Just been having a lab clearout.....

Mostly for benchmarking and demo systems over the last 3 years. Some were never used, while others had a habit of dying in transit and were binned ages ago (4870X2 was a particular problem, had 5 or 6 die when shipping in systems - got to the point we were shipping with a second one in the flightcase just in case....).

Was taking as I was sorting them all out, I've put two of each in to storage (for if we have to reproduce results) and the rest have been recycled in to lab systems and to other departments that could make use of them...
It excludes any contemporary stuff that we still use for testing/demos as well.

Working through the picture in rows the total collection was something like:
Radeon HD 3670 x 5
GeForce 8800GTS 512MB x 4
Radeon HD 3870X2 x 4
Radeon HD 3870 x 5
Radeon HD 4870X2 x 4 (we have more in demo systems, those were just the spares)
GeForce 9600GT x 9
Radeon HD 4850 x 5
GeForce 8800GTX x 3
GeForce 9800GTX x 3
???
???
GeForce 8800 Ultra x 2
Radeon HD 3470
GeForce 8600GTS x 9
Radeon HD 3870 x 2 (not sure why I had two piles of these?)
GeForce 6600GT AGP x 1
???
GeForce 8400GS x 2
GeForce 4 AGP x 1 (I think)
GeForce 8600GT x 3
GeForce 8800GT x 2
Radeon HD 3470 x 1
GeForce 8500GT x 1 (I think)
GeForce 7900GS x 2
Radeon HD 4870 x 2
Radeon HD 4670 x 2
Radeon HD 4850X2 x 1
GeForce 9800GX2 x 4 (Worst card EVER)
Radeon HD 5770 x 2
Radeon HD 4830 x 2
GeForce GTS 250 x 3
GeForce GTS 260 (192 core) x 2
Radeon HD 4770 x 4
GeForce GTX 285 x 2
GeForce GTX 260 x 1

 

From memory we originally ordered 20 of them to use in systems for a product launch, after being shipped once or twice those 4 were the only ones that still worked.

QA on them was just dire.

 

2 of each cards archived in case we ever need to reproduce past test results, the rest were offered up to the other departments to take whatever they needed - that got rid of them all within minutes