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Old 05-July-04, 02:41 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I did a little sleuthing and with some help from they guys at voodoofiles.net, I have discovered I have a rare Voodoo 3 2000 prototype card. In BIOS it says 'Voodoo 3 2000 LC', it's a 16mb SGRAM card and looks like a Voodoo Banshee. It's PCI, and has solder joints for 4 more SGRAM chips. It runs considerably hotter than my Voodoo 3 2000 which has the same cooler modded onto it. It also performs better than my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, in Halflife it didn't lag even on the big maps.

Yes, you heard me. I modded a $1,000 3dfx prototype card. Oops.
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Yeah, your still crazy.
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I did a little sleuthing and with some help from they guys at voodoofiles.net, I have discovered I have a rare Voodoo 3 2000 prototype card. In BIOS it says 'Voodoo 3 2000 LC', it's a 16mb SGRAM card and looks like a Voodoo Banshee. It's PCI, and has solder joints for 4 more SGRAM chips. It runs considerably hotter than my Voodoo 3 2000 which has the same cooler modded onto it. It also performs better than my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, in Halflife it didn't lag even on the big maps.

Yes, you heard me. I modded a $1,000 3dfx prototype card. Oops.

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What is it that you modded? Why can't you put it back to stock?

Is that the card that can run SLI mode?
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i think he put a pentium heatsink on it like his other ones.
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But he didn't say shwinn or stormdrain.
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No this isn't an SLI card. Just got out of Halflife and this thing is slaughtering my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI.

Ya I have the stock cooler but I would rather make good use of the card than have it sit on the shelf and collect dust.

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