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Loeschzwerg Senior Member Offline AAlchemy PSU maker :-) Posts: 396 Germany -> Bavaria -> Augsburg Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #570 - 29.06.12 at 22:03:21 Awesome GF100A2 The PCB tells me it should be a GTX 480 (maybe 512 shader?! what about the memory bus 320 or 384bit?!). The cooler looks like from a GTX 470, but I think there is more under the hood.
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gwb Junior Member Offline i liek eng samples Posts: 89 Georgia, USA	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #571 - 09.07.12 at 17:27:58 Yep! GTX480, 512 shader, and 384 bus. I'll post some more goodies later- benchies and gpuz, etc...
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gwb Junior Member Offline i liek eng samples Posts: 89 Georgia, USA	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #572 - 20.07.12 at 06:24:23 I have created a very obnoxious website solely for providing info about my eng. samples and also to help keep myself organized. I do plan posting more cards this week. It is not 56k safe, probably not even DSL friendly, be warned. http://gwbhardware.com/
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Loeschzwerg Senior Member Offline AAlchemy PSU maker :-) Posts: 396 Germany -> Bavaria -> Augsburg Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #573 - 20.07.12 at 07:20:38 Well, your page won't win a beauty prize, but I like it that way It's simple and focused on what everyone wants to see, the cards and information about them Nice work! Hehe, the GTX480 A2 shows GT200 I thought the codename was GT300 in the beginning?!
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Re: hardware photo thread
Reply #574 - 20.07.12 at 17:24:47

Loeschzwerg wrote on 20.07.12 at 07:20:38:

Well, your page won't win a beauty prize, but I like it that way

It's simple and focused on what everyone wants to see, the cards and information about them Cool

Nice work!

Hehe, the GTX480 A2 shows GT200 Cheesy

I thought the codename was GT300 in the beginning?!

Thank you! I wanted to keep it very simple, so nothing distracts from the cards.

I plan making it more efficient an organized for the cards. For each card, I will review them like a website such as tomshardware or techpowerup, with multiple sections such as introduction, hardware features, specs, benchmarks, conclusion, etc...

About gt200- I think you are right, they were codenamed gt300, I think I may have the wrong picture Roll Eyes

I'll have to doublecheck

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G1nX Senior Member Offline Running NSK Guardian Posts: 466 Romania Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #575 - 25.07.12 at 23:56:23 @gwb very nice assortment of prototype cards you have on your site. I'm also partial to engineering samples and have found some interesting ones myself just need to find the time for some proper pictures and details. Until then here's something interesting I've found: You can probably guess what it is. Cheers, G1nX
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Loeschzwerg Senior Member Offline AAlchemy PSU maker :-) Posts: 396 Germany -> Bavaria -> Augsburg Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #576 - 27.07.12 at 11:09:12 What can I say, an amazing card that never came to the market in that way EVGA did it a little different with it's 2Win series.
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Re: hardware photo thread
Reply #577 - 08.08.12 at 16:22:34

Got a new toy, a S3 Graphics Evaluation Board

It features an Alphachrome chipset which is the mobile version of a Savage XP (Codename Zoetrope).

-> Front and back of the card
-> PCB manufacturing date 2002 week 37. The board does have 128MB DDR memory.
-> Lots of jumpers and pins for measuring.
-> Alphachrome 2002 week 30. The chip has noted 183, OK and 6. I think it means 183th chip of a batch, tested OK. It's the 6th evaluation board of that type.
-> On the back it features two connections for notebook displays.

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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #578 - 09.08.12 at 02:36:25 @G1nX - well it's clearly a proto Geforce... But could you at least let us know the chip?
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Loeschzwerg Senior Member Offline AAlchemy PSU maker :-) Posts: 396 Germany -> Bavaria -> Augsburg Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #579 - 09.08.12 at 07:13:07 It's from Geforce 400 series but not based on GF100 EVGA and GALAXY are the only vendors I know that brogtht such a card to the market (of course the design is different). Enough help from my side
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Re: hardware photo thread
Reply #580 - 10.08.12 at 01:43:46

paulpsomiadis wrote on 09.08.12 at 02:36:25:

@G1nX - well it's clearly a proto Geforce... Roll Eyes

But could you at least let us know the chip? Tongue

The board has two GF104 GPUs. Since this model of card wasn't released the marketing names isn't clear. I would post some GPU-Z screenshots but the driver required for this board is a special alpha version that I haven't been able to get hold of. It also has a hacked VBIOS according to the e-tag.

@Loeschzwerg very nice S3 prototype card you have there. Congrats.

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Slaventus YaBB Newbies Offline Videocard collector Posts: 39 Russia Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #581 - 30.08.12 at 07:22:47 Hi there! Really nice thread! Here are some of my photos: XGI Volari V8 Duo Ultra HP Visualize FX4 SiS Xabre 400 by Triplex (just nice looking silver coated card):
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Loeschzwerg Senior Member Offline AAlchemy PSU maker :-) Posts: 396 Germany -> Bavaria -> Augsburg Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #582 - 30.08.12 at 10:41:25 Nice clean cards and yep, the Triplex really is a special looking piece of hardware Great website btw.
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Slaventus YaBB Newbies Offline Videocard collector Posts: 39 Russia Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #583 - 30.08.12 at 11:25:55 Loeschzwerg, thx for feedback And a little bit more photos: 3DLabs Oxygen GVX210 (Dual GLiNT R3 + Gamma G2 geometry processor): Radius SVGA Multiview MC (MCA bus): Dome Imaging 10-TBIRD-02 (Medical graphic card with #9 Imagine 128 chip): Infotronic Jupiter IMS-14 (well, not much known about this card):
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Varus Full Member Offline recent 3dfx enthusiast Posts: 164 Poland Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #584 - 16.09.12 at 20:37:04 Soltek (SiS) Xabre 600 with Soyo Dragon Ultra Best Regards, Lukas
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