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Unusual ATI Rage IIc card

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First post, by TestedByShark

Posted on 2026-08-02, 19:26

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I just came across a peculiar card: it is an ATI 3Charger Rage IIc, part number 109-49300-01. 4MB SDRAM, usual layout. It is an AGP card, but the chip is clearly labelled "Rage IIc PCI" (see attached photo).

I do not know if this is very notable, but this community is probably the only one on earth that could care about it / enjoy the picture. So I just registered to make this post. Enjoy!

Reply 1 of 2, by marxveix

Posted on 2026-08-02, 22:32

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Here one Rage Pro AGP 2X chip on PCI : https://theretroweb.com/expansioncards/s/ati-nexus-ga

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

Reply 2 of 2, by zapbuzz

Posted on 2026-08-03, 02:30

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Yes, some early AGP cards did come with chips designed for PCI and the AGP bus would match the PCI spec (backwards compatible).
Therefore that AGP card was only as good as PCI which was only really marginally slower anyhow.

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