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Re: Clock Speed + Memory Size vs. Memory Bus Width

I think tnt2 m64 and rage 128 are quite close in actual performance. Both are only bit faster than original TNT. From what I can see online people generally didn't like rage 128 cards but it wasn't because of of performance, it was because many people seemed to have directx issues with the card. …

Gpu ram thermal pads/thermal paste.

I was thinking of putting some new thermal paste and get some thermal pads for one of my gpus and I took the backplate off to see what size thermal pads I would need. backplate1.jpg I was bit surprised. It looks like the ram chips have both thermal pads and thermal paste on them. Is this normal? Do …

Re: Is this an interesting graphics card

Do they even use any agp features or is the agp interface just for show like with voodoo 3 cards? They do. And even AGP "just for show" at the very least doubles the bandwidth over PCI. I guess that would make them bad even for slow super socket 7 platforms since you would be facing the agp bugs?

Re: Is this an interesting graphics card

In many reviews they were called workstation cards. They say things like: "3Dlabs reoriented new Permedia to a "workstation" product with gaming abilities and remained silent about consumer market ambitions ever since." Context please. I wrote that about Permedia 3. Sorry about that. I was doing …

Re: were/are the Voodoo 4 and 5 even worth owning?

That is one question I have had for a while too. Do glide games even exist that would need faster voodoo card to run at good frame rates? What would be the fastest voodoo card you would actually need for a glide game? Depends on the game and resolution. But once you want to run higher than 1024x768 …

Re: Is this an interesting graphics card

I think I have that card. I have not tested it, but I think it is a standard 8mb permedia 2 card. You can find permedia 2 reviews online easily. Workstation card, but you could consider It a voodoo 1 competitor mostly and came out betweeen voodoo 1 and voodoo 2. http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/news/ …

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