In this topic I want to discuss some retail boxes which are quite rare.

People are always talking about '3dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 'EU Retail' or 'USA Retail'
Many haven't even thought of the possibility that there's also a Japanse version of some retail boxes  

Since words don't tell as much as pictures do I'll start with some nice pictures  

^{Hey, what's that cool AMD K6-2 3DNow! thing on the right ?} 
The 3dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 'Japanese Retail'  
By seeing this picture you would say, what ? It's an ordinary box with some Japanese letters I can't read  

Well, look how tiny and cute they are  

The boxes on the right are the Japanese versions.
Of course the images of the driver CD and the manual :


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Note- The Japanese boxes are a lot smaller, have a less beautiful driver CD and have Japanese letters everywhere .
As you can see there we're also USA versions sold in Japan. I don't know if there are much Japanese Retail Voodoo 3's. I do know that they exist  

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Well, there are V3 3500TV 'Japanese Retail' boxes, too
They came on the market on 9th October 1999.

If I'm not mistaken these cards we're made because in August 1999 a lot of cards we're sold which had incompatible software with the Japanese Windows '98. With the incompatible software the TV-Tuner did not function.

In some stores you even got some nice T-Shirt for free  





But wait, there's even more  
I was pictures of a normal looking V3 3000 PCI. The text told me that it was a Japanese Version. Maybe there's a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI 'Japanese Edition' with small box as well. Let's hope so.

Alright, to the next discovery  8)
We all know the ASUS Motherboard that's bundled with an 3dfx Voodoo 3 ? Well, this one :


Yep, in Japan they've got a different box  

Cool isn't it ?
There are more cool things  




It's the A-Trend ATC6254 with onboard Voodoo 3 2000 and 16MB of SGRAM. The chipset is the Intel 440BX and the YMF740 chip will get you some nice sound

There's also an ATC6254-3 which is fitted with a Voodoo 3 chipset. I don't have pictures of it but I assume it has a fan on the heatsink since the V3 3000 produces more heat.

Well, slighty offtopic but box related   (And a nice thing to know)
We all (I assume) have seen those 1337 3dfx boxes with a lot of 'white boxed V3 3500TV cards' inside it (on eBay).
Well, according to this picture 3dfx sended the first cards with old 'STB' boxes  


And I also found a nice (but half-offtopic)picture  

And yes, all the pictures shown here are quite old. But that doesn't make them boring  

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These pictures are from Akiba, all around 1999
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AFAIK the big ones are USA ?
Though they have a sticker sticked on it with Japanese signs, the sticker is attached later. (It sticks over the sealing)

The small and cute (   ) versions are Japanese. I never saw any other pictures of the Japanese version. Does someone own it ?

From the same site :
Microstar MS-6168 (MSI)
440ZX, Voodoo3 (AGP,8MB)
ES1373 Soundchip

nice find thandor

never have I seen such a wide variety of 3dfx on board mobos

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The first, a motherboard with Intel 440BX chipset ?. Which brand is it ?

The second is an A-Trend ? (Probably the Voodoo 3 3000 variant)
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I never saw these pictures of the A-Trend motherboard.
I'm starting to like that board  

The smaller 3dfx boxes are cool, too. I wonder if there are many of them left ?

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It would be nice. I don't know how the onboard chip performs. Unreal Timedemo1 and 3DMark2000 will be interesting  

What kind of Voodoo3 chip is fitted on the MS-6168 ? (Clockfrequency, 8MB, 1 or 2 TMU's etc. ?)

nice v3 3000 of japanese version

i have a chinese version of voodoo3 3000 with tv-out and the box is smaller than EU retail one which i have a bare box.

i want to know how much price the collector here can accept if you buy a unsealed voodoo3 3000 with tv-out which surely a japanese version...

i see a lot in china and anybody have intersts?

well We've got YIFY from China, Frank_bao from Phillipines and Edmundoab from Malaysia 8)  as our only Asian members maybe they could help us with the search njah njah njah njah

Uhm sorry I mentioned your names but hay you people live clossest to Japan

owh woops lol  sorry Frank, didn't know that hehe

Well your site is abit slow, maybe a site like Surrimugge would be a better idea

Do you have a few of these srange boxes, if you do we would like to see them

P.S. Congrats with your V56K

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i have e-mailed Surrimugge and no reply at all...i have no idea about that