Rage Fury Maxx

Never had one, but I used to work at a shop that had one for sale for the longest time. I don't think it ever sold either. Just sat there on the shelf looking all old. I wanted to take it home and add to my "old and interesting PC components" pile but never got around to it before I quit that lame job.

 

I've messed with one. A friend let me borrow it way back in 2001 or so. It wasn't all that great, really. It would sometimes have a weird stuttery lag. I tried it with UT and it didn't work very well. And, if you try to use it with XP or 2K, only one GPU is functional.

You were much better off with a GeForce or even Voodoo5.

 

I never experienced stuttering problems. MAXX is very good under D3D (frequently faster than Voodoo 5 / Radeon 7200), but much slower under OpenGL and original Glide games with botchy D3D renderer (e.g. UT99).

I don´t comprehend, why ATi removed secondary monitor connector...

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/1999/10/08/ati_rage_fury_pro_review/page3.html

Its where AFR for the PC originated from.

 

Did that patent ever get issued? I know they filed it at the time.

I did not have a MAXX (err, unless I picked one up many years later for Rys' collection --I think I may have, in which case I had it here for awhile before sending it on. I do seem to recall that now). I did have the original Rage Fury tho, and was king of the performance hill for about two weeks. . . then the original Detonator drivers came out, followed not too long after by TNT2. But, yes, for maybe a month or so Rage Fury was the top of the performance heap.

 

http://www.tomshardware.com/1999/11/08/preview_of_the_double_whopper_/page7.html

 

Xpert@Play is Rage PRO with TV-out

Rage Fury MAXX = 2x Rage 128 PRO (Xpert 2000 PRO / Rage Fury PRO )

 

I still think Voodoo5 is a much better value than Rage Fury MAXX, and even rivals GF256 and 2, because of its Glide support and decent AA. Glide support was still quite useful during the time, and AA support was only decent on Voodoo5. NV10/15's AA was a bad joke and Rage Fury didn't do AA at all, AFAIK.

MAXX's inability to function under NT5 OS's was a huge disappointment on top of its quirkyness...

 

I had one!

i may still have it tucked away someplace.. no idea if it would be still functional though.

 

I had one. I wasn't aware of the stuttering issue which I apparently had. Because of the stuttering I thought the framerate in my games was much worse than with my Rage 128 Pro. So I switched back to the 128 Pro until I got my Radeon 64MB.

 

Agree.

 

What the hell is a Gloria II Pro?

 

Was thinking the same. Google results make it sound like an early Quadro.

 

ELSA GLoria II PRO is NV10/Quadro based proffesional solution:

NV10
core: 140MHz (17% faster than GeForce 256 DDR)
mem: 166MHz (11% faster than GeForce 256 DDR)
64MB DDR (2-times more than GeForce 256 DDR)
dual-slot passive cooler



Quite close to GeForce 2 GTS in performace.

 

rofl... Dual slot card from the 90s. I guess heat sink technology just wasn't there to make it a single slot design.

So the MAXX actually scaled well I guess it's really no different than strapping two middle end chips together (timing must have been terrible).

 

You certainly did, and I've since nabbed another one (different PCB revision). Never have used one though, Rages of any kind are before my time.

 

I remember being all excited by ATI's Rage 128 preview. It was the first decent 3D product they came out with. They had some waterfall preview video, if I recall correctly. It was an interesting little processor that was as fast at 32-bit as 16-bit, but had the worst 16-bit dithering I've ever seen (until G80!)

 

If I recall correctly didn't the Rage 128 render everything in 32-bit regardless of whether the source was 16 or 32 bit, and then the output was dithered down to 16-bit if so required?

Regards,
SB