VSA 101 - it exists!!!

Kennung Eins · *Last edited by Kennung Eins; 04-28-2010 at 19:37.*

over at <A HREF="http://www.forum-3dcenter.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16753&perpage=50&pagenu mber=1" TARGET=_blank>3dcenter.de</A> I've read a thread where s.b. bought a Voodoo5 at ebay. 
 
To his surprise the driver has shown him this: 
 
 
The chip looks this way: 
 
 
These are numbers of a normal VSA-100 
355-0026-220 
F26089.1 AS 
0027 20005 
Taiwan 1z01 
 
These are the numbers on the VSA-101 chip 
355-0025-221 
F26689.1 AS 
0009 
Taiwan 
 
To remember: The VSA-101 was produced in 0.18 micron (instead of 0.25 of the normal VSA-100). Its codename is "Daytona". 
It seems to be possible to overclock it up to 230 MHz!

Aropredator · 04-15-2002, 07:37 | posts: 1,934 | Location: Malaysia

There were utilities to edit the 3dfx bios so Windows will read whatever was written in the bios (chipset name, speed, etc...). I dunno if the previous owner had done any modification to the cards. But even if its true, no further driver support for voodoo cards since 3dfx was dead <IMG SRC="smileys/frown.gif"> . (But will always live in my memory <IMG SRC="smileys/wink.gif"> )

Kennung Eins · 04-15-2002, 09:20 | posts: 1,619 | Location: C000-CFFF

The important thing to know is, that the 3dfx cards (VSA-100) all have nearly the same product id. 
But this card does not fit the usual product ids!!

Aropredator · 04-15-2002, 10:27 | posts: 1,934 | Location: Malaysia

Yeah, well maybe its true (lucky for that guy). After i check here 
 <A HREF="http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http://www.plasma-online.de/english/identify/picture/3dfx.html" TARGET=_blank>http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http://www.plasma-online.de/english/identify/picture/3dfx.html</A> 
 
It stated 3dfx VSA-101 @ 'Daytona' chipset 
0.18µm, 200MHz core, 8-64MB, AGPx4, 2 rendering pipelines 
 
Might be the 'alpha' or 'beta' released chipset. 
Even Voodoo5 6000 that were unreleased for consumer market were auctioned at eBay and I did saw the picture. If I had money to burn <IMG SRC="smileys/wink.gif">

04-21-2002, 20:55 | posts: n/a

Hello, i'm the owner of the VSA-101 <IMG SRC="smileys/smile.gif"> (Sorry for my bad english <IMG SRC="smileys/wink.gif"> ) 
Here is a Picture of the Card: (It's the first above) 
 
<IMG SRC="http://www.seijin.de/voodoo/PICT0045.jpg"> 
 
The Chips run with 200 Mhz. With a higher clock, the Ram says stop <IMG SRC="smileys/frown.gif"> 
But the Chips are very cool for this high clock and i believe thats a proof for the 18µm production <IMG SRC="smileys/smile.gif"> 
Additional 2 Papst 80mm Cooler cooling this Card <IMG SRC="smileys/cool.gif"> 
 
This message was edited by Gohan on 21 Apr 2002 12:56 PM This message was edited by Gohan on 21 Apr 2002 12:57 PM

Kennung Eins · 04-27-2002, 17:55 | posts: 1,619 | Location: C000-CFFF

hi Gohan ;-) nice 2 c u here! 
As you can see there're not much 3dfx-fans around here... <IMG SRC="smileys/frown.gif">

Golden Dragoon · 04-30-2002, 02:49 | posts: 1,287 | Location: Wandering in my own fantasy world

im a fan <IMG SRC="smileys/wave.gif"> everyone knows that glide was far better than d3d or openGL just look @ unreal 1+tornament sweet

Golden Dragoon · 04-30-2002, 02:51 | posts: 1,287 | Location: Wandering in my own fantasy world

oh Gohan you seem to have a nice wallpaper where did you get it?