That Compute!💾🕊️

So... the FireGL works with Radeon 9700 Pro drivers in both Win98SE and XP. Half of the 2GB RAM is invisible to W98 but that's not an issue, games of that era never require more than 64 MB anyway. The Athlon XP is overclocked to 2,5 GHz in BIOS but underclocked to 600 MHz in W98.

I have both and I prefer the AMD board, because it supports faster and more RAM, while the respective overclocked flagship CPUs (QX9650 vs Phenom II X4 965) are literally within 1% of each other's speed. That's why I use it in my AGP benchtable.

You: like colorful motherboards and AMD Athlons Gigabyte: HOLD MY BEER and how do you like insane features like SATA, a fourth mem slot, AGP PRO, dual BIOS, a RAID controller, Gigabit LAN and a daughterboard with additional actively cooled VRMs? (Gigabyte GA-7NNXP)

On the AMD side, there is also one without DDR1 compatibility that supports Phenom II x4 CPUs (AM2+). These two are the fastest motherboards ever released that still have AGP.

There are even boards with DDR1 and DDR2 PLUS AGP and PCIexpress at the same time!

The Matrox Millennium G200 doesn't work with this 4 MB SGRAM expansion module in addition to its own 8 MB. But the ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo is happy to run in a 4+4 MB configuration!

So I got another Radeon 9500 non-pro 128 MB, the second one with L-shaped memory, theoretically unlockable. It produces dots even while booting, I hope it's just that someone flashed a 9700 or Pro BIOS and one of the locked shaders was faulty, otherwise this one's done for ;_;