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First post, by Thraka

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I cannot figure it out. But I've never seen a card like this with dip switches...

http://sdrv.ms/LDjO9b

Reply 1 of 6, by Stiletto

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Appears to be Gainward Power 3D II based on searching on the FCC ID printed on the card.

Here's another videocard collector who has one, if memory serves he has a VOGONS account perhaps.
http://www.yjfy.com/museum/video/Gainward.htm

That's a 3DLabs Permedia 2 chipset, BTW.

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Reply 2 of 6, by sliderider

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Thraka wrote:

I cannot figure it out. But I've never seen a card like this with dip switches...

http://sdrv.ms/LDjO9b

Gainward Power3D II according to this

http://www.yjfy.com/museum/video/Gainward.htm

Reply 4 of 6, by sliderider

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Whenever you have a question about a part that you can't identify, Googling the FCC ID is usually a good place to start. There's enough people active in this hobby now where a lot of this stuff will be catalogued or at least mentioned on a website somewhere that Google can reach.

Reply 5 of 6, by Tetrium

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sliderider wrote:

Whenever you have a question about a part that you can't identify, Googling the FCC ID is usually a good place to start. There's enough people active in this hobby now where a lot of this stuff will be catalogued or at least mentioned on a website somewhere that Google can reach.

I actually wrote an article about hardware identification on the wiki yesterday 😜
It's still a stub and needs some organizing and some picture-love, but it does mention this (amongst other tips)

Whats missing in your collections?
My retro rigs (old topic)
Interesting Vogons threads (links to Vogonswiki)
Report spammers here!

Reply 6 of 6, by Stiletto

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Tetrium wrote:

I actually wrote an article about hardware identification on the wiki yesterday 😜
It's still a stub and needs some organizing and some picture-love, but it does mention this (amongst other tips)

I could probably teach a master class in Internet-augmented computer hardware identification.

Important note that (in cases where the FCC ID is not faked, which I believe I've seen done), you can STILL pull up information regarding devices in FCC's database.
http://transition.fcc.gov/oet/ea/fccid/

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