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Reply 40 of 46, by Mitchellin

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I looked into one of these Hypertec Phoenix 370 many years ago. It was designed to be put into a ISA slot as an anchor, but it did not draw power from it at all, you had to connect your psu to the card. It was based on SIS630E and it wasn't particularly popular. I went on webarchive to search more about it. What exactly are you interested about? I don't own one. The integrated graphics chip should be SIS 300, it was an awful one. SiS 315 in comparison is a speed demon and that struggled against GeForce mx200.

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Reply 41 of 46, by dionb

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Fizzo wrote on 2024-10-05, 21:37:
Errius wrote on 2024-05-10, 12:28:

I recently acquired a Hypertec Phoenix 370/S from 2001. It's basically a computer on a card. Information about it is scarce. Does anyone know what video chipset it uses?

You got it to work? Or find any info?

Bit offtopic here as it's neither Slot 1 nor Celeron. But FWIW, I've seen potatocam pic of documentation showing a large SiS integrated chip, so it's 5598, 530 or 540 with integrated SiS VGA (6326 or similar)

Reply 42 of 46, by Errius

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Hi. Unfortunately I'm still settling in after a chaotic house move and much of my stuff, including this, is still boxed up in storage, and I haven't had time to play with it yet.

Is this too much voodoo?

Reply 43 of 46, by PcBytes

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dionb wrote on 2024-10-06, 00:48:
Fizzo wrote on 2024-10-05, 21:37:
Errius wrote on 2024-05-10, 12:28:

I recently acquired a Hypertec Phoenix 370/S from 2001. It's basically a computer on a card. Information about it is scarce. Does anyone know what video chipset it uses?

You got it to work? Or find any info?

Bit offtopic here as it's neither Slot 1 nor Celeron. But FWIW, I've seen potatocam pic of documentation showing a large SiS integrated chip, so it's 5598, 530 or 540 with integrated SiS VGA (6326 or similar)

I pulled up a sold listing off the bay and it actually is compatible with Mendocino Celerons very likely. PGA370 and the chipset is likely a SiS 620 or 630.

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Reply 44 of 46, by Mitchellin

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dionb wrote on 2024-10-06, 00:48:

Bit offtopic here as it's neither Slot 1 nor Celeron. But FWIW, I've seen potatocam pic of documentation showing a large SiS integrated chip, so it's 5598, 530 or 540 with integrated SiS VGA (6326 or similar)

Nope, it's SiS 630E as I said above. The Hypertec Phoenix 370/s is more or less the Powerleap PL-RENAISSANCE/370S upgrade card. I've got no clue if SiS sold the design to both companies or Hypertec just sold Powerleap stuff in the UK.

Check on webarchive these websites:

powerleap.com/resellers/Products/Ren370S.htm
For drivers, go to sis.com.tw/support/download/630.htm

A YT video with it: watch?v=EDAyk_IYCDM
A YT video with SiS630 integrated graphics performance, if you can call it that: watch?v=KDJ-Jz97A6E

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Reply 45 of 46, by Mitchellin

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Sorry for double post but I can't seem to edit my own posts?

Anyway, small error above: the integrated graphics is SiS 305, not 300. For the manual of Powerleap, go here on webarchive:

powerleap.com/support/R370S-webManual.pdf

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Reply 46 of 46, by Fizzo

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Mitchellin wrote on 2024-10-05, 21:57:

I looked into one of these Hypertec Phoenix 370 many years ago. It was designed to be put into a ISA slot as an anchor, but it did not draw power from it at all, you had to connect your psu to the card. It was based on SIS630E and it wasn't particularly popular. I went on webarchive to search more about it. What exactly are you interested about? I don't own one. The integrated graphics chip should be SIS 300, it was an awful one. SiS 315 in comparison is a speed demon and that struggled against GeForce mx200.

Your searching skill is magnificent. I could not find any info on it. Thanks for sharing, much appreciated. I asked because there's one on Ebay, I though of purchasing. Sadly ,it's not like those single board where u can use the backplane and get Pci. it would have been great.