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V5-6000 "1500 A1" Clay from Texas lot.
27.08.06 at 22:52:11

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

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.

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.

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Thema Senior Member Offline Hardcore Powah Posts: 485 Slovenia Gender:	Re: V5-6000 "1500 A1" Clay from Texas lo Reply #2 - 27.08.06 at 23:10:49 respect!
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: V5-6000 "1500 A1" Clay from Texas lo Reply #3 - 28.08.06 at 05:17:57 Make you wonder how many other boxes of 3dfx proto-cards went out the back door into the dumpster
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Re: V5-6000 "1500 A1" Clay from Texas lo
Reply #4 - 28.08.06 at 06:15:18

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?

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Re: V5-6000 "1500 A1" Clay from Texas lo
Reply #5 - 28.08.06 at 12:37:56

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-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.

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Reply #6 - 28.08.06 at 15:13:19

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

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Reply #7 - 28.08.06 at 17:12:18

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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.

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Reply #8 - 31.08.06 at 05:05:02

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.

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: V5-6000 "1500 A1" Clay from Texas lo Reply #9 - 31.08.06 at 12:27:46 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: 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?
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: V5-6000 "1500 A1" Clay from Texas lo Reply #10 - 31.08.06 at 12:41:22 Quote: 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.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: V5-6000 "1500 A1" Clay from Texas lo Reply #11 - 31.08.06 at 13:05:58 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.
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: V5-6000 "1500 A1" Clay from Texas lo Reply #12 - 31.08.06 at 14:20:22 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.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: V5-6000 "1500 A1" Clay from Texas lo Reply #13 - 31.08.06 at 14:38:30 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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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: V5-6000 "1500 A1" Clay from Texas lo Reply #14 - 31.08.06 at 22:25:45 Quote: 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!
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