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I don't suppose this has Windows 98 drivers? Thinking about getting a PCI-PCIe bridge and an old GPU for virtualization, because the few 3D acceleration options for Windows 98 virtualization that do exist, are not performant. I'm going to need some sort of GPU passthrough, but Windows 98 supports few if any native PCIe cards.

Just came across your video. I picked up an Athlon XP 1800+ machine, has an ATi 8500 128MB AGP version in it. VGA and S-Video only. 2D seems to work fine in Windows XP (Rollercoaster Tycoon, Bejeweled, etc) but if you try and install the ATI 6.11 Catalyst drivers, the screen goes black. If you load the drivers manually through device manager, the drivers load but anything 3D rendering is fully corrupt/sometimes black screens. Only recovery method is to power off the machine and back on. Have a 9600XT 256mb on the way from ebay, so hopefully that works. :D

is this mobo that affected your PCI graphic card benchmarks? :P

I miss the PixelPipes videos in my feed on regular. Hope Nathan’s doing alright. He always presented retro tech in such a cool way 👍🏾

Add 9:35 you show the used gamer MB I just bought with a FX 8300 and a Quadro K4200

Would the gt520 be bottle necked by a pentium 4?

Hi. Any way to run 4k at resolution at 60hertz on AGP card?

some banshee cards overclocked extremely well, too. I had a diamond version that did 166mhz without breaking a sweat. Wish I still had the card, would be fun to do some volt mods and see how far it could really go.

Yo man, QUESTION!? Can I use as "Screen Saver" every graphical demonstration you showed in this video?

27:29 Dude I had these 3 graphic demonstrations when I had my very first Video Card The NVidia GeForce 4400 MX Ti if I still remember the model right. You forgot to show the woman robot dancing on top of the water! I had these 3 the Werewolf, Dancin Robot and Squid Robot under the water but I do not remember if I have that forest pool. All of these are included after installing the drivers of the Video Card. Until now I still have that driver disc with me!

I was lucky enough to get an FX 5800 (non ultra) card as part of a recycle lot for $0. Its not a terrible card, at least for the Pentium-3 era retro box Its planned for. On launch I bought a dumb FX 5200 card, worst card ever (except what it replaced, a GeForce4 MX something, rebadged GF2).

The 3dfx 5550 wasn't a great PCI card. It was a garbage AGP card, thus the differences between the two weren't great.

Exceptions lol the Asrock Dual Sata i have one of these boards.

this is totally amd/ATI biased site , but all in all its good channel

I remember my x1950pro Was perfect.

I have the FX5700 AGP, I use it in a Windows 98 gaming computer, it supports DirectX 9.0a, that along with the Nvidia driver v56.64, and nGlide v1.05 allows me to run all my 62 Windows 95 & 98 games I have for that machine.

thank you very much for video. very interesting. I've been waiting for such a comparison for a long time

I would really love to have that one with the black visor (middle), damn it :( Very nice rescue im jealous a bit, hmm, ok quite a bit lol :)

ATI did incredible. Imagine if it shipped with 24 pipes like Nvidia. The ati card would have been such a monster.

I remember when GPU meant Geometry Processing Unit not just as a general term for a 'Graphics Card' I was saying to a friend a while back how the terms use had changed but couldn't find much online about it at the time (I didn't exactly deep dive lol), nice to see a vid confirming I'm not totally crazy haha

i still have my Radeon 9800 Pro

Nvidia cards are terrible under Windows 98, that's why I choose ATi.

The same era uncharted 1 running realtime in PS3 is more advanced than this tech demo..

Got a free Radeon 7000 from someone and was excited to put it in an old PC... only to find that this PC on has PCI slots and no AGP slots. This is helping me land on the FX5500 for this old XP machine and see how it goes.

I bought one of these. I played Need for Speed Underground on it. It was a rough experience. I did all my homework and saved all my money and bought a Radeon 9800 pro. I have owned one other Nvidia card in my life. A 6800GT. It didn't suck but I replaced it with an X800XT just because. That deal with the FX 5200 made me dislike Nvidia to be honest.They claimed it to be a gaming card. It wasn't.

note: sis cards have all their settings hidden in the registry, vsync and all. you can change some settings that turn some games from unplayable mash of textures and warped polys to perfectly playable

I used an FX5600XT till i got my 9800XT and used till my 8800GTS 640mb.

The kyro cards i remember well in pc magazines when i was in highschool 😂.

Go look at prices for the x1300 pro right now. Pci-e: 20$, AGP: 60 to 100$?!

I wonder if we'll ever get more gems like this... seems Pixepipes is all but dead, well, the channel is. I hope i'm wrong.

I'm still pissed with the X1800XT to this day, because ATI released the X1900 XT just 3 months after releasing the X1800XT with a pretty significant jump in shader performance. ATI obviously knew the X1800XT was a flawed GPU but released it anyway. Imagine AMD or Nvidia releasing a top end card then 3 months later release another top end card with a 30 to 40% performance jump, the backlash would be unimaginable today.

Voodoo 3 3500 TV

I keep it glued to this channel. But sadly, after 6 years, we still didn’t get another pci gpu video. Even though it was announced. GeForce 4mx pci and TNT ultra pci would be interesting to see! Also maybe pci to pcie adapters, if they exist.

You have rare graphics cards...

My retro system is a Q9400 running DDR3 memory and a GTX660 3GB graphics card. Running the original Crysis is really really nice in Ultra. Mini ITX case, motherboard and Q6600 was given to me for free as 'some dual core'. Q9400 cost me $12, bought memory for $20, GTX 660 was $30 during the GPU shortage, and I slapped a Sata SSD in there.

i had voodoo 1 and 2 in 90's

Did you ever get this card working? I now I have a second Quadro4 that exhibits the same problems. :(

Wow, interesting tech. History lesson here. I have a 64 mb fx5200 and hoped this card would be better...hadnt a clue of its spec, put it in my dell 4450 and......nothing, the fan spins but no display😂

Star Wars Episode One Racer was a great game that I still own, and play it to this day on one of my retro Windows 98se computers. I learned alot over the years also, in 1997 I bought a new computer, I added a 3dfx Monster 3D video card shortly thereafter, I was hooked on 3D gaming after that, and the rest is history. Since then I learned how to buy old computers, and upgrade them, and it's been alot of fun, and very satisfying. I have too many games for any one person to ever play, and I love them all. :) This is a great channel for the inexperienced to learn from, I watch it because I love the hardware, and gaming just as much!

I got at least 8 years out of mine. My lads had use of the last 3, sold on eBay eventually as a fully working card. Excellent product.

I feel like it is a great gpu for 90s opengl and direct 3D games.

From what I can find the Radeon 7500 was released at $200 in August 2001.

never bought any graphics cards at all in 2001... i was downloading Mp3s and using Napster then and just got a 100mg Iomega zip drive on my Celeron 433.. i had the 8meg AGP sis 620 motherboard graphics and i could play UT2000 just fine in software render and it looked great. Why waste money on a graphics card, it didnt help that i had the cheapest motherboard money could buy a Abit board with just 1 PCI expansion slot and everything else built in.

Sis graphic department has been in dependent around 2003 as XGI,However they didn't make many famous products....it quite a budget choices....Around 2010 SIS bough back the XGI and they just focusing on media SoC/Integrated solution Since then...

you should tell people the power requirements of this card... i blew up my PSU during this time trying to install a card like this you needed heaps of power i used the 75w plug it wouldnt start so i put the extra 75w in when it was running thinking that was fine and over voltage protection would protect the pc , i fried everything with a puff of smoke including the ram motherboard and cpu nothing was left

i bought a FX5500 256mb around this period that was terrible but the box was nice... later i got a cheap x800GTO 256mb that was a huge improvement for 110 AUD 70 USD right before it got discontinued .

i remember getting a new Celeron 433 in december 1999 and playing quake 2 after hours doing work exp at a computer shop in 1998.... over reated for the cost if you ask me , quake 2 looked great at the time but those cards were expensive... in 99 when i got almost the cheapest computer available at the time for $1200 in december 1999 in Australia it had a 17inch KTX monitor 9 gig hard drive 433 celeron with 64 ram sd1333 i think with win98 it came with only a 8 meg AGP built in graphics SIS 620 chip set i think it it ran unreal tornament 2000 in software render amazing good ... that voddoo card is super expensive but why buy it if Unreal torn still looked amazing in software render ....

Isn’t that a fx5500 and not a 4mx at 2:00?

I had a 4200ti, the 9700pro was a beast for sure. I wish I still had the spare cash to be into PC building again. They were the best days of my life.