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First post, by Law212

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Luckily this card was 5 dollars, so I dont mind and I have a Monster voodoo 2 as backup but this 12 meg card registers as 4 megs. Anything to look for? Worth trying to fix?

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Reply 1 of 8, by bloodem

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How do you know it registers as 4 MB?
What is the available FBI memory size and what is the TMU memory size? A screenshot would help. 😀

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Reply 2 of 8, by Law212

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Ah Ill have to take some later. I was testing it in a p2 yesterday and the info said its 4 megs.
I also had this SLI'd with an 8 meg card and I was getting 4 megs and terrible benchmarks. This card alone gave 800 3d mark score

The diamond Monster 2 was showing as 8 megs when used by itseld.

Reply 4 of 8, by weedeewee

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The final photo on your imgur post shows two pins that are awfully close to each other.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Lm4JPx0

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Reply 5 of 8, by Law212

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weedeewee wrote on 2023-04-17, 15:17:

The final photo on your imgur post shows two pins that are awfully close to each other.
https://imgur.com/gallery/Lm4JPx0

Good call out, I didnt even see that! I was more looking at the pins that look like goop on them making them touch eachother.

Reply 7 of 8, by Law212

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Im glad i found this post again to update. Im such a noob. I didnt know that an 8 meg card shows as 4 meg buffer memory and 4 meg texture memory. Derp. Both the 12 and the 8 meg cards work fine.

Learning as I go. I never dealt with voodoo 2 cards back in the day.

Reply 8 of 8, by Law212

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The 12 meg card found a permanent home in my Pentium 1 233 MMX build. It seems to work great . It even got better benchmark scores that the voodoo 3 cards i tried first.