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You think that's bad. Soltek made a few purple versions like golden flame above at very end of production run. I still want one.
An ugly mobo thread is not a bad idea.
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I would be worried about cpu cooler clearance on this one, but yes. Anyways.. I have derailed this thread enough lol.
man that thing was dirty wow. I have bough a few disgusting cards off ebay but nothing like that. lol!
I don't remember if the cooler on that thing worked good or not. It's FUGLY, but that's a lot of decent looking copper on there, and if that fan isn't loud I bet it worked pretty good.
aside from blowing heat into the case, assuming good contact to the gpu die, I bet it worked fine. I mean it's a pretty simple design with no pipes... I remember my 6800Ultras blew some really hot air.. I mean very impressive levels.. also into the case lol. not sure about the LE.. I think it was like crippled 6800 softmodded to run faster.. probably got warm.
Agreed. Member on another forum was doing exactly that with gold flame board. Gold Chaintech or Gainward card like above and gold colored Kingmax DDR modules.
Have same one but in NU / vanilla flavor. After reworking the copper plates for better contact & cooling, overclocking, and opening pipelines to 16 it ran just above the GT version. For much less money.
I actually love the look of the Golden Flame... yeah a theme build would be good.. with the Golden Dragon ram and a Chaintech Geforce3 ti200...
That is sexy. I would love to have a motherboard with a purple PCB. I could do without the yellow connector slots, though. I know it's a complimentary color, but still.You think that's bad. Soltek made a few purple versions like golden flame above at very end of production run. I still want one.
An ugly mobo thread is not a bad idea.
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3DFX 3500 tv
oh god I had one of those, a friend gave it to me in 2012 'cause the CPU died and he didn't want to deal with it. On paper it had stunning specs, but it was actually complete garbage, chipset ran super hot even with all the heatpipes, VRMs had "issues" that probably had killed my friends CPU, and eventually it just stopped working completely for no apparent reason. And heck, that color scheme... I think MSI's intention was to denote things like which PCIe slots were connected to which controllers (this is one of those weird dual-chipset boards) and which DIMM slots are on which channel, but it ends up conveying too much information in too obscure a way such that the user had to check the manual anyways. Or maybe MSI was just being unhinged to be unhinged, it was the late 00's lol
Gonna assume 'wtf' stands for Watch Those Fingers edition
can confirm, was sliced numerous times installing heatsinks on that POS when I had one
POS = Positively Obscene Scissors
All dem copper fins.
I kinda dig that...
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Oh, THERE'S the beef...
That’s a beautiful GPU. I had 4 of the 3070s I think and a 3080 Ti.
No it is not. It looks like bulls*&t candy! I buy parts to perform. They are, and should be, there to perform.
Runs a 1700X garbage CPU and RTX 2080. Considers himself hard.
RGB used to be considered hardcore as it was harder to get, find, and implement. You're completely wrong anyway, but just saying.
