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13.06.05 at 21:44:16
 
Hi at all!

I have purchased a new Voodoo2 card. Seller sell it as Creative Blaster3D 2....but in the auction picture i saw that voodoo2 was very different from other creative that i have seen. For this reason i bought it Grin, because it looks like a ProVideo card.....

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Re: ProVideo??
Reply #1 - 14.06.05 at 06:56:06
 
looks like the 8MB version
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Reply #2 - 14.06.05 at 14:37:39
 
Mhm i don't think. It has ram chips also on the rear side...BTW is a ProVideo, right?
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Reply #3 - 14.06.05 at 18:59:57
 
Yes, it's a ProVideo PV380.

If the card has four RAM-chips at the back it has 8 MB, otherwise (either 12 chips or no chip) it has 12 MB (in the first case the card has 24 chips of 512 KB, in the second case 12 chips of 1 MB).
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Reply #4 - 14.06.05 at 19:32:40
 
If i has any ram on the back it is a 12MB board, if none 8MB.

Some later boards have 12MB with no chips on the back, they have 12 1 meg chips.

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Reply #5 - 14.06.05 at 19:49:33
 
I used to have such a card.  I bought it when it was labelled by an eBay seller as a "Creative Voodoo2" also! Cheesy  He was selling it as part of a Creative V2 SLI set, but this was different.

I recognise the card by the PCB number smack in the middle, it's blue/green PCB, and the two black CRT heads with the circular sticker on the top output head.

Exactly the same  Wink, although i never did identify what card it was, not that I can remember anyway.
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Reply #6 - 14.06.05 at 20:22:55
 
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If i has any ram on the back it is a 12MB board, if none 8MB.

Some later boards have 12MB with no chips on the back, they have 12 1 meg chips.


If the back of the board is completely filled with RAM it is 12MB.
Some (all?) 8MB versions (at least, my Guillemot MaxiGamer3D² cards) have 4 chips on the backside.

About the newer 12MB cards you're right. They don't have chips on the backside  Smiley
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Re: ProVideo??
Reply #7 - 14.06.05 at 21:11:30
 
Well guys
Thanks for the support, It is definitively 12MB. Card have 12 chips on the rear side specularly placed like the other 12 chips on the card's front.

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I used to have such a card.  I bought it when it was labelled by an eBay seller as a "Creative Voodoo2" also!   He was selling it as part of a Creative V2 SLI set, but this was different


My seller said that he bought this card in a shop long time ago....He said also that Card was in a Creative box!! o_O'

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I recognise the card by the PCB number smack in the middle, it's blue/green PCB, and the two black CRT heads with the circular sticker on the top output head


Same has been for me Wink [janskjaer, you have a pm]
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Reply #8 - 14.06.05 at 23:45:53
 
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Some (all?) 8MB versions (at least, my Guillemot MaxiGamer3D² cards) have 4 chips on the backside.

You can say all 8 MB-versions because if there would be no RAM on the backside you would have to solder 12 chips with 3/4 MB (768 KB) on the card and I don't think such chips were ever built. Wink
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