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I've been sorting my circuit boards, and I've gotten down to the last few I can't quite figure out what they would be graded as. Any assistance would be appreciated!

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This is a lot all at once and easy for people to put off replying due to the number of boards to look at. Lost has provided guidelines for posting you may want to read through. viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19156

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My grades are my own opinion and not an official grade from Boardsort

I’ll come back later today but had to say omfg :bow down:
It’s a real one in the wild!
That’s the 4th most expensive sound card on the retro market If it works!!!!! and the 5th if doa!

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The diamond video card depends on the other side as is would be peripheral but if enough on the other side may elevate to gfc

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I think what sets these a32s apart is the VC instruction chip (top left) that was pulled from later sound blaster cards for legal reasons. I don’t know the full story beyond the various half-truths and myths, but I can see the VC (literally for very creative) chip top left that’s missing from later cards.

The one you speak of I believe is the one that had the proprietary synth chips. Rather than the licensed ones?

Others that regularly make the higher prices (like op) are cards with onboard controllers that are flashable (uv or electrically), like the Audio Science and and SKS, or have hard coded sound font libraries, like the Emu card pair

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@ austin and lost. you guys are awesome and i know from yalls posts that yall are very busy people. yall must have some down time and be very bored. yall spent a lot of time analizing a bunch of very tiny boards on a post that is 6 months old. i dont do imogees or i would insert a smiley face here....

I was partial to the Yamaha series of the time, the 28-bit ym3 series.
but it’s a personal thing for all of us. ;)

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