as much as my gtx 970 has if you don't count the point 5 gigabytes of the slower memory this is a wind force card so it should be fairly quiet and comes pre overclocked I believe unfortunately the Amazon seller left the shipping label on the actual product box and didn't ship it in a separate box that was a little annoying but this is actually going to be going in my transcoding server I've hasn't gone live yet when i'm recording this but should hopefully be in the progress of going live when you see this i did a whole series on me building my transcoding server in a sort of challenge with another youtuber and in that build i used my old gtx 660 which was my main graphics card for two or three years of my youtubing well after a while it started to kind of bite the dust it gave me a lot of errors it would crash during renders it was overheating it was having a lot of problems which is when I finally saved up was able to save up an upgrade to my 970 I'm now using a 1080 and just kind of not even caring anymore but I can't put my 970 in my server so I needed a new graphics card for the server because the gtx 660 was running fine in the server for a while but it's since it's it's basically dead it's not rendering videos right it's having issues with some of my transition packs which was not even working with them at all and any time I've tried to record with the server it just totally crashes out the GPU just can't handle a whole heck of a lot so I was looking for a replacement and the 750 Ti is one of the you know most bang for the buck cuda performance that you can get out of a graphics card sub to hundreds of dollars this thing you can get it used for about 80 bucks which is pretty cool and then I elected to go with the four gigabyte model because that's a lot more frame buffer a lot more vram for the actual rendering and editing process so it should perform incredibly well on the server with the 24 thread grunting in it as well as hopefully fix my transition issues if not i'm sending it back let's go ahead and get the box over here I forget my knife a new we just have one piece of tape so hopefully the graphics cards actually in there like I said I just thought it'd be smart to ship me the raw product box but it looks like everything is okay now this is pretty cool we don't often get to take a look at older products new in box I forgot what the official word for it old or new old stock I think it's called or old new stock where the product yourself hasn't been opened before but it's definitely not a new product so we have the card itself in a aesthetic wrap and this is still even though it's a bit of an older and less powerful card it is still a 2 slot card unfortunately but that's fine i already have the two slots like you know set out for it since that my 660 was a two slot and we got a quick start guide that no one cares about a driver CD that i will skip over since the internet drivers will be better and that's it no flare no craziness just the card itself is pretty cool i will say and i have some comparison shots up here on the b-roll this is a lot of a shorter card than my 660 my 660 was from XFX it was a blower styled card cuz to be honest when i bought it i had no clue what I was doing so i just bought a blower style when I didn't really need to I should have bought a one force for other style cooler but I want them with a typical blower style so its pretty long and it outputs all that heat straight out the butt legged that it doesn't cool very well this one should cool really nicely the fins look really slick on here and that heat sink looks pretty nice so this should perform pretty well it's got dual DVI ports DVD and DVD I or dvi-d dvi-i it's hard to say and then to hdmi ports frankly we won't even be using any but maybe the single hdmi port on this thing as it's just going on a server that i run headless via windows remote desktop protocol and then a 6 pin power connector here so i will get this baby installed flip over and show you hopefully some rendering benchmarks compared to the 660 here it's looking pretty cool though so it's been quite the interesting day of experimentation and trial and error to say the least following what you just saw a second ago I ran a couple render tests on the gtx 660 to get a baseline of render times to compare to the 750 ti originally said it'd be a little bit faster but it's actually not if you look at actual GPU comparison the 750 ti is a little bit if i'm remembering right it was maybe a little bit higher clocked but had a bit less memory bandwidth and it more or less going to get the same performance in this kind of rendering environment but for a much cheaper card at the time I paid closer to 200 something dollars for the GTX 660 whereas the 750 ti is about a hundred twenty dollars if it's brand new and it had four gigs of vram versus the two gigs on my 660 regardless i created a couple projects or i created two sequences in premiere one at 4k 60 which has some native 4k 60 counter short go gameplay recorded with nvidia shadowplay a couple of overlays my lower thirds I do in the cineform codec scaled up because they're actually rendered at 1080p 60 but scaled up to 4k 60 a copy of my xsplit live stream where I was doing a webcam test up from 720p 60 upscaled and then another webcam recording at 1080p 30 upscaled and all each of these clips has one of my lower third overlays over tap a nice mix of codecs scaling and I even applied some limit recolor looks to the webcam clip as well to just get a general test and then I wanted to compare the render times to that of the 750 ti and like I said it was about the same now I actually ended up running these tests a couple times and a couple different environments because something that you run into with a multi CPU machine and especially with higher multi-core machines and that Adobe's software utilizes multicores in a very inconsistent manner sometimes when I render a project only like half the cores in the machine will ever be utilized heavily in this situation I did manage to it into utilize all the cores but they're the times were inconsistent even in the exact same project the exact same workflow it's just there's some inconsistencies go in there but the render times were basically exactly the same give or take 30 seconds which are not a big deal to me so the whole reason which I didn't fully explain in the first place for me doing this at all was I needed a fix for my transitions not working on the server I've been fighting this for a good couple months now and it turns out that's because mainly because I'm an idiot so if you don't know I do use some custom transition packs in my editing workflow from the company film impact now they do use the GPU but they use OpenGL instead of kuta on my desktop they've always worked perfectly and on my servers they've worked perfectly up till a certain point and then they just stopped I every time I load the project in Premiere the about half of those transitions are replaced with a giant red screen with the yellow bar in the middle that says error 800 110 couldn't find any information about it until I finally found yet last night when I was searching for more information about it a Twitter post from an old sport agent he's that he doesn't even work for film impact anymore but an old tweet tweet of his back when he was working with support for them same to update your graphics drivers and that would fix it and the person who was asking about it was like yeah that worked thank you I've updated the graphics drivers that did not fix it so that was not my solution but that helped me identify that it was a graphics issue and then I further found out that it's actually an OpenGL issue and the answer that they give is if that error pops up your graphics hardware doesn't support the OpenGL version that at once which is OpenGL 3 except my 660 and the 750 ti both support up to opengl 4.4 not a problem any hardware bought after 2009 should support it why am I so getting issues and I was horrified to find out that after I ran all these tests and finally added those transitions with the 750 ti expecting it to handle it like a champ the air popped up again I i was very I was I was very mad I was very mad turns out it has nothing to do with my specific graphics card causing the issue now I'm still keeping the 750 ti and I still feel like it was a justified purchase based on some other reasons I mentioned in a minute but it turns out that the point at which I started having the issues which I totally didn't think about her notice was when I switched from using a fourth monitor just like precariously perched on top of my other three to manage the server in a wireless keyboard to using windows remote desktop protocol because it's so much better than having some awkward angle that I can barely see and gives me headaches it was very smooth to use and stuff like that but it creates a microsoft virtual display driver that it uses to actually display a lot of stuff and whenever rdp is enabled i get that air in premiere turns out if I just login with the keyboard and mouse and the monitor back here and don't have already p open at all the transition still work perfectly I bit yeah yeah good couple hours of work down the drain for no reason now my problem is I don't actually have a good solution to managing it because I don't like having to switch monitor inputs and things like that and I don't really have a means of mounting a monitor effectively I do have a little I don't know where it when it's down here a little tiny like 13 14 inch 1366 x 768 monitor that I may try to finagle in my set up somewhere but it's highly unlikely that will work out so what I will probably do is just plant it on top of the tower here and I'll just have to come over here to render out the projects when I'm done nowhere near is convenient and fairly frustrating but that may be what I have to do I am going to run one more test using going back to teamviewer I used to use teamviewer to manage all of my computers but then they got hacked and a lot of stuff went down and so far last time I checked it won't even let me change my password and said you need to change your password so i logged in to change my password it wouldn't let me change the password so i'm gonna try that again and I will update this video at the end of whether or not that work but if that works then that's what i use and i'll still run the server headless otherwise i just put a little monitor here and i'll just have to walk over here to come render things out but 750ti is still pretty cool looking card pretty cool card does still perform greatly and it's a lot quieter and putting out a lot less heat then the 660 was so I'm certainly happier with it and like I said it's a lot more stable even sometimes just opening projects and doing things like that even before I switch to rdp my 660 was given me tons of trouble and crash a ninja's it's not had a it's at the end of its life and that's why I upgraded my main machine in the first place so I didn't need to buy it I didn't need to buy the de 750 ti but I'll stick with it and it was still it will improve the server nonetheless so I guess I'm a little embarrassed to admit that the teamviewer approach did actually work it worked out fine now teamviewer is a much less attractive means of controlling a computer just due to the graphical issues and I'm just not as big of a fan of it as I am the windows remote desktop but I opened up the project and it accepted transitions so the lesson here to learn is that you should troubleshoot all available options before spending a hundred dollars on a new graphics card or new computer component in general now the truly embarrassing part is that I did not think about the teamviewer option until I was mid recording the video that you just saw which is why I did not included prior to recording that clip but yes teamviewer is my solution still keeping the 750s the 750 ti simply because it is working and it is nicer than what I had but it was not a completely necessary purchase doing I did notice that the 4k 60 render I had hardware monitor pulled up it wasn't utilizing the full GPU now I didn't run the test with hardware monitor pulled up with the 662 see GPU utilization and frankly I'm not going through back back through the trouble of hooking it back up to do so but I did notice it was interesting in the 4k 60 timeline our project when it was rendering it out because at least in the counter-strike go footage where it was native 4k 60 and a lot of actually for most the project I was only getting about 60 to 80 something percentage of GPU utilization with the 750 ti now at certain points steering certain effects and stuff it jump up 200 and back down and stuff but for the most part it stayed under ninety percent when it was downscaling the 4k 60 footage to 1080p with the 750 Ti GPU utilization was pegged mid-90s for like that entire part of the render and went back down and did the sixty to eighty percent with the rest of the project but for that that GPU scaling was in there and it did seem to go notably faster than what I remembered it doing with the 660 so it's like they struggle with different things but that has been this project it was like is that quite an interesting day of messing around the started out is just going to be an unboxing of a no graphics card and then an unboxing and let's play around and use it and now it's just a lesson in troubleshooting because some of y'all seem to enjoy this troubleshooting along with me and just figuring out the various kinks and quirks of stuff that I mess with with computers if you enjoyed the video smash I like button good subscribe for more awesome tech videos and I'm gonna go test teamviewer real quick and then get back to what I've needed to be doing with today which is testing a 4k 60 capture card I'll see you later I can't reach the camera I can't reach the camera I also want to take a moment to give a huge thanks and shout out to our recent patreon subscribers without you guys these videos would not be possible and I'd thoroughly appreciate your help visit patreon.com / e pills Vox to learn morehello everyone my name is Adam repose box and welcome to a new unboxing I said before that I don't do these a whole heck of a lot and I'm doing a lot of them recently it's kind of weird today we're taking a look at a bit of an older graphics card today we're taking a look at a gtx 750ti from gigabyte but this one's a little special because it has 4 gigabytes of gddr5 memory which is as much as my gtx 970 has if you don't count the point 5 gigabytes of the slower memory this is a wind force card so it should be fairly quiet and comes pre overclocked I believe unfortunately the Amazon seller left the shipping label on the actual product box and didn't ship it in a separate box that was a little annoying but this is actually going to be going in my transcoding server I've hasn't gone live yet when i'm recording this but should hopefully be in the progress of going live when you see this i did a whole series on me building my transcoding server in a sort of challenge with another youtuber and in that build i used my old gtx 660 which was my main graphics card for two or three years of my youtubing well after a while it started to kind of bite the dust it gave me a lot of errors it would crash during renders it was overheating it was having a lot of problems which is when I finally saved up was able to save up an upgrade to my 970 I'm now using a 1080 and just kind of not even caring anymore but I can't put my 970 in my server so I needed a new graphics card for the server because the gtx 660 was running fine in the server for a while but it's since it's it's basically dead it's not rendering videos right it's having issues with some of my transition packs which was not even working with them at all and any time I've tried to record with the server it just totally crashes out the GPU just can't handle a whole heck of a lot so I was looking for a replacement and the 750 Ti is one of the you know most bang for the buck cuda performance that you can get out of a graphics card sub to hundreds of dollars this thing you can get it used for about 80 bucks which is pretty cool and then I elected to go with the four gigabyte model because that's a lot more frame buffer a lot more vram for the actual rendering and editing process so it should perform incredibly well on the server with the 24 thread grunting in it as well as hopefully fix my transition issues if not i'm sending it back let's go ahead and get the box over here I forget my knife a new we just have one piece of tape so hopefully the graphics cards actually in there like I said I just thought it'd be smart to ship me the raw product box but it looks like everything is okay now this is pretty cool we don't often get to take a look at older products new in box I forgot what the official word for it old or new old stock I think it's called or old new stock where the product yourself hasn't been opened before but it's definitely not a new product so we have the card itself in a aesthetic wrap and this is still even though it's a bit of an older and less powerful card it is still a 2 slot card unfortunately but that's fine i already have the two slots like you know set out for it since that my 660 was a two slot and we got a quick start guide that no one cares about a driver CD that i will skip over since the internet drivers will be better and that's it no flare no craziness just the card itself is pretty cool i will say and i have some comparison shots up here on the b-roll this is a lot of a shorter card than my 660 my 660 was from XFX it was a blower styled card cuz to be honest when i bought it i had no clue what I was doing so i just bought a blower style when I didn't really need to I should have bought a one force for other style cooler but I want them with a typical blower style so its pretty long and it outputs all that heat straight out the butt legged that it doesn't cool very well this one should cool really nicely the fins look really slick on here and that heat sink looks pretty nice so this should perform pretty well it's got dual DVI ports DVD and DVD I or dvi-d dvi-i it's hard to say and then to hdmi ports frankly we won't even be using any but maybe the single hdmi port on this thing as it's just going on a server that i run headless via windows remote desktop protocol and then a 6 pin power connector here so i will get this baby installed flip over and show you hopefully some rendering benchmarks compared to the 660 here it's looking pretty cool though so it's been quite the interesting day of experimentation and trial and error to say the least following what you just saw a second ago I ran a couple render tests on the gtx 660 to get a baseline of render times to compare to the 750 ti originally said it'd be a little bit faster but it's actually not if you look at actual GPU comparison the 750 ti is a little bit if i'm remembering right it was maybe a little bit higher clocked but had a bit less memory bandwidth and it more or less going to get the same performance in this kind of rendering environment but for a much cheaper card at the time I paid closer to 200 something dollars for the GTX 660 whereas the 750 ti is about a hundred twenty dollars if it's brand new and it had four gigs of vram versus the two gigs on my 660 regardless i created a couple projects or i created two sequences in premiere one at 4k 60 which has some native 4k 60 counter short go gameplay recorded with nvidia shadowplay a couple of overlays my lower thirds I do in the cineform codec scaled up because they're actually rendered at 1080p 60 but scaled up to 4k 60 a copy of my xsplit live stream where I was doing a webcam test up from 720p 60 upscaled and then another webcam recording at 1080p 30 upscaled and all each of these clips has one of my lower third overlays over tap a nice mix of codecs scaling and I even applied some limit recolor looks to the webcam clip as well to just get a general test and then I wanted to compare the render times to that of the 750 ti and like I said it was about the same now I actually ended up running these tests a couple times and a couple different environments because something that you run into with a multi CPU machine and especially with higher multi-core machines and that Adobe's software utilizes multicores in a very inconsistent manner sometimes when I render a project only like half the cores in the machine will ever be utilized heavily in this situation I did manage to it into utilize all the cores but they're the times were inconsistent even in the exact same project the exact same workflow it's just there's some inconsistencies go in there but the render times were basically exactly the same give or take 30 seconds which are not a big deal to me so the whole reason which I didn't fully explain in the first place for me doing this at all was I needed a fix for my transitions not working on the server I've been fighting this for a good couple months now and it turns out that's because mainly because I'm an idiot so if you don't know I do use some custom transition packs in my editing workflow from the company film impact now they do use the GPU but they use OpenGL instead of kuta on my desktop they've always worked perfectly and on my servers they've worked perfectly up till a certain point and then they just stopped I every time I load the project in Premiere the about half of those transitions are replaced with a giant red screen with the yellow bar in the middle that says error 800 110 couldn't find any information about it until I finally found yet last night when I was searching for more information about it a Twitter post from an old sport agent he's that he doesn't even work for film impact anymore but an old tweet tweet of his back when he was working with support for them same to update your graphics drivers and that would fix it and the person who was asking about it was like yeah that worked thank you I've updated the graphics drivers that did not fix it so that was not my solution but that helped me identify that it was a graphics issue and then I further found out that it's actually an OpenGL issue and the answer that they give is if that error pops up your graphics hardware doesn't support the OpenGL version that at once which is OpenGL 3 except my 660 and the 750 ti both support up to opengl 4.4 not a problem any hardware bought after 2009 should support it why am I so getting issues and I was horrified to find out that after I ran all these tests and finally added those transitions with the 750 ti expecting it to handle it like a champ the air popped up again I i was very I was I was very mad I was very mad turns out it has nothing to do with my specific graphics card causing the issue now I'm still keeping the 750 ti and I still feel like it was a justified purchase based on some other reasons I mentioned in a minute but it turns out that the point at which I started having the issues which I totally didn't think about her notice was when I switched from using a fourth monitor just like precariously perched on top of my other three to manage the server in a wireless keyboard to using windows remote desktop protocol because it's so much better than having some awkward angle that I can barely see and gives me headaches it was very smooth to use and stuff like that but it creates a microsoft virtual display driver that it uses to actually display a lot of stuff and whenever rdp is enabled i get that air in premiere turns out if I just login with the keyboard and mouse and the monitor back here and don't have already p open at all the transition still work perfectly I bit yeah yeah good couple hours of work down the drain for no reason now my problem is I don't actually have a good solution to managing it because I don't like having to switch monitor inputs and things like that and I don't really have a means of mounting a monitor effectively I do have a little I don't know where it when it's down here a little tiny like 13 14 inch 1366 x 768 monitor that I may try to finagle in my set up somewhere but it's highly unlikely that will work out so what I will probably do is just plant it on top of the tower here and I'll just have to come over here to render out the projects when I'm done nowhere near is convenient and fairly frustrating but that may be what I have to do I am going to run one more test using going back to teamviewer I used to use teamviewer to manage all of my computers but then they got hacked and a lot of stuff went down and so far last time I checked it won't even let me change my password and said you need to change your password so i logged in to change my password it wouldn't let me change the password so i'm gonna try that again and I will update this video at the end of whether or not that work but if that works then that's what i use and i'll still run the server headless otherwise i just put a little monitor here and i'll just have to walk over here to come render things out but 750ti is still pretty cool looking card pretty cool card does still perform greatly and it's a lot quieter and putting out a lot less heat then the 660 was so I'm certainly happier with it and like I said it's a lot more stable even sometimes just opening projects and doing things like that even before I switch to rdp my 660 was given me tons of trouble and crash a ninja's it's not had a it's at the end of its life and that's why I upgraded my main machine in the first place so I didn't need to buy it I didn't need to buy the de 750 ti but I'll stick with it and it was still it will improve the server nonetheless so I guess I'm a little embarrassed to admit that the teamviewer approach did actually work it worked out fine now teamviewer is a much less attractive means of controlling a computer just due to the graphical issues and I'm just not as big of a fan of it as I am the windows remote desktop but I opened up the project and it accepted transitions so the lesson here to learn is that you should troubleshoot all available options before spending a hundred dollars on a new graphics card or new computer component in general now the truly embarrassing part is that I did not think about the teamviewer option until I was mid recording the video that you just saw which is why I did not included prior to recording that clip but yes teamviewer is my solution still keeping the 750s the 750 ti simply because it is working and it is nicer than what I had but it was not a completely necessary purchase doing I did notice that the 4k 60 render I had hardware monitor pulled up it wasn't utilizing the full GPU now I didn't run the test with hardware monitor pulled up with the 662 see GPU utilization and frankly I'm not going through back back through the trouble of hooking it back up to do so but I did notice it was interesting in the 4k 60 timeline our project when it was rendering it out because at least in the counter-strike go footage where it was native 4k 60 and a lot of actually for most the project I was only getting about 60 to 80 something percentage of GPU utilization with the 750 ti now at certain points steering certain effects and stuff it jump up 200 and back down and stuff but for the most part it stayed under ninety percent when it was downscaling the 4k 60 footage to 1080p with the 750 Ti GPU utilization was pegged mid-90s for like that entire part of the render and went back down and did the sixty to eighty percent with the rest of the project but for that that GPU scaling was in there and it did seem to go notably faster than what I remembered it doing with the 660 so it's like they struggle with different things but that has been this project it was like is that quite an interesting day of messing around the started out is just going to be an unboxing of a no graphics card and then an unboxing and let's play around and use it and now it's just a lesson in troubleshooting because some of y'all seem to enjoy this troubleshooting along with me and just figuring out the various kinks and quirks of stuff that I mess with with computers if you enjoyed the video smash I like button good subscribe for more awesome tech videos and I'm gonna go test teamviewer real quick and then get back to what I've needed to be doing with today which is testing a 4k 60 capture card I'll see you later I can't reach the camera I can't reach the camera I also want to take a moment to give a huge thanks and shout out to our recent patreon subscribers without you guys these videos would not be possible and I'd thoroughly appreciate your help visit patreon.com / e pills Vox to learn more\n"