DIAMOND SAVAGE 4 SDRAM DRIVER

However Diamond informed AnandTech that the first memory shipments may be coming from Samsung, as well as possibly from Micron depending on who can get the fastest, most reliable parts, at the lowest cost. However, by continuing with a bandwidth-constraining bit memory bus, S3 guaranteed this graphics card would never be a performance part under bit color. The other half of the 2D image quality equation comes from the design of the card itself, and in following with tradition Diamond, once again, proves to have an excellent ability to keep 2D image quality competitive at higher resolutions. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. It was never sold, only prototypes exist.

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Diamond Stealth III S 32mb VGA AGP Video Card S3 Savage 4 Pro Vintage | eBay

While S3 was lurking in the background, Diamond made a few new friends by the names of 3Dfx now 3dfx and Rendition. The first thing you would notice about the cards is the lack of a fan. Glendale, California, United States. Delivery times may vary, especially during peak periods.

Installation of the S is basically peanuts like installing any card, simply slide it in and fasten the screw! S3 Graphics graphics processors.

According to Vijay's tests the Spectra manages Overall Rating Out of a maximum of 5 Star. But the only useful feature of TV out surfaces if you do not have things like a VCD player or DVD player to hook on to the TV, this is also when you gather the whole family around with some snacks and sit down to watch a movie or two!

When S3 finally returned to the scene looking for their old pals at Diamond to welcome them back with open arms, the bitter rejection of S3's at the time flagship Savage3D design by Diamond put the once gigantic video manufacturer in their place, back at the drawing boards.

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Diamond Stealth III S540 (S3 Savage 4 Pro)

They added single-pass multi-texturing, meaning the board could sample 2 textures per pixel in one pass not one clock cycle through the rendering engine instead of halving its texture fillrate in dual-textured games like Savage 3D. For additional information, see the Global Shipping Program terms and conditions - opens in a new window sdrram tab This amount includes applicable customs duties, taxes, brokerage and other fees.

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Whether the issues are a result of poor drivers or defective hardware is unknown. The core also was un-overclockable as that portion was shaded in the PowerStrip options In other words, disabled. Final Reality has quite a nice set of screenshots during testing, unfortunately, telling the image quality between the RIVA TNT chipset against the S is very much like telling the difference between the two ants crawling across my table right now!

The only real difference between the regular and Pro models is diamon the Pro allows for a memory clock of MHz, while both solutions offer core clock dimond of MHz. It's redundant if you ask me. Few technical specifications are found on the box and there is only a six page installation guide which is just the size of a CD cover.

I wonder if this is Diamond's intepretation of saving paper???

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TV-In would be nice although it is not exactly a must. S3 engineers claimed that the S3TL engine had feature parity with GeForceand that it could render 2.

The Savage4 Pro runs at a core clock speed of MHz, and because of the relatively cool operating temperature at MHz, Diamond saved a buck or two by refraining from outfitting the card with anything other than a simple passive heatsink.

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This Product is provided courtesy of. Drivers were again an issue with S3's product; sdgam back overall performance and causing compatibility issues with software and hardware.

While it may not be of importance to most users, TV-Out was certainly a must for me when I consider buying a video card, because my TV is not too far away from where my computer is placed and playing games on a 29" Toshiba screen sure beats a Viewsonic 15" anytime!

Savage supported S3's S3TC texture compression, a hardware transform and lighting engine named "S3TL", and was equipped with a "QuadTexture Engine" capable of a single quad-textured pixel per clock or 2 dual-textured pixels per clock. An item that has sddam used previously. Sign up now Username Password Remember Me. In any case the default refresh rate for the S is However, the performance is also very different The box is plastered with information and boasts the advantages of owning a S over the 3dfx Voodoo3.