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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? 18.04.06 at 12:53:29 hello all maybe not many have heard of this very odd Voodoo3 card with T&L Chip: but how would it perform actually since it does have a T&L chip would it's performance be dramaticly higher than any other V3 out there?
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? Reply #1 - 18.04.06 at 14:19:54 i don't think that 3dmark e.g. will use it because of lack of driver implementation... who owns this card? i wanna have it, lol (anyway, who doesn't want it... ) i found a bigger pic:
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance?
Reply #2 - 18.04.06 at 23:31:18

hmm lol everyone would want that piece, but that isn't my concern, just wanted more info of it

Look at the Voodoo3 chipset it's lain 90 degrees upwards, also abit odd isn't it , I wonder what the reason for that was, maybe to create a non interfearance with the T&L chip?

Maybe these units were used as Prototypes to simulate a 3dfx Spectre 2000 aka Rampage with Sage T&L chip since the idea is kinda the sam AND the Rampage project started just after Voodoo2, who knows.

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? Reply #3 - 19.04.06 at 00:04:10 Quote: who owns this card? Ex-3dfx employee
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? Reply #4 - 19.04.06 at 00:37:51 mkay, good for him then, I still wonder what it's capable of though, that does interest me more not teh Pwnerer.
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? Reply #5 - 19.04.06 at 08:53:54 Hank....
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elfuego Senior Member Offline Searching for V5 6k... Posts: 420 Aachen, Deutschland Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? Reply #6 - 19.04.06 at 10:11:50 Am I just seeing things, or this card actually has two VGA outputs and a TV-out? Multy monitor support? That's the second unique thing on this V3!
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? Reply #7 - 19.04.06 at 13:16:05 yeah it has a DFP Connector... (Predecessor of DVI)
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance?
Reply #8 - 19.04.06 at 20:44:08

hmm DVP yeah like on that Copper 4800 of yours

, wasn't the max Resolution for DFP-Out 1280 x 1024 x32? I thought I read that some where . though not that sure Lips Sealed

I wonder if DVP screens were ever put in production, never really seen a DVP screen in my live, matbe DVP was skipped and put aside for DVI to take place, dunno really, but that may have been the purpose, anybody else idea's on that?

@ Gary

Sorry 'bout my grumpy post back there, had too many things on my mind there.

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hanksemenec YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 41 3DFX Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? Reply #9 - 21.04.06 at 05:58:03 Hey Grumpy I have the card. The microcode for the geometry engine was never finished. I patched a BIOS to get it to boot, but the geometry bridge will run only in a pass through mode. The V3 drivers also must be patched to recognize Mitsubishi signature. Hank
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? Reply #10 - 21.04.06 at 08:48:58 do you know how many cards have been built?
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Chosen_One Senior Member Offline Keeper of the BIOS-files... Posts: 499 Germany Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? Reply #11 - 21.04.06 at 18:27:19 i guess you have many beautiful bios is the card clocked at 166mhz?
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? Reply #12 - 24.04.06 at 02:35:34 Quote: The microcode for the geometry engine was never finished. Shame theres no-one in the forum who's good at writing microcode for TnL GPU's then eh? LOL!
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance?
Reply #13 - 24.04.06 at 03:16:03

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Hey Grumpy Grin

I have the card. The microcode for the geometry engine was never finished. I patched a BIOS to get it to boot, but the geometry bridge will run only in a pass through mode. The V3 drivers also must be patched to recognize Mitsubishi signature.

Hank

yeah norries there Hank

But hmm interesting, would it be still possible to finnish that geometry code? Maybe you could give it a shot Tongue

unless if it is a possibillity ofcourse

Was this T&L idea also planned for Napalm products? and can it be compared to the Sage chip which was planned for the T&L Geometry chip for the Rampage line?

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Max_R Full Member Offline Posts: 237 Gender:	Re: 3dfx Voodoo3 with T&L Chip Perfromance? Reply #14 - 19.04.07 at 09:32:46 I have some question for you guys... Can this vga work in 3D mode? Are the performance compeareable with a standard Voodoo 3? Thanks, Max.
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