hmm no TM30 though there are some Voodoo3 1000's with 7ns ram and 5.5 ns SGRA< out there also odd little critters, but a normal 3000 AGP with 7ns SDRAM is rather strange indeed.

al the 2000 AGP's I've incountered had 6ns SDRAM never seen a 2000 either with 7ns SDRAM, strange card, doesn't it have NFR decails on it?

all the 2000 AGP's I've seen had 6ns SDRAM and my Vel200 has 6ns SGRAM it runs on 2000 speeds and has both TMU's enabled, so infact a Vel200 is a Voodoo3 2000 with SGRAM

does that Voodoo3 3000 AGP have a TV-Out as well, because it could be a 2000 with a silver heatsink if 2000's have 7ns ram

so, at home now... finally 

erm... PCB Date 4399... Rev. C... Part No. 210-0364-003.... its SEC RAM.

Will try to remove the cooler now.

edit:

cooler is removed, again no visual damage to see 

355-0017-011
F05175.10
Date 9945

According to http://www.idhw.com/textual/chip/3dfx/chippicture.html it must be a 3000, but why this card as -011 instead of -010?


i put a Matrox card in the test PC and run windows on it with the defective voodoo 3...

v.control also does show 166Mhz clock for the card...

so it's really a V3 3000 with 7ns RAM...

lol perhaps it doesnt work at this clock? i may try to flash a 2000 bios on it...

edit2: i flashed it... it still doesnt work. i also saved the original bios, it also says its a 3000... and it says "Avenger"...

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hmm I do happen to make mistakes from time to time, since we all have that problem and NOBODY is perfect... 

@ TM30

hmm strange little critter indeed, but that it ain't working is even wierder, I suppose downclocking it to a safe speed of core\/mem 125Mhz might be an idea only how would you proceed to that objective?

here, i uploaded the bios:

http://rapidshare.de/files/18423217/Save.rom.html

normal 1.00.01-SD bios....
if you have a 1.xx.xx-bios there is a string called 3dfx Avenger...
i guess with 2.xx.xx-bios there was a re-build of the bios with detailed strings etc...

hmm yes, what also could be is that it's a Voodoo3 2000 flashed with a Voodoo3 3000 Bios and that the Black Heatsink of the 2000 was replaced by a Silver Heatsink of a 3000 AGP card, since that 2000 AGP do have 7ns ram as well, this card defection may rely to the flash of it's bios by the previous owner, to be honest this may be it's  declariation of defection.

Though for some it may be hard to believ though I do Sense it happened this way, just to make the card look rare