Reply 20 of 54, by 386SX
The card arrived, chip Blade3D Rev. 3A, middle 1999, 8MB SDRAM detected @ 100Mhz, AGP2x enabled with Sideband addressing, bios 06/15/1999, drivers latest 2000 ones and the usual low end PCB look. Something I didn't notice before a capacitor on the board named EC5 near the AGP bus (should be 47 uF 16v) seems ok not broken or something but the plastic on it is half missing from the metal but the capacitor seems ok, flat and the metal closed. Could it be a problem or a bad sign? I'm going to test it today anyway but for now it looks a good accelerator, good enouch 2D desktop quality for the usual cheap PCBs maybe not the sharpest but enough.
Edit: meanwhile Final Reality early tests are impressively smooth and fast and the City test is much better than expected.. Final score 4.52 impressive! And 3DMark99 I'm going to run says it support anisotropic filtering and S3TC? Incredible..and from the benchmark frame rates while is running I can say it surpass by A LOT the Rage Pro in speed at least First and Second 3DMark99 tests frame rates are higher than expected.