3dfx Voodoo3 3000

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 and booted Windows. I installed both the driver for the PCI card as the Voodoo3 driver and checked specifications with V-Control. I noticed 'AGP Enabled' and both 'AGP 1x' as 'AGP 2x' were not ticked. The clockfrequency was 143MHz so this is actually a Voodoo3 2000 with TV-out and a Voodoo3 3000 heatsink.

At the time I got the board I noticed that some capacitors near the RAM were missing. I replaced the capacitors but this didn't help in getting the board fixed. Notice that this Voodoo3 3000 is doing it's job with one capacitor less (See upper right of the board) and just works fine.

Specifications

Chipset

Avenger

PCB date

9943

Chip date

9945

RAM

16MB SDR 7NS (SEC)

Interface

AGP

Condition

Card only

TV functions?

Yes

Engineering sample?

No

RAMDAC

Integrated

Board revision

C

Drivers

Driver name	Release date	Operating system	Download	Info
3dfx Voodoo3 V1.07.00	2000-11-22	DOS Win95 Win98 Win98SE WinME	voodoo3-10700.zip...	Link
3dfx Voodoo3 V1.03.00	2000-11-22	Win2000 WinXP	voodoo3-win2k-1030...	Link
3dfx Voodoo3 V1.07.00b	2001-01-31	DOS Win95 Win98 Win98SE WinME	voodoo3-10700b.zip...	Link

Benchmarks

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