How does your video card stack up?

Rubycon

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Size wise!

What you're looking at from top to bottom:

3DLabs Oxygen GMX AGP 96MB (about 11 years old!)
AMD HD5970 PCI-E 2.0 2GB
Nvidia 285GTX PCI-E 2.0 2GB

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Flipped over...

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So what kind of stuff do you have in your junk pile? Post it! (not saying the two current cards are junk - although the jury's out on the HD5970 ;) - they were to show how BIG the dinosaur really was! :eek:
 

zerocool84

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I'll go digging in the garage for my Voodoo 5 5500 but I think the 5870 might actually be longer then it. I also have an old 3D Blaster Banshee in there somewhere as well that I'll have to dig out.
 

cbn

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Does anyone know what the TDP was for 3D Labs Oxygen GMX?
 

Rubycon

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Does anyone know what the TDP was for 3D Labs Oxygen GMX?

Specs from 3DLabs:

Power requirement 5V @ 10W, 3.3V @ 15W
Geometry processing Hardware: GLINT Gamma processor
Rasterizer 2 GLINT MX rasterization engines
RAMDAC chip
Pixel frequency
TI TVP 4030
220 MHz
Memory 96 MB
 

cbn

Lifer
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15 watts? I figured it was low after seeing those fans, but not that low.
 

Soltis

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Interesting how much more work is put into the "look" of the card now as well.
Unfortunately I don't have any cards of my own to show yet, but will be doing my first build soon!
 

Rubycon

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15 watts? I figured it was low after seeing those fans, but not that low.

Total power is 20W. Not sure if that includes memory. All power is drawn through AGP slot. I don't think they had AGP Pro back then. I have Supermicro X5DAEs that are AGP Pro. Those are now 7 years old. :eek:

The fans are TINY.

They are actually cute and make neat whining noises when under driven. I may take them apart and scope the drivers to see what they're doing. :hmm:
 

Shmee

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my GTX 260 and 9800 GTX are pretty big...not as big as the dino or the 5970 though.
 

vshah

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i used to have a #9 card that was pretty long but its in storage at the moment...
 

ZipSpeed

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The 5870 is about the biggest card I ever owned. The Vapor-X Rev. 2 model I own is actually shorter than stock 5870s.
 

Dark4ng3l

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Wow a 5850 and a 5870? Those are some really nice cards though. You guys make my 5770 feel weak :(
 

nitromullet

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How does the original 7900GX2 stack up size wise to the new dual gpu cards?

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I had a 7950GX2 and it wasn't that big, but the 7900 was quite a bit bigger.
 

Attic

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Wow, holy shitballs. I forgot about the dual PCB cards. My 5770 looks small compared, but it's still sexi.
 

Apocalypse23

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Wow a 5850 and a 5870? Those are some really nice cards though. You guys make my 5770 feel weak :(

Yeah! I'm actually keeping the 5850 as I solved my motherboard overclock stability issue just now. These beasts look and perform beastly!
 

GodisanAtheist

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Anyone got a nice picture with the 5870/5850/GTX285/4870/4850 etc all lined up for size comparison purposes?
 

heyheybooboo

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I've got an old HP 'Visualize' card that was quite similar to the 3DLabs Oxygen. It's an AGP Pro that came with a 2P HP workstation. The box is still chugging along (but with a FireGL z-128 and an upgrade to 'Nice Try 5.0').

There is a current listing on Ebay for a Visualize FX6 Video Board.

This 'Last Millennium' graphics tech can be yours for $810 - LOL




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AuraNova

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The only cards I can find that are "old" are a Radeon 9250 and an Radeon 9600Pro. They were small ones though. The largest card I own is my current GTX 260.