Radius ThunderColor PCI Uses Same Chips as Thunder IV GX Nubus

trag

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Just saw this on Ebay:


And notice that the main chipset is the same as the valuable Nubus cards. Looks like there are three or four PLDs that are different, and of course, the entire circuit board.

Still, if someone is bored and wants to make a Thunder IV GX from scratch, or has a dead Thunder IV GX, might be interesting.
 
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Bolle

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I noticed that before, but it seems the PCI variant is even harder to come by than the Nubus one.
The chipset on the PCI DSP daughterboard also matches the one on the Nubus board, so you're right in theory you could indeed make new Nubus cards with a PCI donor and a few additional parts.

As a sidenote, I dumped all PLDs of the Nubus variant: https://wiki.pldarchive.co.uk/index.php?title=Radius_Thunder_IV
 
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