Any love for GeForce 3?

I think it is becoming one of my favourite cards. Just finished cleaning up this latest pickup.

Lostdotfish wrote on 2026-03-02, 20:28:

Any love for GeForce 3?

I think it is becoming one of my favourite cards. Just finished cleaning up this latest pickup.

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I have a TI500 that pairs nicely with my Tualatin 1.4 P3!

I haven't used it much lately though, been busy with some P1 and P4 stuff.

A few scores over the last few weeks:
- Geforce 7800GS AGP - needed a reflow on the RAM chips. Contrary to popular belief, G70 is apparently much less bumpgate prone than G71 and the others.
- Radeon X800 GTO 512MB DDR2 - neat card, unfortunately not only it's R430 but due to being DDR2 there's NO other BIOS to flash it to.
- ASUS A7N8X-X - 2nd one I bought, needs a recap over the 3300uF caps as usual. Does POST fine tho, despite those domed KZGs.
- Quadro 4 - possibly 700 or 750XGL. If 750, it'll prolly be easy to transform it to a 4600 I guess.

While it isn't the Athlon 1GHz, it is indeed a 1GHz Athlon. I can't complain too much about having an interesting CPU. It's one of the Thunderbird ones, so it probably even has some good OC overhead.