An ELSA Victory II-A16 that was previously passive is now actively cooled thanks to an Mac Rage 128 that was dead.
Posted by EternalSkullman@reddit | vintagecomputing | View on Reddit | 8 comments
Canned_Sarcasm@reddit
Forgive my ignorance… is that an IDE connector there? Did they crossfire back then? What’s it for?
sputwiler@reddit
I don't know about this card, but I've seen many video and sound cards have expansion headers like that for adding additional RAM. You had to get the one for your card though, so naturally they're impossible to find.
EternalSkullman@reddit (OP)
Most Banshees have that connector and it's used for an external MPEG decoder IIRC. There weren't any RAM expansions for them. (unless you could get 32MB running by swapping RAM off Matrox cards lol.)
Canned_Sarcasm@reddit
I just wish in modern times we could just slap on new sticks for dedicated gpu RAM. Sure that would mean 2 different kinds of RAM, but I do it on my rack server anyway. It's got RAM dedicated to it's remote interface feature. Laptop RAM in fact.
Canned_Sarcasm@reddit
My god. Expanding video ram….seems like we need to back to that.
blakespot@reddit
So many 24-bit, 640x480 OpenGL hours of Quake 3 fun I had with that Rage 128 in my B&W PowerMac G3's PCI-66 slot. -sigh-
Gonokhakus@reddit
Ayy, good job on the soldering. What part of the circuit did you hook it up to (yes it's visible, no I don't know what those resistors feed)
EternalSkullman@reddit (OP)
One of the 5v rails I think. I copied one of the designs used by Meico/Buffalo on their WGP-FX16N/FX8N Voodoo Banshees, where they also wired up their GPU fans to the 22uF capacitor, although their cards seem to be PCI and not AGP (not that it makes much difference tho since the designs are the same, just the connector is different.).
I could've done the same for my other passive Banshee, a 3D Blaster Banshee CT6750, but I don't have any more 5v fans, and running 12v fans at 5v isn't exactly on my liking.