I'd love to have one but they are somewhat uncommon.

I used one way back and I recall UT99 having some stuttering problems on it. The game would report a high framerate but it would not appear to be a high framerate. But you know the D3D in that game really was poor so maybe the card's not entirely to blame.

You know I read that on other forums too awhile back about that issue with the Fury Maxx and UT99. I really only run that game on my Voodoo 5 machine anyway. I agree, D3d support for that game was pretty lackluster.

Unreal Engine games in general had pretty awful support for anything other than Glide. I think Unreal shipped with Software Acceleration and Glide support only at first! Thank god for UTGLR!
The Rage Fury Maxx is an interesting card, sliderider apparently bought one not too long ago :
Boxed ATi Rage Fury MAXX
Maybe he's tried it out and know more about the card, so he may be able to help you out.

Amen to that. UT's "exprimental" OpenGL renderer always looked nicer than their "Approved" Direct3D renderer, though it can get buggy on certain setups.

If it's the one I was watching, you're lucky. I was going to bid on that one, too, but I already have one and need to cut back on my retro computing drug habit. 😁

Yeah, it's ok but it's not really as awesome like some people claim. I'd still rather use a GeForce 256. The biggest drawbacks are even though it can sometimes keep up with a GeForce, it isn't consistent in that regard and is stuck in an earlier DX/OpenGL era. It can also only be used as a single Rage 128 Pro in 2K and XP because of changes to how Microsoft allowed multiple GPU's on the same card to be addressed through the AGP slot. No matter what sort of build you intend to install it in it still stands in the shadow of the mighty GeForce. A V5 is even a better card because at least you get Glide and no performance loss when using AA and it is faster than the MAXX.

rage fury max is rather plentiful at the dump site around my city... could have got one with ease but didn't, for two reasons: i am not a big fan of multi gpu setup, and it has no win2k/xp drivers. it could work with generic rage128pro drivers in win2k though, but with only one core being be used. and even generic rage128pro drivers for win2k is buggy too.

rage fury pro, the single core version of rage fury max, rumored to be running at 143/143 compared to rage fury max's 125/143, is on my wanted list, but was never able to find one. i could only find a standard xpert128pro which has only passive cooler and runs at 120/120.

I always wanted to have one... but I have never owned one. When I decided to look for one they were so rare on ebay an American had 2 for sale at £100 each plus postage. Even scoured the joblot auctions looking at every card I could see just in case... but they are so rare these days.

I read the review back in the day and although the Fury Maxx's major downfall was no hardware T&L, which basically was the way everyone was going, it still looked like an amazing card. I had the odd Rage Pro in various systems and even one of those could run GP500 at high detail on my monitors top resolution.

So yeah, probably one of the hardest cards to get hold of now. I reckon the collectors have been all over it years ago.

🙁

There are a few MAXX cards on fleabay right now but they are $40+.

Caveats to them
-no NT5
-no T&L
-ATI drivers
-slower than GF2 GTS
-AFR may be problematic (see UT99 oddness)
-huge card. PCB seems unoptimized to me but what do I know.

I picked up one a several years ago but only tested it to made sure it worked, never put it through any fitness tests. I don't have any official drivers for it either, guess I need to find some before they evaporate off the net forever.

I had my sights set on one of these before they hit the market, dual GPUs FTW! And then all the disappointing reviews poured in. Were they even called GPUs back then? 😦

Picked mine up about 6 months ago for £3 ($4.80 USD) inc P+P on the bay.

I got mine from a seller who listed it as a plain Rage 128 Pro, but the picture clearly showed a Rage Fury Maxx. I assumed the risk, and Bingo! Got a like new Maxx for a bargain price.

Card arrived today. Refused to work in my Socket A SIS based board after drivers were installed. Tossed it in my Socket A VIA based XP2400+ system that the Voodoo 5 uses. In that system it was working fine. Default 3dMark 2000 score was a tad over 4700. 3D Mark 99 default score was 12,467. Default 3dMark 2001 software T&L score was a tad over 2100. Also to point out, game test 1 high detail had some bugs. Also, Quake 3 ran like ass, very choppy, lots of frame drops, both with vsync enabled and disabled. Driver used was the last one AMD had available for the card. Will do more testing later when I find a couple more driver sets and put a Slot A system together.

3dmark01 2100pts, wow, my tnt2ultra got 1950 on a pentium3-s platform.

noshutdown wrote:

3dmark01 2100pts, wow, my tnt2ultra got 1950 on a pentium3-s platform.

I agree, its not a impressive score at all, but neither is the Voodoo 5 cards score in that test either. The 3D Mark 99 and 2k scores however are pretty impressive, better then what I expected. The Quake 3 performance I experienced was just dismal, terribly disappointing.

ProfessorProfessorson wrote:

Card arrived today. Refused to work in my Socket A SIS based board after drivers were installed. Tossed it in my Socket A VIA based XP2400+ system that the Voodoo 5 uses. In that system it was working fine. Default 3dMark 2000 score was a tad over 4700. 3D Mark 99 default score was 12,467. Default 3dMark 2001 software T&L score was a tad over 2100. Also to point out, game test 1 high detail had some bugs. Also, Quake 3 ran like ass, very choppy, lots of frame drops, both with vsync enabled and disabled. Driver used was the last one AMD had available for the card. Will do more testing later when I find a couple more driver sets and put a Slot A system together.

I neglected to mention that the MAXX can be fussy about what motherboards it will work with. SiS chipset motherboards are the biggest problem for the MAXX according to the research I have done. Pentium 4 and later motherboards are another problem area.