luckybob wrote on 2023-07-29, 21:35:

have you checked that v5500 in another system? quite a few of those cards are flashed with the macintosh bios. (and vise versa)

I know that you have a few ASUS P/I-P65UP5's, including this ones big brother.

Have you by any chance flashed the BIOS on one of your boards, and if so, what flash utility did you use? (As I really don't want to mess this up and have to go the way of using a chip programmer!)

Nice.

I did flash it, but its been over a decade since. But if I recall correctly I just downloaded whatever was available from the asus website at the time.

if that didnt work, i would have searched google for the bios flash program for the chipset and flash chip combo

now that I have a programmer... I jsut do direct programs.

luckybob wrote on 2023-08-01, 18:00:

I did flash it, but its been over a decade since. But if I recall correctly I just downloaded whatever was available from the asus website at the time.

if that didnt work, i would have searched google for the bios flash program for the chipset and flash chip combo

now that I have a programmer... I jsut do direct programs.

Thanks for the info! 😀

I'm considering this chassis for this board, as it has a form factor that's pretty much incompatible with 99.9% of PC cases. (That CPU card seemed like a good idea, but it's almost impossible to fit into anything)

It would be an awesome way to showcase this system!

This is an extremely expensive chassis, so I'd only consider it if I can get the Voodoo5 5500 running on this board. (This is not going to happen this year though!)

i like these.
was thinking to 3d print something similar for a build i am considering.

Holy fudge, that is one sexy "case"! Dare I ask, what the price is? It would be soooo nice for a BP6 with GoldenOrbs as well 😀

I made something similar out of X chanel. It was cool, but not as useful or protective as a standard case. I kept almost frying it by things hitting or falling on it

Also finding ways to mount things to it like large drives was annoying

H3nrik V! wrote on 2023-08-03, 18:57:

Holy fudge, that is one sexy "case"! Dare I ask, what the price is? It would be soooo nice for a BP6 with GoldenOrbs as well 😀

It’s called the InWin X-Frame 2.0 Chassis and it goes for around about $1200. (Not ridiculously expensive, but pretty expensive!)

What also kind of limits the kind of chassis I can use for this build, especially if I wanted to use a retro chassis, is the length of the longest card I'm going to be fitting into this system:

It dwarfs a GTX 690 in terms of its length!!! (Even if you remove the securing bracket!)

Wow, that’s a sexy scsi card. What controller is that under the heatsink? Surprised it isn’t 64-bit pci.

Going for speed or coolness of scsi?

Because there are sata cards kinda like that also :p (shorter)

Sphere478 wrote on 2023-08-04, 16:56:

What controller is that under the heatsink? Surprised it isn’t 64-bit pci.

i'd wager heavily on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960

most likely the BGA version, if it matters

luckybob wrote on 2023-08-04, 17:12:

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Sphere478 wrote on 2023-08-04, 16:56:

What controller is that under the heatsink? Surprised it isn’t 64-bit pci.

i'd wager heavily on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_i960

most likely the BGA version, if it matters

That’s what I was wondering actually. My sata card has that chip also

Here I'm more going for the coolness of SCSI, however the card will be fast enough to offer good drive performance in this system! 😀

As far as I know it's an Intel i960 CPU:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3438

There is a new bluescsi pi version which is said to be able to saturate 50 pin scsi at basically the fastest speed. If you planned on using 50 pin cables this may be worth a look.

If 68 or 80 pin, 15krpm drives are fun :p but you probably know all this. 😀

I'm definitely going to be using two 15K RPM drives!

there are 3 channels - you need 3 drives. imho.

After doing some searching I finally found the PDF manual for this series of cards and copied this pic of the card's layout:

So this is the version of the i960 present on this board:

It will do 80MB/s, so it's fast enough for a dual Pentium Pro! (I'm going to have to fit it out with 5ns EDO RAM though!!!)