Ozzuneoj wrote on Today, 15:03:

BitWrangler wrote on Today, 13:53:

Ozzuneoj wrote on Today, 04:06:

I am still trying to mentally process how to post about my most recent acquisition. It consists of a whole bunch of items that I'm sure most won't even care about here because they are "newer" (2004-2009, roughly), but I think a lot of GPU collectors will understand what a ridiculous find this is. Of course, the caveat is that all of the cards have been stripped of their heatsinks... which is a massive bummer, but... it is hard to be even remotely upset about finding one card from this series, let alone so many, and of so many different models.

It honestly must have either been someone's intentional collection, or an accidental heap of "no one really wants these" cards that ended up going to e-waste decades ago and were, miraculously, not destroyed or even separated from each other after all these years.

I will post more once I actually have them in my possession. It will probably be early next week.

Well you're either yanking our chain over a pile of crappy geforce and radeon, think Xabre went later than it did or you're singing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mppAFu3dqw

Actually, none of the above. 😯

They are very shiny though...

Not Volari Duo? I hoped for it but it's something from 2004-2009...
I'm going with something PCI, FX5900.

Nexxen wrote on Today, 15:13:

Ozzuneoj wrote on Today, 15:03:

BitWrangler wrote on Today, 13:53:

Well you're either yanking our chain over a pile of crappy geforce and radeon, think Xabre went later than it did or you're singing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mppAFu3dqw

Actually, none of the above. 😯

They are very shiny though...

Not Volari Duo? I hoped for it but it's something from 2004-2009...
I'm going with something PCI, FX5900.

Ah, yeah I thought those were over by 2005 apart from integrated. Tell me you got a DX10 version for the sweet sweet 8fps in Crysis.

BitWrangler wrote on Today, 15:37:

Nexxen wrote on Today, 15:13:

Ozzuneoj wrote on Today, 15:03:

Actually, none of the above. 😯

They are very shiny though...

Not Volari Duo? I hoped for it but it's something from 2004-2009...
I'm going with something PCI, FX5900.

Ah, yeah I thought those were over by 2005 apart from integrated. Tell me you got a DX10 version for the sweet sweet 8fps in Crysis.

The shiny cards continued to be made for a while actually... and... I'm still shocked, but I have almost all of the models they made from 2004-2009 coming to me in one box. Including what looks like at least one prototype\unreleased card.

To emphasize how crazy this find is, for me... I have zero cards from this entire line currently, despite actively looking for them for years.

Ozzuneoj wrote on Today, 15:59:

To emphasize how crazy this find is, for me... I have zero cards from this entire line currently, despite actively looking for them for years.

Yeah, I haven't had one "under my nose" in probably 20 years, otherwise I would have bought it out of curiosity. But I haven't been trawling internet for them. And during the first decade of that I picked up a couple of Voodoos, a Xabre and a Sis 305, and in the second got a Banshee and a Savage 4, and a couple of unicorn soundcards.. not boasting, just saying I am not walking round with my eyes shut and looking in the places where these things might turn up, and haven't seen these "in the wild" at all. So it's probably a pretty crazy find period.