http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2325/radeon-8500-x4.html
😲 This is crazy. Who's heard of this before?
Beyond3D has.
http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=1262
Apparently known as CAE Tropos.
http://web.archive.org/web/20040807003853/htt … ls/tropos.shtml
techPowerUp has an interesting thread about rare/unreleased GPUs here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/rar … ed-gpus.176929/
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I don't know if that one ever came to exist, but E&S and SGI used to ship boards/systems with multiple Radeon 9700s for image generators - usually to handle more AA or very large resolutions (across multiple displays). This looks to be fairly similar. As far as I understand these kinds of cards are of minimal interest to gamers because they're so specialized for simulation environments.
There were some 3Dlabs-based PCI-X cards used in Sun systems. Here is an example of one, www.ebay.com/itm/121155135213
I am not sure if there ever were any Windows drivers or if 3Dlabs made any PCI-X cards with Windows drivers.
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wrote:There were some 3Dlabs-based PCI-X cards used in Sun systems. Here is an example of one, http://www.ebay.com/itm/121155135213
I am not sure if there ever were any Windows drivers or if 3Dlabs made any PCI-X cards with Windows drivers.
As far as I'm aware - no there are not Windows drivers or any "PC system" cards from 3DLabs on PCI-X. Drivers/documentation for that card aren't even available from 3DLabs - you'd have to go through Oracle. Supposedly there's a Sun-only REALiZM 500 as well (which will fail to boot on non-Sun platforms), but I don't know too much about that one. The best PCI-X card that I'm aware of, that has Windows drivers, is based on the Matrox Parhelia. 😊
