Hey all,
Some time back in begin of 2021 I bought these 7 cards from a Matrox Employee from Matrox HQ Ireland for 45 Euros with free shipping
This was a marvelous day, all seven cards work fine as well, but I wasn't so certain on why the Parehlia looked as if it was missing parts ...
And when I look at my Parhelia Universal AGP 256MB 256Bit DDR many of the capacitors seem to be missing just like with the Universal AGP 128MB version, even though it looked as if these parts were removed from my Universal AGP 256MB DDR, even it looked more normal on the 128 MB model of this older variant as if they were never added.
The later AGP x8 models of these cards, they have an entirely different layout, but I did add a photo of one just for reference.
So here the area I want to show on where many capacitors are missing on the Universal AGP models, the center upper area near the white name decal of the card;
The pic on the right is the Universal AGP 256MB DDR I have now, and it looks these missing parts were removed as with the Uni 128MB it looks as if they were never placed..
P512 AGP Universal 128MB:
P512 AGP Universal 256MB:
Here the same pic of the later AGP x8 model, as you see that same upper center area is entirely different, these also have more parts placed there as well:
P512 AGP x8 256MB:
So should I be worried and send my P512 AGP Universal 256MB DDR to someone to have those missing parts added?
If not, can other P512 AGP Universal 256MB DDR owners please tell me some helpful advice?
Many thanks for reading