well I do have this sweet info for ya Gary, how 3dfx got to the idea od the V56K, on what happened before it and after it
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hehe about 400 were made and about a mere 37 are found working.
well here is how the Voodoo5 6000 came to it's point.
Voodoo3 1000 8MB SGRAM Strech test board for V56K power supply:
That card was used to test the the amount of power needed to power the Voodoo5 6000
gdonovan owns this device., and he owns way more wierd stuff, here our 3dfx albumsite, thanx to Surrimugge's wishfullness by creating that site, also a very good member from The Jedi Order
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/3dfx_collectorshere the link to most wierdest finds ever:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/album81I hope you will enjoy them
The Voodoo3 strech has the layout of a Velocity-100
here the Velocity 100:
I'm asumeing it has 8MB 5,5ns SGRAM and do you see that white power connector plug above it's VGA out?
That would of been the power connector plug for the Comdex Voodoo5 6000 2x2 design, it fits perfectly in the empty spot above it's VGA out;)
here is what I meant this plug:
here is how I found that, here the streched Voodoo3 Circuit Test Board for Voodoo5 6000 with the white power connector plug above VGA and the front section the layout of that Velocity-100 i mentioned earlier
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and here the 2x2 V56K Rev.A0 41-4999 Comdex card :
and here the precise spot for that white power plug:
anyway, the 2x2 design would of been to expensive so they had to come with something else, so they desinged this type of PCB the Rev.A0.0700:
and the Rev.A0 0700 with chips and Voodoo Volts External 80 watt PSU:
and which was followed by the Rev.A1 1500 model with a better circuit layout, though burnouts still occured with the Voodoo Volts, an internal power linkup would of been a better sollution.:
anyway the Intel boards wern't so stable, they had alot of burnouts, which led to other probelms, the Intel Bridge chip wasn't sufficiant enough, so another design for the bridge chip was needed, to let VSA-100's 3 & 4 communicate better and stabler with Chips 1 & 2, so the HiNT chip was designed and made from which the Voodoo5 6000 Rev.A2 2600 came to be a better design, some versions had 5.4 ns SDRAM at 166 to 183Mhz, frikkn'n fast, that's 11.4 to 12.8 GB per sec!! in memory bandwidth 8O
here the Rev.A2 2600 model:
after the Rev.A2 series 3dfx came with the Rev.A3 series aka the Rev.A3 3400 with 5.4ns Ram and cores/mem @ 183Mhz, a Rev.A3 3500 with 6ns 166Mhz ram and cores also at 166Mhz and a Rev.A3 3700 with a better circuit layout, a remake of the unstable rav.A3 3400.
here a pic of the Rev.A3 3400:
and after that 3dfx finally made a final Revision of the Voodoo5 6000 , the Rev.A 3700 with PCI Rework by the famous 3dfx VSA-100 chief designer Hank Semenic also a True Jedi Master within the Jedi Order:
after the Rev.A 3700 they made a Rev.A 3900 with a 12 layer PCB instead of the standard 10 layer PCB, they did that to improve Stabillity, though it was rather Overkill. here a photo of a Rev.A 3900 with it's external PSU of 50Watts, normally a PCI Rework with Internal Hookup wouyld of been the most obvious way for uset, the external PSU's are very unstable, and they can burn out the card sometimes imedietly, which can be risky at times.
and here a very nice Review of the Final Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700
It is in Germain though.
sorry that my Pics are a bit big, but just to be precise in detail
http://members.aon.at/grandadmiralthrawn/index.htm?http://www.hardoverclock.org/...well after all this 3dfx was go'n down hill like a stone, and they cancelled the Voodoo5 6000 project formely called Napalm 6000, and they continued on the Rampge project aka 3dfx Spectre.
here 1 of the only 3 3dfx Spectre 1000 AGP 32MB DDR SGRAM 128Bit.:
thanx to these photo's I hopely solved a very long waited mystery, and May The Force Be With Us to solve lots more.
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