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Re: Pentium 3 Katmai System

Posted on 2019-12-28, 17:02

Knowing ECS for their cheapness, go ahead and replace ALL capacitors. Believe me, I had ECS boards work just sweet (ECS K7VZA being an example) after replacing ALL capacitors on the board. I did replace the BIOS on my K7VZA tho (with the BIOS from a Chaintech board) but that should not be needed in …

Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2019-12-28, 02:12

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This is my truck, it's a 1990 Chevrolet C1500. This photo was taken by my Father before I purchased it from him. He called me one day and said "I want to sell the blue truck on Kijiji", so I went there and bought it from him.

Re: Voodoo 3 3000 - 5ns ram - Upgraded Cooling!

Posted on 2019-12-27, 01:20

IMHO it's not worth gambling with your card's lifespan anymore. This was done 20 years ago mostly because hardware was advancing at a ridiculously fast pace, cards were worth peanuts after a year of release and people felt they deserved to get more value out of their money. Nowadays, using a 1ghz …

Re: Voodoo 3 3000 - 5ns ram - Upgraded Cooling!

Posted on 2019-12-26, 04:33

I'm actually not having much luck finding good info on this mod, if you have a link to anything about that would be much appreciated. Here's a russian article with schematics: https://overclockers.ru/lab/show/15283/Voodoo_3_razgon_s_pristrastiem Be warned though, you'll get only 10-15Mhz increase. …

Re: Voodoo 5 5500 - Worth money?

Posted on 2019-12-25, 17:39

Stealth for sale threads are now a thing? Lol If that's what people think this post was about then someone please go ahead and delete this thread. I was genuinely surprised to see those stupid dollar amounts on ebay. The card is NOT for sale and will NOT EVER be for sale. Merry Christmas everyone.

Re: Voodoo 5 5500 - Worth money?

Posted on 2019-12-25, 17:38

If you are just going to throw it in your scrap bin... then why not at least offer it to somebody for the price of shipping? I've got the feeling that the whole thread only exists for the reason to get offers for the card via PM, bypassing the forum rules... :angry: Yeah... no. I am not selling it.

Re: Voodoo 5 5500 - Worth money?

Posted on 2019-12-25, 06:16

If you are just going to throw it in your scrap bin... then why not at least offer it to somebody for the price of shipping? You could also probably get a bit for it on eBay even with it not working. Guys it's not going in the bin to be forgotten forever. I'm extremely sick right now, in a few …

Re: Voodoo 5 5500 - Worth money?

Posted on 2019-12-25, 05:15

PCBONEZ wrote: I'm talking about the RAM on the card. Bad RAM on a video card can cause beeps too. . That's what I thought you meant, just making sure. Nothing I can do about those ram chips being bad though, so back in the bin for now.

Re: Voodoo 5 5500 - Worth money?

Posted on 2019-12-25, 04:52

I think you give up too easy. These have been showing up with bad caps more and more often and beep codes might mean a bad RAM chip. . A bad RAM chip? As in on the Voodoo card? The system ram in both systems I put the card in is definitely good, 48hrs+ on memtest86. Also both those machines work …

Voodoo 5 5500 PCI

Posted on 2019-12-25, 04:00

So digging around in my old hardware boxes I came across what I think is a Voodoo 5 5500 PCI version. I'm going to test it out in a minute in a PC and I'll post some pictures of the card. Anyway I searched on ebay and there's 2 listings for V5 5500's and both are well over $500 CAD. That seems crazy …

Re: Voodoo 3 3000 - 5ns ram - Upgraded Cooling!

Posted on 2019-12-25, 02:33

You probably need a volt mod to get 200mhz stable unless you get lucky with a golden sample GPU. That's what I've come to understand through my readings. My V3 is 6ns but behaves similarly, 190mhz seems stable, 195mhz boots but gets flaky under load. I only saw ~2 fps difference on a K6-3+ so I …

Re: Voodoo 3 3000 - 5ns ram - Upgraded Cooling!

Posted on 2019-12-23, 20:08

The card came in today and I found it was getting scary hot with the standard passive cooler. So I took off the cooler, cleaned off the thermal material that was on the chip and heatsink, replaced that with some CoolerMaster branded stuff and installed a small Vantec brand cooler onto the heatsink. …

Re: Pentium 3 Katmai System

Posted on 2019-12-23, 19:22

P3-500 and Voodoo 3 came in today. Neither works in this motherboard. I'm sick as a dog today and stayed home from work. Looks like this PC is sick too. heh. Voodoo 3 works nicely in my Athlon XP 2000+ machine. I'm going to shelve this project for a while, this board has been kind of weird since day …

Re: Pentium 3 Katmai System

Posted on 2019-12-13, 20:50

Well the project has begun. I found an extra ide compactflash adapter so I'm going to use a 64gb card in there instead of an old ide hard drive. This motherboard is a little quirky, some bios settings don't seem to actually work. Specifically the onboard sound stays turned on regardless of the …

Re: Voodoo 3 3000 - 5ns ram?

Posted on 2019-12-13, 20:13

Some V3 3000 wil OC to 200 MHz, even those with 6 or 5.5ns RAM. Hovewer with 5ns the chance is quite high. :happy: I second this. I had a voodoo3 years back with 5ms ram that overclocked well over 200mhz, Keep in mind I had a mild volt mod on the card. Without the volt mod it maxed out around …

Voodoo 3 3000 - 5ns ram - Upgraded Cooling!

Posted on 2019-12-12, 20:18

I'm putting together a slot 1 machine and last night I ordered a Voodoo 3 3000 on ebay. Looking at the ram chips it seems like it might be 5ns ram. Does such a thing exist? I've never seen any better than 5.5 in person. Attached is a pic from the auction where you can see the ram pretty good.

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