3dfx Archive - Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320)

trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320) Reply #15 - 21.03.12 at 17:10:21 gwb wrote on 21.03.12 at 16:54:05: Thanks for sharing, hardware mods are cool to see. Is osckhar doing the work? Yes it's my lovely friend
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Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320)
Reply #16 - 03.04.12 at 08:07:54

Sorry to budge in like this, but someone talked a little earlyer in the thread about doubling the ammount of RAM on the 5500. Aren't the VSA-100's built for only 32 MB support ? ...thus meaning that the card would only recognize 64 megs of memory ?

I'm quite confused because I've withnesed another discussion on the board about enlarging the memory of a VooDoo 3... and someone demonstrated with the Avenger datasheet that it couldn't be done because of the chip limitations.
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Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320)
Reply #17 - 03.04.12 at 08:18:47

Officially a single VSA100 can address up to 64MB, so 128MB for a Voodoo 5 can be done and also was done Wink

I've also heared of the VSA100 to be able to work with 128MB, altough it wasn't officially supported in the Specifications. But I'm not sure about this since I haven't seen any proof of this working. No matter how, a single VSA100 equiped with 128MB doesn't make much sense, the chip itself isn't powerful enough to run into memory limitations.

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Dexter YaBB Newbies Offline If it ain't broken, why fix it ? Posts: 39 Romania Gender:	Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320) Reply #18 - 03.04.12 at 08:24:09 Didn't know that. I'll start looking for the VSA100 datasheet to enlighten my memory. Thanks man.
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Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320)
Reply #19 - 03.04.12 at 11:24:33

Loeschzwerg wrote on 03.04.12 at 08:18:47:

Officially a single VSA100 can address up to 64MB, so 128MB for a Voodoo 5 can be done and also was done Wink

I've also heared of the VSA100 to be able to work with 128MB, altough it wasn't officially supported in the Specifications. But I'm not sure about this since I haven't seen any proof of this working.

Well, the proof is not far : http://www.falconfly.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1232877537/0 ; Wink

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Loeschzwerg Senior Member Offline AAlchemy PSU maker :-) Posts: 396 Germany -> Bavaria -> Augsburg Gender:	Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320) Reply #20 - 03.04.12 at 11:34:19 Thanks Hehe, it also gives a boost when using a very high resolution and AA
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oldskool Senior Member Offline I Love 3dfx Posts: 398 uk Gender:	Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320) Reply #21 - 03.04.12 at 13:43:28 So the card is memory limited at higher resolutions, if the frame rate goes up with 128mb.
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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320) Reply #22 - 13.07.12 at 14:03:10 Here we have the 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Silver Edition: Video: http://youtu.be/AJ8h2zABiKw Finished soon...
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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320) Reply #23 - 25.04.13 at 17:47:29 Did you manage to finish this project ?
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trevormacro God Member Offline Voodoo5k6 Gold SE, Legend & Mystical Edition Posts: 622 Gender:	Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320) Reply #24 - 26.04.13 at 13:09:41 m14radu wrote on 25.04.13 at 17:47:29: Did you manage to finish this project ? The card doesn't work in game. Bad sdram solded I think..
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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320) Reply #25 - 26.04.13 at 19:57:55 bad news. did you try to resolder the chips ? Or maybe its a timings problem, that need to be changed in the bios ? there is the rainbow bios, witch let you chamge some parameters into the bios. You know this bios ?
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Komponent Senior Member Offline 3dfx modder Posts: 282	Re: Voodoo5 5500 PCI (4ns sdram + VSA-100 Rev.320) Reply #26 - 26.04.13 at 20:43:22 How about if you select Single Chip mode? Does it work then?
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