Golden Chips

erek

erek

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Do all these chips appear to be golden to you? I'm betting on an eBay auction for my first set of gold chips

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Whats the auction URL, I can't even tell what that is from the blurry potato pic. It doesn't really look like a video card to me. And what is that interface, PCI-X 66? Some kind of weird server ASIC accelerator card maybe
 
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Burticus said:
Whats the auction URL, I can't even tell what that is from the blurry potato pic. It doesn't really look like a video card to me. And what is that interface, PCI-X 66? Some kind of weird server ASIC accelerator card maybe
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i don't want to share the URL because i'm bidding on it

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Yeah that is a PCI-X card for sure, here's a emulex HBA same kind of pinout

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Is it... THIS ONE?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/A4553A-HP-VISUALIZE-FX4-Graphics-Card-/113410163106

That's an ASIC card like I thought I have no idea what one would do with that in the real world.... and if you don't have a PCI-X server motherboard (which went out of style with the P4) I dunno what you'll do with it, unless you just want to hang it on your wall.

edit....Oh I see the DVI port now
 
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Burticus said:
Well hey, you got a better deal than google found for me. Wall Art?

I guess it does have a DVI port on it, bizarre
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i really like the aesthetics of those golden chips, that's why i'm interested

$25 for two of 'em
 
Burticus said:
and if you don't have a PCI-X server motherboard (which went out of style with the P4)
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PCI-X lived on until around the end of the Core 2 architecture. Intel for whatever reason revived PGA604 in 2007-2008 (the last Netburst 604 Xeon was released in 2005) for quad and hex core Xeons based on the Core 2 arch and many of the boards that supported those newer chips had a mix of PCI-X and PCIe slots. LGA771 boards often also had at least a couple of PCI-X slots.

Some PCI-X cards will work in regular PCI slots so long as there is room for the back part of the connector to overhang behind the slot. The obvious caveat is that they'll be operating at crippled bandwidths. I have a few PCI-X network cards which will work fine in a regular PCI slot, and I also have a few which will cause the system to not boot if plugged into a normal PCI slot (mostly SATA/SCSI raid controllers.)
 
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