The G400 MAX is a dead ringer for what I saw in that shop, so I think you've identified it quite easily.
Maybe I should go back and nab it for you, since you show interest in it. Better than letting it languish in a parts bin, at any rate.
Isn't it also more.than possible someone just strapped a fan or new heatsink onto another Matrox model? Youve got to watch out for you eyes seeing what they want to see and not what's actually in front of them in this hobby.
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The G400 MAX is a dead ringer for what I saw in that shop, so I think you've identified it quite easily.
Maybe I should go back and nab it for you, since you show interest in it. Better than letting it languish in a parts bin, at any rate.
Isn't it also more.than possible someone just strapped a fan or new heatsink onto another Matrox model? Youve got to watch out for you eyes seeing what they want to see and not what's actually in front of them in this hobby.
Yes, verifying that it is indeed a G400 MAX is a good idea.
I bought 5 new 10 packs of FujiFilm High Density 5.25 floppies for $27 shipped on eBay and I was looking around later and found a pack of Dysan 100 HD disks for $3 so I bought those it was $6 shipped. I almost ended up with 10 boxes of DSDD disks but luckily I was outbid the last second for some reason I had thought the auction said they were high density disks.
I bought 5 new 10 packs of FujiFilm High Density 5.25 floppies for $27 shipped on eBay and I was looking around later and found a pack of Dysan 100 HD disks for $3 so I bought those it was $6 shipped. I almost ended up with 10 boxes of DSDD disks but luckily I was outbid the last second for some reason I had thought the auction said they were high density disks.
Aren't lower capacity disks more useful from a technological compatibility standpoint?
Its nice to have a disk thats universally forward compatible with newer drives. The more modern high capacity disks will always be more common too.
Cyb3rst0rms Retro Hardware Warzone:https://discord.gg/jK8uvR4c I used to own over 160 graphics card, I've since recovered from graphics card addiction
I bought 5 new 10 packs of FujiFilm High Density 5.25 floppies for $27 shipped on eBay and I was looking around later and found a pack of Dysan 100 HD disks for $3 so I bought those it was $6 shipped. I almost ended up with 10 boxes of DSDD disks but luckily I was outbid the last second for some reason I had thought the auction said they were high density disks.
Aren't lower capacity disks more useful from a technological compatibility standpoint?
Its nice to have a disk thats universally forward compatible with newer drives. The more modern high capacity disks will always be more common too.
To me it seems lower capacity disk are much more common because they were used in a wider variety of machines through out the 80s, the High Density 5.25 drives started to catch on towards the end of the 80s but were rather quickly superseded by the 3.5 micro floppy in the early 90s. Also I've heard that 1.2mb drives have trouble writing to 360k disk, usually it writes to them just fine and the disc can be read perfectly in a 1.2mb drive but a 360k drive will have trouble reading it.
Today I visited a man's "Basement Sale" where he had a bunch of PC stuff. Primarily laptops. I was able to get a Voodoo Banshee and the two Socket 7 coolers for $4 Canadian!
Then he pointed out this Mediavision Audioport Parallel Sound Adapter. It is reminiscent of a Covox. It has 8-bit sound and has a small speaker, headphone out and mic in!
Isn't it also more.than possible someone just strapped a fan or new heatsink onto another Matrox model? Youve got to watch out for you eyes seeing what they want to see and not what's actually in front of them in this hobby.
Yes, verifying that it is indeed a G400 MAX is a good idea.
It's kinda hard for me to verify the card without actually buying the card and putting it into a working PC, but this I can tell you: the G400 MAX card Phil had in that video is a dead ringer for what I saw in that shop, PCB-wise.
How often does Matrox reuse PCB layouts across their card generations?
Isn't it also more.than possible someone just strapped a fan or new heatsink onto another Matrox model? Youve got to watch out for you eyes seeing what they want to see and not what's actually in front of them in this hobby.
Yes, verifying that it is indeed a G400 MAX is a good idea.
It's kinda hard for me to verify the card without actually buying the card and putting it into a working PC, but this I can tell you: the G400 MAX card Phil had in that video is a dead ringer for what I saw in that shop, PCB-wise.
How often does Matrox reuse PCB layouts across their card generations?
Based on google image results the G400 and G400 max appear to have nearly identical PCBs.
BTW.. does anyone think Voodoo prices will ever go back down to where normal people can afford them? I can't for the life of me understand what's driving prices to the point where a V4 4500 sells for $123 on eBay. I'm really hoping I'll live long enough to see V2s go back where they were a few years ago. There can't be enough interest to sustain a market like that, my basic understanding of economics dictates that a high price/low target audience item economy like that is very prone to a crash.
Cyb3rst0rms Retro Hardware Warzone:https://discord.gg/jK8uvR4c I used to own over 160 graphics card, I've since recovered from graphics card addiction
Based on google image results the G400 and G400 max appear to have nearly identical PCBs.
I thought the G400 only had a single VGA output going off of Phil's video, but it turns out there's passively-cooled ones as well, that being the main point of differentiation from the MAX.
I'll go take a look next time I get to drop by there.
Based on google image results the G400 and G400 max appear to have nearly identical PCBs.
I thought the G400 only had a single VGA output going off of Phil's video, but it turns out there's passively-cooled ones as well, that being the main point of differentiation from the MAX.
I'll go take a look next time I get to drop by there.
I have 2 G400 cards and 2 G400max cards and they are all identical pcb and all have dual output.
The only differences are that the g400max has a small active heatsink and the g400 has a slightly bigger passive heatsink.
Biggest difference is the g400max has 5ns memory chips and g400 has 6ns chips as the last one has lower clockspeeds.
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TEN freaking voodoo 3 3000 !! 🤣
One of them misses it's bracket, 2-3 of them have a little bit of rust on them and some of them are missing one or two caps, but hey that's still looking pretty good !
A Diamond EDGE 3240 (so an NVidia NV1 !) 😲 . I thought I'll never ever see this in my life. However I just have the card, I don't have the joystick port adapter, the Saturn connector bracket ... But that's still an awesome find !
I did buy some other things such as a boxed sidewinder joystick (there is no manual or driver CD that came with it though), a PCMCIA ethernet card, but I was lazy ^^
Now I'm going to test all of these. I don't think I'm going to keep all of them (who would need 10 3Dfx voodoo 3 ?), I'm planing on exchanging them with some other sweet stuff ^^
TEN freaking voodoo 3 3000 !! 🤣
One of them misses it's bracket, 2-3 of them have a little bit of rust on them and some of them are missing one or two caps, but hey that's still looking pretty good !
