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Hi all here's the info that you all asked to be replaced and how I went to this research.
3dfx.ch/gallery/ and x-3dfx.com and I thought Id' show you something after all the weeks I have been trying to get it working with SLI under 98SE so here are my results of my 5000 AGP Research
here's a world owner's list I made of all Voodoo5 5000's out there:
So since there isn't much known about the numbers of this card I though to make a world owners list for it and find this out for just that part.
The other V5K Lists can be found here:
x-3dfx.com
V6K Team
3dfxzone.it
x-3dfx.yuku.com
Thandor.net
Here's a world owner's list I made of all Voodoo5 5000's out there:
So since there isn't much known about the numbers of this card I though to make a world owners list for it and find this out for just that part.
V5K Different type amount | Revision | PCB Date | V5K Total amount
«» 2 | Rev.A0 | 4899, 3700 | 2 «»osckhar
«» 2 | Rev.A0, Rev.A1 | 0900, 3700 | 2 «»G1nX
«» 2 | Rev.A0, Rev.A1 | 0900, 3700 | 2 «»gdonovan
«» 2 | Rev.A0, Rev.A1 | 0900, 3700 | 2 «»Rolo01
«» 1 | Rev.A1 | 0900 | 1 «»
«» 1 | Rev.A1 | 0900 | 1 «»
«» 1 | Rev.A1 | 0900 | 1 «»
«» 1 | Rev.A0 | 3700 | 1 «»Nightbird
«» 1 | Rev.A0 | 3700 | 1 «»
«» 1 | Rev.A0 | 3700 | 1 «»Torch
«» 1 | Rev.A0 | 3700 | 1 «»
Total PCI Rev.A0 4899's: 1
Total PCI Rev.A1 0900's: 6
Total AGP Rev.A0 3700's: 8
Total Voodoo5 5000 PCI's: 7
Total Voodoo5 5000 AGP's: 8
Total Voodoo5 5000's Overall: 15
Here some information about the 3 Voodoo5 5000 variants, which can be read here:
So some of you may think 3 types of 5000's what in the world? heh well I'll explain that here
3dfx Voodoo5 5000 PCI Rev.A0 4899
The first ever built 3dfx Voodoo5 5000 was a PCI Variant which is a Rev.A0 4899 [week 48 , year 1999]
This card is packed with hand done reworks and it runs cores/mem 100Mhz.
The card's Bios is 1.00a and it boots only in single chip showing that the card only has half of the total 32768KB / 32MB of ram which is 16384KB/16MB.
osckhar is the only person in the world with this card
The cool thing is that this card used to be from Guru Of 3Dsince it was tested here:
http://guru3d.com/tech/cebit2000/index3.html
here some pics of it:
"The Voodoo 5 above is based on the version A0 VSA-100 silicon, it still has some bugs in it and it can't run on the speed that it's supposed to do. The final Silicon (which is going into mass-production quite soon) will run on 166MHz compared to the 100 MHz A0 version that was presented to me."
I also found this driver for the Voodoo5 5000 @ Guru Of 3D
I also found this driver for the Voodoo5 5000 @ Guru Of 3D
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Voodoo-5...nload-151.html
3dfx Voodoo5 5000 PCI 32MB Rev.A1 0900
The Rev.A1 0900 [week 09, year 2000] is the second PCI variant of the Voodoo5 5000 as the first Voodoo5 5000 of year 2000.
It did have a few modifications as it has no more hand done reworks which resulted a much cleaner PCB layout.
It also has some differences from the Capacitors it has compared to the older Rev.A0 4899, the Rev.A0 4899 used the older SMD like Capacitors small flat square ones where as the Rev.A1 0900 used the more modern type round sealed capacitors.
The Rev.A1 0900 runs cores/ram 143Mhz ths faster than it Rev.A0 4899 brother, it also had better SLI support and at boot up it also posts the cards full ram amount of 32768KB/32MB of ram.
after this model there were no other PCI variant made I suppose the entire 5000 project was put aside until week 37 of year 2000 3dfx gave it another go.
There is a review of the Rev.A1 0900 over here at HardCorp from Kyle Bennett himself, only that review is somewhat lost I did find the same review on Tweakers.net with Kyle's comments
http://tweakers.net/nieuws/9753/3dfx...-pci-pics.html
3dfx Voodoo5 5000 AGP 32MB Rev.A0 3700
The Rev.A0 3700 is the last known Voodoo5 5000 every made by 3dfx and it's also the first 5000 that uses the AGP connector as this one even uses the AGP x4 connector it runs @ AGP x2 66Mhz Bus with 3.3Volts only.
As you can see 3dfx also redesigned the 5000 AGP's layout hence it uses a much shorter PCB
The reason why 3dfx made this card with an AGP x4 connector is somewhat strange, since they never anticipated to build an AGP x2 model they just went on and made it like this instead which still troubles my mind as that of others.
This card runs cores/ram 166Mhz and has Bios 1.15 it also reports it's full ram capacity @ boot up which is 32768KB / 32MB.
The Rev.A0 3700 [week 37, year 2000] is also the most stable as well known 5000 out there though that it's such a late variant of the card type it's self, most 5000 keepers have this card, some have it because it is the odd ball of the 3 5000's and some have it because of it's rarity factor amongst other Voodoo5 AGP cards it's a famous collectors item as which goes for any Voodoo5 5000 variant.
There is a review of my first Voodoo5 5000 AGP 32MB Rev.A0 3700 which showed my results of the card in action with SLI and FSAA x4 modes under 98SE NL + UnOfficial Service Pack 2.03NL @ 3dfxzone.it:
http://www.3dfxzone.it/news/puntatore.php?uid=2417
If there are more people that needed to be added just post here or just ring a bell via PM.
So after completing this part I started to work with the 5000 AGP it's self see what secrets it had and why so many had troubles by getting it's SLI working.
After 5 years of looking around I finally purchased the 3dfx Voodoo5 5000 PCI 32MB Rev.A1 0900:
This one is unique it has the original Engineering's Tag aka E-tag , a small paper tag with the test results from the Engineer that worked with the card back in it's testing days in the 3dfx Lab of Santa Jose.
It's 1 of 2 known in the world with the E-tag.
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