• The 5870 of 1994
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I was poking around in a great big skip of nonsense, full of all sorts of computer things, most of them were odd optical and electronic devices containing fans, mirrors and optical fibres (i have no idea what the buisiness throwing them out did) upon bagging myself several fans (both PC and otherwise), a tiny water pump the size of a glue-stick, a few glass tubes of methanol (dunno why), i came across something every basement dweller would dream of, in 1994. I found a rather garrish (see: totally rad) box advertising whatever contained it ran at a whopping :siren:[I]2X AGP[/I]:siren: i opened the box and found 3 (yes 3) videocards. The ATI RAGE XL: [IMG]http://www.freewebs.com/kastrioth/ATI%20Rage%20XL-8Mb.JPG[/IMG] this motherfucker hosts a whopping 8MB of utter gaming power, now you can rip your contenders apart in games like red alert 2! the diamond stealth 3d [I]2000[/I] pro [img]http://82.114.193.227/vga/image/sbirky/palcal/ds3d2000proa.jpg[/img] this killer of a chip supports the latest DVD technology and can display them at the [I]full 30 FPS!!! [/I]With advanced 3d rendering features like[I] FOG!! [/I]3DLabs Permedia 2 [img]http://s477.photobucket.com/albums/rr132/Nickolay_I/hardware/video137.jpg[/img] i couldn't find any info on this one, but this must mean it's probably some [I]kickin rad![/I] prototype, i mean, what the hell is that thing? a heatsink? this shit just got 21st century!
Now find parts that are compatible.
I have at least one of all 3 of those cards D:
i wonder if i can put these cards into the AGP slot on my motherboard.
I have some RAM from a prebuilt Pentium II from the mid-late 90's.. Cool what you found though OP.
Put one of them in and run something on full graphics.
The game would just crash on load.. Not really as interesting as you might have thought it would be.
Turns out the pump i listed isn't a pump, it's a PC controlled valve. If it were, it'd be the most awesome thing ever, i could water cool a water-cooling pump, for the sake of making an Xzbit pun . and the rest of the fans are either noisy as fuck or run on mains power. a 40gb hard drive i found works though, and now i have a free copy of MYOB.
It's funny how all of these cards didn't even have to have heatsinks or fans on them.
[I]Can it run Crysis?[/I] I'm joking, don't get mad.
[QUOTE=JWJ;23491323]It's funny how all of these cards didn't even have to have heatsinks or fans on them.[/QUOTE] Their technology wouldn't have gotten hot enough for them to require heatsinks (probably), and fans would've taken too much power.
Wait, there was AGP in 1994 already? I thought it was PCI all the way back then.
[QUOTE=JWJ;23491323]It's funny how all of these cards didn't even have to have heatsinks or fans on them.[/QUOTE] Though there's a heatsink on the last one
I still have one working in my Pentium III machine. It's aight for some SNES emulation.
I have just found 2001's IT magazines, like hundreds of them [editline]04:10PM[/editline] wow, 19' crt 400 bucks
I should make some junky art from all this old crap i have. Also, to add to my nerdy skills i know how to play smoke on the water by twanging my fingers on a pentium 2 heatsink. [editline]09:58PM[/editline] let's make this into a salvager's thread, seems appropriate.
[img]http://www.virginmedia.com/images/3dfx_card-history-431.jpg[/img] I remember having one of those along with a voodoo graphics accelerator. Red Alert was amazing back then.
[QUOTE=slayer3032;23492091][img]http://www.virginmedia.com/images/3dfx_card-history-431.jpg[/img] I remember having one of those along with a voodoo graphics accelerator. Red Alert was amazing back then.[/QUOTE] hey a I found one of those on the junkyard yesterday, and I want to know why this thing has an input VGA port
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3dfx_Interactive#Voodoo_Graphics_PCI[/url]
You know why ATI Rage is called "Rage"?
[QUOTE=PonceDeLeon;23494272]You know why ATI Rage is called "Rage"?[/QUOTE] Because it is fucking awesome.
I've got an ATI Rage IIC. Its mint. [img_thumb]http://i286.photobucket.com/albums/ll87/Demache/P7200642.jpg[/img_thumb] Thumb'd for large-ness.
Relevant: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huyzCJvS6UQ&feature=player_embedded[/media] Leo Laporte sure has aged...
[QUOTE=BenJ;23501719]Relevant: Leo Laporte sure has aged...[/QUOTE]Wow, my Compaq Deskpro must have been pretty high end back then (according to the BIOS, it was from 1998). When I bought it from a school for $10, it had a PII @ 333Mhz, and had 128 MB of SDRAM. Along with a AGP ATI Rage IIC (the one I posted above) and an ISA Sound Card. It probably had upgrades done to it along the way though. It WAS used until 2005.
[QUOTE=BenJ;23501719]Relevant: [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/#"]View YouTUBE video[/URL] [URL]http://youtube.com/watch?v=huyzCJvS6UQ[/URL] Leo Laporte sure has aged...[/QUOTE] Why does it stop there? I want screensavers damnit!
fyi those all came out in like 98-99, not 94
You think that's old? I got some fucking Yamaha graphics card lying around somewhere.
[QUOTE=JWJ;23491323]It's funny how all of these cards didn't even have to have heatsinks or fans on them.[/QUOTE] I remember when buying my first card that had a heatsink & fan. I was like "holy fuck this NEEDS a fan to run, WOW"
Pics or it did- ohsht
Reminds me of my first video card. I believe it was ATi, and had a massive [I]512KB[/I] of RAM
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