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Komponent Senior Member Offline 3dfx modder Posts: 282	Finally! Voodoo5PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling 30.03.13 at 09:00:37
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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: Finaly! (something new) -teaser- Reply #1 - 30.03.13 at 09:16:34 v5pci128postzozj6.jpg maybe the 128MB help a little bit against bottleneck pci
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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Finaly! (something new) -teaser- Reply #2 - 30.03.13 at 10:19:10 It's a voodoo5 with 128mb ? Or is something else ? Glad to see that you are working on a new project
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Komponent Senior Member Offline 3dfx modder Posts: 282	Re: Finaly! (something new) -teaser- Reply #3 - 30.03.13 at 12:13:25 Guess the picture file name kind of spoiled the teaser...
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Finaly! (something new) -teaser- Reply #4 - 30.03.13 at 12:45:34 Not just the filename, I read the text in the picture which also mentions Voodoo5 5500 and 128MiB
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Reply #5 - 30.03.13 at 15:02:43

NitroX infinity wrote on 30.03.13 at 12:45:34:

Not just the filename, I read the text in the picture which also mentions Voodoo5 5500 and 128MiB Wink

Yes, but PCI. I have done the AGP years ago...

Voodoo5 5500 PCI 64Mb 4xAA 717 3dmarks

Voodoo5 5500 PCI 128Mb 4xAA 814 3dmarks

The extra RAM does help for a 13.5 percent higher score.

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rottentreats God Member Offline 3dfx > Reality Posts: 616 Minnesota [USA] Gender:	Re: Finaly! Voodoo5 PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #6 - 30.03.13 at 15:12:15 Very nicely done! (AGAIN!) Something very special! Keep up the great work!
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Finaly! Voodoo5 PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #7 - 30.03.13 at 16:34:06 What processor did you use for this test?
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Komponent Senior Member Offline 3dfx modder Posts: 282	Re: Finaly! Voodoo5 PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #8 - 30.03.13 at 16:59:08 Athlon 1900+ When I'll have some time I might do further testing on my A64 3800+ rig. EDIT: Tested under XP with no AA on Athlon64 3800+ Some 100 points more, but clearly the PCI bus becomes a bottleneck.
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ps47 God Member Offline Keeper of the 3Dfx Helppage Posts: 988 Slovakia,central Europe Gender:	Re: Finaly! Voodoo5 PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #9 - 31.03.13 at 11:42:53 really nice still.
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Reply #10 - 31.03.13 at 13:34:12

Hi Komponent,

Good to see you here again.

Nice work on this project that we have been waiting for a while now. Perhaps you can share with us some high quality pictures of the rework spots and resistor values so we can replicate this on our cards.

For testing the card at full potential you should get a mainboard with PCI-X slots as the card will run at 66Mhz bus speed and thus will not be a bottleneck as with the PCI33 slot.

Keep up the good work,
G1nX

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Re: Finaly! Voodoo5 PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling
Reply #11 - 31.03.13 at 15:30:50

Was there ever an instance when I did not share the informations on how to replicate the mods I've discovered?
Was trying to borrow a camera better than that on my phone, yet no luck here, so if one could help by uploading hi-res pics of the front and back of a V5 pci I'll do my part. No BIOS hack is required and the mod is fairly similar to that of a V5 agp.

I wonder what to do next; I like the challenge of venturing into unknown but, though I have some ideas, I have not chosen a new mod to tackle, so I'm opened to suggestions...

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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Finaly! Voodoo5 PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #12 - 31.03.13 at 16:06:59 Maybe you could increase the RAM on a Voodoo2? Don't know about the framebuffer, but the TMU's support up to 16MiB each.
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Reply #13 - 31.03.13 at 16:59:54

Komponent wrote on 31.03.13 at 15:30:50:

Was there ever an instance when I did not share the informations on how to replicate the mods I've discovered?
Was trying to borrow a camera better than that on my phone, yet no luck here, so if one could help by uploading hi-res pics of the front and back of a V5 pci I'll do my part. No BIOS hack is required and the mod is fairly similar to that of a V5 agp.

I wonder what to do next; I like the challenge of venturing into unknown but, though I have some ideas, I have not chosen a new mod to tackle, so I'm opened to suggestions...

Congrats to this amazing work

Well, you could help me on the memory modification I was planning to do for Obi s Voodoo 5 Mac. Total memory of 256MB

You proved that a single V4 can handle 128MB, so 256MB should be possible.

There are two ways in my mind:
1) get memory with a higher density (32MB per chip) -> ISSI IS42S32800D-6TL
2) stack 16MB modules and wire CS0 and CS1 to VSA100.

About that Voodoo 2 with total of 20MB memory, I've got a card from exxe with 1MB EDO ram, but it doesn't work. I've resoldered original memory, but the card still won't work -> card is dead. Now I've got still the memory left over for the 20MB project, but I'm pretty sure the strapping needs to be done right. The problem, I don't have any document on the TMUs Sad

So how about doing a joint venture Cheesy

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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Finaly! Voodoo5 PCI mod to 128Mb The Ugly Duckling Reply #14 - 31.03.13 at 18:15:37 some ideas: - voodoo5 5500 agp4x - voodoo5 5500 with 256Mb - voodoo5 6000 with 256mb or even 512mb
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