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Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Still deciding which card should I buy first.. I've found all the usual bad ones, aT3D, Laguna3D, 3DImage9750, etc.. if they'd cost less I'd have bought them already but can't spend too much.. Question: late Laguna3D GD5465-HC-C revisions were slower or identical to the early faster ones with …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Still deciding which card should I buy first.. I've found all the usual bad ones, aT3D, Laguna3D, 3DImage9750, etc.. if they'd cost less I'd have bought them already but can't spend too much.. Yeah, it sucks that even the prices for slow/useless 3D cards are unreasonably high nowadays. Some time …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Still deciding which card should I buy first.. I've found all the usual bad ones, aT3D, Laguna3D, 3DImage9750, etc.. if they'd cost less I'd have bought them already but can't spend too much.. Question: late Laguna3D GD5465-HC-C revisions were slower or identical to the early faster ones with …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

I wonder why Powerstrip seems to read ram clock (40Mhz) but not the chip clock at all and of course you can't increase that. Need to check memory timings as well. Both chip and memory clocks are controlled by that one value. When I pressed the "default" button values, that went up to "66Mhz" …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

I wonder why Powerstrip seems to read ram clock (40Mhz) but not the chip clock at all and of course you can't increase that. Need to check memory timings as well. I always used MCLK.EXE for overclocking my Virge DX. It will also correctly read the stock clocks. That's a DOS utility though, and I'm …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Interesting that I'm also testing at the same time a generic Virge/DX 4MB (late 1999 built, only smd components) end up much better in graphic compatibility while much slower of course with so much to render. Powerstrip read the Virge DX rams @ 40Mhz (?) and after what may be 60Mhz begin to have …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Then again installed the Rage Pro Turbo AGP and always impressed that ran so well even in Quake2 and partially even Quake3. Ok that I am testing these with a 500Mhz P-III to push these to their speed limits but still surprise me every times. It's almost "too good" for the level of cards I am …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

Finally, you are getting more specific. Yes, Mystiques were fast. To get slower, aim for Laguna3D. If it should be more broken, try Trident 3DImage. I think I'll buy them "all" if I can, I really like this generation of chips that feel like they were almost going to make it through those difficult …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

While I am deciding which of these cards to buy (they are all expensive as usual these days, I am going to buy one today), yesterday I was testing the 3D hw rendering of the Mystique 220 4MB SGRAM and it's interesting that beside no textures seems rendered in more modern benchmarks/games and lack …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

There are some i752 cards AFAIK, but it was integrated in i810 and some i815 chipset variants. It was, again, pretty good for what it was, even if it has its usual crowd of haters because better dedicated PCI and AGP cards existed. Has anybody seen/done comparison tests between i740 and integrated …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

About 15% slower for the 12mb version (compared to the 8mb AGP). The AGP version is definitely more interesting. Paired with with a fast FSB and fast RAM, it was doing noticeably better. I wouldn't bother with the PCI version. At the begining of this video you can see some of the goodies I got from …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

The Real3D version has special drivers from them (they are the original creators of the chip), and can still use Intel drivers if needed. I remember that the Real3D driver CD is packed with nice goodies too, with even Windows themes. More importantly, they allowed general settings that override the …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

For what it's worth, i740 was a decent card. Very good rendering quality and speed, compared to all garbage that was released only one year prior. It also had pretty decent market penetration. Which was the better built and/or fastest board using the i740? The Real3D version has special drivers …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

For what it's worth, i740 was a decent card. Very good rendering quality and speed, compared to all garbage that was released only one year prior. It also had pretty decent market penetration. Which was the better built and/or fastest board using the i740? Intel branded 740 cards are always solid …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

The Serpent Rider wrote on 2024-03-14, 21:06: For what it's worth, i740 was a decent card. Very good rendering quality and speed, compared to all garbage that was released only one year prior. It also had pretty decent market penetration. Which was the better built and/or fastest board using the …

Re: Worst fastest early 3D cards questions

At that time I fell into the advertising of the Mystique 220 and used it for a couple of years, I played some games with it, the one I remember most is Redline Racer, on an MMX200 it was very fluid, I remember the great feeling of speed it offered, The Mystique was quite fast, but even without much …

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