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S3 Trio64/UV+? Interesting card i never seen before.

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First post, by JoKo12PL

Posted on 2019-06-13, 21:01

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Hello!
A few years ago i bought a pack of computer parts from my friend. In that pack there was aforementioned S3 graphics card. It has 4 sockets for memory, only 2 populated with 256KB chips i think. I read online that this was the first S3 card that could use system memory as display memory. Does anybody have any experiences with that VGA? I never really tested it, just booted to the CMOS setup. Can it really "steal" system RAM through the PCI bus, or that was only for use on motherboard implementations?

Reply 1 of 3, by elianda

Posted on 2019-06-14, 15:19

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Any sources? I thought the S3 Trio64UV+ was just a small update of the Trio64V+.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Anonymous Coward

Posted on 2019-06-14, 16:43

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I can't remember anymore. I think it may have been posted in VOGONS before, but I seem to recall the UV+ might somehow be worse than a regular V+. Something like it being targeted at mobiles thus having lower clocks. Can anyone confirm?

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