help! is this a wildcat 4000?

HatopHatop Alabama
edited July 2003 in Hardware
basically i have a http://www.codemicro.com/store/prod_results.cfm/mode/5/srchparm/MSMT496.cfm

i cant find drivers, or anything on google when searching for part numbers. I'm not sure, but it resembles a wildcat 4000. Any help, or links for drivers or anything would be loved.

Thanks.

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  • PyobliEPyobliE UK
    edited July 2003
    looked on Google for you... hope this helps...

    link1

    link2

    You got a piccy of it? Wouldnt mind a look.
  • CCWCCW Suffolk, UK
    edited July 2003
    Some of the Wildkats look like this Pyoblie:

    I153101.jpg

    You can find them at komplett.co.uk

    Craig
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    My god, what the hell is it? (as none of those links actually say what it is, apart from some sort of display card). It looks like a computer on a board.

    NS
  • AgeekAgeek
    edited July 2003
    These are some of the equivalents:

    MSMT496 OEM Intergraph Intense 3D Wildcat 3410 16MB + 64MB RAM AGP, OEM Card only, Dell part# 6597C

    Thus, Intergraph made a card which was OEM'd and used a 3DLabs Wildcat 3410 GPU core and was also sold by Dell. Possibly Dell still has drivers. Close, but not quite a 4000, a gen before that.

    Link to parts list here-- detail info per that site but the gen is right for that card.

    http://www.centrix-intl.com/list.asp?CategoryID=9

    Generic Drivers here:
    http://www.3dlabs.com/support/drivers/intense3d_drivers.htm
    Note also that the 3DLabs generics lump the 4000 and the 3410 in same driver set, so possibly as experiment if you have XP try the Wildcat 4000 drivers. If Win2K, would try Dell or 3DLabs set specifically.

    Good Luck.

    John Danielson.
  • HatopHatop Alabama
    edited July 2003
    OH MY LORD THANKS. i searched all over google for drivers or any info and couldn't find it. I've seen stuff that looks like it, just never got names. yay thanks much
  • AgeekAgeek
    edited July 2003
    I'm just happy that amongst us we were able to get you info that helped.

    I did google the answers, but have been hunting drivers since the late 80's (not always on what we now think of as the Internet). So, am quite happy to help.

    John.
  • KometeKomete Member
    edited July 2003
    I still dont know what the hell that is. Why does it have so many video's out?
  • AgeekAgeek
    edited July 2003
    Commercial video production card, not the highest end, but one that in its day was very good. As opposed to a home user's card. Basicly, a visual media conversion solution, or part of one. Take a look at a Gloria card. Take a look at a Matrox Quadro. those are same class, more recent for more recent boxes and faster for mroe recent machines.

    Wildcats and Glorias and Quadros are used for things like TV production, to produce multimedia things like the LOTR that was done on Linux rendering farms, etc. They do not work alone, but with fast machines they can be used to enhance 3D rendering-- cards like that is what 3DLabs specialized in more than anything else.

    Some of the better Wildcats were used to test out the games you folks might have played last year ot the year before or the year before that. And might have deved some of the anime, and might have been display solutions for developing LOTR.

    The best wildcats were early DVI convertors-- HARDWARE DVI to analog(like TV before HDTV) convertors, and BACK from analog to digital. Wildcat was a line name for a GPU. The 3410 was a midgrade rendering GPU. Some of the I\O was probably a bus connect to another card, something like a TV tuner with TV\Tape output capablility.

    Look up a company called Elsa, sometime. They used Wildcat chips for very top end commerical video production cards. This card is an OEM solution for Dell's video production boxes for smaller volume video production use. Think of wildcat cards and their partners, TV video cards (in some cases both were on one card) as a poorer man's video toaster if on a box built for video production.

    The card in picture is a DVI or TV in to DVI or TV out card. You could run video tape in, edit, put titles, lay graphics layers in, and output to DVI or TV signal to many things includind tape. The Coax connect meant the thing could have used a Satellite or Cable stream for input or output. essentially, it could take multiple streams and perhaps with help merge them and fade from one to another.

    That is a thumbnail sketch of this class of card. The Elsa Gladiator is another member of this card class (a higher end one for its time).

    John Danielson.
  • McBainMcBain San Clemente, CA New
    edited July 2003
    heard of elsa, they make gladiac's.
  • AgeekAgeek
    edited July 2003
    Yes, they make those also. A lot of their cards use 3DLabs's graphic chips.
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