OK, so my friend has 9 of the 16 9700 Pros that his shop bought fail. He gets rather annoyed with the last, and pulls the heatsink off in a fit of rage. OK, so this looks like a standard 9700 Pro, right? Sure, but what about the other side..... Err, is this normal? Have ATI taken to using parts made by the opposition? Is it just me, or does that chip say FX 5200 ??? :smt009
It's probably a bootleg! ATI cooling fan... nVidia chips... err, WTF?! :smt030 Did you BTW take a peek at the actual video card, or did you just check out the pics only? The pics could have been altered... =================================== This is how the botton should look like:
Was it made in Hong Kong? ^_^ Unless you've seen them in person, my guess is he's just playing a joke on you. I've never seen anything like that before.
There have been several issues in the hardware buisness. Its kinda hardware-pirating. Truckloads of chips and (pre)assmebled hardware got stolen somewhere in china/taiwan and ppl. sold the crap raw or after modifying it.
I took the pics!!!! Here is a picture I took yesterday of my friend with the card. *EDIT* Picture removed by request! * If you ask Legit, Tachikoma, Paulo, Gleavepaul, or anyone else that was at ECTS/EGN last year, they will tell you that that is board member Gavindo! Sorry, not my fault I have a good camera that takes good quality pictures! It is Paulo's! Here's another, unaltered hi-res picture. If you doubt its source, feel free to download the image, ask Paulo what camera I have, and check the EXIF data.
Whoever tweaked that chip prolly couldn't decide if they wanted to install an nVidia or ATI, so they put them all together thinking they'd have double the power! :smt082
Hehe!! 9700 Pro and FX5200 aren't really on a par though, unfortunately!!! Yeah, dunno what's going on... but they die quite quickly!
Yeah! I'm still stuck with my nVidia 420 MX . Everything on my PC is advanced, the sound card, except my vid card.
It looks like they took the memory chips off of a GeForce FX5200 and stuck them on the 9700 PCB. Except the chips most likely don't run at the same exact speeds and latencies and it was probably crappily done to boot. It's almost dumber than this: http://www.hardocp.com/image.html?image=MTEyNjExMzE1M25saG1RZG1RZW9fMV8xX2wuanBn
yea, I wnt to see the box or whatever they came in.. some wierd distributor?! Who threw that on the market ...since ATI doesnt produce anymore (I think the last one the made with a "built by ATI" Label was the Radeon/AIW 8500?!)
Where did your friend, buy these from? The RAM chips on the top side, where the GPU is, look sanded down, you should be able to make out the Samsung name on those since thats what ATI used on the 9700s. As for the back ones with the labeling. They look as if someone printed that on them by themselves I guess, one of them looks off center.
The memory chips on the FX5200 aren't labeled that, they are labeled with the company name that manufactured the memory chips, Nvidia only makes the GPUs, Samsung, or Hynix or any other company makes the memory chips, then the manufacturer takes the nvidia gpu and those chips and puts them onto a board.
Rofl, quality, thanks for sharing retro hehe, how much do they retail for? ...Not to use, purely from the collectable, lmao perspective
The chinese mfg probably had an overstock of parts for the nvidia line, and decided to try to recover investment on the parts by putting the memory on the other product line.
WEnt to look for reviews of the fx5200 and i cant even find any that have chips that shape let alone with the logos. All the memory chips ive seen are rectangular shape and they only have 4 of them.
