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chipcollector
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 Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:10 pm Post subject: Video card collectors?? HUGE (and sell for more than CPUs!) |
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Apparently there are video card collector communities than are LARGER than our CPU community.. just talking to some people, and they have cards in the same category as our chips, some selling for as much as $10,000! What gives?
Has anyone heard of these people? I mean I assumed people collect all sorts of stuff, but I didn't know they spend that kind of money on videocards. I figured the chip community is larger.. but then again I've never seen old video cards sell for more than $2 on ebay 
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This is all taking from information this one guy told me. I personally think the video card collecting community is trash compared to the CPU's. He just blocked me on msn because he was convinced video cards revolutionized the computer world
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JAC
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:22 pm Post subject: Re: Video card collectors?? HUGE (and sell for more than CPU |
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| chipcollector wrote: | they have cards in the same category as our chips, some selling for as much as $10,000! What gives?
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Are you talking Zimbabwe Dollars? |
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chipcollector
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject: Re: Video card collectors?? HUGE (and sell for more than CPU |
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| JAC wrote: | | chipcollector wrote: | they have cards in the same category as our chips, some selling for as much as $10,000! What gives?
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Are you talking Zimbabwe Dollars? |
LOOOOOOL you're probably right, I mean their whole collection revolves around one company "3DFX", and he was convinced that 3DFX revolutionized the computer industry.
I said try plugging a monitor cable into a card, and see if it turns on by itself
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JAC
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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To be fair.. there were a few landmark video cards in history. I remember going from CGA to EGA .. ( yes it was a big deal back in 1988! It meant I could play games in 16 colours, not just 4. )
Then for me, the next significant card over the ISA bus was the VL Bus card ( plugging that card into your mobo was like walking on creaking floorboards )
Then along came faster cpus and games, and for a while the best card combo was the Matrox with a second card like the Diamond Monster 3D card. You used a pass through link cable to connect them.
I have all these cards and more. I ought to dig through it when I have the time.
Anyway, I guess I can see why people collect them. Nowadays the GPU are fully fledged "CPUs" in their own right, but you wont find me collecting them. |
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frag_
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The most expensive videocard I ever seen on ebay (except new professional monsters like Quadro) was VooDoo 5 6000 - around $1000,
other models are much cheaper, < $100 for the VooDoo 5 5500 PCI and so on.
BTW I have ~ 120 cards in working condition. |
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andamus
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| As far as I know here in Italy there is a collector that have the Voodoo 6000 prototipe and the only one Voodoo Rampage (the VSA100 successor) |
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doccybrown
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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The Voodoo 5 / 6000 was that one with
four cooling fans!!! 
Some professional graphic workstation
video boards from IBM, HP and SGI
are really cute too! 
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CPUShack
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kosmokrator
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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hahahahah...
come on....cpus is important than gpu's...
well i have also some old vga....not many 10-15...
and take me too much space how u can store 100 and so....of them man (frag)? |
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doccybrown
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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Storage is no prob 
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kosmokrator
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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r u kidding?????
hahahahahahahahaha
well my room isnt so messy but close ...  |
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Gigi
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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| doccybrown wrote: | | Storage is no prob |
That's so ... geeky ^^ |
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doccybrown
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 5:43 pm Post subject: |
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Not my room, I swear!
Guess I have around 10 video cards, some other and
15 mobo`s - that are two boxes below
a shelf in the utility room....
Next to that the 20 big boxes filled with vintage
CPU-cards of course
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D.8080
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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I have a few vid cards, the maintream stuff you get "recycling" friend's pcs...
10K for a vid card is just plain stupidity, you have money to throw away thus emptying the sense of collecting.
As for motherboards, I try to have at least one specimen of each socket/slot that existed. |
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smithy
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| Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 6:28 pm Post subject: |
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| doccybrown wrote: | | Storage is no prob |
Now that is disgusting....own up, who's room is it?? |
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