Peter.Mengel wrote on 2022-08-13, 14:20:
Rikintosh wrote on 2022-08-12, 23:17:
Unfortunately I had to return it, it didn't work properly. I could have fixed it if the seller returned some of what I paid for it, but he preferred to have it back.
What was the Problem? Wondering how it didnt work properly?
I think baking it in the oven would do the trick. Here in Brazil it is even common for video cards to have problems when they are sent by mail, because they are inside the car during transport, and the car is under the tropical sun, all goods inside the delivery car are very hot, and sometimes video cards suffer from the heat.
Luckily, I'm a professional and have some of the equipment needed to repair, but I couldn't without the seller's authorization, or (as was the case) me paying full price, and receiving a defective product.
I recently got a very cheap iMac G3DV, during shipping it broke like a cookie, but the seller sold it to me for 10% of the market value, so I didn't care. I'm currently gluing each little piece together with expoxy glue, like a jigsaw puzzle.
I really like these old things, but I don't have the means to collect everything I would like, so some things I keep for myself, while others I resell to make some money.
I got my money back, and I bought the only 6800GT I could find in the country (it's defective). With luck I can get it to work. Around here the AGP market is saturated with cards like mx4000, and 6200, but almost none better than that. I have a radeon 4650, but I need to change the PCI-E to AGP bridge because it is damaged.
As for radeon 9600pro with 9700 chipset, I believe it must be some kind of product coming from china. I assume this, because I have seen in the past some recent cards like 1060 being sold here, but they actually used the notebook chip, which has a lower performance (probably the Chinese pay cheaper for this chip, and/or it is from a batch rejected due to quality problems)