Nah mate!

They're prolly branded...

"American chava-tank"

with...

"3Dfx, the components that WORK!" 8)

ROFL!

LMAO!

Never thought I would own a 3dfx card longer then a V5-6000.

And yes the cards have 125 mhz ram chips, all four tested out as functioning!

Now I just need to work on the cabling and hope the riser cards are good!

did you test this monster allready?

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Still waiting for a motherboard to do testing with complete assembly.

i want benchmarks 

Well now... hmmm.

The brick installs with no problems and everything seems to work but when you hit the test glide button in the control panel the test program seems to hang. I don't expect to see anything of course (no I/O connector) but I should be able to hit "esc" and get the driver control panel back. For the gamma test that does work.. with a slight delay.

Possible causes-

1) The drivers indicate service pack 4 are required, I installed service pack 6a (the latest) maybe an issue, maybe not.

2) Motherboard isn't correct- The drivers indicate an intel BX motherboard should be fine but LogicalMadness posted he could not get his working in anything but a intel GX.

3) Power supply doesn't have enough balls- The best I had handy was a very high quaility 300 watt ATX unit from PC power and cooling I used years ago with my 1.0 ghz Athlon system. A 400 watt was mentioned as being a good idea.

I may have to 'jack the 550 watt unit from my 2.8 ghz machine for further testing

So.. there is no errors when the control panel comes up and the cards have been individually tested ok already so that is a good sign.. I think the next course of action is to find an I/O connector and get a burly power supply and try again. I could try reloading NT4 and just install SP4 but I don't think SP6a is the issue but won't write it off either!

G.  

Once Mercury is assembled the connectors on the backplates of the cards do nothing. Everything is routed through the Mercury module at the top of the cards.

From there there is a connection for a multipin ribbon cable that runs to a case mounted output connector *OR* a backplate that mounts in a slot like an old printer header with output connections.

It looks like a pretty simple setup with no circuits on the I/O pcb, just a connection point that swaps over to the connections needed. I have contacted a few people with mercury setups inquiring about a spare I/O for sale or loan so I can make my own.

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That's a regular medusa cable connector!