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Rare GPUs / Unreleased GPUs

anyone got an A300 Ultra?
 
An A300 Ultra sold for ~$300 in late July early Aug this year on eBay but it was in very rough shape with all stickers removed, the shroud drilled, and the fans replaced with conventional 60-80mm fans. Everything but the stickers could easily have been replaced with A350 parts. I was thinking about it but decided that the 5800 ultra cooler is the most significant part of the story, given plentiful NV30 quadro availability, and cheap A350s showing up multiple times a year.

edit: upon further review the front shroud is offset between the two with the fans, and fan mounting mechanism, being the same. The shroud likely is the same but it is hard to tell without both cards in hand.
 
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Gigabyte N560UD-1GI rev3.0
Gigabyte N560SO-1GI rev2.0
I can't believe I even got the rev3.0. It has the same PCB as the SOC 2.0 but using different mosfets, it isn't officially supported in OCGuru software but all the VRM functions work with it regardless.
Rev3.0 is clocked at 822Core 1000Mem compared to SOC 950Core 1145Mem.
It reaches 1000MHz at stock 1025mV and gives a roughly 18% boost in performance it's is pretty nuts
Rev2.0 has been modded for better core and memory voltage stability
Both are using Samsung memory, they both do around 2400Mem. After mods Rev3.0 did up to 2640MHz in 3dmark and 2800MHz for a oclmembench run at 1.82v hitting 162.4GB/s

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madness777 said:
Gigabyte N560UD-1GI rev3.0
Gigabyte N560SO-1GI rev2.0
I can't believe I even got the rev3.0. It has the same PCB as the SOC 2.0 but using different mosfets, it isn't officially supported in OCGuru software but all the VRM functions work with it regardless.
Rev3.0 is clocked at 822Core 1000Mem compared to SOC 950Core 1145Mem.
It reaches 1000MHz at stock 1025mV and gives a roughly 18% boost in performance it's is pretty nuts
Rev2.0 has been modded for better core and memory voltage stability
Both are using Samsung memory, they both do around 2400Mem. After mods Rev3.0 did up to 2640MHz in 3dmark and 2800MHz for a oclmembench run at 1.82v hitting 162.4GB/s

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Holy shunt-mod batman!!
 
Thanks for bumping this thread it gives me something to do while procrastinating.

On the past page, in my long post about the emergence of blower cooling, I mentioned that I would post a briefly about Artic cooling. As a refresher these cards are not really rare and that is in large part a testament to how great the design was. Due to this I will not dwell on nVidia and ATi's reference design cooling struggles for the high end in the DX9 era even though I could go on for ages on this topic. By the time DX10 hit both companies reference designs settled on what we would now consider standard blower coolers.

While nVidia and their partners struggled to come up with a good cooling design to deal with ever increasing TDPs towards the end of the GeForce 4 series lineup the ground shifted under them. ATi stole the performance crown with a fairly efficient design in the R300 of which the Radeon 9700 Pro was the high end variant. Although the reference design did fairly well Artic Cooling released a revolutionary aftermarket cooler that in my opinion was the first blower cooler without major flaws. Below is an image of a standard 9700 Pro and one with the aftermarket Artic Cooling VGA silencer.

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This cooler was so successful that HIS started using Artic Coolers on their 9800 Pro and continued to use them for a very long time on their IceQ line.

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Artic Cooling continues to release many great aftermarket coolers compatible with both ATi/AMD and nVidia and is now fairly prominent again with their great price/performance fan and AIO designs.
 

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madness777 said:
Gigabyte N560UD-1GI rev3.0
Gigabyte N560SO-1GI rev2.0
I can't believe I even got the rev3.0. It has the same PCB as the SOC 2.0 but using different mosfets, it isn't officially supported in OCGuru software but all the VRM functions work with it regardless.
Rev3.0 is clocked at 822Core 1000Mem compared to SOC 950Core 1145Mem.
It reaches 1000MHz at stock 1025mV and gives a roughly 18% boost in performance it's is pretty nuts
Rev2.0 has been modded for better core and memory voltage stability
Both are using Samsung memory, they both do around 2400Mem. After mods Rev3.0 did up to 2640MHz in 3dmark and 2800MHz for a oclmembench run at 1.82v hitting 162.4GB/s

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Got rev 1.0 on the table. Let me know, if you want it?
 
In anticipation of ATi/AMD being competitive again I thought I should share another rare card. This card is again focused on the evolution of GPU cooling.

The card below is a Sapphire 3870 Toxic. Sapphire was the first to release a desktop GPU featuring a vapor chamber cooler with some of their 3870 cards. This allowed them to get similar performance to the standard two slot blower cooler 3870 in a single slot variant that looks more like a standard 3850.

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An even rarer variant was sent out to reviewers in a cool box called the 3870 Atomic but I've never seen one for sale. The Atomic uses a red reference PCB with a few slightly different vrm heatsinks while the Toxic features a tweaked blue PCB. The Atomic also shipped in a case like the ATi x1950xtx Uber edition.

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Here is to hoping that we get some sweet Sapphire custom cards again. :respect:
 
Thanks for the kind words I'll have more to post on the next stage of cooler development and another engineering sample to share in the coming weeks if I have enough free time.

I am currently holding back because I want to research period correct 92mm and 120mm fans from 2007-2008 before testing and posting the next round of cards. If anyone knows what I should purchase please send me a PM.

Edit: In the meantime I'll post an empty best buy preorder 9700 pro box that I picked up for $27 shipped to compliment an earlier post. Strangely the box has the same printing on the front and backside unlike the retail version. There are also slight differences on the information on the sides of the box.

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Nvidia GeForce FX 5800 Ultra | eBay

<p dir="ltr">Used Nvidia GeForce FX 5800 Ultra. I'm the original owner of the card. I held on to it mostly for the novelty of it. It has been stored in a parts bin inside an ESD bag and in a climate controlled environment. I have not tested it because I do not have a pc with an AGP slot.</p>
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Today I have a 6900 engineering sample to share before the launch of the RX 6900XT tomorrow.

Unfortunately, I cannot get it to run in GPU-Z or get drivers to load otherwise I'd upload the two bios files. Perhaps I should try an OS other than XP.

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Well it is a 6900 series but not an RX for those that don't get the /s of this post.

For those interested in the HD 6000 series Fouquin made a great post way back on page 5 of this very thread with a ton of rare samples from this timeframe:

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Rare GPUs / Unreleased GPUs

Oops I could have taken a much better picture. Sorry! I just grabbed the phone to snap a quick one without really thinking about setting up the camera. Length of the card is 192mm, or 7.56in. Quick edit: I feel a bit dorky. I've got like 80 GPUs and that little 9800 GT is the best I have to...
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HD 6900 series ?
Reminds me that I have a brick laying around. ASUS HD 6970 shown for reference, because it looks very similar to OtterSpace's 6900er ES.
Sorry for the bad quality pictures, have no better camera, otherwise I had shown the card(s) earlier.

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Ati Radeon sticker, not Radeon AMD. Sticker and fan are original ones.

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Red PCB C200-31-00B. Some extra parts around the GPU, but missing parts down left. Card is electrically dead.

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TOMCAT said:
HD 6900 series ?
Reminds me that I have a brick laying around. ASUS HD 6970 shown for reference, because it looks very similar to OtterSpace's 6900er ES.
Sorry for the bad quality pictures, have no better camera, otherwise I had shown the card(s) earlier.

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Ati Radeon sticker, not Radeon AMD. Sticker and fan are original ones.

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Red PCB C200-31-00B. Some extra parts around the GPU, but missing parts down left. Card is electrically dead.
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Appears to be an engineering/ review sample as it has a remnant of the green sticker on the back, but what it is I can't say.
 
Darthgrey said:
Same card (Tesla P100 ES) with stock water cooling system was selling on ebay for a long time with the price over $1000. Seems like somebody bought it at last.

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I wonder if the display out works or if it can be ran with drivers
 
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