Would YOU like an ATI X1800XT?

Killamajiger · Oct 20, 2005, 03:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spyrule

Check this... it still works too (well did as of 6 months ago!)

[color=red]ATI[/color] Tech 1090011550 GRAPHICS ULTRA ISA 512K

, I believe this is the VGA Wonder.

and no.. I didn't buy this off of ebay. To prevent it from being an ebay win, I think they should shorten the window down to 4 weeks. that makes it HARD to get one in time for the end of the contest.

anybody interested in see'ing the card, check this out :

[color=royalblue]http://www.aquariumzone.ca/modules.php?set_albumName=ATiContest&op=modload&na me=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php[/color]

Cheers,

[color=dimgray]Spyrule[/color]

I think this one is newer than mine. I have 2 ATI cards with the numbers 28800-5/6 on them and don't even have the ATI logo. Just the word "ATI" and made in Japan. According to google they are VGA wonder's, but they are the newer ones. Odly enought though they each have 2mb of memory. I hope they go by oldest card type (i.e vga wonder) and not oldest chip

Nuke209 · Oct 20, 2005, 03:27 AM

i have an onboard ati rage card

it's from a 1998 compaq computer, i'll definitely rip it out if they want it

cppgeek · Oct 20, 2005, 03:41 AM

OK, heres my card

It says "28800-6" on the chip and "Japan"

It also has a 38800-1 chip

ATI28800 28800-6 VGA WONDER XL24
ATI38800 38800-1 mach8 8514/A-clone

g35x · Oct 20, 2005, 04:17 AM

when is the deadline for this??? the my old card is at my uncle's dad's house in ohio and im in new jersey....im going there 4 thanksgiving but idk if i should wait or have him mail it 2 me......leme know thanks

EncryptorX · Oct 20, 2005, 08:00 AM

anyway..i lost.. >:P but i still love ati

..ooh. good times of Doom...ati was there eheheh

Erroneus · Oct 20, 2005, 11:56 AM

Read the firsts post on page 1, believe it says 10 dec. or something like that, to lazy to check it out for you

g35x · Oct 20, 2005, 01:29 PM

oh yea haha thx didnt c that i was 2 busy drooling over the x1800xt XD

chrillen · Oct 20, 2005, 03:31 PM

You should not allow people to ebay a card.

kelston · Oct 20, 2005, 03:42 PM

Doing the quick run through EBay pretty much says whoever is willing to shell out just shy of the probable 500-600 dollar X1800XT price tag is going to win. But at least it'll set a record for the most expensive consumer level ISA video card in history.

tialk · Oct 20, 2005, 07:25 PM

ok, i'll check my cellar tomorrow :P

Majin GeoDooD · Oct 20, 2005, 08:33 PM

One thing that I find interesting:

It seems the oldest physical card is the 18800, and you get to trade it in for an X1800XT. I like how the model numbers are similar

, wonder if ATI was planning to do this eventually.

BWX · Oct 20, 2005, 10:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Majin GeoDooD

It seems the oldest physical card is the 18800, .

I don't think so.. but maybe..
(but maybe some cards with that chipset are older than others)

wolverine2k3 · Oct 20, 2005, 11:25 PM

Hi,

I found and old ISA 16bits with 256k DRAM 28800-5 (VGA Wonder Basic)

also got and old 8bits 18703 (VGA Graphic Solution)

Hope this will get old enough...

HunterZ · Oct 20, 2005, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by tornadog

I just "found" a "EGA Wonder" card, says 1987 on the card. Hope it wins, else my investment is wasted....

None of you entering a VGA card is going to beat this guy!

Edit: Well, if I had an ISA ATI VGA card I'd enter it just in case, but there's no way a PCI or AGP ATI card will win.

Majin GeoDooD · Oct 20, 2005, 11:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BWX

I don't think so.. but maybe..
(but maybe some cards with that chipset are older than others)

Well from the research google was able to give me, the 16800 wasn't ever used on a "standalone card," though the information I found was confusing.

A PDF on ATI's site mentions their first board, the GRAPHICS SOLUTION, was based on the 16800, but it didn't say that it used it.. so who knows.

IvanV · Oct 21, 2005, 12:49 AM

I think those people selling ISA cards should have a little faith, unless they really need the money badly. I'm so curious to see who will win this, it's such a great competition, despite eBay and the fact that my 3D Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X doesn't stand much of a chance. And yes, this sure is a boost that ISA cards market hasn't had in years!

qwerty82 · Oct 21, 2005, 01:47 AM

What are the chances that my GRAPHICS SOLUTION PLUS card will qualify as the oldest? It uses the ATI CW16800-B chip. ATI P/N 168248 REV 1. Does anyone know if this card has been entered yet?

BWX · Oct 21, 2005, 02:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Majin GeoDooD

Well from the research google was able to give me, the 16800 wasn't ever used on a "standalone card," though the information I found was confusing.

A PDF on ATI's site mentions their first board, the GRAPHICS SOLUTION, was based on the 16800, but it didn't say that it used it.. so who knows.

Yeah I think in 1985 ATI's first (big) customer was Commodore. 7,000 chips a week.. in the last half of 85'.

Killamajiger · Oct 21, 2005, 02:44 AM

Dang it, finally a contest that I may have a chance of wining, with a prize that would kick ass (my "curent" card is 8500), and now because of eBay people can just go and buy 100 EGA Wonders. So i have a moral dilema: Just hope everything works out in the end (with me having a x1800XT, of course

), or just go and see what i can find with 20$ (CDN, mind you) and a Internet conection. Well i don't know if i'm asking the right people (your anwsers might be skewed... hmmm wonder why

) but whatever. And I hope they decide card by the generation, because VGA and EGA wonders seem to have been released at the same time, and not specific chipset.

Majin GeoDooD · Oct 21, 2005, 02:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwerty82

What are the chances that my GRAPHICS SOLUTION PLUS card will qualify as the oldest? It uses the ATI CW16800-B chip. ATI P/N 168248 REV 1. Does anyone know if this card has been entered yet?

Very damn good. If it's not the oldest, it'll probably at least tie.

Mr.Floppy · Oct 21, 2005, 05:53 PM

I have a mach64 lying around and something with i believe 500kb Memory.
But as for some very old cards have been mentioned here, i think i'm not with the oldest and so my chance of winning is -again- low.
But hope never dies, so i'm counting me in for a REAL uba-graphic-card here

tornadog · Oct 21, 2005, 08:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by qwerty82

What are the chances that my GRAPHICS SOLUTION PLUS card will qualify as the oldest? It uses the ATI CW16800-B chip. ATI P/N 168248 REV 1. Does anyone know if this card has been entered yet?

You did it bro, might as well ask ATI to send you the X1800XT right now than wait till December!!!! Also will save a lot of guys some money trying to find these cards of Ebay. For now my congratulations and in case you dont win by some miracle, you would still be close...

roertnl · Oct 22, 2005, 01:04 AM

i have a graphics solution rev3

CW16800-A

P/N 168228-1

ATI (C) 1985

ghehe

jaf1211 · Oct 22, 2005, 06:14 AM

Funny, the other day I was gonna set up triplle monitors and pulled my rage II pci out of my closet, it was on my desk as I read this

edit: I just saw my competition, I lost...sadface

StuRReaL · Oct 22, 2005, 05:15 PM

Well I did have a Rage 2 something or other, but thats long since gone like my old S3 Virge.

My current oldest ATi card is a 64mb Radeon8500 (damn thats an awesome card)

Zardon · Oct 22, 2005, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Majin GeoDooD

Very damn good. If it's not the oldest, it'll probably at least tie.

Right now it is the oldest - or one of them

OuTLaWz Sm · Oct 22, 2005, 06:16 PM

Dam it, I almost won the other contest with the FX-57, but the guy who won had the stupidest slogan. I mean come on it doesn't even make SENSE!!!

My oldest card is the 9700Pro and it will stay like that because I can't afford another one, another contest I will fail to win. Well back to Battlefield 2 at 800 x 600 at low settings.

~~trodas~~ · Oct 23, 2005, 01:03 AM

This competition is very interesting and actually a great pile of informations and links to complete ATI history was gathered in thread - good reading and pretty worth the ATI price to provide one lucky DH member with top of the line card

The only sad thing is, that it has to be a GFX card - since ATI made chips for Commodore back in 1985, I think that the A500 (Amiga 500 or A1000) mobo with the ATI chip could be the easy winner, however I think that mobo does not fit into the definition of the card and therefore can't enter the contest

So sad, but that's life.

At least it save me the shipping costs, becasue this thing is, well, HUGE. Notably bigger that my 17" monitor, so it is a good question how to made the DH website visible in back of THAT monster

Anyway, thanks for sharing some usefull infos and it might be nice to setup a galery of the competition pictures, don't you think, guys?

(sadly, the old RageII card was gone, brother sold it, hmmm. R9000, R9100 and R9600XT can't seems to be worth entering the compo, tough

)

tornadog · Oct 23, 2005, 01:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zardon

Right now it is the oldest - or one of them

thanks Zardon for letting us know!! pointless for me to send my entry now and also to watch this thread, good luck to whoever wins.

fatmanp · Oct 23, 2005, 01:24 AM

Before i moved to US 13 years ago i had nice Amiga 500, I'm sure i can still find it if i call my relatives back home, but that might be still going out of my hand (shipping it here and then to ati) I also have some old ATI mach 64 pci with 4mb of something called Vram.

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kelston HardwareHeaven Addict Join Date: May 2003 Location: Bayside, NY USA Posts: 360 Rep Power: 0	Doing the quick run through EBay pretty much says whoever is willing to shell out just shy of the probable 500-600 dollar X1800XT price tag is going to win. But at least it'll set a record for the most expensive consumer level ISA video card in history. __________________ Pants are a dangerous foe!

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cppgeek DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	OK, heres my card It says "28800-6" on the chip and "Japan" It also has a 38800-1 chip ATI28800 28800-6 VGA WONDER XL24 ATI38800 38800-1 mach8 8514/A-clone

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EncryptorX DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Brazil Posts: 45 Rep Power: 0	anyway..i lost.. >:P but i still love ati ..ooh. good times of Doom...ati was there eheheh

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Majin GeoDooD HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Woodbridge, VA Posts: 1,117 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	One thing that I find interesting: It seems the oldest physical card is the 18800, and you get to trade it in for an X1800XT. I like how the model numbers are similar , wonder if ATI was planning to do this eventually. __________________ Windows 7 Ultimate (x64) ~Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.55GHz~ Gigabyte P35-DS3L ~ eVGA GeForce 8800GT 512MB @ 690/1000 ~ OCZ Titanium 2x2GB ~ Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750 GB ~ WD Caviar Black WD7501AALS 750GB ~ NEC ND-3540A DVD-RW ~ Rosewill RP600V2 600w PSU ~ Antec Nine Hundred Mid-Tower

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wolverine2k3 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Found an Old ISA 28800-5 and still looking in the garage Hi, I found and old ISA 16bits with 256k DRAM 28800-5 (VGA Wonder Basic) also got and old 8bits 18703 (VGA Graphic Solution) Hope this will get old enough...

Oct 21, 2005, 12:49 AM	#166
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,653 Rep Power: 280 System Specs	I think those people selling ISA cards should have a little faith, unless they really need the money badly. I'm so curious to see who will win this, it's such a great competition, despite eBay and the fact that my 3D Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2X doesn't stand much of a chance. And yes, this sure is a boost that ISA cards market hasn't had in years! __________________ Our Folding@home stats:

Oct 21, 2005, 01:47 AM	#167
qwerty82 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: I am Canadian, eh Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Graphics Solution Plus What are the chances that my GRAPHICS SOLUTION PLUS card will qualify as the oldest? It uses the ATI CW16800-B chip. ATI P/N 168248 REV 1. Does anyone know if this card has been entered yet?

Oct 21, 2005, 02:44 AM	#169
Killamajiger DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Dang it, finally a contest that I may have a chance of wining, with a prize that would kick ass (my "curent" card is 8500), and now because of eBay people can just go and buy 100 EGA Wonders. So i have a moral dilema: Just hope everything works out in the end (with me having a x1800XT, of course ), or just go and see what i can find with 20$ (CDN, mind you) and a Internet conection. Well i don't know if i'm asking the right people (your anwsers might be skewed... hmmm wonder why ) but whatever. And I hope they decide card by the generation, because VGA and EGA wonders seem to have been released at the same time, and not specific chipset.

Oct 21, 2005, 05:53 PM	#171
Mr.Floppy the puzzled aimless Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: nb/germany Posts: 73 Rep Power: 0	I have a mach64 lying around and something with i believe 500kb Memory. But as for some very old cards have been mentioned here, i think i'm not with the oldest and so my chance of winning is -again- low. But hope never dies, so i'm counting me in for a REAL uba-graphic-card here __________________ dont try this at home! - my (current) rig

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roertnl DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	i have a graphics solution rev3 CW16800-A P/N 168228-1 ATI (C) 1985 ghehe Last edited by roertnl; Oct 22, 2005 at 05:38 PM.

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jaf1211 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Funny, the other day I was gonna set up triplle monitors and pulled my rage II pci out of my closet, it was on my desk as I read this edit: I just saw my competition, I lost...sadface

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StuRReaL DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Derby UK Posts: 78 Rep Power: 0	Well I did have a Rage 2 something or other, but thats long since gone like my old S3 Virge. My current oldest ATi card is a 64mb Radeon8500 (damn thats an awesome card) __________________ AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ 1GB OCZ Platinum x2 74Gb WD Raptors RAID0 256mb Radeon X1300 Sapphire Pure Innovation M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Windows XP x64 Edition

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OuTLaWz Sm DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: NYC Posts: 16 Rep Power: 0	Dam it, I almost won the other contest with the FX-57, but the guy who won had the stupidest slogan. I mean come on it doesn't even make SENSE!!! My oldest card is the 9700Pro and it will stay like that because I can't afford another one, another contest I will fail to win. Well back to Battlefield 2 at 800 x 600 at low settings. __________________ [img]D:\Documents and Settings\Admin\My Documents\lasgna.bmp[/img] Man Is Like a Piece of Cheese

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~~trodas~~ fanless WC Opty 3GHz Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Czech republic Posts: 349 Rep Power: 0	This competition is very interesting and actually a great pile of informations and links to complete ATI history was gathered in thread - good reading and pretty worth the ATI price to provide one lucky DH member with top of the line card The only sad thing is, that it has to be a GFX card - since ATI made chips for Commodore back in 1985, I think that the A500 (Amiga 500 or A1000) mobo with the ATI chip could be the easy winner, however I think that mobo does not fit into the definition of the card and therefore can't enter the contest So sad, but that's life. At least it save me the shipping costs, becasue this thing is, well, HUGE. Notably bigger that my 17" monitor, so it is a good question how to made the DH website visible in back of THAT monster Anyway, thanks for sharing some usefull infos and it might be nice to setup a galery of the competition pictures, don't you think, guys? (sadly, the old RageII card was gone, brother sold it, hmmm. R9000, R9100 and R9600XT can't seems to be worth entering the compo, tough )

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fatmanp DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Chicago Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Before i moved to US 13 years ago i had nice Amiga 500, I'm sure i can still find it if i call my relatives back home, but that might be still going out of my hand (shipping it here and then to ati) I also have some old ATI mach 64 pci with 4mb of something called Vram. __________________ Nothing is over until i say so!!!