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Reply 58740 of 58742, by marxveix

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Shader_BiH wrote on Yesterday, 11:23:

I've experienced this first hand... I got myself recently a Compaq Deskpro SFF with Celeron at around 200 MHz, and it had integrated Rage Pro Turbo (I suppose that is considered Rage 3?) It is indeed better, image quality is much better. I suppose a discrete Pro Turbo would also be faster. Do you have any advice concerning drivers for these... because I had many problems getting them right. Are they manufacturer dependant?

Use my Rage3 drivers if you want, they are the latest that work with ATi CIF, ATi Rage Pro Acceleration works at DDraw/3DCIF/Direct3D/OpenGL/GLUT/DVD + has GlideWrapper.
If this is RagePro or some other Rage3 AGP / PCI card, then drivers will work. These drivers only dont work with later released RageXL PCI (4752) and RageXC PCI (4753) i think.

Latest 5.40x modified drivers here:
Re: ATi RagePro drivers and software
download/file.php?id=239658

Best ATi Rage3 drivers for 3DCIF / Direct3D / OpenGL / DVD : ATi RagePro drivers and software
30+MiniGL / OpenGL Win 9x dll files for all ATi Rage3 cards : Re: ATi RagePro OpenGL files

Reply 58741 of 58742, by Law212

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Nunoalex wrote on Yesterday, 22:09:

Soooo...
Time for the case reveal !

I love the chunky button on the case. I wish I had a case like that. I did see some when I went to the recyclers , but they were in terrible shape. Though I did get lucky and found a tower 486 like I wanted (see above) but man I want a chunky button

are youi going to retrobrite that case? I have never done it yet but I think its one thing I will try out this year.

Reply 58742 of 58742, by asdf53

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PcBytes wrote on Today, 01:03:

If only there's a way to figure whether it's wored for 1.5v only or 3.3v as well, that wouldn't involve sacrificing a motherboard (and potentially the GPU itself)

There is:

https://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp30.pdf (Page 40-41)
https://old.pinouts.ru/Slots/agp_pinout.shtml

TYPEDET = 1.5V capable, GC_DET = 0.8V capable

AGP 3.3V cards have GC_DET and TYPEDET pins open
AGP 1.5V cards have TYPEDET grounded
AGP 0.8V cards have GC_DET grounded
Universal cards can have both pins grounded, then the motherboard decides which voltage to use.

But this just specifies the minimum voltage, the maximum voltage is encoded using the keys. If the 3.3V notch is there but the chip doesn't support it, and there is no voltage translation circuitry on the card and it's inserted into a 3.3V mobo, it will be damaged.