And about that, are those flathead screwdriver marks where the holder was? Ugh.. 🙁

Hope you get it running Veeb0rg !

So I picked up this really interesting brand new Asus GeForce 2 Ti GPU from ebay.(yes it has a cooler I just took it off) I really wanted to snap it up because it was the only card I could see with 4ns ram!!

Interesting points
1: has a 150nm GTS Core?, but it marked with Ti VX.
2: it has a lower core clock 225 vs 250 like normal TI's. VX must mean Value edition or something 🤣.
3. Core over clocks pretty crazy, I stopped at 285mhz ran perfect in 3DMark(time constraints). I'll push more later feels like it has room to go to 300mhz.
4. 4ns ram vs almost all the rest have 5ns. GeForce 2 cards are memory bandwidth starved so this is a big deal.

5. And most unfortunately, this 4ns ram is a mega dud?? It won't even run at 245Mhz which is 5Mhz under rated speed. Even 240Mhz seems iffy. This seems super odd to me. Could it be the bios supplied ram voltage? Or just reject 4ns ram recycled?

Cheers!

I found this today in a local thrift store for just 5 euro, maybe not the most desirable Voodoo card but I used to have the same exact card back in 1997.

Bj0rn83 wrote on 2024-07-18, 15:30:

I found this today in a local thrift store for just 5 euro, maybe not the most desirable Voodoo card but I used to have the same exact card back in 1997.

I'd buy it for that price without hesitation!

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-18, 14:50:

So I picked up this really interesting brand new Asus GeForce 2 Ti GPU from ebay.(yes it has a cooler I just took it off) I re […]
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So I picked up this really interesting brand new Asus GeForce 2 Ti GPU from ebay.(yes it has a cooler I just took it off) I really wanted to snap it up because it was the only card I could see with 4ns ram!!

Interesting points
1: has a 150nm GTS Core?, but it marked with Ti VX.
2: it has a lower core clock 225 vs 250 like normal TI's. VX must mean Value edition or something 🤣.
3. Core over clocks pretty crazy, I stopped at 285mhz ran perfect in 3DMark(time constraints). I'll push more later feels like it has room to go to 300mhz.
4. 4ns ram vs almost all the rest have 5ns. GeForce 2 cards are memory bandwidth starved so this is a big deal.

5. And most unfortunately, this 4ns ram is a mega dud?? It won't even run at 245Mhz which is 5Mhz under rated speed. Even 240Mhz seems iffy. This seems super odd to me. Could it be the bios supplied ram voltage? Or just reject 4ns ram recycled?

Cheers!

I can't remember at the moment what mine says but the Geforce 2 Ti was originally meant to be called GTS2. I have two GF2 Ti, one is a Chaintech G220 Ti-Ultra 250-230, which are Ultra frequencies (there are so many version, with and without heatsinks, with gold heatsink, 32mb too.... so hard to figure out..... they really should write what stuff is on the pcb like they do for mobos)

https://www.anandtech.com/show/873/2

this site claims that the geforce 2 ti has a shrunk nv15, but I remember reading somewhere that nvidia had a bunch of unsold n15s, so they rebranded them to fit in the geforce 3 ti line of cards. who is right?

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-18, 14:50:

So I picked up this really interesting brand new Asus GeForce 2 Ti GPU from ebay.(yes it has a cooler I just took it off) I re […]
Show full quote

So I picked up this really interesting brand new Asus GeForce 2 Ti GPU from ebay.(yes it has a cooler I just took it off) I really wanted to snap it up because it was the only card I could see with 4ns ram!!

Interesting points
1: has a 150nm GTS Core?, but it marked with Ti VX.
2: it has a lower core clock 225 vs 250 like normal TI's. VX must mean Value edition or something 🤣.
3. Core over clocks pretty crazy, I stopped at 285mhz ran perfect in 3DMark(time constraints). I'll push more later feels like it has room to go to 300mhz.
4. 4ns ram vs almost all the rest have 5ns. GeForce 2 cards are memory bandwidth starved so this is a big deal.

5. And most unfortunately, this 4ns ram is a mega dud?? It won't even run at 245Mhz which is 5Mhz under rated speed. Even 240Mhz seems iffy. This seems super odd to me. Could it be the bios supplied ram voltage? Or just reject 4ns ram recycled?

Cheers!

Its possible that the bios is strapped to limit the Vram voltages, you might be able to flash it with a full Ti bios.

This little beauty arrived today. It's going in my Windows 98 beast build with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.1 Ghz. Thank you @TrashBytes for the advise.

ATI Radeon X850XT PE. I think it's the retail version and not the OEM.

zuldan wrote on 2024-07-19, 05:36:

This little beauty arrived today. It's going in my Windows 98 beast build with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ 3.1 Ghz. Thank you @TrashBytes for the advise.

ATI Radeon X850XT PE. I think it's the retail version and not the OEM.

That is one hell of a card, I like my Nvidia 6k series from the time but ATI had some really good card that only lacked shader models 3.0, people were mostly pissed for oblivion from what I remember.

PD2JK wrote on 2024-07-18, 09:37:

And about that, are those flathead screwdriver marks where the holder was? Ugh.. 🙁

Hope you get it running Veeb0rg !

Here are the other boards in that lot. I do plan on scavaging bits I need to get the SlotA board working from these boards. I'll pretest components as best I can and see what happens..
Allow me to open your eyes to the horrors I've seen..

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-07-19, 03:42:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-18, 14:50:

5. And most unfortunately, this 4ns ram is a mega dud?? It won't even run at 245Mhz which is 5Mhz under rated speed.

Its possible that the bios is strapped to limit the Vram voltages, you might be able to flash it with a full Ti bios.

were voltages even software configurable on GF2-3 cards? It was before turbo/idle modes so I have a feeling its all fixed in hardware.

Wrong thread. This supposed to be in the Dumpster Find Thread:
If someone can move this, please do. 😉

Yay, I finally get to post here again. However it's a bit of a "Look how they massacred my boy" post. No lid, no hdd (figures), and a lot of restoring/soldering to do.

The score:

Board looks good, Dallas probably flat, no big deal. Nice to see that small 5 to 3.3V board.
Lot of cables are cut, P8-P9 is intact. phew. That's a relabled Seasonic SSG-150G PSU, nice. G stands for 80Plus Gold of course. 😉

That Trident is warped, luckily only the slot bracket. Two big empty memory sockets, so only 1 MB on-board, fine.

Oh hello, an IBM 486 DX4 100 with Cyrix marking on the flipside.

Let's clean this stuff up, check for shorts and see if it runs. When I have the time.

A load of random parts;
- 2x PCI ISDN-cards
- 2x PCIAsus Tiger-S -cards (FM radio?)
- 3x SB Live, SB0060, CT4830 and SB0100
- 3c905C and 3C509B
- four NIC's (PCI), RTL8139, RTL8029 etc
- GF6600GT 128MB PCIe
- GF9300 PCIe
- Leadtek LRA2A1D, 64MB GF6200SE PCIe
- GF4MX440SE 64MB AGP
- Elsa Gladiac GF2 ultra 64MB AGP
- Radeon 9550SE 128MB Vivo AGP
- Adaptec 29160 SCSI-card. 64-bit? not PCI-X?

Really got these just for the SB Live's and 3com nics.

oh2ftu wrote on 2024-07-19, 09:38:

- Adaptec 29160 SCSI-card. 64-bit? not PCI-X?

It is 64 bit (=PCI-X), but it will work fine in 32 bit slots too.

PD2JK wrote on 2024-07-19, 09:10:

Wrong thread. This supposed to be in the Dumpster Find Thread: If someone can move this, please do. ;) […]
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Wrong thread. This supposed to be in the Dumpster Find Thread:
If someone can move this, please do. 😉

Yay, I finally get to post here again. However it's a bit of a "Look how they massacred my boy" post. No lid, no hdd (figures), and a lot of restoring/soldering to do.

The score:

Board looks good, Dallas probably flat, no big deal. Nice to see that small 5 to 3.3V board.
Lot of cables are cut, P8-P9 is intact. phew. That's a relabled Seasonic SSG-150G PSU, nice. G stands for 80Plus Gold of course. 😉

That Trident is warped, luckily only the slot bracket. Two big empty memory sockets, so only 1 MB on-board, fine.

Oh hello, an IBM 486 DX4 100 with Cyrix marking on the flipside.

Let's clean this stuff up, check for shorts and see if it runs. When I have the time.

Looks exactly like our first family PC, bought back in 1996, in a Vobis computer store.
Same case, same board, same CD drive (although I remember it beeing double speed), same VGA.
Only difference beeing the CPU, which was a TI DX2-80 in our case.
Feeling very nostalgic atm...

I was looking for industrial board for a long time, at lats found one in old hospital PC. The best thing is that it came with ISA sound card , all sort of cables and a tiny PSU.

Received this Gigabyte GA-586DX, which I traded for one of my 2 BP6's over at cpu-world.com

Need to find me an AT PSU, (which is not in a case with working hardware) and some memory. But has been tested by previous owner, and looks to be in fine condition.

Now, I own a dual socket 7, a dual slot-1 (Asus p2b-ds) and a dual s370 board (Abit BP6) 😎

rasz_pl wrote on 2024-07-19, 07:00:

Trashbytes wrote on 2024-07-19, 03:42:

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2024-07-18, 14:50:

5. And most unfortunately, this 4ns ram is a mega dud?? It won't even run at 245Mhz which is 5Mhz under rated speed.

Its possible that the bios is strapped to limit the Vram voltages, you might be able to flash it with a full Ti bios.

were voltages even software configurable on GF2-3 cards? It was before turbo/idle modes so I have a feeling its all fixed in hardware.

You are likely right here but if its hardware then its likely some 0 ohm resistors, it shouldn't be hard to find the different resistor positions in the strapping area between the VX and TI since they are the same cards.

DundyTheCroc wrote on 2024-07-19, 20:06:

I was looking for industrial board for a long time, at lats found one in old hospital PC. The best thing is that it came with ISA sound card , all sort of cables and a tiny PSU.

Nice!

Do yo by any chance have a good search term for cases/enclosures for this kind of stuff? I also have some PC/104 boards that are just dying for a simple, small case, but "PC104 case" or "PC/104 enclosure" or other combinations don't find me anything useful...

Got this little HP laptop for $15 recently. No battery, AMD A6-5200, 4gb of ddr3 1600mhz, 160gb WD 5400rpm slug. Originally a 8.1 machine. Not "retro" but a nice little laptop overall.

MSI K7N2G MS6570 nforce 2 ultra
got this today. hopefully it works.
still can't find a nforce 2 ultra with sata :'(
although the IDE to SSD adapters really make onboard SATA less important