I had a friend overclock an older card like till artifacted all over the place and he ran that way for so long it eventually stopped artifacting due to quantum tunneling

I kind of doubt it has anything to do with quantum tunneling. A bit of poking around suggests such effects are attributed more to allowing thermal compound to set properly at higher temperatures, which sounds much more believable.

My fastest AGP Radeon is a 9800XT, and I have a handful of cards below that. 9700 Pro and 9550 SE come to mind.

I'll photograph them on Saturday I think, since I won't have time on Sunday! 😉

You can't have a Radeon r300 thread without mentioning the once cool feature of SmartShader.

leileilol wrote:

You can't have a Radeon r300 thread without mentioning the once cool feature of SmartShader.

It's not even in the 10.2 drivers. I guess they dumped it at some point even if you're on an old card.

Does anyone have a Radeon 64MB DDR AGP that is clocked at 200/200? The so called "SE" version of R100. I think it might be only the VIVO versions. I had one long ago but sold it off sadly.

Or how about a Radeon 8500 (not LE) 128MB with the BGA memory?

I do have an All-In-Wonder 7500

I have a Radeon 7k and a 9250, but I could care less for those cards. Not sure if this would quite qualify to you or not, but I consider the X16xx to X19xx line to be the last line of cards representing what ATI as a company originally was. Once they did the HD 2900 line their integration into AMD really started to become more and more apparent.

As it stands, the only card I have from the X line is the Connect3D X1800 GTO. Its plenty fast for legacy XP gaming for stuff from mid 2006 and prior. Past that though and the card starts to feel a little out of its depth. I had broke this card down completely, applied new paste, re-oiled the fan and completely cleaned out the heatsink assembly. I guess you could consider it refurbished. The card works great, and is capable of decent overclocks, but unlike some of the other Connect3D X1800 GTO cards, this one is not able to be unlocked as far as extra shader pipelines goes.

ProfessorProfessorson wrote:

I have a Radeon 7k and a 9250, but I could care less for those cards. Not sure if this would quite qualify to you or not, but I consider the X16xx to X19xx line to be the last line of cards representing what ATI as a company originally was.

Yeah R520 was interesting. Very late to market though.

In PCIe I currently have 6950, 3850, X1950XTX, X1600Pro, and X800GTO2. Spread around at work and home. But I think PCIe cards are rather new for VOGONS.

I wish AMD hadn't killed driver development for R500 because those cards would be able to run a lot of recent games OK due to the console stranglehold.

Yeah thats one of the reasons why I originally got rid of my Sapphire X1950 AGP card I had, lack of solid drivers. The other was due to how power hungry the AGP version was. Last modern game I ran on it before selling it was Modern Warfare 2, which it handled well on a Athlon X2 system.

I have a PCIe X850XT PE floating around somewhere. It was a power-hungry, noisy beast of a card, that's for sure. Paid a pretty penny for it, too!

My first ever video card upgrade was to a Radeon 7500 (64MB, AGP) in my Pentium II/450. I remember I was pretty young at the time and I bought this roller coaster building game, and because the Riva TNT card that came with the PC was old and didn't have DX8 support, the menu came up completely blank and I couldn't play. The 7500 was pretty low end at the time so I was able to afford it, but it did exactly what I wanted and I still really like the card today. Probably the most important upgrade I made to that computer, since it had to carry me all the way to 2005 before I got a new system.

7500 is almost identical to the original Radeon chip. It's manufactured on a smaller silicon process and they fixed a few bugs and oversights such as enabling asynchronous clocks for the GPU and the RAM. It made a good competitor for GF4MX.

My first Radeon was a Sapphire 9500 non-pro that was unlocakable and that I could overclock to close to 9700 speeds. The memory held me back a bit because they were slower than the ones installed on the 9700 and couldn't handle much overclocking. I have a 9700 Pro that was flashed with a Mac ROM in one of my Powermac G4's. I also have a Sapphire x1650 Pro that I bought later to replace the 9500 and a 9100 PCI. My newest is a HD6870 but my motherboard has HD4250 onboard and my laptop has HD3200. My previous laptop had Mobility 9600.

sliderider wrote:

My newest is a HD6870

That's what I have too! Two of them, in fact. They're great bang for buck hey?

SquallStrife wrote:

sliderider wrote:

My newest is a HD6870

That's what I have too! Two of them, in fact. They're great bang for buck hey?

Yeah but now my fan is making noise so I am stuck using the onboard until the new ones come out. I'm just going to put an aftermarket cooler on it and sell it when the new ones come out instead of going through the warranty BS.

Good call. The 7xxx cards are pretty close, I hear.

Hmm I had a Radeon 7200 http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/radeon7200.jpg
a 9100 http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/radeon9100.jpg
and also a 9800XT, but I have no photo of it right now.

ATi Radeon LE 32MB DDR AGP

This is a budget version of the original Radeon DDR. It was not an official ATi product. The card was popular with people looking for a cheap upgrade from say a Matrox G400 (like me!)

Notes:
-Clocked at 148/148. Original R100 Radeon required sync clocks or it freezes.
-6.0ns DDR RAM means it's specified for 166MHz but underclocked.
-HyperZ is supposed to be disabled and was in early drivers. Later drivers enable it and this causes image artifacts because the HyperZ hardware is defective. It's possible to selectively enable/disable parts of HyperZ with registry tweaks.
-BIOS chip on Radeon boards is labeled "Rage 6" or "R6".

More info about the LE.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/770