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First post, by kanecvr

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Hi guys. I found someone selling a vintage ISA video card made by Matrox - a MVP-AT ES 5446 - what caught my attention was the asking price - 1000 lei / 250 US dollars.

http://www.okazii.ro/componente-computere/pla … ev-6-a166902381

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Seller claims it goes for 1000 euro on ebay - I wouldn't know, since I'm not that knoladgeble about '80s - early 90' ISA video cards... My question is - what makes this card so special? Is it worth that much money? What was it designed for and what can one use it for these days?

Reply 1 of 3, by vlask

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Well seems to be another image acquisition board, that did matrox around 1990. It must cost a lot at that time, but today i think its only useless card, that only some matrox collectors would want. Its not even graphics card. Drivers for windows 3 🤣 are still available at matrox ftp - ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/imaging/retired_products/mvp/

Yeah found another card on ebay for $1,599.00, but that doesnt mean that he sell that vintage card.....http://www.ebay.com/itm/Matrox-MVP-AT-DIGITAL … 7-/310432486290

Here is example of usage in 1991 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1935015

I would buy it only if it comes really cheap, its useless.....

Not only mine graphics cards collection at http://www.vgamuseum.info

Reply 3 of 3, by kanecvr

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vetz wrote:
kanecvr wrote:

Seller claims it goes for 1000 euro on ebay

Gotta love those sellers. Search up some stuff on Ebay, then find a similar product with an insane asking price and thinks that is what it's worth 🤣

😁 yeah this happens all too often. Ad sites are full of people asking for outrageous prices for old and untested hardware - like this guy: http://www.okazii.ro/componente-computere/pla … -agp-a171993891

He's selling an UNTESTED and INCOMPLETE voodoo 3 2000 AGP for ~180 lei -> that's almost 50 us dollars. Not as outrageous as asking 250$ for something only a die-hard collector would want, but still. The I/O bracket is broken in half, like the card was torn out of a computer - not encouraging. Personally, I won't buy untested 3.3v AGP cards (unless they come really cheap) - not minding their age, there is a high possibility someone tried to stick it into a modern AGP 4x slot and killed it.