Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-09, 05:29

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Also bought a 12 Mb Voodoo2, PowerColor branded for 33 usd/eur this week. The card is missing it's bracket, but it's working! Can you just buy a bracket, 3d print one, or just buy a blank bracket and dremel it out? What do people usually do? For me it's not really a problem, I have a dead v2 so I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-08-07, 12:40

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Flea market finds 20220806_131453.jpg 20220806_131532.jpg Nothing impressive, but still nice to find boards like these. Specially for 10 usd/eur for both. Also bought a 12 Mb Voodoo2, PowerColor branded for 33 usd/eur this week. The card is missing it's bracket, but it's working! 20220807_152731.jpg …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-30, 20:16

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Hi everyone, If we are at the "Quadro and/or Geforce FX" chapter, I wand to share with you today's flea market find: Filename 20220730_230908.jpg File size 1.67 MiB Views 240 views Quadro FX3000 AGP similar to Geforce FX5900, if I'm right. Hope it works...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-23, 13:28

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20220723_143011.jpg Radeon 9700(PRO ??) 128 MB - dead Leadtek GeForce 7600 GT 256 MB - dead Sapphire X1950 GT 265 MB - dead :( didn't had a lot of luck in the last couple of months... But hey, at least they didn't cost a fortune, 2 euro for the last one... Also bought a gtx 260, a gtx 275, a hd …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-26, 16:31

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Radical Vision wrote on 2022-05-26, 15:45: Gigabyte GA-6VXD7 (the info i found states that the board supports tualatin, but so far 1.3GHz did not post..) Mine is rev 5.0, without sound and with the ISA slot soldered and it doesn't run Tualatin chips...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-23, 20:40

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Picked this up at the local flea market. I like the colour 😀 Filename 20220523-233804.jpg File size 216.62 KiB Views 255 views Geforce4 TI 4200 128 MB 128 bit

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-14, 11:16

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Bought this today at the flea market. I don't know why I like it so much... Filename 20220514_140625.jpg File size 905.37 KiB Views 508 views

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-05-09, 06:32

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mrfusion92 wrote on 2022-05-09, 06:13: Surfin' the net for retro stuff. Found out this Voodoo 2. It says it's the 12 MB version but on the rear the aren't the memory chips. Is it possible? Also can't find the brand, can be the 3dfx reference board? It's a Powercolor Evilking with 1 MB chips...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-16, 15:59

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Flea market finds today: - Voodoo 3 2000 (???) PCI in a very bad shape Pretty sure that is one, or what's left of it. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/voodoo3-2000-pci.c3556 Why do the PCI cards all have the emply RAM solder patches? They all look like that and all have the usual 16 MB, AFAIK. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-16, 10:36

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Flea market finds today: - Asus P/I-P55TP4N ver 1.01 - Leadtek Winfast A280 LE 64 Mb GF4 Ti4200 AGP - Voodoo 3 2000 (???) PCI in a very bad shape Filename 20220416_132628_copy_2384x1849.jpg File size 1.13 MiB Views 608 views Filename 20220416_132529.jpg File size 1.45 MiB Views 608 views

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2022-03-22, 12:38

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I don't own any vintage cases at all and I'm very envious of those who do. They are very attractive, especially the Baby AT cases. I don't think I'll ever own one, however. Since I don't collect or own any AT motherboards to fit into one anyways. I suspect the shortage is due to collectors …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 23:12

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I'm using isopropyl too and also compressed air, buy right now I didn't have at home any so that's why I used the owen. I used the owen method many times and I didn't had any problems so far

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 23:02

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uhh you do know you are not meant to treat your retro hardware like its food :D but you should investigate if you can remove the heatsink and fan and give it some new thermal paste. :) :) :) my six years old little girl asked me, what I'm cooking in the owen when she saw me putting "something" in, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:56

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Kahenraz wrote on 2022-03-19, 22:46: Would the missing capacitors increase the resistance to certain parts of the chip and cause it to overheat? Really don't know, I'm just a hobbyist. I don't have that much of electronics knowledge 😀 Anyway, I will solder back the SMDs, util then I'm not plannig …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:51

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Have you repasted the card ? seems odd for it to get that hot. No, just gave it a good wash with water and dishwasher soap, after that I kept it in the oven for like half an hour @ 50 deg C to dry out... Really, I cannot keep my finger on the card, exactly under the GPU. But the card is working …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:47

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Even with a microscope, replacing tiny SMD components with a soldering iron is going to be awful. There is no comparison to hot air for these kinds of delicate repairs. I perfectly know what you mean, but I was used to use the soldering ion with a very fine tip. I used to work at a mobile phone …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:39

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it may be a later revision of that card, I'm glad its alive and functioning, I guess the only way to be 100% sure is to run some 3dmark on it and let it get warm and see what it does. That caps might just be filtering/smoothing and so may not be needed or they could help with power delivery when …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 22:22

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Great cards, the 256MB versions are 128Bit. Unfortunately all the three card are the 128 MB 64 bit vestions... but they still are good cards for P3 era PC's without AGP slot. I needed one for my Compaq Deskpro EN SFF :D The yellow caps on the back stick out quite a bit. Probably mechanical damage …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 13:33

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I will not throw out the card for sure, if I can't repair it, it will be a nice display item. I have all the equipment I need, including a hot air station, just need to find out what caps I need. In total I found to be missind 6 SMDs, all from the back of the GPU and the surrounding area. 3 big …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 12:57

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I will not throw out the card for sure, if I can't repair it, it will be a nice display item. I have all the equipment I need, including a hot air station, just need to find out what caps I need. In total I found to be missind 6 SMDs, all from the back of the GPU and the surrounding area. 3 big …

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