GPU Collections! (Show 'em if you got 'em.)

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Maybe I'm just insane to have such a fixation over GPUs. They do so much yet so little, and have such awesome and yet short history (for 3D especially) and the newer they are, the more badass they tend to look. Something about the designs and functionality gets to me, so much so that I've collected a massive amount! 

I want to extend an invitation to anyone here who has an excessive amount of GPUs to post pics or lists here. It's obviously just to show off, but it's mostly justs for kicks.

 

I'll start!

Warning: I have a potato camera at the moment, as the good one is currently in Vegas with family, so sorry for that.

 

ATI / AMD - Red Hot Radeons

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Left to right:

Column 1: Radeon X1950 Pro (x3)

Column 2: Radeon HD 2900 XT (x2), Radeon R9 290X, Firepro V7800 (Sneaky little FirePro got in here somehow. :P), Radeon HD 7970 GHz

Column 3: Radeon HD 3870 (x2), Radeon HD 7970 "Tahiti" Engineering Sample, Radeon R9 270X, Radeon HD 4870 1GB

Column 4: Radeon HD 4890, Radeon HD 4870, Radeon HD 4850 (x3), Radeon HD 4770 (Missing the heatsink, but it does work.)

(I didn't have room to fit everything in frame, so columns got mixed.)

 

NVIDIA - Feel the GEFORCE

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Left to right:

Column 1: GeForce 2 GTS, GeForce 2 MX, GeForce 4 Ti 4200, GeForce 6600 GT

Column 2: GeForce 9800 GX2, GeForce 8800 GT, GeForce 8800 GTS 640, GeForce 7900 GTX

Column 3: GeForce GTX 295, GeForce 9800 GTX+, GeForce 9800 GT 1GB, GeForce 9800 GT Low-Pro, GeForce GT120 (G96), GeForce 8400 GS Ver.3.0 (Fantastic little overclocker, holy crap...)

Column 4: GeForce GTX 690 (Soon to be sold), GeForce GTS 240, Quadro FX 3800 (I know, not a GeForce. But it's based off a 260, so there's that), GeForce GT 220 (With ATI RAM!), GeForce GT 440 (The mini Twin-Frozr is so cute!)

 

 

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!

 

 

 3Dfx Interactive - Who do YOU VooDoo?!

 

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Left to right:

 

Column 1: Intergraph Intense 3D VOODOO (2D and 3D on a single board! Wow!), Canopus PURE3D (6MB of awesome, a true classic)

Column 2: Creative Labs VooDoo 2 1000 12MB, Diamond Monster 3D II 12MB (These guys are still in SLI today in my '98 rig), Creative Labs VooDoo 2 1000 8MB, 3Dfx VooDoo 2 OEM


Column 3: 3Dfx VooDoo 3 3000, 3Dfx VooDoo 3 3500 (x2) (Not pictured: VooDoo TV breakout cable), 

Column 4: 3Dfx VooDoo 4 4500 (VSA-101! It has memory issues, which I'm looking to fix with a reflow.)

Column 5: 3Dfx VooDoo 5 5500 (This is the big guy, aside from the 6000 or the so very rare Rampage sample. Works like a charm!)

 

 

Alright, enough of that. I have many more uninteresting AGP and PCI cards lying around on shelves, but these are what I consider to be the interesting and mostly working ones. Hopefully you were bored- I mean, entertained!

 

Cheers!

Edit: Damn, only 49 cards shown! I should have tossed the Alliance Semiconductor AT-24 2D VPU in there with the 3Dfx cards to make an even 50. Oh well!

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Is this real life? Why do you have so many graphics cards lol? Are you a graphics hoarder?

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Impressive. Longtime gamer ? Okay answers my ?

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Lol

 

Taken with bad phone cam : 

 

2 270x's and one in the box , 3 290's 2 stock and a trix

 

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The twins :D 2 290's , on painted and one not 

 

Some of these are still for sale , and the only reason I had so many was for some friend builds / rma's ( had to do 4 , sapphire seems to have had a lot of bad cards .

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I worked at a PC recycling and resale shop for a good 16 months, and most of these came from there. They just sorta floated in, then floated out with me. The original intent was to build a decent catalog of cards to bench and compare, but I ended up just getting anything that was fun (such as the GT120 and 8400 GS V3).

All but 3 of these cards work and have been or will be tested on the bench. But to answer your question, yes I'm hoarding them. I have given quite a few away recently, such as a Radeon HD 4870X2, GTX 560, and a different GT 440.

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haha ok thats cool. I kinda wish I could have the opportunity to work at a PC repair shop, I love working on computers. But there just isn't anything like that where I live.

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I'd be lying if I said I wasn't interested in some 290s...

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That PNY GeForce 4 Ti 4200 was my first "gaming" card. Had it installed in a very slow Pentium 2 266 system, which is what I could afford at the time. Took weeks of work to get it. :P So, 12 years gaming give or take a few months.