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Need help identifying an old 3Dfx board

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BenSkywalker

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I have an old 3Dfx board here and I have no idea what it is. It is PCI, has male and female VGA plugs on the back I'm assuming for a passthrough cable. There are no heatsinks or anything for cooling on the board. It is huge in size, has three chips on it(two are the exact same, one is the same size but with different numbers) and 100MHZ RAM chips, very small ones, covering the board. It is on a black PCB. Anyone have any ideas?

Someone bought a PC used from someone, anyway it is running WinXP Pro and the whole thing is hosed(how they bought it) and this looks to be from an era where there aren't going to be any drivers for it.

Any help greatly appreciated.
 
Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
I have an old 3Dfx board here and I have no idea what it is. It is PCI, has male and female VGA plugs on the back I'm assuming for a passthrough cable. There are no heatsinks or anything for cooling on the board. It is huge in size, has three chips on it(two are the exact same, one is the same size but with different numbers) and 100MHZ RAM chips, very small ones, covering the board. It is on a black PCB. Anyone have any ideas?
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Voodoo 2s had the dual VGA connectors of opposite gender on the back for SLI, so I would bet that that's what it is.
 
Originally posted by: chsh1ca
Originally posted by: BenSkywalker
I have an old 3Dfx board here and I have no idea what it is. It is PCI, has male and female VGA plugs on the back I'm assuming for a passthrough cable. There are no heatsinks or anything for cooling on the board. It is huge in size, has three chips on it(two are the exact same, one is the same size but with different numbers) and 100MHZ RAM chips, very small ones, covering the board. It is on a black PCB. Anyone have any ideas?
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Voodoo 2s had the dual VGA connectors of opposite gender on the back for SLI, so I would bet that that's what it is.
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Not quite. The SLI cable was inside, it was a ribbon cable that connected the two cards and they had to be installed in two adjacent PCI slots. The male and female on the back of the card was because the Voodoo 1 & 2 were 3D only cards. There was a passthrough to plug in your 2D card. The monitor plugged into the Voodoo and then a cable ran from the Voodoo to the 2D card.

Edit: And yes, I'm almost positive that's a V2. The V2 had 2 texture units, and I don't recall what the 3rd was offhand.
 
Edit: The card in the picture is an STB BlackMagic3D Voodoo 2.
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That's it, greatly appreciated Aftermath. 🙂

Sitting in the rig it makes the Riva128ZX it's sitting next to look miniscule. There are drivers for it under WinXP? Greatly appreciated VIAN. Rereading my initial post I should have included that I figured it was either a V1 or V2, I just didn't recall them having that many chips on board(the only 3dfx part I have on hand is a Voodoo3). Now I have to try and find a passthrough cable and see if I can get the thing working after I wipe the BIOS and HD and fix everything they have screwed up on the software side 🙂

Anyone happen to know where I can pick up a passthrough cable? To the best of my knowledge the people who purchased this are only going to be using it for browsing and email, and they have a Riva128ZX in there so there is some 3D functionality, so I was thinking about perhaps buying this board off of them to throw in one of the kids Win9X rigs(they have a lot of games that refuse to run on Win2K/XP) and get some of their old Glide based games running better then they are currently. If I were to do that, anyone have an idea what would be a fair price to offer them? I want to give them what the board is worth, and they may decide they want to keep it which wouldn't be a major issue(and will make those XP drivers very handy 🙂 ) for me but I am curious.

Thanks a lot for everyone's reply, now I know what I'm dealing with here 😀
 
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