Vlask
S3TC / DXTC
1st Texture Compression technology used on 3D graphics card.
Anisotropic filtering
Enhanced Trilinear filtering solving blurred textures.
Trilinear filtering
Trilinear filtering is an extension of the bilinear texture filtering method, which also performs linear interpolation between mipmaps.
Bilinear filtering
Bilinear filtering is a texture filtering method used to smooth textures when displayed larger or smaller than they actually are.
ATI Radeon HD 4550
NVIDIA Quadro FX 540
Donations
Finally beated mine laziness and added very popular button between many site owners. Paypal donate button spawned on left side under main menu. So if you like site and want to support me, you can now do it by any amount you like. Money will be spend on domain and server hosting fees. So far these are paid by me and also by advertisments revenues.
Server hosting costs me now about 13.5 euro - thats about $15 per year. Domain fee (for adress vgamuseum.info) is $13.17 per year. So, if i get around $29 from donations, i will disable showing advertisments for that year. Another option is better server hosting. So far im using cheaper NoLimit webhosting, but theres also optional NoLimit Extra hosting for almost $59 (54 euro) per year. You can visit parameters of hosting on this link. If you like to have faster site, you can donate for this optional speed improvements.
Another item id' like to see on site is Compare for K2 plugin from Styleware. I already payed them 20 euro for that great search plugin on site (see collections and advanced search - they both using styleware search plugin). So if you like to have compare options for each card on site, you can donate 20 euro and i will buy and install this plugin. Compare is taking data from additional info table in every article, so things like bus, year, fillrate, texel rate, core and memory speeds can be compared between as many cards as you like. You can see demo of this feature on Styleware site. Feel free to inform me about other plugins you like to see on site....Site works on Joomla with K2 plugin, so anything compactible with these can be used. Sadly plugin can't work with articles without filled values - these are not always known, so only option is to find some programmer with a lot of free time, to do custom compare....
Another usefull thing to buy from donations could be universal programmer. Some guys ask me sometimes about bios images from specific cards. I have 2 boxes of bios and core chips from nonworking cards in mine collection. But no device to read data from bios chips. But i have no use for that bios files, so no reason for me to spend money and time on device, which i dont need. I could backup all these bios chips and put files on site, but will not spend money on that device. So you can donate for buying universal programmer TL866CS. Price is around $42. Buyed it already. You may notice some updates to few nonpc cards - added there bios downloads.
I enabled option for sending info with donations, so feel free to send me message on what i should spend your donation. Can also publish your name or company name/link in some kind of donor list, if youre interested. Feel free also sending me your ideas, how to spend donations (comments under article should be working or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
CPU tree
As you might noticed, i started new project called CPU tree. Its same as VGA tree, but aimed on microprocessors. Some people asked years ago about this and i answered them, that they must do it, not me. Well years passed, i lost mine job and im from start of year still unemployed and also bored. So i tell myself that someone should do it. This time i called for help at CPU World forums - http://www.cpu-world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25419 , because im not CPU collector and theres a lot more of CPU history. You can join project too, if you like. By doin whole tree, or just pointing on missing CPU's or informations. Feel free to use cpu world forum or comments under CPU tree (im watching both).
Added Charts
I spended last month by creating charts. They require flash and are filled by data from database of cards. Sadly i'm unable (my knowledge of php is under absolute zero) to do proper php script for doin it automaticaly. So im exporting manually data for charts from Mysql database. This is reason, why it won't be updated much frequently. Charts have it's own category in main menu and so far you can find there graphs sorted by number of transistors, pixel and texel fillrate, price, memory bandwidth and frequency. Can do also other like core frequency or shader rate (won't be big) if youre interested. All numbers are from reference cards, overclocked or underclocked versions are not included.
CPU tree
This is my latest project. Some people asked me about doing CPU tree, cause they liked graphics cards version. Well years passed and still noone did CPU version. So because i'm still unemployed (no IT work found in my area), i said myself lets do it. Anyone can help. This will be bigger project than graphics tree and i will need help for sure. Closer info and discussion can be found on CPU-World forums.
If you feel brave enough for helping, just choose your favourite CPU maker and tell us on CPU-World forum. Sample file for VUE editor can be downloaded in attachments. Will update also big version with all parts connected (you can start also by editing this bigger file) - can be downloaded here. Last updated full file size picture can be seen/downloaded here. If you dont like editing in VUE, you can still send text info about cpu and i will add them. So far these people are working on:
Vlask - everything except stuff that these people did:
achtung049 - Compaq, DEC, HP.
henriok - PPC/POWER.
Tralalák - VIA.
09-01-2015: Added Nec.
08-24-2015: Added Mostek and Intergraph.
08-23-2015: Added Fairchild Semiconductor.
08-22-2015: Added Signetics. Updated Intel with Quark.
08-19-2015: Added Ross Technology.
08-18-2015: Added Acorn Computers (now known as ARM).
08-04-2015: Added Chips and Technologies, MIPS Technologies and Quantum Effect Devices/PMC-Sierra.
07-29-2015: Added Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies, UMC and updated Texas Instruments with x86 clones.
07-27-2015: Added Fujitsu, Loongson, Nvidia and ShenWei.
07-25-2015: Added Texas Instruments, Rise Technology and Western Design Center.
07-24-2015: Added MOS Technology, Transmeta and NexGen.
07-22-2015: Added Cyrix and Sun.
07-19-2015: Added Zilog, Motorola and National Semiconductor. AMD updated with Geode, Elan and Athlon SFF.
07-16-2015: Basic AMD tree done.
07-10-2015: Basic Intel tree done.
06-28-2015: First draft and info page made.