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Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb
Reply #105 - 04.06.09 at 00:14:38

sb306 wrote on 03.06.09 at 20:51:00:

Is komponent or g1nx interested in modding a 5500 agp for extra cash? If so, how much. Wink

Well I'm more of an amateur doing small repairs and rewiring.
Komponent is the proffessional doing the hard part of replacing the memory modules and actually modding the cards.
Unfortunately he has little time to spare for this project and there's already a cue of people waiting for him to mod their cards (me included). If we could only trade cash for time Roll Eyes

Komponent if you're lurking around we're eagerly awaiting updates.

After some more tinkering around here is how my card looks like now:

It works ok but still to be completed...

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Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb
Reply #106 - 04.06.09 at 02:21:47

G1nX wrote on 04.06.09 at 00:14:38:

sb306 wrote on 03.06.09 at 20:51:00:

Is komponent or g1nx interested in modding a 5500 agp for extra cash? If so, how much. Wink

Well I'm more of an amateur doing small repairs and rewiring.
Komponent is the proffessional doing the hard part of replacing the memory modules and actually modding the cards.
Unfortunately he has little time to spare for this project and there's already a cue of people waiting for him to mod their cards (me included). If we could only trade cash for time Roll Eyes

Komponent if you're lurking around we're eagerly awaiting updates.

After some more tinkering around here is how my card looks like now:

It works ok but still to be completed...

Understood. I hadnt seen any updates so I figured Id ask. Thanks.

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Voodoo_Freak YaBB Newbies Offline Affordable Reality Posts: 44 Berlin/Germany Gender:	Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb Reply #107 - 04.07.09 at 22:59:14 @G1nX: Very nice modification. One could think at first view that this is a Radeon 9600 or something like that. Anyway, first cooler modification that looks cool to me.
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Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb
Reply #108 - 05.07.09 at 17:34:58

Voodoo_Freak wrote on 04.07.09 at 22:59:14:

@G1nX:
Very nice modification. One could think at first view that this is a Radeon 9600 or something like that. Anyway, first cooler modification that looks cool to me. Wink

Thank you. Well most importantly it keeps the card cooled.
I still need to find the right memory heatsinks for the front of the card and maybe a 3dfx sticker instead of NV Silencer Tongue

Here is the back.

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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb Reply #109 - 05.07.09 at 17:50:42 Nice work G1nx ! The card looks good, i'm also working on such a coling. My ideea is to have a single cooper heatsink for both GPU's ( like a bridge between the VSA's ). Like i see you are using two independent heatsink. ( the originals ?) And yes, an 3dfx sticker would give to the card another look.
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Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb
Reply #110 - 05.07.09 at 18:10:05

Thank you.
The heatsinks are from Intel chipset OEM boards and are held to the VSA chips by thermal adhesive. Because of this the card occupies also the PCI near the AGP slot.
The single cooper cooling for the V5 might be difficult as you have a few caps between the VSAs and you would have to make openings for them in the cooper plate.
Another approach I found difficult to implement was using the Zalman ZM80 but the heat pipe would not be long enough to link both VSAs and loop to the back of the card. In this case no fans would be need even if OCed.
Good luck.

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Tritop Full Member Offline «» 3dfx Collector «» Posts: 175	Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb Reply #111 - 03.08.09 at 00:48:18 Is Komponent still modding voodoo 5s? I still have chips there and a voodoo 5 ready to mod.
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LtComDATA YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 8 Gender:	Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb Reply #112 - 01.09.09 at 15:51:03 Well I am interested too!
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Tritop Full Member Offline «» 3dfx Collector «» Posts: 175	Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb Reply #113 - 02.09.09 at 21:47:45 @LtComDATA Do you have chips? Where is Komponent? I am a bit worried, my chips are paid and I am ready to mod
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Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb
Reply #114 - 22.06.10 at 11:16:46

Hello guys!
I am very interested in implementing the change made by the Komponent Voodoo5, raising it from 64 to 128 mb, you tell me where to buy the RAM modules needed for the change?
I tried to contact the ESMT and Memphis.de, he replied only by saying that it only sells the lots of 500 pieces, a bit too much!
Some of you have already made the change? Has more advice for me? It has modules to sell?
In what ways can desolder and solder the chip? Some have advised me a hot air welding, unfortunately I think it is a very expensive procedure and industrial
I already contacted Komponent, but unfortunately has other problems on his mind
Anyway, I'm on forumzone.it, I opened a discussion about it.
Thanks and sorry my bad English

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oldskool Senior Member Offline I Love 3dfx Posts: 398 uk Gender:	Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb Reply #115 - 22.06.10 at 21:08:27 I think I read somewhere that you can use chips from a Donor card, think from some of the geForce 2 cards but could be wrong. Would mean more solder work but if you have the skilsl and equipement to solder chips in the first place it should be no problem.
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Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb
Reply #116 - 24.06.10 at 10:17:41

I think I also read somewhere that you can desolder the chip of a GeForce2 Asus V7100 (4x16), which has the same memories of hyundai Voodoo5 but with latency 5.5!
http://www.anandtech.com/print/618
I'll try to get me a pair of these cards on ebay hoping to have the same memories:)
What type of tools should I get?

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PC1:E5200@3600-AsusP5Q-SE-2x2DDRII1066-RadeonHD4850
PC2:AthlonXP2000+-MSI KT3 Ultra-2x512HyperX-3dfx Voodoo5 5500 166@190

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oldskool Senior Member Offline I Love 3dfx Posts: 398 uk Gender:	Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb Reply #117 - 25.06.10 at 11:45:58 Lol, i got one of those but its the Pro version. Its not for chip harvesting
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Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb
Reply #118 - 27.06.10 at 14:54:58

@Phil, oldskool,
The GF2 cards mentioned don't have higher capacity memory modules 16Mb but 8mb just like the voodoo5 cards but they are faster some even 4ns (250mhz rated) but as you can read in the link bellow very high frequencies will be limited to what the VSA100 installed on the card can achieve and only the V6k had the last silicon revision 320.
http://www.voodoo3dfx.com/Noticias_3Dfx/Noticias_3Dfx.htm
The way Komponent achieved the creation of the 128mb V5 was with a group buy of trays with 16mb memory modules from a German supplier.
There's still quite a few of us waiting for Komponent to resume his modding practices and continue this project.
Cheers,
G1nX

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Voodoo_Freak YaBB Newbies Offline Affordable Reality Posts: 44 Berlin/Germany Gender:	Re: Enter the dragon: World's first Voodoo5 5500 128Mb Reply #119 - 05.07.10 at 17:12:11 It has been a while since he last posted some news here...maybe he will return some day in the future. Anyway it is an interesting modification and I believe lots of people are interested in having a 128MB V5 5500
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