Post by Thandor on 07.09.05 at 16:34:04
In this topic I want to discuss some retail boxes which are quite rare.
People are always talking about '3dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 'EU Retail' or 'USA Retail'
Many haven't even thought of the possibility that there's also a Japanse version of some retail boxes :o
Since words don't tell as much as pictures do I'll start with some nice pictures :)
Hey, what's that cool AMD K6-2 3DNow! thing on the right ? :P
The 3dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 'Japanese Retail' ;D
By seeing this picture you would say, what ? It's an ordinary box with some Japanese letters I can't read ::)
Well, look how tiny and cute they are :P
The boxes on the right are the Japanese versions.
Of course the images of the driver CD and the manual :
Click for larger image
Note- The Japanese boxes are a lot smaller, have a less beautiful driver CD and have Japanese letters everywhere :P.
As you can see there we're also USA versions sold in Japan. I don't know if there are much Japanese Retail Voodoo 3's. I do know that they exist ;)
Show me more ;D
Well, there are V3 3500TV 'Japanese Retail' boxes, too ;)
They came on the market on 9th October 1999.
If I'm not mistaken these cards we're made because in August 1999 a lot of cards we're sold which had incompatible software with the Japanese Windows '98. With the incompatible software the TV-Tuner did not function.
In some stores you even got some nice T-Shirt for free ;D
But wait, there's even more :)
I was pictures of a normal looking V3 3000 PCI. The text told me that it was a Japanese Version. Maybe there's a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI 'Japanese Edition' with small box as well. Let's hope so.
Alright, to the next discovery 8)
We all know the ASUS Motherboard that's bundled with an 3dfx Voodoo 3 ? Well, this one :
Yep, in Japan they've got a different box ;D
Cool isn't it ?
There are more cool things :o
It's the A-Trend ATC6254 with onboard Voodoo 3 2000 and 16MB of SGRAM. The chipset is the Intel 440BX and the YMF740 chip will get you some nice sound ;)
There's also an ATC6254-3 which is fitted with a Voodoo 3 chipset. I don't have pictures of it but I assume it has a fan on the heatsink since the V3 3000 produces more heat.
Well, slighty offtopic but box related :P (And a nice thing to know)
We all (I assume) have seen those 1337 3dfx boxes with a lot of 'white boxed V3 3500TV cards' inside it (on eBay).
Well, according to this picture 3dfx sended the first cards with old 'STB' boxes ::)
And I also found a nice (but half-offtopic)picture ::)
And yes, all the pictures shown here are quite old. But that doesn't make them boring :P
People are always talking about '3dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 'EU Retail' or 'USA Retail'
Many haven't even thought of the possibility that there's also a Japanse version of some retail boxes :o
Since words don't tell as much as pictures do I'll start with some nice pictures :)
Hey, what's that cool AMD K6-2 3DNow! thing on the right ? :P
The 3dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 3 3000 AGP 'Japanese Retail' ;D
By seeing this picture you would say, what ? It's an ordinary box with some Japanese letters I can't read ::)
Well, look how tiny and cute they are :P
The boxes on the right are the Japanese versions.
Of course the images of the driver CD and the manual :
Click for larger image
Note- The Japanese boxes are a lot smaller, have a less beautiful driver CD and have Japanese letters everywhere :P.
As you can see there we're also USA versions sold in Japan. I don't know if there are much Japanese Retail Voodoo 3's. I do know that they exist ;)
Show me more ;D
Well, there are V3 3500TV 'Japanese Retail' boxes, too ;)
They came on the market on 9th October 1999.
If I'm not mistaken these cards we're made because in August 1999 a lot of cards we're sold which had incompatible software with the Japanese Windows '98. With the incompatible software the TV-Tuner did not function.
In some stores you even got some nice T-Shirt for free ;D
But wait, there's even more :)
I was pictures of a normal looking V3 3000 PCI. The text told me that it was a Japanese Version. Maybe there's a Voodoo 3 3000 PCI 'Japanese Edition' with small box as well. Let's hope so.
Alright, to the next discovery 8)
We all know the ASUS Motherboard that's bundled with an 3dfx Voodoo 3 ? Well, this one :
Yep, in Japan they've got a different box ;D
Cool isn't it ?
There are more cool things :o
It's the A-Trend ATC6254 with onboard Voodoo 3 2000 and 16MB of SGRAM. The chipset is the Intel 440BX and the YMF740 chip will get you some nice sound ;)
There's also an ATC6254-3 which is fitted with a Voodoo 3 chipset. I don't have pictures of it but I assume it has a fan on the heatsink since the V3 3000 produces more heat.
Well, slighty offtopic but box related :P (And a nice thing to know)
We all (I assume) have seen those 1337 3dfx boxes with a lot of 'white boxed V3 3500TV cards' inside it (on eBay).
Well, according to this picture 3dfx sended the first cards with old 'STB' boxes ::)
And I also found a nice (but half-offtopic)picture ::)
And yes, all the pictures shown here are quite old. But that doesn't make them boring :P
