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Title: Why does Voodoo5 6000 have 90° rotated VSA100?
Post by roflkopp on 13.01.06 at 21:52:09

I thought the have the gpu at standard alignment - until I found this picture: http://digilander.libero.it/F1Land/3dfxarchive/download/media/gallery/LogicalMadness-collection.jpg

Whats the reason behaind this desicion. And are there any working revisions with standard alignment?

Title: Re: Why does Voodoo5 6000 have 90° rotated VSA100?
Post by exxe on 13.01.06 at 22:48:33

maybe its the pin layout of the VSA-100 chips

90° rotated better for 4chips in a line

Title: Re: Why does Voodoo5 6000 have 90° rotated VSA100?
Post by gamma742 on 13.01.06 at 22:58:34

I don't know but I like that little single chip card on the left :o

http://digilander.libero.it/F1Land/3dfxarchive/download/media/gallery/LogicalMadness-collection.jpg

Title: Re: Why does Voodoo5 6000 have 90° rotated VSA100?
Post by Chosen_One on 13.01.06 at 23:42:24

that's the v4(-2) 4000 with 16mb sd-ram...
often talked about it ;)
owned by logicalmadness...sold to someone unknown...wanted by gary ;)

Title: Re: Why does Voodoo5 6000 have 90° rotated VSA100?
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 13.01.06 at 23:55:16

make that 32MB SDRAM ;)

hehe gary has mentioned that before
it's a Voodoo4-2 4000 AGP 32MB SDRAM.

Title: Re: Why does Voodoo5 6000 have 90° rotated VSA100?
Post by omega_supreme on 14.01.06 at 19:02:37

not 32, 16 MB

Oh by the way, all revisions have rotated chips, I think.
At least i've seen several different ones that all have
them place like that so I assume all of them have the
chips like that.

Title: Re: Why does Voodoo5 6000 have 90° rotated VSA100?
Post by edmundoab on 15.01.06 at 15:17:40

to be honest, 3dfx board design layout was horrible for the Voodoo 4 and 5

the large and long board was not fully utilized, in which they could have reduce the size of the PCB.