Rare GPUs / Unreleased GPUs

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 17

Spoiler: Door 17

 

[TOMCAT]

Sorry, Saturday was safe mode again and sunday I wasn't at home. So now the rest of of the

ES advent calendar

Spoiler: Door 18

Special BIOS and some ES extras, sometimes it helps to switch back GPU-Z version

Spoiler: Door 19

This card war planned as door 5, but it needed more time to get it run

Spoiler: Door 20

No more info, card is out of order

Spoiler: Door 21

No more info, card runs, but shows no picture

Spoiler: Door 22

Dead card, missing parts

Spoiler: Door 23

XT Asic and board number C403 would be HD 7870, but this card is very close to HD 7850, no access to BIOS

Spoiler: Door 24

Another rare working one

 

[Darthgrey]

I wonder why non qualification and engineering samples stickers are removed on almost all cards. Maybe they were stolen from the lab and somebody took them off so it will be impossible to identify from where it was stolen?

 

[lexluthermiester]

I wonder why non qualification and engineering samples stickers are removed on almost all cards. Maybe they were stolen from the lab and somebody took them off so it will be impossible to identify from where it was stolen?

Or it was an administrative decision, which often happens.

 

[pavle]

...Another rare working one...

How is Picairn or any other of yours rare or unreleased?

 

[Ruru]

How is Picairn or any other of yours rare or unreleased?

ES card? Those aren't something you normally find.

Never had any ES component (CPU/GPU/mobo/younameit) myself.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Never had any ES component (CPU/GPU/mobo/younameit) myself.

I've had a few. Mostly out of curiosity. However, BITD, I bought a C2Q QM9200 2.4ghz ES for my Gateway FX7908U laptop. Worked perfectly. I sold it like that. Wishing I still had it.

 

[Ruru]

I've had a few. Mostly out of curiosity. However, BITD, I bought a C2Q QM9200 2.4ghz ES for my Gateway FX7908U laptop. Worked perfectly. It sold it like that. Wishing I still had it.

I remember back in the day that Pentium 4 ES were sought after as they were multiplier-unlocked. But for a typical user, usually the CPU's heat was the worst problem as water cooling etc. wasn't so common back then.

I may check something out on my next adventure to ebay, maybe an older CPU (775/1366/AM2-AM3 era).

 

[Darthgrey]

At last I was able to find a working 7800GT Dual made by ASUS. Here are some photos of this amazing videocard compared to my Albatron 7900 GTX Duo and Sapphire X1950 Pro Dual:



Also I made some tests. Main system included DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI with AMD Athlon FX60@2800MHz because this 7800GT Dual works only on motherboards with special settings in BIOS for Dual GPU cards without PCI-E bridge. Unfortunately X1950 Pro Dual does NOT work on nForce4 SLI with crossfire enabled, there was no crossfire switch in CCC, I used many different drivers, but in all of them there were no crossfire setup settings... So I had to test X1950 Pro Dual and 7900GTX Duo additionally on AM3 system with Phenom II 1090T. BTW Aquamark is not showing final score for X1950 Pro and X1950 XTX with 10.2 drivers, so I had to count result as 0. Here are the final results:

 

[Mr.Scott]

At last I was able to find a working 7800GT Dual made by ASUS. Here are some photos of this amazing videocard compared to my Albatron 7900 GTX Duo and Sapphire X1950 Pro Dual:

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Also I made some tests. Main system included DFI Lanparty NF4 SLI with AMD Athlon FX60@2800MHz because this 7800GT Dual works only on motherboards with special settings in BIOS for Dual GPU cards without PCI-E bridge. Unfortunately X1950 Pro Dual does NOT work on nForce4 SLI with crossfire enabled, there was no crossfire switch in CCC, I used many different drivers, but in all of them there were no crossfire setup settings... So I had to test X1950 Pro Dual and 7900GTX Duo additionally on AM3 system with Phenom II 1090T. BTW Aquamark is not showing final score for X1950 Pro and X1950 XTX with 10.2 drivers, so I had to count result as 0. Here are the final results:

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You have some pretty rare cards. Me jelly.

 

[erek]

You have some pretty rare cards. Me jelly.

3dfx Voodoo4 4200 VSA101 (Daytona) 16MB DDR SDRAM PCI video card | eBay

Part number 210-0424-001-A1. THIS IS A NON-WORKING CARD. It is unfinished and inoperational. Green board with heatsink (no fan) and VGA and DVI outputs. These were never released to the public. Legend has it that a few working samples were released to IBM for use in their servers.

www.ebay.com

@lexluthermiester

 

[lexluthermiester]

3dfx Voodoo4 4200 VSA101 (Daytona) 16MB DDR SDRAM PCI video card | eBay

Part number 210-0424-001-A1. THIS IS A NON-WORKING CARD. It is unfinished and inoperational. Green board with heatsink (no fan) and VGA and DVI outputs. These were never released to the public. Legend has it that a few working samples were released to IBM for use in their servers.

www.ebay.com

@lexluthermiester
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Now that's rare! Wonder what's wrong with it?

 

[Outback Bronze]

Sapphire X1950 Pro Dual

Wow, I would love to get my hands on one of those : )

Is that the original retail box in the back ground?

Nice Card!

 

[erek]

Now that's rare! Wonder what's wrong with it?

Maybe can be made functional but maybe it was broke from the get-go. Gotta wonder if the act of repair would be historically damaging ?

 

[Darthgrey]

Is that the original retail box in the back ground?

Nice Card!

Yep, I was lucky to get it with original box and all accessories included.

 

[erek]

Maybe can be made functional but maybe it was broke from the get-go. Gotta wonder if the act of repair would be historically damaging ?

@lexluthermiester said:
Now that's rare! Wonder what's wrong with it?

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I know of a nVidia GeForce FX 5800 Ultra ES w/ Engineering Tag indicating the faults of the card. The owner decided against repair since it would change the condition / history:

GeForce FX 5800 Ultra ES | VC Collection | Сайт о видеокартах

vccollection-ru.translate.goog

 

[lexluthermiester]

The owner decided against repair since it would change the condition / history

I'm not one of those types. To me, if a repair is needed, a repair gets done. Care can be taken to maintain the authentic nature of a thing, but at the end of the day, a repair is a repair.

 

[MachineLearning]

I'm not one of those types. To me, if a repair is needed, a repair gets done. Care can be taken to maintain the authentic nature of a thing, but at the end of the day, a repair is a repair.

Agreed. And I'd go so far as to say, a broken but otherwise "authentic" device is already straying from true authenticity... Even if the damage is invisible, perfection is already forfeited. Imo it's good for people to blanket-rule attempt repairs, if they know they won't botch 'em. You're already over the hill, might as well resurrect it!

 

[erek]

anyone else bidding too?

NEW LISTINGIntel larrabee knights Ferry working prototype!!!​

https://www.ebay.com/itm/224805929892?hash=item34577a43a4:g:RaEAAOSwMPBh7uyJ

 

[Darthgrey]

It's the same as 1,5 years ago from the same person. Ho told he sold it, seems like that was not true.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It's the same as 1,5 years ago from the same person. Ho told he sold it, seems like that was not true.

It's possible they had more than one.

 

[erek]

It's possible they had more than one.

previously didn't sell, was under a payment plan before

covid presented difficulties for maintaining payment for that individual.


you also considering bidding too?

wondering how many others will be bidding or if it's just a solo venture currently

 

[lexluthermiester]

you also considering bidding too?

No, I have no use for such a card. It would be little more than a display piece and I have all of those that I desire.

 

[erek]

No, I have no use for such a card. It would be little more than a display piece and I have all of those that I desire.

what's all in your rare collection if i may ask?

 

[lexluthermiester]

what's all in your rare collection if i may ask?

My original ATI Rage card, a couple of VooDoo cards, my first Radeon AIW card and a few Geforce models.