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Voodoo 3 3000 "digital video port"?

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First post, by Hamby

Posted on 2019-02-24, 09:55

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So I saw this Voodoo 3 3000 boxed on ebay at what I think is a good price (shipping's a bit much), and on the back of the box I saw a picture of the card with captions pointing to and describing the various attributes of the card... and one line pointed to a set of pins at the top of the card that I thought all vga cards, even ISA had, and said "digital video port"...

So what is that exactly? Is it for connecting to another Voodoo 3? Is it for connecting some special DVI type output plug? Is it for connecting to an LCD display?

or is it just an unimplemented set of pins?

Reply 1 of 4, by rasz_pl

Posted on 2019-02-24, 11:14

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VESA Advanced Feature Connector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature_connector
This video card connector used for?

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Reply 2 of 4, by BinaryDemon

Posted on 2019-02-24, 12:14

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Some Voodoo3 models were starting to experiment with using a DVI output, googling seems to show most of these were Voodoo3 3500 series but doesn’t seem like it was fully DVI compliant (DVI-A?). Could it have been one of those models you were looking at?

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Reply 3 of 4, by rasz_pl

Posted on 2019-02-24, 12:34

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BinaryDemon wrote:
Some Voodoo3 models were starting to experiment with using a DVI output, googling seems to show most of these were Voodoo3 3500 series but doesn’t seem like it was fully DVI compliant (DVI-A?). Could it have been one of those models you were looking at?

3500 is not dvi https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/Voodoo_3_3500_VGA

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