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MPACT-2

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First post, by nforce4max

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I keep running across a card for sale that has this ancient gpu like DSP and was wondering before I burnt much needed cash if it was worth collecting.

For those that never knew about this can look here. http://vintage3d.org/chromatic.php#sthash.dpsJf7iM.dpbs

On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.

Reply 1 of 1, by obobskivich

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Don't know a ton about them either (very interesting link), but in general I'm hesitant to acquire "obscura" cards if drivers/support aren't readily available for them; I don't know if that's explicitly a problem for this card, but it may be. How much do these typically go for? If they're very cheap (like $5) I'd say what's the problem, but if "they" want a reasonable chunk of change (like $50) that's a much more serious consideration - do you have hardware that it can plug into, drivers/software that can use it, etc? Or would it just sit on a shelf? Just my 2c.