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Onboard 3dfx mobo

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First post, by rain

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Hi i like to identfy this mobo all i know is its msi. Not find on retroweb . thanks

Reply 2 of 6, by rain

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Oh thats a card
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Reply 3 of 6, by havli

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Yeah, definitely MS-6168. And by the looks of it I would dare to say with Samsung SGRAM memory... which might indicate 16MB video memory.
16MB is very rare on these boards, if you can get it for reasonable price, go for it 😀

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Reply 4 of 6, by PcBytes

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havli wrote on 2024-10-11, 18:32:

Yeah, definitely MS-6168. And by the looks of it I would dare to say with Samsung SGRAM memory... which might indicate 16MB video memory.
16MB is very rare on these boards, if you can get it for reasonable price, go for it 😀

Indeed. If R685 and R687 are populated, with R686 empty, then it has 16MB.

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Reply 6 of 6, by darry

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weedeewee wrote on 2024-10-11, 19:44:

You definitely want to change the electrolytic capacitors on that board.

Indeed, one can tell just from the photo. But MSI boards from that timeframe are often plagued by bad caps.

Back in the day, my MS-6330 was maybe about a year old by the time I noticed leaking caps.