Hi all
 
Today I upgraded my Dual Intel XeonMP 3Ghz HT Gallatin Retro Workstation with the world's most powerful AGP graphics card.

Hereby I upgraded its ASUS V9999 GT Deluxe AGP 256MB GDDR3 with a HIS ATi Radeon HD 3850 ICEQ3 Turbo AGP 512MB 256Bit GDDR3
With this upgrade, games run way better now with FSAA x8 & AF 16 Settings incombination wit HDR ( High Dynamic Range) Enabled.
The Image Quality is also lots better all thanks to much improved 2D & 3D Filters which Radeons have in advance over Geforce Cards, Matrox has even better ones.
It's also that I just missed using a Radeon graphics card, this system can give me that experience back as well

With this system I plan to Replay Fallout 3 + all it's DLC's, Cyrisis and maybe some Half-Life 2
So I look forward to how it will perform It uses the latest AMD Drivers for HD 3850 AGP graphics cards which is AMD Catalyst Suite 14.4 from April 2014

Name & Specs:

Sveta SMP 2003

2x Intel Pentium4 Xeon 3Ghz HT, 2 Cores / 4 Threads
@ 3Ghz 2x 512KB L2 - 2x 4MB L3
2x VERAX Polargate Copper Coolers for Socket 603
4x 512MB PC-800-45ns ECC Kingston Server RDRAM
Supermicro P4DCE+II Intel i860 chipset
HIS ATi Radeon HD 3850 ICEQ3 Turbo AGP 512MB 256Bit GDDR3 Rev.A1 0806
(Year 2008 - Week 06) RV670XT VPU & HD 3870 PCB hence nick named HID ATi Radeon HD 3870 AGP 512MB 8-)
Western Digital 250GB Server Edition 7200 rpm HDD
Mitsubishi Electronics LS_120 Super Floppy Drive
Plextor PlexWriter PX-48/24/48A CD/RW
Creative Labs 12x/40x DVD/CD Rom Drive
Enermax Modu 82+ 525 Watt PSU
Addtronics 6896A Entry Level Server Tower

WIndows XP Pro UK + SP3
AMD Catalyst 14.4 (2014 - April) for WinXP x86 + SP3 for HIS HD 3850 ICE3 Turbo AGP

Here some of the two Graphics cards side by side;
ASUS V9999GT Deluxe AGP 256MB 256Bit GDDR3 Rev.A1 0514 (Year 2005 - Week 14)
HIS ATi Radeon HD 3850 ICEQ3 Turbo AGP 512MB 256Bit GDDR3 Rev.A1 0806 (Year 2008 - Week 06)










Here some pics of the new VGA card built in:




Here the system turned on:


And there ya go works great!

 
Here the finished result:

 
Here Sveta SMP 2003 in action with Winamp & MilkDrop2:

 
A Descent 2 Pyro-GX Art i applied to this side of the case back in 1996:

 
A Freespace 2 Art of a Shivan Cuiser, a Versudan Dreadnaught and a Terrans Hercules MK II Starfighter:

 
Here the GPU Driver & GPU info:

 
Also updated this system's MODS RIGS page:
https://www.modsrigs.com/detail.aspx?BuildID=30384