Reply 37580 of 52818, by Ozzuneoj
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debs3759 wrote on 2021-01-11, 20:27:Ozzuneoj wrote on 2021-01-11, 20:22:debs3759 wrote on 2021-01-11, 20:11:Yes, it's just a retail i740. http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?conten … rds/real3d.html
I only have NVivia and ATI/AMD cards in gpuzoo.com so far, but eventually will have more info for cards like this. Still working on adding older NVidia and ATI cards first (the database has over 10K cards listed at the moment)
There is no picture of this card on that page. Unless I'm missing something.
No, that site doesn't have images, but it is among the most complete sites for listing old cards. I'll be cross referencing cards from plasma-online with info from reviews and other collection sites when I add legacy cards to my site (which is waiting for the webmaster to add the last few thousand cards in my database)
The fact that the Starfighter uses an i740 is fairly common knowledge in the retro 3d accelerator world. The i740 exists because of Real3D.
The Real3D Starfighter PCI is often depicted as an ultra rare collector's item, and yet there are pictures of it all over the internet. It doesn't really do anything special, so it isn't more useful than any other... it's just an oddity. On the other hand, this particular variant of the Real3D Starfighter AGP I found is only pictured on one other website, and that site contains ultra rare oddities like engineering samples and development boards from Real3D and Intel. I know this particular card isn't anything like those, but saying its the same as any Starfighter AGP card, for which there are a hundred of pictures online, just seems odd. It clearly isn't the same card.
I'm not looking for an award, I was simply stating that it seems to be rare. Kind of the point of posting things in this thread... we find them interesting or unusual. If someone can find pictures of these sitting in scrap lots, installed in computers and being pulled out of retail boxes, then please shoot down my dreams of owning "The rarest of all the Starfighters", but I don't see the point in peeing in my cheerios with no pictures or information to add to the conversation.
It's like going to a CPU collector's forum and telling people "That's just Cyrix 5x86." when they say they're happy to have found a 5x86 150. 😀
(I know it's not like that, I'm being facetious)
Now for some blitting from the back buffer.