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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Engineering Samples? [56K Warning] Reply #15 - 18.11.05 at 22:36:32 okay okay, ... but they never used black pcb
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Engineering Samples? [56K Warning] Reply #16 - 18.11.05 at 23:38:23 gary, why does the first card, that voodoo 2 6MB has a CE marking??? does your card also have CE ? i think this is uncommon for a prototype... or is it an engieering sample? cause its intended for EIDOS game testing (this is confirmed!)
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Engineering Samples? [56K Warning] Reply #17 - 19.11.05 at 12:28:52 Quote: ... but they never used black pcb 3dfx? Actually aside from the Obsidian boards there was a run of preproduction voodoo 3 that have black pcb. Yes the 6MB cards I have also have CE on the back.
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Engineering Samples? [56K Warning] Reply #18 - 19.11.05 at 14:12:58 strange! why CE on a prototype? perhaps because theese cards were given out, like mine, to Eidos QA ?!
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Engineering Samples? [56K Warning] Reply #19 - 19.11.05 at 15:02:16 Quote: strange! why CE on a prototype? They were slated for production by a major company, maybe 3dfx thought they would just try and get ahead and the gamble didn't pay off.
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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	Re: Engineering Samples? [56K Warning] Reply #20 - 03.12.05 at 19:49:35 QA my guess = quality assurance? since now I am in the OQA department which stands for Outgoing Quality Assurance
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Reply #21 - 03.12.05 at 21:54:05

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edit: got it! it's "EIDOS Quality Assurance"
found it with google: http://www.eidosinteractive.co.uk/corporate/inside_qa.html

so 3dfx sent those cards to EIDOS... to test theier games with the newest VGA cards...

holy crap, i am damn happy

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and that first Voodoo2 has 8MB, at least it's written on the backside...

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