shevalier wrote on Yesterday, 07:15:

Nope, LM63 is a "Remote Diode Digital Temperature Sensor with Integrated Fan Control"

Makes sense. And makes the decision if i should look into why fan connector is not working or not whole lot easier. Fan control would be useful, but without it... easier to find 12V elsewhere...

I have had fairly well experiences with them.

- X800XT AGP - got it from Socket3, it's the Powercolor version of the card. This thing RIPS through any 2003-04 game under 2k... although every now and then I am experiencing VPU crashes randomly - I don't have a Rialto card for now to test if the same issue occurs.
- X1950 AGP - originally had a frankenstein'd card (HIS version 512MB, but someone stuck a X1950 HSF on it so I rolled with it that way 🤣). Worked pretty well but unfortunately died quietly around the time I came back from college - no POST on several mainboards. I'm trying to get another one, specifically because I LOVE HIS's design, and because it'd be a great way to test if the Rialto-enabled cards also suffer from the same VPU crash under 2k that the X800XT does.
- X1650 AGP - also had one of these. Originally had some dinky blue cooler, replaced with one salvaged from a dead PCI-E counterpart (blue PCB). Died from old age - it self shorted one of the 4-5pin regulators near the AGP finger
And that's about it. I still have some X1xxx series card but they're all PCI-E at the moment - X1550, X1800XT (converted from FireGL V7200) and X1950XTX.

I like them, BUT

1. I only had the R400 based AGP versions.
2. There are only 2 of those the X700 series and the X800 series in that generation. Anything lower is a rebrand of the Radeon 9600 series
3. The X1050 is a tricky one. They are made with 2 different GPUs. The RV370 which is just an updated Radeon 9600 series GPU and the RV410 which is an X700, therefore much faster. I have the latter and it's a very competent card and flies under the radar because of it's lowest-of-the-low-end naming.

I would only consider the cards with a native AGP chip.

The bridged PCIe chips are very picky about chipset and driver release.

One of my favorite cards was my old Radeon X850 Pro AGP (seen below).

Mine was flashed to unlock all 16 pipes and overclocked, hence the aftermarket cooling. It was a beast of a card I can't recall having any issues with it at all. It was used with Win 9x and XP. I had no issues overclocking it and getting XT/PE performance out of it.

Sadly, I sold it off years ago, huge mistake, wish I still had it. Those photos are the ones I took for eBay, it pains me to look at them. 🤣

Either way, It was stable and a good performer in my humble opinion. Excellent card!

I guess that would use ATI R481. The natively AGP chips did work very well.

This is how mine looks, as it came from @Socket3.

AFAIK it has been flashed to XT (not sure if the PE version?), and aside from occasional VPU crash and recovers under 2k SP4 (which...neither of us figured out why do they happen), it runs like an absolute champ.

It's one of the cards that kept me away from the bugged R350 9800s for a good while. I'm planning to move to 9800s on the R360 - hope these aren't as plagued as the R350s were, and hopefully the few cards my scrapper contact got hold of, at least one of them R360s work.

EDIT: nvm, pretty sure it ain't flashed to PE despite 1.6ns RAM - one thread I found about the conversion implies voltage modding... which is a SMD work I don't think either of us are gurus in 🤣