The real rarity in this haul is the clear cooler with ZERO dust in it 😆 Nice haul! I'm looking forward to the Xabre video(s)! Oh, and super happy to see the testbench is working out for you!
wow xabre 600 is gorgeous. all these cards are near the dawn of when people began caring what their components looked like (thank you chieftec dragon) haha
Yeah, it's kinda sad what happened with SiS's Xabre and later XGI Volari series... So many woulda could shoulda been a contenders to break the duopoly in the early 2000s, but for this or that reason they couldnt hack it. S3 with their delta and gamme chrome seemed the best bet, good hardware, good prices; but VIA just didnt want people buying their products it seems as they did the same to their also very promising Nano cpu line later on.
So wild to me, that this company offered to send you this stuff from overseas like this, and then presumably going under so soon after. I mean I certainly hope that it wasn't like some great crime they were doing sending such product to you and all... Fantastic score with the Xabre cards!
Think the company was probably going under anyway and one of the employees was a fan that wanted to save these cards before they got thrown out or destroyed in the liquidation.
Congrats on the Xabre 600 working, hoping one day you will get Volari V8 Duo or its lower end siblings. Funny how rarity can really upended the rules of is near e-waste and what is considered Unicorn Unobtanium 20 years later. SiS engineers from back in the day, now your babies are finally loved. 😅
Even if you happen to stumble upon a Volari V8 Duo, there's a high likelihood of it being dead. They used a menagerie of vomit capacitor plague capacitors that are all by now VERY bad. The purple Sanyo polymer caps are especially nasty. They don't physically leak, but they get so badly electrically leaky that they effectively turn into resistors. And what's insidious about them is that they will show no outward signs of being bad due to being polymer caps. I had one come across my bench a while back, and it unfortunately died in the process of recapping it. These cards have a ridiculous amount of thermal mass due to being like 12 layer PCBs and having huge power planes. Even using low melt solder, I had a terrible time getting the board hot enough to remove the failed caps. It took me 12 hours to recap the entire card, and I was pretty devastated when powering it up gave me full screen yellow, green and red jail bars. I narrowed down the issue to one of the DDR memory chips on the rear of the card. If I freeze sprayed it, the card would actually start working. So it was either a cracked BGA ball, or the memory chip itself had failed. In either case, I wasn't equipped to do BGA rework on such a complex card. One additional issue is that at least one of the capacitors was installed backwards, but there was no way to remove it without destroying the caps around it. When I reviewed pictures of the card, it turns out that XGI had printed the component masking backwards, and even the original capacitor was backwards! I have no idea how it even worked originally and not exploded. I've repaired many rare and/or expensive video cards over the years, but I'll never touch an XGI Volari again.
@@GGigabiteM damn, and I know that pain having recently replaced a friends ps5 controller sticks with hall effects, that pcb was thin, but the solder Sony used might as well have been welding electrode it needed to get so red hot to flow. Well at least Volari Duos look pretty hanging on walls.
@@anasevi9456 The Volari that I recapped, I had used all red Wurth polymer capacitors. It looked really nice when it was finished, too bad it was a brick. $60 in caps down the toilet.
So happy to see the xabre 600 is working ! And looking forward to a video about the xabre cards... I have the same xabre 400 you got in the second shipping... dead ofc, but I hope to fix it one day !
Vertex shading can be done in software, as many early GMA models from Intel did, like the 900, 950 and 3100. It was slow as heck on games that made pretty heavy use of TnL but it was quite functional.
Hi Nathan, awesome donation, especially the Xabre Cards. I have never heard of them and I read PC Games Hardware (a PC magazine in Germany) regularly in the early 2000s. Thanks for sharing the details about these cards. They seem kinda scamy. I also didn't know that XGI was a merger of the graphics devisions of Trident and SiS... very interesting and kinda makes sense: the Volari was a great card on paper. In real benchmarks it was a POS - at least the cards were nice to look at 😀
If you want your Xabre collection to be complete, you have to get one of the motherboards where it was used as an iGPU. Yes they are rare but they do exist. An example is the ECS P4S8A. When I say iGPU it's not in the usual sense of the term but rather a motherboard with a Xabre built-in, because they have their own memory separate from system memory etc.
Hello, damn, beautiful and uncommon cards, not sure if that would be appropriate but I think I would had accepted the donations of more of the sweet stuff on that list just so I could do exchanges/donations with and to my pals, they went the extra mile there with a second shipment, someone there must had been a great fan of PixelPipes, shame they had to close operations, hope they are all right and also all the stuff landed safely into nice people like you.
For the Xabre 400 if it has those awful BGA RAM chips try removing the heatsink and press on them when the card is running to see if the problem is fixable cause it is very likely a RAM issue. An ATI 9700Pro I found has 1 BGA chip somehow desoldered partially and when you push on the chip it works correct, it does like your xabre 400 card. Maybe the ram chip needs replacement, but the card definitely worths the effort! Great findings Cheers from Greece Jim
It's no wonder that the SiS cards or sis in general aren't available, if it worked the drivers broke more then they fixed, bsods and such. Instability etc. I hoped I'd never hear from them again. Cool you got the cards though.
Ironically i ran across your channel on accident. I owned a xabre 400. I purchased it in 2002 specifically because it was advertised to run agp 8 and that you could use it to clip through walls in fps and mmo games to avoid campers in fps games and hard to clear monster areas in mmos lol. BTW the clipping did work in a few games. Sadly, i threw away my machine with the xabre last year when clearing out my mothers storage.
I bought an old Socket A system online not too long ago. The seller didn't list any specs, but I saw some silver heatsinks on the back of the video card, so I took a punt. Much to my excitement, it was the same 9600XT in your video. I have always loved GeCube's coolers of this time.
That should be a 3D glasses connector on the ECS Xabre. My ECS SiS 315 has one - still trying to find glasses for it however. I had to install drivers that were compatible with Xabre cards to get the utility needed for it (I think it is SiS driver 3.56, I'd previously used 3.51a for my SiS 315 and 315E). I'd love to have a Xabre card of my own...but the price is always out of my reach. Even SiS 315E are being sold at ridiculous prices on Ebay - and they are slower my TNT2 Vanta.
For a moment there, I got really excited because I thought that you had somehow acquired a true unicorn. A card so rare that the only photographs I've ever been able to find are of review samples. I'm, of course, talking about the Absolute Multimedia Morpheus GeForce 3. Also known as the 3D POWER Morpheus. Figured if anyone could get their hands on one it would be you.
@@PixelPipes It was a beautiful piece of kit. It came in a wooden box. Something that had never been done before (or possibly since). Pictures of it exist on review sites by searching for "Morpheus GeForce3". Absolute Multimedia cards are pretty rare but from time to time they appear on eBay. The ones under the "3D Power" moniker are non existent it seems. 3D Power, of course, being a company that was said to be founded by ex 3Dfx employees as an nVIDIA AIB back in 2001. As a snot nosed teen, I began taking pictures of all my setups - whenever I could get my hands on a digital camera. I have a gap in my collection and memories of owning the damn thing but I can't, for the life of me, find proof it ever existed. I can recall having my grubby hands on the box and thinking they were clearly trying to capitalize on the Matrix movie that had come out 2 years prior. If I had to guess I'd say I had purchased it from ZipZoomFly but one or two review sites state that the company was UK based. What brought this all back was seeing MSI's marketing team doing similar with the SUPREME fad by naming some of their cards "SUPRIM". Ah well. Since you seem to be into collecting older cards I figured if anyone had one, or could track one down, it would be you. Perhaps you could keep an eye out for it on your journeys. If I had to guess, I'd say it would have been a GeForce 3 Ti200 or 500.
@@PixelPipes Or did I? There in is the problem. I can unequivocally remember owning a Voodoo 5 AGP and then a PCI. I can vividly remember being mesmerized by the blue PCB of my 3D Prophet II GTS. Yet for the life of me I can't remember much about the Morpheus beyond it's extravagant packaging. I think, but am unsure, if I sold it to get a PNY Verto GeForce 4 shortly after I got it. Regardless. I really wish I would have kept it (if I really had one) as both companies seem to have been forgotten about. More so than SiS' Xabre or PowerVR's Kyro line of cards I'd say. Come to think of it, I wish I had kept my older Hercules, BFG and now EVGA cards. Ah well. At this point I consider myself lucky to own a boxed Albatron 6800 and the PCI variant of the Voodoo 5. Keep up the good work so that I (and others like me) can live vicariously through you! 🥲
I had one Gecube 9600XT like that, it was beautifull for the time and oc amazingly, have been looking for ages for one, since i had to sell mine some years ago... Good find :D
I always thought that dual DVI on Geforce4 range were only found on Quadro versions. The Quadro4 980XGL looks almost the same (and have the same specs too)... but with simpler cooler and green PCB. Also i never seen a Triplex card in my part of Europe. It looks awesome ! Thanks !
I still have my old 8500 deluxe and x1800xt loved those cards but the x1800xt was loud. Don't know if they are worth any money yet but still fun to have. The only other cards I've hold on to is a HD5700xt and a 7900gt. edit: Wish I still had my x800xt pe I bet that is worth some money now. I remember when I sold it, everybody wondered how I got one and it all became a bidding war between a few fellow extreme overclockers with one offering two Prometia rigs, one modified with r507. I didn't want to see the card destroyed by ln2 though since it was such a rare card and basically unobtanium so I sold it to a person who wanted it for gaming in the end.
Those Albatron cards are always beautiful cards. I’ve never seen a Xabre in the wild here in France. I do remember seeing ads for them in PC mags back then, but I guess they weren’t convincing 😅 Not sure if you chose that but your video is riddled with add, every 5mns or so. Very annoying. I get the monetization but this is a bit too much.
Great collection, my fav was the 9600XT personally, hope you dont mind me asking a technical question thats assuming you know the answer, I have an IBM Nvidia NV11GL 32MB Card, but i dont know if its safe to use, most of my testrigs seemed to be x8 1.5volt and i dont wanna risk plugging this in if it turns out its a 3.3V card, do you happen to know if its safe to use on a 1.5V AGP slot?
In most cases a newer AGP board will not accept 3.3v cards, and it should also be keyed so it won't physically fit. There are some universal AGP boards that can do both but you would know if you had one. uAGP has no notches in the slot.
hello, my comment was deleted i think, probably because i linked to my video. but i have a pine 3d phantom xp8200, sis xabre 400 variant, one that's very rare. didn't know if you maybe had particular interest in it or something...
Hi Nathan. I need some help. I just recently got a 3D Labs Oxygen GVX-1 32 Mbyte AGP card on ebay and I'm trying to find driver's for Win 98 SE and XP but don't feel like I'm having any success locating. I've also got a 3d labs wildcat 4 on the way and it would be nice to find drivers for that card as well. Any help to a link would be grateful.
I got a p3 550 slot style cpu and an s3 savage 4 im trying to get a hold of a 3dfx card, or perhaps a more modern agp card that would run in win 98 se. i got 128MBs system memory pc 133 Any help or thoughts would be apprecicated. Very limited on agp cards in my area, let alone 3dfx cards. I know some games ran way nicer on glide then open gl. thoughts on a combo or agp card n 3d add on pci card or what ? lol. Thanks
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The real rarity in this haul is the clear cooler with ZERO dust in it 😆
Nice haul! I'm looking forward to the Xabre video(s)!
Oh, and super happy to see the testbench is working out for you!
wow xabre 600 is gorgeous.
all these cards are near the dawn of when people began caring what their components looked like (thank you chieftec dragon) haha
Yeah, it's kinda sad what happened with SiS's Xabre and later XGI Volari series... So many woulda could shoulda been a contenders to break the duopoly in the early 2000s, but for this or that reason they couldnt hack it. S3 with their delta and gamme chrome seemed the best bet, good hardware, good prices; but VIA just didnt want people buying their products it seems as they did the same to their also very promising Nano cpu line later on.
Yea, beautiful golden and black theme
So wild to me, that this company offered to send you this stuff from overseas like this, and then presumably going under so soon after. I mean I certainly hope that it wasn't like some great crime they were doing sending such product to you and all...
Fantastic score with the Xabre cards!
Hmmm yeah the whole thing feels a little weird
Think the company was probably going under anyway and one of the employees was a fan that wanted to save these cards before they got thrown out or destroyed in the liquidation.
Congrats on the Xabre 600 working, hoping one day you will get Volari V8 Duo or its lower end siblings. Funny how rarity can really upended the rules of is near e-waste and what is considered Unicorn Unobtanium 20 years later. SiS engineers from back in the day, now your babies are finally loved. 😅
no one wants it, and then everyone wants it
Even if you happen to stumble upon a Volari V8 Duo, there's a high likelihood of it being dead. They used a menagerie of vomit capacitor plague capacitors that are all by now VERY bad. The purple Sanyo polymer caps are especially nasty. They don't physically leak, but they get so badly electrically leaky that they effectively turn into resistors. And what's insidious about them is that they will show no outward signs of being bad due to being polymer caps.
I had one come across my bench a while back, and it unfortunately died in the process of recapping it. These cards have a ridiculous amount of thermal mass due to being like 12 layer PCBs and having huge power planes. Even using low melt solder, I had a terrible time getting the board hot enough to remove the failed caps. It took me 12 hours to recap the entire card, and I was pretty devastated when powering it up gave me full screen yellow, green and red jail bars.
I narrowed down the issue to one of the DDR memory chips on the rear of the card. If I freeze sprayed it, the card would actually start working. So it was either a cracked BGA ball, or the memory chip itself had failed. In either case, I wasn't equipped to do BGA rework on such a complex card.
One additional issue is that at least one of the capacitors was installed backwards, but there was no way to remove it without destroying the caps around it. When I reviewed pictures of the card, it turns out that XGI had printed the component masking backwards, and even the original capacitor was backwards! I have no idea how it even worked originally and not exploded.
I've repaired many rare and/or expensive video cards over the years, but I'll never touch an XGI Volari again.
@@GGigabiteM damn, and I know that pain having recently replaced a friends ps5 controller sticks with hall effects, that pcb was thin, but the solder Sony used might as well have been welding electrode it needed to get so red hot to flow. Well at least Volari Duos look pretty hanging on walls.
@@anasevi9456 The Volari that I recapped, I had used all red Wurth polymer capacitors. It looked really nice when it was finished, too bad it was a brick. $60 in caps down the toilet.
So happy to see the xabre 600 is working ! And looking forward to a video about the xabre cards... I have the same xabre 400 you got in the second shipping... dead ofc, but I hope to fix it one day !
Vertex shading can be done in software, as many early GMA models from Intel did, like the 900, 950 and 3100. It was slow as heck on games that made pretty heavy use of TnL but it was quite functional.
Indeed! You'd be surprised how effective it gets when a better cpu is paired with the IGP.
Those're some pretty neat cards. The Triplex and Xaber 600 are lovely looking too.
Hi Nathan, awesome donation, especially the Xabre Cards. I have never heard of them and I read PC Games Hardware (a PC magazine in Germany) regularly in the early 2000s. Thanks for sharing the details about these cards. They seem kinda scamy. I also didn't know that XGI was a merger of the graphics devisions of Trident and SiS... very interesting and kinda makes sense: the Volari was a great card on paper. In real benchmarks it was a POS - at least the cards were nice to look at 😀
If you want your Xabre collection to be complete, you have to get one of the motherboards where it was used as an iGPU. Yes they are rare but they do exist. An example is the ECS P4S8A. When I say iGPU it's not in the usual sense of the term but rather a motherboard with a Xabre built-in, because they have their own memory separate from system memory etc.
that would be cool but I'd have to get really lucky
Good stuff Nathan, always an instant watch when you upload and I'm never disappointed.
Lovely set of unique cards, excited to see those SIS cards in a future vid!
Same. Those SiS cars are intriguing.
Wow. Nice haul. Good to see you back!/
I had also a Triplex Ti4200 back in the day. Came with a free copy of Z.
As for the Xabre, I also tried to get a 400 now but it hard artifacts, sad :/
Hello, damn, beautiful and uncommon cards, not sure if that would be appropriate but I think I would had accepted the donations of more of the sweet stuff on that list just so I could do exchanges/donations with and to my pals, they went the extra mile there with a second shipment, someone there must had been a great fan of PixelPipes, shame they had to close operations, hope they are all right and also all the stuff landed safely into nice people like you.
For the Xabre 400 if it has those awful BGA RAM chips try removing the heatsink and press on them when the card is running to see if the problem is fixable cause it is very likely a RAM issue. An ATI 9700Pro I found has 1 BGA chip somehow desoldered partially and when you push on the chip it works correct, it does like your xabre 400 card. Maybe the ram chip needs replacement, but the card definitely worths the effort! Great findings Cheers from Greece Jim
thanks, yeah they're TSOP but I did try the squeeze technique anyway. No change sadly
The purple heatsink got me big time. Im a sucker for those.
It's no wonder that the SiS cards or sis in general aren't available, if it worked the drivers broke more then they fixed, bsods and such. Instability etc. I hoped I'd never hear from them again. Cool you got the cards though.
Ironically i ran across your channel on accident. I owned a xabre 400. I purchased it in 2002 specifically because it was advertised to run agp 8 and that you could use it to clip through walls in fps and mmo games to avoid campers in fps games and hard to clear monster areas in mmos lol. BTW the clipping did work in a few games. Sadly, i threw away my machine with the xabre last year when clearing out my mothers storage.
I bought an old Socket A system online not too long ago. The seller didn't list any specs, but I saw some silver heatsinks on the back of the video card, so I took a punt. Much to my excitement, it was the same 9600XT in your video. I have always loved GeCube's coolers of this time.
That should be a 3D glasses connector on the ECS Xabre. My ECS SiS 315 has one - still trying to find glasses for it however.
I had to install drivers that were compatible with Xabre cards to get the utility needed for it (I think it is SiS driver 3.56, I'd previously used 3.51a for my SiS 315 and 315E).
I'd love to have a Xabre card of my own...but the price is always out of my reach. Even SiS 315E are being sold at ridiculous prices on Ebay - and they are slower my TNT2 Vanta.
thanks, I forgot to look it up after filming
For a moment there, I got really excited because I thought that you had somehow acquired a true unicorn. A card so rare that the only photographs I've ever been able to find are of review samples. I'm, of course, talking about the Absolute Multimedia Morpheus GeForce 3. Also known as the 3D POWER Morpheus.
Figured if anyone could get their hands on one it would be you.
I can't say I've heard of that one before
@@PixelPipes It was a beautiful piece of kit. It came in a wooden box. Something that had never been done before (or possibly since). Pictures of it exist on review sites by searching for "Morpheus GeForce3". Absolute Multimedia cards are pretty rare but from time to time they appear on eBay. The ones under the "3D Power" moniker are non existent it seems. 3D Power, of course, being a company that was said to be founded by ex 3Dfx employees as an nVIDIA AIB back in 2001.
As a snot nosed teen, I began taking pictures of all my setups - whenever I could get my hands on a digital camera. I have a gap in my collection and memories of owning the damn thing but I can't, for the life of me, find proof it ever existed. I can recall having my grubby hands on the box and thinking they were clearly trying to capitalize on the Matrix movie that had come out 2 years prior. If I had to guess I'd say I had purchased it from ZipZoomFly but one or two review sites state that the company was UK based.
What brought this all back was seeing MSI's marketing team doing similar with the SUPREME fad by naming some of their cards "SUPRIM". Ah well. Since you seem to be into collecting older cards I figured if anyone had one, or could track one down, it would be you. Perhaps you could keep an eye out for it on your journeys. If I had to guess, I'd say it would have been a GeForce 3 Ti200 or 500.
Oh plot twist! So you HAD one? Man, yeah that's pretty special. Too bad about not having pictures of it.
@@PixelPipes Or did I? There in is the problem. I can unequivocally remember owning a Voodoo 5 AGP and then a PCI. I can vividly remember being mesmerized by the blue PCB of my 3D Prophet II GTS. Yet for the life of me I can't remember much about the Morpheus beyond it's extravagant packaging. I think, but am unsure, if I sold it to get a PNY Verto GeForce 4 shortly after I got it.
Regardless. I really wish I would have kept it (if I really had one) as both companies seem to have been forgotten about. More so than SiS' Xabre or PowerVR's Kyro line of cards I'd say. Come to think of it, I wish I had kept my older Hercules, BFG and now EVGA cards. Ah well. At this point I consider myself lucky to own a boxed Albatron 6800 and the PCI variant of the Voodoo 5.
Keep up the good work so that I (and others like me) can live vicariously through you! 🥲
in the past i had tow of the 5700ultra's with gdd3 ... the model was "Leadtek WinFast A360 Ultra TDH". i beleve its the first card to use gddr3.
Great to see you back
wonderful specimens!
This MSI and Gigabyte are really cool, great find! 👑
Albatron, man what a throwback. My first nForce 2 board was an albatron
I had one Gecube 9600XT like that, it was beautifull for the time and oc amazingly, have been looking for ages for one, since i had to sell mine some years ago... Good find :D
I always thought that dual DVI on Geforce4 range were only found on Quadro versions. The Quadro4 980XGL looks almost the same (and have the same specs too)... but with simpler cooler and green PCB.
Also i never seen a Triplex card in my part of Europe. It looks awesome !
Thanks !
I still have my old 8500 deluxe and x1800xt loved those cards but the x1800xt was loud. Don't know if they are worth any money yet but still fun to have. The only other cards I've hold on to is a HD5700xt and a 7900gt.
edit: Wish I still had my x800xt pe I bet that is worth some money now. I remember when I sold it, everybody wondered how I got one and it all became a bidding war between a few fellow extreme overclockers with one offering two Prometia rigs, one modified with r507. I didn't want to see the card destroyed by ln2 though since it was such a rare card and basically unobtanium so I sold it to a person who wanted it for gaming in the end.
Did have a Ti4600 also at one time, but never liked that card so I bought a 9800pro 128mb instead.
You were very lucky indeed to find an X800XT Platinum Edition back then
god i love that white silver pcb
It's pronounced "Sabre" btw. Like the swords on the logo
Looks like the BIOS of the 400 needs reflashing. Sometimes their flash chips develop bitrot.
Those Albatron cards are always beautiful cards.
I’ve never seen a Xabre in the wild here in France. I do remember seeing ads for them in PC mags back then, but I guess they weren’t convincing 😅
Not sure if you chose that but your video is riddled with add, every 5mns or so. Very annoying. I get the monetization but this is a bit too much.
Nice cards overall. And what else was in this list, I'm really curious what they offered, if it's not a secret.
Great collection, my fav was the 9600XT personally, hope you dont mind me asking a technical question thats assuming you know the answer, I have an IBM Nvidia NV11GL 32MB Card, but i dont know if its safe to use, most of my testrigs seemed to be x8 1.5volt and i dont wanna risk plugging this in if it turns out its a 3.3V card, do you happen to know if its safe to use on a 1.5V AGP slot?
In most cases a newer AGP board will not accept 3.3v cards, and it should also be keyed so it won't physically fit. There are some universal AGP boards that can do both but you would know if you had one. uAGP has no notches in the slot.
Your making me jelly.
Damn. I always wanted a Ti4800. Nice find.
looks like some old AGP cards
I have a MSI Ti4200 in the same style, same heatsink and partial backplate
The Man, the Myth, the Legend. Glad to see you back at it. Amazing cards.
New video!
hello, my comment was deleted i think, probably because i linked to my video. but i have a pine 3d phantom xp8200, sis xabre 400 variant, one that's very rare. didn't know if you maybe had particular interest in it or something...
Sorry that would have been YT's automatic spam detection doing that. I checked out the video, and yeah that's a good one, you don't see that everyday!
Hi Nathan. I need some help. I just recently got a 3D Labs Oxygen GVX-1 32 Mbyte AGP card on ebay and I'm trying to find driver's for Win 98 SE and XP but don't feel like I'm having any success locating. I've also got a 3d labs wildcat 4 on the way and it would be nice to find drivers for that card as well. Any help to a link would be grateful.
I got a p3 550 slot style cpu and an s3 savage 4 im trying to get a hold of a 3dfx card, or perhaps a more modern agp card that would run in win 98 se. i got 128MBs system memory pc 133 Any help or thoughts would be apprecicated. Very limited on agp cards in my area, let alone 3dfx cards. I know some games ran way nicer on glide then open gl. thoughts on a combo or agp card n 3d add on pci card or what ? lol. Thanks
You should've taken everything.
I'd need a second house 🤣
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41:38 Second Edition?
wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo baby. bout time lol