Ah memories... back when SLI was worth it, and still meant Scan-line Interleave.
@volf3r5054 жыл бұрын
You mean before M$ and NoVideo collaborated to push DirectX and kill 3dfx and Glide ?. InHell might be anti-consumer and famous for how they kept better sales than original K7/Athlon with their horrid 423/478/ early 775 pentiums (Northwood, Prescott and so on) but what NoVideo did to 3dfx was way more anti-consumer and anti-progress - remember - NoVideo bought and completely erased what was left of 3dfx - just to get hold of the patents and bury Glide (which actually was way more efficient API than DirectX and was not tied to Windows). Same thing is happening with Vulkan now - only saving grace for it might be the next gen consoles.
@BonkedByAScout4 жыл бұрын
@@volf3r505 3DFX went bankrupt, Nvidia picked up their assets on the cheap and didn't continue the limited non-scalable design the 3DFX cards were running on. That doesn't mean nvidia was evil. Glide was also not an open standard (until right before 3DFX went bankrupt), was tied to 3DFX's hardware, and was superseded by both OpenGL (of which Glide was originally based on) and DirectX. There was no point to Glide other than for 3DFX to have a proprietary offering to try to lock people into their brand.
@Cooe.4 жыл бұрын
@@volf3r505 Holy delusional memories warped by nostalgia glasses, Batman! 3dfx killed themselves with stupid decision after stupid decision (like deciding to become their sole physical card manufacturer for some idiotic reason!), and Glide being closed source & funded by a failing company had loads of problems keeping up with the latest GPU features and games.
@TimTaylor993 жыл бұрын
@@Cooe. And since that time nVidia adapted it! 🙉
@marcello42583 жыл бұрын
but still not really efficient ... double gpu bumped approx 40% instead of 100%
@beanondaddy33974 жыл бұрын
Found your channel via KZfaq recommendations. I used to build game rigs in the 90s for serious gamers using these boards. Brings back old memories..
@mayssm4 жыл бұрын
I remember buying one of these when I was around 20. Most money I'd ever spent on anything other than my car or a PC.
@MrAwol0074 жыл бұрын
same here :)
@baconfister4 жыл бұрын
The original Unreal!!! YESSS!!! One of the best games ever. I wish that modern day games were up to par with that title.
@yottabyter4 жыл бұрын
This is awesome! "Back when I was young" I had a Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix Voodoo Banshee 16MB. While your card is arguably faster than that one was, it sure played UT and Half Life pretty great. It retired about 4 years later for a ATI 9700 and did a bios flash to a 9800 pro. Thanks for sending me down memory lane!
@dyslectische Жыл бұрын
Voodoo banshee is a voodoo2 with 2d gpu. One of the reason it have about the same power like aan voodoo2 8Mb . Not all 16Gb is use for the voodoo part.
@Dan-TechAndMusic Жыл бұрын
@@dyslectischeNot quite. It has a single TMU, rather than the two of the V2. Games with polygon multitexturing, the V2 would be faster than a Banshee. Those without would be faster on the Banshee.
@totalrandomtechnolog4 жыл бұрын
Exellent job. I can't believe your timing on this! I just had a go trying to fix my VooDoo2 12MB also from Creative CT6670 which wouldn't go above 512x384. Even at 640x480 it would crash. Turns out it was also a memory chip that was bad. It was one of the four from the back from the framebufferchip. It's going strong now!
@henrikwils93234 жыл бұрын
How did you find the bad ram chip?
@totalrandomtechnolog4 жыл бұрын
@@henrikwils9323I just removed the four chips on the back connected to the framebuffer, and already without those i could go up to 640x480 without issue. Then i added 4 "new chips" and it worked flawlessly at 800x600 again. As for knowing exactly which chip was bad, i've tested each one of those four chips on some S3 PCI videocard with sockets for EDO memory, and sure enough one of them was faulty and caused artifacts on that particular card.
@cristiarhip39424 жыл бұрын
@@totalrandomtechnolog Holy smokes!!! You just made my day! Thank you so much!
@cptcrogge4 жыл бұрын
@@totalrandomtechnolog +1
@uraoshi4 жыл бұрын
@@totalrandomtechnolog this solution is priceless!
@xephorce3 жыл бұрын
my compliments on the excellent soldering skills. adding more vram to gpus is something i been thinking of trying for a while.
@DextersTechLab3 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@Law2120 Жыл бұрын
This is great. I need to watch this over and over. I have an 8 meg card that I want to make 12 megs so I can SLI it with my other 12 meg card. Great video. I dont have soldering experience, but ill give it a go. The 8 meg card was found in a thrift store computer for 5 bucks but i still dont want to ruin it.
@joaoc_PT Жыл бұрын
same here. 5 bucks? what a bargain!
@chris-tal4 жыл бұрын
Nice going! I did the same last month. Also replaced the RAMDAC and the VGA output switch (mux), to get rid of discoloration. What I haven't done yet was a near complete reverse engineering one of my bad boards. Also haven't found a way to test these fast EDO RAM chips.
@thomasguilder92884 жыл бұрын
Wow I assumed you have to copy the bios from the 12 MB card, I didn‘t expect auto detection of installed memory
@GGigabiteM4 жыл бұрын
Voodoo1 and Voodoo2 cards don't have BIOSes, they're purely memory mapped devices.
@roguenova67664 жыл бұрын
Even if they would have BIOS chips, it is sometimes easier from a manufacturing standpoint to produce a single multipurpose component for many applications, than to make one for each modification of the same card.
@rich10514144 жыл бұрын
@@GGigabiteM Even still, I was surprised he didn't have to bridge solder pads to change the memory size. That was a very common way manufacturers could reuse boards without needing any additional logic at all.
@xDownSetx4 жыл бұрын
@@roguenova6766 It's very common for videocards to have multiple bios versions specc'd for different memory manufacturers and timings.
@joaoc_PT4 жыл бұрын
@@rich1051414 S3 did the same.
@tahustvedt4 жыл бұрын
I remember when I bought my Voodoo 2. My co-workers thought I was crazy for spending that much money.
@tobiwonkanogy2975 Жыл бұрын
on a similar note for using the same pad . I have seen gents solder chips right on top of other ram chips. effectively using the same space for lanes.
@mysterymayhem70204 жыл бұрын
This was my favorite video card back in the day.
@ChristopherWoods3 жыл бұрын
Oh god, those memories... Great video. I wasn't old or rich enough to make a seriously powerful gaming rig, but I still have several Voodoos, starting with the Banshee and latterly the V3 and V5 before I finally jumped to ATi. Perhaps I should build an old machine scavenged from bits, I think I kept my P3-450 somewhere!
@phreak7612 жыл бұрын
Yes you should Christopher, nostalgia is king.
@spudhead1694 жыл бұрын
Very neat and tidy solder job there. Top marks.
@lemagreengreen4 жыл бұрын
Weirdly I don't even remember seeing an 8MB card back in the day, I knew they existed but nobody I knew had one.
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Same here, i suspect they arrived as a run-out of the Voodoo2 at the end of it's life, clearing out the last stocks at discounted prices.
@marcello42583 жыл бұрын
took me a second to realize 8mb texture memory leads to 12mb total memory (since we have 4mb frame buffer) when you said "we have a winner" haha..
@joaoc_PT4 жыл бұрын
I once desoldered 4 chips from an S3 virge to upgrade my s3 virge from 2 to 4MB. This was back in the 99 i think, with no internet, so, kinda gambled a bit, but was then able to play gta2 :)
@aleksandrbmelnikov Жыл бұрын
I'm quite pleased with your handywork also. You could run mismatched cards, but you'll bugger the 12mb card down to 8mb. If you ever upgrade memory on other cards, and they don't show full amount, it's because of little [0] resistors called memory straps. They need to be moved for config of higher density VRAM chips. Great job. Good luck in future projects. 😊
@SOU69002 жыл бұрын
I was shocked when I found the graphic chips on ebay. New unused and never soldered to a board.
@MrKillswitch884 жыл бұрын
These cards can be upgraded to 20mb (stacking or double density) provided one knows what they are doing as the TMUs can do more than just 4mb each and the spec according to documentation allowed up to 16mb per tmu however was never done to my knowledge. The frame buffer is limited to just 4mb on both the voodoo 1 and 2 as well the voodoo rush.
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
I had suspected that as i have seen 12Mb cards with DRAMs installed on one side only so thy must be able to handle the extra dense chips.
@sniglom4 жыл бұрын
@@DextersTechLab sounds like the second version of the STB V2 1000 when reading from this post: www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=72925
@ruthmoreton69754 жыл бұрын
I remember unreal being not so blocky and higher texture. I suspect in another 20 years I'll be thinking "my word, elite dangerous used to run at the size of a postage stamp" as I gaze through my 6000 pixel per millimeter VR / AR contact lenses.
@carlwillows4 жыл бұрын
Unreal Tournament was an epic game
@TheNormanbro4 жыл бұрын
I still miss that old days when we run for flags, not frags:)
@EpicureMammon4 жыл бұрын
Ooo I still have my V2. The memory on the second TMU was always sketchy, but I didn't realize it until I started playing Q2 more (I get magenta-colored smudges on multi-textured polygons). I probably suck too much at soldering to try to swap out chips, though. This is really cool. I wonder if anyone did this back in the day.
@taznz14 жыл бұрын
There was an difference in game between the 8MB and 12MB card for one or more of need for speed games, there was no dash in cockpit view with 8MB card, I had the 12MB card and a number of friends had the 8MB cards and they ask me how to turned on the dash.
@LifeWithPico4 жыл бұрын
Not enough flux. The bigger the gob, the better the job. Also, it's time like this that a hot air station is a Godsend
@frankowalker46624 жыл бұрын
Nice one. Loving the microscope-o-vision.
@anomaly954 жыл бұрын
With that precision, you would be an awesome surgeon. I'll probably get thumbs-downed for this, but: Another valid way to fix the issue would be to downgrade the 12MB card to an 8MB (if the memory chips turn to unobtainium).
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Tbh i think there are plenty of new-old-stock dram chips around.
@hypercube334 жыл бұрын
He showed that the 8mb just didnt have enough ram for some things, didnt he?
@stefanl51834 жыл бұрын
@Apache Longbow Yeah, you could run SLI on the 8MB cards just as well. The frame buffer memory was the most important and interestingly enough frame buffer was the same on 8mb cards as it was on 12mb cards. As he mentioned in the video, the difference was you get more texture swapping on the 8mb cards. On a more modern system one way to perhaps work around or alleviate this somewhat, might be to create a ramdisk in system memory, copying all the game files there, and running the game from the ramdisk. You'd still get some slowdown, but it wouldn't be as bad as paging it from disk. One thing I wonder about is was there any compatible memory chips faster than 25ns? If I recall correctly, I believe you could overclock these cards just a bit. I wonder if faster memory allow more overclocking. Of course, to do that, youd have to replace all of the chips, which would be a good bit of work, and that's assuming the processing chips wouldn't be the limiting factor.
@cmcmil4 жыл бұрын
@@stefanl5183 It would be an interesting experiment to see if you can improve performance using a ramdisk. There are ways of creating one in Win9x and even DOS. But I am not sure the problem is really paging from disk -- that really would be slow. Couldn't the bottleneck just be copying from ram to the video card? I also wonder about the 25ns chips. The thing is 25ns is pretty fast for those days. The system ram in those older systems is something like 70ns, so probably you'd get more bang-for-the-buck by getting fast ram, say 60ns or less. Again, I suspect the bottleneck is between system ram and the video card. Then again you are also limited by the PCI bus speed. It would be interesting to overclock the PCI bus a bit just to see how much you can squeeze out of the machine. This would probably only be noticeable on newer games with bigger textures like Quake III instead of the Quake demo given in this video. Quake textures were smaller and would have required less swapping from ram, so the difference between 8 and 12mb didn't really matter.
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Interesting thoughts, though i would point out that this machine had a fast CF card as the main drive which would do 60mb/sec so a ramdisk might not make much difference. It's since been upgraded to a SATA SSD via a parallel to serial converter. You can get 20ns drams, which does allow for a bigger overclock. I think these are the ones marked 120mhz?
@achilleonv4 жыл бұрын
I had a Voodoo II, but my first 3d accelerator was the Voodoo I. Had to use a patch cable to my video card. The Voodoo I handled the 3d graphics only. Had to upgrade to the Voodoo II once the I went out and all 3d aspects went black, but everything else worked.
@Jayoldstuff14 жыл бұрын
Nice soldering I've soldered that ic package before but using the drag method with LOTS of flux. but not really practical with the ic's that close i guess. I used to have a Voodo2 back in the late 90's in a cyrix Pr200 the Voodoo was my main expense in an otherwise budget gaming pc build. ran quake and duke3d awesomely.
@DAVIDGREGORYKERR3 жыл бұрын
People who want to do this need a soldering iron with a very fine tip.
@Channel-Zx4 жыл бұрын
Great Vid and to think i used to sell these cards new back in the mid 90's the Voodoo cards where the bomb. Cyrix 686 or IBM CPU, Win95, CdRom, SBlaster and Doom2 in a tower...
@NCISCherno4 жыл бұрын
You can SLI two nonidentical Voodoo2 cards, the driver will adjust as needed. Granted you lose some memory but it is an option.
@bzuidgeest4 жыл бұрын
Nice video, but you choose the slowest method possible. Put a blob of solder on the tip and pull it along the pins. Surface tension and flux will do the rest. Much faster. Any bridges you make (if any if done properly) can be removed with some solder wick.
@SeeJayPlayGames Жыл бұрын
sure, if you like cold solder joints. Better pre-heat with a hot air gun.
@bzuidgeest Жыл бұрын
@@SeeJayPlayGames if done properly it doesn't leave cold joints. If you have that you went to fast. Pre heating is just not required, but fine if you want to. Drag soldering is fast and I have done it with larger chips in mainboard repair in a professional setting. Never missed a pin.
@pauls45224 жыл бұрын
I have a 4 or 8mb Voodoo Banshee, 8mb Voodoo 2, 16mb voodoo 3500 tv, 64mb voodoo 5500. Hell yeah
@sixhunt4 жыл бұрын
love me some QW !! also ran voodoo2 in sli at the time :D
@legin37534 жыл бұрын
Sli in the 90s nice
@ibizenco4 жыл бұрын
These still exist, or rather: work? I had a Voodoo4 once (and years earlier a Voodoo 1 "add-on card", aka "Diamond Monster 3D", attached to an S3 Virge DX/GX, if I remember correctly).
@CRG4 жыл бұрын
Great work, just discovering your channel now (random youtube recommendation) and enjoying the content. I've always struggled soldering SMD components like those chips but your close up and methods give me a bit of confidence to try again (not a voodoo upgrade, just a random dead chip that needs replacing). I do wonder though if the upgrade you did here would work with other cards of the era that were available with different amounts of memory.
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Thank you, having some kind of microscope helps a lot. You can always find old junk boards to practice removing and replacing components.
3 жыл бұрын
Gained a subscriber! Very "gold" vídeo
@kyles85243 жыл бұрын
depends on what version the board rev is. I have like 10 pairs of voodoo 2's 12 and 8 meg versions and some of the 8 meg versions all the ram slot are used
@DextersTechLab3 жыл бұрын
I would wager all the pcbs are the same but they use different density drams
@Mr_Meowingtons4 жыл бұрын
this is where a Hot air station comes in handy
@boone77777777772 жыл бұрын
Building old sli and crossfire computers is pretty fuun
@ClassicTrialsChannel4 жыл бұрын
I still have my 2 Diamond VooDoo 2 12mb cards boxed in my spare room
4 жыл бұрын
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@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Lol, love it. Thanks!
4 жыл бұрын
@@DextersTechLab you are welcome :v
@jeffm27874 жыл бұрын
Not sure why you're not drag soldering and using a chisel tip. It's all fine, but took way longer then needed.
@michaelbloom53424 жыл бұрын
I was about to say the same thing. He could have cut his time and effort drastically.
@nexxusty4 жыл бұрын
Even that is unnecessarily long. Solder paste + heat gun in this situation would take a total of 1-2 minutes. Your point remains valid though. Absolutely.
@ruthmoreton69754 жыл бұрын
@@nexxusty he did say his equipment wasn't up to hot air flowing.
@SkippyDa4 жыл бұрын
Nice job! Time perhaps for a hot air station, would've made it easier.
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Maybe, but i find soldering with an iron quite calming and therapeutic!
@djmips4 жыл бұрын
I worked at a 3DFx card maker and Mau could hot air an entire card together in about 15 minutes or less. So it's certainly faster but doing it your way is very impressive.
@fra11110894 жыл бұрын
why you dind't use a rework station and a stream of hot air to do this job?
@kokodin58954 жыл бұрын
there is 3 way of soldering those ram chips 3rd way is to solder sockets on and put ram in like on upgraded s3 trio/virge cards
@92trdman4 жыл бұрын
WOW!! WOW!! WOW!! give me five!!! (Memory of my K6-2 300Mhz with Voodoo2 + Diamond MX300!!!)
@lorim74874 жыл бұрын
Nice bit of surface mount work there ;-)
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Laurie, good to know you are still watching! 😁
@osrr64224 жыл бұрын
I actually have a set of those 8MB cards. One is unfortunately missing a cap on the back, easy fix since I have the other one for reference. I notice the bottom number on the chips don't match. I'm assuming its maybe a lot number or something? Long as the part number matches?
@tomf31504 жыл бұрын
Awesome vid. A glidemapper would work too.
@GameTechRefuge4 жыл бұрын
I wounder is worth replacing the yellow smd tantalum while you have the soldering iron out. Be pain if it failed short.
@NBF274 жыл бұрын
I have 4 black Voodoo2’s that are 12MB cards, but they only have memory on one side. There are components on the back, but no memory. I use 2 in one of my retro PCs and have 2 spare. Could it be possible to convert these to 24MB cards and run two of them in SLI giving 48MB of graphics. If it is possible, it’d be total overkill...
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Yes i do think this might be possible. But as games were optimised for the 8mb texture ram i doubt you would see any difference.
@kirknelson1564 жыл бұрын
I've still got 2 Voodoo 2 cards in a box somewhere, I have been planning a retro win 98 box as well. nice to see i'm not alone in that desire :)
@MrKillswitch884 жыл бұрын
They're worth good money these days just check eBay otherwise keep them.
@wiselinkmarque39474 жыл бұрын
I have a win98 box with two voodoo2, took it all apart and put it in storage after I figured out that glide wrapper actually works better
@wiselinkmarque39474 жыл бұрын
@@MrKillswitch88 I have 3 voodoo2 cards one is new..
@MrTimjm0094 жыл бұрын
1st . its great to see this kind of blast from the past . 2nd . I dont know how much you paid for 2 voodoo 2 cards but just an opinion . How about a combined voodoo 3 , 4 or the 5? . Thats what I still have . It works but I dont use it now . BAsed on the fact this is up grading the ram . mine has 64 MB so do you have any sugggestions or have yue ever done a video on that ? Im just curious really . It would be interesting to see if I could get chips which would fit on my voodoo 5 pci board . I expect that voltage and frequencies are important to consider. It would be interesting to see if I could jump up from 64 MB ( maybe double it or even get better gpu´s of which there are 2 on my board ) . Great video anyway
@registrazioniduemillaotton60304 жыл бұрын
Suggestion: Those memory modules also go into SOCKETS! You could've got sockets online or salvaged from S3 Trio/Virge cards :)
@larskruger3589 Жыл бұрын
Beautyfull silicon grave
@Spazilton14 жыл бұрын
To do J lead chips, a pull and drag method with a knife tip is so much faster.
@Storm_.4 жыл бұрын
very nice work!
@duncangarnett19762 жыл бұрын
@ 8:17 I noticed on the bottom right RAM section there is a contact/pad missing on the middle of the top row. How did you go about fixing that? Also @16:15 when you brought up system info it showed 8MB total RAM, I thought you upgraded from 8MB to 12MB RAM on the voodoo 2 card.
@hartsickdisciple2 жыл бұрын
The Voodoo 2 12mb cards had a 4MB frame buffer + 8mb separate texture memory. That's 12mb total. That's what is shown at 16:15.
@shaunohagan14912 жыл бұрын
The cards aren't the same if you look at the contacts on the PCI or is it AGP contacts.
@haz9394 жыл бұрын
Unlikely to get VAT from purchasing chips form china, Usually if the price is under $20 and they mark it as commercial sample or gift. Nice job with the card.
@ruthmoreton69754 жыл бұрын
Use more flux when wicking. lots more. flux the wick and the board if it's a no-clean flux pen or just the board if it's flux paste. You can't use too much flux.
@Bassquake764 жыл бұрын
16:10 Shouldnt Total Texture Memory be 12MB rather than 8MB if you've upgraded? Or is the Frame Buffer included too?
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Generally speaking the quoted size of a voodoo 2 includes the frame buffer.
@Bassquake764 жыл бұрын
@@DextersTechLab Gotcha 👍
@MrKillswitch884 жыл бұрын
The memory on Voodoo 1 and 2 cards works very differently from later cards as each of the frame buffer and tmu chips has its own memory. The frame buffer is limited to just 4mb and doesn't scale in sli while the tmu memory does which tops out at 16mb according to documentation though never tested.
@JaapioNL4 жыл бұрын
Pretty cool!
@AG-pm3tc4 жыл бұрын
Theoretically, is it possible to install a ridiculous memory amount on it? Like 24mb or something?
@keszerda83644 жыл бұрын
No. The circuit board can only access 12 MB; there are no traces on the board going to the pins you'd need to address more memory.
@cmcmil4 жыл бұрын
Yes, in theory it is possible: darwin-3dfx.sourceforge.net/voodoo2.pdf I've never heard of anyone trying it though, or if other configuration settings or software support are needed.
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Ooh, that's a nice document! Thanks for the link!
@UXXV4 жыл бұрын
Good video buddy, just practise narration and think about what you're saying to cut down on the umms to make future ones even better
@richardhead82644 жыл бұрын
*_17:12_*_ What makes you think that was my expectation?_ 🤣👏
@Trevurie4 жыл бұрын
I think a heat gun would do a better job but if you dont have one a soldering iron would do just fine but takes longer.
@StillRenderFilm4 жыл бұрын
Can I do this to GTX1060 3gb? Edit: I have 6gb version never seen 3gb pcb up close.
@TheDigitalOrphanage4 жыл бұрын
Nicely done. I miss my Voodoo 2's even more now. Surprised to see the drivers even allowed mismatched SLI like that. I have an A1200 accelerator card empty memory positions. Hopefully one day, when I find the RAM chips, I can do the same to it. What was the chip supplier you used?
@JorgeCarvalho_web_dev4 жыл бұрын
I think that was utsource. They have their proper website and they are present on ebay under the same name utsource
@MisterRorschach904 жыл бұрын
So what would happen if you upgraded the memory to a higher capacity than intended? 24, 32, 64mb?
@johncate95414 жыл бұрын
Would be interesting to find out. I don't think anyone's ever created a V2 with more than 12MB on it.
@trueyskye3 жыл бұрын
I've tried to buy 10 of these chips from UTSource but it costs $25.92 plus $27.53 shipping to UK. Do you know anywhere else that may sell them at a reasonable price? Great video BTW. Cheers
@DextersTechLab3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, you can choose to use the postal service not one of the couriers. It's cheaper.
@trueyskye3 жыл бұрын
@@DextersTechLab ahh missed the shipping options. Its a bit discreet. Thats a lot better at 6 dollars or so cheers for that 👍
@cromulence4 жыл бұрын
I ordered some chips and tried this previously, but the chips were duds! I really want to try and do it again but I don't think my brother wants to go through the stress of re-soldering the chips again! I don't suppose you would ever consider offering this as a service?
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Erm.... maybe
@ozmobozo4 жыл бұрын
If you make the other card 8mb will it work that way?
@Melechtna3 жыл бұрын
Any reason you couldn't go above 12MB?
@zxspectrum16KB4 жыл бұрын
Can u squeeze a tv encoder in there too?
@lugaidster4 жыл бұрын
Could you share a link to where you got the chips? They seem to be unubtanium for me on the usual places like ebay or aliexpress.
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Sure, it's utsource
@psychoticgiraffe4 жыл бұрын
What would happen if you used a 24mb ram instead would it fail to recognize that ram increase
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Most likely, i am sure the frame buffer is fixed at 4Mb. The TMUs i believe can address 16Mb, but i have never seen anyone try and upgrade a card.
@psychoticgiraffe4 жыл бұрын
@@DextersTechLab 16mb version of the card might be a neat thing to try
@HappyLittleDiodes4 жыл бұрын
Great close ups can I ask what camera you use for that?
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
It's a hayear microscope camera and a Kowa LMZ45T3 macro lens
@SerpentorX4 жыл бұрын
Great job, congrats, I saw in the past also "memory swap" in other components and I found amazing. I Try to solder several times but I really sucked at it.. ¿What guide do you recommend to start doing some small projects soldering in the PC components PCB? (Example I want to change condensers in some motherboards that are swollen) Best regards.
@MrGameplayer1034 жыл бұрын
You can buy small kits to build and practice on, i got a small audio amplifier kit and it came with a board and a bunch of resisters and capacitors. great practice and it doesn't matter if you mess it up.
@03719982 жыл бұрын
Do you put glue on the board and after you add the metal in fusion ?
@DextersTechLab2 жыл бұрын
No glue was used!!!
@marcoescamilla88564 жыл бұрын
Nice 👌
@johnk71344 жыл бұрын
Nice video, can you post the source for the memory?
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
It's www.utsource.net/
@LetsPlayKeldeo Жыл бұрын
What would happen if you removed all but one memory chip ? Would it texture swap constantly or would it even work ?
@DextersTechLab Жыл бұрын
Most likely the driver wouldn't initialise the card and it simply wouldn't work.
@ShamblerDK2 жыл бұрын
But... it still only said 8MB? Or am I missing something?
@DextersTechLab2 жыл бұрын
I am just simplifying it as the total RAM on the card. Made up of 8Mb Texture + 4 Mb Framebuffer, before the upgrade it was 4Mb+4Mb.
@Match4514 жыл бұрын
What's the Mhz rating of the RAM? I've seen some Voodoo2s with 90mhz, and 100mhz. I've heard of some boards with 110mhz, and even some with 125Mhz. I'd be curious how they overclock compared to the 90 and 100Mhz versions. I understand the 3dfx chips run at the same clock as the memory, and I wonder whether the limiting factor is the memory or the 3dfx chips. I used some thermal epoxy to glue some aluminum heat sinks onto the 3dfx chips. It didn't help with overclocking too much, but I put a box fan on high on my Voodoo2s and was able to temporarily overclock it to about 120mhz.
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
25ns is 80mhz for EDO, so the standard cards already overclock the ram at 90mhz. The later ones with the faster 100mhz and 125mhz ram will overclock easier if you can keep the 3 3dfx ICs cool enough. At least that is how i understand it.
@Match4514 жыл бұрын
@@DextersTechLab Future video potential? I'd love to see two Voodoo2s modded with 125mhz RAM and some copper heatsinks glued to the 3dfx chips with thermal epoxy. You could do a clickbaity "Fastest Voodoo2s in the world" title too. =P
@MrKillswitch884 жыл бұрын
@@Match451 Not a great idea when these cards are over $100 a pop sometimes a lot more.
@dst08154 жыл бұрын
use more flux and retin the pads before cleaning... will be a better result
@lharris4284 жыл бұрын
What iron were you using? Wattage? Thanks!
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
It's a Xytronic LF-8800
@homerlandon87674 жыл бұрын
I wish I could just solder on an extra 4 or 8 gb of ram on my gtx video card
@jedimasternoob4 жыл бұрын
More VRAM does not increase performance beyond games that do not need more than 8. Pascal cards are a good example of this, my xfx 580 came with 8gb of 2000mhz mem, but I can get far more out of it by over clocking the memory rather than adding more or even over clocking the core.
@homerlandon87674 жыл бұрын
uhh thank you for that response, but not everyone has 8+gb of ram on their video cards
@MoodSwingZX4 жыл бұрын
Ia have 12MB version at home pc is still alive but needs a new hardrive is there a way to adapt something never to it?
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Yes, there are plenty of options to adapt newer drives and ssd to the old parallel ide interface. Compact Flash cards are probably the easiest to use.
@ccanaves4 жыл бұрын
You have 128 mb of memory on a motherboard with an i430VX chipset. That's out of the max 64mb cacheable range the chipset has. Is that intentional? You're losing performance.
@draaimenija4 жыл бұрын
can you also fix gb chips ?
@triples85544 жыл бұрын
miss my 3 stb blackmagic v2;s
@minquartia4 жыл бұрын
next project, upgrade voodoo 4 4500 to 64M
@kalijasin4 жыл бұрын
Wow!! 😮 That must of took forever to solder.
@DextersTechLab4 жыл бұрын
Actually only about an hour. Would have been quicker without videoing it
@thesunexpress4 жыл бұрын
@14:30 This is strong soldering pornography!
@groenevinger38934 жыл бұрын
Ah oke, gladfully.. in that way, i was allready concerned he was going to blow his soldering iron..
@razorx20244 жыл бұрын
i have a voodoo 2 graphics card kicking around somewhere