Re: MoSys vs EliteMT memory (Riva 128ZX) 1998 VGA

Posted on 2024-05-26, 18:58

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Do you recon is riva 128zx SDRAM 64-bit bus and SGRAM is 128-bit bus variant? Seems like cards equipped with sgrams are better and faster, if this is true then how much % in benchmarks and games. Quake, Unreal or Direct3D. For these two cards, be careful if the SGRAM card does not have memory chips …

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Re: MoSys vs EliteMT memory (Riva 128ZX) 1998 VGA

Posted on 2024-05-26, 15:55

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There were tech limitations at that time: SDRAM chips had limited amount of pins, so for full 128-bit bus Riva 128ZX would need 16 chips. That's not completely true. 16-bit SDRAM chips were quite common at that time. You just need 8 16-bit chips to fill a 128 bit bus. Look at the card in the …

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Re: MoSys vs EliteMT memory (Riva 128ZX) 1998 VGA

Posted on 2024-05-26, 15:37

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There were some rare Riva 128 variants with 64-bit SGRAM bus, but those have only 2 memory chips. very interesting. I have researched now and find out that EliteMT is SDRAM and MoSys is SGRAM, find datasheet and learned from there. check this out https://i.imgur.com/KqpIkX4.jpeg https://i.imgur.com …

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Re: MoSys vs EliteMT memory (Riva 128ZX) 1998 VGA

Posted on 2024-05-25, 15:38

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There were tech limitations at that time: SDRAM chips had limited amount of pins, so for full 128-bit bus Riva 128ZX would need 16 chips. Do you think SGRAM support 128-bit bus and SDRAM 64-bit ? Sounds like a large difference. If this is true could be even more interesting to get both variants and …

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Re: MoSys vs EliteMT memory (Riva 128ZX) 1998 VGA

Posted on 2024-05-25, 15:34

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Get a photo that is good enough to read the marking of the memory chips, then put the marking into a search engine to find a datasheet. Thats a very good advice. I will get better quality photos and search for datasheet to see which on i which. As far as I learn SGRAM could be more profitable for …

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Re: MoSys vs EliteMT memory (Riva 128ZX) 1998 VGA

Posted on 2024-05-25, 01:13

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I need to figure out how to recognise which is which Memory Type: SGRAM, SDR Sgram seems to be better from what is written here. https://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/cpu/item … idia-riva-128zx "SDR memory supports only in 64bit mode, so bandwidth is only 800MB/s."

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Re: MoSys vs EliteMT memory (Riva 128ZX) 1998 VGA

Posted on 2024-05-24, 23:11

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Still need to figure out which riva 128zx is the BEST (fastest in 3D) eventually modding, I can do soldering. I just don't know what are the fastest possible memory chips for riva 128zx. Or eventually bios update too. Z-Buffer used in Thief: The Dark Project for example. Hopefully is there someone …

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Re: MoSys vs EliteMT memory (Riva 128ZX) 1998 VGA

Posted on 2024-05-24, 20:26

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My choice have to be made between Gainward Riva 128 ZX and CardExpert which has Mosys. Which would you choose and why? I've seen also MoSys memory chips on Tseng ET6000 PCi which is great for DOS. The ET6000 is famous for using a very special RAM type, that AFAIK has only been mass-produced by …

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Re: MoSys vs EliteMT memory (Riva 128ZX) 1998 VGA

Posted on 2024-05-24, 20:18

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Isn't the one with Mosys chips a SGRAM model? That would make it faster in Windows / 2D stuff I think. I am mainly interested in 3D performance. That's a good question actually SGRAM or SDRAM (RIVA 128ZX) which would be better in Win98 3D mode. Quake 2 or Unreal. I don't know how to recognize SGRAM …

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MoSys vs EliteMT memory (Riva 128ZX) 1998 VGA

Posted on 2024-05-24, 17:19

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I am building another Pentium II system. I don't know which card should I choose. Model I want in the system is Riva 128ZX 8 MB AGP. From what I can see models use different memory chips depends on vendor. I've see on regular Riva 128 from Canopus which use Mosys memory, canopus is quality brand so …

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Re: 3Dfx Quantum3D Quicksilver II password recovery

Posted on 2023-06-29, 10:21

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Ryccardo wrote on 2023-06-28, 17:05: Never used it, but I suspect NTPasswd is the most practical approach 😀 It should work: "Supports all Windows from NT3.5 to Win8.1" Thank you very much for recommendation! I will definitely try this. Will keep you informed

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3Dfx Quantum3D Quicksilver II password recovery

Posted on 2023-06-28, 12:10

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Greetings, this is my Quantum3D arcade unit with Windows NT installed, it sat in my collection for some time, I run it for the first time actually. OS was installed by previous owner, instead of installing new OS I would like to restore the current one and check what's good on HDD's. I could hook up …

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Re: Voodoo 3 Pixel Artifacts

Posted on 2023-06-28, 11:48

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Just noticed that on my Voodoo 3 card I got some pixel artifacts going on. I am playing Jagged Alliance and noticed this: When dragging items around it lives some colored pixels. They dont even go away if you move over it again. If you switch to a different screen though, they will go away. This is …

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Re: PC-Cards on Macintosh (NUBUS or PDS or PCI)

Posted on 2023-06-14, 18:09

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You can flash 3dfx PC cards with mac counterparts to get them working. Good for older games and older macs

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Re: Overclocking Pentium III / Celeron: Coppermine and Tualatin cores - Socket 370

Posted on 2021-09-21, 21:26

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Ecs P6s5at seems to be a decent oc platform. I recommend Abit ST6 Raid as well, watercooling setup as well as delid that nasty tualatin heatsink and remove thermal glue. I personally use cusl2-c bp with pentium III 1.2Ghz 512kB cache not for oc, but stable purist gaming. (GeFore 2 Ti rulez!) …

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Re: Best Sound Cards each year of the 90's

Posted on 2021-07-01, 02:36

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fsmith2003 wrote on 2017-04-16, 04:08: How about 97-99? Do you have any recommendations for those years as well? 1998 Aureal Vortex 2

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 remake thanks to reverse engineering

Posted on 2021-02-21, 03:26

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What a juicy slice of technology

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-05, 10:35

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ARK1000? Impressive? Can't see anything interesting about that chipset, just yet another dumb framebuffer. And in the VLB era, there was plenty of cards with Cirrus Logic 5426/5428/5429 chips, ie. accelerated. That's the fastest VLB card I presume, even faster than tseng et4000w32p. You just …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-01, 21:16

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Another Impressive card. ARK1000? Impressive? Can't see anything interesting about that chipset, just yet another dumb framebuffer. And in the VLB era, there was plenty of cards with Cirrus Logic 5426/5428/5429 chips, ie. accelerated. That's the fastest VLB card I presume, even faster than tseng …

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Re: Godlike YOUTUBE Channel Announce

Posted on 2020-11-25, 12:53

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HunterZ wrote on 2020-04-26, 18:03: Nice re-capping video. You are a lot more patient and thorough than me! Thank you HunterZ. More videos comming 2021, I am moving this weekend once all set up. I will upload video full pc build including this motherboard 😉 It's going to be year 2000 computer build …

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