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Title: Quantum3D Voodoo2 card unidentified
Post by profvonhelsing on 19.07.11 at 12:11:21

Hi can anyone help me identify this card please, I have looked all over the web and cannot find it anywhere as yet, it seems to have some additional work done to it at some time, I have taken some pictures and will try and work out how to display them here, it looks like a Obsidian2 S12 card but this looks to only have 8mb ram, and also says Quantum3D Voodoo2 4440.

http://i52.tinypic.com/72u2pd.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/xoiq8l.jpg

http://i54.tinypic.com/30a5av4.jpg

http://i51.tinypic.com/33y27pw.jpg

Title: Re: Quantum3D Voodoo2 card unidentified
Post by ultima on 19.07.11 at 19:46:43

how do you figure it has only 8MB of ram?? I see 12 chips in total, looks to me a model with 1MB chips instead of 512KB chips.

Title: Re: Quantum3D Voodoo2 card unidentified
Post by profvonhelsing on 19.07.11 at 20:27:05

12 chips on the front, 4 chips on the back = 16 chips x 1/2 meg = 8 meg. see picture 3 and 4 for the full front and back of the board.

Also I have noticed that the voodoo chipset numbers are different from usual (TMU 500-0006-04 and PFI 500-0007-05) as in the link below. but I think The card date is 51st week of 97 according to the board.
I have a feeling this could be an engineering prototype?

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/pro_v2.htm

Title: Re: Quantum3D Voodoo2 card unidentified
Post by rottentreats on 19.07.11 at 21:55:46

I can't find anything on a card that looks like that. Looks like a proto with all the little reworks. (and just the lack of information on the web)

Looks very similar to 50-4400TV, maybe it's an early version of that without the fully name... and according to Gary's site "Rare, only one seen." http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/q3d_obsidian.htm

Is the card functional?

Title: Re: Quantum3D Voodoo2 card unidentified
Post by profvonhelsing on 19.07.11 at 22:07:36

I don't have the output cable but the card is recognized and the drivers load and show in system devices as voodoo 2 video card, I could test it fully probably on a separate monitor to the card without the need for the cable?
To me it looks like a proto of s12 card as the chip config look the same, there are 5 reworks on the board in total, the quantum3d voodoo2 4440 is the part I can find nothing on!

Title: Re: Quantum3D Voodoo2 card unidentified
Post by NitroX infinity on 20.07.11 at 00:33:42

I think you have an engineering sample/prototype here. The naming scheme is related to that of the Voodoo Graphics cards from Q3D. Probably from before they settled on the S-12/90-2440 names.

Could have been a prototype for an intended S-8 or a 8MiB arcade version (90-4220?). The name on the board is probably because they used a board from the S-12/90-2440 engineering samples/prototypes.