So basically $1,000 for a dead chip you can get off literally any old Vega. Wow what a deal.
System Name | "The black one in the dining room" / "The Latest One" |
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Processor | Intel Xeon E5 2683 V4 16c/32t / i7 14700K @5.8GHz |
Motherboard | Asus X99 Deluxe / ASRock Z790 Steel Legend WiFi |
Cooling | Arctic Liquid Freezer II 240 w/4 Silverstone FM121 fans / Arctic LF II 280 w Silverstone FHP141's |
Memory | 64GB G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 (8x8) / 96GB G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5 6400 |
Video Card(s) | EVGA RTX 1080 Ti FTW3 / Asus Tuff OC 4090 24GB |
Storage | Samsung 970 Evo Plus, 1TB Samsung 860, 4 Western Digital 2TB / 1tb, SK hynix P41 Platinum 2tb |
Display(s) | 43" Samsung 8000 series 4K / 50" Vizio M-series 4K |
Case | Modded Corsair Carbide 500R / Modded Corsair Graphite 780 T |
Audio Device(s) | Asus Xonar Essence STX II/ Asus Xonar Essence STX |
Power Supply | Corsair AX1200i / Seasonic Prime GX-1300 |
Mouse | Logitech Performance MX, Microsoft Intellimouse Optical 3.0 |
Keyboard | Logitech K750 Solar, Logitech K800 |
Software | Win 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 IoT / Win 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC |
Benchmark Scores | https://www.passmark.com/baselines/V11/display.php?id=202122048229 |
That seller is smoking something seriously wack if they they think they're going to get anywhere near that much in this economy...
Hello everyone this is my first post here at techpowerup. I found this thread while looking for information on some rare cards and thought I should share from my collection.
The card in this post is a non qualification sample ATi Radeon HD 3870 with the same shroud that featured in many of the reviews of the 3870. However, when this card was released to the retail market the same shroud was used but without the ruby print.
Attached is a zip of the bios and some images.
The card was sold as defective along with a 8800 Ultra and 7900 GTX and was purchased from eBay around a year ago. Shipping from Australia was more expensive than the three cards. Thankfully this card can run 3DMark06 loops all day and therefore is fully functional.
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Very nice! Interesting that it's got a 3870 S/N sticker. Have you checked the bin and date code on the ASIC? Looking for an earlier date code than on the PCB (pre 0739) and maybe the batch number 215-0708004 if it's a really early chip. There's a few of these 3870 samples that cross the line into the HD 2950 XTX phase of development and they're not very common.
Given the items original location of Australia I'm guessing that this was a review sample for the 3870 for an Australian website or publication.
System Name | D30 w.2x E5-2680; T5500 w.2x X5675;2x P35 w.X3360; 2x Q33 w.Q9550S/Q9400S & laptops. |
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Hello again.
My next card to share is a nVidia GeForce PCX 5900 128mb. This card is one of the last iterations of the FX series and the first nVidia PCI-e consumer card that hit the retail market. It was released just a few months before the 6000 series and was not produced at scale.
This is just a strange card historically. It doesn't perform well and I don't ever remember hearing about it when it was on the market so its not an imfamous card by any means. If I had to charaterize this card I would call it a forgotten card. However, it is a nice card that I'm glad I have for my collection.
Its bigger brother the nVidia GeForce PCX 5950 likely never hit the retail market and is a grail card for many collectors. However I have yet to see anyone prove that the card exists today.
I purchased this card last year for 29,99 euros.
A similar quadro card (Quadro FX 1300) can be purchased cheaply with good availability at the time of this posting.
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The PCX 5950 as far as anyone knows was only sampled to vendors and not sold publicly. It's entirely likely that the demo units were not functional, or cards could not be made due to DDR shortages in Q3 2004 (leading to the available high-speed DDR for the upcoming NV40 alone). Other factors may include lack of NV38 cores and the initial failure of Intel's 925/915 PCI-E chipset to take over the market from their own cheaper 865PE platform.
System Name | ibuytheusedstuff |
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Processor | 5960x |
Motherboard | x99 sabertooth |
Cooling | old socket775 cooler |
Memory | 32 Viper |
Video Card(s) | 1080ti on morpheus 1 |
Storage | raptors+ssd |
Display(s) | acer 120hz |
Case | open bench |
Audio Device(s) | onb |
Power Supply | antec 1200 moar power |
Mouse | mx 518 |
Keyboard | roccat arvo |
wow this cooler looks small for a 5900 card !
By the way: GPU-Z reports wrongly the number of TMUs in GeForceFX 5900 - it is 8 and not 4; so 1.4 GPixels and 2.8 GTexels.Hello again...
Very nice story from OtterSpace, let me add another early dual fan GF4.
System Name | Raptor Baked |
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Processor | 14900k w.c. |
Motherboard | Z790 Hero |
Cooling | w.c. |
Memory | 32GB Hynix |
Video Card(s) | Zotac 4080 w.c. |
Storage | 2TB Kingston kc3k |
Display(s) | Gigabyte 34" Curved |
Case | Corsair 460X |
Audio Device(s) | Onboard |
Power Supply | PCIe5 850w |
Mouse | Asus |
Keyboard | Corsair |
Software | Win 11 |
Benchmark Scores | Cool n Quiet. |
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I've never seen such a variant before thanks for sharing. Its hard to know which design came first. Personally I haven't investigated the timeline of this design too much.
sparkle also released a dual fan card which can be found on page 13 of this very thread which is worth a read on this era of cards. https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/rare-gpus-unreleased-gpus.176929/page-13
System Name | Master |
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Processor | Pair of Xeon X5675's @ 4.3 |
Motherboard | SR-2 Classified |
Memory | 12 GB of Corsair Dominator GT's @ 2000 7-7-7-21 |
Video Card(s) | EVGA GTX680 |
Power Supply | EVGA Supernova 750 |
Thanks for the kind words.
I've never seen such a variant before thanks for sharing. Its hard to know which design came first. Personally I haven't investigated the timeline of this design too much.
sparkle also released a dual fan card which can be found on page 13 of this very thread which is worth a read on this era of cards. https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/rare-gpus-unreleased-gpus.176929/page-13
Such cards are an abandoned branch of GPU cooling through the 6800 series where tons of small fans were added to nVidia cards with seemingly little thought. All of this is connected with the same story of GPU manufacturers trying to figure out how to better cool cards and cater to the enthusiast crowd with features and sometimes useless bling. Personally I love this era due to the chaos, beauty, and creativity of designs along with a heavy dose of nostalgia.