Innovision 3dfx Voodoo Banshee

this Banshee is manufactured in 9934, in times of Voodoo3!
the PCB is dated even later! 9951!

i know i know its nothing special but i never saw a Banshee with a  post 3dfx Logo before...

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/albums/album32/1_G_004.jpg

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/albums/album32/2_G_004.jpg

First one I have ever seen.

you sure have a Innovision Banshee at home, haven't you?

Then pop off the cooler and have a look :)

heh nice find there, did you buy it like this or did you make the discovery yourself @ home?

no i was in icq chat with exxe last week... he told me that he found banshees with "heatspreader" (at least we think the black circle in the middle of the GPU is a heatspreader...) and he asked me if there are any banshees out there with post 3dfx logos... but i didnt check my banshees at this time...

... but yesterday i had to reorganize my "shrine" (put some new cards in, others out) and i looked at some PCB dates and discovered this very late banshee PCB Date of 9951, and wooops i popped the heatsink of...


-> so i did not recognize it when i bought the card (i bought it long time ago)

The PCB date of my Mighty Banshee PCI is 9948 but the chip has been made in 43rd week of 1998 so it's a chip with pre-STB-logo and without circle.

wow that makes a gap of nearly one year between the date of the GPU and the PCB...

so probably there aren't lots of Banshee GPUs out there with post STB Logos? I assume its the same situation like on Voodoo 2 with post STB Logos... 1 out of 100 with new logo (or even fewer?)

wrote on 15.02.06 at 21:22:55:

... I assume its the same situation like on Voodoo 2 with post STB Logos... 1 out of 100 with new logo (or even fewer?)

only the late PowerColor Evilking

you're right... Bruce and Chuck with Post STB Logos only found on Powercolor cards... yet...

but from this time every collector out there who reads this thread will pop off the heatsink of his banshee cards to look what GPU it has ;)  ;D

http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1125956195

I forgot to mention the fact, that this Supergrace Banshee also have new 3dfx logo on chip :)

i remember magic 3d dumped alot of banchees and voodoo 2 s on the market here  a long time after their original release (post voodoo 3) . havent seen one of there banchees again .

picture please

Skywell released the Magic TwinPower banshee cards which featured the new 3dfx logo. They had cheap cruddy coolers so when i replaced the cooler, the new logo was there for all to see.