and the FX 5900 Ultra came in artifacting and dead 🙁

That sucks.
But those cards can be problematic, the EVGA ones all died off when they were still young.

What about the quadro counterpart, the FX 3000 - is it better quality wise or the same?

I just hope my fx 5950 ultra doesn't arrive dead. It should arrive later this week or early next week. 40 euros was a decent price if it works... If most FX cards are bad quality like that, I don't think I will have good chances with it.

Did you ever finish this build? I was interesred in how you went, cause my fastest win98 machine also uses a ga-8i865gme-775-rh. With a geforce fx59 something.

The FX cards are some of the most reliable components I have ever come across. God, compared to Radeon 9800s...

doaks80 wrote:

The FX cards are some of the most reliable components I have ever come across. God, compared to Radeon 9800s...

Agreed, Haven't come across too many dead cards from the FX series except the top tiered ones, Obviously cooked them selves to death.
I have a draw full of dead 9xxx series Radeons which i've pillaged for their heatsinks.

its still pending, but now ive got a 6800GT comming in lets hope that works

figures the 6800gt artifacts

Tossing my fx500 into it for now, an fx 5200 Quadro feels kids week for an e6600 but oh well I'm sure I'll get the most possible from it 🤣

But I did get myself a bga rework station so maybe I'll replace the dram on my 5900 ultra

Finally starting it again, ti 4200 came in and works.

Now I'm mad, it was a GeForce 2 ti, I got scammed.

On the bright side a gf2 with an e6600 gets 21k in 3dmark99 and 14k in 2000

candle_86 wrote:

Now I'm mad, it was a GeForce 2 ti, I got scammed.

What scum. Hope you're going to ask for your money back.

If it was an innocent mistake, I'd like to hope he has no issues giving a refund. If it was an intentional scam, screw him. Those kinds of people shit up the community in pursuit of greed. It's one thing to make money off selling a legitimate item at a high price, but another to just flat out scam people.

I hope you find the right GPU at the right price at some point in time. Such an unfortunate series of dead cards 🙁

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candle_86 wrote:

Now I'm mad, it was a GeForce 2 ti, I got scammed.

What scum. Hope you're going to ask for your money back.

If it was an innocent mistake, I'd like to hope he has no issues giving a refund. If it was an intentional scam, screw him. Those kinds of people shit up the community in pursuit of greed. It's one thing to make money off selling a legitimate item at a high price, but another to just flat out scam people.

I hope you find the right GPU at the right price at some point in time. Such an unfortunate series of dead cards 🙁

Awaiting a response, it came in the Xtasy ti 4200 box,. What bugs me is during boot up it says Xtasy Ti 4200, but drivers say GeForce 2 ti

candle_86 wrote:

Awaiting a response, it came in the Xtasy ti 4200 box,. What bugs me is during boot up it says Xtasy Ti 4200, but drivers say GeForce 2 ti

Sounds like someone sneakly flashed the bios onto a lower spec card

ahh the ol' ebay special!

The card works I made him an offer refund me half of the 25 I paid and I keep the gf2

Ok Quadro fx 2000 inbound this has to work