Hey that's an AAlchemy 4116. The smallest model with 4 Voodoo3 Chips and 16MB per Chip, so 64MB of memory. The design is great, the gpu's are mounted on the back to enable a better cooling.
Via the two LAN ports the card can be connected with other 4116 AAlchemy in SLI. Damn fast for a Voodoo3 but nothing compared to a AAlchemy 8164 with 8x VSAA-100 and 512MB.


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But how about geometry assistent ? That was originally used in the old 3dfx Tools, but he's right I can't find it in the new ones.
Does anybody have the 3dfx tools with geometry assistent and FSAA demo key ?

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I wrote him but he didn't answer.

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yepp, don't worry about that, it's normal.

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Is anybody here able to fix a broken Rev 3700A ?
The card doesn't even show a bootscreen. Only the fans are rotating and the screen is remaining black.

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"one thing I am curious about:
Would it be possible to replace the VSA-100 chip with a VSA-101 chip and than replace the memory with DDR-SDRAM?"

Yeah - how about replacing the chip of a Voodoo2 1000 through a VSA-200 Rampage and then adding 2GB BGA DDR-Ram with 2NS. Than we could probably clock the Voodoo1 at 1000MHz at least. And don't forget Hardware T&L and Pixel Shader. For people who want to keep there Voodoo Graphics 4MB the mod can be done as well: but only with 1GB DDR.
Sorry guys but what are you thinking ? Have you ever seen a VSA-101 ? You CAN'T get them unless u pay a fortune for them. AND:
DDR memory has a completely different design. SO IT SIMPLY DOESN'T FIT. If you want to change that, you can build a new card, that's probably easier. Anyway, eben if you can manage to change the SD memory of a Voodoo5 it would be damn expensive.
So don't even ask for a mod for the Voodoo2. Don't waste your time and spam, just go to Ebay and buy a Voodoo5 for 20$. That's much faster than any modded Voodoo2.
Sorry but stop spamming, just accept that it is much too expensive to use anything else than just normal SD memory.

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The card look nice but you still won't find anyone who will change it against his EXTREMELY RARE engineering board.

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@osckhar

your information is wrong for the most part. The price is more depending on the card itself then on the revision. If you find a good working Rev1 1600 with 166MHz it may be worth more than a non stable running Rev3 3000.
Most of the 3700 revision are similar and therefor you could calculate a price but even between the 3700 series some versions aren't running stable as well.
The worth is also depending on the accessory; if a VoodooVolts is included or if it has the power mod.

"wasn't the last revision worth something like € 650?"

Not sure about that, most people would be happy to get a broken one for 500.
But of cause 1600 Euro for a 3700A1 is more than funny, as the card isn't better than any other final revision.

@osckhar: probably I could get you a bugfixed final rev for 900


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As I already said it doesn't matter what manufacterer it's from, as long as the memory does have the same layout.( different design -> even can't be installed on the card ) Therefor you could take Mitsubishi or Infineon....and so on. Out of ram 3dfx used Toshiba is the best memory to overclock.
Please don't ask if you could DDR2 ram cause you can't !
The memory needs to be normal SD-Ram in the same design as the normal memory already used on the Voodoo5.

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they should be faster and have more capacity. It's not important by what company it is made.

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Is it possible to integrate HSR( Hidden Surface Removal ) in the Amigamerlin ? I'm not sure whether is has to be existent in hardware or if it could be done in Software. If it was possible it should improve the framerates quite a bit.

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It Is possible and has been done by software. Even a TNT2 was running in SLI, but I don't know if they had to modify the cards.
Probably not, cause SLI should be enabled through their driver even if it is non existent in Hardware.


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That the guy from x3dfxgamers modded the Voodoo5 is not confirmed yet as he never posted a pic. As he says his father owns a company which does electrical engineering. If that's true modding the card ( soldering the 720 pins ) should be possible. I think you need machines and you can't do that with your hands as the soldering points are simply too small.

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one card is always a little bit faster than two cards in SLI.
That may be possible with Voodoo5 PCI cards, but they would have to be connected somehow.
Even if you manage to connect them two cards, they will only do 4xFSAA - as far as I know...

Megabyte wrote a driver - it has never been released -  where they got 2 Banshees to run in SLI. Voodoo3 3000 PCI cards were running as well. The driver is not available to the public as Megabyted suddenly stopped to work on Hardware, but that shows a Voodoo PCI SLI is possible.

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http://www.ystart.net/index.php?do=upload

Try this and show us your 5000.

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