NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Rev.A2 5009 Engineering Sample Obtained!

    Zitat von GrandAdmiralThrawn

    When do you actually expect that second prototype to arrive?

    Well it's reserved for me, but due to my slow funding, on October 25, 2013 I will pay it and about 1 to 2 weeks from that day it should arrive :)

    So reserving it is the first thing I did to avoid her from selling it on ebay to someone else 8) So now it's safe at her place and when I make the payment she will professionally pack it, she is really good at this and ship it with United State Postal Service to me :)

    Einmal editiert, zuletzt von Gold Leader (11. Oktober 2013 um 14:20)

    Zitat von Gold Leader

    As them pics go, which you showed me, wow that is very interesting! 8| :thumbup: I really never knew that there were GF100 Rev.A3's with 512 Shaders! 8| Dayum that is very interesting indeed! :thumbup:

    They tested different variations of Shader could, memory bus and clock speeds before they reached the best compromise that eventually hit the market.

    Zitat von Gold Leader

    Hmm, do you own those two? If so, some pics would be very welcome, of the cards themselves as top and rear sides go, as for their PCB dates that is also of great interest :)
    As for the A1's, how did they look like actually?
    Are there any photos of these?

    Yes I own those cards but didn't get around to make actual pictures of them.

    Zitat von Gold Leader

    I'd be very interested to see them too, if that s possible :)
    Is this an A1 perhaps:
    http://semiaccurate.com/2009/10/01/nvidi?rmi-boards-gtc/

    The GF100-A1 chip might be genuine from the images in the link you posted but the card is definitely fake. You can see that from the 6Pin power connectors. Connectors on the A1 I have are 1x6Pin and 1x8Pin back top corner. Again I haven't got any pictures of it stored I've been too busy traveling for work.

    The GF100B is the early name for the GF110 GPUs but some of those had issues as well and were castrated as can be seen here:
    http://postimg.org/image/9b29agjel/

    The same was for GF114 which initial was called internally GF104B.

    Cheers,
    G1nX

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    Ah okay well if you ever get to it, please post them pics of your A1, A2 & A3 in this thread, that would really fit in exceedingly well :respekt:8)

    Thanks for the info, funny seeing a GF114 as a GF100-A1 with 384 Cores and 256Bit GDDR5 and then seen as a GF110-A1 rofl as in a GTX 580 :topmodel:

    3 Mal editiert, zuletzt von Gold Leader (11. Oktober 2013 um 18:05)

    Well great news today my VA friends!!!! :topmodel:xD:spitze::respekt:

    After 3 years and 5 months trying to find me a GTX 480 ES with a geForce led Logo, now a good 1 year later I have the missing GeForce Led Module attached to my GTX 480 ES !!!!

    Many thanks go to Loschzwerg from Voodooalert.de for making me the GeForce led Module!

    Now here some pics of the Led Module and it mounted on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 PCI-E 1280MB 320Bit GDDR5 Rev.A2 5009 Engineering Sample !!!

    Here my GTX 480 ES with it's Shroud disassembled and the GeForce Led Module ready for placement:
    http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/6132…for+placing.jpg

    Here the other side of the GeForce Led Module showing the three led lights which Loschzwerg attached to a piece of PCB which he made to apply the three leds to:
    http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/6133…e+Led+setup.jpg

    Here the GeForce Led Module in it's place, on how it would be arranged
    http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/6133…Led+placing.jpg

    Here a shot taken from the other side, the GeForce Logo would neatly light up, well that is the idea! :topmodel::spitze:
    http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/61339-1/Perfect+fit.jpg

    This is where you connect the power connector of the GeForce Led Module to the GTX 480 Engineering Sample's Led Power Connector which is located at J8:
    http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/6134…nects+to+J8.jpg

    Here the GeForce Led Module connected to J8
    http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/6134…ected+to+J8.jpg

    Here the shroud reapplied and the GeForce Led Module in place
    http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/6134…+Led+Module.jpg

    Here a clearer shot of the GeForce Led Module in place and how the power cord leads to J8:
    http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/6135…+Led+Module.jpg

    Here the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 PCI-E 1280MB 320Bit GDDR5 Rev.A2 5009 Engineering Sample in all it's glory, this is how NVIDIA planned to make the GTX 480 look like at first, before it has issues with the company that was going to provide NVIDIA the leds for the GTX 480 cards!
    http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/6135…ogo+lit+up_.jpg

    And here an other shot of the GeForce Led Logo in all it's glory! :thumbup::thumbup:
    http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/6135…thout+flash.jpg
    This image was taken without the flasher, even that it is not easy to get these pics right though

    So yeah mission accomplished as this goes, my research is now finally complete, this was well worth finding out and also obtaining one of the first GeForce cards that came with GeForce Led Logo's that could light up with a GeForce Led Module :thumbup::thumbup:

    Einmal editiert, zuletzt von Gold Leader (19. Februar 2014 um 13:17)

    Awesome stuff! 8) :D

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    Zitat von Raff

    Nice card! :respekt:

    Just one other thing: Where can I get this fire6.exe? Was it really a 3dfx stability test? Never heard of it! 8o

    MfG,
    Raff


    Many thanks bud :thumbup:

    It's that I still have lots of 3dfx contacts, some to which which many hardly know, some of they have given me some handy information and tools, Fire6.exe is one such tool 8)
    PCI.exe is an other, with this you can read out VGA card biosses and check them if they are working okay and are detected properly with the correct values, something like that anyway, heh :)

    As Fire6.exe goes, well I have that of course :)
    But norries, I can get you it, as I still have it in my dropbox, here it is 8)
    https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8032364/Fire6.exe

    Have fun! xD Hank once gave me this to stability test my 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700, I had it ever since :)
    It's very handy to stability test other branded Engineering Samples as well as production cards, it uses OpenGL 1.2 or so, I find it always handy, if Fire6.exe shows glitching or it crashes then you know something is terribly wrong with your VGA card ;) 8)

    2 Mal editiert, zuletzt von Gold Leader (3. März 2014 um 14:05)