VoodooAlert - let´s get loud

Last Monday night my Neighbourman gave me this good oldie

Hercules 3D PROPHET 9700 PRO AGP + TV-Out/DVI 128MB DDR 256Bit Limited Red X-MAS Edition Rev.A 0243 Boxed 100% complete! and it still runs like it did 3.5 years ago


Topside


Backside:


Closeup of the outputs


I shot togeather with the befamed Rage Fury MAXX


Herc 9700 Pro + Rage Fury MAXX Top Rear:


Herc 9700 Pro + Rage Fury MAXX Back:


Herc 9700 Pro and Box Front:


Herc 9700 Pro and Box Top:



This model is a limited Red X-Mas Edition card about 5000 of there were made before this model Hercules had this Standard Blue model as thier main Production model:


When X-Mas came the Hercules Radeon 9700 Pro because of it's great succes had a PCB colour change to Red for a short period of time and around about Februari 2003 the Blue PCB'd cards returned but without the blue paint on the ram sinks for better heat absorbsion:


Some other rumors of that Red Herc 9700 Pro was that the Blue PCB was out of stock and that was in the X-Mas period of 2002 til mid Feb 2003 hehe but still a nice piece to own now hopefully I can find the other 2 also

yeah thanx to my good neighbours always was looking for this card, within 3 weeks I will post pics of my next ATi card the X850XT Platinum Edition AGP Boxed from ATi

well afaik the red one was made because Hercules was out of Blue PCB the Blue ones are very common sionce all Hercules 9700 Pro cards were Blue and not Red, the Red Edition was made in limited numbers after Februari 2003 the Blue PCB'ed Hercules 9700 Pro's returned only with coppercoloured heat sinks.

the normal ATi Radeon 9700 Pro's were indeed Red, but the normal Hercules 9700's Pros were Blue and not red, so a Red Hercules 9700 pro is much more exclusive than a blue one

For Hercules it's just the other way around.

for a Hercules 9700 Pro it is, they are normally Blue and not red , Oh well I used it to replace my Ti4600 and within another 3 weeks a X850XT Platinum Edition will replace my 6800GT AGP ATi cards are just better.

nope hercules bought the red PCB's from Saphire because they ran out after constructing about 5000 cards they made blue ones again. the red PCB'ed Herc 9700 Pro's were around only for a very short time. after this Red Edition they went back to mak'n blue models but with copper coloured heatsinks instead of the standard blue ones.

oh well I got this card for free, BTW congrats with your X1900XT card aka R580

After R481 aka X850XT PE AGPP I'll wait for R600/R680 or something no more GeForce cards had too much problems with those things. the best GeForce I had was a Ti500 and Ti4600 after that it was ATi only for great experiences, I did give the 6800GT a run but even that card gave graphical problems in FS 2004 when flying higher than 7000 feet above an ociean or lake.

ATi has better PCB quallity.

oh yeah I see now why not the X1900XT? I mean they are cheaper than X1800XT's and alot faster also.

or did you make the order before the the release of the X1900XT?

anyways the R520 is indeed a sweet thing to have hay it would fly circles around my upcomming X850XT Platinum Edition hehe that's for sure, oh well the X850XT PE AGP is for me perfect I'm sure it will do fine for the next few years Flight Simulator 2006 is my goal

well performance wise yes Look:

X1800XT
X1900XT

look at the cheapest X1800XT and compare that with the cheapest X1900XT here in the netherlands the most gamers would pay like 5 euro's more for a much better performer, the X1800XL is indeed alot cheaper that one is around 348 euro.

yeah I agree there though I have to pay the customs alot so even then I would still pay alot. anyways the X850XT PE AGP is fine like i said before it's way better than the 6800GT AGP I had just a few days ago, it's even faster than the 7800GS AGP look at this


even faster than the 7800GT PCI express card hahah LoL


those benches just shows ATi AGP at it's best and that AGP is not dead yet hehe

If I was gonna go for a PCI-Express card it would deffinitly be an ATi X1900 class card the CrossFire model with the XTX but that is my dream hehe if I would do that , I would need a new Mobo, CPU and so on, can't afford that right now, won't be needing that either, but yes it would be nice to obtain one day I'm sure it will happen hehe


ATi's R600 would be my next goal that chip is gonna blow nVidia to oblivion, ATi's R300 did to nVidia's NV30 & NV35 hehe

ATi is teh King Yo! :hrr: :hrr:

Thanx for your nice reply Elusive the 6800GT was a good card in other things hehe I had the XFX GeForce 6800GT AGP Dual DVI before this ATi card, it's just that in Flight Simulators I prefer the ATi card, I can then play at max details @ 1600 x 1200 x32 with FSAA x6 AF x16 on the GeForce only FSAA x4 and AF x8 was possible and when flying abouve 7000 feet above sea level, I got rendering erros with lakes and so pon and this was with every Force ware driver out there and when I installed my ole 9700 Pro the graphical errors were gone, after that I tested a friend's X850XT PE and also a clean image.

So I tested the 6800GT in HalfLife2, Quake4 and so on and no problems there so strange that FS2004 does not run that perfectly, that's why I'm go'n for the X850XT PE AGP., Without a good fly'n machine I'm nowhere LoL

Well I have learned when installing a Voodoo5 5500 PCI next to an ATi Raddy that you must install the Voodoo5 manually via Hardware Device Manager and with KoolSmokey's Voodoo Control for the Control Pannel you can also use the desired FSAA modes of the Voodoo5 it's self This way I can Voodoo anytime when requested

3dfx still our main thing hehe, when it's once in ya it will always remain, 3dfx truely is the best thing that ever happened still sad they aren't around.

well tomorrow there will be a very very VERY nice package from the DHL mail man

and I will post pics of my new ATi toy

Sapphire X1900 XTX PCI-E 512MB GDDR3 1.1ns Dual DVI / AViVo / HDTV

it's for a whole new system hehe

AMD K9 Athlon64 X2 4400+ Toledo [2x 2.2Ghz, 2x 1MB L2]
ASUS A8R32 Deluxe ATi RD580 + ATi CrossFire Express 3200
Sapphire X1900 XTX PCI-E 512MB :hrr:
2x 1GB PC3200 Corsair XMS Platinum CAS2.

the new [arts should give the ATi R580XTX a very nice new home The Power Of The Force Shall Flow Through This System for sure it will