Reply 1 of 10, by Tetrium
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Lots of the very early PCI cards had sockets like those.
Perhaps those chips would work?
But I'm not sure if it'll accept EDO memory chips
Reply 2 of 10, by humanoid
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I do have a PCI card with what appear to be identical sockets (4 of them, each with a chip). I was thinking of putting them in. What's the worst that could happen? No boot? Spontaneous combustion?
Reply 3 of 10, by batracio
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I have the exact same card and successfully upgraded it with standard 256K x 16 bits EDO DRAM chips.
Reply 4 of 10, by humanoid
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wrote:I have the exact same card and successfully upgraded it with standard 256K x 16 bits EDO DRAM chips.
Cool. Found some on ebay that I hope will do the trick.
Reply 5 of 10, by Robin4
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They are just SOJ chips. with 70ns of access time..
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KM416V256-416V256-416 … #ht_1563wt_1163
The memory chips are only to can use a lot higher resolution.. because it can adress more with more memory on this board.
The card wouldnt get faster..
~ At least it can do black and white~
Reply 6 of 10, by batracio
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wrote:The memory chips are only to can use a lot higher resolution.. because it can adress more with more memory on this board.
The card wouldnt get faster..
Actually each of those chips has a 16-bit interface. When used in pairs, they allow the resulting 1 MB of RAM to be addressed by a 32-bit width bus. If you add another pair of chips, the resulting 2 MB may be addressed by a faster 64-bit width bus if the graphics card was designed to support it. That's how S3 Trio64 and other similar cards work when you install the memory upgrade.
Reply 7 of 10, by humanoid
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Good info. I'll run a benchmark before and after to see how it turns out.
Reply 8 of 10, by batracio
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OK, but that info is true for 64-bit cards only. IIRC, S3 805 is a 32-bit card.
Reply 9 of 10, by swaaye
Some ET4000 chips can do an interleave like that as well.
Reply 10 of 10, by Anonymous Coward
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S3 805i supports interleaving, so you should get a speed boost.
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