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osckhar God Member Offline www.3Dfx.es Posts: 812 SPAIN Gender:	Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results Reply #60 - 06.07.05 at 11:48:48 @Obi, Can you put any PIC from COMDEX99 V5 card? Oscar
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results
Reply #61 - 06.07.05 at 11:58:25

this is the card you mentioned indeed a Rev.A1 0900:

I meant this little critter the Rev.A0 4499, see the DVI traces above it's VGA Wink

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I wondered about the comdex 1999 5500 AGP with the DVI traces in it's PCB, it has AGP x2. does it really work, and if so, does it work at cores/mem 100Mhz?

Thanx ,
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Ben Kenobi.

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osckhar God Member Offline www.3Dfx.es Posts: 812 SPAIN Gender:	Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results Reply #62 - 06.07.05 at 12:39:37 @Obi, Nope, this is other early rev V5 card with NOT FOR RESALE tags. It is the rev 1900 A0. It was a gift from 3Dfx to an Editor (Hardware Reviews) from Uk. My V5 rev 0900 A1 is very similiar to the utilized in the COMDEX'99. It also has DVI SPOT but It works to 143MHz. Oscar
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results Reply #63 - 06.07.05 at 13:02:30 yeps, that's right Thandor the Dual head 5500 AGP is infact the comdex 1999 card but then the second VGA fitted, the comdex card would of then be followed by this design:
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results Reply #64 - 06.07.05 at 13:11:16 yes I fixed that problem in my post, but then again, I still think that the 5500 AGP x4 with DVI would of been a better choice, cause nearly every high end card had a D-sub and DVI with the Dual head function like ATi and Matrox.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Reply #65 - 06.07.05 at 20:57:19

So your Rev.A0 1400 is this one has 2x 4.7 volt quills at the card's end:

but what about this one, is it a Rev.A1 0900 this one also has 2x 4.7 volt quills at the card's end:

it refers to this 1999 comdex model, the one pictured here below should be a Rev.A0 4599, it has no quills at the card's end but two black condensators., where and who has this card.

so it's gotta be a Rev.A0 4999 .

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Thandor

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Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results
Reply #66 - 06.07.05 at 21:35:56

Hmm, the Comdex '99 is probably older then Gary's Dualhead V5 5500 AGP. Gary's card has 2 coils.

So there is still a possibility that the Comdex '99 card didn't work. Although the cards must be brothers/nephew's in some way. (In other words, the Comdex '99 is not much older that Gary's card)

Or they removed the black chips and installed the coils manually ? Roll Eyes

(Obi-wan --> Condensatoren --> Capacitors Wink

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Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results
Reply #67 - 06.07.05 at 21:51:46

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So there is still a possibility that the Comdex '99 card didn't work.

I suspect you are right since we know the other cards didn't work and based on the time frame.

The date on the back of the PCB is when the PCB was made, not the whole card was up and assembled

(they can be close but it should be noted)

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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results Reply #68 - 06.07.05 at 23:29:29 coils please not 'quills' - ???
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results Reply #69 - 07.07.05 at 01:38:47 what's a quill then? the same I thought I think my english is deteriating ... 11 years of Australia, after that 15 years of The Netherlands, onwhich much explain my problem I will use coils next time
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results
Reply #70 - 07.07.05 at 15:41:59

the first ever Voodoo5 5500 AGP had Dual head:

well this picture is the comdex 5500 AGP:

there is always a bigger one of it:

By the looks of it, it does have traces, so maybe it has real Authentic 3dfx VSA-100's onit afterall.

I wonder what happened to it, really, it's one of my favourite Voodoo cards around.
So Osckhar's version of it :

is actually the modified version of the Comdex 1999 card, it has coils Wink

instead of 2 square like condensators, so the 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB comdex 1999 card is still out there somewhere.

after Osckhar's model the final product was meant to be like this Prototype:

so that would complete the 5500 AGP's past on how it was designed, the AGP x4 models were actually meant as updated models, for newer motherboards I think.

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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results Reply #71 - 07.07.05 at 17:01:38 Quote: Hmm, interesting. Note : This card only got 1 coil That's because the other is broken off/missing. I doubt the Comdex board worked, 3dfx had problems getting single chip cards working at that point let alone 5500's.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results Reply #72 - 07.07.05 at 17:58:36 the only what to find that out is to find it and take it for a nice price and then check if it does really work for the yes or the no. But I'm wondering if it is still out there, yet it may be destroyed, that would be a shame, let's hope that it will pop up one day.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results Reply #73 - 07.07.05 at 22:39:07 Quote: Broken off is a bit strange since the chip direct under it is also missing. I did say broke off/missing. If it was removed, it was a pretty sloppy job.
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: VSA-100 board testing... surprising results Reply #74 - 08.07.05 at 05:21:43 Hmm... Is it my new laptop or is the link broken to the pic above for a close-up?
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