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<p><font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">The Quantum3D Mercury Brick</font></p>
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<p><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Q: What is Mercury?</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">A: Mercury ("the brick") is four Quantum3D Obsidian2
200SBi video boards for a total of eight Voodoo II chipsets with 96 MB configured
for parallel operation. A Mercury Heavy Metal system operates under NT4 or Windows 2000 and works
with Glide or OpenGL based applications.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Q: What is Heavy Metal? </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">A: Heavy Metal™ is the family name for
Quantum3D's integrated visual computing systems that are optimized for
multi-channel visual simulation and training applications. Designed for
deployment applications, Heavy Metal systems are packaged in 4U rack-mount
enclosures with industrial cooling and shock mounting. Available in stand-alone
or in multi-channel rack configurations, Heavy Metal systems come in several
different configurations-with different motherboards, Intel Slot-1 (Pentium-II
or Pentium-III) processor(s) and Quantum3D realtime 3D graphics subsystems
crafted to meet the need of specific training and visual simulation
requirements.</font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Q: Is there more then one version of the
Mercury brick?</font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">A: Yes there is black bricks
and green bricks. The Black bricks are the early version with 100 mhz ram and 4
individual heatsinks on just one side of the individual boards. The green bricks have 125 mhz ram with a
single long heatsink on both sides of the individual boards.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_black_200sbi.jpg" width="600" height="224"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Early "black"
Obsidian2 200SBi with 100mhz ram.</font></p>
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<p align="center"><a href="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_bottom_full.jpg" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_bottom.jpg" alt="Click for larger image in new window" width="600" height="297"></font></a></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">A fully assembled
"brick"! A total of 8 complete Voodoo II chipsets!</font></p>
<p align="center"><a href="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_top_full.jpg" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_top.jpg" alt="Click for larger image in new window" width="600" height="257"></font></a></p>
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<p align="center"><a href="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_200sbi_fullsize.jpg" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_200sbi_card.jpg" alt="Click here for larger image in new window" width="600" height="217"></font></a></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Front side of a single 200SBi- The two long
black connectors above the Digital bridge chip are for the riser card interface
connectors.</font></p>
<p align="center"><a href="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_200sbi_fullsize_back.jpg" target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_200sbi_back.jpg" alt="Click here for larger image in new window" width="600" height="235"></font></a></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Backside of the 200SBi, click image for
larger version in new window!</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_riser.jpg" width="505" height="255"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">One of the four riser cards on the left
that connects the individual 200SBi's to the controller card.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_testing.jpg" width="500" height="250"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Running the big dog on the grill, and all four
cards tested out fine =)</font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">To see what the Quantum3d display
properties look like under Windows 98SE for a single 200SBi <a href="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_properties.jpg" target="_blank">click
here</a> to view a screenshot.</font></p>
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<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_mercury/q3d_merc_5_pack.jpg" width="493" height="544"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">To get an idea of the shear size of the
200SBi here is a group shot with a V5-6000, which is almost an inch shorter!</font></p>
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<p align="center"><a href="../3dfx.1.html" target="_top"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="logos/white_v6k_logo.jpg" alt="Click the V5-6000 to enter site through main page." width="125" height="44"></font></a></p>
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