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Is an unopened TNT2 worth something?

Barfo

Barfo

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I saw one yesterday in a nearby store and I was wondering if it has some collectors value or is it just worthless trash.
 
I see a new EVGA one on eBay for $4 and $11 shipping (lol). M64 version.

Talk about these old cards makes me want to play Diablo II again.
 
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The cardboard might be worth something. Heck, you might get a bit for the gold plated connectors.

The card itself is worthless. If something has been mass produced, it is worthless. Things that are considered collectors items are those that see like 100 released and then production stopped because of some flaw or whim.
 
Barfo said:
I saw one yesterday in a nearby store and I was wondering if it has some collectors value or is it just worthless trash.
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You can buy it now, and then pass it to your offspring, and they can pass it to theirs, and after about 10 or so generations of passing it down, it will be a collectors item, and it will be in some museum. Though, even then, it won't won't break the MSRP price. 😀
 
I actually got $50 for my used Voodoo5 5500 PCI last summer. Been sitting in the box in the closet for years and when I moved I decided to sell a bunch of stuff. Amazed people still want such old hardware.
 
I just bought a 3DLabs Wildcat VP 990 Pro brand new on eBay for $40. It is worth something to someone, especially if it is brand new like that.

I would see if you can get it for cheap.
 
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please provide name/number of the sucker who bought it from you. I need to sell this bridge...
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Eh, some people buy specific hardware for "nostalgia" systems. I had a friend piece together a Windows 95 (!!!) box a few years ago just to play a few old games. The hardware wasn't the part that scared me, the OS on the other hand...
 
I went near the store yesterday, the guy wants $20 for it lol, do not want.


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I actually got $50 for my used Voodoo5 5500 PCI last summer. Been sitting in the box in the closet for years and when I moved I decided to sell a bunch of stuff. Amazed people still want such old hardware.
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Really? I have one laying around, I was saving it for running Glide stuff but it's not going to happen. Wish I could get $50 for it.
 
Its worth -2 dollars.

Keep it as a souvenir hang it up on the shelf, no one is gonna touch that with a ten foot pole.

Now that I think of it, this is a great card for UT99 technology from 12 years ago. Its competitor is Voodoo 3 , hehe good luck and gb
 
Barfo said:
I went near the store yesterday, the guy wants $20 for it lol, do not want.




Really? I have one laying around, I was saving it for running Glide stuff but it's not going to happen. Wish I could get $50 for it.
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The PCI ones are the only ones people will pay for, the AGP ones do not play well with modern AGP motherboards.
 
Modern video cards have broken support for old 3D games. There have always been problems, but starting with the DX10 parts dithering fuck ups and flat out black screens have been pretty common, and there have been no fixes short of hacking the exe files of old games and manually working around the bug. There are no fixes coming from ATI or Nvidia at this point.

People may be interested in these cards for nostalgia (particularly true of 3dfx parts, most people have fond memories of those cards) but I've purchased a few x1300 cards so I could still play games like dungeon keeper 2 and jedi knight. I happen to have a second pci-e 16x slot, but many people only have a PCI slot. PCI-E and AGP slots rarely coexisted on the same motherboard. Check out the awful markup on the terrible pci (and pci-e 1x) cards available on newegg and you'll understand why people are sometimes willing to pay a lot for an old card.

That said, I don't see anything particularly special a TNT2 AGP. The card is old as hell, and there are other faster parts available if you happen to have an AGP slot. If you're looking for compatibility in that segment, geforce ti4xxx cards, radeon 9800s or maybe the x800 lines are better bets.
 
Christmas tree ornamets come to mind...? Did it one year long time ago but the hardrive we used for angel made it look like Charley Brown christmas tree...:biggrin:


Or possibly donate it to the Smithsonian...? (possible tax write off...?)
 
I'd say that certain cards do have sentimental/historical value, depending on the buyer. And, of course, they will only increase in value as they age and their rarity goes up.

A TNT2 is a landmark card because it was probably THE first 3d gaming card that could competently run the games of its time in 32-bit.

With that said, the TNT2 was a very mass-produced card, so it like other landmark cards like the 9700 Pro, 9800 Pro, GeForce 2 GTS, etc. are probably too common to have serious collector's value right now. Cards like the Voodoo 5 or even the FX 5800 Ultra would have nostalgia value for me because they were cards that were too expensive/slow/etc for their time but were novel for their day in several respects.

If I were starting a video card museum, I'd definitely want a TNT2 in there - but not an icky M64 version, if possible 😉 .
 
This thing is ancient hardware from 1998. 12 years old, save it as a souvenir OR

put it on ebay and some dumb fudges will bid on it and next thing you know you pocketed 40 dollars.. gl
 
You should play DUKE3D and Descent with that card on a seperate rig LOL or doom 2 multi lol it will handle the openGL lol
 
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