Today I received mi latest (and biggest to date) eBay haul:
All left to right, top to bottom:
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- MSI GeForce GT 440 1GB, nice card with better than usual cooling, small but 1.5 slots wide, it's supposedly silent and cool (two, only one pictured).
- Asus GeForce 8500GT 512MB Silent, relatively small passive cooler, we'll see how it perfoms.
- Sapphire Radeon HD 4650 512MB DDR2 64 bit, usually these cards are 1GB DDR3 128 bit, I wonder how big the perfomance impact will be with such a reduction in memory bandwith, but probably good for a HTPC.
- Asus GeForce 6600LE 256MB, the small brother of the 6600GT, at least it's passive.
- ATI Radeon HD 2400 256MB, it uses a DMS-59 connector for output, fortunately it includes a dual VGA adapter or it will be useless to me.
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- Creative /Ensoniq ES1370 PCI, it should be a nice card for late DOS games and also a nice substitution to the on-board sound of some W98-XP motherboards.
- Creative CT4810 (Vibra 128, if I'm not mistaken), more or less same as the above (X2)
- Creative X-FI Xtreme Gamer, a bit ridiculous name but a nice sound card with native drivers from XP to W10 (X2)
-Sound Blaster Live 5.1, nice in it's moment for the EAX support, now a challenge just to make it work in Vista and above, nice for an XP machine.
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- Iwill IDE raid card, it can function with only one drive, making it a good way to add IDE support to SATA only machines, althought I don't know what OS it supports.
- Three CardBus network cards, two wifi and one ethernet, my only CardBus compatible laptop is currently 600 kms away, so they'll have to wait.
- A strange Pinnacle card, for what I gathered it's part of some version of the Pinnacle Studio package, it combines two firewire ports with S-Video, composite and audio output (not input, contrary to what some people believe it's not a capture card), i don't know what kind of compatibility I can expect (no drivers at all, if it works it should be with the OS native support).
- Generic Realtek ethernet cards (like four or five, and I already have some...)
- Firewire only PCI cards, three of them.
Now, more interesting pieces for my fellow vogoners:
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- Ati Radeon 9800 256 MB with a Zalman cooler (the cooler is going to need some loving).
- Asus Radeon 9600SE 128MB, I found a small socketed capacitor in the box and I'm nearly sure it's from this card, I don't have the equipment to resolder socket mounted components, so I'll try without it and if it doesn't work or explodes, well, that's life.
- Ati Radeon 9550 PRO 256MB, if I remember well the 256MB is the best version, I already have one with passive cooling.
- Ati Radeon 7000VE 32MB, perhaps the lowest form of Radeon, it should made a good sacrificial lamb when I have to test a motherboard with a suspicious AGP slot 🤣 .
- Ati Radeon 9100 64MB, another basic card, this one at least includes a DVI output.
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- Gainward GeForce 8800GT 512MB, a little surprise: not only it includes the original box (and althought it's obviously used it's in very good visual shape) but also it's a pretty uncommon one slot card (and real one slot, not one-and-a-bit), althought I'll have to be very pressed for space to include any card next to this one.
All in all about thirty cards, with some pretty nice ones, for a grand total of 65€, in fact 30€ for the cards and 35€ for the shipment (30€ was the initial bid, I put a placeholder bid and I win becouse no one else bid). According to the seller, they're untested but "most or all" should work, we'll see.