What is it ? Powercolor or what ?
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Congratulations, you have stumbled across an OEM version of the V4 4500. If memory serves me correctly, these cards were slower than retail 4500s, I think that it was either because of their odd design or they might have actually been clocked at 143MHz or something. I believe these cards were manufactured by 3dfx themselves, unless the OEMs made them.
It's not 143MHz, normal 166 here
QuoteWhat is it ? Powercolor or what ?
Powercolor V4 have got the s-video out. *drool* [:p]
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It's not 143MHz, normal 166 here
Okay then, the slowdown is due to the odd design of the card. I know I heard one or the other, just couldn't remember which was which.
Ok, maybe but i can't compare with retail V4 because i don't have it, only V5 6000 and Quantum3D Mercury (both waaaaay faster than any V4 :) )
oh well, you still have a Voodoo 4 ;). But remind me, Quantum3D Mercury, which one is that?
That's the Voodoo 4 L-card, aka loser card, mainly because of it's shape (L-shaped) and I think the performance was a little slower than usual...the Powercolor Voodoo 4 4500 AGP is like any other card today; that meaning it has the standard VGA output as well as tv-out/s-video and DVI output, plus the AGP 4x slot...
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oh well, you still have a Voodoo 4 ;). But remind me, Quantum3D Mercury, which one is that?
4xObsidian X-24 + Aalchemy board = 96Mb Voodoo2 w/ 2xFSAA and trilinear filtering
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Wauw !! Not everybody has that baby dude !
Where have you found the card [:P]
Are you working with Quantum3D ? ;)
Holy SH!T! Yeah, that would definately outperfrom a Voodoo 4, probably a Voodoo 5 (5500) also. But you must be stuck using the Quantum3D drivers? Or do the FastVoodoo drivers support this card?
Quote4xObsidian X-24 + Aalchemy board = 96Mb Voodoo2 w/ 2xFSAA and trilinear filtering
Not 4*X24 but 4*SB200I (the professional version)
The X24 is the consumer card.
And this card doesn't outperform a Voodoo5.
The Quantum3D Mercury could only run resolutions up to 1024x1024, has a Ramdac 135 mhz and only had drivers for Windows NT...
But it enabled anti-aliasing in hardware before other graphics cards came with the capability.
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Wauw !! Not everybody has that baby dude !
Where have you found the card [:P]
Are you working with Quantum3D ? ;)
Of course not (and i don't have 8464 :) ) I bought it for $120. Mercury is quite rare thing but it's possible to find it (unlike Rampage prototype or V4 4200 DDR ) and it's not so expensive like V5 6000 (of course some limitations here - no big textures, no 32 bit)
Very good thing for Unreal :)
Can you use them on a normal pc ? What is you PSU ;)
Can i also use my X-24 with WindowsXp ?
you should be able to use it with the fastvoodoo2 xp drivers...
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Can you use them on a normal pc ? What is you PSU ;)
No probs. You must only have 4 free PCI slots and case with at least two coolers (that thing is prone to overheat )
PSU ? I have 450W in my home PC (w/ V5 6K) and 600W in PC w/ Mercury, 600W is not for Mercury but for 16 SCSI U320 HDDs :)
QuoteNo probs. You must only have 4 free PCI slots and case with at least two coolers (that thing is prone to overheat )
Doesn't leave much room for anything else, does it? On the other hand, if you've got 16 SCSI HDDs, you probably have some sort of super-mobo with like 10 PCI slots, my max is 5