I posted this over at VA, I thought a post here would be good for anyone who missed it-

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/15492-1/3dfx+Voodoo+Napalm+Prototypes.jpg

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/15250-2/200411522159_6000LOT.jpg

Back in the day (very late 2000 or early 2001 I assume), some guy named Clay Woodson from Texas found a box of V5-6000... In a dumpster.

Several of the boards showed up on Ebay late 2001 and spring of 2002. As you can see in the picture, there were two very unique boards in the lot, one being the Comdex '99 board and an Intel 1500 with extra fans.

Talking to several folks from 3dfx, they indicated the extra fans had been stuck on the ram chips as a joke.

After Clay sold it on Ebay.. the board vanished without a trace.

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/15263-2/DSCN0289.JPG

Till now =)

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/v/3dfx_collectors/collectors_gdonovan/clay+v6k/

The board functions perfect in DOS and has 16 color function in Windows. When windows loads the driver to swap color depth, it just black screens. I'm going to try a different test platform than my KT-266 to see if I can get into 16/32 bit color.

It might be chipset/motherboard related, or something to do with the board driverset.

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/15521-1/v6k_1500_bios.jpg

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/15528-1/v6k_1500_testing.jpg

:o respect!

Make you wonder how many other boxes of 3dfx proto-cards went out the back door into the dumpster :'(

OMG! A working Intel bridge rev. 6000 card! Gary = the borg king allright! If I may, I just have 2 questions:
-If the bridge chip (Intel or Hint) can overheat and burn up or cause serious problems, why you guys, the owners of such rare pieces do not attach ontop of the bridge-chip some heat-sinks or even with a fan, like a VGA or chipset cooler, Just to be on the safe side?
-@ Gary: Is that a Epox 8KHA+ MB?

wrote on 28.08.06 at 06:15:18:

-If the bridge chip (Intel or Hint) can overheat and burn up or cause serious problems, why you guys, the owners of such rare pieces do not attach ontop of the bridge-chip some heat-sinks or even with a fan, like a VGA or chipset cooler, Just to be on the safe side?

Its never happened to be, but then again I never overclock with a V5-6000.


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Is that a Epox 8KHA+ MB?

Yes, it's the platform I use for most of my testing.

Are there other working V5 6000 cards with Intel bridge chip out-there? I had the ideea that those rev. have a very short life expectancy... Even if there were other working Intel-bridge rev. 6k's, it still is a fabulous catch!
Sorry for the off-topic... but I want to say that I also use now a Epox 8KHA+ MB and I like it very much. Very well built item; it can take a Barton 3000 CPU (tested); best performance for a KT266A based board; very good stability; great compatibility with 3DFX cards! I had to buy mine deffective and I fixed it myself so that is why I like it even more...
Back on track: Please, Gary, after (and if) you have this Intel 6000 in perfect working condition, maybe also in FSAA modes, could you do some benchmarks compared to a Hint-bridge based 3DFX Voodoo 5 6000? Thanks

wrote on 28.08.06 at 15:13:19:

Back on track: Please, Gary, after (and if) you have this Intel 6000 in perfect working condition, maybe also in FSAA modes, could you do some benchmarks compared to a Hint-bridge based 3DFX Voodoo 5 6000? Thanks

Chances are the board will never be in "perfect condition" since the Intel revisions were a bit shaky, the last supported driver revison was 4/12/00, uncertain motherboard support, early VSA chip revisions, etc.

Comparing an Intel revision vs a fully reworked 3700A would hardly be fair considering how many strikes would be against it.

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/15714-1/intel_properties.jpg

Regardless of clockspeed, driver or bios this board only works in single chip mode. At best I was able to launch and get banding for a half second before locking up.

I'm going to check in a few days the ram chips as Hank mentioned in the past about bad connections on the pads. This very well could be the problem, I'll look close over the rest of the board too in case something else was knocked off in the past.

To recap- 1500-A1 with BIOS 1.06 or 1.16b both at 166 mhz clock work, the early drivers (March/April 2000) DO NOT work with this board regardless of BIOS.

You will get a black screen as soon as Windows loads up.

No problem with the Epox KT-266 chipset motherboard I'm using with Windows 98SE.

hehe nice Gary Well the driver does read 4 Chips and 128MB of ram so @ least that it working but 166Mhz for an Intel card is pretty fast hey :) I do remember that your other Rev.A1 1500 aka this one:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/15717-1/3dfx+Voodoo+5+6000+AGP+Euro+3.jpg

That one only ran 100Mhz Core/mem was that because it was one of the first Rev.A1 1500's with a very old bios?

wrote on 31.08.06 at 12:27:46:

That one only ran 100Mhz Core/mem was that because it was one of the first Rev.A1 1500's with a very old bios?

All the bios I have seen so far (.25, 1.03, 1.06) have all been clocked at 166mhz.

hmm I thought your other Rev.A1 1500 had bios 0.28 ?

If it does do a bios dump with that and give that one a shot, just an idea though.

Nope, I'm content with the bios I'm currently using- The board works and I'll no longer tempt fate flashing the bios unless there is good reason to do so.

yeah got a point there :) just did recall that there was a 0.28 bios on the other Intel unless I'm really confused hehe

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I'm going to check in a few days the ram chips as Hank mentioned in the past about bad connections on the pads. This very well could be the problem, I'll look close over the rest of the board too in case something else was knocked off in the past.

Hope you have a heat gun to fix them @Gary! ;)

Heat gun, soldering iron, etc.

No problem!

I have to get together with Hank next week as I'll be busy this weekend..