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Reply #15 - 02.09.04 at 10:19:55
 
@DenisF - How did you come up with the idea for the first one, the 64Mb Voodoo4?  What made you think "ooh, that might work!"?  Smiley
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Reply #16 - 02.09.04 at 11:18:18
 
Well i was just sitting in my room, waiting for a 3dquark2000 benchmark to finish, and then it got to the large textures test.

and iv'e seen how badly the card suffers when it has to swap out textures with the system ram..

so i took it out.. and i looked at it for like 5 mins..
and i thought "*g*, i wonder what would happen if i put a few more of these [chips] in those [holes]... *evil grin*"

the next day, my scavanging began, i ran around looking for some kind of card that has the same type of ram, and luckily, i found a friend who recently upgraded his pc, and had an old gf2mx in his old one..
so i gave it a shot, and to my surprise, the ram on both cards was a perfect match, down to the week of making..

the same day, i started the soldering job, and a few days later, the hardware part was done.

then i started editing bios files, flashing, re-flashing, testing, etc'

and after some more time, it worked, the first voodoo 4500
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and it passed 3dquark2000's large texture test without a single hickup!  Grin
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Reply #17 - 02.09.04 at 17:13:10
 
Sorry for asking but why isnt it possible to mod a v4 or v5
with DDR-Ram?
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Reply #18 - 02.09.04 at 17:43:38
 
Because the VSA-100 architecture doesn't support it.
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Reply #19 - 02.09.04 at 18:21:29
 
the only 3dfx card that ever used DDR was the Daytona [VSA101] afaik

and even that one, used only 64bit.
[which would make it highly mod-able btw, since 64bit ddr is easier to find than peanuts Grin]
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Reply #20 - 02.09.04 at 21:38:47
 
since were still talking about ram mod's, is there a way to put 32 instead of the 16 on a v3? or will it not support it?
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Reply #21 - 02.09.04 at 21:48:02
 
AFAIK the V3 only supports up to 16MB Ram.
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Reply #22 - 03.09.04 at 03:39:35
 
DenisF what kind of ram does your 64mb V4 use? Samsung?
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Reply #23 - 03.09.04 at 03:57:33
 
Hyundai [Hynix] 6ns

[very overclockable, btw.. managed to run it at 210mhz perfectly stable with the stock cooling]
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Reply #24 - 03.09.04 at 04:19:14
 
Is that ram better than samsung 040 K4S643232C-TC60? Thats what I got on my V4.

Which type of Voodoo4 card did you use?

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Reply #25 - 03.09.04 at 05:18:19
 
Dunno, never had a card with samsung ram, can't really compare the two

and i have the regular 8-slot voodoo 4500 agp.
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Reply #26 - 03.09.04 at 07:50:32
 
Oh I see, so you just simply filled in the 4 open "slots" the V4 had with the ram you took out of a GF2MX that just happen to have the same exact ram?


Lucky bastard! Grin


So with a v5 you would have to take out all of the 8mb ram chips and replace them with 16mb ram chips with the same exact specifications as the 8mb chips?

Would it be possible to install lower ns ram and use a modded bios or just stick to what I said above?
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Reply #27 - 03.09.04 at 10:25:21
 
yes yes and yes.

anything is possible Smiley
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Reply #28 - 03.09.04 at 22:51:41
 
@DenisF - Was a BIOS hack required to enable the extra 32MB, or did the VSA-100 just 'find' the extra RAM? ???

Just wondering... Wink

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DOH! It says in one of your previous posts that you edited the BIOS - question answered! Roll Eyes
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Reply #29 - 25.09.04 at 11:21:09
 
Well I was think'n something out.

A. If a Voodoo5 5500 can have 128 MB on a total of 8 Memory slots.

B. And if a Voodoo4 4500 AGP only can have 64 MB on 8 memory slots...

Then my question is, why not 128MB on the Voodoo4 4500 AGP?  

Because the Voodoo5 5500 has the same amount of memory slots, unless that the VSA-100 can't adress more that 64MB per chip, anyway I was just think'n out loud. Lips Sealed

Well if my query would be right, then this could also be possible:

Voodoo4 4500 PCI 64MB 4 slots 1x VSA-100

Voodoo4 4500 AGP 128MB 8 slots 1x VSA-100

Voodoo5 5500 AGP/PCI 128MB 8 slots 2x VSA-100

Voodoo5 6000 AGP 256MB  16 slots 4x VSA-100


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