Anyone ever spotted something like a 3500 with 6ns ram and 166MHz stock setting? O.o

not a card with TC-6 memory

but BIOS pal 2.15.07 has 166MHz Clock, dont know why

but there are some 5ns v3 3500 out there...
why to put 6ns ram on a card which has 183mhz? that makes so sense...maybe a prototype but on a retail card it's useless...

I just picked up a very interesting V3 from a former 3dfx/Quantum3D employee... I thought it was just a regular "Not for resale" V3-3000 AGP with a 1.0 bios decal till I tossed it in the test machine.

3dfx tools reported bios 2.12 (dated 5/6/99) with a 183 mhz clock speed!

I checked and it has 5.5 ns ram and the PCB is dated 1599.

Fact is that there is a V3 3500 with 6ns mem and 2.15.7 pal as exxe said, kayman owns one but he didn't mind but when he told me I was astonished, so I'm checking a bit.
He'll post some pics when possible (probably tomorrow)

"Anyone ever spotted something like a 3500 with 6ns ram and 166MHz stock setting? O.o"

i have one :)

Hehe I should expect something like this form a V3 collector like you ;)

even though v3's is what i collect most gary still has me beat on variety, so do other's i guess, my comp just got a new hard drive and i dont have anything loaded up for photo's but here's a group shot with the 3500 with 6ns lower left.............http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1134536008;start=0#0

is it a retail or prototype?

@gary: if you have some time please send this bios to me ;)

retail

that makes no sense....or did 3dfx sold this cards in OEM-PCs with only 166mhz? so the .07-bios is neccessary...

or does anyone else has an idea?

this are some pics of my v3 3500tv. it runs on 166mhz :)
http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/8725/dscn31694oh.th.jpg http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2658/dscn31712tx.th.jpg

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2466/dscn31707er.th.jpg http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5842/dscn31742gq.th.jpg

on photos is not readable fcc number -> 210-0371-002

nice... i would say its a rare card.

wrote on 05.03.06 at 16:40:48:

nice... i would say its a rare card.

Indeed. The PCB Date is on a different place as well. (Well, my cards have them on the far right-top when viewing from the backside.)

where is the pcb date placed?
i had about twelve v3 3500 and the pcb date was on the back so that you can see it clearly or on the back and placed under the panel...

that was easy to find ;D

http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/1750/v335006ns1ol.th.jpg

I made a circle around the PCB Date's location Year 1999 week 41 not that old for a 3500 but it does have a Revision B PCB which might be abit different to the other 3500's...

here the PCB Rev:
http://img521.imageshack.us/img521/7996/v335006nsrevb99411ym.th.jpg

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http://img377.imageshack.us/img377/4530/35004ru.th.jpg

Rev.A PCB Date: right upper corner
Rev.B PCB Date: in the middle

verified by watching at my 3500-cards...