Help me identify this card...

[batchman107]

i don't have a digicam near me, so i'll have to describe it:

-Black PCB
-Video-in, video-out
-ICS Gendac chip
-2x 3Dfx chips, labelled 500-0010-01
-1x 3Dfx chip, labelled 500-0009-01
-12x 100MHz memory chips
-PCI
-Made by STB in 1998

anyone know what it is?

 

[Skot]

It's a Voodoo2.

 

[batchman107]

yeah yeah so i lied. i'm lazy. anyway, i busted out the digicam from my car (which is all the way across the parking lot) and took a picture:

/me slaps forehead

what, you can't post pictures up in here?

linkoriffic <-- there's the fukan pic.

 

[Skot]

Dude. I just told you it is a Voodoo2 (12 MB version). No need for pics.

 

[batchman107]

So sue me if i want reassurance. sh!t, jump on my back, assclown. i'm used to asking second opinions, so let me have my way.

oh yeah ... there are 12 more chips on the other side i forgot to mention. so it's the 24 meg version. nyah.

 

[Skot]

They didn't make a 24 MB version. That's just how the memory is layed out.

 

[CZroe]

Yeah, it's a Voodoo2. It was capable of running with a second Voodoo2 in &quot;SLI Mode&quot; as most will nastalgicly inform you. They made 6 &amp; 12MB versions BUT there is a version with 2 Voodoo2s in one card (Like this appears to be... 24MB). The reason it has Video in/out is because it is only a 3D card, not a full-fledged 2D/3D VGA card w/ 3D accel. so it requires a stand-alone 2D VGA card; same as the Voodoo1. Having 3D drivers for a separate device wasn't a problem back then when there weren't really any 3D standards in the home PC. That's why Glide was made (No, NOT to force a &quot;3dfx only&quot; game API on developers/consumers as many will say). It's like &quot;OpenGL Lite&quot; because there were no full-OpenGL implementations in consumer products back then.

 

[Skot]

Actually, they made 8 and 12 meg versions, no 6 megers.

And if this one were one of those with SLI on one board, there would be 4 500-0010-01s and 2 500-0009-01s, but there's only 2 and 1 respectively. So, it's a 12 MB. Those are probalby 512kB chips.

 

[CZroe]

Really? Hmm... Well, I think this is important enough to mention: The 24MB ones didn't come close to todays 32MB cards because the memory wasn't shared. Exact duplicates of most data was copied to both cards memory, so almost all performance gain from SLI was from the second processor only...