ubiq wrote on 2024-02-01, 23:14:Took a chance on an "untested" Voodoo 2 auction because the price was right, and a localish seller (cheap shipping) and well:
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Took a chance on an "untested" Voodoo 2 auction because the price was right, and a localish seller (cheap shipping) and well:
Hmm, ok, not the end of the worl...
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Oh. 🤦♂️
Was it shown in the original listing?
Pretty much. Oh well, caveat emptor baybee!
I've fixed worse, these old QFP chips are quite forgiving of damage to the legs. But it requires a microscope and a tool to carefully gouge out the plastic to expose the traces, then soldering individual strands of copper wire in place of the original legs.
A pretty good deal so long as you didn't pay over 50% of what they're going for on ebay now, you could probably even get someone on amibay to help with repairing that and you'd still have a good deal.
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To my horror, I discovered that the FX5700LE 128-bit card that I'd never tested would immediately crash when trying to run 3d stuff while fine in 2d mode. So I sourced a replacement as I wanted to see how it stacks up against my Ti4200 that I repaired a while back (I should make a post on that at some point, I had to repair a memory fault on it and rebuild the GPU voltage supply that had burnt out).
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The core is a bit crunched on it.
Unfortunately I got a 64-bit card by mistake - I didn't see that they were 4x 16-bit chips until after I'd put in the offer which was accepted. The card arrived today and as usual it's missing some little capacitors off the back but I've got donor cards and a fine tip soldering iron. This card thankfully works, although it was sold as untested this time I'm lucky.
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Putting the new FX5700 64-bit 128MB card against the Ti4200 128-bit 64MB card in a P4 2.8GHz PC. Both are clocked around their top speeds, there's probably some more headroom on the core clock for both cards but this was some fun testing and not very in depth. The results in 3dmark03 pretty much fit what I expected but the FX5700 64-bit is a nicely rounded card with much better DX8 performance and some DX9 capability, while DX7 (and likely hi-res gaming) is a bit slower than the Ti4200.
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Kinda considering finding a donor card with good fast DDR to fill in those empty spots to see how a 128-bit card performs...