I already had a fully retail boxed pair of Diamond Monster 3DII's, which were both 12Mb, which I have now identified to be from the US.  The box has the US rebate retainer sticker on and a US postal address.  Both cards are still sealed in their anti-bags, and have never been used, just like the documents, discs and cables.  Only the box has been opened.

At the weekend, I received another fully retail boxed pair of Diamond Monster 3DII's which I also purchased, expecting them to be exactly the same.  However, this is not the case.

The second set are in a smaller Diamond retail box, and instead it has the tri-language (English, German and French, respectively) indicating that this version is a european version, sepearate from the US version.  What else is different, is that the US models are both called "Model X100" whereas the two european models that have recently arrived are known as "Model X200".  This is stated on the two boxes. 

Physically, the differences between the cards are the existence of 3 heatsinks on each of the euopean cards.  One is located on each 3dfx chipset.  These have definitely been put on by Diamond as the worksmanship on each of the cards and heatsinks is perfect (well-aligned, good quality heatsinks).

The memory on the two cards is also different.  Although they are both the same frequency (100MHz) and have the same serial no. There is a small number that is different on the two.  On the US version the number is "9820F" and on the european version, the number is "9819F".  This number is located on each memory chip on both of the cards.

So I have a European SLI pair and an American SLI pair.  I suppose it's better than having two pairs of the same!    Whatsmore, the boxes are different in look and shape too, so that means a bigger collection for me! YAY! 

Has anyone else ever noticed the difference in these two Voodoo2 boards by Diamond?  ???

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I hate to play the devils advocate but I have looked at a few thousand Diamond Voodoo II cards on Ebay Europe and have not seen a single Diamond card with triple heatsinks.

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I can "factory seal" any box with a roll of shrink wrap and a hairdryer

Now if it had the diamond logo running through the shrink wrap near the upc I'd say you have a rare bird indeed.

Well then shoot some pics of those puppies!

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No, just might get some bad reflections.

Okay, bad news.    The scanner will not show whats in the bag on the front of the card.  Maybe this is because the heatsinks are black, it makes everything else inside the bag darker, therefore the scanner cannot pick it up.  A little better for the back of the card, but that's not we want really! 

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3198-A2 date code
TECHWORKS V21200 part number

I'll take pics and e-mail them to you, this card even has the original bag with the Techworks V2 part number on it.

Patience, the ebay auction you gave, shows the manual and driver disc, which look very like mine. However, I cannot make out much of the card as the photo goes blurry there and looks rather "smudgy".  As for the SLI cable, which is the same extrordinary size.  When mine arrived I was amazed at the length of the cable!  Much longer than standard majority SLI cables!  I suppose it is a good idea for people who can't have two V2's sitting next to each other!     And I guess this could be a little improvement of a performance increase, as the cards won't get as hot being sat next to each other!