Hi all :)

Does anybody know if there was a Voodoo3 3500 PCI ever planned or made?

I'm ask'n this because if it wern't made nor planned, then the Voodoo3 3500  would of been the only high end 3dfx graphics card with out a PCI version of it.

This has been on my mond all day, So I decided to post it for some anwers :)

Friendly Regards,

Obi-Wan Kenobi.

I do not believe so.

The Card's power consumption might likely have exceeded the PCI limits, or 3dfx saw no market for their highest performing Card alongside AGP.

It's possible Powercolor made one, still looking into it.

Thinking about it, there was a 183MHz MP960 for the Mac, so PCI would indeed be no limitation for a V3-3500...

There might even be a PowerColor 183Mhz Voodoo3 discussion thread somewhere in the Forum (about 1 year ago) if I remember correctly.

hmm I'll see if I can scout that up :)

Well that was a quick find , check this out:
http://www.falconfly-central.de/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=general;action=display;num=1093486486

Gary mentioned this:

" I'm stoked, The boxed card came in today from the Ebay auction- Not only is the driver disk correct it had the manual *AND* the card has 5ns ram!!!!

I'm going to try a little overclocking shortly and let you know if it runs at the rams rated 200 mhz speed.

Quake II results on P3-650 BX platform-

166 mhz = 84.5 FPS
183 mhz = 93.6 FPS
193 mhz = 98.1 FPS
195 mhz = 99.7 FPS
198 mhz = unable to finish timedemo
200 mhz = unable to finish timedemo

No sparkles on the screen during timedemos so I assume the core just will not run at those speeds.

Inital cooling provided by a spare 3500 heatsink and a Gamma Blower. Last certified V3 3dfx drivers used with 1024 x 768 OpenGL in Q2 control panel.

I think this one is a keeper (It would have been anyway, I forgot my other EK3 is a TV version), even with the normal fan cooled heatsink installed it only runs at 90F (33C) at 188 mhz

Now I'll I have to do is find a PCI version to round things out ;)

I'm not sure if that is the topic you were looking for Falcon Fly.