From what I have seen on reveiws they seem to have good drivers and great image quality. They perform about on par with a GeFroce2 MX, but do pretty good at 32 bit and higher resolutions. They also run pretty cool.
I am actually curious about the KyroII. The specs are hitting the net and they look to go to 4 pipelines and up the clock speed to 166Mhz. They also are adding DDR memory. It should be out in about 3-6 months and is rumoured to have 64 and 128MB standard.
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How much do those Kyros cost and from whence can one be obtained (where can I get one) not that I actually will, I am happy with my GFDDR, but it's nice to know these things so I can buy non-NVidia and support the underdog next time I upgrade.
Seems strange to say that. NVidia WERE the underdog not so long ago! I wonder if I'll ever say the same thing of AMD.
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I have just installed the card in my Tbird700@850 with old MSIK7Pro MB with AMD751 chipset, instead of V5.
Instalation whent without any problems.
Graphic cards sims to be incompatibile with Irongate SuperBypass option, but that is normal thing, cous only 3DFX cards can handle SB becous they don`t use AGP texturing.
First I have tried QIII v1.17 and I can say excelent for card that runs only @125MHZ
1024x768x16 textures maximum high quality 58,8FPS
1024x768x32 texture @ maximum 50.8FPS.
Quality of 3D image is absolutly amazing.
with trilinear filtering Kyro looses oround 40% of perfromances.
After QIII I had oppinion that card is great but not for very demanding freaks that require 100FPS in QIII.
Second game that I have tried is Microprose Grandprix 3. perfromances are very very bad, so bad that game is unplayable in 3D.
Third game is ColinMcRae Rally 2. Game runs fine and nothing spectacular about it.
Then I have tried NFS5 and it seems slow comparing to V5. with bad implementig of environment textures.
Finaly I have tried Baldurs Gate 2 expecting to se great image quality.
Image quality is fine but perfromances are very pour.
Conclusion after first try and without clean install of windows is so so.
Card is good with lots of potential, but is not speedy as I expected, games really do look slow compareing to V5, maybe even slow compareing with V3 and TNT2U, except in QIII
Now I have card for only two houers I while do clean install of windows, and see how it goes.
2D and 3D image quality is great, better then V5, much better then Geforce, like Matrox I would say.
Honestly I do think that power gamer on the buget should buy Geforce MX, but this is just first impresion, I hope to see better perfromances after proper installation, and after I try the card in VIA chipset MB.
And I am unable to finish 3DMark.
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The worst system is not the one that has slowest QIII frame rate, but one that not works correctly.
Well there is not much to say about this Kyro card, so I while say few things that is hard to find for posible user.
1. Card comes with 7ns memory, It is cool, and u can manualy setup AGP mode 2x or 4x, and for now there is no way how to overclock this thing.
2. Card is fully compatibile with AMD Irongate chipset and VIA chipsets, absolutly no problems.
3. If anyone buys this card (like me) it while be rewarded with absolutly outstanding 3D image quality, and 2D is deffinetly better then on Geforce or Voodoo series, it is on pair with ATI and Matrox in 2D and absolutly the king of 3D image quality.
4. Driver suppor comes only from PowerVR, and for know there is only one version of drivers.
I have tried few games with Kyro and I while be short.
All games played in 1024x768x32
NFS5 playable but for moust of the players only @800x600x16 game runs great.
DeuxEx perfectly playable only for freaks that require 60FPS+ is maybe slow.
Cataclysm (Homeworld part two) it looks better and it runs better then on my V5
Sports Car GT, with maximum detail games is perfectly smouth for everyone, no chopynes at all.
Nocturne this is probobly best game for Kyro card becouse loading time is so short with my Kyro 64MB and ofcorse graphic is outstanding.
Testdrive 5 this is the game that come with my Kyro card and runs great, some problems with 32bit colour but @ 16bit looks and runs great.
KingPin just like Nocturno loading time is shorter with Kyro then with my V5, game is perfectly playable @ 1024x768x32 with maximum details.
Grand Prix 3 from microprose is definetly unplayable with Kyro card in any 3D mode
BaldursGate II is kinda slow and it can be played with good perfromances only with 16bit textures. graphic is outstanding but game is slow.
With trying so many games I tried to find incompatibility problems with different game engines, and I have failed, thoug GP3 is so slow that is deffinetly unplayable, and during graphic calibration proces I had total crash of picture just some colorfull screens.
3D mark runs great now, and in standard benchmark setup score is 3752, and in 32bit 3282.
All games I have tried on MSI K7Pro Tbird 850, and on Epox 7KXA Classic Athlon 750, and results are very much the same.
First I have begun to think how Kyro hase some problems with OpenGL, then NFS5 proved me wrong (and QIII), so I don`t know what to say, games run great but som of them are slightly slow.
GP3 is unplayable, and NFS5 is slow all other games including glide based like DeuxEx or Unreal serial are runing fine for 90% of the gamers and that means 45FPS or higher with outstandig graphic.
BTW DeuxEx runs faster then on GeForce MX cards.
So who should buy this card?
Firs someone who does not like nVIDIA (like me), or enthusiast who would like to try this great product that is in babie stage.
For all gamers that seek for perfromances (60FPS or higher and high resolution) Kyro is not your choice deffinely not now, but if you are becomeing chasual gamer like me then I can say do buy Kyro and support the underdog that while enable new graphic revolution and great and cheap products for all.
Finaly I while repleace V5 in my main PC and stick to Kyro, becous this graphic card deffinetly deservs that, and do have in mind tha this babie runs only @ 125MHZ and uses only SDRAM, and GeForce 2 series beguns @ 166MHZ.
Now if I find some time I while try Kyro in K6-III to see how good would be for SS7 users.
I am sure that I while become Kyroidiot if this series of graphic cards continues to live, it is absolutly outstanding, though, when I first time tried it I was kinda dissappointed.
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The worst system is not the one that has slowest QIII frame rate, but one that not works correctly.
How would you use 3DSMax to test the card.
3D Studio is not exactly my working environment, I can do few things but I am far away from knowing how to use 3DSMAX
Anyway Kyro hase some serious problems in implementation of OpenGL and Dircet3D in 3DSMAX R3, so only option is software HEIDI drivers, and rotating wireframes of complicated objects is very slow.
Finaly Kyro is product for gamers, and it uses inteligent tricks to cach up nVIDIAs raw power.
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The worst system is not the one that has slowest QIII frame rate, but one that not works correctly.
If you can only use heidi then don't bother, it's fully software drawing.
In 3DSMAX I'd try for example making a VERY detailed sphere (like 100 000 - 1 000 000 polygons) and rotate it and measure fps. Kinetix also has a ready benchmarking suite available for 3DSMAX.
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