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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 58800 of 58805, by tehsiggi

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zuldan wrote on Today, 11:36:
tehsiggi wrote on Yesterday, 15:00:

Can't wait for it to arrive.

Can’t wait to see the repair process. When does it arrive?

Hopefully by end of the week. Another 9800Pro 128MB with XT PCB is coming as well.. similar story. Ohh.. and there is (don't judge) a Radeon X1300 Turbo AGP from HIS waiting to be picked up by me.

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Reply 58801 of 58805, by MattRocks

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tehsiggi wrote on Today, 12:27:
zuldan wrote on Today, 11:36:
tehsiggi wrote on Yesterday, 15:00:

Can't wait for it to arrive.

Can’t wait to see the repair process. When does it arrive?

Hopefully by end of the week. Another 9800Pro 128MB with XT PCB is coming as well.. similar story. Ohh.. and there is (don't judge) a Radeon X1300 Turbo AGP from HIS waiting to be picked up by me.

Are there any you don't have?

Milestones [ MOS 7501 → 68030 → x86(P5/MMX) → x86(K6-2) → x86(K7*) → PPC(G3*) → x86-64(K8) → x86-64(Xeon) → x86-64(i5) → x86-64(i7) ] * original lost

Reply 58802 of 58805, by tehsiggi

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MattRocks wrote on Today, 12:32:
tehsiggi wrote on Today, 12:27:
zuldan wrote on Today, 11:36:

Can’t wait to see the repair process. When does it arrive?

Hopefully by end of the week. Another 9800Pro 128MB with XT PCB is coming as well.. similar story. Ohh.. and there is (don't judge) a Radeon X1300 Turbo AGP from HIS waiting to be picked up by me.

Are there any you don't have?

Ohh there are.. my "collection" is tiny compared to others.. I mainly have 9000 series cards, a few X and X1 and this and that, but not too many. Well. Not too many compared too others that is. I didn't have any XT PCBs around so scoring two in a week is an absolute win for me. But my repair backlog is at least 6-8 cards. So I'll stop for now..

Already ordered replacement memory chips for the Hercules, in case I need them.

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Reply 58803 of 58805, by MattRocks

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I think I have all the 9000 series GPUs - mostly Sapphire, sometimes Gigabyte or other. Is Hercules more desirable?

Milestones [ MOS 7501 → 68030 → x86(P5/MMX) → x86(K6-2) → x86(K7*) → PPC(G3*) → x86-64(K8) → x86-64(Xeon) → x86-64(i5) → x86-64(i7) ] * original lost

Reply 58804 of 58805, by tehsiggi

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MattRocks wrote on Today, 13:41:

I think I have all the 9000 series GPUs - mostly Sapphire, sometimes Gigabyte or other. Is Hercules more desirable?

Hmm, they were pretty because they often had different coolers and a blue PCB. Also they were one of the smaller AIBs. From a collectors point of view they appear to clearly be more desirable.

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Reply 58805 of 58805, by Shader_BiH

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tehsiggi wrote on Today, 13:44:
MattRocks wrote on Today, 13:41:

I think I have all the 9000 series GPUs - mostly Sapphire, sometimes Gigabyte or other. Is Hercules more desirable?

Hmm, they were pretty because they often had different coolers and a blue PCB. Also they were one of the smaller AIBs. From a collectors point of view they appear to clearly be more desirable.

Let's be honest, they are among most beautifull cards ever 😁 I particulary like the 9700 Pro with red PCB and gold memory heatsinks. It makes the devlish cooler sticker pop out.
Recently I got a hold of the cooler for one of these. It was pure luck, and the seller event noted I got the last one in stock

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So this bad boy is going to replace the Zalman curently instaled on my 9700 Pro. The devlish sticker I plan to make myself and LED's remain a mystery I guess. I don't know if this TITAN reference cooler is lit. By what I've seen the Hercules printed ones are lit with either blue or red LED's, dominantly blue. So if my cooler ain't lit... I'll have to find some clever ways to add LED's to it. Still thinking about how to approach this...