Rare GPUs / Unreleased GPUs

[Fouquin]

I tried extracting the drivers from those type of packs but without success. Those are for the embedded i752 from the i810e? chipset.

It's for the integrated i752, yeah. Should be identical to desktop with simply a different device ID. You should be able to force it with device manager. Perhaps there's a clever way to configure the device IDs too, but since Intel GPUs aren't a heavily invested topic among most I haven't heard about anything.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Intel i752 Reference Board. I found this puppy a while back. Functional but I have no drivers for it. Standard VGA adapter type only. Anyone has any idea where of how I can find suitable drivers?

Have you tried the i740 drivers? As it should be the same family of GPU they might work.

 

[Robert B]

No dice. These were a very limited batch of ES cards. Very few even went out of the door.

 

[lexluthermiester]

No dice. These were a very limited batch of ES cards. Very few even went out of the door.

Damn. Nice find though. There's got to be something out there that'll work otherwise how would Intel's R&D have made it work for testing...

It's for the integrated i752, yeah. Should be identical to desktop with simply a different device ID. You should be able to force it with device manager. Perhaps there's a clever way to configure the device IDs too, but since Intel GPUs aren't a heavily invested topic among most I haven't heard about anything.

You might be on to something with this. Perhaps it would work with the i740 drivers if the id was altered or inserted into the inf file.

 

[Caring1]

No dice. These were a very limited batch of ES cards. Very few even went out of the door.

I found reference to that card and a pic by @erek on [H]ardForum.
It might take the same drivers as a 752 TV tuner card for XP with any luck IMO.

Intel i752 video card

anyone here ever spot an actual Intel i752 AGP (success to the i740) in the wild? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel740#Successor

hardforum.com

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 1

Spoiler: Door 1

Feel free to add info on ASIC P/N

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 2

Spoiler: Door 2

Mass PCB and mass GPU combined to rare aio card

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 3

Spoiler: Door 3

Not the same card as behind door 2

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 4

Spoiler: Door 4

rare non-RoHS sticker

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 5

Spoiler: Door 5

I think, the revision 07 was made as a press sample, you find quite a lot pictures in the web.

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 6

Spoiler: Door 6

Other revision, PCB change from B to C

ES advent calendar, door 7

Spoiler: Door 7

Not the same card as behind door 6

 

[erek]

ES advent calendar, door 6

Spoiler: Door 6

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Other revision, PCB change from B to C

ES advent calendar, door 7

Spoiler: Door 7

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Not the same card as behind door 6

selling any equipment? @TOMCAT

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 8

Spoiler: Door 8

This time with additional gpu picture instead of missing sticker

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 9

Spoiler: Door 9

This 00B version is visually different from the regular version

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 10

Spoiler: Door 10

Today only the pictures, more info tomorrow

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 11

Spoiler: Door 11

After a Radeon now a FirePro, only BIOS is different.

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 12

Spoiler: Door 12

The right side of picture three shows actual BIOS info. I believe it is flashed to Dell OEM by a pre-owner.

ES advent calendar, door 13

Spoiler: Door 13

with pre-release BIOS 013.011.000.014.000000

 

[Darthgrey]

Not long ago I was able to buy a pair of ATI HD 2900XTX. They were looking a bit used, but still, not often somebody have an opportunity to buy at least one of those cards, so I was pretty exited.



So, what can I say - they both has the same revision and were made in the same day - Rev. 15 dated 14-th of December 2006, both GPU's were made on week 48 2006:





Holder on one of the cards was cut by previous owner, maybe there was not enough space in his computer case to run them in crossfire mode, who knows.

GPUz recognize them as ATI Radeon 2900XT and shows weather on Mars instead of correct GPU and memory clocks:



Videocard works in PCI-E 8x mode because I installed it in second slot on my test motherboard. However RivaTuner show correct clocks - for GPU 810 Mhz, for memory 2000 Mhz, so it's definately radeon 2900XTX:



When I disassembled them I found no dust on radiator and on the fan, absolute zero, like new ones. Black spots on copper radiator which I thought was dust it fact were remains of soldering between some of heat pipes and fins. Both cards were not able to run 3D applications with 10.2, 13.4, 9.11 drivers, but works fine with 7.6 driver under Windows XP x86 with original BIOS. From the beginning cards showed some artifacts, absolutely the same on both cards, but after clean install of 7.6 driver (before I installed them one by one without deleting previous one) picture become clean in all 3DMarks, here are some pics:

Spoiler: 3DMark images

And final 3D Mark score:

Spoiler: 3DMark Score

I want to say, that this long cooling system is much better than retail one, only 50*C with 45-50% RPM. On 100% it is more loud then my vacuum cleaner and hair dryer together And even more - on 100% RPM because of vibrations card jumped from PCI-E slot on my bench system So I did not tested it on 100% more thoroughly, I don't have bench table and without it it's impossible to fix card in a PCI-E slot properly. Hope it was interesting, later on I will upload original BIOS of one of my cards.

 

[onemanhitsquad]

the wife's pre-order white box "Hoover"

 

[AusWolf]

the wife's pre-order white box "Hoover"

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Is that a GeForce 5900 Ultra? It's ugly, but man, it's beautiful at the same time!

Not long ago I was able to buy a pair of ATI HD 2900XTX. They were looking a bit used, but still, not often somebody have an opportunity to buy at least one of those cards, so I was pretty exited.

View attachment 228945

So, what can I say - they both has the same revision and were made in the same day - Rev. 15 dated 14-th of December 2006, both GPU's were made on week 48 2006:

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Holder on one of the cards was cut by previous owner, maybe there was not enough space in his computer case to run them in crossfire mode, who knows.

GPUz recognize them as ATI Radeon 2900XT and shows weather on Mars instead of correct GPU and memory clocks:

View attachment 228951

Videocard works in PCI-E 8x mode because I installed it in second slot on my test motherboard. However RivaTuner show correct clocks - for GPU 810 Mhz, for memory 2000 Mhz, so it's definately radeon 2900XTX:

View attachment 228952

When I disassembled them I found no dust on radiator and on the fan, absolute zero, like new ones. Black spots on copper radiator which I thought was dust it fact were remains of soldering between some of heat pipes and fins. Both cards were not able to run 3D applications with 10.2, 13.4, 9.11 drivers, but works fine with 7.6 driver under Windows XP x86 with original BIOS. From the beginning cards showed some artifacts, absolutely the same on both cards, but after clean install of 7.6 driver (before I installed them one by one without deleting previous one) picture become clean in all 3DMarks, here are some pics:

Spoiler: 3DMark images

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And final 3D Mark score:

Spoiler: 3DMark Score

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I want to say, that this long cooling system is much better than retail one, only 50*C with 45-50% RPM. On 100% it is more loud then my vacuum cleaner and hair dryer together And even more - on 100% RPM because of vibrations card jumped from PCI-E slot on my bench system So I did not tested it on 100% more thoroughly, I don't have bench table and without it it's impossible to fix card in a PCI-E slot properly. Hope it was interesting, later on I will upload original BIOS of one of my cards.

Same as this! Cards like these used to be my dream when I was still rocking a Radeon 9600 XT.

 

[onemanhitsquad]

and a closet find ...forgot about this one

 

[Fouquin]

Not long ago I was able to buy a pair of ATI HD 2900XTX. They were looking a bit used, but still, not often somebody have an opportunity to buy at least one of those cards, so I was pretty exited.

View attachment 228945

So, what can I say - they both has the same revision and were made in the same day - Rev. 15 dated 14-th of December 2006, both GPU's were made on week 48 2006:

View attachment 228947View attachment 228948

View attachment 228966View attachment 228967View attachment 228968

Holder on one of the cards was cut by previous owner, maybe there was not enough space in his computer case to run them in crossfire mode, who knows.

GPUz recognize them as ATI Radeon 2900XT and shows weather on Mars instead of correct GPU and memory clocks:

View attachment 228951

Videocard works in PCI-E 8x mode because I installed it in second slot on my test motherboard. However RivaTuner show correct clocks - for GPU 810 Mhz, for memory 2000 Mhz, so it's definately radeon 2900XTX:

View attachment 228952

When I disassembled them I found no dust on radiator and on the fan, absolute zero, like new ones. Black spots on copper radiator which I thought was dust it fact were remains of soldering between some of heat pipes and fins. Both cards were not able to run 3D applications with 10.2, 13.4, 9.11 drivers, but works fine with 7.6 driver under Windows XP x86 with original BIOS. From the beginning cards showed some artifacts, absolutely the same on both cards, but after clean install of 7.6 driver (before I installed them one by one without deleting previous one) picture become clean in all 3DMarks, here are some pics:

Spoiler: 3DMark images

View attachment 228953View attachment 228954View attachment 228955
View attachment 228956View attachment 228957View attachment 228958

And final 3D Mark score:

Spoiler: 3DMark Score

View attachment 228961View attachment 228962 View attachment 228963View attachment 228964

I want to say, that this long cooling system is much better than retail one, only 50*C with 45-50% RPM. On 100% it is more loud then my vacuum cleaner and hair dryer together And even more - on 100% RPM because of vibrations card jumped from PCI-E slot on my bench system So I did not tested it on 100% more thoroughly, I don't have bench table and without it it's impossible to fix card in a PCI-E slot properly. Hope it was interesting, later on I will upload original BIOS of one of my cards.

Very nice! I saw these for sale and was really hoping somebody in one of our communities would snap them up. Lovely to have matching cards from the same batch, and hey, look at that... Those are from the same lot as mine!

Glad you could bench them. Mine doesn't play nice with 3D at all. A12s seem to be a 50/50 whether they'll work right. Reporting as a 2900 XT is the correct behaviour for these cards, the firmware was mostly reused on the A13 XTX and then A13 XT. There's a few evaluation 1GB A13 XT boards that even have the A13 XTX firmware on them. The only thing that'll tell you which is the BIOS string info screen, which can be viewed in the Advanced tab of GPU-Z.

 

[TOMCAT]

ES advent calendar, door 13 (reworked)

Spoiler: Door 13

Sorry, no pre-release BIOS, updated to normal one. But still a ES card.



ES advent calendar, door 14

Spoiler: Door 14

My Crossfire twin to door 13



ES advent calendar, door 15

Spoiler: Door 15

Earlier Version than Door 13 and door 14, this card has the pre release BIOS!



ES advent calendar, door 16

Spoiler: Door 16

The earliest card with reduced GPU clock and more shaders than the three others.

 

[Ruru]

Is that a GeForce 5900 Ultra? It's ugly, but man, it's beautiful at the same time!

It's the legendary "dustbuster" FX 5800 Ultra

 

[pavle]

GPUz recognize them as ATI Radeon 2900XT and shows weather on Mars instead of correct GPU and memory clocks: ...

Use GPU-Z 1.20 with older cards, works better.