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FedEx just dropped by my house with a Canopus Total3D 128V Riva 128 based graphics card. What makes the Total3D 128V different from other Riva 128 cards like the Diamond Viper or the STB Velocity 128?
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Oh i had a STB Velocity 128....whow.....Ahhhh...the RIVA 128...i was sooo excited because it was my first real 3D card.

It was too fast for my DX4.....(didnt work)...so i got a used Pentium 166MMX and mainboard....and then together with the Riva 128 i had the total L33T system 😉
 
Originally posted by: Yossarian
I need to learn more about that exciting 6 GB hard drive.
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The drive itself boasts 5400 RPM spin rate (compared to the 5200 RPM spin rate of most Western Digital drives) and a roomy 512KB buffer, [up to] 40KB of which is reserved for use with firmware. A 9.5 ms average Read Seek Time and a 10.5 ms average Write Seek Time are two of the fastest seek times you will see in the industry for this type of hard drive, one could go as far as to say that the IBM Deskstar 5 truly offers SCSI Performance at an EIDE price. As listed in the specifications of the drive, the Deskstar 5 series from IBM are some of IBM's very first EIDE drives to make use of the Ultra ATA-33 (otherwise known as UltraDMA/33, DMA/33, UDMA, or whatever you may have heard it called) extension to the AT-Attachment (ATA) specification. Theoretically the maximum burst transfer rate of any Ultra ATA-33 drive is a whopping 33.3MB/s, however as we all know, actually achieving that high of a transfer rate is about as easy as running Windows 95 with 4MB of RAM 😉

The actual sustained data transfer rate on the 6.4GB Deskstar 5 was quoted by IBM as being in the range of 5.7MB/s - 10.2MB/s, which is not bad at all...if you believe IBM. Actually, IBM's statement is quite accurate, in the tests that were run on the Deskstar 5 the average transfer rate fell between 7.6MB/s and 9.3MB/s, with the average random access time (not seek time) being approximately 12.9 ms, decent for a drive of this class.
 
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