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Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 100
14.05.07 at 09:47:11

Hey guys,

last week, a colleague of mine said he may have spotted some old hardware in a recycle shop near his house, so I asked him to keep a look out for any 3dfx stuff.

Today he dropped by with 1 card, pitty he didn't find more.

Anyways, the pcb has the following to say:

210-0380-001-A0, which is a Velocity 100 8MB
PCB date is 3599, no need to explain that.

And on the front of the card, in the upper right cornor, it says rev A and the in white box next to it a big 3.

I think it's a compaq part, but dunno for sure, there is a sticker on there, with a barcode and A02595 on it, anyone have a clue??
Will ofcourse post pics tonight.

But, the ram it has, is 5.5ns Siemens SGRAM, rated for 183Mhz, which ofcourse is pretty sweet.

The exact markings are:

HY839S1632(QTQ or OTQ??) 5-5
GERMANY A
9937 U37513

Gonna take it home tonight and see if it works. If not, maybe someone will want it for the 183Mhz sgram??

cheers

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« Last Edit: 14.05.07 at 18:35:48 by ultima »

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Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1
Reply #1 - 14.05.07 at 18:37:13

I put in the card and it booted fine, bios shows it being a velocity 100, as expected.

Runs at 143Mhz, but gonna take off the heatsink, remove the glue and put on some decent stuff and cooler, gonna see how far I can take her.

Ram won't be the limiting factor me thinks.

I added a small fan to the heatsink, I ran some tests, scores are following:

@ 143Mhz

3dmark99: 5950
3dmark00: 1600

@ 166Mhz

3dmark99: 6650
3dmark00: 1700

Haven't gotten it stable yet over 170, but that will be taken care of soon enough.

3dmark2001 wouldn't run, as the card has only 8Mb.

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« Last Edit: 14.05.07 at 20:28:55 by ultima »

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Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1 Reply #2 - 14.05.07 at 21:04:21 there seemed to be a way to unlock the second TMU also, just dunno how that could be done, it was via a software mod or something.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1 Reply #3 - 14.05.07 at 21:52:57 Quote: Ram won't be the limiting factor me thinks. Actually SGRAM is very overclocking unfriendly, it was a noted shortcoming.
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Tweakstone Full Member Offline Banshee - Addict Posts: 217 Gender:	Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1 Reply #4 - 14.05.07 at 22:30:34 Quote: there seemed to be a way to unlock the second TMU also, just dunno how that could be done, it was via a software mod or something. You can install normal Voodoo3 drivers, that will unlock the TMU automatically.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1 Reply #5 - 14.05.07 at 23:46:01 ah okay well I thought it was something more difficult than just installing the Voodoo3 driver, FalconFly once did it.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1 Reply #6 - 15.05.07 at 03:22:59 Quote: You can install normal Voodoo3 drivers, that will unlock the TMU automatically. Not sure this is true- I had to unlock via a registy hack... but it has been awhile..
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Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1
Reply #7 - 15.05.07 at 08:06:45

Well,

I used the amigamerlin 2.9 drivers for my voodoo 4 and 5, and when I put in the velocity 100, I pointed it towards those drivers, and it was installed as being a voodoo 3 agp.

About the ram, it's rated 5.5ns, which is 183Mhz, and what I meant by that probably not being the limiting factor, is that I had my doubts that the velocity 100 chip would actually reach that speed without problems

So I would have 40Mhz headroom before I come to the speed of what the ram is rated for.

Gonna go a little higher then 166Mhz tonight.

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Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
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Tweakstone Full Member Offline Banshee - Addict Posts: 217 Gender:	Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1 Reply #8 - 15.05.07 at 10:08:33 Quote: Not sure this is true- I had to unlock via a registy hack... but it has been awhile.. It is. I tried it myself some time ago and compared the benches. The Velocity was as fast as a V3-2000 in most benches.
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1 Reply #9 - 15.05.07 at 11:35:29 and what would this reghack be?? I know my way around the registry, so this shouldn't be a problem. any link??
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1 Reply #10 - 15.05.07 at 11:58:56 Win9.x: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Display\0000\Glide '0000' can be another number (0001/0002/etc) WinXP: Not sure but something like: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\3dfxvs Add the following string: FX_GLIDE_NUM_TMU and give it a value of 2
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1 Reply #11 - 15.05.07 at 12:09:30 OK, thanks, I'll give that a try tonight and see if the scores get any better. Will post back ofcourse.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Sweet, got me a "special" Velocity 1 Reply #12 - 16.05.07 at 16:58:52 Quote: OK, thanks, I'll give that a try tonight and see if the scores get any better. Will post back ofcourse. Would you like to make a photo of the front as back side of the card as well, just to see if there are any other differences 8)
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