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<p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Quantum3D Heavy Metal GX+ Mercury
System II (The mini-merc)</font></p>
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<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Yes I own TWO complete
functional Mercury systems now, this one dubbed "The Mini-Merc" in reference Dr.
Evil Jr. from the movie Austin Powers. The case is shorter by a few inches
compared to the stock Quantum3D case, hence the "mini" part and this
system specs are slightly less then the other Mercury system I currently
own. It seems to run fine even short to fans, but I don't tend to run them
long anyways are they generate considerable noise!</font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">The brick popped up on Ebay
and I managed to snag it for a very reasonable price.. Everything else shown on
the pages below pretty much was stuff squirreled away in my attic from various
old projects and leftovers from buys to obtain parts from other projects. The
case was found on Ebay with the back panel being swapped out from one from a
damaged Mercury case (which is where the overhead fan module came from). The Q3D
fan grill was given to me from a Quantum3D employee and the Medusa PCB and
swaplock cables came from a friend in Germany. The CDROM and floppy drive were
robbed from a Graphite system I had lying about. The power supply was spotted on
Ebay several months ago and tucked away as a spare for my other Merc and Iron
systems. The motherboard was also a spare from an old 2U rack mount web server
and the CPU's came from two different machines (one found by the side of the
road on junk week!) the steppings match of course. The hard drive was a $5
purchase off Ebay.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Except for the short case,
it's an "as shipped" system from Quantum3D running NT4.</font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">System specs-
Intel GX+ server board with dual 500 mhz P3's with 256 MB of ECC ram, no
sound (yet,) 10 gig Western Digital IDE hard drive. </font></p>
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<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Some videos- The first shows
me testing the new brick in my original system (you can see one brick standing
up in the background) the second shows the system running OpenGVS demos from
Quantum3D.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mGduCYU8HRs"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mGduCYU8HRs" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GQm7Z6n0WQk"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GQm7Z6n0WQk" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="350"></embed></object></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Shown in the video is one
of the early medusa VGA eliminator setups being used with just VGA output, with
this setup two monitors are required just like the later AAlchemy rigs.</font></p>
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<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_minimerc/q3d_minimerc_1.jpg" width="600" height="633"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Both systems and a green Mercury
brick.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_minimerc/q3d_minimerc_2.jpg" width="600" height="524"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">As you can see in this
early testing picture, there is very little room between the front of the case
the card support.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_minimerc/q3d_minimerc_3.jpg" width="600" height="446"></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">One of the things I had
tinkered with long ago was the thought of running a Mercury brick with a Voodoo
II style pass-through cable so the need of the Medsua I/O PCB and hard to find
Medusa pass-through cable could be eliminated. I succeeded in making such an
interface but in the end managed to find a Medusa PCB (not shown in this
picture) and opted for originality. The pass-through shown above worked
perfectly and the VGA pass-through wiring diagram if you wish to make your own
is available on the <a href="q3d_mercury_faq.htm">Mercury FAQ</a> page. </font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_minimerc/q3d_minimerc_4.jpg" width="600" height="371"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Wiring all tuned up,
Quantum3D style!</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_minimerc/q3d_minimerc_5.jpg" width="600" height="479"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">PC Power & Cooling 425
watt power supply and P3-500's</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_minimerc/q3d_minimerc_6.jpg" width="600" height="506"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Sony floppy and CD-ROM
drives.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_minimerc/q3d_minimerc_7.jpg" width="600" height="301"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Medusa I/O PCB (on right)
shown installed in case with Swaplock and internal Medusa cables.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="q3d_minimerc/q3d_minimerc_8.jpg" width="600" height="436"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Ah much better- From left
to right is the two TV outputs (disabled on Mercury,) the Medusa output, and the
two swaplock sync ports. </font></p>
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