Second hand treasures at a computer recycling place

[RJARRRPCGP]

I got a Quadro4 700 XGL AGP video card.

Looks like it has 64 MB, but the ones < 128 MB of that period likely has better clocking VRAM.

So far, the Quadro4 700 XGL has been working without even a single messed up pixel in 2D so far.

The 64 MB GeForce 4 Ti4200 I had that I gave away in 2008, had some mysterious, but sporadic pixels in 2D when cold, seemed to have a loose solder joint.

I had some random pixels on 2D Windows objects, especially when I had cold air of less than 20 F blowing into the case.

But was stable in 3D.


And another AGP video card that looks like a Radeon 9800 Pro.
Haven't tested that one yet.

Then I also picked up fresh PATA cables.

[Topcat]

Re: Second hand treasures at a computer recycling place

After cleaning the attic, I have a HUGE box full of PATA cables and floppy cables!!

Nice score on the old quaddro. Crappy gaming cards, but great for anything 2D.

FWIW, I got bored and put W7 Ultimate (to try a 'loader', which worked) on a dell precision 470 running a pair of dual core 2.8GHz Xeons and 8gb RAM...yea, a QUAD CORE precision 470 WITH HT, shows 8 CPU's!! I love making crap hardware do things it was never intended.. For a netbust wonder, it runs surprising well with 7....thats my only second hand treasure story of the week. This post was made from it.

[ratdude747]

Re: Second hand treasures at a computer recycling place

After cleaning the attic, I have a HUGE box full of PATA cables and floppy cables!!

Nice score on the old quaddro. Crappy gaming cards, but great for anything 2D.

FWIW, I got bored and put W7 Ultimate (to try a 'loader', which worked) on a dell precision 470 running a pair of dual core 2.8GHz Xeons and 8gb RAM...yea, a QUAD CORE precision 470 WITH HT, shows 8 CPU's!! I love making crap hardware do things it was never intended.. For a netbust wonder, it runs surprising well with 7....thats my only second hand treasure story of the week. This post was made from it.

My twin xeon netburst rig runs W7 pretty well. W7 was made to use multiple threads so having 4 or 8 virtual CPUs (and a decent GPU) really makes it fly.

[RJARRRPCGP]

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It's the same gen as a GeForce 4 Ti. And the card is longer than most.

Looks like it has a beefy GPU and VRAM. Got it to see if earlier 3ds Max versions fly on a socket 462 rig.

Fat chance of having FZs! The FZs on my eVGA GeForce 7600 GS made me dump it, because I don't want fried AGP and the like!

Actually, OpenGL should have better performance. IIRC, Quadros are tuned for OpenGL.

And the GeForce of the same gen appears to in fact be a crippled Quadro.

It's definitely not cheap-looking like a stinking FX5200 and FX5500.

The only real con I can see is that they don't have pixel shader 2.0. IIRC, it's 1.1.

Because pixel shader 2.0 debuted with the FX series.

I'm wondering if all regular market segment video card models are slower in 3ds Max?

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Re: Second hand treasures at a computer recycling place

You can flash any regular card's BIOS to its Quadro equivalent. On some you don't even have to bother to flash it, you can do it via the drivers.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: Second hand treasures at a computer recycling place

There was a GeForce version that appeared to have more VRAM, too there. (VRAM chips on the back side)

The Quadro4 I have don't have VRAM chips on the back side.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Re: Second hand treasures at a computer recycling place

I was there again yesterday. Saw many video cards with missing SMD caps and etc.....

I pushed them off to a hidden place.

Saw what looked like an AGP Radeon X700 Pro and that looked fine.

Also saw some more bulging caps on a couple of video cards. Including what looked like an "Asiacon"??? (IIRC) Was purple with a Hermei-like vent, IIRC.