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razrx God Member Offline 3dfx Addict Posts: 839 Great Lakes, Canada Gender:	3dfx Velocity 100 & 200 11.08.10 at 21:44:38 Does anyone have some solid info on the 3dfx Velocity 100 & 200 cards? I have a sealed Velocity 100, but I think I remember hearing that the Velocity 200 never made it to production. More info would be nice as I came across this photo and it looks like there could have been a retail Velocity 200.
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Drakan Player Full Member Offline Lick dat boot boy! Posts: 103 Tank Town Texas Gender:	Re: 3dfx Velocity 100 & 200 Reply #1 - 11.08.10 at 23:05:28 Velocity 100 turns up from time to time and they often only have 8mb vram and is the same as the voodoo 3 except for the disabled TMU. The 200 I have yet to see and I'll have to do my research on that one. I am doubtful it was produced in quantities.
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Drakan Player Full Member Offline Lick dat boot boy! Posts: 103 Tank Town Texas Gender:	Re: 3dfx Velocity 100 & 200 Reply #2 - 11.08.10 at 23:11:26 http://www.beyond3d.com/resources/board/223 http://www.planet3dnow.de/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=3456805
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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: 3dfx Velocity 100 & 200 Reply #3 - 12.08.10 at 08:52:14 12MB on a Velocity 200? it have 16MB and use the same PCB as the Voodoo3 1000 AGP the TMU on the Velocity 100 is deactivated by windows registry, easy to reactivate
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Re: 3dfx Velocity 100 & 200
Reply #4 - 12.08.10 at 18:49:49

Some good info.

However, I did find this: "3dfx sold this card under two names- Provided for sale through Gateway (noted on the bios chip as a V3-1000) it was called "Bonesteel", sold through 3dfx it was a Velocity 100. In either case it was a 143 mhz card with 8 megs of SGRAM and 1 Texture Management Unit disabled via the bios. The cards were identical except the Gateway boot screen identified the card as a V3-1000 and the 3dfx boot screen would state Velocity 100."
-http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/v3.htm

So a Velocity 100 = V3 1000 (just using a slightly modified video card BIOS + a different sticker on the BIOS chip)

So it seems that the Velocity 200 never made it to production then with only nine known prototypes. I did see that other sites confirm the Velocity 200 has 16MB ram.

The box art is very cool. Cool

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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: 3dfx Velocity 100 & 200 Reply #5 - 13.08.10 at 09:18:25 but the TMU is disabled via registry
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Narmounet Junior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 85 France / Blois Gender:	Re: 3dfx Velocity 100 & 200 Reply #6 - 13.08.10 at 15:42:50 I always thought that the Velocity had 1TMU, 8Mb @143mhz while the V3 1000 had 2 TMU, 16Mb @125mhz !
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Drakan Player Full Member Offline Lick dat boot boy! Posts: 103 Tank Town Texas Gender:	Re: 3dfx Velocity 100 & 200 Reply #7 - 14.08.10 at 04:02:38 Personally I think that it was down to cost and most being oem only it is not surprised that few were made.
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