I'm happy to see that you finaly found a Voodoo 3. I hope it'll work once the cap is fixed. However I see damage on the chip just above the cap so maybe this can be an issue too 😒

The core looks ok on my end, can see that being a problem. ok so it has a small gash, but nothing major from the looks of the photo, may even be dust, cant tell not the best photos.

anyway I got lucky today.

Sellers photo.

Also got two 7950GT's for a good deal to go with my Fatal1ty AN8 SLI, they even have red PCB's, should be a good pair. I'll need to get a better PSU and find a second vnf100 before I can use the second card.

Deksor wrote:

I'm happy to see that you finaly found a Voodoo 3. I hope it'll work once the cap is fixed. However I see damage on the chip just above the cap so maybe this can be an issue too 😒

Looks like the GPU chip took damage from the cap that was right next to it. Wouldn't be surprised if it is that as well.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Voodoo3 I bought off a scrapper arrived. No post due to the capacitor at C79 being completely obliterated when the scrapper tore the heatsink off. I kind of expected this. The board signals complete VGA failure.

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/0RJfC

Anything else there I need to fix? If it's just that capacitor it shouldn't be too hard. I'm a little out of my league here.

Maybe you shouldn't try to sell it everywhere then as "easily fixable" and "won't post due to a missing capacitor", since you're a little out of your league. Or at least sell it as-is, I mean without implying it's only missing a capacitor if you're not certain about it.

Added another 8-bit ISA sound card to the collection today: the Reveal SC200 Sound FX Plus.

I believe this is a rebranded Aztech Sound Galaxy NX II.

I'm a sucker for any sound card with a volume knob.

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Picked up a new old stock Diamond Viper/ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB AGP for $38. Pretty happy about the price since it's new and I have heard these outperform the Nvidia 7800GS AGP cards. On the back it has what looks like thermal material exposed, never seen something like this. Any ideas?

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X1950 pro is very solid performance for agp and I like it more than the overpriced 7800 gs. Only had to pay like $8 for mine 😎

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Added another 8-bit ISA sound card to the collection today: the Reveal SC200 Sound FX Plus. […]
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Added another 8-bit ISA sound card to the collection today: the Reveal SC200 Sound FX Plus.

I believe this is a rebranded Aztech Sound Galaxy NX II.

I'm a sucker for any sound card with a volume knob.

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I like 8bit soundcards as well 🤣

That exposed TIM on your X1950 AGP is perfectly normal, I have no clue why it's there (to spread the temperature evenly across the chip, maybe?). These cards were native PCI-E and that chip does the PCI-E -> AGP conversion.
I've had HD3850 512MB DDR3 AGP and it also had that chip with a thermal pad on it.

Shouldn't have sold it though 🙁 2nd best AGP card ever, on par with HD4670 AGP.

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liqmat wrote:

Picked up a new old stock Diamond Viper/ATI Radeon X1950 Pro 512MB AGP for $38. Pretty happy about the price since it's new and I have heard these outperform the Nvidia 7800GS AGP cards. On the back it has what looks like thermal material exposed, never seen something like this. Any ideas?

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X1950 pro is very solid performance for agp and I like it more than the overpriced 7800 gs. Only had to pay like $8 for mine 😎

$8 new in box? I thought $38 NIB was good, but you got a steal.

martin939 wrote:

That exposed TIM on your X1950 AGP is perfectly normal, I have no clue why it's there (to spread the temperature evenly across the chip, maybe?). These cards were native PCI-E and that chip does the PCI-E -> AGP conversion.
I've had HD3850 512MB DDR3 AGP and it also had that chip with a thermal pad on it.

Shouldn't have sold it though 🙁 2nd best AGP card ever, on par with HD4670 AGP.

I was reading the it's a toss up in performance between the HD3850 & the HD4670. Both perform very similar. I did notice some ppl gravitate towards the HD3850 for reasons I can't recall. For the system I am installing the X1950 Pro into, the HD line would have been way overkill. As a matter of fact the X1950 Pro is a bit overkill, but it was cheap so...

Speaking of HD3850s, this one has a heatsink right out of Mad Max:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sapphire-ATI-Radeon-H … ZAAAOSwidlZY8Yn

liqmat wrote:

I was reading the it's a toss up in performance between the HD3850 & the HD4670. Both perform very similar. I did notice some pp […]
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martin939 wrote:

That exposed TIM on your X1950 AGP is perfectly normal, I have no clue why it's there (to spread the temperature evenly across the chip, maybe?). These cards were native PCI-E and that chip does the PCI-E -> AGP conversion.
I've had HD3850 512MB DDR3 AGP and it also had that chip with a thermal pad on it.

Shouldn't have sold it though 🙁 2nd best AGP card ever, on par with HD4670 AGP.

I was reading the it's a toss up in performance between the HD3850 & the HD4670. Both perform very similar. I did notice some ppl gravitate towards the HD3850 for reasons I can't recall. For the system I am installing the X1950 Pro into the HD line would have been way overkill. As a matter of fact the X1950 Pro is a bit overkill, but it was cheap so...

Speaking of HD3850s, this one has a heatsink right out of Mad Max:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sapphire-ATI-Radeon-H … ZAAAOSwidlZY8Yn

IIRC a Core2Duo is usually needed to max out a 1950 Pro. I know it was complete and total overkill for my 2.8GHZ Prescott machine.

Yeah a 1950 seems at place in a early 775 or late 939 setup. But a higher end 775/am2 system is needed to max it out.

Anyway find got a fx-60 and ocz Fatal1ty psu to go with my abit Fatal1ty motherboard.

Finally, today, it arrived, the MediaTrix AudioTrix 3D-XG! I actually bought this at the end of April, but it was left a my friend's mother's house in Rio de Janeiro. And now it's here! A complete set, boxed and everything. Only thing missing might be the CD audio cable, but that's no great loss. I still have plenty of those. I've been looking for the Yamaha DB60XG for a long time and now I have this. Great addition to my collection.

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Finally, today, it arrived, the MediaTrix AudioTrix 3D-XG! I actually bought this at the end of April, but it was left a my frie […]
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Finally, today, it arrived, the MediaTrix AudioTrix 3D-XG! I actually bought this at the end of April, but it was left a my friend's mother's house in Rio de Janeiro. And now it's here! A complete set, boxed and everything. Only thing missing might be the CD audio cable, but that's no great loss. I still have plenty of those. I've been looking for the Yamaha DB60XG for a long time and now I have this. Great addition to my collection.
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That is a pretty card! Love the PCB!

Jade Falcon wrote:

anyway I got lucky today. http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/W5EAAOSwjTlZhi4j/s-l1600.jpg Sellers photo. […]
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anyway I got lucky today.

Sellers photo.

Nice. Used to have one of those - the Power Eject was very cool I thought. Sadly it was not that long lived and was soon replaced with a CDRW. Ended up buying a Zip drive too because that's what my university used 😒

really cool find CHiLL72 - on par with the other nice things you have 😁

My ebay 486 came in today. Seller packed it very well, it arrived in great shape, and booted without any problems. Also, it has a Diamond Stealth 64 VLB that the seller didn't mention in the auction, so that was a nice surprise.

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@CHiLL72 great find! I'm oh so jelous 😀

So its not a pc hardware but i finally added to my playstation 1 and 2 collection a my first and only xbox classic. Its a clear limited edition so its the best. Cuttently its dissassembled for cleaning. I have added a new termal paste arctic mx2 for cpu and gpu. I plan to softmod it but i dont own any games for it so it will be hard.i post only seller picture rigt now.

luisile wrote:

So its not a pc hardware but i finally added to my playstation 1 and 2 collection a my first and only xbox classic. Its a clear limited edition so its the best. Cuttently its dissassembled for cleaning. I have added a new termal paste arctic mx2 for cpu and gpu. I plan to softmod it but i dont own any games for it so it will be hard.i post only seller picture rigt now.

I recently bought one of those too. I love it. Mine is an NTSC model that was sold only in Canada.

You'll need a copy of Splinter Cell (or a couple of other games) to begin the softmod process as well as an Xbox controller to female USB cable (you could probably make one of these).

I bought my first Xbox only a couple of months ago. I realized that it was a nice hybrid of my console and PC hobbies because it uses a 733MHz P3 and Nvidia GPU. It looks very similar to a PC inside with its DVD and HDD.