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Suggest you read the thread end to end or to save you the bother

Fair enough, but it looked like he was receiving them in batches. He could have the connections to source a couple more. Oh well I'll just keep watching eBay. :p
 
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Sneak peek at what is arriving in the mail in a couple weeks. Coming from out of country, so could be awhile:

Radeon HD 5970 "A1" Reference



The excitement is real.
 
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Sneak peek at what is arriving in the mail in a couple weeks. Coming from out of country, so could be awhile:

Radeon HD 5970 "A1" Reference



The excitement is real.

Any word on the clock speeds?
 
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Any word on the clock speeds?


Not a clue. This card was all over the web in November of 2009 and only one site appears to have done any testing with it, and they were forced to take that info down right after. I'm going to assume it will be 725/1000.
 
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Not a clue. This card was all over the web in November of 2009 and only one site appears to have done any testing with it, and they were forced to take that info down right after. I'm going to assume it will be 725/1000.

Fair enough! Can't wait to see more pics (even some nudes!) :D
 
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that lengthy card. Golden old times. :D
 

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It's here.



And now for the sake of bandwidth and sanity, here's a link to the album where all the pictures can be found of the teardown:
http://imgur.com/a/L8nOi

Now some info for ya:

PCB Date: 2509 - Week of June 14, 2009
ASIC Dates: 0920 - Week of May 10, 2009
PLX Date: 0849 - Week of December 7, 2008

RAM Specification: 2 Sets - SKHynix 1GB (32Mx32) 2.5GHz

I have not attempted to boot the card, and since it was sold as-is I'm assuming it no longer functions. If I get it to function I'll try to post some more ASIC data, clock rates, and maybe some benchmarks.

@T4C Fantasy Want to add this to the database? I can get measurements for you if you do.
 

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http://www.afox-corp.com/en/products_details.asp?proid=209

Saw the bump for this thread and the awesome stuff, thought about that. A low profile HD7850. Pretty zany if you ask me, and when they were around I saw them for around €120.

EDIT: Nevermind, LTUgamer posted this back in 2013. So much for not reading older posts. :oops:
 
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http://www.afox-corp.com/en/products_details.asp?proid=209

Saw the bump for this thread and the awesome stuff, thought about that. A low profile HD7850. Pretty zany if you ask me, and when they were around I saw them for around €120.

EDIT: Nevermind, LTUgamer posted this back in 2013. So much for not reading older posts. :oops:

I'd love one. That and the single-slot 7870 they made. Any time I see them for sale it's always a scalper trying to get $500+ for them. Because "Rare".
 
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They do also have a second vBIOS which locks the card to 768 SPUs, 16 ROPs, and 64 TMUs which is assumed to be for testing the scaling of the working software to lower end, less capable hardware.

specs of that bios sound very xbox one esq, maybe that was the market being dev'd :)
 

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It's here.



And now for the sake of bandwidth and sanity, here's a link to the album where all the pictures can be found of the teardown:
http://imgur.com/a/L8nOi

Now some info for ya:

PCB Date: 2509 - Week of June 14, 2009
ASIC Dates: 0920 - Week of May 10, 2009
PLX Date: 0849 - Week of December 7, 2008

RAM Specification: 2 Sets - SKHynix 1GB (32Mx32) 2.5GHz

I have not attempted to boot the card, and since it was sold as-is I'm assuming it no longer functions. If I get it to function I'll try to post some more ASIC data, clock rates, and maybe some benchmarks.

@T4C Fantasy Want to add this to the database? I can get measurements for you if you do.
Wow nice, thats a early prototype of the HD 5970. Would be nice if its working.
 
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Wow nice, thats a early prototype of the HD 5970. Would be nice if its working.

I booted up with it in a secondary slot, the card powered and was recognized as a 5970. Clocks were reported normally, but I couldn't get the drivers to install while the card was in so I'll be doing some more with it tomorrow.
 

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I booted up with it in a secondary slot, the card powered and was recognized as a 5970. Clocks were reported normally, but I couldn't get the drivers to install while the card was in so I'll be doing some more with it tomorrow.
Okay nice. Try the Catalyst 14.3 Beta driver, it was a "dead save" driver for the HD 5970, when everything else failed (I had one not long ago).
 
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Would you classify a GTX 285 that runs as a GTX 280, rare?

What is this sorcery, you say? Well, I'll tell you (here's a TL;DR version).

GTX 280 had fan issues from my SLI setup. Sent RMA to BFG - they sent back GTX 285. I now had 1 GTX 280 and 1 GTX 285. GTX 285 was unstable, constant driver crashes. I adjusted voltage up/down and clocks up/down - no change. BGF had closed doors right after I got my RAM filled and I couldn't send the 285 back in. 285 wasn't stable, no matter what I tried. Last ditch effort, flash my working 280 BIOS on the 285 and it worked. I ran the card for another year and then my younger brother used it for the past 4 years.


(GPU-Z validation link: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/details.php?id=n8bde)

Here's a pic of a GPU-Z shot of an actual GTX 280 - notice the die size difference:


The card was in disarray when I got it back from my younger brother. It was clogged with dust and the front graphic label was peeling off. I had to re-adhere the label on as best as I could. I had to spend some time cleaning her up - while she's not in perfect condition, the new TIM and removal of dust bunnies lodged in her heatsink have her running cool again. I couldn't bring myself to take before pics, but here's the after pics and installing her to test in my PC.








I ran her under 3DMark Vantage, my results are here: http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/5389525
Here's a GTX 280 result I found to compare against mine: http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/429736

She topped out at about 72C during the benchmarking -which is around the norm from when I remember using the cards.

The graphic scores are very close. In the Graphic Card information for my run, you'll notice it calls my card a "Generic VGA". A bit further down it recognizes the Driver Name as GTX 280. She still works great and as much fun as it was to run the old beast, I'm going back to my GTX 980Ti. I hope you enjoyed!
 
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Uh oh guys, this might be breaking the topic. I have just acquired a range of PCI-E Ageia PPU ENG Samples.

*56K WARNING*
(Images inside Spoiler)


















Appears as though nVidia gave Ageia some time to work on a second generation PPU before assimilating them and planting PhysX into their GPUs.
 
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Interesting, but next time put smaller fotos or use links, or make it scalable pls
 
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HIS HD 4670 IceQ Native HDMI 1GB (128bit) DDR3 AGP

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Not extremely rare but really hard to find in this overclocked version. But I have it at home still working. Also able to transfer sound through HDMI on agp slot which was crazy back then.
 
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Appears as though nVidia gave Ageia some time to work on a second generation PPU before assimilating them and planting PhysX into their GPUs.
Interested to know if they detect in a PC, and what as. Obviously drivers may be an issue.
 
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