liqmat wrote on 2021-07-03, 20:08:

Hey britain4, […]
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Hey britain4,

I purchased and tested one of those AGP boards. They will only go to AGP 2x mode with the 5950 Ultra. Other cards go to 4x. It depends. I bought three and gave two Vogons members one each. One member made a video about their build based on that board.

Also, some posts I made about my experience with it as well:

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Re: Windows 98SE not 4X AGP, but 2X AGP
Re: AliExpress AGP cards

Huh - looks like you guys (who picked up from Alibaba/AliExpress) all sourced the board from IIT (Shenzhen Immediate Information Technology), so that's good.
Funny that you (and others) mentioned that it's a gigabyte clone - from what I've heard ITZR used to manufacture boards in China for Gigabyte, so it could be a case of a subcontractor making a little more, changing some stuff around, and selling it as their own later on. I really don't think that board is meant for "industrial purposes", since Industrial machines typically denotes more solid builds, higher grade caps, longer service life and possibly passive cooling - I don't think any of that applies here (although brokers in that industry likes to rebadge old machines as industrial machines). It is, however, a possibly cost effective way to build a NOS system...

*sigh*. Almost every major company in mainland China likes to pretend to be something that they are not. IIT looked impressive if you saw the (rather blurry) photos of their office/manufacturing facilities on AliExpress...until you notice that they have 11-50 employees (so no way in hell those photos of the blurry buildings in their Aliexpress site would be their facilities), then you look up their website and realize that their contact address is a housing complex next to a subway station on Shenzhen Metro's line 4. Then you delve deeper and notice that their contact address doesn't match between the Chinese and the English version of the site (they are both flats/apartments in housing complexes in Shenzhen). Seems…sketchy.
As my mentor would've put it - sometimes, perception is everything, and people make inferences based on the little things.

ragefury32 wrote on 2021-07-04, 02:43:

Huh - looks like you guys all sourced the board from IIT (Shenzhen Immediate Information Technology), so that's good.

Mine came from

not Alibaba but could be same source as they deal mostly in Gigabyte plus some Asus and Asrock stuff.
Prices have gone up a lot since I bought mine.

Luckybob did a long video of surgery on one of the AGP boards. Replaced the soldered BIOS with a socket for easy replacement. (replacement with socket happens at about 49:30)

https://youtu.be/Zc9c7D5juuM

It’s pretty cool to see the board actually in action and also being a clone of a Gigabyte board. Already got an NOS S370 spare board so I really don’t need it but that’s never stopped me buying anything before…