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Late V3 2000 AGP?
27.08.05 at 19:09:50

Today i got a boxed STB V3 2000 AGP

the PCB Date is 1100
It has 7NS MT (Micron) RAM

This is quite late for a V3 2000 AGP what do you think? I know the PCI cards are as late as this one but i never have had an STB V3 2000 AGP with such a late date... and i have many V3 2000 AGP at home Grin

edit: the card also has some other capacitors on it as all the other cards..

(V3 3500 i also have seen with this late PCB/Chip Date)

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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Late V3 2000 AGP? Reply #1 - 27.08.05 at 19:55:13 I have a V3 3000 AGP which dates from week 15 of 2000.
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Late V3 2000 AGP? Reply #2 - 27.08.05 at 20:01:46 the one from STB? does it also have other capacitors?
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Re: Late V3 2000 AGP?
Reply #3 - 31.08.05 at 09:28:52

hello TM30. I have a STB voodoo 3 3000 AGP 16mb card.

These are AGP 2x, and they won't fit in the AGP 8x motherboards you see. It's like SDram and DDRram, the pin slots are off slightly.

Back then, during the Y2K crisis, AGP slots on motherboards were new, they just started to come out. The voodoo 3 was pretty new too then. People where switching from slower parts to faster parts, like EDO ram for faster SDram, and PCI for faster AGP cards. People were upgrading their motherboards for another reason besides the new AGP, it was for the new Pentium 3 processors that just came out too. Socket 7 was okay, but socket 370pin was the way to go if you wanted faster speed than 500Mhz slot 1 processors or socket 7 processors.

This technology may not be new, but it's not that old either. It was a medium/turning point.
Hope that answers your question. It is interesting to think about it, as I love classics, and I love the 3DFX graphics. I wish I knew about 3DFX when I was in highschool (1997-2000)

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96mb EDO
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1 PCI slot 2 ISA slots

^^still have my Acer along with a VA-503+ K6 233Mhz pc (mid tower baby at case) & Micron PC Pentium 1 90Mhz mobo based on Intel 824307FX / 82438 Triton chip set NLX formfactor baby at).

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Re: Late V3 2000 AGP?
Reply #4 - 31.08.05 at 13:38:33

I compared my 1500 with my 5199 and here are the differences.

Image is not of my own card btw, came from www.yjfy.com but looks like my 5199 card.

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1 = This chip is different, on my 1500 it says 'SST' and beneath that 'mpf' plus a bunch of numbers.
2 = These two chips are not on the 1500, instead there are two capacitors (correct name?) like number 3 but about a millimeter smaller in diameter.

Oh yeah, and the heatsink is different, no mounting holes on the 1500 Tongue

But that doesn't seem important Grin

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Late V3 2000 AGP? Reply #5 - 31.08.05 at 14:12:07 hehe my latest 3dfx/STB Voodoo3 is from week 17 year 2000. it's a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 PCI with 16MB SGRAM Rev.D 1700
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Late V3 2000 AGP? Reply #6 - 31.08.05 at 17:03:53 so for now, how also has got late STB 2000 AGP ?
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Late V3 2000 AGP? Reply #7 - 31.08.05 at 17:08:27 BTW, what exactly do you mean with 'STB' Voodoo 3? An STB PCB? Because I think all 3dfx V3's have an STB PCB. Both my V3's do, anyway.
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Late V3 2000 AGP? Reply #8 - 31.08.05 at 17:22:03 i mean cards that are made by 3dfx (STB) so i want to exclude Powercolor and so on... cause powercolor cards have mostly a late PCB Date... but i never saw a V3 2000 AGP by 3dfx with Year 2000 Date before...
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Late V3 2000 AGP? Reply #9 - 31.08.05 at 17:47:24 Quote: ^^still have my Acer along with a VA-503+ K6 233Mhz pc (mid tower baby at case) I had one of these with a 350MHz, updated the BIOS and took it up to 550MHz. It used to be my V3 2000 machine reflashed with the 3000 V3 BIOS A lot of gaming done on that machine.
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Re: Late V3 2000 AGP?
Reply #10 - 31.08.05 at 18:13:14

hehe well my Voodoo3 2000 PCI with SGRAM , it's PCB is light green and not dark green, I have 3 different models of the 2000 PCI

A 2000 PCI with SGRAM Rev.D 5399 from week 53 year 1999 [ 1999 was indeed a leap year!] with a little black square heatsink

A 2000 PCI with SGARM Rev.D 1700 from week 17 year 200 with a smally Aluminium coloured heatsink

A 3000 PCI with SGRAM Rev.D 0700 from week 07 year 2000 with the well known large Aluminium coloured Alu Heatsink which has been sighted on all 3dfx V3 AGP and PCI models.

And a 2000 PCI with SDRAM Rev.A 1799 from week 17 year 1999, it has the ole compaq PCB Wink

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Re: Late V3 2000 AGP?
Reply #11 - 01.09.05 at 03:08:15

My only STB V3-2000 AGP (just bought a week ago in Moscow;)) has 1200 PCB date.

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Late V3 2000 AGP? Reply #12 - 02.09.05 at 11:44:38 hmm week 12 year 2000 very nice so it's quite common that the SGRAM based Voodoo3 2000 & 3000 PCI's came later that thier SDRAM counterparts.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Late V3 2000 AGP? Reply #13 - 02.09.05 at 12:44:46 Yes, if I remember right there were released later because 3dfx had no inital plans on releasing a PCI V3. Market demand changed their minds.
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Re: Late V3 2000 AGP?
Reply #14 - 03.09.05 at 00:18:15

Looks like I'm lucky with late boards Wink

I checked my STB V3-3000 SGRAM PCI and found it to be 21th week of 2000...

Not to mention Powercolor V3 PCI Ver 2.0 with 4th week of 2001... :-P

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