3dfx Voodoo5 6000 & Voodoo5 5000 World Owners Lists & Research :)

As descent 1,2 and 3 go I used my 3dfx Engineering Samples to test this thoroughly , here the entire Voodoo5 5000 & 6000 owner lists and Research

Aloha everyone

Yeah some might think this topic again well after all the issues from other places from TM, I wanted to post my own creation here where it can be undisturbed from that odd person and maybe others, on all the other 3dfx forums I have deleted and ended this topic.

So again, here is the updated World Voodoo5 5000 & 6000 lists and I also added the Know Hows and the Vodooo5 5000 world owner lists & research.

The World Voodoo5 6000 List

Listing of defect cards:

V6K Different type amount | Revision | PCB Date | V6K Total amount

«» 3 | Comdex, Rev.A0,Rev.A | 41-4999, 0700, 3900 | 3 «» gdonovan
«» 2 | Rev.A0, Rev.A1 | 0700, 1500 | 3 «» Omega_Supreme
«» 1 | Rev.A0 | 0700 | 1 «» Kyle Bennett
«» 1 | Rev.A2 | 2600 | 1 «» Nightbird
«» 1 | Rev.A3 | 3400 | 1 «» Simon3D
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Tim
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» GrandAdmiralThrawn
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» cUsLs
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Chosen_One
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Wild_Bill

Total Rev. 41-4999's: 1
Total Rev.A0 0700's: 3
Total Rev.A1 1500's: 2
Total Rev.A2 2600's: 1
Total Rev.A3 3400's: 1
Total Rev.A 3700's: 5
Total Rev.A 3900's: 1

Total of defect 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 AGP's: 14

Listing of functional cards:

V6K Different type amount | Revision | PCB Date | V6K Total amount

«» 5 | Rev.A0, Rev.A1, Rev.A2, Rev.A3, Rev.A | 0700, 1500, 2600, 3400, 3700 | 7 «» gdonovan
«» 4 | Rev.A1, Rev.A2, Rev.A3, Rev.A | 1500, 2600, 3400, 3700 | 8 «» osckhar
«» 3 | Rev.A2, Rev.A3, Rev.A | 2600, 3400, 3900 | 3 «» Omega_Supreme
«» 2 | Rev.A3, Rev.A | 3400, 3700 | 2 «» Nightbird
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 2 «» Murfi
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 2 «» Lt.Com.DATA
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 2 «» SnaG
«» 1 | Rev.A2 | 2600 | 1 «» G1nX
«» 1 | Rev.A2 | 2600 | 1 «» Rolo01
«» 1 | Rev.A2 | 2600 | 1 «» SK1
«» 1 | Rev.A3 | 3400 | 1 «» feinripp
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» m14radu
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» razrx
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Corsworth6K
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Max_R
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» neurocrash
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» rimshaker
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Ricednet
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Mikepedo
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Amigamerlin
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» OcTaGuNs
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» 666psycho
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Backfire
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Raff
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» SATKABEL
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» exxe
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» gtxe
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» masterj85
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Raziel
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Tweakstone
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Fish
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» guenter.f.68
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Hiero
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Zilch
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Voodoo_Freak
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» dborca
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Torch
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Tomcat
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Surrimugge
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» xr4y^
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» zzyzzyxx
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» yjfy
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Wang Fei
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» cUsLs
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» ALT-F13
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» KokoHemmo
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» roflkopp aka Mr.LoLMan
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» ps47
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Corn
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Markus

Total Rev. 41-4999's: 0
Total Rev.A0 0700's: 1
Total Rev.A1 1500's: 4
Total Rev.A2 2600's: 6
Total Rev.A3 3400's: 5
Total Rev.A 3700's: 53
Total Rev.A 3900's: 1

Total of functional 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 AGP's: 70

Total of all cards with all functional Voodoo Volts:

V6K Different type amount | Revision | PCB Date | V6K Total amount | Large Legacy VV | Small Legacy VV | Late VV

«» 7 | Comdex, Rev.A0, Rev.A1, Rev.A2, Rev.A3, Rev.A | 41-4999, 0700, 1500, 2600, 3400, 3700, 3900 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 4 «» gdonovan
«» 5 | Rev.A0, Rev.A1, Rev.A2, Rev.A3, Rev.A | 0700, 1500, 2600, 3400, 3900 | 6 | 2 | 3 «» Omega_Supreme
«» 4 | Rev.A1, Rev.A2, Rev.A3, Rev.A | 1500, 2600, 3400, 3700 | 8 | 2 | 3 «» osckhar
«» 3 | Rev.A2, Rev.A3, Rev.A | 2600, 3400, 3700 | 3 | 2 | 1 «» Nightbird
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 2 | 2 «» Murfi
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 2 «» Lt.Com.DATA
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 2 «» SnaG
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 2 «» cUsLs
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 | 1 «» rimshaker
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 | 1 «» 666psycho
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 | 1 «» Tim
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 | 1 «» razrx
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 | 1 «» exxe
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 | 1 «» KokoHemmo
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 | 1 «» zzyzzyxx
«» 1 | Rev.A0 | 0700 | 1 «» Kyle Bennett
«» 1 | Rev.A2 | 2600 | 1 «» G1nX
«» 1 | Rev.A2 | 2600 | 1 «» Rolo01
«» 1 | Rev.A2 | 2600 | 1 «» SK1
«» 1 | Rev.A3 | 3400 | 1 «» feinripp
«» 1 | Rev.A3 | 3400 | 1 «» Simon3D
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» GrandAdmiralThrawn
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» m14radu
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» neurocrash
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Corsworth6K
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Max_R
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Ricednet
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Mikepedo
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Amigamerlin
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» OcTaGuNs
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» roflkopp aka Mr.LoLMan
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Backfire
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» SATKABEL
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Chosen_One
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Wild_Bill
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» gtxe
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» masterj85
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Raziel
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Tweakstone
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Fish
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» guenter.f.68
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Hiero
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Raff
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Zilch
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Voodoo_Freak
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» ALT-F13
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» ps47
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Torch
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Tomcat
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Surrimugge
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» xr4y^
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Corn
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Markus
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» dborca
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» yjfy
«» 1 | Rev.A | 3700 | 1 «» Wang Fei

Total Rev. 41-4999's: 1
Total Rev.A0 0700's: 4
Total Rev.A1 1500's: 6
Total Rev.A2 2600's: 7
Total Rev.A3 3400's: 6
Total Rev.A 3700's: 58
Total Rev.A 3900's: 2

Total of 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 AGP's: 84

Total of V6K People: 57

Listing of Voodoo Volts:

VV Different type amount Large Legacy VV | Small Legacy VV | Late VV | Total amount VV

«» 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 «» gdonovan
«» 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 «» Omega_Supreme
«» 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 «» osckhar
«» 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 «» Nightbird
«» 1 | 2 | 2 «» Murfi
«» 1 | 1 | 1 «» rimshaker
«» 1 | 1 | 1 «» 666psycho
«» 1 | 1 | 1 «» Tim
«» 1 | 1 | 1 «» razrx
«» 1 | 1 | 1 «» exxe
«» 1 | 1 | 1 «» KokoHemmo
«» 1 | 1 | 1 «» zzyzzyxx

Total Large Legacy VV's 3
Total Small Legacy VV's 6
Total Late VV's: 20

Total of 3dfx Voodoo Volts: 29

Total of VV People: 12

Here a pic of the Large & Small Legacy Voodoo Volts + the Late Voodoo Volts just to get the idea


HANDLE WITH CARE!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8s9dmuAKvU

The Voodoo5 6000 Motherboard List

Compatible Mainboards for V6K's
Abit Sa7 (SiS645dx) Rev. 1.2 (latest BIOS) compatible Rev.A 3700
SIDENOTE: If 98SE is used, the latest Raziel Evolution Driver is needed, Amigamerlin + Reference Drivers will cause the System to lock up in 3D Apps (no further drivers tested). No Problems under XP with reference drivers, Amigamerlin, SFFT, none further tested
Asus P4S533-E (SiS645dx) Rev. 1.04 (BIOS 1006 and 1008Beta tested) compatible Rev.A 3700
ASUS P3B-F (i440BX, v1.04): compatible (tested BIOS up to 1006, higher BIOS versions result in no-vga beep) Rev.A3 3400
EPoX EP-BX3 Rev.A2 2600, Rev.A3 3400, Rev.A 3700 compatible
EPoX EP-8K3A Rev. 1.0 Rev.A 3700 compatible
EPoX EP-8K3A+ Rev. 1.1 Rev.A 3700 compatible
EPoX EP-8K5A2+ Rev. 1.2 Rev.A2 2600 & Rev.A 3700 compatible
EPoX EP-8K5A3+ Rev. 1.1 Rev.A2 2600 & Rev.A 3700 compatible
EPoX EP-8KHA VIA Apollo KT266(A) compatible Rev.A 3700
Intel OR840 (i840, v701, v702, v703, v704): compatible
(v702 tested extensively, tested BIOSes include IBM and Intel original BIOS v225, v235, v248 and v255 versions (255 got a bug with FSB133 stability though, 248 recommended)) Rev.A3 3400
Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW-P Rev: 1.0 Rev.A 3700 compatible
SOYO KT333 ULTRA DRAGON compatible, Rev.A 3700
Tian Ji Motherboard 815 ET Rev.A2 2600 compatible Tested by Edmundoab in Kuala Lumpur in a computer store. specs of this mini ATX P3 mobo here:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/230676156/Tian_Ji_Motherboard_815_ET.html

Partly Compatible Mainboards for V6K's
ASUS P3C-E (i820): partly compatible (runs, but HB1-SE66 heats up abnormally during POST and operation, confirmed to pose a real danger to the bridge chip! Do NOT try! If you absolutely have to, using a heatsink for the HB1-SE66 bridge chip is a must!) Rev.A3 3400 & Rev.A 3700
MSI KT3 Ultra2 (KT333 CE) partly compatible Rev.A 3700
Tyan Tiger 760 MPX Rev.A2 2600, Rev.A3 3400 & Rev.A 3700 partly compatible
Tyan Thunder K7X Pro Rev.A2 2600, Rev.A3 3400 & Rev.A 3700 partly compatible

Incompatible Mainboards for V6K's
ABIT BX6 (i440BX, v1.0): incompatible (no POST) Rev.A 3700
ABIT BE6-II (i440BX, v1.1): incompatible (no-vga beep) Rev.A 3700
ABIT ST6-RAID (i815EP, B0 Step): incompatible (no-vga beep) Rev.A 3700
ASUS A7A266-E incompatible, Rev.A 3700
ASUS A7M266-D Rev.1.01 incompatible, Rev.A 3700
ASUS TUA-266 Rev. 1.01 Rev.A 3700 incompatible
ASUS A7V333-R Rev. 1.02 & 2.00 Rev.A 3700 incompatible
Soyo 6BA+IV (i440BX): incompatible (no-vga beep) Rev.A 3700

The Voodoo5 6000 Know Hows

To be added to my Wold V6K Lists I will need some small info from your card(s) so hereby this quick guide that will show you how to identify your Revision and PCB date of your Voodoo5 6000 video card(s)

To find the Revision on your card you'll have to seek the Rev location which is mostly on the topside's tails end which sits above the 2000 3DFX INTERACTIVE inprint; just above the TIVE part of that phrase over here:


Which looks like this enlarged:


This counts for all cards.

The Revision can also be found on the rear of the cards some near the 3dfx logo near the backplate and some others on the rearside of the tail's end. All revisions are placed behind a card PCB number, with a Rev.A 3700 for example the Rev is located here:


Which looks like this enlarged:


The "A" is the Revision of the card which reads that this is a Rev.A

The Revision on a Rev.A0 0700 is found elsewhere just on the rear side of the card's tail's end and it's printed in dark green, so you'll need a sharp eye to spot this


This is what you must seek very big scan photo!


The same counts for the Rev.A1 1500 cards, only their revision is printed in light olive green so it's easier to spot.
which can be seen here:


For all the cards that are Rev.A2 2600 to Rev.A 3900 the Revision is placed near the backplate as shown with the Rev.A 3700
here an example with a Rev.A2 2600 from Omega_Supreme:


As you can see the Revision is A2 on this one which is placed behind it's PCB part number.

As for the PCB dates this is a different issue, a PCB date on a Voodoo5 6000 is placed in a seperate order first the week date number then the year date number.

As for that Rev.A2 2600 it's PCB date is located on the rear side of it's tail's end as you can see it reads 2600 week 26 of the year 2000.

This counts also for the Rev.A1 1500 and the Rev.A0 0700 , only this last mentioned card has it printed in white, which can be seen here:


It's very small but readable and looks like this as shown on gdonovan's blank PCB'ed Rev.A0 0700:


As for the Rev.A3 3400, Rev.A 3700 and Rev.A 3900 the PCB date is placed near the backplate, the 3400 is the only one where the PCB date is located slightly closer to the backplate like so:


It's just under the Pc2A 94V-0 white inprint, Which reads 3400 week 34 of the year 2000.

And for the Rev.A 3900 it's located here very big scan photo!:


For the Rev.A 3700 it's located here:


Which looks like this in an enlarged format:


Well today was very intersting, as I did some research on the Rev,A0 0700, Rev.A1 1500 and Rev.A2 2600 cards,I found out that these also have a U509 and that them Intel boards the Rev.A0 0700 and Rev.A1 1500 have not only a U509 but also a U508!!

I can show you also

Look closely:

here the rear side of Omega's Rev.A2 2600 right


Here is where I found it's U509, I circled it!:


The Rev.A0 0700 and Rev.A1 1500 are more intersting these have not only a U509 chip ... but also a U508 chip!!!!
Look here!!!

Omega's Rev.A0 0700


Here I circled U508 and U509 on Omega's Rev.A0 0700:


Here a Scan of a Rev.A1 1500:


Here I circled U508 and U509 on that scanned Rev.A1 1500


Here the H 509 of the Rev.A3 3400:


Here the U509 of the Rev.A 3700:


Here the U509 of the Rev.A 3900:


Since the rear layout of the Rev.A3 3400, Rev.A 3700 and Rev.A 3900 are identcal, here I show you where U509 on these three can be located:


It's that long narrow chip just left from the 3dfx logo.

The World Voodoo5 5000 List

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 «» guenter.f.68
«» 1 | Rev.A1 | 0900 | 1 «» DeadEye
«» 1 | Rev.A1 | 0900 | 1 «» Kyle Bennett
«» 1 | Rev.A0 | 3700 | 1 «» Nightbird
«» 1 | Rev.A0 | 3700 | 1 «» Murfi
«» 1 | Rev.A0 | 3700 | 1 «» Torch
«» 1 | Rev.A0 | 3700 | 1 «» Exxe

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

The Voodoo5 5000 Know Hows

Hi all

This will be a quick guide that will show you on how to find the Revision and the PCB date of your Voodoo5 5000 video card(s).

Since there are 3 different Voodoo5 5000 revisions and there are quite a few people that have one, two or even three I think even for such a small amount of people such a guide can always come in handy, especially for the people that just received a 5000 based Voodoo5 card.

So here we go shall we

To find the Revision of your Voodoo5 5000 PCI card isn't that hard it's located on the top right corner of both PCI revisions, just along side the backplate:

Here my ex- Voodoo5 5000 PCI Rev.A1 0900 which belongs to Rolo01 now:


which looks like this:


And here osckhar's Rev.A0 4899:


which looks like this:


With the 5000 AGP where only one revison variant of exists it's located just infront of the AGP connector like my ex 5000 AGP shows which is now G1nX's card:


which looks like this:


As for the revision on the rear sides of these cards, that isn't hard either all three cards have very clear inprints of their PCB part numbers and just behind that number the revision is shown like the following:

for Rev.A0 AGP:


The AGP cards have their Revision located on their rear sides just between the rearside of the VESA connector and just above the top SGRAM chip from the main VSA-100 and it's shown like this just under the NFR's which are mostly located near it's PCB part number, so hereby the Revision won't be hard to find on the AGP cards either


The Rev looks like this on the PCI cards:


As for the PCB dates it's the same as with the Voodoo5 6000's first the week number and then the year number

So if we have a Rev.A1 0900 the card is from week 09 of the year 2000.

The PCB date can befound near the 94V-0 inprint:


For Rev.A0 PCI, it's located almost on the exact same spot, but it's more to the left than that of the Rev.A1 PCI V5K's PCB date location:


The PCB date of the Rev.A1 0900 is printed in white like so:


As for the Rev.A0 4899, it looks like this:


This card is from week 49 of the year 1999 , making the the oldest known of the Vodooo5 5000 cards.

As for the AGP cards the PCB date is located near the 3dfx logo, just bottom right of it:


The PCB date looks like this:


The card is from week 37 of the year 2000.

The Voodoo5 5000 Research

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 3D since 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
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Voodoo-5-5000-Windows-2000--v1.04b-download-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-voodoo5-5000-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 croes/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.

The Voodoo5 5000 Research Continued

Finally the day has come and I haven't made pics of it yet, but will post them later this day, here is a screen shot of the card installed


it's at the least some little evidence that I got it working

So here's some more

Star Wars Episode I: Racer @ 1024 x 768 x16 in Direct3D + FSAA x4 & LOD -4.


the system setup for testing is the following:

AMD AthlonXP 2700+ Thoroughbred-B
EPoX EP-8K3A+ Ver 1.02
1x 512MB PC3200 CL2 Kingston HyperX @ PC-2700
3dfx Voodoo5 5000 AGP 32MB Rev.A0 3700 with 6ns SEC SGRAM
Creative Audigy2 Platinum

Win98SE NL + UnOfficial Service Pack 2.03NL
AM 2.9 for drivers
3dfx WHQL 1.04.00 for control panel

Just exactly the other way around like I had it last time, just to see if it would make a difference, no lockups so far so that's a new record.

I also found out that the 5000 AGP has some banding when FSAA is enabled in D3D as you might of seen in my racer pics look at the Sky as an example, the 5000 AGP also had a hard time rendering D3D in Racer with as without FSAA I suppose D3D wasn't well supported for the 5000 AGP's.

Without failure I can't agree with since rendering errors like banding for instance isn't some I would accept as perfect image quallity the 5500's and 6000's seem to not have this because they have greater driver supprt and they are more grownup compared to the 5000's.

here another shot of StarWars EpisodeI Racer, as you can see lot's of banding.


I did run some tests in UT GOTYE 1999 in Glide and the 5000 accepted reso's til 800 x600 x16 and not higher..which was with no FSAA , FSAA x2 and FSAA x4, another thing it ran very fluid wwith all three different settings , and how do I make good screenshots in UT GOTYE 1999?

About the reso problem I think I found the problem , the drivers I think, as with my review of the 5000 AGP @ 3dfxzone.it I used drivers from 11 -2 - 2000
http://www.3dfxzone.it/news/puntatore.php?uid=2417

drivers from 11 -2 - 2000


the ones I use now: 11-21-2002:


The ones I am using now like 2 years newer so maybe the older driver may fix this, though I am not so sure about this, since it was some time ago that I ran the 5000 AGP.


Well yeaps that was it alrighty, now I have the exact same driver as back then, which is 11-2-2000:


That lead me to the following conclusion:

Using the AmigaMerlin 2.9 drivers or any other 3rd party driver results instabilities and no higher reso support in UT GOTYE 1999 than 800 x 600 x16.

With the latest 3dfx WHQL drivers from 11 - 02 - 2000 all these problems seem to be resolved.

Though D3D applications still suffer the laggy performance which occurs with as without FSAA modes.

I gotta say, it was a !%@*$ to install as find the correct driver I used about 2 years ago, I even looked up old topics as that review from 3dfxzone.it as the topic which was fixed to it and there I finally got to where I am now.

I only ran Racer and UT GOTYE 1999 as one game at a time.
DXX-Rebirth I have no idea if that will work, because with Win2K Pro + SP4 and the 5500 AGP I used ps47's modified SFFT Alpha 41 driver so since these 3dfx drivers are as raw as the 5000 Prototype it's self I have little doubt that DXX-Rebirth 0.54 will even run at all.

DXX-Rebirth 0.54 @ 1024 768 x 32:



This oughta give this robot the final blow


Well that's DXX-Rebirth 0.54, and heh that robot got PWNed by my 5000 AGP big time


The system setup for testing is the following:

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AMD AthlonXP 2700+ Thoroughbred-B
EPoX EP-8K3A+ Ver 1.02
1x 512MB PC3200 CL2 Kingston HyperX @ PC-2700
3dfx Voodoo5 5000 AGP 32MB Rev.A0 3700 with 6ns SEC SGRAM
Creative Audigy2 Platinum

Win98SE NL + UnOfficial Service Pack 2.03NL
3dfx WHQL 1.04.00 for drivers + control panel

No tweaked drivers just the latest raw 3dfx WHQL drivers just awesome to see such a rare alpha board doing such a great job with Rebirth, kinda amzed here
for the people that want to play DXX-Rebirth 0.54 with their Voodoo5 cards under 98SE here is what you will need:

The latest UnOfficial Service Pack:
http://members.chello.nl/h.nekeman1/98spnl/

There you can click the flag of your nationality and you will be guided to the right site to download the language version of the UnOfficial Service pack you are seeking for.

The Latest 3dfx WHQL 1.04.00 incl 3dfx Tools Control Panel:
http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/voodoo45-10400.zip


DXX Rebirth 0.54, D1X Rebirth = for Descent 1 the other for Descent 2:
http://www.dxx-rebirth.de/?Downloads


To get it going there are some things that needed to be done manually, when starting the game you get to see a small narrow screen with Descent II in it which is about 3 cm in height and stretches out to about three quarters of the screen, just press escape a few times till you get the pilot login screen, there you hit enter then you get to the main menu screen, it may seem strange for the first time and believe me it really is ood , but at the main page try and blindly go to the options , then resolution settings and fist switch to 800 x600 then press spacebar to accept.

after this you get to see more of the screen, and then go to custom and fill in the following:
1024x768 then hit Enter to accept.
Once this has been done manually the screen will ajust it's self to that reso , if you use the 1024x768 reso option from the reso listing, this will not work!

Same instructions go for Win2K & XP with users that have 5500's 6000's as any other type of 3dfx cards from the Voodoo3 1000 and up.

Well people this is all what I have been doing till now, as I made one large post of this important research I have done with the 5000 AGP under 98SE NL + UOSP 2.03 NL and like last time the 5000 works fine under 98SE but under 2K or XP for example it still worked in single chip so that still troubles my mind, it also seems to have trouble with Direct3D applications the banding like in Racer and the laggy rendering performance with or without FSAA.

So I did reveal some new secrets with the 5000 AGP for that part and that it renders XX-Rebirth which uses OpenGL 1.4 code with 3dfx WHQL 1.04.00 , that still amazed me the most.

Well since my 98SE tests are done for D3D, Glide and OpenGL, from here on I will continue with Windows 2000 Professional USA + SP4 & RollUp 1 for SP4 and see If I can get the 5000 installed the proper way as by adding it's ID String to the SFFT Alpha 41 driver it's self :)Well I have used every thinkable way by getting the 5000 AGP to work in 2000, but SLI remains to reject it's proper function.

even installing a 5000 AGP as a 5500 AGP , that did work but I got lots of lines on my screen so I uninstalled the 5000 AGP immediately.

And then I added the 5000 AGP's String to the 3dfx PCI/VEN String List Which is the Subsystem Vendor ID :



After doing that it did install as a 5000 AGP but using the number 847 after the ; didn't resolve a perfect image , the lines apeared again which I didn't get when using 98SE.

So after this I pulled this research to a halt, and decided to work with the 5500 AGP until somebody else comes to a better idea, I really do not know where to look at or what to do after all this work, some replies may help

Anyways here are the photo's of the 5000 AGP , better late than never



There we go, that's the V5K List restored and the entire research, this is the great advantage of backups

Okay the 5000 PCI has arrived today, his name is Gold 2, so as promised, here's some pics:


And the info + research I already did with it:

The card boots with Bios 1.00b and only detects 16384KB of the 32768KB of ram haha


But it seems to run very stable in 2D under a very unexpected OS for a 5000 AGP, Win2K Pro + SP4 anyone?
With SFFT 1.5, I used the latest 3dfx tools for 2K/XP and Q3A detects a Voodoo3 series heh, but FSAA x4 seems to be enabled because I can't see no jaggies, okay 3dfx tools is installed and yes FSAA x4 was still enabled heh all other FSAA modes work fine as well so here some screenshots of the drivers for starters:


I will post some Q3A shots as well so stay tuned

so here are the Quake III Arena screen shots @ 1024 x 768 x16 + FSAA x4 medium Settings in OpenGL API:


But when during testing this run with the 5000 PCI and Q3A I did clearly see the blood as thick as red rain only the sscreenshots they did seem to have lost the blood glotches you'd normally see:


Q3A did crash after 8 minutes of gameplay I suspect it's thelack of driver support hence there was no broken SLI this time as reported with the V5K PCI Rev.A0 4899 & V5K AGP Rev.A0 3700.

So here are the Descent3 1.5 + PyroMania 1.5 screenshots with FSAA x4 but in Glide API max settings:



Even that there was no banding, no glitches but just superb image quallity & gameplay this game also crashed the system after 7 or 8 minutes of gameplay so I guess it's the support again with the drivers under Win2K.

But hey it's all not that bad since this is the first 5000 variant that does show us that it has no Broken SLI under Win2K which is an NTFS OS So this is a leap ahead as know hows go for the V5K'ers out there , I used this setup to run these games under 2000 Pro + SP4

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AthlonXP 2700+
EPoX EP-8K3A+
3x 512MB PC3200 CL2 Kingston Hyper X @ PC2700
3dfx Voodoo5 5000 PCI 32MB Rev.A1 0900 with PC Bios 1.00b
Creative SB Audigy 2 Platinum with the latest Win2K/XP drivers.

SFFT 1.5 as drivers
latest WHQL 3dfx Tools for Win2K/XP
Windows 2000 Professional USA + Service Pack 4 + RollUp 1 for Service Pack 4
Direct9.0c Agust 2007.



So after this there is alot more to do heh this 5000 PCI shall run DXX_Rebirth under 2000 also and after this I will move on to 98SE because I expect it to crash after several minutes of game play, but the graphics as image quality is very stunning as that FSAA x4 & SLI are working still amazes me alot.


So that was the Windows 2000 part now here's 98SE and this is what makes it so interesting the Rev.A1 0900 does nor have a cores/mem speed of 100Mhz Like the Rev.A0 4899 has nor has it have the much higher 166mhz speed of the Rev.A0 3700 AGP variant, it sits actually just in between these two speeds as does the card's revision so yeah this makes sense


There you have it Bios version is indeed 1.00b and it's cores/mem speed is 143Mhz the most speculated as rumored speed of the 5000 PCI Rev.A1 0900 at least we know finally have the evidience to this long asked as rumored mystery And oh the Clock says 04:52 AM , this should give you an idea ion how long I have been tinkering with the 5000 PCI and how addictive this REALLY is man this is so much fun!

The following tests that will occur under 98SE will be the following games:

Under Win2K:
Quake III Arena 1.32
Descent3 1.5+ Pyromania 1.5

Under 98SE:
Quake III Arena 1.32
StarWars Episode I: Pod Racer 1.0
MonsterTruck Madness 2


and a few more runners up.

So Stay tuned for the Win98SE tests I have to admit the 5000 PCI system runs a lot more stable now since the drivers I used detected the 5000 PCI with it's normal string so i guess this was still troubling Win2K.

The System setup I am using under 98SE is the following:

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AthlonXP 2700+
EPoX EP-8K3A+
1x 512MB PC3200 CL2 Kingston Hyper X @ PC2700
3dfx Voodoo5 5000 PCI 32MB Rev.A1 0900 with PC Bios 1.00b
Creative SB Audigy 2 Platinum with the latest Win9.xx/Me drivers.

3dfx 1.04.01 Beta for the 5000 PCI with the latest 3dfx tools of 21 - 11 -2000
DX9.0c August 2007.


Well I have to say I had to change the drivers to 1.04.00 WHQL hence stability issues 3dfx tools is the same I used with the 5000 AGP for stable runs under 98SE 11 / 02 / 2000

So here's StarWars Episode I: Pod Racer results and I have to conclude no stuttery gameplay as I had with the 5000 AGP thus the 5000 PCI only runs @ 143Mhz and it has the 33Mhz PCI bus which makes it alot slower heh really when using FSAA x4 @ 1024 x 768 x16 the gameplay was laggy but at a stable fps rate of 22fps.

With FSAA x2 I got a neat 41 fps so that explains the 5000 PCI's problem as the lagginess goes. it's the cores/mem speed which ade the influences to the lagginess when FSAA x4 was enabled, the 5000 AGP had very opdd effect when you read back it didn't matter if it ran in Single chip dual chip without FSAA as with FSAA x2 or x4 , sometimes Racer ran fluid and at busy spots it froze for a second and aftert that the lagginess was so intense that it wasn't playable.

So here are my results so far I have to admit the 5000 PCI is far more stable than the 5000 AGP and the odd thing it's 20 weeks older too, I wonder why heh.

First pic is with FSAA x4 the second is with FSAA x2:


There was some little banding but not as bad as with the 5000 AGP, soon more pics of Pod Racer I will keep you all updated.

I ran Monstertruck Madness 2 & Quake3 also only I couldn't find a way to make screenshots but these two ran perfectly with FSAA x2 and x4 settings as the graphical detail goes about , only these crashed after 27 minutes of game play, which was 15 minutes of MonsterTruck Madness 2 and 12 minutes of Quake III Arena heh after that crash lol.

So During the game play I was like mope 98SE isn't it either, then it became all clear it must of been the card how it reacted and so on, even that it has 5 very small reworks I think @ 3dfx they were experiencing the same as they were trying to fix the card with small hand done wired reworks , I think this

Well after the lockups appeared under 98SE I was ended up thoughtless on what to do next, so I PM'ed osckhar about the situation and he advised me to use 2K with the latest 3dfx WHQL driver and to downclock the 5000 PCI to 100Mhz with V.Control heh

So I installed Win2K pro and installed that precise driver and then V.Control and O couldn't get the card lower than 130Mhz and after using this setting the system crashed immediately so I suppose the rev.A1 0900 brought new problems with it heh not saying that every Rev.A1 0900 is like this because there have been reports of stable runs.

So from this point this was my Voodoo5 5000 research I hope you all have enjoyed it as how I have been progressing on with these rare Voodoo5 5000 cards

At least I found out the true speed and bios'es of these two fantastic prototypes they both have stability problems but that the 5000PCI works under Win2K with SLI was something Id' just never expect

Well I hope you all like the new layout, I have fused all the sub projects lists researches and such as one major subject, I hope you will enjoy it and I had to redo this because I could no re-edit the old lists and info if info had to be added in the future.

For VA members that might get a Voodoo5 5000 or 6000, feel free to post here and I will update it, I posted the lists here to preserve them, as I have aborted all the others on the other 3dfx websites.
I did this to protect the lists and the holders of the cards.