1997 Intel commercial

Looks like a Clean Room suit.

Video link:
https://youtu.be/ilfRLJ97Lms

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https://youtu.be/AIpYTcCn_yE

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https://youtu.be/paU16B-bZEA

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https://youtu.be/5zyjSBSvqPc

Bought this finger lickin good monitor: KFC CA1507 VGA

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2022-12-31, 23:56:

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1997 Intel commercial

Looks like a Clean Room suit.

Video link:
https://youtu.be/ilfRLJ97Lms

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https://youtu.be/AIpYTcCn_yE

Video link:
https://youtu.be/paU16B-bZEA

Video Link:
https://youtu.be/5zyjSBSvqPc

Nice links.. Did not know they called these suits Bunny 🤣... These days they are more known as Covid-19 suits... Interesting way of Intel to promote the Pentium and Pentium II with these. They should have done something similar with the Intel ARC launch...

bjwil1991 wrote on 2023-01-01, 09:38:

Bought this finger lickin good monitor: KFC CA1507 VGA […]
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Bought this finger lickin good monitor: KFC CA1507 VGA

Nice monitor, but KFC 🤣.. Are there MCdonald's ones, or Burger King, Taco Bell monitors 🤣 ....

bjwil1991 wrote on 2023-01-01, 09:38:

Bought this finger lickin good monitor: KFC CA1507 VGA […]
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Bought this finger lickin good monitor: KFC CA1507 VGA

Kentucky Fried Computing! 🤣

Finally a working Voodoo 1 card, and a couple of Radeon 9700 cards.

Black one is Sapphire 9700 VIVO with 3.6ns Samsung chips, and red one si Club3D with 3.3ns Infineon and funny clocks: 325 core and 297 for memory ... almost 9700 Pro specs. After some investigation, it seems Club3D offered at least 2 different cards under same model name (CGA-9828TVD):
* one with 2.8ns Samsung chips (true 9700 Pro)
* one with 3.3ns Infineon chips (close to Pro specs)

bjwil1991 wrote on 2023-01-01, 09:38:

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OK I am in the CRT collective facebook group and recognize that monitor from the original sales post. I am one of the dudes that laughed at the seller and informed him he was insane for asking more than $20-30 for a 14" VGA

Why the fuck did you give that guy the assinine price he was asking for a basic 14" monitor? I've thrown out similar monitors, and they are pretty easy to find.

Legitimizing prices like that is what is killing the hobby IMO. I can't find the original listing (which mean the OG seller is an unethical little bitch that blocks anyone who criticizes him) but IIRC he was asking several hundred dollars. For a basic 14" monitor he couldn't even be arsed to center the test image on. KFC-Smile corp is literally on par with KDS on being the absolute bottom of the barrel.

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2022-12-31, 23:56:

Looks like a Clean Room suit.

That's because that is what they are 😀

bjwil1991 wrote on 2023-01-01, 09:38:

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What's the deal with the LCD readout and the references to "channels"?

https://wiki.preterhuman.net/KFC_CA1507

Monitors like these might be found discarded on curbs everywhere in some parts of the country, but I've personally never seen those features on a PC monitor before, in pictures or in person. Can't figure out what they'd be for since it seems to only have a VGA input.

EDIT: So, this is the listing for it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155332094454

$200 buy it now price but seller took best offer. If someone wants a weird looking VGA monitor with a probably useless LCD channel readout on it for their retro setup, that's hardly anything to get worked up about honestly. You could not pay me $200 minus selling fees (~$50) to go through the massive hassle of packing a CRT. Absolutely not worth the time, energy and materials required. If the guy is willing and able to get it to you safely for that price I would not call that an unreasonable price, even if it isn't a fantastic monitor overall.

Bought this 3 slot box to go with all the stuff i just got yesterday, since it was pretty cheap. The half size boxes are nice to add an XFI or an audigy to a laptop. Also could be used for adding like a PCI video card to a old laptop that has no 3d. The 3 slot I could voodoo 2 SLI or whatever, it has space for hard drives too.

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2023-01-02, 02:56:

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bjwil1991 wrote on 2023-01-01, 09:38:

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Bought this finger lickin good monitor: KFC CA1507 VGA

What's the deal with the LCD readout and the references to "channels"?

https://wiki.preterhuman.net/KFC_CA1507

Monitors like these might be found discarded on curbs everywhere in some parts of the country, but I've personally never seen those features on a PC monitor before, in pictures or in person. Can't figure out what they'd be for since it seems to only have a VGA input.

EDIT: So, this is the listing for it.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/155332094454

$200 buy it now price but seller took best offer. If someone wants a weird looking VGA monitor with a probably useless LCD channel readout on it for their retro setup, that's hardly anything to get worked up about honestly. You could not pay me $200 minus selling fees (~$50) to go through the massive hassle of packing a CRT. Absolutely not worth the time, energy and materials required. If the guy is willing and able to get it to you safely for that price I would not call that an unreasonable price, even if it isn't a fantastic monitor overall.

IIRC the dude originally was asking like $750. I didn't realize he had lowered the price so much.

stef80 wrote on 2023-01-01, 22:18:

Finally a working Voodoo 1 card, and a couple of Radeon 9700 cards. 20230101_122605.jpg 20230101_122429.jpg […]
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Finally a working Voodoo 1 card, and a couple of Radeon 9700 cards.
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Black one is Sapphire 9700 VIVO with 3.6ns Samsung chips, and red one is Club3D with 3.3ns Infineon and funny clocks: 325 core and 297 for memory ... almost 9700 Pro specs. After some investigation, it seems Club3D offered at least 2 different cards under same model name (CGA-9828TVD):
* one with 2.8ns Samsung chips (true 9700 Pro)
* one with 3.3ns Infineon chips (close to Pro specs)

What happened to u with Voodoo 1, seems u found in the past like 5-6 dead V1 cards or what.. I managed to find most Voodoo cards, even Voodoo V for dirt cheap.. But i think finding Voodoo IV and specially Quantum 3D will be from totally hard next to impossible.... These cards are just waaay tooo rare and expensive as well... While Voodoo V 5500 is expensive, u can still find some on ebay for insane prices ofc, but they are there... Meanwhile Voodoo 4 4500 and Quantum 3D are rare AF, and i wont even say a word about Voodoo V 6000....

Also nice findings of 9700 Pro, as these cards are rare, even more if they work.. Is at least one of the cards working ?

debs3759 wrote on 2023-01-01, 22:49:

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2022-12-31, 23:56:

Looks like a Clean Room suit.

That's because that is what they are 😀

I call them these days Covid-19 suits 🤣 ....

Radical Vision wrote on 2023-01-02, 21:11:

What happened to u with Voodoo 1, seems u found in the past like 5-6 dead V1 cards or what.. I managed to find most Voodoo cards, even Voodoo V for dirt cheap.. But i think finding Voodoo IV and specially Quantum 3D will be from totally hard next to impossible.... These cards are just waaay tooo rare and expensive as well... While Voodoo V 5500 is expensive, u can still find some on ebay for insane prices ofc, but they are there... Meanwhile Voodoo 4 4500 and Quantum 3D are rare AF, and i wont even say a word about Voodoo V 6000....

Also nice findings of 9700 Pro, as these cards are rare, even more if they work.. Is at least one of the cards working ?

1/3 success rate with Voodoo 1. First got destroyed in shipping (busted package) and second was defective. Prices went x2 from last year, btw.
9700s are both well and working 😀. Actually I have a stash of them now, along with FireGL X1s and Dell's TX models.

acl wrote on 2022-12-25, 10:32:

I think it's a fair price. It took me a long time too to find mine. It was also in that range of price (it was an auction). I th […]
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TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2022-12-25, 04:25:

Bought a Radeon HD 2900XT for $70.

Not a mind blowing price but these are genuinely rare (didn't sell well, super noncompetitive compared to say, 8800GTX). Took me 2 years to find my 2900GT for $55 so I'm glad to finally have the real deal.

I think it's a fair price. It took me a long time too to find mine. It was also in that range of price (it was an auction).
I think I never seen another one after that.
There is a quite cheap GT for sale in France (15€ +shipping) but I'm not really interested.
I would be interested by a 2900 Pro (the black one) but they are rare too. Or a second 2900 XT for a crossfire setup.

It's just a feeling I have, but think that high-end ATI cards are much harder to find than nVidia counterparts. (I'm mostly an ATI collector, so I may have a distorted feeling)

• Fury MAXX. Rare and hard to find at a good price (<$300)
• Radeon (7200). Easy to find SDR version. I never seen a lot of DDR versions.
• Radeon 8500. Hard to find a non LE / non DV / non AIW version. LE and non LE are exactly looking the same (try to spot the differences here : https://retro.user-unfriendly.net/Pictures/Ra … %20vs%208500LE/)
• Radeon 9700 pro are rare in working conditions because of their flawed cooling design. (I personally consider the 9700 more significant for a collection. But if you prefer a 9800xt, they don't die because of their cooling, but they were made in smaller quantities, so expensive as well)
• X850 XT. I see some quite often, so probably not super rare. (but the XT PE are hard to find)
• X1950 XT are probably not super rare either, but the XTX are not encountered often.
• HD2900 XT are difficult to find because GTX8800 were far better. So it was a commercial failure.
• HD3870x2 also rare also because of GTX8800
• HD4870x2 are less rare I think. Because they were better than nVidia 9xxx seriescand competitive with GTX2xx. Big ATI commercial success.
• HD 5970 can be found without much trouble because it's not retro yet (and also commercially successful because competitive with GTX2xx/4xx)
• HD 6xxx are AMD branded. So out of my collection scope.

I have the feeling that ATI is less collected by retro enthusiasts, but less available too. So instead of fighting with other potential Nvidia buyers, you just struggle to find the card itself.

Not sure if y feeling is correct. What do you think?

Well i am so pissed and mad the Radeon HD2900XT i found was brand new new-old stock and for dirt cheap 25 euros, but the box they gave me with the printed name Radeon HD2900XT, inside was some low profile garbage, some fucker/ SCUMbag did replace the card FUCK him, i am so mad......

I think true collectors collect all good stuff like myself.. But on other hand i am not too sure about the other collectors... People i see in you tube like Pixel Pipes, the polish collector (retro hardware) they have Ati cards such as Fury MaXX, Radeon 9700 Pro, 9800XT, x1950 XTX and Radeon HD2900XT ect... But most collectors yes they will focus only on the more exotic ATi cards or on the Legendary ones such as Fury MaXX, 9700 Pro, 9800XT ect, but not on the rest cards... nVIDIA card are hard to find as well.. I seems cant get my hands on GF TI4600 from years locally.. No matter i saw like 2-3 of them, but bad luck i guess... GEforce 6800 Ultra is also VERY rare, but i managed to find one working even !!.. GEforce 7800 AGP version is also rare and 7900 too.. FX 5950 Ultra i have seen only 2 so far and they are the card i own nothing else, rest are only 5900XT from time to time, so ALSO rare.. Same goes for GEforce 3 TI500, never have seen one here, TI200 pops from time to time, and the clean GF3 non TI is also very rare, but i managed to strike one...
GEforce 2 Ultra i know only 1 guy that has one, never saw another for sale... GEforce 256 shows from time to time...

But one thing is for sure everyone gets excited when he sees/ hear the 3Dfx name or see card with that logo... They wont get as excited when they see even rare/ exotic nVIDIA or ATi card... For me everything is exciting, since i like all high end/ exotic HW no matter what (and consider that i am very big Hater of both Intel and nVIDIA, as companies they are scum), since they are cool as well... But my main rule is, keep ONLY stuff in mint/ factory condition, and if there is only 1 piece collect it, and replace it, when i get factory state part...

I am primary ATi/ AMD collector, but i am also mostly GPU, CPU and audio cards collector and everything that is rare and exotic...

Very nice conversation u started here, and the other Abandoned guy too...

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote on 2022-12-25, 18:46:

9800XT most certainly DO cook themselves. They just don't cook the GPU core, instead they cook the insuffeciently cooled BGAs on […]
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9800XT most certainly DO cook themselves. They just don't cook the GPU core, instead they cook the insuffeciently cooled BGAs on the memory chips.

Going down that list:

Fury MAXX: Haven't been able to source one. Not willing to pay more than $150 for one.
(Adding this one) Radeon R6 DDR 64MB: The original launch model radeon. Not expensive (<$50) but hard to find because of the non descriptive name. The SDR and 32MB variants are really common
Radeon 7200 DDR: I have at least 2 7200s, not sure if either is DDR. I need to start making notes of memory type, not just capacity on my spreadsheet
Radeon 8500: I actually need to prioritize getting this in at least some form
Radeon 9700: I have one that is extremely broken. Missing multiple capacitors and resistors. I haven't actually laid hands on it in a couple years, next time I dig it out I'll probably order the shit it needs from digikey.
(adding this one) Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB 256-bit: I have one of these, and I didn't even know it was rare for the longest time. Has a different cooler and everything. GPU-Z confirms its a full 256-bit bus with 256MB of Samsung memory.
X850 XT PE: I bought a NOS PCIe x850PE from a eBay vendor for $55 about 2 years ago.
X1950XT: Don't have one, not rare though. I do have a X1900XTX though which has the same core configuration but slower clock and memory speeds. The 1800XT is also rare. It wasn't sold very long.
2900XT: I have a 2900GT and now an XT. I'd grab that GT honestly, its not a weakling and it does run the Ruby Whiteout tech demo fine.
3870X2: Yeah these are hard to find and they fail all the time
4870X2: They sold better, but have the same problem of having twice as many points of failures. I have one but it has white line artifacts in BIOs.
5870X2: Still pretty cheap and available, but same problem as above. I have one that I got for free, but I don't know if it works because its too long to fit in any case I have AND it has no cooling fan.

The fact that Radeon 9800XT cook its mem chips is not good to hear... So if i get an 9800XT and change the cooler, or add pads/ paste will fix that ?

As ATi/ Radeon collector i have found these cards over the years:

ATI EGA Wonder 480 (OYY SHIT i am so fucking mad, i was about to add this early ATi card, and i was UNable to do so, since the fucking seller was an retard, the deal between us was, he wanted 20 euro i said ok i will buy it, but does the card work, and he was slow to answer, and then 3 hrs later he told me, the card is sold, and i was like WTF.....)
ATi Mach 64 2MB ISA - found it along with lot of parts, the whole lot costed me like 25 euro + x2 AM2+ mobos and MFM controller, but there was 3Dfx Voodoo 1, Compaq DeskPRO and ABIT BP6, and working (YES working no bad sectors even) Quantum BIGfoot..
ATi Mach 64 PCI - got this for free, the guy did not need the lot he gave me, and was going to trow them away, if i wont get them..
ATi Rage II+DvD PCI (made in Canada) - another giveaway from a guy that dont need old tech..
ATi Rage 128 AIW - got this from trade i gave x2 2GB DDR2, and got this card with cable and original ATi disk + 3Dfx Voodoo 1 and some crappy cards bonus.
ATi Rage 128 Pro AIW - not sure where this came from, i think some lot i got for cheap..
ATi Rage Ultra - got this as bonus when spend 20 euro for other parts..
ATi Rage Fury MaXX - well saw this card like 3 times, in a collector, for sale for 15 fucking euros, but i was 2 hours late, i am still mad about this but ehh at least i got cheap Voodoo 5, and another card in another collector..
ATi Radeon RV100 - got this for free, when did purchase brand new MSI Diamond socket 939 (sadly is not the original Radeon, but cut down..)
ATi Radeon 7500LE - is best i have from that series got for free from a guy that did not need it, could not land an Radeon 8500, but i saw one in not good condition i did buy for a colleague collector, and other LE and crap editions.
ATi Radeon 9000 Pro - did buy this from 10 euro or less
ATi Radeon 9700 Pro - saw one or 2 of these, but the seller was moron, could not lower the price below 25 euro for UNtested, so i did pass, and saw one dead...
ATi Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB/ 256 bit - got this for free, but its price originally was like 8 euro i think...
ATi Radeon x800XT Platinum AGP - got this for 13 euro with installed Zalman cooler.
ATi Radeon x850XT Platinum AGP - got this for a trade, i did gave DELL wireless combo mouse/ keyboard, that did miss the USB receiver.
ATi Radeon x1950 Pro AGP - got this for 8 euro
ATi Radeon x1950XTX Crossfire Edition - got this bundle with EnermaX 300W PSU for total of 15 or 20 euro... Later i sold the EnermaX for 17 euro, so the card is for free.
ATi Radeon HD2600 Pro AGP - got this for 10-15 euro from a seller..
ATi Radeon HD2900XT - well i am mad at this, since it was old-new stock from some old computer store, it was 25 euro, problem is, the moment when i did go to buy the card, they find the box with printed Radeon HD2900XT tag give me the box to see the card, i open, and what to see some small SHIT low profile card FUUUUUUUU i was so sad and mad, someone have replaced the card CURSE him, he mess with my ATi/ Radeon collection fucker.. I bet now the card is on the garbage and destroyed looong time ago.. While if he did not touch the precious card with his filthy hands, i was going to preserve the card in the collection, where it belongs, but ehhh what can be done...
ATi Radeon HD3650 AGP - got this from a trade, i gave up some newer card was like GEforce 630 PCIe or something like that..
ATi Radeon HD3850 AGP - got this as a bundle from trade i gave 500GB Hitachi SATA, and the seller did send this card (it is the infamous HIS IceQ III model), Mobile Athlon XP-M 2600+ and dead ABIT NF7 🤣...
ATi Radeon HD4870 - full boxed ASUS edition got it for free, the guy did not need it for some reason 🤣... Sadly is 512MB tho..
ATi Radeon HD4870 x2 - got one for free long time ago dead sadly..

And newer models

AMD Radeon R9 280x (HD7970) - both VaporX and Toxic. long story, but i got in the mining boom in 2021 x3 big boxes containing like 120+ old former mining Radeon cards mostly HD7950 and other R9 280x.. I sold them, so these ones i left for me, so dont think i did pay a penny for them...
AMD Radeon R9 290 TriXX - got this card for free, the colleague said the card is very UNstable, and crashes, and from x2 PC repair shops said the card is fine, but when he tested it on x2 systems, and on a system of his friend the card was just not working well.. And yes the card was a mess, did not have artifacts and stuff, but did crash desktop viber, games after short time.. How i did fix it, well setting low fans and GTA V, and cook the card itself in 91c for multiple hours, now the card works great...

I dont consider the AMD Radeons to be for the collection, since is ATi and Radeon, BUT i got them anyway so yeah... I also used to collect up to the last AGP card, as i started collection ONLY the every AGP card i can get... But nowadays i collect everything that is high end/ exotic (i used anyway to collect only socket 462, then someone did give me for free whole Slot 1 HP Vectra, and the rest is history as they say.. Guess i will just collect as many high end cards i can find... I wonder why no one mentions from u 2 the pre Radeon series, sure they may not be interesting but still... bunch of pre Radeon cards cant harm, (aside form the Fury MaXX).

But yes many of these cards are hard to find, specially the rare models..

In pictures as well

ATi/ Radeon series
https://imgur.com/a/3aZU1

3Dfx Voodoo/ Rampage
https://imgur.com/a/hPMuY

Regarding 9800XT, this is my abonination of the Asus card:

I'd rather see them alive and kicking then original. Same for 9700Pro.
I saw HD2900XT in a box on Amibay a month ago. It went for €60. Was sold quickly.

Out of the exotic ones so far I managed to get:
* Radeon 7200 (original "Rage 6" Radeon)
* GeForce256 DDR with DVI
* Radeon 8500 (64MB)
* Radeon 9700 Pro
* Radeon 9800 XT
* Radeon X800XT PE
* Radeon HD2900XT and Pro (512-bit)
* 8800 GTX
* GTX 285
... have GTX 480 incoming ... fingers crossed it works.

stef80 wrote on 2023-01-03, 10:30:

Regarding 9800XT, this is my abonination of the Asus card: 20221012_101821.jpg 20221205_085522.jpg 20221205_085600.jpg […]
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Regarding 9800XT, this is my abonination of the Asus card:
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I'd rather see them alive and kicking then original. Same for 9700Pro.
I saw HD2900XT in a box on Amibay a month ago. It went for €60. Was sold quickly.

Out of the exotic ones so far I managed to get:
* Radeon 7200 (original "Rage 6" Radeon)
* GeForce256 DDR with DVI
* Radeon 8500 (64MB)
* Radeon 9700 Pro
* Radeon 9800 XT
* Radeon X800XT PE
* Radeon HD2900XT and Pro (512-bit)
* 8800 GTX
* GTX 285
... have GTX 480 incoming ... fingers crossed it works.

Just sayin but there are cheaper ways to heat your home than the Fermi space heaters.

It is still not collectible so I'm taking my chances 😀. Same for 8800 GTX ... not an easy task to find unmolested one. Lot of them were cooked in ovens.

stef80 wrote on 2023-01-03, 10:53:

It is still not collectible so I'm taking my chances 😀. Same for 8800 GTX ... not an easy task to find unmolested one.

I scored a pair of GTX580's for pennies early last year, looking at the price for them now they do seem to have increased a bit, same for the 400 series cards so yeah I would grab a few while they are still on the cheap side of things.

I have been after a pair of 8800 Ultras, I already have a pair of 8800 GTX cards in unmolested state but am wary of powering them up...pretty sure like most 8000 series cards I will have to disassemble them first and re paste them then hope to hell they post. (Working 8800 Ultras seem to be rather rare or expensive .. usually both but I will eventually get a working matching pair)

stef80 wrote on 2023-01-03, 10:30:

Regarding 9800XT, this is my abonination of the Asus card: 20221012_101821.jpg 20221205_085522.jpg 20221205_085600.jpg […]
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Regarding 9800XT, this is my abonination of the Asus card:
20221012_101821.jpg
20221205_085522.jpg
20221205_085600.jpg

I'd rather see them alive and kicking then original. Same for 9700Pro.
I saw HD2900XT in a box on Amibay a month ago. It went for €60. Was sold quickly.

Out of the exotic ones so far I managed to get:
* Radeon 7200 (original "Rage 6" Radeon)
* GeForce256 DDR with DVI
* Radeon 8500 (64MB)
* Radeon 9700 Pro
* Radeon 9800 XT
* Radeon X800XT PE
* Radeon HD2900XT and Pro (512-bit)
* 8800 GTX
* GTX 285
... have GTX 480 incoming ... fingers crossed it works.

You did well to replace the stock coolers.. But i think is best to just not use them... As i dont think that cards and parts that are famous for dying and having problems are wroth risking, when i can use something else, that will do similar job, but wont die.. I have saw the exact same red Radeon card, with the addon card on it, but the pictures in the ad was bad quality so i could not say if it was 9700 Pro or 9500 Pro.. Asked the seller to take pictures on the stickers, or remove the cooler and picture the crystal or power up the card and say the exact model.. He seems did not care at all, not to mention the asking price was 30 euro, piece of a shit seller, the card was gone at some point, i hope he loses these money he got 10 times, and go fuck himself...

60$ for HD 2900XT seems good price, considered how expensive most of this type parts are.. And since 60$ or euro means double-triple of my currency, fuck that i am not paying more then 20-30 euros for this... Saw in ebay most of these cards go for 50-60$, the cheapest was 33$ so fine price, even by the shitty ebay standards where everyone is greedy...

nVIDIA cards are really annoying to get, since many of them are just dead shit or massive artifacting and stuff... There is most of GEforce 8 and GEforce 9, and GTS 250 that are dead, or UNrepearable, Fermi series as well GTX480 and GTX580... There are evidence, that many of GEforce 7 and 6 series as well tend to go bad... Meanwhile on Radeon side only Radeon 9700 Pro is extremely hard to find working, some of the 9800XT, and the rest are fine as far as i know...

Lol did not expect to see Diamond Radeon HD2900XT wtf... I did think Diamond went down like a bit after GEforce 256/ GEforce 2 era 🤣.....

No one talks about 3Dfx cards, and i think they should be added too, to the topic... And even cards such as XGI Volary (yeah i am talking about V8 x2), SIS Sabre and other interesting stuff, like nVIDIA NV1, or maybe PowerVR Kyro II..

So, what's really the deal with these HD2900XT cards ?
(I am mostly familiar with Nvidia from that era, never used any ATI cards before)

If I find a cheap bunch/pair of these, should I buy them ? 😅

No, compared to the GeForce 8800, the Radeon HD 2900 XT was inferior overall. Buy it if it is for curiosity's sake. 😁

Later they quite recovered with the Radeon HD 3000 series, but sales were still behind the GeForce cards.