AGP Banshee that appears to be a Provideo PV810 or maybe the full name is DCS Provideo DeMON PV810. That's checking to tdfx.de and 3dfx-banshee.de.
Some evidence of the mosfet having run hot eg the other side of the PCB is discoloured; apparently that's not especially unusual. Otherwise the card looks perfect to my untrained eye apart from some previous owner daubing it liberally with marker pen.
Was having trouble booting this card until now but it seems to have been due to my case AGP slot screw not lining up correctly. So I think this card works fine after all but I need to test more to be confident.
Was £20 when I thought it was broken (*), now £100 plus P&P assuming it checks out on some repeat testing. If it fails then it will be back to £20... Wait and see.
Paypal gift unless I know you, we have dealt successfully together, or you have a lot of feedback.
For customs purposes: country of origin is I think Taiwan. Buyer takes risk of any customs problems.
Taxes and customs duties down to buyer.
(* I said I would try a few more times tonight to get this to boot and if it does then I may decide against selling it, and it's actually booting now, although early on it artefacted terribly on th BIOS and dos boot-up screens but has been running absolutely fine since ... so who knows, maybe it needed some exercise, maybe it has an intermittent fault. Sod's law it's turned out to be surprisingly good in many ways. Will keep for now, hence closing thread.)
Some evidence of the mosfet having run hot eg the other side of the PCB is discoloured; apparently that's not especially unusual. Otherwise the card looks perfect to my untrained eye apart from some previous owner daubing it liberally with marker pen.
Was having trouble booting this card until now but it seems to have been due to my case AGP slot screw not lining up correctly. So I think this card works fine after all but I need to test more to be confident.
Was £20 when I thought it was broken (*), now £100 plus P&P assuming it checks out on some repeat testing. If it fails then it will be back to £20... Wait and see.
Paypal gift unless I know you, we have dealt successfully together, or you have a lot of feedback.
For customs purposes: country of origin is I think Taiwan. Buyer takes risk of any customs problems.
Taxes and customs duties down to buyer.
(* I said I would try a few more times tonight to get this to boot and if it does then I may decide against selling it, and it's actually booting now, although early on it artefacted terribly on th BIOS and dos boot-up screens but has been running absolutely fine since ... so who knows, maybe it needed some exercise, maybe it has an intermittent fault. Sod's law it's turned out to be surprisingly good in many ways. Will keep for now, hence closing thread.)
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