Reply 20 of 61, by Anonymous Coward
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4MB VLB cards were always pretty uncommon. I think at one point the Diamond Stealth64 Video VRAM was the easiest one to get (with 2MB), and you could easily pick an upgrade module off of the PCI version. These days this card is pretty rarely seen for sale.
The Mach64 Graphics Pro Turbo was another somewhat common card, but unlike the Diamond cards it was much more challenging to get the upgrade module, because the PCI cards often used an incompatible module, even though they physically fit. You need to match up the part numbers.
I've also seen old S3 928 based cards with 4MB (ELSA Winner2000, Miro), as well as the Matrox cards (Impression?). Today I even learned about a card which I've never heard of before, the Spider64 VLB, which is unique in that it takes 4MB of DRAM rather than VRAM.
My personal favourite 4MB VLB card so far is the #9 Motion FX 771. It uses the same S3 968 chip as the Stealth64 VRAM Video, but comes standard with a 220MHz RAMDAC...and better drivers/software. I used to own the GXE64 Pro 4MB as well (S3 964), but foolishly sold it off to help pay down my mortgage 🙁
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