No, they get removed for their scrap value. Also, when recycling such cards, you have to remove them anyway, just like fans, heatsinks, and other foreign matter.
This is true. I have also seen listing where they say they can fit more in a box if they remove the brackets... and this makes sense as well.
The seller messaged me back pretty quickly and said that the brackets had already been sent to the metal recycler. Oh well.
Anybody recognize this video card? I have it on the way with a few other cards.
Yes, the pictures are absolutely horrible, but from what I can gather from the seller and from guessing, the silsckreen above the heatsinks says Appian Graphics.
I am unable to find any Appian Graphics card pictures that look like this card or any other video cards that look like this. Maybe my google-fu has finally failed me, but I kinda doubt it.
The other information on the card, per the seller is:
HINT
HB1-SE33P
PCI BRIDGE
B 0049
ETMA 30759 (this is another indication that it is an Appian Graphics card, but this model number seems to not exist)
S/N 0219
I am guessing the outputs are a couple of DMS-59, but am really curious as to the amount of RAM and the graphics chips.
The specs from different places are all over the place. The silicon image chips indicate that it supports 4 monitors and another place on the same page shows a different part number that says only two monitors. Maybe there were two different versions of the card.
The graphics chips use licensed 3dLabs Permedia tech.
There is also an S-Video input.
EDIT2: Another really interesting thing I found out when doing research is that Appian was Aquired by Colorgraphic in 2001, and the same year ATI aquired Hydravision as well as the Hydravision team from Appian... hello virtual desktops for ATI cards. I never knew that it was an aquired and not in-house technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Graphics
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Batyra wrote:Got a few things today: […] Show full quote
Got a few things today:
Quantum3D Obsidian2 SLI2
Two Voodoo 2 12MB on one PCI card
It comes with Medusa Cable
Batyra_Obsidian2SLI.jpg
The hell where did you find this Quantum 3D...
I bet you did pay a lot for it, or maybe you got extremely lucky and the owner did not have a clue what this is..
Mah systems retro, old, newer (Radical stuff)
W3680 4.5/ GA-x58 UD7/ R9 280x
K7 2.6/ NF7-S/ HD3850
IBM x2 P3 933/ GA-6VXD7/ Voodoo V 5.5K
Cmq P2 450/ GA-BX2000/ V2 SLI
IBM PC365
Cmq DeskPRO 486/33
IBM PS/2 Model 56
SPS IntelleXT 8088
A fellow vogoner help me to find seller. Owner new what he is selling but the price was atractive, so I didn't event thought twice.
It will be a part for my win98 buld. as I needed one PCI slot for network card... I also needed SLI - so this was the best way... now 3PCI are full and 4ISA are used too.
The 287 should be no problem, as you can fit a separate quartz oscillator for it. No idea about the chipset, though. I have that board as well, but without "VE". Mine has a HT12 instead of that VLSI chip.
If you want to run Harris 25 at 25MHz you will have to replace the clock oscillator for 50MHz one. Now 32MHz is installed. Maybe put a socket first so you can swap them as you wish.
An HP T5500 thin client with a Transmeta TM5800 733MHz Crusoe CPU.
Originally this thing ran WinCE, but it seems you can get it to boot Linux as well. Added bonus: despite somewhat odd PCI slot placement this is basically an mITX board, so I can easily transfer to another case if I so desire.