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SiliconGraphics Onyx Teardown

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  • The geometry engine board contains 4 SiliconGraphics GE12 geometry processors

  • PowerChannel2 bus interface ASICs, FIFOs, and glue logic

  • geometry performance of 10M polys/sec - on par with the much newer Nvidia GeForce 256!

  • Empty solder pads. A GE with 8 processors was never created. Warm up the wave soldering oven, I smell an upgrade.

  • The graphics boards require 3.3 volts, and their power converters are on the opposite side of the backplane, on their own daughterboards.

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