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First post, by Nic-93

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Like was it windows 95 as a upgrade card or mostly worked best on windows98SE?

Reply 1 of 14, by CkRtech

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I ran one circa 1999/2000 I think and upgraded to GeForce when the first one was released. So imho, 98SE is prime time for that TNT2 Ultra.

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Reply 2 of 14, by SRQ

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It would've been 1999 so 98SE yeah, I mean I'm sure people did run it on 95 but it's definitely fast enough for 98SE and suits a system like that very well.
Considering that the games it runs well with all support 95 and 98 it's up to you mostly, honestly.

Reply 3 of 14, by Nic-93

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Well, i was considering on keeping it to my windows 98SE anyways, i werent sure if it really was build for 98SE

Reply 4 of 14, by Jade Falcon

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I'd bet they were mostly used in gaming systems 🤣

Reply 5 of 14, by Tetrium

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Back then a friend of mine got a TNT2 (the Diamond Viper V770 non-ultra) along with his then new Athlon 500MHz. The 500MHz Athlon was at the time not the fastest model. I don't really remember much else though, except that his motherboard was an MS-6167. Too bad that at some point in time he decided to donate this rig to his niece instead of donating it to me 😵

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Reply 6 of 14, by PARKE

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A couple of years ago I got a hand me down pc with MS-6167 mobo + Athlon 500 + ASUS V3800 AGP NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra 32 MB. The mobo eventually went on to a better Athlon fan than me but before I parted with it I saved the following 3DMark99 benchmarks:
3DMark99 800x600
video benchmark 5099
cpu benchmark 9227
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3DMark99 1024x768x16
video benchmark 4846
cpu benchmark 9311
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With an Athlon K7 700 MHz that I had lying around at the time it looked like this:
3DMark99 1024x768x16
video benchmark 5349
cpu benchmark 11338

There was as far as I remember an article in which it was stated that the TNT2 Ultra worked better on high-end Athlons than on contemporary cpu's... for what it is worth..

Reply 7 of 14, by Reputator

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Tetrium wrote:

Back then a friend of mine got a TNT2 (the Diamond Viper V770 non-ultra) along with his then new Athlon 500MHz. The 500MHz Athlon was at the time not the fastest model. I don't really remember much else though, except that his motherboard was an MS-6167. Too bad that at some point in time he decided to donate this rig to his niece instead of donating it to me 😵

PARKE wrote:

A couple of years ago I got a hand me down pc with MS-6167 mobo + Athlon 500 + ASUS V3800 AGP NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra 32 MB.

You guys might wanna check if you're related.

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Reply 8 of 14, by Tetrium

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Reputator wrote:
Tetrium wrote:

Back then a friend of mine got a TNT2 (the Diamond Viper V770 non-ultra) along with his then new Athlon 500MHz. The 500MHz Athlon was at the time not the fastest model. I don't really remember much else though, except that his motherboard was an MS-6167. Too bad that at some point in time he decided to donate this rig to his niece instead of donating it to me 😵

PARKE wrote:

A couple of years ago I got a hand me down pc with MS-6167 mobo + Athlon 500 + ASUS V3800 AGP NVIDIA Riva TNT2 Ultra 32 MB.

You guys might wanna check if you're related.

Haha! When I started reading, I was starting to consider the same thing 🤣!
But it cannot be the case, as I know he later (ok, now this really buggers me even till this day 😵 ) upgraded his Viper V770 (which he gave to me) with a real GeForce 1 😢

I kinda like the TNT2, but I would've preferred the GF 1 😊

edit: Or the GF1 died at some point and was replaced with a spare TNT2 Ultra 🤣!
So PARKE, where do you live? 🤣

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Reply 9 of 14, by leileilol

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I might be related to everyone here who also has a M919 AM5x86-133 S3 Trio64v+ system 🤣

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Reply 10 of 14, by Tetrium

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leileilol wrote:

I might be related to everyone here who also has a M919 AM5x86-133 S3 Trio64v+ system 🤣

It would've been hilarious if it were actually true. One big happy family 😀

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Reply 11 of 14, by Jade Falcon

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Wow, what a coincidence.

Reply 12 of 14, by PARKE

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Tetrium wrote:

edit: Or the GF1 died at some point and was replaced with a spare TNT2 Ultra 🤣!
So PARKE, where do you live? 🤣

Netherlands of course, where else ? 😉

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Reply 13 of 14, by Jade Falcon

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-b5aW08ivHU

Anyway on topic, my bet is most people ether used them in a piii setup or slot A

Reply 14 of 14, by oeuvre

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Late PII-Slot 1 and Socket 370 Pentium IIIs and AMD Slot As too.

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