3dfx Archive - Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb RAM

Tim God Member Offline Posts: 1065 Gender:	Re: Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb RAM Reply #15 - 26.01.09 at 11:18:49 Well done, very impressive.
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osckhar God Member Offline www.3Dfx.es Posts: 812 SPAIN Gender:	Re: Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb RAM Reply #16 - 26.01.09 at 20:37:50 Very nice work!!!! ps. About agp2pci: before do it we would need a driver that support correctly the agp2pci adapter. SFFT driver cant handle it, only the beta from KoolsMoky. Oscar.
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Re: Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb RAM
Reply #17 - 27.01.09 at 11:38:38

very nice work indeed, congratulations.

But, would this mean that this is possible for other VSA-100 based cards as well, with other types of memory, like the V5 5000 with 32MB SGRAM??

It has 2 gpu's, so that would mean it should be able to handle 256MB, right?? Or does this only go for SDRAM based cards??

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Re: Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb RAM
Reply #18 - 28.01.09 at 06:38:24

ultima wrote on 27.01.09 at 11:38:38:

very nice work indeed, congratulations.
But, would this mean that this is possible for other VSA-100 based cards as well, with other types of memory, like the V5 5000 with 32MB SGRAM??
It has 2 gpu's, so that would mean it should be able to handle 256MB, right?? Or does this only go for SDRAM based cards??

SGRAM cards are not too different than SDRAM boards. Functionality is determined by hardware and BIOS setups embeded on the card. So, 64Mb for each VSA100 (total of 128Mb on A Voodoo5 5000 PCB) is possible for sure; don't know about 2x128Mb; should be possible aswell.
The huge problem is that to be able to do modding on each distinct type of a card, one must remove the GPU(s) to study the PCB and find the needed signaling connection points on an identical card. For extremely rare prototypes like Voodoo5 5000 and 6000, access to even already dead cards is a slim option...

Komponent wrote on 25.01.09 at 12:32:52:

I might need good quality pics of the front and back side of a Voodoo4 AGP to point out on them the locations where mods have to be performed...

Could a friend from here provide high-resolution pics of the front and the back of a Voodoo4 AGP card, please? I cannot seem to find a good digital cammera to borrow... Thanks alot!

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Re: Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb RAM
Reply #19 - 28.01.09 at 12:07:18

I'll take some pics

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And there they are:

These are 1600 pixels wide. I made them a bit smaller then the original but I think it will still suffice

. I just hope the cable of the fan is not in the way Roll Eyes

. If you need higher resolution, more focussed on RAM (or something), or no fan- just say so. Then I'll take new ones.

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Re: Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb RAM
Reply #20 - 29.01.09 at 20:26:46

Thanks alot, Thandor! The pics were more than enough.
Have a look at the instructions to be followed to get yourself a Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb:

First, do the hardware mods marked in the pics above, after soldering the 8 16Mb RA M chips.
Next, flash the BIOS with the modded one also used before for the Voodoo4 AGP with 64Mb.
http://rapidshare.com/files/191226449/v4_64M.rom.html

That is all...

exxe wrote on 26.01.09 at 21:46:50:

why one must die?
just try the same shots on the back of the GPU like on the AGP and look its working

Look for yourself on the back side of the PCB, under the GPU. Different layout of the spots... Not to mention the points required for the resistor hardware strapping for the the new memory config...

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Re: Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb RAM
Reply #21 - 15.03.09 at 16:18:17

now the question remains can this be done for a 5000, 5500 as 6000 as well? There by giving them 128MB per chip, heh maybe 256MB per chip is possible and that would tell us that a VSA-100 is almost the same as a VSA-101 , only no DDR support, that is if 256MB can be made possible for a 4500 AGP for example.

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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb RAM Reply #22 - 15.03.09 at 21:43:52 @Falcon - could you please host this modded BIOS, Rapidshare is throwing a fit... If not, then can someone else please host it... CHEERS!
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Komponent Senior Member Offline 3dfx modder Posts: 282	Re: Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb Reply #23 - 04.04.13 at 19:19:41 Any of you guys know of a game that might run on VSA100 class GPU and will not start unless you had a minimum of 128Mb video memory? It was a great test before with Codename Panzers (IIRC) that was able to start only on cards with 64Mb or more...
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Re: Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb
Reply #24 - 20.04.13 at 22:16:46

Komponent wrote on 04.04.13 at 19:19:41:

Any of you guys know of a game that might run on VSA100 class GPU and will not start unless you had a minimum of 128Mb video memory?
It was a great test before with Codename Panzers (IIRC) that was able to start only on cards with 64Mb or more...

I seriously doubt that such a game exists, since the only official 128MB voodoo card was the 6000 and it never was released.
And it would mean it would only run on the 6000, nothing else, since the 6000 was to be the 1st consumer card ever to have 128MB of video memory, even if it was 32MB/chip.

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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Over the specs memory mod: Voodoo4 AGP with 128Mb Reply #25 - 27.04.13 at 22:16:53 You could try: America's Army - Special Forces.
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