Reply 44060 of 52859, by Cuttoon
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Meatball wrote on 2022-04-22, 00:13:Cuttoon wrote on 2022-04-21, 22:15:People who ship NOS boxes without protection need to be beaten with wet towels. Only thing worse are people who simply ship the […]
Meatball wrote on 2022-04-21, 20:31:Elsa GLoria Synergy - My first 3DLabs Permedia 2-based card. It was factory sealed, but the seller shipped it in a bubble mailer. Especially because this box has practically zero support to keep it from collapsing in on itself, serious damage was all but assured the moment the bubble mailer was sealed. The seller refunded me a chunk of the sale price for the inconvenience. The card works fine. I really like the faux-gold mounting bracket - it makes the card look like it means business. The only other card I saw with a gold bracket was a Ti4600 OC card from Sparkle (which also meant business).
People who ship NOS boxes without protection need to be beaten with wet towels. Only thing worse are people who simply ship the NOS box with a label and some tape.
Why would you call it faux-gold? It's gold plated, as genuine as contacts or some S7 heatspreaders.
Quite a few parts have that, I have at least:
- Guillemot TV card
- game port bracket
- several Terratec sound cards
- the same Elsa card
- some NIC, but not even sure, but it exists, 100 Mbit PCI
- USB PCI card, same storyI suppose you're technically accurate, but to me it's phony. Just a like fiat issued coins - There's some (very little) silver (or copper) in there, but it's no better than a nano meter thin layer of plating. Not like one of my molars - that's solid gold.
Well, gold plating is as real as it gets. It's not just show, it will not rust. No one ever considered making any technical device out of massive Gold - no matter the cost, it's way too soft.
Which is why your molar, sorry to break it to you, is only about three quarters gold an one quarter tougher alloys. 😉
I like jumpers.