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Reply #105 - 09.08.04 at 21:50:09
 
i would go for even faster ram at the same amout if thats all we can find, ive been looking for that 128mb gforce but it seems to be either not made or gone ???
http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/2598
also i want to say in a post months ago i said my v5500 had 5ns ram, well i got glasses and its 6ns,  which i must say was a let down, but i still can hit the 200 mark so i figure faster ram would be nice to try.
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Reply #106 - 09.08.04 at 23:02:04
 
Well, Unika had a 128MB card but it had 8 chips which means it's *Mx16 but the V5 has *Mx32.
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Reply #107 - 10.08.04 at 01:40:30
 
ok help me here ??? im not a tech, the v5500 has 8 rams for 64mb, so ive been looking for cards with either 4 rams at 64mb or 8 rams at 128mb, now am i all wrong or what because thats what i thought was needed, like i said im not a tech so i could be all wrong Undecided
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Reply #108 - 10.08.04 at 09:47:56
 
Here's the deal:
Voodoo 5 5500

2x VSA-100
Each VSA-100 has a 128bit memorybus and 4 memory chips.
That means that every chip has 32bit available.

Currently each chip is 8 megabytes so we are looking for 16 megabyte versions.

An 8 megabyte chip with a 32bits interface is commonly referred to as: 2Mx32

2M = 2 Megabit
Divide by 8 (8 bits per byte) and multiply by 32 and you get the size of the chip (8 megabytes)

We want to double the memory so we need 4Mx32 chips; 4 divided by 8 times 32 is 16.

I hope this make things clear. (I just recently learned this myself Tongue)
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Reply #109 - 10.08.04 at 21:43:55
 
ahh, ill have to read that several times,  Tongue
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Reply #110 - 16.08.04 at 16:11:43
 
http://www.hkinventory.com/public/Home.asp

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A trading hub for brokers, merchandisers and distributors to trade all kinds of electronic components, including obsolete and hard-to-find parts.


Toshiba memory

Is it time to be happy yet? Grin
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Reply #111 - 16.08.04 at 22:57:12
 
Is that the one we need   ???  great job if it is Roll Eyes, if your sure this is the right one we must contact right away and try and get some, let me know, by the way thank you for looking Wink
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Reply #112 - 16.08.04 at 23:36:00
 
I don't know if it's the right one. Could be 2Mx32 or 4Mx32, doesn't say. It's actually still better than my current memory seeing as I've got the 6ns version Grin

Unfortunately you need to register which also requires a fax number which, obviously, I don't have Tongue
It's getting late anyway, I'll see what I can do tomorrow.
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Reply #113 - 02.09.04 at 17:37:30
 
hi everybody. i have a V4 with toshiba tc59s6432cft-60, but my V4 will never die. i say this because one time i tried to change the cooler, and the cooler was not well glued... my V4 began to do very strange things. suddenly, my V4 dead. the pcb was full of thermal compound... i was very angry so i cleared ir whit water, shampoo, soap, alkohol, disolvent, ... the video card was really dead, or killed xdd. then i saved it into his box

two years later, i was at home very bored and i decided to test all my hardware. i was very surprised when after putting and thermaltake vga orb the voodoo4 returned to live. now my V4 is a zombie. but works, and that idea of increasing the video ram seems very interesting. i always wondered why the V4 has 4 free slots

ill try to find 4 more toshiba chips. the soldadure is another history...

one more thing i wolud like to say. in the top right side corner there should be a condensor (=capacitor): the C131. but, my board dont have that capacitor. i dont know what i did whit it, but one day dissapeared haha. its incredible that my V4 continues running whithout one capacitor, dust in the pcb and into the vsa-100 chipset, and a heavy load of water, shampoo, alkohol, desinfectant ...
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Reply #114 - 02.09.04 at 22:41:55
 
TRULY INCREDIBLE! Shocked

But now you know WHY they are called "Voodoo" cards... Wink

They have voodoo magic to keep them working! Roll Eyes

BTW? Maybe one of the other board members can find the value of C131 and let you know what to replace it with... Cheesy

Just a thought... Tongue
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Reply #115 - 03.09.04 at 00:07:51
 
Hm...

That C131 is exactly the same like the C64 (right above the Fan Power Connector), or the C7, C41, C46, C71, C75 etc...

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Reply #116 - 03.09.04 at 07:40:43
 
I've read about 75% of the thread.


So let me get this straight. It's best to get the same exact ram as the V4 or V5 you have but just with a higher size mb?


Whats the best ram a Voodoo 4/5 card can have? 5ns?
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Reply #117 - 03.09.04 at 09:44:54
 
some very rare Voodoo5 cards have  5,5 ns rams.  and they are not protetypes , they are retail cards...  you just have to be lucky.. Roll Eyes
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Reply #118 - 03.09.04 at 10:22:05
 
afaik the 'best of the best' ram that 3dfx used is EliteMT 5.x ns, if i had a card with that - i could prolly push it to the 250mhz region, and even then the core would be my limitin factor
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Reply #119 - 08.09.04 at 01:51:09
 
I found Logicalmadness just posted this in the x3dfx Forum (Link) :

http://www.ensil.com/international/services/rework.html

Don't know what prices those guys to take for a rework (or enhancement for that matter) of damaged or rare Hardware, but they got a plain contact address listed (no hassling around Web Forms).

For some of those 'special needs' , and/or for special Hardware, a professional job like that might be an Option Smiley
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