My Club3D XGI Volari V8 Duo Ultra (what's in a name!)

Very rare, because it wasn't very successful. I've got the original Box and accessories as well.

At EUR219 Buy it now, it was very steep, and I'm still wondering if it was worth it. Considering this is the first one I've seen in about 1,5-2 years, I'm inclined to think it was.

Like I said, it's rare because it wasn't very successful, hence less boards were sold/made.

Yea it's the one from SK1, the date on the sticker is the date the card was announced, not the board date.

With normal bidding it wouldn't have gone up to EUR219, that's for sure, it's expensive all right.

it would of gone pass that easilly I know many peopel that were seeking that card alot of them from other hardware boards If I knew about it I would of gone for it as well, well that is if it were on ebay aka fleebay

here's something old compared with something new:


I don't have that big card anymore which is an ATi radeon HD 2900 XTX Rev.A1 0704 Prototype, I had sell it to a good friend from VA, since he was looking for one and I needed the extra cash to purchase the 5000 PCI

Sometimes you have to sell things to achieve things, even that hard choices have to be made.

Tim wrote on 10.03.09 at 16:53:55:


Well it is a prototype as Sir R. Larose told me he even worked for the R600 partually, these were the final pre-production prototypes, the card was never produced as an OEM

R. Larose worked on R300, R350, 360, R420 and for his last 4 weeks he worked for ATi on the R600. He still has contacts with his collegues and when I showed him that card, he showed it to his contacts and even they told him as he told me it is the prrototype iof the HD 2900XTX that never reached the market, heck the card doesn not even have a nametag on it just a parts number and a series number, here a pic compared with my HD 2900 XT bottom and HD 2900 XTX Prototype top



and also what's cool he told me when ATi was working on Fudo aka R420 they had a team working on R600 by that time and we are speaking Q2 2004 here, this gives us an example on how long ATi was working on the R600 design, no wonder why it was such a complicated thing as it did turn out that the official product was released 8 months later to the market.

probably but if an Ex-Ati Engineer does say so as his collegues that still work there do then it's clear enough

3dfx prototypes have barcodes as well and not eevry prototype has the Not For Resale stickers, name tags as even bios stickers so even with or without them details it's a prototype since I rather believe an ex-Ati engineer than that from some collector from a forum

but still it's in good hands now, that's the most of all importance I have had well over 500 different VGA cards Proto's as evaluation boards as normal ones and not to worry I know what's aproto or not when is ee one and this HD 2900 XTX is one of them fewer ones out there, it's just the last revision they made for a product that never reached the market.

Bull @ Voodooalert has one as iels does a mate of mine who lives about 6 KM from here.

the one Bull has is older though, it has Dual fan connectors hehe and it's from week 46 year 2006, this one does have some differences as driver support goesm, it's even believed that these HD 2900 XTX Rev.A1 boards were flashed with a HD 2900XT 1GB GDDR4 Bios and put for OEM sale, since if you remember well 3dfx did the samewith them 3dfx Voodoo4-2 4200 PCI Daytona's for IBM

these were prototypes flashed as modded for OEM usage, and the same happened with a few HD 2900XTX boards.

Tim wrote on 10.03.09 at 17:45:48:


Nope not touchy at all just discussing cool hardware
but you did say
In my book that doesn't classify it as a prototype, as would many other insiders say.

so if they are not your words who's are they? heeh not being too skeptical but I have my connections from Ati that do tell this is a prototype which is good enough, heck I don't have it anymore but it was very interesting to play with, none the less

yeah well it's okay mate, it had to go since I was seeking the Voodoo5 5000 PCI for about 5 years and even at that point that you get a chance for a 5000 PCI but missing about 300 euro's somethings have to go, so I sold it for 325 incl shipping to germany which is a good deal to Tweakstone a mate of mine from Voodooalert.de he was seeking one so I sold it to him.

the 5000 PCI was like 1000 euro's and that was painful I ahd to out bid someone but that succeeded none the less.

If you do seek a HD 2900 XTX , I bought it from a guy off ebay named Re-Tek Computers or something like that, from ebay USA he is.