What's the difference in points without FSAA?

NitroX infinity wrote on 01.10.08 at 11:58:04:


In Single-Chip mode, there is a clear difference in performance.
In Fastest-Performance mode, the scores are virtualy the same order.
In 4x Anti-Aliasing mode, the 128Mb is visible better than 64Mb.
In 2x Anti-aliasing mode, see below:

3DMark 2001SE 64Mb 2x Anti-Aliasing: 1662 points



3DMark 2001SE 128Mb 2x Anti-Aliasing: 1774 points



That stands for a difference of over 110 3DMarks, so I say it clearely shows that the extra memory is being used.
The other conclusion is that we need to find another much more texture intensive benchmark than 3DMark 2001SE, another test that could realy make use of more video RAM. I also remember that some time ago someone said that there is a game that will not start on 32Mb for chip configurations, like the orriginal Voodoo4/5, but it wil run on a 64Mb modded Voodoo4 AGP (maybe it was Rolo01?). If you could point me to this, I would like to try it on the 128Mb Voodoo5 against a default 64 Mb Voodoo5 5500 AGP.
And last, the bad news: I still found no way to run the modded card on Windows 2k/xp. Work is on progress but time is limited...
Thanks for the congrats and cheers, friends!

@ Komponent
Very impressive, congrats !

@PS47
True, Codename: Panzers Phase 2 requires a 64mb/Chip card.
There might be others, I have to check that when I am back home.

Well i do have a v4 pci to be modded just waited to see when you would take accept the cards for modding. talk more privately.
Nice work on the v5 agp.

Update:
All 4 RAM chips from a Voodoo4 PCI have been replaced with new 16 modules. I was to tired today after work to continue further the mod. I hope tomorow to be able to solder the wires for the extra memory adresses and maybe to find and execute the strapping configuration for initialising 64Mb RAM. As allways, will keep you in touch with the latest news.

Edit:
Done! It was not so easy, but now I got it working with full 64Mb video memory. I have opened a new topic to show this new world's first here:
http://www.falconfly.de/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1223587794

How far out do you anticipate the Voodoo5 5500 PCI 128MB Project? No hurry. I just figured I may as well send you my card since it was acquired specifically for this project.

Sorry friends; I have been away for too long...
In a futile attempt to keep my job in times of economic crisis, in the last months I had time only to eat, shower, sleep and work... and double worked I did, but finaly all this titanic effort I invested was to no happy end, as I have just been forced by my employer to quit my job.
Again, please excuse me, but I could not squeeze 3DFX into my life those past months. Soon, in a week or so, I will restart modding cards again. I will try until then to reply to the unanswered messages that I received. Please have a little patience. Thanks for understanding.