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Chat 2023/02/07 (AGP video card that brings back memories)

I wonder if there was an evaluation version at the end, but in any case, this is the first time I've seen a photo of the actual thing. (I think there was a story about the 6000 in a magazine at the time.)

I couldn't imagine a video card that needed an AC adapter, but now it's common to have auxiliary power for video cards. That's scary.

I guess this was the time when the GeForce2 GTS appeared, and a little later, the RADEON was released. At that time, I think both nVIDIA and ATI released some kind of product every year. GeForce was also updated in order from 3 → 4 → FX (5) → 6 → 7 → 8 → 9 series at a pace of about 6 months to a year, and RADEON was not to be outdone, and was updated at about the same pace from 8500 → 9500 → 9800 → X800 → X1 → HD2 → HD3 → HD4 → HD5. I think the last video card I bought was the RADEON HD 5750. I think it was only possible to go as far as a mid-end card, without a power supply and without a fan.

There was also the now-defunct Matrox Parhelia, SIS Xabre, and S3 Chrome, but there were many variations, and manufacturers were still adding strange features, and compatibility issues that don't happen nowadays were common. Xabre would run FF11 bench but not FF11, and that was the strange time of the final AGP era.

There were many video cards whose dreams were shattered, such as the RADEON MAXX (a single video card with RADEON 2 cores that later saw the light of day as the X2 model) that was only planned, and the S3 Savage2000, which never had a Win2000 driver made, so it's a bit surprising that a prototype of the legendary Voodoo 5 6000 has suddenly appeared this time. However, if you just insert it into the AGP slot, it's so big that it might break, and it's a video card from the era when Windows XP was finally compatible, so I think the environments in which it can be properly evaluated are quite limited. (As far as I know, I think the last period of support was the i865 chipset era and the Athlon64 Socket754 era.)

Seriously, I couldn't have imagined that AsRock would establish a position in the mainstream market, or that ECS and Aopen would quietly disappear. After all, when I heard that Intel started making video cards again, I still think, "Are they going to lose again?"

It's been more than 10 years since I quit building my own PC. I'd like to put one together soon. I don't have any use for it lol

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