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Interesting, but next time put smaller fotos or use links, or make it scalable pls

I forgot to reduce the resolution on the camera to 1MB for those photos, so they are almost 4K. Sorry! Packed them into a Spoiler tag so that they don't destroy the internet of anyone who just wanders into the thread.

(They honestly looked fine when I was creating the post.)
 

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I forgot to reduce the resolution on the camera to 1MB for those photos, so they are almost 4K. Sorry! Packed them into a Spoiler tag so that they don't destroy the internet of anyone who just wanders into the thread.

(They honestly looked fine when I was creating the post.)
okay np, it just loaded really long and I have 50Mbit. lolz Good pictures though, keep it up !
 
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Interested to know if they detect in a PC, and what as. Obviously drivers may be an issue.

I dread the idea of trying to get one of these things to work. Those DIP switch banks all have labels describing different voltage modes, and MIPS Test patterns. Thankfully they also have labeled the default state right above them. I didn't get great pictures of the PCB details, but most of these cards have hand-soldered capacitors and VRegs slapped on in odd places. I would hate if they were intentionally modified to work in a test station that ran them at a certain spec that may not be compatible with standard PCI-E in a PC. Lot of variables, not a lot of information.

I tried researching these right before I bought them and came up blank. There weren't even pictures for "PCI-E PhysX card" aside from the Dell OEM card.
 

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I dread the idea of trying to get one of these things to work. Those DIP switch banks all have labels describing different voltage modes, and MIPS Test patterns. Thankfully they also have labeled the default state right above them. I didn't get great pictures of the PCB details, but most of these cards have hand-soldered capacitors and VRegs slapped on in odd places. I would hate if they were intentionally modified to work in a test station that ran them at a certain spec that may not be compatible with standard PCI-E in a PC. Lot of variables, not a lot of information.

I tried researching these right before I bought them and came up blank. There weren't even pictures for "PCI-E PhysX card" aside from the Dell OEM card.
Are you a collector or why do you buy so many cards? I think you can already open a museum with the cards you have. hehe
 

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Interested to know if they detect in a PC, and what as. Obviously drivers may be an issue.

You would need one of what is listed as the "Legacy" Phys-X drivers Nvidia has on their site, I believe.
 
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Are you a collector or why do you buy so many cards? I think you can already open a museum with the cards you have. hehe

"Collector" is the best (and nicest) way to put it. I have been told before that I should open a museum, and that was before I had even half of what I do now. There is a website run by 3-4 guys called vgamuseum.info and they have me beat entirely both on quantity and quality of their cards. (One of them has each of the original NV1 samples. Lucky guy.)
 
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Back again with a pretty nifty find. Uploading images as thumbnails for the sake of bandwidth.

IMAG0400.jpg IMAG0401.jpg IMAG0402.jpg

The Micro Conversions Game Wizard. This is the one and only designed and built for Mac VooDoo 2 to come out. It came out about 2 1/2 years late, and the company went out of business shortly after the release, leaving the rights to a second company who continued support. Apart from the DE-15 video out, it has no Apple specific hardware on it, and will work in a Windows based PC all the same.

This card appears to have spent some time bouncing around in bins, and as such has some scratches and scuffs. It does still work, but it definitely has seen better days. The production date is 21st week of 1999, the week before Micro Conversions went under.
 

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Interested to know if they detect in a PC, and what as. Obviously drivers may be an issue.

A bit late to answer this, but I got one working about a week ago in Vista. Picture of the screen because it wouldn't save a screenshot.

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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.
yes I would love to add to database would u beable to provide a straight even frontal of the card?
 
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yes I would love to add to database would u beable to provide a straight even frontal of the card?


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Odd lighting situation, but hopefully that's high enough res that you can work with it.

Power input is 6+8, length from bracket to end of backplate is 306mm (317mm end to end total length). Clock rates were reported as 725/1000, but I don't know if this still has the original VBIOS set on it. As for the "Released" date, I'd use the PCB date of June 14, 2009. (Or simply mark it as 'Unreleased')

We can assume it maintains all the other stats, but I'm going to bet this card has lower efficiency and thus a higher TDP. They probably didn't have the 294W TDP finalized until a bit later in development. That's all up to you though.
 

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You sir, are a rockstar.

Is it too much to ask that you take a moment to fix the Quadro M5000 listing as well? It claims the card has 2x 6-pin when it actually only has one.

Visual proof of that claim:

 

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You sir, are a rockstar.

Is it too much to ask that you take a moment to fix the Quadro M5000 listing as well? It claims the card has 2x 6-pin when it actually only has one.

Visual proof of that claim:

done :) thank you
 
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Personal fave is the ENG GTX 480 512 CUDA.

I had a chance to buy one of these a number of years back, non-working, but I passed it up for a Tahiti ES at the time. Still feel bad about it.

170 TMUs is that correct, please I need more I nfo on this card, I will most certainly add this to the database but I need more info, open it up I want the GM204-??? number and everything

I don't think it's correct. The card doesn't bench any better and really doesn't perform any different as far as I can tell. I'll open it up today and look at the ASIC revision, but it's a pretty late sample (3914, same week the 980 launched to retail).
 
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