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Naguall Guest	Flashing Voodoo3 11.06.03 at 15:49:22 Well, this seems to be the last frontier for the Voodoo people, so don´t give up ! (All of you) I woul´d like to flash my V3 3000 PCI bios to the one of a 3500, agp of course, in order to overclock my board. I´ve read, someplace, it was already made before with sucess. Any coments?
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FalconFly YaBB Administrator Offline 3dfx Archivist Posts: 2445 5335N 00745E Gender:	Re: Flashing Voodoo3 Reply #1 - 11.06.03 at 22:39:08 Hm, make sure you don't flash a native Voodoo3 3500/TV Bios, since that card is quite different. Rather than flashing I would recommend using one of the available Tools, so that the Card always boots up on 166Mhz initially (in case something goes wrong). That's alot safer, and leaves you with much more flexibility.
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Re: Flashing Voodoo3
Reply #2 - 12.06.03 at 08:58:11

On http://welcome.to/3dfxBios and http://www.v3info.de you can find the latest BIOS files and the corresponding flasher. On this site you also find a BIOS with modified RAM-Timings that allows better overclocking. When i overclocked my V3 3000 AGP from 166 to 183 (the official 10% recommended by the official 3dfx-tools) with the latest official 2.15.12SD (wich has faster RAM Timings than all BIOSes before) i had crashes in 3dmark altough i installed a cooling-fan. When i use the modified 2.15.12SDM (that uses the RAM Timings from a previous version) the system was stable. But i reverted back to 166 and the 2.15.12SD because the 0.4FPS i get from this isn't it worth. If you have a faster CPU overclocking could makes sense but be sure to cool the card. The reason i installed the fan was because the card already get's hot at it's stable 166.

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Andreas

Board: Asus CUSL-2-C (Chipset: Intel i815), CPU: Intel PIII 933, RAM: 2 Infineon 128MB (1 PC133-333, 1 PC133-222) and 1 Infineon 256MB (PC 333-333) SD-RAM, Video: 3dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, TV: LifeView FlyKit (Chipset: BT848, Tuner: No), Sound: Creative Labs Soundblaster PCI 512, NET: 3COM Etherlink XL Combo OS: Windows 98SE with SESP21D, Video Driver: 1.07.00 with GLIDE and OGL from 1.07.00b

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Re: Flashing Voodoo3
Reply #3 - 12.06.03 at 14:49:28

I have just upgraded my PII-350@466Mhz/748mr-PCshits/TNT2-64-PCI 32MB/256MB pc133-cas3 to a PIII-800@897Mhz/cas2, but the framerate in Quake3/Timedemo1 increased just a little, so I thouth if I swap the TNT by the 128 bit/overclocked Voodoo I could take more advantage of the PIII, right?
By the way, I took off the V3/Beta4 drivers initialy, not only to play Fifa2003, but because the quality of the image in other games like Mafia was much better using the TNT with the Omega drivers. In "Mafia" the difference is incredible!

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