One of the most memorable names in graphics card history!

@KabelkowyJoe

3 жыл бұрын

So you're here. It's your voice. It's not deep faked. "Big THANKS going to Nathan for english voiceover and games commentary. " We appreciate that. Much better than Microsoft Sam :)

@PixelPipes

3 жыл бұрын

@@KabelkowyJoe I originally didn't want credit when we did the previous video because I didn't want my involvement to overshadow all the hard work and effort vlask put in. But everyone guessed it anyway so that kinda didn't work! 😝

@jrfbalb559

3 жыл бұрын

@@PixelPipes I was actually checking your channel at first to see if this was a reupload. Good thing it's credited.

massive respect for this card. it sets out to do something and it works, for a 90s budget card it's by far the best one i've used.

@SJ-co6nk

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, back in the day I was playing with cards like the s3 virge and matrox mystique 220 which were slow and also lacked features so the games didn't look correct. A card that's just slow but does correctly run the games would be acceptable on a budget.

@Invwashere

9 ай бұрын

I have some massive respect for SiS chips, in Argentina they were in every home (integrated, pci, agp) and brought happiness to thousands! Me included! Long live the SiS 530 8MB!!!!!

Another thing is that the AGP SiS 6326 wasn't even truly an AGP card, it was still a glorified PCI card like many other early AGP cards

@primus711

Жыл бұрын

Agp is just a glorified pci fyi

@blooddiamond5396

Жыл бұрын

​@@primus711 yes but also no, its slightly more complicated: they are glorified PCI cards, yes. but.. AGP exists to take the video off the shared PCI bus which if you have many PCI cards it can destroy video performance by sharing bandwidth with the rest of the crap hanging off those slots. that is really the only reason AGP exists. AGP only got better in pro/4x/8x revisions but 8x was never fully implemented to its full potential as PCIE came and kicked its shit in because.. well.. glorified PCI. AGP was basically a dedicated pipeline and nothing more.

@dyslectische

Жыл бұрын

Agp 2x is really simpel in that time So yes the sis is a agp card . It had direct use from systeem memory what agp do. And it use the direct connection to the cpu . But the sis 6326 intergrate in a nordbridge is connect with a pci bus . This way the agp bus can use by a other card.

@dasmin1135

10 ай бұрын

I'm using the agp version of that card, and it can not accelerate hardware rendering in SVGA mode.

I actually sold a Voodoo 2 to get a Duron + the integrated version of this. Seemed faster though, and played many later games. In hindsight should've probably kept that Voodoo2.

I have a lot of respect for this card too considering when it was released and what it cost. Also this is a great video and can't work out why it doesn't have a *lot* more views! Thank you.

If this came with my OEM PC in 97 I wouldn't complain, probably would've be playing games in 400x300. Thanks for the video, kept me busy on my hour long train trip. Would love to see a video on the Rendition Verité 1000.

@vgamuseum

3 жыл бұрын

@@ianhanschen Well id like to have one first, then i could make video about it. Sadly they were most common in USA and here in europe its very rare and expensive card to buy....

@dyslectische

Жыл бұрын

I have play with a sis 6326 with 8 Mb on motherboard (no agp connection ) I can play 800/600 with motorcross madness 2 in that time. My voodoo 2 8Mb do the same. So i can test it .i

Your video is amazing! They should be much more watched and subscribed with such high quality. I just bought an SiS 6326 inspired by this video.

That's the fastest 6326 I've ever seen, the 8mb AGP that I had as a kid couldn't run HL in OpenGL and D3D only in 512x384 getting 10-15 frames max.

@siniyden

8 ай бұрын

maybe cpu limited your performance. Now i play HL1 and this card needs more than my p1-233 overclocked to 83*3.5. I tried to run this card with p2-496 and HL runs much smoother. For example, nor s3 virge/dx nor trio64v2/dx just can`t show textures in HL1, so i can`t say that sis 6326 is bad at all card. I think it was not too bad choice at that time it was produced

@user-tz2ch1im3r

Ай бұрын

really i had a sis 620 8meg built into the motherboard on a celeron 433 slot 370 and i could run UT2000 great no need for any fancy graphics card

I love the opening. Well done! I really want to see the DVD playback capability tested on these cards. I actually have several of them now and a bunch of IDE DVD drives to try. Maybe I need to make some videos.

It's quite hard to compete against a card is constantly using it's eight memory chips in parallel all the time

Excellent work, keep it up.🙂

I'm actually still using my Diamond Speedstar A50 in my Win98se 3DFX retro machine. From what I understand, this is the fastest SiS 6326 card due to its faster memory speed. I've had better AGP cards paired up with my 12mb Voodoo2 SLI, but this was/is the most used. I remember I paid $59.95 for it at a local computer store in Stamford, CT in the late '90s. This was far cheaper than some of the other AGP cards out at the time. Not sure how it happened, but it just soldiered on as my primary 2D card for years until I retired it and my V2 SLI, only to resurrect both a few years ago.

i love this channel

Still I love those first and second generation graphics cards despite them being very slow...

Wow, did not expect something that good for that card, if we take into account all the others shitcards that was available at same price or more. Actually sad that SIS is kinda gone. Miss the time when we could get other than AMD or Intel chipset... Like SIS as K7S5A motherboard that did rock for the price.... Or Via...

Had one in the late 90s lent to me by the repair store while my Millennium II 8 MB was away for repairs. Not very fast, but at least it worked without graphical glitches. That can´t be said for most of the competition that you showcased in the other videos. ^^ Had it for almost half a year because Matrox displaced my Millennium II during the repair/RMA process. It arrived after that time but I became tired in the meantime and purchased a Riva TNT. I actually like the image quality better compared to 3dfx. The Voodoo footage in your videos looks always a bit bled out and pale.

I used this card, the 3D performance might be bad but the 2D graphics in DOS was good and it had windows 3.11 drivers too.

i love these old graphic cards! my first 3d card was the original 3dfx voodoo 1. After that, a Virge 3d (shudder).

Like, excellent video!

Upgraded from a S3 V64 Trio to the SiS 6326 and could play NFS4 in 512x384 - awesome!

@siniyden

8 ай бұрын

this card is much better than s3, so i can play HL1! I can`t say it`s too crap, s3 trio and virge - yes

Yea, I had a card with this chip on it back in the day. I was in highschool at this time and back then we didn't know/care about FPS. Back then we just wanted something that would play Duke3D or get windows 95 to be stable enough to run for an hour or two. When more graphics demanding games started coming out we spent more and more time trying to forcefeed whatever graphics card to run these games until finally we would hop in the car and run over to bestbuy for whatever was cheap. Goodtimes, really brought everyone together back then, before the (cable)internet showed up.

I had one of those cards, it was a SIS 6326 AGP with 4MB VRAM on an orange PCB. The drivers were horror-trash, textures had weird lines in them, the video out via SCA was trash and later I swapped it for a Voodoo 3 that was like... worlds better, many worlds! As far as I can remember, enabling 3D acceleration wasn't really any faster than playing in software renderer. Though given I only had a Pentium II 233 at that time...

@siniyden

8 ай бұрын

Now i own p1-290Mhz and cpu limits this card in HL1. With p2-496MHz it crawls much better

Best video yet - very clever! This is a surprisingly good card but, yet again, all we learn is just how much of a champion the Voodoo is. No wonder the V2 destroyed the competition in 1998, even though it was PCI.

So you have a Rev C5 chip? There was a thread on Vogons, where a guy started out with a C... 3? I think? And ended with an H0 8mb revision. Seems the H0 is the best compatibility wise.

I still run a 6326 in my retro DOS computer. Solid dos support, good vesa 2.0 modes, very fast, very good windows 3.1 drivers, and bug free. Ah, by the way, have OS/2 and Beos drivers

I had this card for a period of time that let me save for a decent card, and despite being slow, never had trouble with it. I used Scitech Gldirect and was able to even run QIII arena! (albeit slowww). And I even played Max Payne. Yes, I used to enjoy pain :D

I played Half Life 1 and NFS3. 320x240. When I upped it to 640x480 the frames were in single digit. Then I upgraded to GeForce 2 GTS and experienced the same games smooth as butter at 1280x1024.

I actually played Unreal and even NFS 2 - 3 - 4 - Porsche ! in my 8mb 6326. And with Powerstrip to maxx out clocks, it also had gamma corrections for 2D and D3D.

@jbaroli

Жыл бұрын

I did the same! I even played Max Payne, it was a deep pain but I could (then I got a Savage4). It also worked with Scitech GLDirect and could use OpenGL games.

@peterpan408

3 ай бұрын

3D was just new and amazing to have at all.

Graphic fix for Expendable, edit file config.txt, assign value 1 to the parameter TextureForce16bit.

@andreyansimov5442

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much!

It's pretty good for DOS gaming, I got some of the highest Doom timedemo scores on my 440BX board, though I had some artifacts unless I lowered the AGP clock... Not sure if it's all of them or just my card.

Good video is very high quality you bring the material by the way this is my favorite video card because as a child I had exactly the same, now I have an 8 mb pci version and still works

finally. mi first videocard. Yes. Exactly what I have felt. And as soon as I collected some money, I have bought noname Voodoo Banshee. It was breakthrough, but with some glitches. Interesting, will 3dmark99 run the same way on my current working notebook with Ati xpress 1150 video? 3Dmark2006 just hang on black screen ...

SIS now that is a name I have not heard in a looooooong time.

I don't know about the video title. I mean what cards I had access to until Voodoo2 accelerator, I would've been very happy with that performance. I don't remember the models any more, but they were quite much worse than this.

In Motoracer, even a simple Ati Rage Play PCI (Mach 64) was able to have it perfect :) Fun fact : if you had a slow video card, your could not win a race in coop. I gave my Rage Pro to a friend, and suddenly he became better :)

I'm pretty sure the AOpen driver is v1.28, not v1.22 Probably a script mistake/typo.

I recently got this card. new in the box, haven't opened it yet. Box screams 90s generic. And this is truly a no name card. The box has "MultiMedia" written on every side, as if that's the brand. There is a label on the front that says, "Features SiS 6326 Accelerating Chipset." with PCI and 4MB checked off. Have an old Pentium I computer I was going to use this card in; then again I may leave it sealed. 😁

Omg, to only find out now that the Aopen drivers allowed native OpenGL support is rather amusing. As a young teen I mucked around with OpenGL emulators which technically worked, sort of, but ran like ass. Ah well.

This card is fast as hell if compare with Trident 9750

I had a SiS 6326 as crappy as they get, but it was extremely overclockable. It never managed to make the card get beyond a crappy 512x384 ok-ish framerate / resolution relation, but it was the most overclockable piece of hardware I ever had when comparing its stock clock (60Mhz if I remember correctly) to how far it could get (around 200Mhz). I played a lot of Midtown madness using this card, and even managed to get "some" OpenGL compatibility using a leaked driver (called "high angle"). I used to dream of having a Voodoo xD. But my 6326 was there to play Unreal, Quake (with tons of mods) and whatnot. Good times!

@siniyden

8 ай бұрын

My 6326 yas 75MHz in stock, i overclocked this to 100MHz by powerstrip, but it is maximum clock for this program. I play HL1 with it

@c.zatara-673

8 ай бұрын

@@siniyden it has been a while, but if I remember correctly you could edit a powerstrip .ini file in order to allow for higher overclocking limits.

@warrax111

Ай бұрын

I dont want to bust your illusion, but 200 MHz is not realistic with this card. During 1998-1999, no card could reach such clock, both on core, and memory. First cards, that could be overclocked to 200 Mhz, was from Geforce 2 generations. It was in middle 2000. The best cards, could be overclocked to 200 Mhz. The only scenario, how could you reach those memory speeds, is, thast you had very late version, released in 2001 or later. And they've used SDR memory with 6 ns timings. These memory in some cases are overclockable to 200 Mhz.

@c.zatara-673

Ай бұрын

@@warrax111 It's ok, you do have solid arguments. But it was a late version indeed. I used it with a Pentium 3 800mhz, it was a bizarre build. I had a hard time believing it back then as well, but it actually made me study to see it it was actually its clock, or some issue with how Powerstrip was reporting it.

@warrax111

Ай бұрын

@@c.zatara-673 Yes, powerstrip sometimes reports incorrect speeds. Also HWinfo. I have same experience.

one of my best friend had this. A sis chip paired with a rly good(at the time) P3 and 128mb of ram. His pc was almost useless for games.

u miss only one one card in this series intei i740

@vgamuseum

3 жыл бұрын

And i thought that noone will see it till release, so i set it to private video.... :-) About Intel, well its not so kinda bad like most lowend cards. Its almost voodoo 1 level in performance. So i don't think it belongs in here. Also been hoping that some more famous youtuber will do it instead of me. Yet nobody did it, dunno why when hype about new intel cards is rising up.... i740 has bad reputation mostly thanks to the fact that it came in 1998 mostly when 2nd gen was out and had no chance to fight them....

@BrassicGamer

3 жыл бұрын

@@vgamuseum someone tried to argue that the i740 was 'one of the first' AGP cards the other day. People are too happy to accept vague facts.

@the_motherfucker

Жыл бұрын

@@BrassicGamer And who exactly are these people? I highly doubt anyone accepted it, one guy is not people

friends and dear hoster, so any 3dfx card in my region is way over my budget, what could be an alternative to a time period correct gpu in a windows 98 machine? (i run a socket 370 celeron on and an asus mel-m mainboard) thank you all in advance!

@c.zatara-673

Жыл бұрын

For this socket and processor you'd be ok with a Savage 4, a Tnt or Tnt 2 (even the M64 is actually not that terrible). A Geforce 2 MX (these are dirt cheap) will work fine but I think it's ahead of the setup by a couple of years. I'd go for the TNT if you manage to find a cheap one.

@siniyden

8 ай бұрын

If you have agp slot, so you can buy a card for 5 bucks much faster than this. I have retrosystem with P1 and no agp, just pci and this card became rescue for me cause voodoos are overpriced

Well that's not so bad, frankly. It might be the least worst game card tested here, no ? :)

I thought my ATI Mobility was a potato about 20 years ago but this thing is much worse. I was at least able to play Warcraft 3 and Counter-Strike on the go.

I had one with my 1st pc and ran ok for games like MOHAA etc

I had an 8MB 6326 and I paid 80$ canadian for it in i think 1999

I hate this card so much, i remember plugging a PCI one into my ASUS A8N32-SLI deluxe and it somehow damaged the motherboard.

Do you have an NV1 to test? lol

@vgamuseum

3 жыл бұрын

Nah too expensive for me, getting games would be hard and its been already covered by much more competent person (over 1 milion views already).... kzread.info/dash/bejne/nHec1s6QfqynfJc.html

@Malheirods

3 жыл бұрын

@@vgamuseum You are too harsh with yourself ! You have a more technical approach, I personally enjoy your videos more.

Každé jedno spracovanie danej karty je lepšie a lepšie :) chýbajú len titulky :) každopádne, neviem či je problém iba u mňa ale toto video mi vôbec nezobrazuje v odberoch a tak som o ňom vôbec nevedel. Našiel som ho náhodne, keď som si chcel znova pozrieť video o trident XP blade (podarilo sa mi ju zohnať). Možno by to vysvetľovalo ten malý počet zhliadnutí

@vgamuseum

3 жыл бұрын

To bude tím, že video je nastavené jako neveřejné a zatím titulky překládám. Ovšem i přes to že je neveřejné, tak někteří lidi se k němu zjevně dostanou i tak.....

@derek8564

3 жыл бұрын

@@vgamuseum what kind of English is that :) But seriously what language is that?

@luckyluckydog123

3 жыл бұрын

@@derek8564 Czech 🇨🇿

how would it compare to a TNT2?

@xsc1000

Жыл бұрын

Its slower than Riva 128, TNT2 is much faster. But TNT2 is much newer card.

@warrax111

Ай бұрын

Not a match. TNT2 was voodoo3 competitor. This card lost even with voodoo1. So it's 2 generations older, and worse.

wow

Hmm, this sounds like Pixel Pipes...

I had one once, also had an Intel i740... The 740 did better

Yeah, not even 1/5th as bad as some other candidates from the "Worst Graphics" series.

my first gpu was this card with 8 MB of ram and I hated it.

@warrax111

Ай бұрын

why?

@graphenoid

Ай бұрын

@@warrax111 it doesn’t support OpenGL so most of the games didn’t work.

The cards looks like rive 128 but is far from good. thanks for upload

My first GPU. I have good memories with that but I was just a child 😂.

I had one of these! They were terrible.

He was fck up...

this card sucks jaja(I'm kidding)🤣😄 i have one of this, in my retro card collection ,, congrats for this amazing video😉

Let me guess, you would prefer a S3 Trio 3D 2x with 4 or 8Mb without any difference? That for sure is one the worst cards ever produced and far bellow the SIS 6326. SIS did a great job for it's time, just by providing onboard IGPs better than some cards available specially from S3. You really don't know what you are dealing with.

@warrax111

Ай бұрын

S3 Trio3D 2X is just updated Virge GX2. And Virge GX2 is slightly updated Virge DX core... basically with SDRAM and SGRAM support... which was released as Virge GX before. But in 3D, it's same powerful as Virge DX, with slighty boost in megaherz. You are comparing 1996 technology with late 1997 , of course SIS wins in this case. Competitor to S3 Trio3D 2X is Rage IIc AGP.

@warrax111

Ай бұрын

This SIS card tried to compete with Riva 128 64-bit version (original was 128-bit), Ati Rage Pro EDO version, and first versions Matrox Mystique (so not Mystique 220)

@eduardobranco5455

Ай бұрын

@@warrax111 S3 Virge GX2 was far better than S3 Trio 3D 2X. You can't play games like Star Wars Rogue Squadron 3D, Slave Zero amoung others on a S3 Trio 3D 2X, Star Wars The Phantom Menace playability is just horrible with graphical issues and black squares here and there. But you can play all these games on a S3 Virge GX2 and in all SIS graphics cards as long as they have 3D acceleration.

This graphics cards must released for Bitcoin miners LOL

That card was crap, I recall the feeling of upgrading from that one to a nvidia tnt 2 ultra 😂.

@siniyden

8 ай бұрын

i can`t agree with this. It`s not too bad card if you have inly pci and isa slots on your mainboard.

@siniyden

8 ай бұрын

It`s much better than s3`s of that time. 3dfx`es are too expensive and overpriced now

Looks over at the Strange jive ass pci fx5200 verto with its weird 256mbs of ddr memory and nods.. your not a sis chip and thatll do. the 1 and only nvidia product in use in my household.. and thats 1 too many.