Reply 15780 of 53188, by kithylin
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Some info on how I came to the conclusion of my previously mentioned information is my ET6000 explicitly says "128-bit graphics" on the PCB in white letters. Which I thought it was at first. That was until I got curious one day and installed it in a windows XP computer then booted up and tried AIDA64 (which can read hardware specs and names on various video cards with the drivers not installed or existing) and it told me the ET6000 was running in 64-bit memory mode. Mine has two chips soldered, and the two upgrade slots empty. So.. now I know, 2 chips = 64-bit, 4 chips = 128-bit.
The part numbers for the upgrade chips are MD908-SJ. I did a quick look around and all I can find is the MD909-SJ chips, which are the bare chips that are supposed to be soldered onto a PCB, not the ones designed to be inserted into the upgrade slots.. and they might even be the wrong memory size.
Also, I forgot to mention that there are two other versions of the ET6000. Some ET6000 boards I see with two soldered-on ram chips, but the other two slots where chips would go are empty, just solder points, not even the upgrade slots. So those type of ET6000 would be -vastly- inferior and probably less desirable. And then there are some that are sold with all 4 chips soldered to the PCB and no upgrade slots.
So if you're shopping for one.. now y'all have a little more info. 😀
EDIT: Comparisons.
brostenen: Maybe if yours arrives in good shape and is functional we could get together in a new thread somewhere and try to assemble similar systems and find some sort of benchmark.. maybe those MS-DOS benchmarks from Phil's benchmark suite or something to compare the performance of yours with 4 chips in 128-bit mode vs mine in 64-bit mode to see if they're any difference or what sort of difference it makes.