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First post, by demiurge

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I bought this graphics card for the VGAMUSEUM because it isn't in the catalogue yet.

Problem is there is no information on the chipset. Cardinal was not in the business of making their own graphics chipsets and this seems to be the only chipset that has their logo on it.

The VGA100 was a Cirrus Logic chipset.
The VGA256 was a Weitek chipset
TheVGA400 was a Chips&Technologies chipset

Is this chip is almost certainly an overmarked chipset. Is there any way to tell when I get it? In the case of PCI devices, it usually is given away by the strings the device reports but I don't think ISA cards have this.

Making matters more interesting is that the VGA500 and the VGA500+ seem to be completely different.

Reply 1 of 2, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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demiurge wrote on 2024-06-01, 19:08:
I bought this graphics card for the VGAMUSEUM because it isn't in the catalogue yet. […]
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I bought this graphics card for the VGAMUSEUM because it isn't in the catalogue yet.

Problem is there is no information on the chipset. Cardinal was not in the business of making their own graphics chipsets and this seems to be the only chipset that has their logo on it.

The VGA100 was a Cirrus Logic chipset.
The VGA256 was a Weitek chipset
TheVGA400 was a Chips&Technologies chipset

Is this chip is almost certainly an overmarked chipset. Is there any way to tell when I get it? In the case of PCI devices, it usually is given away by the strings the device reports but I don't think ISA cards have this.

Making matters more interesting is that the VGA500 and the VGA500+ seem to be completely different.

According to the Cardinal Tech archive, it's an Oak chipset...

https://web.archive.org/web/19980117074410/ht … ort/cardvid.htm

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2024-06-01, 20:17:

According to the Cardinal Tech archive, it's an Oak chipset...

https://web.archive.org/web/19980117074410/ht … ort/cardvid.htm

Super helpful, thanks. I always forget about wayback machine.

Okay, my bet is that it is an OTI-067, what do people think? Any way to visually tell?

https://vgamuseum.info/index.php/component/k2 … 325-oak-oti-067