Reply 57940 of 57940, by Ozzuneoj
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Not really sure if I overspent on this or not, but I couldn't resist.
It wasn't really labeled correctly but it was pretty close (they said it was an Asus card). When I saw the card I thought "Oh wow... that looks similar to a Yuan 3DS-100 NV1..." and sure enough, this is a Yuan Riva 128! I don't think these are real common, and I can't find any other pictures of this exact version with the TV outputs or any with retail boxes and the original printed ad\poster. I own a 3DS-100 so I thought it'd be cool to have one of these in my collection too. It seems Yuan couldn't make up their mind about what to call it either... AGP-300S REV:1.2, Hyper-speed, "Vitra" series, 3DS-2000... it could be all of these. 😅
It's interesting that both Diamond and YUAN gave Nvidia a second shot after the NV1 flopped. The Riva 128 was a ridiculously huge improvement over the NV1 though, so that probably helped.
Does anyone know what became of Yuan? Not too many companies just vanished back then... they all got renamed or ended up a part of something else eventually.
EDIT: Oh! That wasn't too hard. Yuan High-Tech still exists! They are apparently one of the brands owned by Palit Microsystems, alongside Gainward, Galax\Galaxy, Xpertvision and others. They are very much still heavily connected with nvidia too.