Sealed Hercules 3D Prophet 4500

[erek]

The Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 is very common, but I love the Kyro II story. Finally managed to collect one that is more worthy of collecting which aside from a Kyro II SE / 4800 is a sealed unit such as seen here:

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[TrunksZero]

Awesome. I remember these, they where kind of a big deal as the price/performance ratio was really nice. Ah, the days when we had multiple GPU's options. I think then we had 4 still alive then? Although PowerVR and Matrox both struck out that generation and lead to our current duopoly.

Hail to the PowerVR Kyro 2 and the Matrox Parhelia. You where the last GPU's to do battle with Radeon's and GeForce's.

 

[erek]

Awesome. I remember these, they where kind of a big deal as the price/performance ratio was really nice. Ah, the days when we had multiple GPU's options. I think then we had 4 still alive then? Although PowerVR and Matrox both struck out that generation and lead to our current duopoly.

Hail to the PowerVR Kyro 2 and the Matrox Parhelia. You where the last GPU's to do battle with Radeon's and GeForce's.

i also love the Matrox Parhelia, still awaiting a rare variant to collect... uncertain what that might look like ? ES / Prototype?

 

[GiGaBiTe]

I still have mine floating around here somewhere.

They were decent cards... when they worked. Drivers for them were abysmal and really only worked on Windows 98SE/ME. There are drivers for 2000/XP, but I've never been able to get them to work reliably.

 

[blackmomba]

The Hercules 3D Prophet 4500 is very common, but I love the Kyro II story. Finally managed to collect one that is more worthy of collecting which aside from a Kyro II SE / 4800 is a sealed unit such as seen here:



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Beautiful, thanks for sharing

Seeing the box gives me the chills. I didn't have that one, I don't even remember what model I had. But I remember the feeling of being part of something new and great

The feels man

 

[Zepher]

We had a shrink wrap setup back in the day. How can you verify that that wasn't re-wrapped with something else inside the box?

 

[blackmomba]

I actually still have the Leaktek card and manual in the link pictured above the Hercules card. Man what a time to be alive

 

[erek]

I might be able to acquire a Club3D Kyro II 4500 from another hardforum member, since it's already cracked open i could be inclined to test it:

 

[FrgMstr]

I sent this thread to the then STi/Kyro PR rep.