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Kingston KVR-GPA/4 4mb GPA for AGP video

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First post, by BinaryDemon

Posted on 2022-05-29, 12:18

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Silly question, I like looking at interesting things on eBay and saw this product- Kingston KVR-GPA/4 4mb GPA for AGP video

Sorry for the crappy pic, I didnt want to link an eBay auction and this was the next best image I saw .

But I can’t find much documentation for it online. Was this for specific OEM systems or would it work with the memory for almost any integrated agp? Does it replace the memory or add to it? 4mb doesn’t seem like a lot either way.

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Reply 1 of 13, by zyga64

Posted on 2022-05-29, 13:08

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It is designed for i815 (and maybe i810) based motherboards. I'm sure it was mentioned in the user manual for Compaq computers.
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Reply 2 of 13, by BinaryDemon

Posted on 2022-05-29, 13:59

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Good info, thanks.

Check out DOSBox Distro:

https://sites.google.com/site/dosboxdistro/ [*]

a lightweight Linux distro (tinycore) which boots off a usb flash drive and goes straight to DOSBox.

Make your dos retrogaming experience portable!

Reply 3 of 13, by Putas

Posted on 2022-05-29, 18:32

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Is it the 100 MHz version? My 133 Mhz module looks like this:

Reply 4 of 13, by swaaye

Posted on 2022-05-30, 18:08

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Interesting. So it's a way to add the "display cache" RAM to a 815 motherboard?

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Reply 5 of 13, by kitten.may.cry

Posted on 2022-05-30, 18:09

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I owned one of these things, without any way of knowing what that was, as my 810 experience was quite limited, and pretty negative.

God bless 815\694X.

Reply 6 of 13, by Putas

Posted on 2022-05-30, 18:45

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swaaye wrote on 2022-05-30, 18:08:

Interesting. So it's a way to add the "display cache" RAM to a 815 motherboard?

Yes.

Reply 7 of 13, by Error 0x7CF

Posted on 2022-05-30, 21:23

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Are there any benchmarks comparing a display-cached i815 to a system-memory-only i815? I looked around and couldn't find any.

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Reply 8 of 13, by Standard Def Steve

Posted on 2022-05-30, 23:02

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IIRC some Compaq Deskpro EN pizza boxes had the 4MB display cache built right into the motherboard.

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Reply 9 of 13, by Putas

Posted on 2022-05-31, 04:55

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Error 0x7CF wrote on 2022-05-30, 21:23:

Are there any benchmarks comparing a display-cached i815 to a system-memory-only i815? I looked around and couldn't find any.

I could not finish that before vacation, but it did account for ~20 % uplift on my system with 133 MHz RAM.

Reply 10 of 13, by Error 0x7CF

Posted on 2022-05-31, 05:40

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Wow, 20% uplift might make the i815 graphics almost usable!

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Reply 11 of 13, by PC Hoarder Patrol

Posted on 2022-05-31, 12:35

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Putas wrote on 2022-05-31, 04:55:

Error 0x7CF wrote on 2022-05-30, 21:23:

Are there any benchmarks comparing a display-cached i815 to a system-memory-only i815? I looked around and couldn't find any.

I could not finish that before vacation, but it did account for ~20 % uplift on my system with 133 MHz RAM.

20% sounds about right for the then quoted figures, but I'd have to say that in my (short!) time using one on an Abit SA6R I never really noticed much improvement - Intel liked to quote 30% and the one I got from Crucial / Micron noted around the 25% mark. I also have an PCI-only i810E slot 1 / skt 370 combo board (Jetway J-913AF) with the 4MB display cache onboard.

For reference, here's my Crucial AIMM (166MHz with Hyundai ICs)...

CT1M32S4A6 AIMM.jpg

https://web.archive.org/web/20010826203652/ht … dule=CT1M32S4A6

Crucial 66-pin AIMM.jpg

Reply 12 of 13, by Jasin Natael

Posted on 2022-05-31, 17:24

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Standard Def Steve wrote on 2022-05-30, 23:02:

IIRC some Compaq Deskpro EN pizza boxes had the 4MB display cache built right into the motherboard.

This is correct. I have one but never used the onboard graphics on that system. I should try it for giggles sometime....

Reply 13 of 13, by Babasha

Posted on 2023-10-22, 20:02

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Error 0x7CF wrote on 2022-05-30, 21:23:

Are there any benchmarks comparing a display-cached i815 to a system-memory-only i815? I looked around and couldn't find any.

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