Introducing... ATI Rage128 Super L33t Edition!

[Dizzious]

Well, Ati saw the success of nVIDIA's Vanta Wickid Awesome Edition, and decided to release some competition!
introducing the Ati Rage128 Super L33t Edition!

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/djduece/DSC00912.jpg">

Note how they even incorporated an extra GPU (made by rival nVIDIA, even!) wich creates an inverse graphics processing power fluctuation that... makes it better through an advanced highspeed hot-glue interface.
The molex power connector is required to provide enough power for the extra GPU and additional 64mb of ram... such a power density creates extreme heat; wich can only be dealt with by the addition of a secondary heatsink wich happens to be mounted on the reverse side of the card...

<img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/djduece/DSC00910.jpg">

[Bcemmons]

LOL wow, is that a vaccuum tube there mounted on the card? Must be amazingly fast. Light travels fastest in a vaccuum you know.

[chris000001]

looks like ATi stole intels socket 775 HSF ref design...lol

[Joe]

I cant believe you would waste a vacuum tube on that ;)

[Dizzious]

I'm pretty sure the tube was already blown :P

[yahooadam]

ha ha lol

very nice :p

how much does it weigh :o

BTW does it work - i mean uve added bits - but does it implode when u connect it :p

[Justin]

yeah...plug it in and make sure you have a live cam on it so we can see it burn :P

[Dizzious]

I don't think the card actually works. (this is the key feature that sets it apart from Westys TNT2 mod)

Maybe i'll solder a bunch of lead wires to it and plug touch them to a car battery? (and film it!)

[yahooadam]

now that would be interesting ^^

[in54n3]

you'd go up a good 10 points in my book for that ^^

[therealwesty]

What's with the gForce2 chip stuck out in the open there? Did you have to pry that off another poor card?

[Dizzious]

the geforce chip is off of a card that was in the computer i had at school; i killed it by overclocking though; but it wasnt my fault - the card had a crappy little passive heatsink on it, and for some PFV reason (PFV - Pure F'in Voodoo) the card would have all kinds of errors whenever i stuck a fan on its heatsink. So i let it roast, and after about a month it started giving me severe artifacts, and i got angry and dropped a curling weight on it. Then i bought a quadro nvs280 off of a friend for forty bucks (man that kid had no clue how much that card was worth) and i was a happy camper for the rest of the year until i got my 6600GT.
Anyway, if i get time tonight i'm going to do some hardcore car battery overclocking with the rage128 super l33t edition... i bet it'll stomp your tnt2 westy :p

[AMDnewbie2005]

LMAO! now the only thing left to do is crossfire it :p

[Dizzious]

crossfire! lol yeah. i'll buy two of those albatron "Atop" agp-pciE converters and run two of them in crossfire.
i'll have to mod the motherboard a bit though, the heatsinks on these cards take up like 9 slots

k tommorow i am car battery-ing this card.
provided that car battery in my basement still has juice left in it.

[yahooadam]

crossfire! lol yeah. i'll buy two of those albatron "Atop" agp-pciE converters and run two of them in crossfire.
i'll have to mod the motherboard a bit though, the heatsinks on these cards take up like 9 slots

k tommorow i am car battery-ing this card.
provided that car battery in my basement still has juice left in it.
or give it a jump start

or perhaps charge the battery ;)

[Dizzious]

Photobucket finally decided to stop being a ho-bag and my videos are finally uploaded.
I started off with the car battery, i couldnt get the resin off the front of the card without damaging all the components, so i sanded down the back of the thing until i got to the bare copper tracks. here's a video of the highlight of that experiment -
Car battery boringness (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v256/djduece/?action=view&current=9522.flv)
nothing amazing. it really sucks, as you can see.
I gave that up after about five minutes (when it got boring.), and decided to prep the card for something a little more intense - by drilling a hole in it.
No sooner had i put the drill away when i spied a particular tool that i figured i might try before i really socked it to the card -
Enter the mapp gas torch. (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v256/djduece/?action=view&current=MOV00954.flv) The ati-rage 128 Super L33t Edition can handle extreme temperatures no problem. After all, that's what it was designed for.

A few days later i had some spare time to kill, so i called up my good friend justin and we took a drive across town to an appropriate place to test out my new hardcore overclocking method. I would have had him film but i'm sort of up-tight about my camera, a sony DSC-T7 isnt excactly cheap, and it was raining.
Now it's personal. (http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v256/djduece/?action=view&current=gfxblowup.flv)
So that was the reason behind drilling a hole in the card.
Unfortunatly i couldnt find any part of the card after that. I'm not sure what i got the clocks up to there, but i do know the pieces were going pretty damn fast.
If only i had a camera last summer when my old stereo met a similiar fate...
Speaking of camera this one can't pick up the sound of an explosion very well apparently. it was a lot louder than it sounds in the video.

[yahooadam]

nice ^^ (15 char >_<)

[AMDnewbie2005]

lol sweet...........