[NTLUG:Discuss] VooDoo3 "1000" AGP

[Steve Baker]

al wrote:
> 
> Steve Baker wrote:

> > Are you sure it isn't a V2?   3Dfx make a Voodoo-2 board
> > that's labelled V2-1000, but as you say, there isn't a
> > V3-1000.

> yes its a V3 1000 16MB SGRAM AGP
> as its manual and box label says

Wow!  Well, it's not listed on the 3Dfx web site - and they
stopped OEM'ing their chipsets - so all Voodoo-3 cards are
made by 3Dfx.

> Iam using it now
> I know V2 too (the feed thru was what kept me from buying 3d for the
> early years)

OK.
 
> it is an oem"whitebox" from Fry's that I got for $69
> all other V3s that I have seen cost twice that for AGP

Yep - exactly.

$69 is less than they charge for the V2-1000!
 
Well, if it's really a V3 then you are good to go. What's
the problem?  Install the Voodoo-3/Banshee drivers, GLIDE
3.xx and Mesa 3.1 or later and you are in business.

I wonder where thay cut corners?  You seem to have the same
amount of RAM as me (16Mb - right?) and I can't believe they
built a new low-end chip...I can't imagine what could be missing.

Perhaps they didn't bundle the usual collection of crap Windoze
games with it?  I dumped the ones that came with mine.

I guess you could compare the specs on your board to my V3-2000.

V3-2000:
   AGP 2x
   16Mb SDRAM
   143MHz core clock.
   300MHz RAMDAC
   Single-pass single-cycle multitexture
   DVD hardware assist (not that this is gonna help you under Linux)
   128bit 2D accellerator.
   Max screen res 2046x1536 at 60Hz  (But with only 16Mb RAM, you aren't
   gonna get much texture or Z buffer!)

They also claim:

   6 Million triangles/sec  (yeah - right - with a 10GHz CPU maybe!)
   286 Megatexels/sec       (that's true actually - it can do that)

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