Talk:RIVA 128

STB cranked it up
STB produced cards under the 'Velocity' name using the Riva 128 and 128ZX chips with the RAMDAC clocked at 320Mhz. This allowed even PCs with slow CPUs like a Pentium 200MMX to run Quake 2 at 800x600 resolution at 30 frames per second.
 * RAMDAC doesn't affect 3D speed. It is what allows high refresh rates at high display resolutions. I did a Google search and found that STB Velocity 128 actually had a 230 MHz RAMDAC. That allows the board, with its 4 MB RAM, to run your desktop at 1600x1200 16-bit color at 85 Hz refresh rate. I don't remember seeing 300+ MHz RAMDACs until 1999 or so, with Matrox G400 cards coming to mind. --Swaaye 20:53, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

About KiB and KB
About this new naming convention of KiB and MiB, it is a standard nobody has taken notice of. Most people (if not all) with higher computer skills or be involved in programing tasks don't make use of this new standard. They all speak/write KB (KiloByte = 1024 Bytes) or MB (MegaByte = 1024 KB = 1024 x 1024 Bytes) and they all know that a kilo (or mega or tera) is in this case 1024 units and not 1000. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.147.134.94 (talk) 00:59, 17 November 2008 (UTC)