Video card collectors?? HUGE (and sell for more than CPUs!)

[Neon_WA]

i like the lava lamp... its a nice final touch to balance the decor of the room

i didnt realise you were an interior decorator also

[JAC]

I think it is Chip69's room.

[CPUShack]

nah not enough databooks

[JAC]

nah, he gets those down the flea market where he turns tricks for old library books which he then sells on egay for food.

[kosmokrator]

e-gay???

for food?

Lol!!!!!

[Windmiller]

Paul, Where do these collectors congregate at? I would appreciate a link to the forum. I collect GPUs as well but not very actively.


I actually started collecting GPU's before CPU's and have some very early samples of a technology called PixelPlane that was developed locally at the University of North Carolina. The original idea was a HUD for fighter pilots but it kind of evolved from there. I recently visisted one of the engineers that worked on the early portion of the project and got to see some interesting helmets with prototypes of the HUD. Next time I will bring a camera!! The engineers from this project went on to develop products at Nintendo, Nvidia, Atari and HP. I am trying find an example of each PixelPlane chip from 1.x up to 4.5 and hope to have a section on my website for it.


http://www.cs.unc.edu/~pxfl/pxpl-summary.html

I just got two ATI x1950 Crossfire Edition engineering samples two weeks ago and will be selling them later today on the For Sale thread.


Some pics of various PixelPlane IC's.






The ceramic board w/ separate die was for testing thermal capabilities and has funny quotes and saying on each chip.

[chipcollector]

Maybe I said it all wrong, I like collecting GPUs as chips, but collecting complete videocards is such a hassle for me. I never found them interesting

Brennan,

Here is the link he gave me:

http://forum.voodooalert.de/

[doccybrown]

Hehe, a german forum, typical
for such important things!

[Wizzard1]

Hey, maybe they can help me... I have this WICKED graphics card, it's ancient but I know it's a serious card, and I can barely find anything about it.

It's made by NeTpower, and it's a "TrueFX Ultra". It has 2 processors, 2 SIMM slots, another big IBM processor on the far side... I know it's a workstation 3D accelerator from a rackmount system, from the mid-90's. The card is HUGE, 31cmx12.5cm and very pretty Maybe I'll post a pic?

[chipcollector]

Sure go for it! I'll dig up some video cards too and take some pics

[donutty]

I've got a Voodoo 1 and some ATI cards, and this week at work I desoldered the chips from a couple o gf8600 cards. Also have a few GPUs from N64, Gamecube and the like.

Chipcollector - have you been talking to the guy who framed his old graphics card and tried to sell it on ebay for $500 or something ?

[debs3759]

[Qwerty]

[debs3759]

Because I am still competitive, and CUDA would enable me to improve my stats on distributed networking projects like SETI and others with GPU apps. Not all 8600 are worth buying for more than pennies, but some are (although faster is better for the faster systems).

[chipcollector]