Re: GTX 295 missing SMD resistors

Posted on 2022-10-29, 12:26

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by pa1983

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Well, pads shorted directly to ground probably means they're for configuring the chip. What are the resistances to ground for the 4 pads at the 2 empty locations (just marked with a yellow arrow)? If they look the same then maybe they are a matching pair, and then it might be worth removing the 4 …

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Re: GTX 295 missing SMD resistors

Posted on 2022-10-29, 11:49

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by pa1983

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The top 3 pads are ground, I also measured the resistans to the bottom pads relative to ground and it was 153ohms for left and middle and 19K on right Also I did not find them to connect directly to the caps behind the chips so dont seem to involve any VCC for those chips. pads295.JPG . I also poked …

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Re: GTX 295 missing SMD resistors

Posted on 2022-10-29, 11:24

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by pa1983

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in theory U504 supply is a mirror image of U503 one on the left, but they arent really perfect copies and I cant find corresponding resistors on the picture Yea I figured the same thing out, but like you sad the layout is not an exact copy. Just throwing out a slightly random guess whilst waiting …

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GTX 295 missing SMD resistors

Posted on 2022-10-29, 03:35

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by pa1983

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Someone took a screw driver to this card and removed a ton of SMD caps and some resistors. I have fixed everything but 3 resistors and I dont know there value so if anyone has the GTX 295 singel sided card and could measure them and give me the values I would appreciate it. Thanks! back_resistors2. …

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Re: Lightweight browser for windows 2000

Posted on 2022-10-19, 12:36

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I use k-meleon, there is a win 9x version and a w2k version supporting newer TLS. Forget Youtube that wont work but the w2k version works on most sites surprisingly well on a faster CPU. I can brows the internet with that and my Athlon MP's just fine. Anyways the W2K version is here free for …

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Re: Socket 5 Intel Advanced / ZP (Zappa) will not keep BIOS settings

Posted on 2022-10-09, 19:45

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by pa1983

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My I ask if you have any addon cards like ISA sound cards installed and hocked up to speakers or line in on some device? I was troubleshooting the same exact problem on a SS7 board, VBAT had correct voltage on the soutbridge VBAT pin but still it would lose CMOS settings after some time. Did the …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-05-16, 16:33

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by pa1983

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I'm playing currently with ASUS A7N8X-E. Best it can do is 5.5 x 154 [847MHz]. It doesn't boot with 5x regardless of FSB or memory settings. But it can push memory to 133% of FSB. I'll test to see the difference. Board comes with MCP-T southbridge, and I'm curious to see how nvidia's SoundStorm …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-05-16, 16:32

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by pa1983

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Yes, to clarify: with the Athlon the maximum clock speed allowed is 850MHz - so 170x5 is the fastest we can get the memory to go, 1:1 with the front side bus. I have not messed with getting the memory to run faster than the FSB, but I have yet to read anything that shows that there might be more …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-05-15, 02:33

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by pa1983

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I finally got my K6-2+ @672Mhz system built and prime95 tested for 24h and its stable! 4038 points so no record breaker but I am a bit limited due to the chipset used and I also aimed for a usable stable system with some hardware I used back in my old K6-2 500@600 system and similar hardware i used. …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-05-12, 22:29

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by pa1983

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Is there a specific version of Quake to use ? Do you have a link to a Quake download ? Not specific version. I usually take pak0 from the game cd of quake 3, install the 1.32b path and start from there. After that its up to you to find faster binarys, make a config file that is faster, mod it …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-05-12, 21:58

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by pa1983

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Hello and welcome to the #Quake3ToTheMAX competition! https://i.imgur.com/rXoyJVY.png Are you tired of getting bad FPS in Quake3 on your pre 1999 retro lan computer? Do you hate the shitty FPS? Why dont you get a frikkin´3DFX graphics card your fuckhead!! Aint got no money? Well tweak the shit out …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-05-08, 16:15

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by pa1983

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What Im trying to do is replacing my SIS 530 AT baby board and K6-2 550@600 with a ECS AT Baby board based on MVP3. Because thats what I have for a case, AT, and Necrodude gave me the board, cpu and the case at some point for recaping and other stuff as a trade. So Im not aiming for a record, I had …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-05-08, 13:30

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There where 3x K6-2+ 570Mhz in the batch and one was unmodified and went to someone else and he reported 2.2V was unstable at 600Mhz but 2.0V worked fine so yea stock IHS is kind of garbage. I've modded five so far and only one of them was a dud (so I reverted it back to K6-2+). In my experience, …

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Re: AMD K6 3DMARK, aiming for stars.

Posted on 2022-05-08, 00:39

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Freakin awesome!! Is the increased height an issue? I was pondering trying to get cnc copper replicas made of the oem spreader. I have a spare lid I can send off. What cpus are those from? Did you have to shorten or modify them at all? I see you sanded them to the copper on top and bottom perimeter …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-05-04, 14:48

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by pa1983

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My latest and probably last contribution to the contest: https://youtu.be/Om6NRzz_z6c I'm sure it can be beaten. But I also don't think its possible to get more then maybe 10% more. And that's a big maybe =) Awesome. Dont forget to upload a sumission file. :) Done, I think. Cant see the serverside …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-05-01, 13:01

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by pa1983

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I have 6ns SDRAM that should do 150-166Mhz (tested on a capable board that I borrowed for a day) but my board cant do that on ram but FSB only. I also ran like an audigy 2 or 4 I think not a SB128 so there is definitely more performance to be had with the right ram, cpu and MB on the P3 platform. …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-05-01, 12:12

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by pa1983

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Got 261 fps with a P3 800@864, 140Mhz bus and ram on a Via 649x, crappy board tough cant control memory stuff as well as I want to and it wont go much higher if at all on FSB (it can do 166 fsb and 125Mhz ram in 4:3 but a few FPS slower instead but perfectly stable and faster in UT99 last I checked …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-04-14, 15:51

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by pa1983

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Edit: Orrrrr.... maybe running on KT400 with FSB at 166 pushed to 170 with RAM at 400 pushed to 425 works extra more goodly bettererer 200 bus x 4 multiplier would be pretty cool as well :) No Athlon or duron with lower then 5x exists as fare as I know. have read the data sheets, 5x multiplier is …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-04-11, 23:34

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by pa1983

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I'm hoping to try with my P3 i820 + RDRAM machine, although a DDR Athlon will probably be faster. Hopefully have time over Easter to set it up. Athlon with DDR is fast, wont spoil to much. BUT I dont have a P3 with DDR/RDRAM but I have taken RAM/FSB up to 166 wit the right ram SDR 6ns ram at Cas2 …

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Re: Competition! Win a 3DFX Voodoo3 Graphics Card. ----#Quake3toTheMax----

Posted on 2022-04-10, 22:56

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by pa1983

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This is awesome!!! Time to learn some stuff - to clarify, if I compile or use code from the ioQuake3 project - that’s all good, right, as long as I maintain server protocol compatibility with vanilla 1.32? Yes! Just dont forget to submit the binary's and source code with your submission, it wont be …

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