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.

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In case you want to run Windows 9x or 2000 on a slower system you'd better install the 3dfx Voodoo4/5 V1.04 reference driver first. In case you run Windows XP and/or a faster system (AMD Athlon 1400MHz or faster) the latest SFFT driver might be a good idea.

Those who want to run the Voodoo3 3500TV better download their driver here. The Voodoo3 3500TV uses TV functions which require special drivers. As the Voodoo3 3500TV is unique in one way, less driver support can be found. Most people don't use the TV functions anymore these days.

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