I just got this one back from my mother's PC that I had built for her a few years ago. She now has an HD5450 in her refurbished box that I got her for Christmas this year. This served me well and was still in good working order when I got it back at Christmas. X1950 Pro:
Thanks for the reply, grog, I didn't know dummy cards used to be required on older boards when not utilizing multi GPU. @Dyre: Sweet card! It came out during what was a hardware drought for me (between my 9800 Pro and the 4670). We used this card for a very short period, my sister needed one urgently for her old PC and, as it was already really old at the time, someone just gave it to us and it remained in the house:
Sweet ass card Dyre! And I too owned a Geforce MX 440 at some point or other Ivan, I remember I was bloody excited when we got it (after it's range had just come out).
I can't post pics (due to the nature of the building they're in), but I have five old 733mhz Intel Celerons (512 megs of ram!) on proprietary mainboards running a few voice recording modules that are still in daily use. I recently had to replace a CPU card (MB/CPU/RAM all in one), and had to ship the card back to the OEM for reman. Ultimately they had to source another part because the mainboard was clocking the CPU up to 748mhz (and crashing!)
About 5.5 years old, dual Xeon E5-2670 (8 physical cores per cpu, 16 physical total, 32 logical total) with generic motherboard and 128GB ECC-DDR3: IMG_0128 by CosmicLogos, on Flickr IMG_0127 by CosmicLogos, on Flickr Capture2 by CosmicLogos, on Flickr Capture by CosmicLogos, on Flickr
Ummm... define "old hardware" . Tighten the heatsink on a bench vise and use a screwdriver and a hammer to nudge it a bit. Just hammer on the screwdriver a bit while it being inserted between the CPU's PCB and the heatsink. I know this looks a bit savage, but it works .
it's the nvidia way.... they've always had inferior on the edge of passing/failing hardware components.