acl wrote on 2025-01-20, 21:01:

HD 2900XT fits my definition of retro and it was actually hard to find one for my collection (ATi collection)
GDDR3 or GDDR4 ?

It is the early 512MB GDDR3 version. I haven't seen the 1GB GDDR4 version in the wild, yet. Do you have the 1GB version? 😀

Interesting card in many ways.
-first ATi/AMD DirectX 10 card
-first graphics card with a 512bit memory bus
-slower than the competition, because of that ATi/AMD had to sell it for less I guess
-loud
-hot
-far too late to the market

Anyway, the first tests look good. The picture looks good, driver installed fine. Now for some benchmarking, but let's start with AMD's own Whiteout techdemo.
Edit: Alright, card is working fine. Hopefully that will be the case next time I fire it up.

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-01-21, 12:13:

I have finally completed my Tualatin board collection, finally saw a Via Apollo Pro 266T board show up, a dual CPU one too. […]
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I have finally completed my Tualatin board collection, finally saw a Via Apollo Pro 266T board show up, a dual CPU one too.

Its an Iwill DVD266, with 2Gb DDR and a pair of 1GHz CPUs, ILl be swapping these for a pair of Tualatin 1.4s CPUs and some lovely big solid copper coolers.

Not sure if the seller is a member here but the fact this board has clearly been looked after and even comes with its IO shield does lend me to believe they are also a retro collector.

Some pics

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Now I just have to wait for it to arrive so I can throw a Geforce 4 TI4600 at it and play some games on her.

Bit of digging, I may have to use the Tualatin interposers on this one ..its not the 266T version by the looks of it.

I saw this board for sale as well! Jealous!! However I'm not sure this board supports Tualatins.

There are two revisions on this board. First one did not support Tualatins and the second did. The second revision I believe was the 266U.

Hopefully I am mistaken and it is the correct one!

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-01-21, 12:13:

I have finally completed my Tualatin board collection, finally saw a Via Apollo Pro 266T board show up, a dual CPU one too. […]
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I have finally completed my Tualatin board collection, finally saw a Via Apollo Pro 266T board show up, a dual CPU one too.

Its an Iwill DVD266, with 2Gb DDR and a pair of 1GHz CPUs, ILl be swapping these for a pair of Tualatin 1.4s CPUs and some lovely big solid copper coolers.

Not sure if the seller is a member here but the fact this board has clearly been looked after and even comes with its IO shield does lend me to believe they are also a retro collector.

Some pics

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Now I just have to wait for it to arrive so I can throw a Geforce 4 TI4600 at it and play some games on her.

Bit of digging, I may have to use the Tualatin interposers on this one ..its not the 266T version by the looks of it.

Yes, that isn't the model with Tualatin support, but honestly... that may not be such a bad thing. I have a DVD266-R which is basically the board you have except with RAID and I think some other features. I also have a pair of DVD266u-RN boards which have Tualatin support. The 266-R works perfectly fine and all the caps are of good quality. The two 266u-RN boards are completely infested with bad caps. I think every single one is some brightly colored cheap garbage brand and they are all swollen or leaking. On a board this size with this many caps, it will be a massive project to replace them all properly. I have been mustering up the courage for several years to tackle it, and I think I'm almost there as far as experience+equipment is concerned.

I was told that these 266u-RN boards came out of something that the previous owner thought was Quantum3D related, and that the BIOS says something about that... but I haven't dared to power them on in the state they're in.

Anyway, these are crazy boards. They must be the pinnacle of Pre-P4 boards for Intel, at least feature wise.

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2025-01-20, 03:25:

Going from the K7-750 to the A-950, was quite substantial. Using a GeForce 2 GTS as a baseline case and everything else exactly […]
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Going from the K7-750 to the A-950, was quite substantial. Using a GeForce 2 GTS as a baseline case and everything else exactly equal.
It improved 3Dmark scores about 15% on average across the board. In 2000 and 2001SE. With 1% lows and visual stuttering dramatically improved.
The biggest single difference between 2 tests was 27% on 2001SE on the Car High Detail Test.

Very cool 😎, big upgrade.

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Thats awesome! Benching my AMD K6-3+ 660MHz on 3DMARK99 with a VOODO 2 it had stutter in game 2, changed it to a VOODOO 3 and the stutter was gone but the score went only from 4000 to 4500.

PD2JK wrote on 2025-01-21, 12:49:

It is the early 512MB GDDR3 version. I haven't seen the 1GB GDDR4 version in the wild, yet. Do you have the 1GB version? :) […]
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acl wrote on 2025-01-20, 21:01:

HD 2900XT fits my definition of retro and it was actually hard to find one for my collection (ATi collection)
GDDR3 or GDDR4 ?

It is the early 512MB GDDR3 version. I haven't seen the 1GB GDDR4 version in the wild, yet. Do you have the 1GB version? 😀

Interesting card in many ways.
-first ATi/AMD DirectX 10 card
-first graphics card with a 512bit memory bus
-slower than the competition, because of that ATi/AMD had to sell it for less I guess
-loud
-hot
-far too late to the market

Anyway, the first tests look good. The picture looks good, driver installed fine. Now for some benchmarking, but let's start with AMD's own Whiteout techdemo.
Edit: Alright, card is working fine. Hopefully that will be the case next time I fire it up.

I have the same 512MB GDDR3 version and never seen a 1Gb one. Since finding the 512 version was already difficult i guess the 1Gb version is quite rare. (And also the HD3XXX series came out only 7m later)

Yes it's an interesting card for many reasons. Even if this was a failure, it's an interesting failure.
Like Radeon 9700 vs GeForce Fx... but reversed.
Historically significant in my opinion

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2025-01-21, 14:44:

I saw this board for sale as well! Jealous!! However I'm not sure this board supports Tualatins. […]
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Trashbytes wrote on 2025-01-21, 12:13:

I have finally completed my Tualatin board collection, finally saw a Via Apollo Pro 266T board show up, a dual CPU one too. […]
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I have finally completed my Tualatin board collection, finally saw a Via Apollo Pro 266T board show up, a dual CPU one too.

Its an Iwill DVD266, with 2Gb DDR and a pair of 1GHz CPUs, ILl be swapping these for a pair of Tualatin 1.4s CPUs and some lovely big solid copper coolers.

Not sure if the seller is a member here but the fact this board has clearly been looked after and even comes with its IO shield does lend me to believe they are also a retro collector.

Some pics

The attachment Iwill266.jpg is no longer available

The attachment Iwill266 Running1.png is no longer available

The attachment Iwill266 Running2.png is no longer available

Now I just have to wait for it to arrive so I can throw a Geforce 4 TI4600 at it and play some games on her.

Bit of digging, I may have to use the Tualatin interposers on this one ..its not the 266T version by the looks of it.

I saw this board for sale as well! Jealous!! However I'm not sure this board supports Tualatins.

There are two revisions on this board. First one did not support Tualatins and the second did. The second revision I believe was the 266U.

Hopefully I am mistaken and it is the correct one!

It doesn't at least not without the interposer mods, I have a pair of Tualatins with the interposers from that Korean fella so they will be used here, Im still excited to get this board, even without native Tualatin support its a great board, likely as close as I will get to a 266T dual socket board.

Yup the Tualatins will be a little overvolted at 1.5v since this revision cant drop down to 1.475v but they can handle that and if any thing itll let them run a bit more stable at a slightly higher FSB.

Its going to be fun setting it up!

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-01-21, 15:24:

Yes, that isn't the model with Tualatin support, but honestly... that may not be such a bad thing. I have a DVD266-R which is ba […]
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Trashbytes wrote on 2025-01-21, 12:13:

I have finally completed my Tualatin board collection, finally saw a Via Apollo Pro 266T board show up, a dual CPU one too. […]
Show full quote

I have finally completed my Tualatin board collection, finally saw a Via Apollo Pro 266T board show up, a dual CPU one too.

Its an Iwill DVD266, with 2Gb DDR and a pair of 1GHz CPUs, ILl be swapping these for a pair of Tualatin 1.4s CPUs and some lovely big solid copper coolers.

Not sure if the seller is a member here but the fact this board has clearly been looked after and even comes with its IO shield does lend me to believe they are also a retro collector.

Some pics

The attachment Iwill266.jpg is no longer available

The attachment Iwill266 Running1.png is no longer available

The attachment Iwill266 Running2.png is no longer available

Now I just have to wait for it to arrive so I can throw a Geforce 4 TI4600 at it and play some games on her.

Bit of digging, I may have to use the Tualatin interposers on this one ..its not the 266T version by the looks of it.

Yes, that isn't the model with Tualatin support, but honestly... that may not be such a bad thing. I have a DVD266-R which is basically the board you have except with RAID and I think some other features. I also have a pair of DVD266u-RN boards which have Tualatin support. The 266-R works perfectly fine and all the caps are of good quality. The two 266u-RN boards are completely infested with bad caps. I think every single one is some brightly colored cheap garbage brand and they are all swollen or leaking. On a board this size with this many caps, it will be a massive project to replace them all properly. I have been mustering up the courage for several years to tackle it, and I think I'm almost there as far as experience+equipment is concerned.

I was told that these 266u-RN boards came out of something that the previous owner thought was Quantum3D related, and that the BIOS says something about that... but I haven't dared to power them on in the state they're in.

Anyway, these are crazy boards. They must be the pinnacle of Pre-P4 boards for Intel, at least feature wise.

I would have loved the Raid version of it but I will take what Evilbay throws at me, dual socket 266 boards are dang rare. I did a bit of research myself last night and it does seem the Raid version had some BIOS issues but a BIOS modding forum had a BIOS with an updated Highpoint BIOS, no idea if it still exists but at least its possible to mod the BIOS.

The Tualatin model is also very rare so Im hoping you can eventually fix one of yours and get her running again and share it here on Vogons, it would be great to see the repairs.

What do these cards have in common? Dual-slot pcmcia hdd, which work great in old laptops, no worse than Toshiba, only thicker. Previously used in car navigation systems.

Why use one of these over a single slot CF to PCMCIA adapter? On that point, most CF adapters only come in the PC Card type and not CardBus type.

Are there any CompactFlash to CardBus adapters?

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-01-22, 02:10:

Why use one of these over a single slot CF to PCMCIA adapter?

Not to use, but have in collection

I would like a tour of your museum sometime.

Found this in a random joblot on FB. Went unnoticed for months. I still haven't received it. I hope it works.

Also, I went on the internet, and I found this.

Guess I'm closer with each step I take to resto-upgrading my childhood PC 😁

Geforce 3 Ti200, 64MB tho. It's good as it is, given I hardly come across anything else than Geforce 2 and 4. The thing above it is a VGA-HDMI adapter so I can use it on my capture card.

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-01-22, 02:34:

I would like a tour of your museum sometime.

I will create website soon.

Wes1262 wrote on 2025-01-22, 08:25:

Also, I went on the internet, and I found this.

Nice! The PCX 5900 is quite rare these days.

It is functionally identical to the Quadro FX 1300, but obviously much more interesting. 😁

It's been a while since i bought something.
Parts received since December :

- Original S3 ViRGE
- Voodoo3 AGP
- GeForce3 ti500
- Savage 2000 (not in the picture)
- Sealed P3 1000/100/Slot1 (i will not keep it sealed forever)
- Asrock k7 Upgrade 600 + the socket 754 upgrade board. Unfortunately not working for now.

Also the back of the upgrade box talks about an upcomming "P4 upgrade" mainboard i never heard of. Could not find it on TRW either... Cancelled board ?

PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-22, 10:21:

Guess I'm closer with each step I take to resto-upgrading my childhood PC 😁

Geforce 3 Ti200, 64MB tho. It's good as it is, given I hardly come across anything else than Geforce 2 and 4. The thing above it is a VGA-HDMI adapter so I can use it on my capture card.

Is that a Palit card? I vaguely remember someone making those purple PCBs, but I can't remember who it was.

PNY made the purple PCBs.

Wes1262 wrote on 2025-01-22, 08:21:

Found this in a random joblot on FB. Went unnoticed for months. I still haven't received it. I hope it works.

Funny that also here nobody noticed what it is!