Hello all,

Well I have some good news for you 3dfx Voodoo3 3500 TV AGP 16MB users/owners, as that I did some useful research last night, it's that some time ago I bought a M1-DA to VGA convertor cable and thought to put this thing to use, the VGA connector is male so to solve that I used a VGA/SVGA DB15 D-SUB 15 Pin 3 Rows Female To Female Mini Gender Changer Adapter on it's male 15 pin D-Sub connector, that way I could connect the CRT to it and presto this worked!

The image quality is fine to around 1600x1200, I have 1024x768x32 and yea no issues at all, bottom line is that is much less strain on the 3dfx Voodoo3 3500 TV AGP's M1-DA connector, this is my goal so I wont have to use that horrible blue 3dfx IO Pod anymore 😎

So I bought this M1-DA to Male VGA Convertor cable on ebay in China for around 23 Euros incl shipping from China to Netherlands, it may not seem great, but it's much better than even I had expected, it fits very easily, no need to bend out the shielding of the 40+5 pinned M1-DA connector on the cable, it fits easily.

But hey it's a solution right! So with this you won't have to overpay yourselves for a Voodoo3 3500C + TV-Out Compaq board, so I thought to at least test this and see what it does and post it here as it does actually work!

Here the ebay seller I got mine from:
https://www.ebay.ie/itm/387155543843

Just make sure you add a VGA/SVGA DB15 D-SUB 15 Pin 3 Rows Female To Female Mini Gender Changer Adapter between this and your monitor, aka one of these:
https://www.ebay.ie/itm/133567891402

With that you're good as gold, it's a fantastic solution for us Voodoo3500 TV AGP users alike

Also you don't need to use the extra USB connector that comes with it, just the heads up for those wondering.

Hereby saving everyone money in the end, here how I connected the M1-DA to VGA Convertor cable to the 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 TV AGP 16MB Rev.A 3199 and the Compaq S710 17" Blackshade CRT

Here the insides of this beauty:

Here the M1-DA to VGA convertor cable:

And here the VGA/SVGA DB15 D-SUB 15 Pin 3 Rows Female To Female Mini Gender Changer Adapter which you do need to make it work:

All working as it should do and just letting other Voodoo 3 3500 TV AGP owners know that this methods works very well and can be seen as a low cost solution as well and with this ideal solution you won't have to use this horrid large and heavy blue 3dfx IO Pod anymore:

For every problem there is always a solution, that is the how we think at x-3dfx and if I find out something helpful I'd gladly share it.
Happy weekend everyone 😎

Today on March 19, 2026 a very nice and very hard to find ATi Radeon/R6 AGP 64MB 128Bit DDR Rev.A1 0111 arrived from a friend from Voodoo Alert Forums, Germany.
Which is this gem:

ATi Radeon AGP 64MB 128Bit DDR Rev.C1 0111

Here the system I use this one with:

Nighthawk

AMD K7 Athlon Thunderbird 700Mhz Slot A
3x 256MB PC-133 Legend / Hynix @ PC-100
MSI MS-6195 AMD Irongate AM751 Chipset
ATi Radeon AGP 64MB 128Bit DDR Rev.C1 0111
Vantec Cooling Spectrum Slot cooler card for Radeon AGP 64MB DDR, well currently.
Samsung 3.5" FDD Drive
1x 40GB Western Digital Caviar SE WD400EB 7200 rpm HDD Main drive + 8MB Cache
1x 80GB Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JB 7200 rpm HDD Slave drive + 8MB Cache
Plextor PX-760A 16x/8x DVD-RW / 48x / 24x CD-RW UATA-133 Drive
NEC ND-3500A DL-DVD-RW 16x SL-DVD-RW / 4x DL-DVD-RW / 48X CD-RW Drive
NEC 5 port USB 2.0 PCI Card + Front Panel 3 in PCI Card 2 in Front Panel
Intel Pro 100/S Desktop Adapter PCI (10/100Mbit Ethernet PCI Card)
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS SB0350
2002 A-Open H-600-B ATX Case
A-Open 350 Watt PSU or equivalent.
Compaq S710 17" Blackshade CRT from 2001
Reso @ 1024x768x32 @ 85Hz | 0.22.5 Dot Pitch

Win2K Pro UK + SP4 & RU-01 for SP4
ATi Catalyst 6.4 for Win2K/XP

Here some pics I made, after searching for this card for more than 10 years, all worth the patience in the end, I added my 1971 Lufthansa B747-230B the D-ABYD named: "Baden-Württemberg" with the R6 card I bought from my friend from Voodoo Alert Forums, Germany, to fit that scene, this also being the first Radeon AGP with 64MB 128Bi t DDR, I thought to match it with Lufthansa's first B747-200B sporting the Lufthansa Sunrise Delivery Livery from 1970 and my ATi hat, even tho I will try to find a better one, this one will just have to do for now:

in May I will try and give this system a 3dfx Voodoo3 3000 PCI 16MB SDRAM, if I can find one for a decent deal, Voodoo Alert will come to my aid maybe, I'll see what I can do with that, as for the CPU the Athlon 700 is a bit on the slow side for that R6, so an Athlon 850 or 900Mhz Thunderbird Slot A CPU will be what I'll be seeking as well, yea just gotta find the right parts to fine tune this system correctly, all within time of course.