Maybe most of you saw small blank PCB for AGP Banshee, that Gary has on his site. Well, that's not the smallest Banshee out there
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I have a Supergrace SG-3DVBP card, which I never saw anywhere in the collector's lists neither there any ANY mentions about it in the Net. But in spite of these facts, the board exists
Well, maybe that's even the most rare production Banshee ever
Now that's a tight fit! PCB dimensions are 5.3" x 3" and as you see literally every millimeter on the PCB is used for placing details.
The board has huge old BIOS chip, which is typical for Supergrace and other lo-end manufacturers of that time.
Heatsink/fan assembly is original detail, not added by end-use as it commonly happens to passive-cooled Banshees.
Memory configuration is quite unusual for Banshee - 4 of 8 SGRAM chips (total of 16 MB RAM) are placed on the back site of PCB.
Notice that there is lack of IC marking - chips are absolutely blank, with no vendor and model information. I only can explain that Supergrace cut the production price of the card to the minimum and that included using some kind of untested chips (they are usually left blank by manufacturer).
PCB production date is week 37 of 1999.
Card comes in a generic Supergrace VGA box with appropriate stickers on it. S/N of the card is equal to S/N on the box. Other sticker (see lower right corner of picture) informs us about official name of the product: Supergrace SG-3DVBP AGP 16 MB.
As I told above, Google and other search systems don't have any mentions about this index. Though search for "Supergrace Banshee" shows quite a lot of mentions on Russian and Polish websites/forums, mostly from 2000-2002. No photos, etc. Looks like this is a region-specific item for East Europe/ex-USSR.
I obtained this card from a person, who buy it in 1999 and had worked on PC with this card almost everyday until December 2004! Fortunately he saved the original box for these five years!
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