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msxyz
07-09-05, 07:22 AM
I was doing some garbage collecting and reviewing the useless stuff that somehow grows inside my lockets when I found this:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4221/dscn05509ke.th.jpg (http://img94.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscn05509ke.jpg)

I didn't remeber to have purchased one. Damn I'm glad I found this, cause I was about to buy a copule of 7800GTX SLI. But with such a monster 3D card, who needs them anymore :D ?
Vishruth
07-09-05, 07:44 AM
I was doing some garbage collecting and reviewing the useless stuff that somehow grows inside my lockets when I found this:

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/4221/dscn05509ke.th.jpg (http://img94.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscn05509ke.jpg)

I didn't remeber to have purchased one. Damn I'm glad I found this, cause I was about to but a copule of 7800GTX SLI. But with such a monster 3D card, who need them anymore :D ?
No heatsinks, no fans... just wonderful. :zombie3:
jAkUp
07-09-05, 10:20 AM
Even has removable ram :D
wheeljack12
07-09-05, 10:22 AM
what a can of gaming whoop *ss! The whole 4 or 8mb of ram, Death and Heaven hath cometh!
Roadhog
07-09-05, 01:38 PM
omg, you should put that in something and run some benchmarks!!
PaiN
07-09-05, 02:04 PM
haha..i used an S3 ViRGE, i had hanging around, to get some soldering practice on, for volt mods I was doing :)
$n][pErMan
07-09-05, 02:56 PM
I need to go take a picture of my Matrox 3D card. The sucker even has a daughter card you put in another PCI slot .. lol. :D
msxyz
07-10-05, 03:22 AM
And now, for some more Virge goodness!

The mighty Virge GX2

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/3305/dscn05522jj.th.jpg (http://img94.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscn05522jj.jpg)

32bit rendering
100 MHz core 4 MB SGRAM (10ns)
AGP bus (:D)
Duoview (TM) integrated 2nd ramdac
Integrated three-tap flicker-free PAL/NTSC encoder (that was real good, I swear!)

This was the card I purchased when I built my K6-2 300MHz rig. At the time I already had 1 Voodoo2 12MB so the main AGP card was only used in 2D. The VirgeGX2 caught my attention for the TV output (a novelty at the time) which I needed to play emulated games on a television.

Like all the Virge cards, it lacked of a real triangle setup unit, thus the setup was entirely done on the CPU (which was the main reason why Virge sucked). But I was able to play d3d games like Blood 2 and Shogo on it at a decent framerate and 32bit color :p