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can a Trident 9680 be upgraded to 4MB?

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First post, by weldum

Posted on 2019-08-16, 20:30

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hi, in my k6-2 Dos machine I have a Trident 9680 that currently has 2MB
however I wanted to upgrade it to 4MB mainly to run 1280x1024 at a higher bit depth
mine has two 512KB chips soldered and two 512KB chips on sockets

should I have to get replaced all 4 chips with 1MB ones? or can they be piggybacked?

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Reply 1 of 1, by Anonymous Coward

Posted on 2019-08-17, 02:34

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I don't think I've ever seen a older graphics card that could accept different memory densities in the same sockets. If your sockets are full, that's probably as far as it goes.

A Trident 9680 might not even be able to benefit from 4MB. It's likely the integrated RAMDAC cis too slow. Plus, on these older cards, resolutions above 1024x768 were only practical if you had dual ported memory like VRAM.

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