VOGONS


First post, by Jofo

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Hello all,

I think I've acquired my first unicorn card to my collection since I haven't seen a single picture of this card online and in does seem rather unusual. It is in a fully working condition.

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First strange thing - it has two AGP notches! I am not sure if it would run in AGP 1.0 board and tbh not sure if I would even try, don't want to fry it

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The box is quite small and super plain, no mention of Galaxy anywhere except the card itself. The box does not even mention what GeForce model is inside, all done just by stickers.

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The biggest surprise was inside - the chip is an engineering sample!

The card is clocked rather slowly for a 7950GT AGP - 450 core / 550 mem under load, especially memory clock seems rather low. Card works well, tested on Asus P4C800E-Deluxe with P4 3.4Ghz (forgot to take screenshots from tests, might add later)

Reply 1 of 4, by The Serpent Rider

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This is indeed the most powerful card that works in AGP 2x slot. Not something I would put in Super Socket 7, but Slot 1 or Slot A will work fine.

I must be some kind of standard: the anonymous gangbanger of the 21st century.

Reply 3 of 4, by bitzu101

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How rare is this? Cannot see any on the interweb

Reply 4 of 4, by BinaryDemon

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These cards were the holy grail to some people who wanted maximum performance out of specific older games for a long time. I remember for Jedi Knight Dark Forces 2 that once the Nvidia GeForce 8xxx series released that those drivers would not do 16bit color correctly so any card after the 7xxx series was a downgrade. Years later some fixes came, now I think dgvoodoo might be the preferred method to play many older games.