http://www.ebay.com/itm/S3-VIA-Twister-T-PN13 … =item27bf83de39
I can't remember S3 and VIA having a child. What is it, GPU spawn?
How you like that shameless 3dfx plug? 🤣
not 3DFX Voodoo
That seller is awesome 🤣
FM sound card comparison on a Grand Scale!!
The Grand OPL3 Comparison Run.
A search on PN133T reveals that this is a VIA ProSavage DDR northbridge. It's a Pentium 3 chipset.
wrote:A search on PN133T reveals that this is a VIA ProSavage DDR northbridge. It's a Pentium 3 chipset.
No real answers please, we all can use search engines here. 😁
🤣 sorry! my bad!
I think I've used the SDRAM version of this chipset. A old Celeron box. This IGP would be the Savage 2000 2D + Savage 4 3D variety.
I had a Compaq laptop that used one of these (Twister-K) for integrated video; it was horrible. Terrible drivers, compatibility, and IQ. I would literally have chosen my Riva 128 over it any day of the week. Ok, now somebody take screenshots for that other thread... 😀.
wrote:wrote:A search on PN133T reveals that this is a VIA ProSavage DDR northbridge. It's a Pentium 3 chipset.
No real answers please, we all can use search engines here. 😁
You should learn to appreciate not getting the usual, condescending, "Google it" answer that most people give around here whenever someone asks a question.
wrote:not 3DFX Voodoo
That seller is awesome 🤣
That's called keyword spamming and is against ebay rules as it clutters up people's searches with items that have nothing to do with what they were searching for.
wrote:wrote:not 3DFX Voodoo
That seller is awesome 🤣
That's called keyword spamming and is against ebay rules as it clutters up people's searches with items that have nothing to do with what they were searching for.
Oh please don't go all grumpy about it 😜 I would agree in general but in this case i found it pretty funny. Anyway when you have a loose chip such as the "twister thingy", you basically know nobody will search for it specifically. The seller just wanted to give it a chance at life 😁 And how you wanna bet it is the reason our OP found it? and the reason we had this constructive thread?
FM sound card comparison on a Grand Scale!!
The Grand OPL3 Comparison Run.
wrote:I had a Compaq laptop that used one of these (Twister-K) for integrated video; it was horrible. Terrible drivers, compatibility, and IQ. I would literally have chosen my Riva 128 over it any day of the week. Ok, now somebody take screenshots for that other thread... 😀.
Thanks for your review!
Was it used primarily in laptops then? Just seems odd that I've never heard of it, being a hardware junkie and all. Never have owned a laptop though (but my wife has for several years, and cheap laptops never have sexy hardware).
These VIA/S3 IGPs were also used on microATX boards. They are also listed as used for embedded products (probably industrial). The C3 used some of these chipsets.
I remember the graphics of a ProSavage Twister
it was strange. It had VERY SLOW 2D ACCELLERATION (In ZSNES it was crawling around 7fps) yet had moderate okay D3D (Serious Sam ran roughly 22fps on it @ 1024x768). It had terrible GL, though I remember one game flashing colors all over.
from the slow zsnes alone I can't make the connection between this and the savage2000
