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Not at all. There was the infamous Voodoo 5 5500 that were both made in AGP and PCI.

I had an AGP version up until a year or so ago. Had some help and sold it on EBay.
ATI had also the Rage Fury MAXX. This was before Voodoo 5.

 

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Well THAT'S a thing! :rockout:Never seen one of those before. I wonder how good it was? With dual 7900GT's it had to be at least 70% faster with SLI games. Very loud fan though..
Clocked pretty much higher than 7950GX2 so it outperforms it with a good margin :)
 
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ATI had also the Rage Fury MAXX. This was before Voodoo 5.

Still have one. ;)
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@Edwired
did ya check if the ln2 solder points are connected?
Hey Basco I have checked over the card a few times even had to look online to find the location of the solder pads that would usually be disconnected in stock state but the ln2 and memory defrost pads would be bridged if the card is planned and prepared for ln2 overclocking which I don't have the equipments to do so the good news the solder pads have not been tampered with also the replacement fans is in Dublin, Ireland so I will have it either Monday or Tuesday but currently waiting on 4 Samsung memory chips to turn up somewhere as keeping an eye on tracking every two days as these chips are exact same model as the ones installed on the pcb only cost me €23 including postage and tax for 4 of them as I only need two replaced on Bank E1 and F0. Pretty sure the gpu chip itself is ok no discoloration on the 4 corners of the die which contains the memory controllers. And also good news from the seller who I bought the graphic card from was 100% honest with the history provided to me since the guy bought it since day one of owning it and used it for Command and Conquer games and Plex. And one day out of the blue the artifacts popped up and never went away which lead me to understand the memory chips died due to overheating also due to faulty original fans that one refused to spin and the other spins up very late in the pwm signal after the heatsink became so hot it burnt my finger multiple of times had to stick 140m fan to get the temperature under control. I can still use the card it does shut down once the core temperature have reached the safe maximum temp which I couldn't get a readout using hwinfo or gpuid. Everything else is ruled out. Once the memory chips is here I be sending the graphic card one of the coming weeks to a company that specialized in pcb repair and components level I had a look at their site they have all the specialized equipments including reverse engineer the pcb and much more www.rtrelec.com which is based in Limerick which is not far from Tipperary. The guy who own the company told me the cost of once arrived to them and three hours to replacing the two faulty memory chips for working chips I provided them with the graphic card and once done it sent back on the same day basically a three days turnaround for €35 including postage I have to pay more for to send it next day delivery for about €11 I think. But will inform on a update of the progress
 
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How is it possible they could restrict a 3080ti to only cryptocurrency mining? Is that something Nvidia purposefully did?
 
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How is it possible they could restrict a 3080ti to only cryptocurrency mining? Is that something Nvidia purposefully did?
Probably just lack a display output.

EDIT:

Nope, ebay link holds the details:

Since this was never released there are no Official drivers for this card.


You Must modify the nvidia .inf file for drivers to install.


This card only works for compute applications.


We have not figured out how to get it to render 3D
 
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How is it possible they could restrict a 3080ti to only cryptocurrency mining? Is that something Nvidia purposefully did?

As far as I know Nvidia wanted to release 20Gb 3080Ti, but somehow later they decided to cancel it and did not released an official display driver for it (maybe too small difference with RTX 3090 for the less price, better sell 12Gb for the same money). But some vendors already made retail cards for the market and later crypto miners were able to buy them from China, they were not scrapped. On local after market I can see some Gigabyte cards time to time: Aorus and Eagle models.
 
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Well it arrived faster then I expected :laugh:

Here is HD5970 ES, unfortunately not working, but I think my friend will repair it when he will have some time:

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Also I got few more interesting cards. This one I think is AMD Radeon 285X, Tonga GPU with 384-bit memory bus and 3Gb of GDDR5 memory:

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It's engineering sample, but there are no ES stickers on a cooling system, not a single one. Also I got GTX 680 engineering sample: green PCB and cooler cover seems like was made on a 3D printer:

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This one works fine like usual GTX 680.
 
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Also I got few more interesting cards. This one I think is AMD Radeon 285X, Tonga GPU with 384-bit memory bus and 3Gb of GDDR5 memory:
Yep, that's exactly what it is.

I'm surprised it took so long for it to arrive! I posted about mine (from the same seller I presume) back in September. Amazing how time flies.

Here is HD5970 ES, unfortunately not working, but I think my friend will repair it when he will have some time:

Aw damn not another broken one... That means all of these cards have been rendered non-functional. The only one I know was working was damaged by poor packaging by the seller, and I've never managed to get it working again (12v PCI-E regulator was stripped off and tore the traces out of the PCB.)
 

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Can't remember have I posted this before. Asus GTX 660 3GB GK104





 

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Lenne what is that weird plate screwed onto the PCB for?
I have no idea, probably a poor man's backplate to strengthen the PCB like a backplate would do. I have no idea of the OEM where this card is from, they've must been drunk as hell to invent this idea to the card.
 
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I have no idea, probably a poor man's backplate to strengthen the PCB like a backplate would do. I have no idea of the OEM where this card is from, they've must been drunk as hell to invent this idea to the card.
I've seen it before, not sure if it was this desktop model, Essentio ASUS CG8350, but this card was part of this (or other) Asus desktop.

ROG CG8480-CA001S also with it.​


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I've seen it before, not sure if it was this desktop model, Essentio ASUS CG8350, but this card was part of this (or other) Asus desktop.

ROG CG8480-CA001S also with it.​


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Yeah I remembered working on that PC case for a customer as trying to remember exactly what was wrong with it either operating system failed or hard drive failed but surely there wasn't a graphic card presented inside of it unfortunately
 
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So Meatwar that plate was designed to mount the videocard in some sort of OEM chassis/case that had matching hardware to secure it?
 
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So Meatwar that plate was designed to mount the videocard in some sort of OEM chassis/case that had matching hardware to secure it?
Some sort no... it was Asus desktop design and their own chassi.
It was usual to see top desktop models, still is... with chassi customization and in this case, its GPU support for the card weight and not forcing the PCIe slot...as still is today off course.
This was always a point of concern to me and costumer builds... once in a while we still see horrible images of assembled machines with no care at all at this detail...
Thats why you see now the proliferation of GPU brackets and some chassis already containing GPU support mechanisms, on the market.
There were several long cards with a lot of cooper weight design in past models cards... almost 2kg total GPU card.
The reinforced PCIe slots doesnt convinced me at all...but it better than nothing.
 

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I have no idea, probably a poor man's backplate to strengthen the PCB like a backplate would do. I have no idea of the OEM where this card is from, they've must been drunk as hell to invent this idea to the card.
If I was to guess I would say that it is a support bracket for some type of OEM installation , that card had an OEM history.
 

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If I was to guess I would say that it is a support bracket for some type of OEM installation , that card had an OEM history.
Probably, as like @meatwar posted above. I'll still keep it on the card as it isn't interfering. :)
 
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