This card has all the bits to become a working card except for the 3dfx 'Avenger' chip itself. It was either a card that was never finished or perhaps once it was fitted with a Nepente socket. The socket can be used to insert 3dfx chips and has a lifetime of around 100 insertions. This saves time on... > Read more

A nice engineering sample! This is probably how the Voodoo3 PCI would like if 3dfx did not acquire STB.

The card has no Avenger chip installed and the PCB uses aluminium interconnects. I have another engineering sample which uses copper interconnects. This card would suffice using the aluminium b... > Read more

A Voodoo3 PCI prototype with chip! The only one I have of this kind. The chip has model number 500-0016-05. It also has a marking E#12 which is unclear to me. Probably some batch number.

Someone once fiddled around with the components on the PCB. The FET near the PCI connector has been removed on... > Read more

On the outside it looked like an ordinary Voodoo3 3000 with a fairly early PCB-date. However, after removing the heatsink I found an interesting twist: the 355-0017-010 chip is used in both the Voodoo3 2000 and 3000 cards but early chips were rated 2000 or 3000. My card looks like a 3000 but apparen... > Read more

An early production Voodoo3. Interesting is the chip under the heatsink: it has the old 3Dfx-logo and the old Voodoo3 logo.... > Read more

A 3dfx Voodoo3 in one of the iconic 3dfx retail boxes. By the time the Voodoo3 hit the shelves (and 3dfx bought STB) 3dfx moved away from third-party resellers (like Diamond and Creative) and started selling their own cards. In my opinion they did a good job in designing their retail boxes because t... > Read more

Perhaps a RAM test board. It has 'Siemens' RAM which is not common on 3dfx cards. Notice the Avenger chip (or actually not), it's removed. It also lacks a FET.

The board has an engineering sample attached which says 'locks instantly in Quake 3'. The RAM test probably failed somehow on which someo... > Read more

A Voodoo 3 3000 with the usual bits attached: 16MB 6NS RAM, TV-Out and a 'new' style 3dfx logo printed on the chip.

I have a couple of Voodoo 3 3000 cards. Some do appear to be identical at first glance but there are several small differences. A few being:
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A gift from someone.

This is a normal production board with a 355-0017-011 chip dated 19th week of 1999.... > Read more

The US version of 3dfx' fastest Voodoo3 card. The US version has NTSC support and a box that is written in English/American. European versions are PAL and have German, Dutch and Norwegian translations on them.

The Voodoo3 3500TV is clocked at 183MHz which is 17MHz faster than the Voodoo3 3000. Ho... > Read more

A budget version of the Voodoo3. Due it's low clockfrequency (125MHz) it doesn't need a heatsink at all. The card runs slower than the Velocity 100 (143MHz) but runs ahead in the benchmarks. This is because the Voodoo3 1000 can access two TMU's where the V... > Read more

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A Voodoo3 3000 without TV-out. It's a Voodoo3 that once was in a Dell system.... > Read more

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The BIOS decal notes 'Gateway V3 1000 2.15.06' but apart from that the card is the same as an 3dfx Velocity 100. In Gateway systems this card was sold as a budget Voodoo3 rather than a Velocity.... > Read more

I have a lot of Voodoo3 3000 cards with AGP-connector, but with PCI-connector tends to be more rare. This particular card even has Siemens memory chip which you don't see often on a Voodoo3 card!... > Read more

A Dell OEM prototype without TV-out and 5,5NS RAM installed. 5,5NS RAM can handle 183MHz but the chip (and thus the RAM) on this board only runs at 166MHz.

The card has no signs of being a prototype but it came along with my other Dell prototype and the se... > Read more

A gift from someone who found out I was collecting 3dfx cards.

This is a clean and normal four-layer Voodoo3 2000 PCI board. It has the usual black heatsink (few people have them silver) and regular 6NS EtronTech RAM.... > Read more

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A PCI model of 3dfx' Voodoo3 2000 in it's original box. Starting with the Voodoo3, 3dfx decided to sell cards only under the 3dfx-brand. Companies like Diamond, Guillemot and A-Trend were left out so they weren't allowed to bring Voodoo3-based cards on the market anymore (which a few exceptions late... > Read more

This board looks like a normal production board. Though I'm told it was an engineering sample and this can be confirmed because the card has an engineering-tag attached.

The tag says 'Q3 hung after 2783 16 hours'. I'm not sure what the 2783 means but the card was probably not stable enough to run... > Read more

This is an oddball as it has 7NS RAM modules meaning the RAM is specified for 143MHz! A normal 3000 should run at 166MHz and therefore use at least 6NS RAM. Firing this board up didn't work as I hoped as I had no VGA output. Luckily enough the system did recognize the card so I popped in a PCI card ... > Read more

Looks and is pretty much the same as this Compaq/3dfx Voodoo3 1000. Except for the RAM chips the cards are identical.... > Read more

A Voodoo3 3500 without the TV-tuner of the normal 3dfx Voodoo3 3500, it only has TV-out.

3dfx made the card for Compaq systems to provide Compaq with a decent 3D card but without the somewhat sluggish cable of the normal 3dfx Voodoo3 3500TV-card. Compaq also wanted a digital output on the card fo... > Read more

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Normal, but unfortunatly broken, Voodoo3 PCI model with SGRAM. I have no idea why this card doesn't work and actually it was already broken before I even got it! ... > Read more

A regular Voodoo3 3000 PCI. I removed the heatsink to see which chip had been hiding for all those years: a 355-0024-030 . Part of the number is not visible in the picture because the letters stuck to the bottom of the glue on the heatsink .... > Read more

What initially appears to be just another exactly the same Voodoo3 3000 AGP turns out to be slightly different again. I have a couple of Vooodoo3 3000's and some have different RAM-chips, a change in the sticker on the BIOS or differences in the 3dfx Avenger chip.

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This is my first 'Made in China' Voodoo3 3000 board. It has a 'Made in China' sticker on the front of the PCB, no push-pins to mount the heatsink so this means it is glued. Normal Voodoo3 boards have some adhesive tape which is sticky but not as hard as glue. Some components on the board are differe... > Read more