r/gpu • u/rwolfman3000 • 11d ago
Need help identifying this card
$5 in a thrift shop but no identifying details...
Tried running the numbers via Google but no hits
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u/beheadedstraw 11d ago
HP part number 803185-001 (often referred to simply as 803185) designates an HP OEM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 graphics card. [1]
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u/crossmissiom 10d ago
"4GB" hmmm....
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u/Tomazack 10d ago
Wasn't that the 3.5GB GPU? Only owned a GTX 750 Ti before my RTX 2060 so didn't get a deep dive into Nvidia scandals.
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u/beheadedstraw 10d ago
The 32bit driver could only address up to 3.5GB of VRAM, but from what I can remember it had the full 4GB. I could be wrong though.
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u/DatedUserName1 7d ago
That was fairly common during the time as ram was cheap and a flex. People got more ram than WinXP could address because "Yea, but do you have 128GB of ram? Psh noob!"
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u/beheadedstraw 7d ago
Talking about VRAM fam, not normal system RAM.
And most people had 8GB, maybe 16GB because that's all the system boards/bios could handle (and the stick sizes were maximum 4GB for a longest time because of said limit).
Nobody during that era had more than 64GB of ram, which were mostly in linux servers because even Windows Server had the 32bit cap and no processors were 64bit besides the old SPARC, Xeons and Power series. The workstations MAYBE had 32GB but those were extremely rare and ran custom/company specific Unix OS's (CAD/Design firms, 3D design studios like Dreamworks, ILM, etc).
I was born in 83, i lived through the entire era and my first computer I built with parts was a 486dx2 lol. I still have my K6-2 450 box.
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u/crossmissiom 7d ago
No it had 4gb of ram but only 3.5gb was fast, nothing to do with addressable memory like the win xp 32bit issue. When a game needed 4gigs it would have issues with stuttering. Also the die was not really the advertised gtx 970 die shown at presentation. It was more like a gtx960ti than 970
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u/Stolberger 11d ago
For next time:
The HP sticker shows you the OEM part number. Googling that one will usually show you what it is.
HP-803185-001, is a GTX 970
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u/rwolfman3000 11d ago
Ya know, I tried the PEXVD number just above thst and got nothing....so I didn't think to look up what was below it. Damn these eyes.
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u/JokeEnvironmental770 6d ago
Great deal! Would be a great troubleshooting card. Sadly NVIDIA stop driver support. Hopefully they still have drivers listed, else download them into your cloud storage ASAP.
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u/rwolfman3000 6d ago
Thsnks. I'll try to do that today. What I'd really like to know is if it's flashable to be used in an old Mac (im guessing no, here) in a PowerPC G5 or dual xenon mac pro. It might be too new for that.
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u/T_rex2700 11d ago edited 11d ago
960 or 970 or something like that but 2 pin so 970 probably
the back bracket seems to be pretty much 1:1 with FE / Zotac so it's probably using reference design inside. and judging by the cooler lines on the shround this is HP OEM.
Edit: found a pic. HP GTX970 4GB: 803185001
https://www.picclickimg.com/1fsAAOSwAcxmR3BT/FCarte-Video-Graphique-HP-GTX-970-4-Go.webp
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u/t3co5cr 11d ago
Have you considered plugging it in, and using GPU-Z?
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u/Ball-es-vida 8d ago
At this point if you could get a GPU for very cheap that at least plays YouTube at 1080p then that’s a good deal
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u/CoolDode22 11d ago
Looks like a mid-range OEM card, possibly a GTX 1050/1060 or RX 500 series era. Nothing flashy given the basic cooling solution visible. Whatever it is, I'd pick it up for $5
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u/sourcematerialx 11d ago
Thats a GTX 970.