I always associate this PCB colour with cards from the PNY Verto range, but can't find any other pics of an FX5900 to back this up (I have a PNY FX5200 PCI in this colour though)

Same rear label/sticker as some Palit cards. (same format for the model/features) It is also purple, like many Palit cards at that time. My guess is a Palit GeForce FX5900. https://web.archive.org/web/20040605175258/ht … //palitusa.com/

+1 for Palit. Same reasons as above: PCB color and stickers.

the sticker FX5900sp-VTD 256 on the inside of the bracked suggest MSI, but its not MSI
by the cheap shit capacitors I would say its a late generic Chinese noname for asian markets
afaik PNY and Palit are one and the same company, this might be their night shift low end output

I was going to say PNY due to the color but I can't seem to find any pictures of a purple PNY 5900 series card. Palit would be the most likely since they at least made a 5900XT that color.

Strange to see such a high end card with all "old style" through-hole aluminum electrolytic caps. The high end FX series (and all high end GPUs after that) almost exclusively used the newer ones that either were or looked like polymer caps. They look like respectable caps though, since they aren't bloated and they don't have the cheap-looking X shaped vent that most crappy caps have.

Thanks for the help! I am pretty sure this is indeed Palit, since as you have pointed out, the PCB looks so similar, I also notice that Palit often locate the caps on horizontal rows. Plus the caps look like they are the same make on the FX5700 (the ones near the molex connector)

Google picture of Palit Daytona FX5700:

The sticker from the FX5900 moved back to the proper card:

Glad that I finally can call the card by the (most likely) proper name Palit Daytona GeForce FX5900

@rasz_pl please keep it civil, no need to bash and use profanities, just asking for ID, not saying this is the king of graphic cards.

Certainly looking like Palit now

We were given the opportunity to look at the graphics card of the company, which in the past occupied an important place under OEM contracts. Today Palit is trying to focus on the retail market. The company is based in Taiwan and has two factories in China.

Palit offers a full range of cards on nVidia chips, starting with a very cheap GeForce4 MX440 and ending with GeForce FX5900. However, the most interesting products are graphics cards with the interface PCI. According to Palit, some OEM customers order these cards.

If the bandwidth of the old PCI bus is too small for modern graphics applications, Palit solves this problem by equipping the board with a large amount of memory. You can even order FX5900 with an impressive 256 MB of DDR RAM.

http://www.thg.ru/business/20030926/computex_2003_3-10.html

@ PC Hoarder Patrol AWESOME FIND ! Thank you so much for the extra effort, now I am 100% sure of the origins of the card 😁

<3 Vogons and the members

Skanque wrote:

@rasz_pl please keep it civil, no need to bash and use profanities, just asking for ID, not saying this is the king of graphic cards.

Sorry. YXG/MBZ arent bad capacitors per se, they are just what Palit used on lowend like FX5200. Looking at PC Hoarder Patrol post its the other way around, it was their first attempt at designing products for western market.

No problem, I just try to keep a positive vibe since I find this hobby relaxing (:

The manufacturer apparently is Rubycon, I think they are a good quality company:

My PNY FX5200 PCI (now clearly a Palit re-brand) has Rubycon YXG caps all round except the two, top left, which are Nippon Chemi-Con KZG.

Its not the brand, but the type and usage scenario. Electrolytics in output stage of SMPS on a mini baking oven constantly pushing hot air at them is a recipe for RMA in a 2 year window of heavy gaming. Its not unusual for those cards to run 70-80 full load, engineered to fail.