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Found this
Working when last tested a few years ago, claims to not have the right equipment to confirm if still working or not.
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Found this
Working when last tested a few years ago, claims to not have the right equipment to confirm if still working or not.
*Edit: fixed link
They look legit and don't seem to be damaged. That price though...
 
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I recently acquired some neat relics from the development of GF100. But first, some history.

nVidia had a few different design phases for the GTX 480. The one we saw come to market is the relatively plain all-black plastic shroud with a small screen printed GeForce logo on top, the shroud encompassing an exposed grill-inspired plate. Some people at the time noticed; I'm sure some people still today remember, that the press material and reviewer cards for the GTX 480 always shows a cooler shroud with a thin green stripe along the rear facing edge of the exposed grill plate. Some may have not noticed in the reviews showing teardowns that there is also a small 2-pin LED header right behind the fan, under the 6-pin power input. This is a feature brought forward from the earlier development of the GTX 480 where the shroud included a bright light up GeForce logo instead of the cheap printed-on one. The press cards also received some extra flair with a second GeForce logo printed onto the grill, but that's a different story.

That brings us to what I acquired: a box of unused shrouds, built and shipped to nVidia in March 2010 and set aside in a store room for several years before being sold off.

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They make the cards look pretty spiffy. Now to find those early grills with the extra logo, complete the look. The way it's meant to look.
 
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I recently acquired some neat relics from the development of GF100. But first, some history.

nVidia had a few different design phases for the GTX 480. The one we saw come to market is the relatively plain all-black plastic shroud with a small screen printed GeForce logo on top, the shroud encompassing an exposed grill-inspired plate. Some people at the time noticed; I'm sure some people still today remember, that the press material and reviewer cards for the GTX 480 always shows a cooler shroud with a thin green stripe along the rear facing edge of the exposed grill plate. Some may have not noticed in the reviews showing teardowns that there is also a small 2-pin LED header right behind the fan, under the 6-pin power input. This is a feature brought forward from the earlier development of the GTX 480 where the shroud included a bright light up GeForce logo instead of the cheap printed-on one. The press cards also received some extra flair with a second GeForce logo printed onto the grill, but that's a different story.

That brings us to what I acquired: a box of unused shrouds, built and shipped to nVidia in March 2010 and set aside in a store room for several years before being sold off.

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They make the cards look pretty spiffy. Now to find those early grills with the extra logo, complete the look. The way it's meant to look.

Complete with the Striker II Extreme :rockout:
 

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About my Larrabee
I do not have too much time, but today I've tested it with hdmi and display port and all of them works great.
That's for those who believed only dvi may work as these outputs where not common at the time

Here's a Pic with DP.
HDMI and dvi work too obviously
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There is another user, obviously you know who must be... (Not Linus so there is only one option,) that it is asking me for the same, the bios... He offers me money to buy the programmer etc. But I don't want to touch the card, too much to loose if something goes wrong...
Don't misunderstand me... I am not a knoob pc user, but never came across with such a thing (not the procedure, the cards importance) and I won't take any risks.

Too many of you probably are asking why I do not try with another OS like Vista, w7, 8 or 10...
Easy... I do not have the time.
 
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About my Larrabee
I do not have too much time, but today I've tested it with hdmi and display port and all of them works great.
That's for those who believed only dvi may work as these outputs where not common at the time

Here's a Pic with DP.
HDMI and dvi work too obviously View attachment 158606

GPU-Z won't tell you anything about Larrabee. Check AIDA64 and see if it can reveal info. There's a chance they got device strings from Intel at some point.
 

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Thanks for your suggestion
I already thought on try aida but I only had old version of aida32 jaja I used to check some older hardware. And don't have internet on that test pc so I needed time I do not had.
Will try when I have a minute.
 

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Something strange is happening...
Is someone playing dirty or is it my impression?
I have tried to open topics in the HardForum forum where I have seen a strange publication of a tweet with a photo of which I have posted here.
When opening the topic, minutes after it was reviewed by the administrator and published, my account is banned.
And not only that, I had another account that I did not want to use because I had created it with my name and with which I had never published anything, until yesterday it was active and oh coincidence, they have banned me too.
Can someone explain what is happening here? Are you trying to boycott me or is it just my impression?
I can not even contact with the administrators to ask what was the problem... totally blocked.
What you think ?
This is the post i answered with: What does this mean? what is the purpose of using pics i uploaded on another forum like this?
Then Banned
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EREK MANIFEST YOURSELF:respect:
Expain what this is all about...

Ok here some more info on windows 10 :cool:
at least 8gb vram...






It also plays with no drivers jaja incredible... Not good performer but graphics level or resolution does not affect on nothing.
Battlefield 3 on here :

As you can see it is a shame there are no drivers for it, because the labee seems to be perfectly functional, althougt i dont really know if gpu is doing something or is the cpu who is doing all the work...

More tests... Youtube videos plays perfect with windows drivers, and gpuz gives GPU 2241 (larrabees id), also MSI afterburner detects temp sensor.



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FALSE ALARM... I guess this is all made by cpu as i thought, temps on msiafter says cpu temp so... not to much excitement here.
 
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Something strange is happening...
Is someone playing dirty or is it my impression?
I have tried to open topics in the HardForum forum where I have seen a strange publication of a tweet with a photo of which I have posted here.
When opening the topic, minutes after it was reviewed by the administrator and published, my account is banned.
And not only that, I had another account that I did not want to use because I had created it with my name and with which I had never published anything, until yesterday it was active and oh coincidence, they have banned me too.
Can someone explain what is happening here? Are you trying to boycott me or is it just my impression?
I can not even contact with the administrators to ask what was the problem... totally blocked.
What you think ?
This is the post i answered with: What does this mean? what is the purpose of using pics i uploaded on another forum like this?
Then Banned
View attachment 158762

EREK MANIFEST YOURSELF:respect:
Expain what this is all about...

Ok here some more info on windows 10 :cool:
at least 8gb vram...






It also plays with no drivers jaja incredible... Not good performer but graphics level or resolution does not affect on nothing.
Battlefield 3 on here :

As you can see it is a shame there are no drivers for it, because the labee seems to be perfectly functional, althougt i dont really know if gpu is doing something or is the cpu who is doing all the work...

More tests... Youtube videos plays perfect with windows drivers, and gpuz gives GPU 2241 (larrabees id), also MSI afterburner detects temp sensor.



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FALSE ALARM... I guess this is all made by cpu as i thought, temps on msiafter says cpu temp so... not to much excitement here.
It’s running games? This is nuts !!!!!!!!
 
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So I will accept your last offer I you want it.

Are you still there?

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Gigabyte GTX 560 Ti SOC rev.2.0
Pretty rare sample, 1x8pin + 1x6pin, 8 powerstages, incredible output filtering capacitance.
But a sad overclocker, unstable at stock, can't pass 970MHz on the core. Going on the Shelf of Dreams for now :)
Edit: I take that back. Installing OC Guru 1.31 actually allows it clock toward 1050MHz without any issues!
Not actually using the software to overclock, I'm using afterburner, OC Guru is just installed to allow functionality of all the VRM controller ICs

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About 560 Ti SOC; I remember Gigabyte selling those with 1GHz GPU clock and hella many of those were unstable with such high clockspeed.. :laugh:
 
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About 560 Ti SOC; I remember Gigabyte selling those with 1GHz GPU clock and hella many of those were unstable with such high clockspeed.. :laugh:
I never encountered that problem, and I sold a ton of GTX560's. They were a "sweet-spot" card. Prices were good and performance was great!
 

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I never encountered that problem, and I sold a ton of GTX560's. They were a "sweet-spot" card. Prices were good and performance was great!
Oh boy we had many threads here in Finland on Muropaketti on that series...

I mean the SOC cards which were factory OC'd to 1GHz..
 
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Ok so I figured out why it was crashing so much out of the box. Without installing OC Guru, the VRM output voltage is around 1.08-1.1v jumping around and the core gets about 1.05v load voltage measured behind the core.
With just the software installed, the output voltage is now 1.17v and core is hovering in the 1.09-1.1v range.
It's perplexing to me how a piece of software can so drastically change the behavior of the card.
So if you ever get a Fermi SOC card, make sure you install OC Guru 1.31
 
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Ok so I figured out why it was crashing so much out of the box. Without installing OC Guru, the VRM output voltage is around 1.08-1.1v jumping around and the core gets about 1.05v load voltage measured behind the core.
With just the software installed, the output voltage is now 1.17v and core is hovering in the 1.09-1.1v range.
It's perplexing to me how a piece of software can so drastically change the behavior of the card.
So if you ever get a Fermi SOC card, make sure you install OC Guru 1.31
That sounds like a modded VBIOS problem, not a factory problem.
 
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