WTB: PC 3D video card in ISA slot, possible???

[spirantho]

Don't forget how primitive the early 3D cards were though - none of this hardware T+L and stuff. Plus they didn't have much memory so you'd still need to texture upload a lot (2MB for the S3 ViRGE, and that included the frame buffer!).

[bloodline]

It's going to be faster than putting a 2d card on a 16 bit 8mhz bus.
 
If the card has enough vram for the textures then you'll only be sending it a drawlist.

It's not just the through put, but also the latency...

[whabang]

I know my uncle had a 3D card in his 486, but i dunno if it was an ISA card. Might have been a VLB card.

[amiman99]

how about this one ELSA Winner 2000?
http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/home/1173-elsa-winner2000-4
Got S3 chip in it.

Edit: Looks like not a 3D chip, (S3 virge was 1st 3D from S3)

[amiman99]

I think I may have a good news, the SBC I have contains Chips
                        and Technologies 69000 video chipset which looks like supports OpenGL, so I might be good to go!