Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:mv_cz wrote:Finally bought (sort of.. :blush: ) a 3dfx card on a local discussion board, the seller didn't want anything for it, only a bar […]
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Finally bought (sort of.. 😊 ) a 3dfx card on a local discussion board, the seller didn't want anything for it, only a bar of chocolate, so I bought him two large ones 😁 Got a Creative 3D Blaster Banshee PCI (CT6760) with original drivers CD and with it came also SB Live! CT4670 card (although I have a modern revision CT4830 with digital out, it will come in handy).
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I've only had a Voodoo1 card back then, friend of mine had similar creative banshee card, but it was an AGP version with SGRAM and paired with celeron333 it was quite capable system. Today also came new old stock AMD K6-III+ 400 MHz which I've ordered on ebay for 20 euros. So I have some hardware to complement my socket7 systems.
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Nice. So you've just completed your entire system in a single buy, have you? Banshee is a quite capable card; in single-textured games it's faster than a Voodoo2. The 2D image quality doesn't disappoint either.
Well actually I'm not sure 😁 I planned to keep both socket7 and supersocket7 systems. The first mainly with P233MMX for dos with PCI graphics (where should banshee go) and the ss7 setup with K6-3+ and AGP graphics for 98SE and slightly modern games. But I don't have proper AGP card at the moment, either they are too slow (TNT2 M64, GF2MX - actually this card seems most appropriate now) or too fast and modern (GF4Ti4800, FX5900) for ss7 system and none of them are 3dfx cards of course.
With mobile K6's ability to clock itself down on the fly I feel like the first setup being more or less redundant, but if i put pci banshee in ss7 then it will become bottleneck 😢
dondiego wrote:AKA trident blade xp5, also had only dx 8.1 support.
The XP5 was sold under the "XGI" brand if my memory serves well, but it is more or less rebranded Trident XP4 card. Because in my Toshiba centrino laptop I have XP4m32 card and I have managed to modify XP5 graphics driver from dell to work on my XP4 card. I needed to try some newer revision of drivers for my chip, because it has somewhat slow scrolling in modern windows apps in WinXP. And since XP4 drivers I have are already the most recent, I used the XP5 and they work.
After all the XP4 is not that bad for time of it's release. Sure my laptop could have obligatory Intels's extreme graphics in form of 855GM chipset, but trident is faster, power efficient and brings directx 8.1 support. In 3Dmark2001SE performance is good and the card was clearly optimized to run it well, It reaches nearly the score similar to Mobility Radeon9000. In games it is not that good, fps drops here and there, but the picture quality is OK, I had never problem with trident cards regarding to picture quality (same story was with Trident Cyberblade e4-128 card I had in laptop too).
So maybe VolariV3 = XP5 = XP4 which gives me idea to try volari drivers 😊 Shame those XP4/5 cards are not supported in Windows Vista/7 😢