And here the fully polymer recapped V5 PCI Mac which I now use in this system:
BackFire's Repairs & Reworks:
01. Renewed Ceramic SMD's on the rear
02. 6ns Hynix VRAM renewal for the main VSA
03. Renewed Heatsinks & Fans for the VSA's topside
04. Renewed Power Supply Controller Chips
SWZSSR's friend's Recap & Modifications:
01. Full Polymer Recap
02. Burnt Copper Heatsinks for the VSA's rear side
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh 64MB Rev.A1 2900
Flashed with PC Bios 1.18_DVI
Current Driver: AmigaMerlin 3.1 R11 for Win2K/XP
And here the final system setup as of now:
Sveta 2002
AMD AthlonXP 2200+ Thoroughbred-A, 1 Core @ 1.8Ghz
EPox EP-8K7A+ AMD 761 Chipset with Via 686B SB
2x 1GB PC-2700 Kingston @ PC-2100 266Mhz DDR
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh 64MB 256 Bit SDR Rev.A1 2900 + PC Bios 1.18_DVI
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro
Mitsubishi Electronics LS-120 F200 Super Floppy Drive
1x Seagate Barracuda V 80GB 7200 RPM Main Disk
1x Seagate Barracuda V 120GB 7200 RPM Game Disk
Belkin 5 port NEC USB 2.0 PCI Card
3-Com 3C905C-TX-M PCI Ethernet Adapter 10/100Mbit
LG HD-DVD Drive 16x / 40x
BTO Plusdeck 2c Cassette Tape Convertor/Player/Recorder Drive
Antec True Power 550 Watt PSU
Addtronics 6896A Entry Level Server Tower
Compaq S710 17" Blackshade CRT from 2001
Reso @ 1024x768x32 ! 85Hz | 0.22.5 Dot Pitch
1995 Roland E-14 Keyboard
Reggy the EPoX Mascot
Win 2KPro UK + SP4
AmigaMerlin 3.1 R11 (main driver for V5)
Latest 3dfx Tools for V5 PCI Mac
These two arts I self painted on the Addtronics 6898A Entry LEvel Server Case back in November of 1999
left pic is the Pyro-GX from Descent 2 and right pic are the three starships from Freespace2:
Shevan Strike Cruiser
Vesudan Dreadnaught
Terrain Hercules MK III Heavy Starrfighter
Here the V5 PCI mac in the bottom PCI Slot which is PCI Slot 6, it fits here perfectly and my Audigy2 ZS Platinum Pro is much easier to access.
Reggy the EPoX Mascot in the right pic, this is my oldest T.rex from 1985, made by Imperial in Hong Kong.