The 614th Space Intelligence Squadron is the first squadron in the USAF that has been designed to protect satellites belonging to the military. This squadron is stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom the US was using ten times the satellite capability it had in 1991. Before the second invasion of Iraq, the space shuttle Endeavour used its radar to make a map of Iraq; this map was used to make targets for the invasion. Satellites have provided and still do provide reliable pictures and information to the US and its allies. Satellites not only provide photographs, but are crucial when it comes to launching and guiding missiles. The US is not the only country that uses satellites for a military advantage, Australia and Great Britain are two countries that put them to use as well.
The SiS 630 and SiS 730 are a family of highly integrated chipsets for Intel (Slot 1/Socket 370) and AMD (Slot A/Socket A) respectively. At the time of release they were unique in that they not only provided VGA, Audio, LAN, IDE and USB functionality on board, but were also in a single-chip solution. At the time of release (1999) most chipsets were composed of physically separate north-bridge and south-bridge chips (technically these still existed in the SiS 630/730 but were contained in a single package). Only later have single-chip solutions become popular in the mainstream, with chipsets such as the nVidianForce4.
The SiS 6326 was a graphics processing unit (GPU) manufactured by Silicon Integrated Systems. It was introduced in June 1997 and became available to the consumer market in the end of that year. Although its performance was low compared to the GPUs of its age, eventually it became very successful, specially integrated in many motherboards designed to the corporate market, where the low cost is prioritized over 3D performance. SiS shipped over seven million units of the SiS 6326 in 1998.
Architecture
The SiS was available as a discrete card, with an AGP 2x or PCI bus, and as an integrated GPU. It had a 64-bit 2D/3D graphics accelerator, a DVD decoder, a TV decoder. It was available with 4MB or 8MB of memory.
Performance
Since the model aimed for low cost over high performance, it capabilities were low compared to contemporary products. According to a test conducted by Tom's Hardware on January 21, 1998, it could possessed roughly a third of the performance of an NVidiaRIVA 128 or 40% less than an ATI Rage Pro in terms of frames per second in Direct3D benchmarks, and simply could not play Quake 2 due its lack of OpenGL support. Yet the same article says that even the "slow and unknown graphic chip" could still produce "quite nice image quality".
Heaven is the third album released by brother and sister duo BeBe & CeCe Winans and their second released on Capitol Records. It was number one on the Billboard Top Gospel Albums chart.
Smooth jazz musician Lonnie Liston Smith covered the title song from his 1990 album, Love Goddess
Nirvāṇa (/nɪərˈvɑːnə, -ˈvænə, nər-/;Sanskrit:निर्वाणnirvāṇa[nirʋaːɳə]; Pali:निब्बानnibbāna; Prakrit:णिव्वाणṇivvāṇa) literally means "blown out", as in a candle. It is most commonly associated with Buddhism.
In the Buddhist context, nirvana refers to the imperturbable stillness of mind after the fires of desire, aversion, and delusion have been finally extinguished. In Hindu philosophy, it is the union with Brahman, the divine ground of existence, and the experience of blissful egolessness.
In Indian religions, the attainment of nirvana is moksha, liberation from samsara, the repeating cycle of birth, life and death.
Etymology
The word nirvāṇa is from the verbal root √vā “blow” in the form of past participle vāna “blown”, prefixed with the preverb nis meaning “out”. Hence the original meaning of the word is “blown out, extinguished”. Sandhi changes the spelling: the v of vāna causes nis to become nir, and then the r of nir causes retroflexion of the following n: nis+vāna > nirvāṇa. The term is used in the sense of “dead” in the Mahābhārata (i.e. “life extinguished”). [Monier-Williams Sanskrit English Dictionary sv nirvāṇa]
"Heaven (Must Be There)" (sometimes shortened to just "Heaven") is a song by Eurogliders from their album This Island. The song was released as a 7" vinyl and a 12" in May 1984.
The single brought the band to fame, especially in Australia, where the single peaked at No.2 on Kent Music Report Singles Chart in 1984. It was also a major hit in New Zealand, peaking at No.6, and a more modest hit in North America, hitting No.47 in Canada, and No.65 in the US.
Angel is the third single on Theory of a Deadman's fifth studio album Savages. The single was released on February 24, 2015.
Composition
"Angel" is a ballad about a man who's in love with an angel but realizes that he eventually has to let her go. Randy Shatkowski of Underground Pulse describes the song as an "electronic-tinged lost love ballad" and noted Tyler Connolly's vocals to be his most vulnerable yet.
Chart positions
"Angel" peaked at No. 2 on the Mainstream Rock chart, making it the band's highest peaking single there since "Lowlife" reached No. 1 in 2011. The song has also gained airplay on SiriusXM the Pulse.
Pentium III 700MHz IPC TopNote H laptop SiS 630/730 NFS: Porsche
Laptop IPC TopNote H Pentium III 700MHz, 190MB RAM, SiS 630/730 integrated chipset, Windows 98 SE
Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed
Music: Porsche Unleashed OST: Morphadron - Rezidue / R U Ready / The Moebus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4fFcQ1k6p4
published: 02 Nov 2020
SIS 630 / 300 - Exploring Windows 98 3D iGPU Gaming - #GPUJune2
We take a look at a rarely explored GPU - The SIS 300.
The one in this video is integrated into the SIS 630 chipset.
How does it handle some older 3D games under 98se?
#GPUJune2 Official Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC-GPEYjsF-jCv-pDjBo_c6sqEroU_eEL
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:25 - The SIS 630 / 300
02:05 - GLQuake
02:33 - Expendable
03:04 - Turok
03:46 - Incoming
04:13 - Forsaken
05:08 - NFS Porsche Unleashed
05:50 - Quake 3
06:35 - Benchmarks
09:11 - Summary
09:52 - Expendable Outro
published: 05 Jun 2022
Pentium III 700MHz IPC TopNote H laptop SiS 630/730 Commandos
Laptop IPC TopNote H Pentium III 700MHz, 190MB RAM, SiS 630/730 integrated chipset, Windows 98 SE
Music: Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty (Unofficial Score) [HQ Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ApY-1al12w
This Excel Laptop features an Intel Pentium III /3 CPU with an intergrated SiS 630 Graphics GPU if you can call it that! Now this graphics chip gets a lot of bad press and probably deserves it.
However this laptop found its way to me for recycling and out of morbid curiosity I decided to take a look at it and to my amazement it was running things I thought SiS only dreamed of and most of the laptops I have ever owned never ran games period.
No Comment no chit chat just some graphic demos and some game demos.
Sit back and enjoy.
RAM on SiS 630 VGA can be 8/16/32 or 64MB
published: 07 Apr 2021
ASUS TUSI-M Motherboard
Appearance of the product. Socket 370, based on SiS 630 chipset. Pentium III Tualatin support.
published: 22 Nov 2023
What the SiS?!
Is this budget single-chip board from 2001 any good? What even is it? And how "universal" is that Universal AGP slot, anyway?
Let's find out!
This board's entry on Ultimate Retro: https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/6364
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
03:22 - The Build
03:59 - Initial Impressions
04:52 - SMASH CUT to Test Results
09:35 - Final Thoughts and Recommendations
published: 01 Feb 2022
3DMark 2000 Pentium III 700MHz laptop IPC TopNote H 190MB RAM, SiS 630/730
Laptop IPC TopNote H Pentium III 700MHz 190MB RAM SiS 630/730 Windows 98 SE
3DMark 2000
published: 02 Nov 2020
Bad iGPUs? - SiS Mirage (Real256E)
The SiS Mirage from 2003 is as bog standard of an iGPU as you can get. Can it play a game or two?
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faketek
Songs used:
Jimena Contreras - Frightmare
TrackTribe - A Brand New Start
Alexander Brandon - Go Down (Unreal Tournament OST)
#GPUJune3
published: 21 Jun 2023
Playing in 8k vs 1080p in RTX 4090 #gaming #comedy #gamer
Laptop IPC TopNote H Pentium III 700MHz, 190MB RAM, SiS 630/730 integrated chipset, Windows 98 SE
Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed
Music: Porsche Unleashed OST...
Laptop IPC TopNote H Pentium III 700MHz, 190MB RAM, SiS 630/730 integrated chipset, Windows 98 SE
Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed
Music: Porsche Unleashed OST: Morphadron - Rezidue / R U Ready / The Moebus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4fFcQ1k6p4
Laptop IPC TopNote H Pentium III 700MHz, 190MB RAM, SiS 630/730 integrated chipset, Windows 98 SE
Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed
Music: Porsche Unleashed OST: Morphadron - Rezidue / R U Ready / The Moebus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4fFcQ1k6p4
We take a look at a rarely explored GPU - The SIS 300.
The one in this video is integrated into the SIS 630 chipset.
How does it handle some older 3D games unde...
We take a look at a rarely explored GPU - The SIS 300.
The one in this video is integrated into the SIS 630 chipset.
How does it handle some older 3D games under 98se?
#GPUJune2 Official Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC-GPEYjsF-jCv-pDjBo_c6sqEroU_eEL
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:25 - The SIS 630 / 300
02:05 - GLQuake
02:33 - Expendable
03:04 - Turok
03:46 - Incoming
04:13 - Forsaken
05:08 - NFS Porsche Unleashed
05:50 - Quake 3
06:35 - Benchmarks
09:11 - Summary
09:52 - Expendable Outro
We take a look at a rarely explored GPU - The SIS 300.
The one in this video is integrated into the SIS 630 chipset.
How does it handle some older 3D games under 98se?
#GPUJune2 Official Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC-GPEYjsF-jCv-pDjBo_c6sqEroU_eEL
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:25 - The SIS 630 / 300
02:05 - GLQuake
02:33 - Expendable
03:04 - Turok
03:46 - Incoming
04:13 - Forsaken
05:08 - NFS Porsche Unleashed
05:50 - Quake 3
06:35 - Benchmarks
09:11 - Summary
09:52 - Expendable Outro
Laptop IPC TopNote H Pentium III 700MHz, 190MB RAM, SiS 630/730 integrated chipset, Windows 98 SE
Music: Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty (Unofficial Score) ...
Laptop IPC TopNote H Pentium III 700MHz, 190MB RAM, SiS 630/730 integrated chipset, Windows 98 SE
Music: Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty (Unofficial Score) [HQ Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ApY-1al12w
Laptop IPC TopNote H Pentium III 700MHz, 190MB RAM, SiS 630/730 integrated chipset, Windows 98 SE
Music: Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty (Unofficial Score) [HQ Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ApY-1al12w
This Excel Laptop features an Intel Pentium III /3 CPU with an intergrated SiS 630 Graphics GPU if you can call it that! Now this graphics chip gets a lot of ba...
This Excel Laptop features an Intel Pentium III /3 CPU with an intergrated SiS 630 Graphics GPU if you can call it that! Now this graphics chip gets a lot of bad press and probably deserves it.
However this laptop found its way to me for recycling and out of morbid curiosity I decided to take a look at it and to my amazement it was running things I thought SiS only dreamed of and most of the laptops I have ever owned never ran games period.
No Comment no chit chat just some graphic demos and some game demos.
Sit back and enjoy.
RAM on SiS 630 VGA can be 8/16/32 or 64MB
This Excel Laptop features an Intel Pentium III /3 CPU with an intergrated SiS 630 Graphics GPU if you can call it that! Now this graphics chip gets a lot of bad press and probably deserves it.
However this laptop found its way to me for recycling and out of morbid curiosity I decided to take a look at it and to my amazement it was running things I thought SiS only dreamed of and most of the laptops I have ever owned never ran games period.
No Comment no chit chat just some graphic demos and some game demos.
Sit back and enjoy.
RAM on SiS 630 VGA can be 8/16/32 or 64MB
Is this budget single-chip board from 2001 any good? What even is it? And how "universal" is that Universal AGP slot, anyway?
Let's find out!
This board's ent...
Is this budget single-chip board from 2001 any good? What even is it? And how "universal" is that Universal AGP slot, anyway?
Let's find out!
This board's entry on Ultimate Retro: https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/6364
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
03:22 - The Build
03:59 - Initial Impressions
04:52 - SMASH CUT to Test Results
09:35 - Final Thoughts and Recommendations
Is this budget single-chip board from 2001 any good? What even is it? And how "universal" is that Universal AGP slot, anyway?
Let's find out!
This board's entry on Ultimate Retro: https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/6364
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
03:22 - The Build
03:59 - Initial Impressions
04:52 - SMASH CUT to Test Results
09:35 - Final Thoughts and Recommendations
The SiS Mirage from 2003 is as bog standard of an iGPU as you can get. Can it play a game or two?
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faketek
Songs...
The SiS Mirage from 2003 is as bog standard of an iGPU as you can get. Can it play a game or two?
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faketek
Songs used:
Jimena Contreras - Frightmare
TrackTribe - A Brand New Start
Alexander Brandon - Go Down (Unreal Tournament OST)
#GPUJune3
The SiS Mirage from 2003 is as bog standard of an iGPU as you can get. Can it play a game or two?
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faketek
Songs used:
Jimena Contreras - Frightmare
TrackTribe - A Brand New Start
Alexander Brandon - Go Down (Unreal Tournament OST)
#GPUJune3
Laptop IPC TopNote H Pentium III 700MHz, 190MB RAM, SiS 630/730 integrated chipset, Windows 98 SE
Need For Speed Porsche Unleashed
Music: Porsche Unleashed OST: Morphadron - Rezidue / R U Ready / The Moebus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4fFcQ1k6p4
We take a look at a rarely explored GPU - The SIS 300.
The one in this video is integrated into the SIS 630 chipset.
How does it handle some older 3D games under 98se?
#GPUJune2 Official Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLC-GPEYjsF-jCv-pDjBo_c6sqEroU_eEL
Chapters
00:00 - Intro
01:25 - The SIS 630 / 300
02:05 - GLQuake
02:33 - Expendable
03:04 - Turok
03:46 - Incoming
04:13 - Forsaken
05:08 - NFS Porsche Unleashed
05:50 - Quake 3
06:35 - Benchmarks
09:11 - Summary
09:52 - Expendable Outro
Laptop IPC TopNote H Pentium III 700MHz, 190MB RAM, SiS 630/730 integrated chipset, Windows 98 SE
Music: Commandos: Beyond the Call of Duty (Unofficial Score) [HQ Audio]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ApY-1al12w
This Excel Laptop features an Intel Pentium III /3 CPU with an intergrated SiS 630 Graphics GPU if you can call it that! Now this graphics chip gets a lot of bad press and probably deserves it.
However this laptop found its way to me for recycling and out of morbid curiosity I decided to take a look at it and to my amazement it was running things I thought SiS only dreamed of and most of the laptops I have ever owned never ran games period.
No Comment no chit chat just some graphic demos and some game demos.
Sit back and enjoy.
RAM on SiS 630 VGA can be 8/16/32 or 64MB
Is this budget single-chip board from 2001 any good? What even is it? And how "universal" is that Universal AGP slot, anyway?
Let's find out!
This board's entry on Ultimate Retro: https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/6364
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
03:22 - The Build
03:59 - Initial Impressions
04:52 - SMASH CUT to Test Results
09:35 - Final Thoughts and Recommendations
The SiS Mirage from 2003 is as bog standard of an iGPU as you can get. Can it play a game or two?
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/faketek
Songs used:
Jimena Contreras - Frightmare
TrackTribe - A Brand New Start
Alexander Brandon - Go Down (Unreal Tournament OST)
#GPUJune3
The 614th Space Intelligence Squadron is the first squadron in the USAF that has been designed to protect satellites belonging to the military. This squadron is stationed at Vandenberg Air Force Base.
During Operation Iraqi Freedom the US was using ten times the satellite capability it had in 1991. Before the second invasion of Iraq, the space shuttle Endeavour used its radar to make a map of Iraq; this map was used to make targets for the invasion. Satellites have provided and still do provide reliable pictures and information to the US and its allies. Satellites not only provide photographs, but are crucial when it comes to launching and guiding missiles. The US is not the only country that uses satellites for a military advantage, Australia and Great Britain are two countries that put them to use as well.