Does this give anyone any ideas?

[Kruno]

Very intresting. :eek:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/attachment.php?s=&postid=57388

[gokickrocks]

it must be referring to the daughter card that attaches to the left side of the 9700's core

[Kruno]

WTF??? Any pics of that? What does the daughter card do?
My guess is something with memory modules.

[ASCI Blue]

Gives me the idea it's time to use linux. :firedevil

[MuFu]

Originally posted by K.I.L.E.R
WTF??? Any pics of that? What does the daughter card do?
My guess is something with memory modules.

Nah... dual-link DVI, VIVO, stuff like that. I guess memory expansion is a possibility but I'm not sure what the daughtercard/GPU bus is like in terms of bandwidth/connectivity so wouldn't count on it being feasible - it'd be easier just to use double-density memory chips. There were a few DC's developed for the R300/RV250 but I have only ever seen the one on the FireGL X1 (which is based around a SI TMDS chip I think) and a couple of RV250 VIVO ones for the far eastern market.

A 1/4-length DC with a second VGA on it would be cool but again, pretty much impossible.

MuFu.

P.S. You can't use DC's with any of the R300-based boards available at the moment (apart from the X1) - they need to be physically modified and have appropriate BIOS's flashed. Maybe if you are handy with a soldering iron/sheet metal cutter and your name is warp11 or John Hoek... :D

[Kruno]

Thank You all, especially MuFu. :)

[saturnotaku]

Last video card I saw that had a physical DC was a Riva 128. :eek:

[MuFu]

FireGL X1:

http://www.ati.com/designpartners/media/images/fglx1_lg.jpg

Radeon 9000 VIVO - can't find a pic anymore but a DC version is made by CompPD in Korea.

Canopus Spectre WX25:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.toler/spwx25_06%5b1%5d.jpg

...and some different daughtercards for it:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.toler/spwx25_07%5b1%5d.jpg

MuFu.

[The Baron]

That might be a leftover from the mid-90s where you actually COULD upgrade the memory on video cards...

[thcdru2k]

my matrox mysique has that :D

[The Baron]

bingo, I went from 2 to 4 megs :P