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Reply #150 - 10.03.09 at 18:01:54

Tim wrote on 10.03.09 at 17:54:56:

At least you replaced it with something which is at the very least as valuable as that card. Sometimes you've got to make sacrifices yea.

Yes exactly I did keep a hercules radeon 9700 pro prototype though with this sweet blue green PCB and a total different layout of the chips as compared to the production variant, as it has no heatsink under it's VPU, it has just one white sticker showing a name tag, with part number and 128 wirtten by hand with a red marker from the Engineer, for the rest no barcodes what so ever.

Top: Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro AGP 128MB DDR Rev.A02 0234 Pre-Protoype
Bottom: Hercules 3D Prophet 9700 Pro AGP 128MB DDR Rev.A02 0251

As you can see the FALCO coils are different as well.

here a better look of the card it's self

I still have this card btw

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Tim God Member Offline Posts: 1065 Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #151 - 10.03.09 at 18:07:06 Yea I saw them before here or at VA, very nice card.
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Reply #152 - 10.03.09 at 18:09:22

Must of been VA hehe, Though I am not sure it's a Pre-Production Prototype but since it had many hardwarematice differences like them FALCO's the layour of it's SMD's capacitors the VRM heatsink as no heatsink on the rear side of the VPU this did confuse me for a Pre-Production prototype or an early Evaluation board hehe

Ah just got me this one today

ATi R680 Non-Qualification Sample aka Evaluation Board.

http://cgi.ebay.nl/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=23033...

You can tell it's the Non-Qualification Sample because of the original Ruby Sticker and the part numbers on the Fan and the side of the cooler's windtunnel.
I will make more pics of this beauty once she has arrived

It's the same card from this Preview Wink

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3209

A Non-Qualification Sample which is the card sent to Previewers and reviewers before the card hit's the market, these cards are also known as Evaluation Boards.

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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #153 - 27.03.09 at 17:02:55
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RaVeNsClaw YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 47 Germany Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #154 - 27.03.09 at 17:42:49 My cards arrived! And they are Engineering samples! :grin: Both cards are unused! And the second one is still sealed :!:: Sorry for the bad quality, but I've had only a mobile phone cam available
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Tim God Member Offline Posts: 1065 Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #155 - 28.03.09 at 00:39:40 Very nice. Replied in the B3D thread.
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Kokohemmo YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 47	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #156 - 29.03.09 at 02:05:16 Regards Kokohemmo
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #157 - 29.03.09 at 07:21:37 Who broke the AGP port?
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Tim God Member Offline Posts: 1065 Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #158 - 31.03.09 at 16:49:26 Number Nine Imagine 128 Pro!! Been looking for this card for about 2 years.
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RaVeNsClaw YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 47 Germany Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #159 - 31.03.09 at 20:12:03 Very nice one, Tim! I'm envious...once again... Some Intergraph 3D-accelerators: Intense3D Pro 4000 alias Wildcat + TnL unit (AGP) Intense3D Pro 2200 (1997) Intergragh RealiZm (1996)
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Tim God Member Offline Posts: 1065 Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #160 - 31.03.09 at 20:14:47 Oooh very nice! I don't know too much about workstation boards, but those look very nice. Can they run any OpenGL games?
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RaVeNsClaw YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 47 Germany Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #161 - 31.03.09 at 22:08:31 Yes, all of them are able to play Quake 1-3. The Wildcat is even fast enough for Quake 3 @800x600x32 with high details, so it's faster than a Permedia 3.
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Tim God Member Offline Posts: 1065 Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #162 - 01.04.09 at 00:36:30 RaVeNsClaw wrote on 31.03.09 at 22:08:31: Yes, all of them are able to play Quake 1-3. The Wildcat is even fast enough for Quake 3 @800x600x32 with high details, so it's faster than a Permedia 3. Amazing, very impressive. I wonder if my Glint 300SX (1994) could play some OpenGL.
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RaVeNsClaw YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 47 Germany Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #163 - 01.04.09 at 10:44:25 The Permedia 1 is running very well: http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/1143/neufassungvonbitmapsa4.jpg But you should really test your 300SX! Oh, it's getting off topic! My Intergraph Workstation: FireGL 4: Some cards from Hercules: (the Thriller3D was from falconfly! Thanks again!)
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Tim God Member Offline Posts: 1065 Gender:	Re: hardware photo thread Reply #164 - 01.04.09 at 11:51:47 Beautiful, what a beast! What's special about the FireGL 4?
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