Xaeik

$150 I can do. I already have my sights set on a different full-size case.

 
What case are you looking for? I have a few I could trade ya for it. 
 
HAF-XM
Storm Scout 2
Storm Stryker 

Well my advice is to grab a defective GTX 295 or 9800 GX2  off ebay, these have the Internal SLI ribbon cables you are seeking and it's probably the cheapest and easiest way to obtain them too and oh you have a PM

Yeah I think he knows what version to seek, the EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition was only made in the Dual PCB variant.
 
They were sold worldwide and about 500 were made as Sir Jacob Freeman told me via a PM after I asked him about these ultra rares, hereby they also out rare them ASUS MARS & ARES things, which makes them even harder to find and obtain.
 
They are to me the utmost beautiful GeForce cards ever made and they also gave me the best Quad SLI experience since I beta tested the 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128Mb Rev.A 3700:

 
My EVGA GTX 295 Red Edition Quad SLI setup was also built as a tradition to Quad SLI it's self and also to my Voodoo5 6000 I once worked with, after finding out about the GTX 295 Red Edition here:
http://www.techpowerup.co...X-295-Red-Edition.html
 
Due to that it was a Silent release, many people these days have not heard of it, so after reading that, I started looking for them back in 2009.
Here my first Quad SLI GTX 295 Red Edition set:
Here the build log of Blue-Leader SMP 2009, the main system I still use today, where the GTX 295 RE's were meant for and used with:
http://forums.evga.com/fb.ashx?m=143879
IAfter having them for about a year in service, I sold these to a good friend that lives in Western Australia for a good deal and about 2 years later I grabbed this set off ebay of 320 EUR incl shipping , since the US Boxes are extremely rare here in Europe, this was a find that is even worth more than platinum to me!

 
Here the topic where you can see these two in action and reunited with my main system:
http://forums.evga.com/fb.ashx?m=1433223
 
These cards made me happier than ever, I also did a GTX 295 Maintenance run with them which you can read here:
http://forums.evga.com/fb.ashx?m=1613434
 
And after I got my EVGA GeForce GTX 680 SuperClocked Signature Editions, this is the final resting place for my EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Editions:

 
here the Decoration added on it:

 
And with this topic I hope to find and gather more EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Edition users and add them in the EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Editions Owners List:
http://forums.evga.com/fb.ashx?m=1773275

Ahh very nice many thanks, that would be interesting indeed!
 
Also I have been looking for an Engineering Sample of the GTX 480 that has the GeForce Led Logo's and 512 Fermi CUDA Cores enabled, so far no luck, but yeah if you know where I could get something like this please let me know
 
As for that Voodooo5 6000 if your friend needs help with it I can greatly apply all the help he needs, since we are still getting new drivers for Voodoo5 6000 users, I highly recommend him using the latest SFFT drivers  from 3dfxzone.it which he can grab here:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/di...t/sfft_software_suite/
 
Here my 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 & 5000 research page,It's a backup of my original work on my own website.
http://dtaskforce.forumot...4-5-vga-cards-research
 
The main topic ran @ x-3dfx.com, but since that place in under construction I saved it and posted it there xD
If he wants to play DXX-Rebirth with Descent 1 &2 with his Voodoo5 6000 that is no problem he will need SFFT Alpha 41 Modified by ps47, ps47 is an old 3dfx freind of mine he and I made it possible to run OpenGL ES based games of all VSA-100 products xD Since DXX-Rebirth uses OpenGL ES 1.2, a minor driver modification was needed, ps47 applied the minor mod to SFFT Alpha 41 and it still works fine under Win2K Pro & XP Pro.
 
My most interesting 3dfx Engineering Samples were these; click them thumbs to enter their galliers, lots of high res pics that hold a wonderful memory, they were also my most faved cards of my old 3dfx VGA card collection, I had to sell them due to money need sadly 
 
3dfx Velocity 200 AGP 16MB Rev.A0 2699

 
3dfx Voodoo5 5000 AGP 32MB Rev.A0 3700 [First card]

 
3dfx Voodoo5 5000 AGP 32MB Rev.A0 3700 [Second card]

 
3dfx Voodoo5 5000 PCI 32MB Rev.A1 0900

 
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI + DVI 64MB Rev.A1 2900 with PC Bios 1.11_LCD Beta From 3dfx Apple Group

 
3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700

 
The Velocity 200, The Voodoo5 5000's and the Voodoo5 6000 were never released on the market

rjohnson11

Man those 3DFX cards bring back some fond memories

Hehe well that were my Engineering Samples I had back then, most of them never reached the market, but tech wise they were very innovative creations, after NVIDIA bought 3dfx Tech and their assets, it's still being used for their VGA cards we have today.
 
3dfx created T-Buffer which had these techs:
Rotated Grid FSAA
Motion Blur
Depth of Field Blur
Soft Shadows
Soft Reflections
 
And their M-Buffer also passed along Multi-Sampled Anti Aliasing with improved versions of the tech T-Buffer had.
The funny part is that 3dfx created and used these techs back in Late 1999 as where today these techs are still being used widely in titles of today.
 

Hehe no worries mate! Lets take an other trip down memory lane shall we!

That art is actually the Vodooo3 3000 AGP box art, here my old Vodooo3 3000 AGP box I had during my 3dfx collecting days:

The Vodooo3 used the 3dfx 355 Avenger Rasterizer :)


 
The Vodooo5 5500 AGP looks like this:

The Vodooo5 like the Voodoo4 used the VSA-100 aka Voodoo Scalable Interface, it was also nicked as Very Slow Interface as a joke during the late 90's of it's early development rofl!


 
The Vodooo5 6000 box art looked like this, this is a prop a friend made for me once :)

 
The rear view didn't work out too well, he made more of these props with better results though, it was more for the fun of it and to get an idea of the looks of the Voodoo5 6000 box:

 
The Vodooo5 5000 AGP had the same art, but it was green coloured like this:

Which resulted this box art:

 
Your friend might like to see this card also, the one 3dfx worked on the last 2 weeks that they were closed rofl, the 3dfx Specter 1000 AGP 32MB 128Bit DDR Rev.A1 4700 aka Rampage 2000:

Top view:


Rear view:

 
Here some Rampage fun facts, I got from gdonovan's page:
 
1) The Rampage chip was also known as VSA-200 and would be the basis of a new generation of boards. A board with a single Rampage chip was called Specter 1000. If a board had a single Rampage chip and Sage transformation and lighting unit it would have been a Specter 2000. A board with TWO Rampages and ONE Sage would have been a Specter 3000. There is also mention of a Specter 4000 with FOUR Rampage chips.
 
2) Prototype Rampage based boards were up and running Quake 3 mere days before 3dfx closed their doors.
 
3) Interesting bug in Rampage chip- The DAC was flipped, reversing the color channels. One possible reason it was not detected is because this was one of the few places on the chip that had not been simulated. The temporary fix was an interesting little board that was attached between the monitor cable and VGA connector. It flipped all the color channels, making it display correctly.
 
4) Two or three Rampage based boards are known to be in "circulation," one is known to function.

5) Rampage is a code name for the chip,  Habanero was it's predecessor (Rampage with 256 bit DDR memory bus). SAGE is a code name for the T'n L chip (lead engineer "Captain Inverter") SPECTER is a code name for the board (SPecial Executive for Control, Terrorism, Extortion, and Revenge.) Name was picked by the boards designer Brian. (Trivia from Hank Semenec, ex-3dfx engineer)

6) No SAGE chips were known to have been made it onto boards, rumor has it the first test samples showed up.. just days after 3dfx closed their doors.
 
They might gather more good memories, Hank Semenec is also an old friend of mine, could it be that your friend was a colleague of Hank Semenec as well? If so, I could pass Hank a message :) We are always trying to seek each other this way
 
You might like this topic I made @ Voodooalert:
http://www.voodooalert.de...ead&threadID=18652
 
One of the VA members remade the Rampage Lite Dongle, to fix it's Flipped DAC Issue :) So far so good it seems, VA member Loschzwerg was able to fix this Flipped DAC issue by converting the output the correct way
 
Very nice photo's there  :respekt:

Gdonovan made more pics, which you can see here:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/v/3dfx_collectors/collectors_gdonovan/Rampage/?g2_navId=xb0b685b1
Click the white thumbnails, which a bug from the gallery that isn't functioning properly since the place went down due to a server SQL Server Connect Error, the 800 x 600 pics do work though, same as the full size ones do.
 
Another nice this for him to memorize is the Voodoo5 6000 2x2 Comdex Dummy card, which was used @ Comdex 1999 for the dog and pony show as 3dfx Employee's said:

 
It's the same card in this famous photo:

 
And this one:

 
It's a dummy card aka as a prop, it also has no traces here a rare photo of it taken from the front side without the VSA-100 decals:

As you can see it has four 3dfx 355 Vodooo3 3500 graphics chips! ,3dfx made the crowd think that they were VSA_100's by placing them VSA-100 stickers over these V3 3500 chips rofl! There's this mystery solved :)
 
And from the rear:

 
That is the only one in the world, even that two were made, the other one was lost or destroyed.
 
Omega_Supreme a friend of mine here in the Netherlands has collected all the rarest 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Engineering Samples, here is awesome collection so far:
 
From Left to Right:
3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A0 0700 Defect, but repairable
3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A1 1500 defect
3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A1 1500 Functional
3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A2 2600 Functional
3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A3 3400 Functional
3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3900 Functional

 
He has collected these for a very long time and none of them are modified either, as you can see they all have their original E-Tags aka Engineering Tags, these E-Tags hold the changes or tests results that were done by the Engineer that worked with them, they hold extremely valuable information.
 
My 3dfx club and I are trying to maintain the cards in their full glory. We also try to avoid them from landing in the wrong hands like this person for example:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/en...=19157&whichpage=2
 
 All what my 3dfx club wants is to remember 3dfx for what they were and what they gave us, even that NVIDIA bought them in the end, NVIDIA did do some lovely things with their tech and thanks to the 3dfx Vodooo5 6000, NVDIIA also took this technology and made Quad SLI possible!
 
And due all to this I went for the EVGA GTX 295 Red Editions to relive the Quad SLI dream and really I compared it with the Voodoo5 6000 I once had and yeah it's very similar on how it works, even though it has been improved quite a bit. As Quad Chip scaling goes 3dfx wins hands down when using FSAA.
http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/
 
A Vodooo5 5000 & 5500 have two VSA-100's a 6000 has 4, when playing games @ 1024 x 768 x16 with 3dfx Glide API  and with FSAA x2 on a Voodo5 5000 & 5500 the 6000 would be able to render the same game at the same resolution with the same speed but with FSAA x4! and the same kind of results  happened when the 5000's & 5500 used FSAA x4 and the 6000 FSAA x8.
 
A Voodoo5 6000 was actually 2x Voodoo5 5500 AGP on one PCB< a GTX 295 is 2x GTX 275 but at GTX 260 speeds, the Vodooo5 6000 ran at the same speed as the Vodooo5 5500 rofl, so the closest comparison to use would be a GTX 295 MARS from ASUS I believe, this is two GTX 285's in one.
 
But the idea's of Quad SLI are still there, the basics that is :) And seeing this technology being used all over again, does me great pleasure, even though I will always miss my 3dfx Engineering Samples I had back then, that will always hurt me.
 
I hope I have given your friend many good memories. Hereby I also invite you and him to join the 3dfx communities I am a part of:
 
Voodooalert.de:
http://www.voodooalert.de..rd/index.php?page=Index
 
x-3dfx.yuku:
http://www.voodooalert.de..rd/index.php?page=Index
 
Anyways all due to my 3dfx past and where I landed with these EVGA GTX 295 Red Editions, it all made sense to do something similar for this place here @ EVGA, the GTX 295 Red Edition is one of them things we won't see much and it was the VGA card that gave me my Quad SLI experience back, I thus wanted to find out how many others have these ultra rare red GTX 295 Red Editions, a friend of mine and I decided to make a topic about and and I did the list and this is where we are now xD

Yeah they sure were and still are, I have contacts with the owners of those cards weekly too
 
And all thanks to the Vodooo5 series the EVGA GTX 295 Red Editions gave me the Quad SLI experience back, which I had with the 3dfx Voodoo5 6000, well it was a similar ride for that matter, riding the Voodoo5 6000 it's self is something so special, dang, I'd love to repeat that any day, anyways I was happy to share this with you guys
 
Now I hope to find more owners with the EVGA Ge Force GTX 295 Red Editions, only 500 were made, that makes them Titan things not so rare anymore either haha xDDDDD

Well afaik the Blue light only goes on for a Quad SLI setup :X
 
What also could be your issue is that the Internal SLI ribbon cables may have "jerked" loose.
 
Sorry for the odd word, I don't know a better word for it's description xD I'm from The Netherlands so my English can be somewhat bumpy and weird at times
 
Take this maintenance guide I made for all Dual PCB GTX 295 owners & users:
http://forums.evga.com/fb.ashx?m=1613434


Them brown coloured internal ribbon cables are the ones you seek, it's mostly the small one that gets easily detached. 
It shows you how to take these delicate Dual PCB cards apart, I hope this solves your problem

Maybe, best thing is to check them, you will have to take them apart each GTX 295 has about 27 screws, so just pile up the screws in an order so you remember which one goes where.

 
 
What PSU does the new system have over the old one? And have you tested the card in the old system also just to check if it's not something with the new system?
 
 

If you want the best and most reliable 1KW PSU on the market, go for the Seasonic PlatinumX 1000W, these are very power efficient, I have one for my new Dual Socket R Build which I will be constructing the up coming months. Just to be prepared with a reliable PSU for my new Duallie. I can advise everyone this awesome PSU< it may cost you a it more than the average PSU, but it does pay off, you do get for what you pay for.
 
It's always better to get something really good than something of lesser quality which you may have to replace and replace and so on.

Function is always more important than looks
The Seasonic PlatinumX 1000W has it all best functions & looks and it's 100% modular even the mobo power cable is modular:


Maybe you should give this review a read and you will understand why I advise this PSU:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1992/1/
 
You can go for other brands like Enermax, Antec, Corsair or Silver Stone, but they can't match the quality, reliability and power efficiency of the Seasonic Platinum X series.
If this PSU is too expensive for you they have Gold & Silver Series also, but yeah they are just less good as this, but they might eb good enough for your needs.

Hey no probs man, what you also could do is save up more money so you can afford the better PSU< since if you have to sell that cheaper one in a few years you'd only be making loss as money goes, just want to give you the best advice, since it will save you money in the end.
 
As for the display issue, yeah I know this all too well, I had it too after I first slapped them together, I thought they both died on me :X So yeah, is a very well known issue, after redoing them with much more patience and care I succeeded and they both worked yaay, as that maintenance thread clearly shows rofl!
The DVI-I's are mounted on the Slave PCB, which is the PCB without the PCI-E 2.0 x16 connector, so if this part is disconnected from the Internal SLI conenctors, it won't give you an image, so this explains your exact problem  So thereby I too think that your Internal SLI ribbon cables have gotten loose.
 
Just make sure when you have connected then, very be as gentle as you can by remounting the HSF and everything, because one slight wrong move or jolt will loosen them again, this made me do the entire process for both cards twice I kinda suck when it comes to such things, since my hands are extremely shakey to some certain point :X
 
Just telling you this, since they have a very complicated construction, lots of care and patience is required for you to succeed

Xaeik

Definitely going to take extreme care during this procedure. This GTX 295 RE is my cherished gem. Thanks for everything. I'm glad to be a part of this club.

Hay no worries mate! 
I am glad to have you in this ultra rare club, them Titans may be big but nothing shall outrare our EVGA GeForce GTX 295 Red Editions! Not even a MARS or ARES for that matter xDDDDDD
 
Even that about 500 GTX 295 RE's were made, we only have 24 of these cards in our club, make me wonder what on earth happened to all the other 476 cards, I just hope more owners will find this club we have here, I mean imagine that our cards are really all what is left, that would be dreadful
 
Anyways keep looking and asking for owners, maybe a thread @ NVIDIA forums that links to this one is an idea ... only they have banned me from their forum, because I was not aloud to post proof that a GXT 480 was only 15% faster than a HD 5870 at launch and due to my Aspergers Syndrome & Autism, I was too different towards them, ChrisRay was an old friend of mine, I was banned after he passed away... that also hurt me lots :X All because of that I had to be excluded from it all.
 
Sometimes I kinda miss that place, I had many allies, mates and good friends there. Even that many of them came here after I left that place. Oh well bad things happen even in a place you'd never expect it from happening.
 
All I can say is that I am very proud that I found the EVGA forums, the crew is just much better organized here and this place is far more neutral than I thought, everything makes more sense here, people are accepted for who they are instead of frowned upon. And that is why I find this forum one of the best to be part of

We should be proud whatwe have found and preserved ourselves, I just hope all of the EVGA GTX 295 Red Edition owners will take extra good care of their cards, I would not like to see another one die due to bad maintenance
 
May The Force of GeForce Be With Us Always

Just found an other EVGa GTX 295 Red Edition on Ebay, it seems that EVGA sold their remaining GTX 295 RE;s to Dell or so by the looks of things.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/D...mp;hash=item417426cd85