Yes. And despite your obfuscation, it's most likely not rare and likely from 1998, a period when Pentiums were still being widely used including with similar 3d cards. A card that truly would require a P2 and DX7 would be of 2000-gen stuff (i.e. Geforce256/GF2, Radeon7x00) and those never shipped in a 16mb configuration - but typically 32-64mb. - and even then it's possible to run a geforce2mx on a 486-class CPU, someone here's already done it.

So what are you going to review? A Vanta? 😀

leileilol wrote:

Yes. And despite your obfuscation, it's most likely not rare and likely from 1998, a period when Pentiums were still being widely used including with similar 3d cards. A card that truly would require a P2 and DX7 would be of 2000-gen stuff (i.e. Geforce256/GF2, Radeon7x00) and those never shipped in a 16mb configuration - but typically 32-64mb. - and even then it's possible to run a geforce2mx on a 486-class CPU, someone here's already done it.

So what are you going to review? A Vanta? 😀

There are only 5 left on ebay so I cant say which card in case they all sell, as soon as I make purchase early next week I will put the link from ebay and explain which model it is. Even Wikipedia says little is known. I cant find any old magazines to find a price but it must have been expensive back in 1999.

Actually I will make the purchase now and then present some links. If it doesn't work on my Pentium 1 I will send to Philscomputerlab to review for us, give me 15mins

Ok just bought one, 4 left now.

Jaton Video 117 PCI 16mb VGA Video Card

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/252696759945?_trks … K%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Blade3D (1999) - first performance-competitive Windows 3D-accelerators
Blade T16 9950 - little known (Wikipedia)

For a boxed card I think it's a good price. I wouldn't expect anything amazing out of the card, but it should offer a solid experience. Keen to hear your take on it when you get it.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

For a boxed card I think it's a good price. I wouldn't expect anything amazing out of the card, but it should offer a solid experience. Keen to hear your take on it when you get it.

I was actually thinking of sending it to you to review, I live Sydney Australia. Just watching vids now actually on 3DFX VOODOO difference 🤣

kalloggs40 wrote:

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

For a boxed card I think it's a good price. I wouldn't expect anything amazing out of the card, but it should offer a solid experience. Keen to hear your take on it when you get it.

I was actually thinking of sending it to you to review, I live Sydney Australia. Just watching vids now actually on 3DFX VOODOO difference 🤣

🤣 Awesome

I think I do a have a Blade 3D, but haven't gotten around to using it yet.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

kalloggs40 wrote:

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

For a boxed card I think it's a good price. I wouldn't expect anything amazing out of the card, but it should offer a solid experience. Keen to hear your take on it when you get it.

I was actually thinking of sending it to you to review, I live Sydney Australia. Just watching vids now actually on 3DFX VOODOO difference 🤣

🤣 Awesome

I think I do a have a Blade 3D, but haven't gotten around to using it yet.

Ok I will buy another now and send it you, it wont arrive till late January estimated by ebay. So you will have it early feb, can you Pm your address and I will send by courier, plus redelivery fee paid if your not home they will leave a card to call them back and arrange a suitable time to re deliver.

Bought one now for you Phil , please do the unpacking as well, thanks. I asked them to package them well.

Extended Christmas for Phil! 🤣

meljor wrote:

Extended Christmas for Phil! 🤣

The mans a genius. The only voice and person to review a card that no one knows anything about, i have searched for 6hrs last night couldnt get any info on that particular model except for whats written on the box. The archived webpages had nothing about performance, who would use it, or how much it cost. Maybe the company didnt even retail the T16.

nothing on VGA museum either, every model of trident 3d blade except this one. We dont even know what it looks like.

A Trident card requiring a PII? Is this a winGPU card (remember those WinModems which didn't have an onboard processor and ate away at your CPU)?

feipoa wrote:

A Trident card requiring a PII? Is this a winGPU card (remember those WinModems which didn't have an onboard processor and ate away at your CPU)?

Yeah its strange no one has ever seen one, cant find any images of the card, guess we will wait for the unboxing by phil. Thats why i bought one out of curiousity actually. I have a feeling it was never released to the public, maybe for graphic studios or university computers. I remember i bought an Apple G3 desktop from a graphics studio. I found out the card wasnt for gaming so i threw it out. Only to find out it was worth like $4000 back in the day.

Found the user manual only, page 11 has a picture but maybe its generic picture.

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/285798/Jato … -117pci-16.html

I suppose this is a 'regular' Blade: https://youtu.be/3mvtBBV3N4k
I hope the T16 is considerably better than this one, because this one seems to be pretty buggy.

Scali wrote:

I suppose this is a 'regular' Blade: https://youtu.be/3mvtBBV3N4k
I hope the T16 is considerably better than this one, because this one seems to be pretty buggy.

Its a different chip to the others according to wikipedia and also 16mb, the only way to know for sure is looking at the actual chips to see if they are similar to other 3d blades. Thanks for sharing the video.

According to VGA museum its in the list:

List of most wanted cards i'm missing in mine collection

3Dfx Velocity 100, Voodoo 4, any profi version from Quantum3D
3Dlabs GLINT (Creative 3D Blaster VLB), any card with GLINT300SX, all profi cards with various GLINT chips i don't own.
Chromatic Mpact!
Intel - Real3D Starfighter PCI, i752, i754
Number Nine - Imagine 128, Imagine 128 II, Revolution 3D WRAM version
NVIDIA NV1
PowerVR Midas 3, PCX1, PCX2, VideoLogic Neon 250
Rendition Verite 1000
S3 Chrome - any model (except Deltachrome S8), Savage XP
SiS - 300, Xabre 80, 600
Trident 3DImage 9850, Blade T16, T64, Blade XP - any model

It's a cut down version of the trident blade xp with 64 bit bus like the t64, i guess the name comes from the 16 mb onboard ram. If i'm not wrong will give voodoo 2 class performance.