Nexxen wrote on 2022-03-09, 12:13:I guess they are everywhere because they're cheap?
Any real good models by Realtek? […]
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Kahenraz wrote on 2022-03-09, 11:54:
That's the thread I remember reading. 😀
I couldn't remember much about it, but this one reply seemed to stick in my memory:
The Serpent Rider wrote on 2019-07-31, 17:17:
All Realtek chips are horrible
I guess they are everywhere because they're cheap?
Any real good models by Realtek?
I remember reading in paper magazines about good sound chips but bad speakers, so bad, that they'd frustrate the potential of the integrated sound on some otherwise good laptops.
Probably all of them, horrible. Yet really hard to avoid. Cheap NICs are almost synonymous.
And, technically, the "Advance Logic" range of sound chips are supposed to be rather decent and ended up being part of Realtek in '95.
appiah4 wrote on 2022-03-09, 10:04:
512K and it is SVGA compatible (up to 800x600x256). Apparently it has an 8-bit memory bus and runs on XT class computers as well. It's a very slow card for even an AT I guess, but it's good for giving an XT some VGA out.. apparently?
Oh, right - I overlooked the two fixed chips with 128k each. There I had tomatos on ze eyes, as the frenchmen use to say.
Well, you're lucky the two sockets were populated then. The OTIvga I referred to had four sockets, but only two chips. Apparently, those were still considered legal for sale as late as 1993.
Then again, that card of yours, by its reduced design, looks as late as 1995. When Matrox released the Millennium, e.g..
To produce a card with 256 kb back then was already showing some nerves...