Unbelievable donation including my videocard nemesis !
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- I received the most awesome donation from on of my viewers Chris in Germany ... The retro community is awesome and I am looking forward to digging deeper into these pieces of hardware in the upcoming videos.
Enjoy
00:00:00 - Intro
00:03:00 - CPUs, intel / and / ibm , 386, 486 , pentium . .....
00:06:00 - NEC Intel 740 / AGP / 1997
00:06:28 - Cirrus Logic / PCI / 1995
00:06:40 - EONtronics ViRGE/DX / PCI / 1996
00:06:59 - Diamond Multimedia Stealth 3D 2000 V2.03 / PCI / 1996
00:07:17 - Diamond Stealth 64 Video VRAM (S3 Vision968) / PCI / 1995
00:07:48 : Diamond Viper V770 / Riva TNT2 / AGP / 1999
00:08:13 : Video Seven VEGA / Cirrus Logic / ISA / 1990
00:08:50 : Elsa Erazor II p16 / Riva TNT / AGP / 1999
00:09:22 : Matrox G200 / AGP / 1998
00:09:47 : Elsa Erazor III Pro-A32 ViVo /Riva TNT2 Pro AGP / 1999
00:10:16 : ELSA GLoria Synergy-8 / 3Dlabs Permedia 2 / PCI /1998
00:10:44 : Diamond Viper V550 / Nvidia TNT / PCI / 1998
00:11:16 : EXMAUDIOFX ATI Soundcard
00:12:04 : Sound Blaster Audigy Platinum EX* (SB0090)
00:12:21 : More CPUs
00:13:44 : Slot 1 ATX motherboard GigaByte GA-686LX4
00:14:24 : 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500
00:15:25 : Outro 
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Wow! Couple of really nice parts. Some of my viewers also offered to donate a voodoo 5 couple of times, but I always refuse. Most of the people just don't know what they have there and how much it costs. Anyway, that ATI soundcard is also a really rare one. I collect ISA sound cards and hunted it for a long time. I think this was the most expensive retro card which I ever payed for. It's a SB2.0 clone, the two missing ICs can be upgraded with SAA1099 to get CMS compatibility. It is very well built, much better quality, than from Creative and it also has proprietary 16-bit digital sound support, but I didn't find any game which would support it. You can use it from the software though. If I remember right, this card had compatibility issues with some games, but I'm not sure. In any case, this is a hit for every sound cards collector.
I remember buying a retro part for a tiny fraction of its real cost on Craigslist. I was expecting something to be wrong, but all my worries were dispelled, when the seller took my money and asked about the device he was giving me: "What is it?" Turned out he was selling off old family things, without knowing what they were.
The 5500 - that one I had to pay over $400 to get, but I still think it was a good value. Looking at modern RTX cards selling for $3K+, retro suddenly looks a lot more affordable.
They also made a VGA Stereo F/X which was the same thing combined with a VGA Wonder XL on the same card.
makes me wonder if Planet X3 is able to make full use 😁
Happy to see Your back, great box of goodies' you got there, I can look forward to some excellent reviews I'm sure
Absolutely jealous of this whole donation lot xD. Even the "bad" ones would be handy.
A feast for the eyes and a lot of stuff that will make some future videos possible, all from the same person! That's a really admirable guy.
Nice goodies to play with. Thankx for sending Chris and Stefan. These goodies are always handy to repair or fix some systems. Greetings from Steven from the Netherlands
Glad you are back making videos again. What a great donation this is too!
I really thought that Diamond Card at 10:44 was the Voodoo Banshee... 😅 I should have read the sticker on the backside properly before wrapping it up I guess...It is also made by Diamond, at first glance it looks similar, but it's called "Monster Fusion". I must have mixed things up while browsing trough my collection 🙃 Sorry for that 🙄
Looking forward to your Review of the Voodoo 5 😁
Diamond Monster Fusion "is" the 3dfx Voodoo Banshee, the owner of this channel missed that.
@@KevinSillsYeah, but the one I sent to him is obviously a Riva TNT ... I must have mixed up the cards when putting together the package for him.
A beautiful collection, it brings back memories and emotions, the PC components market used to be more diverse, as a young boy, building computers for my friends, I spent a lot of time testing different manufacturers, it was an amazing experience. Nowadays there is a monopoly, there is no fun like before :).
I'm glad that you are back, and those are great donations. Everyone has been thought rough times and seeing that you came back feel nice. I hope you can keep making videos.
Super generous donation! Was like an entire collection in a box! will keep you busy for a while😁
That’s an ATI Stereo F/X card, it is Sound Blaster 1.5 compatible, supports CMS with the Phillips SAA1099 chips installed. Pretty cool card!
Is it just me or was i the only one more excited for that Ati sound card with the ym3812 than the 3dfx card... 😅 Very generous donation i have to say, looking forward to many test videos!
Looks like it can take saa1099 chips too.
glad you finally received the card that you wanted from chris! because you were upset and disappointed about that last transaction and then you were gone!!! for a long time!! I was flabbergasted!! your back now is and happier which is all that matters
Nice donation! I have two Voodoo 5 5500 cards, one with the original box and the other one needs heatsinks as they were missing when I found the card, I also have 4 slightly different voodoo 2 cards and one voodoo 3 2000 16mb pci card.
Really beautiful conditions of most of the cards. I do like the PCI cards due to compatibility with more modern and cheaper to find systems for retro setups (775, am2, etc)
I've been wanting to make computer vlogs for the last 2 years! I understand the fact you have time to make anything is a mericle!
Finally! You're officially a member of the VSA-100 club. :)
I've heard you are gay is that true ?
The first video card I ever purchased was a Diamond Viper V770, although I remember it having active cooling. I was a teenager when I bought it and paid for it with my summer job money, I felt like a god with that video card. Going from software rendering only to my first 3D accelerator was such a huge difference.
The first card I ever purchased was the ATI Rage Pro. One month later, Nvidia launched the Riva TNT... you can imagine how annoyed I was 😂.
@@looks-suspicious something similar happened to me too. I bought a Kyro 2, weeks later I could hardly play anything with it anymore because every interesting 3D game required hardware T&L
Sold tons of P75 back in the day. Also for some fun on those pci video cards. I got the idea one day of asking how much to order a block of ram upgrade chips. Oh, that cheap. Sure send me a few tubes. Then I just loaded up the extra 2 slots. Did the same thing with wave table interfaces on 3rd party sound cards. :) Fun times. Oh and this was before the internet so asking a distributor about stuff like tubes of video ram was the thing to do.
That's it! I need to restart my RUclips channel to get the good donations!
Hehe. Congrats!
Wow, Nice stuff there~! The Voodoo in the end crazy.
I hope you do a long detailed video on that Voodoo 5.
Mine has some bad artifacting, and even worse under Windows. Probably needs new RAM chips.
I fear the day when my 5500 starts glitching. There are repair videos on youtube. Chips can still be found on ebay, and I do have experience with a hot air station, but I'm still nervous. I have over 50 retro GPU's and that one is the absolute favorite. For proper Glide support there is nothing better.
@@enilenis I have thrown my 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP in box a way in the trash before i knew what they were woth.
@@bmw518rijder I've thrown away an SGI machine once and only afterwards went on ebay to see how much it was worth. They were selling for $8K at the time. My biggest regret.
Voodoo's I found plenty of at thrift stores, most purchased for under $20 in assorted bags of computer junk. 5500 was the only one I had to find on ebay, because I wanted to complete the set of 3DFX GPU's I had. The odds of it showing up at a thrift store were zero.
wow, that is a really nice slot 1 motherboard. Very nice donations. I've been looking for a slot 1 mainboard for a while!
I love the videos and keep them coming. I had that exact card for the G200 from Matrox. Came with Incoming and Motörhead. It is an 8MB Card that is expandable to 16MB. Never had the expansion module but moved to Nvidia when XP Plus required an odd 12MB Video memory to install
I have some of those G200's. That was my first graphics accelerator bought in 1999. I upgraded mine to 16MB and all it did was raise the maximum output resolution. Mostly useful in windows desktop. Everywhere else, you don't even notice having it. I still have my installation CD's. Tonic Trouble was another pack-in title. I also remember it having G-Police and 5th Element game demos. I have Millenium, Mystique and Marvel. I might have a single G400 somewhere, but to me it's less "iconic". My brother had the 1st gen MGA. Used it for Autocad. He's the one who got me hooked on the brand. But afterwards, likewise, I went over to Nvidia.
I had the same.
And had the extra memory.
Card power is to weak to use it
But i need it to have a higher resolution in that time.
After that i had de g400 model.
Just to ad an observation, the Elsa card is PCI, definitely slower than the AGP ones, but as their place for a system without AGP, like the early socket 7, like me back in the days my only choice was a Voodoo 2.
WOW amazing.
Kudos to Chris and Stefan!
I love your videos. Welcome back after 18 months!
What a freaking generous donation.
Wow all those video cards look so clean like were never used.
So nice and they are all cleaned up and ready..
Ooh a K5! interesting chip. Had a K5-PR150 back then... I say interesting now and I suppose it was but it was also those dark days of "Pentium Class" (not really).
Nice addition to the collection..interesting 🙂
The Gigabyte GA-686LX4 would be a perfect replacement for my GA-686LX that is slowly failing on me. Unfortunately, those boards are going for over $200 on eBay which is more than I paid for it brand new.
Congratulations! All the cards are pretty exotic, and the Voodoo 5 is very nice!!
Wow. It's Easter here but it looks like it's Christmas over there!
My first computer Pentium || 266 MHz cpu had the same mother board - Slot 1 ATX motherboard GigaByte GA-686LX4
I would love to own this mother board again.
My first system that I built from scratch was a P2-266 in 1999 on an ASUS P2B motherboard. I loved it to bits, but then I sold it off. Ages later got a nostalgia bug, when I decided to recreate my exact setup, and I repurchased the same components I had, spending about as much, as I did originally. Retro is at a point, where most cards are now worth more than the sticker price.
awesome ! cant wait to see all videos :D
Thanks Chris !
You're welcome 😛
the Voodoo video cards my fav
Diamond Monster Fusion "is" the 3dfx Voodoo Banshee!
The video card 3dfx at the end will most likely be ok as them two silver/purple capacitors are solid rather than electrolytic
Please make a video of the Voodoo 5 in action!
Looks like Christmas came early.
Wow! Congrats on that 5500! Amazing! Any word on that PCD-5T? I am still interested...
Got some of those in my collection. Matrox is indeed, great in Windows, up to Windows XP. With additional 8MB it can run desktop at 1080p, no problem. I used memory that was branded as Toshiba upgrade for laptops, but when it arrived, it had a "Matrox" sticker on it and indication, that it was actually an upgrade memory specifically for my card. That same memory will go into Millenium and Mystique. One of them uses faster RD-RAM (or SR-RAM, I don't remember) and the other one uses slower SD-RAM. When SD-RAM upgrade is used, RD-RAM gets clocked down to match its performance.
Voltage converters - that's pure gold. They're very rare these days. There are even scams! I thought getting something that old one was guaranteed to get a legit product. Apparently not.
And 5500 I recognized from the pixelated image. That is my absolute favorite accelerator that I bought ages ago. Mine is still in mint condition and works without recaps. Even the original fans are still good. What a generous donor you have. I'd never give up mine. All the former Voodoo's are abundant. This one is the crown jewel. I wish I had a spare for parts, because when it finally goes, I'll be a very sad day.
Good haul in that video. I wish I still collected parts, but I'm already maxed out. When I worked in IT, I collected everything. Every system that was retired. Took all the RAM, CPU's, graphics and soundcards, controllers, and kept few dozen motherboards (mostly ASUS). I ended up with more stuff than spare time to play with it all.
Splendid donations!👍👍
Do you ever use Linux distros?
When you use the i740 use the i810 drivers. They are much better and work fine on the 740.
I think i have a voodoo 2, 3 and 5 kicking around somewhere
omg V5 8)
The Matrox G200 is notorious for BIOS fade, I have one I need to refresh by reflash using another card as primary display, so don't give up on it if it seems dead
Really?? What could be the cause of that? 🤔
I have multiple G200's. One of them went dead and it was the main chip. Luckily, the bios is fine on all of them. The dead card is now a potential parts donor, if my other ones die. I was recently taking apart an HP ProLiant server and the motherboard, as it turned out, had G200 for video. I couldn't believe my eyes. A modern system using a G200? Either Matrox had a huge surplus of GPU's, or maybe they still make them for industrial applications.
The dead card I have does boot up, but then has pixelation, characteristic of a damaged chip. I did have some cards with dead bios problems, but they were Nvidia's by XFX.
Just a word of caution - I'd recommend removing or cutting out address labels entirely. Markers are definitely not good enough to hide addresses. Christoph's address is still visible relatively easily. Many youtubers use a box cutter and cut out the sensitive parts on the label entirely
Thanks for pointing that out 😆 feel free to pay me a visit. I'm the only person with that name in my village... 😅
The Matrox card AGP is it B Version. I have 8pcs of B and non works i have no clue to solve it got plenty AGP computers and non works with B
Oh, that's an ATI Fury Maxx on the thumbnail, definitely not a Voodoo 5...
look again lol
Those blue cpu boxes look cool. Can they be bought off ebay or somewhere today?
Now dedicated voodoo5 video please 🙂
how about a benchmark video comparing the video cards?
oof
3V SX2-66 and DX2-66...
Not easy to find a board for it...
That Diamond Stealth 64 Video has the IBM RAMDAC on it so it's an OEM card. Retail versions had a TI RAMDAC which was apparently better?
Have you checked the markings of the RAMDACs? From what I remember the IBM was 220Mhz and the TI was 170, so actually the IBM was better
Have myself an 5500.
Can't find a suitable motherboard to check it.....
I need retro donation
486DX4-120? Was it real???
....👏🎉💯🎯👍❗
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Also 4 the algorithm.
I still wanna fix your unfixable video card from hell (unless you've already fixed it. Or junked it)
Drop me an email and we’ll work something out
@@RetroSpector78 I tried (years ago), but it must've gone to spam (with an address starting with senily... who's to blame the algorithm)
Fix that title, one does not simply put a space between a word and an exclamation mark! That looks horrible, and is simply wrong.
Who cares ye big ballocks !?
No other problems?
this is junk. hoarding.
You can't be serious...😐
Had that diamond stealth s3 virge in the family's first PC
sweet! i used to own more than a handfull of the boards you pulled out of there! but what are you gonna use them for? to me these are like old socks.
Im looking to off load some retro fast win98 hardware / pcs if anyone is willing to collect south coast of England, ive got too much now!