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Artist 3GA 2000i, what memory?

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First post, by hifidelitygaming

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I have this oddball card and would love to know if anyone else knows about it.

It had only 64meg stock, but has two 72pin I think SIMM slots, however putting memory in them didn't expand the ram so maybe it needed some special fast speed or something... any idea what type of memory it needs?

I only had win98 drivers, dont know if NT4 or 2000 drivers were ever made.

It actually supported some proprietary 3d acceleration and I think openGL - I could never figure out how to enable it or use it in a game though, or maybe it needed the extra RAM for it.

The drivers had a few neat quirks like a 256 greyscale mode I didn't see on any other drivers.

I dont have the card handy (pretty sure its a 2000i from memory) as it's in a box, I just was thinking about it the other day.

Reply 1 of 3, by shspvr

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I belive that card was main made be used with AutoCAD.
Say can get some picture of it

Reply 2 of 3, by RacoonRider

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I would really appreciate it if you posted a picture of this relict here 😀

Reply 3 of 3, by adri3650

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I found the same card, two of them actually.
There was some documentation included with it, I scanned it in with OCR. You can find this word document attached. Hopefully it will be useful to someone someday.
The last paragraph explains exactly which memory modules you need to use with this card.

And also a few pics of the cards attached for reference. (There is completely noting on the back of the card)

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