G-Rex PCI Busboard showing a Voodoo 3000 connected.
G-Rex PCI Busboard showing a Voodoo 5000 connected with what appears to be an Ethernet card.
Zorro II: | None | |
Zorro III: | None | |
ISA: | None | |
PCI: | 5 (earlier versions had 4) | (Active, 2.1 compliant) |
Video Slots: | None | |
Other: | None |
The GRex was one of the first busboards to provide the A1200 with fully active PCI slots. In the latest version all slots support 32bit DMA and are capable of transferring at up to 25MB/sec with 1.76GB of non bank-switching address space. Earlier models may only support DMA in the top 1 or 2 slots. The board has both AT and ATX power supply connectors. In order to use this card, it requires a Blizzard PPC accelerator as it takes advantage of its local expansion bus. The GRex is designed to be installed in one of the following towers:
V-Tower |
EZTower |
Winner Tower |
Power Tower |
Elbox Tower |
Infinitiv Tower |
At the time of writing, drivers exist for the following cards/chipsets.
Graphics Cards | Voodoo3 2000 |
Voodoo3 3000 | |
Voodoo4 4500 | |
Voodoo5 5500 | |
Permedia 2 chipset | |
ViRGE 86C325 chipset | |
ViRGE/DX 86C375 chipset | |
SiS 6326 chipset | |
TV / Capture Cards | Brooktree BT848 chipset |
Brooktree BT878 chipset | |
Brooktree VT879 chipset | |
Conexant Fusion 878a chipset | |
Conexant Fusion 879 chipset | |
Microtune Tuners | |
Philips Tuners | |
Liveview Flyvideo II | |
Liveview FlyVideo 98 | |
Voodoo TV FM | |
Hauppauge WinTV 38074 Rev B521 with Philips Tuner | |
Typhoon TView FM RDS BT878 PAL BG | |
PixelVire PlayTV | |
Knc-One TV Station | |
Hauppauge WinTV Go | |
Vobis TV Card | |
AVER Media TV | |
Terratec Terra T Value | |
Askey Magic TView FM | |
Pinnacle Studio PCTV Rave | |
Network Cards | Realtek RTL 8029(AS) chipset |
Realtek RTL 8139C chipset | |
Longshine LCS-8034TB-E chipset | |
Longshine LCS-8038TX-R chipset | |
Sound Cards | ESS Solo-1 Chipset |
Terratec 128i PCI | |
USB Cards | UHCI Compliant (Universal Host Controller Interface) |
OHCI Compliant (Open Host Controller Interface) | |
VIA 83C572 chipset | |
Opti Firelink |
Thanks to Matthias Münch