Gabriel-LG wrote on 2024-01-10, 20:19:This one came in the mail today.
I found it whilst trawling our local Graigslist. The seller was selling AGP cards for 10 euros […]
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This one came in the mail today.
I found it whilst trawling our local Graigslist. The seller was selling AGP cards for 10 euros each. Pictures only, no description.
I spotted this one amongst them ❤️
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For a grand total of €14.65 I am now the proud owner of a Diamond Viper II Z200; in other words an S3 Savage2000 😍
Good luck with that card, one of the worst GPUs ever produced by S3/Diamond and one of the big ones that bankrupted them and sent them to the grave, pretty sure they never released working drivers for that card, all the ones ive found are broken in some form or another. Even Unreal Tournament has issue with this card, a number of effects either dont work or have graphical issues, still its pretty cool seeing S3TC/Metal working nicely on correct hardware. When hunting down drivers for the Z200 try to avoid the latest ones with S3TL (Essentially Hybrid Software T&L written by S3, its terrible) as they have significant issues with games that use T&L.
A great novelty card for messing around with S3TC/ S3 Metal but not a card I would ever use in a build, another fun card is the Diamond Stealth III S540 which is a Savage 4 Pro GPU and fares a bit better with drivers being the older of the two.