Stiletto wrote:

Lukeno94 wrote:

Why is this thread still being derailed? -.-

Yeah, that's enough, guys...

We're all but mortal men. It's OK to have 2 pages about women in 437 pages of hardware discussion 😀

dogchainx wrote:

Also, here's the photo of the Jack-of-all-trades HOT-239 sound card, aka Shuttle Sound System 48 wave. It has every CD-ROM inter […]
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Also, here's the photo of the Jack-of-all-trades HOT-239 sound card, aka Shuttle Sound System 48 wave. It has every CD-ROM interface, has on-board wavetable, and has a YMF262 chip.

Does it support Wavetable/MIDI in DOS?

Asking because I quite like the Sound System 48 (without Wavetable). This would be right up my alley.

oerk wrote:

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Does it support Wavetable/MIDI in DOS?

Asking because I quite like the Sound System 48 (without Wavetable). This would be right up my alley.

Yes the card supports GM in plain DOS, MPU401 URAT through OPTI 82C930

I won a really nice AGP card today 😀

Gainward 7800GS+ 512MB Golden Sample "Special edition", new and boxed.

This card could very well be the ultra rare version with the fully activated G71 core but there is no way to be 100% sure. I already have the Gainward 7800GS+ 512MB G71 version with 20 shaders activated but not the version with all 24 shaders activated.

Another Swedish Vogons member was also trying to snipe the card but it wasnt from him I "stole" it as his snipe bid diddnt beat the third bidders bid so no regrets 😀. The card ended up costing ~17 Euro + 8 Euro shipping which I find very reasonable, I will not tell what my "max bid" was...

Nice! That's a great card - I used it for several years before switching to the Sapphire HD3850, which was also a beast. The 7800GS+ is the 7900GT core - never knew there were different versions of it that affected the shaders. I wonder which one I have...

Artex wrote:

Nice! That's a great card - I used it for several years before switching to the Sapphire HD3850, which was also a beast. The 7800GS+ is the 7900GT core - never knew there were different versions of it that affected the shaders. I wonder which one I have...

It was mostly Gainward that diddnt followed Nvidias specs so they took GPUs meant for 7900GTX and put them on AGP 7800GS+ golden sample "special edition" cards. Not all of the special edition cards have the fully activated GPU though as when Nvidia got angry enough they stopped doing it but continued to sell the same models now with 20 shaders without renaming them... Many people who bought the cards were dissapointed when they got cards with "only" 20 sharders activated which is still alot better than the normal 7800GS with only 16 and as the 7800GS+ used the G71 core and not the G70 the cards at least overclocked really really well.

The rumor is that there were about 2000 cards made with the fully activated G71 core, almost all of them sold in the UK and some in Sweden. The only way to get them in the US back then was to order them from one of the few European stores that had them.

Interesting. That's exactly what I did - bought from a UK store and paid a fortune for it and then the store was gone a few years later. I still have the receipt somewhere.

Artex wrote:

Interesting. That's exactly what I did - bought from a UK store and paid a fortune for it and then the store was gone a few years later. I still have the receipt somewhere.

Then perhaps you have one of the 24 shader hens teeth 😀

GPU-Z will tell you if the card has 20 or 24 shaders activated.

Bought this, which is exactly what it says on the box! 😀

Skyscraper wrote:

Artex wrote:

Interesting. That's exactly what I did - bought from a UK store and paid a fortune for it and then the store was gone a few years later. I still have the receipt somewhere.

Then perhaps you have one of the 24 shader hens teeth 😀

GPU-Z will tell you if the card has 20 or 24 shaders activated.

Just found the receipt, and the site is still around. I purchased it in July of 2006 from http://www.overclockers.co.uk for a grand total of £234.70 shipped to the US - Ouch... I just remember trying to make my AGP-based nForce3 board last as long as possible back then.

lolo799 wrote:

Bought this, which is exactly what it says on the box! 😀

pwt64vc-box.jpg

pw64tvc-specs.jpg

That's interesting! Show us the card, or did you buy the box and this weird sheet of paper?

Skyscraper wrote:

I won a really nice AGP card today :) […]
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I won a really nice AGP card today 😀

Gainward 7800GS+ 512MB Golden Sample "Special edition", new and boxed.

This card could very well be the ultra rare version with the fully activated G71 core but there is no way to be 100% sure. I already have the Gainward 7800GS+ 512MB G71 version with 20 shaders activated but not the version with all 24 shaders activated.

Another Swedish Vogons member was also trying to snipe the card but it wasnt from him I "stole" it as his snipe bid diddnt beat the third bidders bid so no regrets 😀. The card ended up costing ~17 Euro + 8 Euro shipping which I find very reasonable, I will not tell what my "max bid" was...

7800gs_plus.jpg

I got one of those for free a while back! Most likely the 20 shader version, but one heck of a card. The stock Arctic Silencer keeps these cards nice and cool.

Awesome! I still have my plain 256mb 7800GS AGP and 512mb Powercolor HD3850AGP cards.

The 7800gs required a mod to get more grunt out of it, otherwise You got black screens

The 3850AGP required a heatsink on the pcie-AGP bridge chip to stop it crashing, I also performed the pencil mod to get 1.4v for about 890mhz.
I performed all mods available and had reliable cards at overclocked settings.

Artex wrote:

Just found the receipt, and the site is still around. I purchased it in July of 2006 from http://www.overclockers.co.uk for a g […]
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Skyscraper wrote:

Artex wrote:

Interesting. That's exactly what I did - bought from a UK store and paid a fortune for it and then the store was gone a few years later. I still have the receipt somewhere.

Then perhaps you have one of the 24 shader hens teeth 😀

GPU-Z will tell you if the card has 20 or 24 shaders activated.

Just found the receipt, and the site is still around. I purchased it in July of 2006 from http://www.overclockers.co.uk for a grand total of £234.70 shipped to the US - Ouch... I just remember trying to make my AGP-based nForce3 board last as long as possible back then.

6 years later, I spent £300 on a GTX 670... and bought a brand-new laptop at the same time for less than the GPU cost!

RacoonRider wrote:

That's interesting! Show us the card, or did you buy the box and this weird sheet of paper?

I haven't received it yet, this is what the card looks like:

Bought a GF4-ti4200. Hope it works, and I really got to clean it up.
The cooler is not blocked with filth and dust. It just need a bit of cleaning.

Any suggestions on to what type of system this will go well with?
(anything that is not P4 or Athlon)

The price was 25 Danish Kroners (3,70 US Dollars)

I have seen a LOT of dead medion graphics cards and they used that same crappy cooler on most cards from that era so assume that's the cause.....

So, if your card works put on a different cooler or at the very least make sure it is in good contact with the gpu. Using the same hratsink with some paste and a bigger fan will also help bigtime.

brostenen wrote:

Any suggestions on to what type of system this will go well with?
(anything that is not P4 or Athlon)

A Pentium M on a desktop P4 board?

meljor wrote:

I have seen a LOT of dead medion graphics cards and they used that same crappy cooler on most cards from that era so assume that's the cause.....

So, if your card works put on a different cooler or at the very least make sure it is in good contact with the gpu. Using the same hratsink with some paste and a bigger fan will also help bigtime.

I'm pretty sure the Ti is not THAT hot 😀

alexanrs wrote:

brostenen wrote:

Any suggestions on to what type of system this will go well with?
(anything that is not P4 or Athlon)

A Pentium M on a desktop P4 board?

Nope... No P4'ish type of shit for this card. 😁 😁
It's SS7/370 or Slot1 for this card.