EddyHawk's Info List
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Other HardWare
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-Award Modular BIOS
 by: Award
 year: 1984-2001
 V4.20
 V4.50PG [1995]
 V4.51PG
 V6.00PGN [12 Mar 2001]

-Phoenix BIOS
 V4.0+ [1998]
  support > 64Mb RAM

-ALG 2228
 by: Avance Logic
 type: gfx card
 note: not support LFB

-Adlib
 type: snd card
 Necrobone: never designed for digital playback

-Buddy B-200 card
 note: allow 2 user to use 1 pc concurrently

-FireBall
 by: Quantum
 type: hardisk
 lct
  10
   9.5ms seek time
   297 megabit/sec internal transfer rate
   5,400 rpm
   5.1 to 30 Gb
   512kb buffer
   Ultra ATA/66
   CRC
   Shock Protection System II
  20
   7,200? rpm
   418kb? or 2Mb? buffer
   ATA100?

-Caviar
 by: Western Digital
 type: hardisk
 40Gb
  7200rpm
  PIO 4 / ATA 33/66/100

-GeForce (Graphic Force)
 by: nVIDIA
 type: video chipset + integrated 3D accelerator, or GPU (Graphic Processing Unit)
  128bit memory interface
  350Mhz RAMDAC
  VESA VBE 3.0 support
  1 or 256 or NV10
   date: Sep 1999
   0.22 micron
   23m transistors
   integrated T&L (Transform & Light) engine
   DirectX V7 support
   chip/mem clock: 120/166 Mhz
   pixel rate: 480M/sec
   4 parallel rendering pipelines
   1st to support AGP4x + Fast Write
  2
   date: 2000
   0.18 micron
   less than 28.5m transistors
   DirectX V7 support
    DirectX Texture Compression, S3 Texture Compression
   NSR (Nvidia Shader Rasterizer)
   MX
    2 pixel pipelines
    slimmed version of normal GeForce
    chip/mem clock: 175/166 Mhz
    pixel/texel fill-rate: 350/700 M /sec
    with TwinView: dual display support
    MX200
     64bit mem interface
     the cheapest & slowest than GF2 MX & GF2 MX400 (reported even slower than GeForce256)
    MX400
     chip/mem clock: 200/183Mhz
   Go
    for notebook
   GTS
    chip/mem clock: 200/2x166 Mhz
    pixel/texel fill-rate: 800/1600 M /sec
   Pro
    chip/mem clock: 200/2x200 Mhz
    pixel/texel fill-rate: 800/1600 M / sec
   Ultra
    chip/mem clock: 250/2x230 Mhz
    pixel/texel fill-rate: 1 / 2 G /sec
   Ti(tanium)
    chip/mem clock: 250/2x200 Mhz
  3 or NV20
   date: 2001
   0.15 micron
   57m transistors
   4 pixel pipelines
   64Mb DDR-SDRAM
   chip/mem clock: 200/2x230 Mhz
   nFiniteFX engine: DirectX V8 support:
    programmable (Vertex & Pixel) Shader
     Pixel Shader: enhanced NSR (Nvidia Shader Rasterizer)
   Environment Mapped Bump Mapping
   hardwired T&L
   lightspeed mem architecture
    four 32bit memory controller working interleaving instead
     of single 128bit memory controller
   Quincunx (hi-res &/ multi sampling Full Scene) Anti Aliasing
   pixel fill-rate: 800Mb/sec
   Titanium
    uses titanium?
    Ti200
     chip/mem clock: 175/2x200 Mhz
     pixel fill-rate: 700Mb/sec
    Ti500
     chip/mem clock: 240/2x250 Mhz
     pixel fill-rate: 960Mb/sec
 EdH: GeForce is nice name, but too bad it's followed by ugly names like Ultra, GTS etc

-Quadro
 by: nVIDIA
 2
  MX
 note: equal to GeForce 2 MX/GTS, but meant for workstation

-Rage
 by: ATI
 type: 3D gfx card (?)
  Fury
   MAXX
    dual ATI128 Rage Pro chipset
    pixel rate: 540M/sec

-Radeon
 by: ATI
 type: video card
 date: July 2000
  keyframe interpolation, 4-matrix skinning, environment bump mapping, 3D-texture, HyperZ
  some DirectX V8 features
  7500
   GeForce2 rival
  8500 or R200
   0.15 micron
   DirectX V8.1 support
    SmartShader
     6 input texel per pixel program
     larger instruction set, 12 instructions per program
    Smoothvision (FSAA)
    Charisma Engine (T&L): 60m triangles/sec
   aggresive speed against GeForce3

-Kyro
 by: ST Microelectronic
 type: video chipset
 1 or? PowerVR 2
  chip/mem clock: 115Mhz
 2 or? PowerVR 3
  0.18 micron
  Tile Based Rendering
  128bit mem interface
  chip/mem clock: 175Mhz
 3D Kyro-II

-Voodoo
 by: 3Dfx
 type: 3D acceleration only chipset
 1st 3D acceleration chipset
 I
  50Mhz
 II
  90Mhz
 3-4
 5
  Temporal Anti Aliasing
 Banshee
 Rush

-Savage
 by: S3
 type: video chipset
 3
 4
  Pro
 3D
 2000
 SuperSavage

-Vortex
 by: Aureal
 type: snd.chip, PCI
 1
 2
 note: comprises A(ureal)3D V2.0: Interactive A3D, Virtual Surround Sound, Wavetracing

-Sound Blaster
 by: Creative
 1
 2
 Pro
 Pro+
 Pro16
 Awe
 Live!
  Value OEM
  Platinum
 Audigy
  Platinum [Aug? 2001]
   Audigy audio processor
   EAX Advanced HD: 4x stronger than EMU10K1
   24bit multi-channel
   100db SNR
   SB1394 (FireWire) connector
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MISC
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nVIDIA bought 3Dfx
VIA bought Cyrix
Award merged with Phoenix