Reply 43000 of 52859, by WJG6260
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Cuttoon wrote on 2022-03-04, 16:48:I'm borrowing the photos of the Synergy, mine are somewhere in the heap (thanks, Fabian): http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uplo […]
WJG6260 wrote on 2022-03-04, 16:10:I’d be interested to see what their Gloria Synergy cards were like; the build quality of their cards is quite nice and the Permedia2 is supposedly decent, right? That AGP Pro GF256 sounds quite cool! Can’t say I’ve seen anything like that before. I have one of those giant Gloria L cards (it came with a PPRO board I bought a long while ago) and it’s got an early Glint chip, the Glint Delta, and an S3 Virge for good measure. It’s also got like 16 or 20MB of total RAM. Absolute beast of a card.
I'm borrowing the photos of the Synergy, mine are somewhere in the heap (thanks, Fabian):
http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/201 … aphics_card.jpg
There was a "ViVo" edition with a bunch of S-video and composite connectors.
The civilian version was called the Winner 2000 office:
http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/els … a_2_8mb_pci.jpgThe quadro cards, they're not exoctic either and I didn't exactly buy them today, but did not post them here before.
Note the "pro" uses up two slots and comes with a 30 mm high cooler.
Thanks for the pics! The Synergy is a great looking card. The mention of a ViVo one certainly brings back some memories...
That pro variant is pretty impressive. It reminds me of the 3DLabs Wildcat. AGP Pro is neat, but it feels like there's so few cards supporting it and it's just not worth the performance gain. This thing must've been a beast in its time.