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First post, by brostenen

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Hi all.
I need some help to identify these two type of chips. They should be 512kb in size each.
It is the speed I need to know about in order to decide if I need to swap memory on two VGA cards.
Thanks in advance. 😀

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Reply 1 of 4, by Imperious

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The bottom 2 are 16bit x 256k 50ns, which equates to 512kb each
the top one I cannot find any data on. try removing it and see what difference it makes.
It does look like 35ns though.

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Reply 2 of 4, by brostenen

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I have 2 megabyte all in all (4 chips) of the top, wich are the Waffer branded ones on a CL-5440 PCI.
I have 1 megabyte all in all (2 chips) of the bottom, wich are (to me) unknown brand on a S3-Trio64.

So...
Basically I got 2 megabyte 35ns and 1 megabyte 50ns.
In other words, it will be a faster card, if I swap around?
Or will the card that are recieving the slower ram, fry them when I use the card.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Imperious

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Just because they are branded 35 nanoseconds, doesn't mean they are actually running at the maximum speed.
If You can easily swap them with the right tools, see if there is any performance hit in speedsys or another video card memory benchmark.
Most likely it will make no difference. You definitely won't fry anything, but if the slower chips aren't good enough in the Cirrus logic card, then
lockups would likely be the result.
I would google these type of video cards, there are many different memory brands, likely all the same pinout though. If You are really keen, then they can be
had from aliexpress https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-v53C16 … t=v53C16256HK50

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Reply 4 of 4, by brostenen

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Imperious wrote:
Just because they are branded 35 nanoseconds, doesn't mean they are actually running at the maximum speed. If You can easily sw […]
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Just because they are branded 35 nanoseconds, doesn't mean they are actually running at the maximum speed.
If You can easily swap them with the right tools, see if there is any performance hit in speedsys or another video card memory benchmark.
Most likely it will make no difference. You definitely won't fry anything, but if the slower chips aren't good enough in the Cirrus logic card, then
lockups would likely be the result.
I would google these type of video cards, there are many different memory brands, likely all the same pinout though. If You are really keen, then they can be
had from aliexpress https://www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-v53C16 … t=v53C16256HK50

Thanks....
Just bought two pieces. They are mighty cheap, so why not? 😀

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