A PCI model of 3dfx' Voodoo3 2000. Not much to tell about this board. The design of this board is different then the first 3dfx prototypes which looked more like the Voodoo Banshee. Hence the Voodoo3 would initially be called Banshee II.

The Voodoo3 2000 PCI has a 6 layer PCB as seen on the picture . > Read more

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

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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 seller told me it was an engineering sample. > 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 Quake 3.

The card is a Dell Voodoo3 3000. It has a late production date so it's probably used internally at Dell. > 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 someone decided to remove the Avenger chip . > 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 a quite rude way. Components nearby 'suffered' from this as well. I noticed the PCB is not straight as well, it's bended.

All with all the board does not function. Nothing is detected when it's inserted in a PC but that's no wonder looking at the condition of the card. > Read more

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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 Velocity can only use one. > 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 gift from someone.

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

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 different as well. The orange capacitor near the AGP connector can not be found on the regular Voodoo3 boards.

Despite the small differences the board runs like any other Voodoo3. > 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 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. > Read more

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

I have lot's of these cards but they are all in AGP. I wonder how it stacks up against it's AGP counterpart. According to benchmarks done with both the Voodoo4 and Voodoo5, I think the difference will be quite small. > Read more