Great news Everyone!

The Matrox Parhelia AGP 256MB arrived today and yes it works like a charm!!!!  Capacitors C4 & C512 have been resoldered by CryptonNite from Voodooalert.de
Main thread of that here:
http://www.voodooalert.de...stID=330325#post330325

Today the Parhelia AGP 256MB arrived from it's return trip from CryptonNite's place in Germany  So here some pics 

Top view:


Rear view:


Headshot:


Closeup of C4:


Closeup of C512:


So that's another major thank you to CryptonNite!!!

Here the system which I am using it in

Gradinko SMP 2000

Dual Intel Pentium!!!/EB 1000Mhz Coppermine
ABiT VP6 Raid Ver 1.0
4x 512MB PC-133 ECC Reg CL2.5 HP / Micron Crucial
Matrox Parhelia AGP 256MB 256Bit DDR Rev.A 0105 @ AGP x4
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI 64MB 256Bit SDR Rev.A1 2900 [in practical 2x 32MB 128Bit SDR]
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 Platinum eX
Intel Pro/1000 MT Fast Ethernet Adapter
ASUS NEC 5 ported USB 2.0 PCI 32 bit card
1x Seagate Barracuda V 10+ 80 GB 7200 rpm Ultra ATA 133 HDD @ Ultra ATA 100
1x NEC DVD-RW ND 1300A Ultra ATA 100
Addtronics 7896A Server Tower
Antec True Power 550P EPS 12V + 2.3V 550Wat PSU + External Molex
Samsung SyncMaster 943
Compaq S710 17" CRT

The system from the left:


The system from the right:


Side panel removed:


System parts:


System parts closeup:


Matrox Parhelia AGP 256MB & 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI 64MB Closeup:

 
For this system I also have an old CRT, which I do plan using for it, a Compaq S710 which does 1024 x 768 x32 @ 85 Herz, which is better for them older games :
 
I used the TFT to test it, even @ 1440 x 900 the Parhelia AGP 256MB still does a fine job at playing games like Descent 1 & 2 with DXX-Rebirth and UT 2004 without any issues @ min max 75 fps, as 75 herz is the locked herz rate of the TFT I used.

Thanks Drerex CryptonNite is an old 3dfx mate of mine he also has repaired many 3dfx, Matrox, ATI, NVIDIA and S3 VGA cards :)
 
He is one of our best contacts when it comes to Retro VGA card repairs
 
The age of this system is 12 years and 8 months, I built her on January 28, 2000, it's mobo and it's CPU's have never been replaced  nor RMA'ed.
 
this system was sold to a friend of mine in 2003 for 550 EUR that was for it's ram CPUs and mobo only and in 2008 I was able to reobtain it for 100 eur with this awesome steel case from Addtronics!
 
From 2003 to 2008 it served as a File & game server for 5 years 24/7 nonstop, it was backed up by a 72 hour UPS system, it never crashed nor rebooted during this long run time and still it's going on strong, this is the utmost reliable system I ever worked with.
 
It was cleaned every 4 weeks, so I guess that was it's savior heh

heh thanks James_L :)  Yeah all them i7's and Xeons these days or Phemom II's, FX's or Dual Opterons xDDD This used to be the best 12 years and 8 months ago, the Parhelia AGP 256MB is a design from 2003 btw :) even that I have quite a late build, mine is from week 01 of 2005, it seems they are still being used as VGA cards for terminals and such.
 
The Voodoo5 is handy for them good old 3dfx Glide games the Parhelia is great for internet and DX8.1 & OpenGL 1.3 games, all in all it has all types of API support this way too
 
The sound card needs power for it's external I/O Box, which that white power connector is for, just in case people ask this
 
Next I will post some screen shots of it's drivers you can also select the OpenGL version which is needed for a certain applications I can choose between OpenGL 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3, I never seen such an option on any VGA card before, quite interesting

rjohnson11

That is so cool. Thanks for posting!

Heheh no probs mate, It did take me some to to renovate it clean it, but every bit counts, the performace is pretty good too, I plan to make some ingame video's of this system in action also many thanks for the Blue Ribbon! rjohnson11

OMG voodoo 5500 and a parhelia!!
dual p3 AND dual golden orb coolers!!!
 
beast build nostalgia overload.
O_O

It's always awesome to see something like that get repaired. Even more so when 99% of people these days would throw it in the trash without even giving it a second thought.

 
Looks great!