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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	What V3 chip is this? 29.01.05 at 22:39:42 Can anyone help out on this? How to check the model of a V3 chip http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/collectors_edmundoab/V3_chip_001
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: What V3 chip is this? Reply #1 - 29.01.05 at 22:44:09 It's just an early Voodoo3 chip prior to switching to the new 3dfx logo. I believe?
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: What V3 chip is this? Reply #2 - 29.01.05 at 23:07:12 Seems to be supported by the production date 9910
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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	Re: What V3 chip is this? Reply #3 - 29.01.05 at 23:42:08 what does the 2000 represent?
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: What V3 chip is this?
Reply #4 - 30.01.05 at 00:30:11

hay Edmund I've been studying that V3 chip of yours, it's not a V3 1K chip and not a V3 3K5 chip either, So I thinking in the direction of a V3 2K or 3K chip, but then maybe a pre production chip Wink

How did I get this onfo, well, My V3 3K PCI SDRAM has no heat sink and it's powered by a V3 3K5 chip, I got that info from Plasma Online Wink

My V3 1K Reads the Following:

355-0025-001

and my Hibryd V3 3K PCI with V3 3K5 chip reads:

355-0024-030

here a full scale link to the photo evidence of my naked V3 3K with V3 3K5 chip, just to be sure on things. Wink

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/albums/collectors_obiwankenobi/IMAG0177.jpg

I got the identification of that V3 chip at that Plasma Online site, the one with the big graphics chip database and Identification analasys database.

here the site it's self:
http://www.plasma-online.de/

here's a link to the 3dfx section:

http://www.idhw.com/textual/chip/3dfx/chippicture.html

Listed 3dfx chips by chip photo :
http://www.idhw.com/textual/chip/3dfx/chippicture.html

Listed 3dfx chips by PCI ID:
http://www.idhw.com/textual/chip/3dfx/pciid.html

Listed 3dfx chips by name:
http://www.idhw.com/textual/chip/3dfx/chipname.html

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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	Re: What V3 chip is this? Reply #5 - 30.01.05 at 00:38:29 Indeed it is a V3 2000 then, so the 2000 represents V3 2000. Cool!
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: What V3 chip is this?
Reply #6 - 30.01.05 at 00:51:15

well the way I found out was not by reading the number 2000 on the chip but by reading and compareing this number code : 355-0021-001 the first 6 numbers are the most ifformative, the last three are not so important Wink

so only look at 355-0021 and 001, is something not to bother looking at Wink

This is how you can indentify what chip you have at that Plasma site Wink

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goriath God Member Offline Ruggedized Retro Gamer Posts: 599 Italy/Slovenija Gender:	Re: What V3 chip is this? Reply #7 - 30.01.05 at 01:07:11 Yeah! Thanks Obi-Wan.....This info are very precious... The Force is really with you!
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: What V3 chip is this? Reply #8 - 30.01.05 at 03:38:35 Shame there isn't anyone who specialises in PCB rework... ...we could take an 'ordinary' V3 and have this proto-chip soldered onto it! The results would sure be interesting! (bet the benchmarks would be less than a V3 1000!)
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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	Re: What V3 chip is this? Reply #9 - 30.01.05 at 05:01:49 yeah we can solder our own RAM too. give a V3 DDR3 hehe
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: What V3 chip is this? Reply #10 - 30.01.05 at 10:53:34 Yeah, and then we could put nVidia out of business and resurrect 3dfx. Come on guys, wishfull thinking
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goriath God Member Offline Ruggedized Retro Gamer Posts: 599 Italy/Slovenija Gender:	Re: What V3 chip is this? Reply #11 - 30.01.05 at 13:54:35 Quote: Yeah, and then we could put nVidia out of business and resurrect 3dfx. Come on guys, wishfull thinking Yes! nVidia to DEATH!!! hi hi hi hi....... Yeah! 3dfx will never die
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: What V3 chip is this? Reply #12 - 30.01.05 at 15:35:08 @NitroX - aww, c'mon - it might just be "wishful thinking" but you gotta admit that testing out the beta V3 chip would be cool! 8)
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3Dfx_tweaker

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Re: What V3 chip is this?
Reply #13 - 30.01.05 at 15:48:28

is it a beta voodoo3, it looks more like an early V3. I have seen them before. It could be it is a prototype (pre-release). Anyway, tecnically 3dfx still exists with only 1 employee. So it could resurrect, but don't expect that too happen any time soon. But if people are getting into the improving the reference 3dfx models, I have some ideas Wink

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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: What V3 chip is this? Reply #14 - 30.01.05 at 16:10:54 Quote: But if people are getting into the improving the reference 3dfx models, I have some ideas . Don't get me started on that, I got enough ideas to last me a life time
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