hi friend, see my voodoo 3 2000 pci of 16MB of SD-RAM. The monday I got bios of voodoo 3 3500 tv version, from rom´s site, voodoo3/bios/roms I take the VGA-BIOS Version 2.15.05-SD and flash with 3dfx utilitie. Reboot the system and see my new voodoo 3 3500 PCI [8D], the q3 arena increase very well the FPS, and got more MTextels/S. see this screenshot of 3dmark 2001SE and make you conclusion :D
tomorrow I make this same test with athlon X2 processor and pc-6400 mushkin rams. see ya!
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The difference between v3 2000 and 3500 is the clocks..it was a dangerous step to flash the 3500 bios..
I know, is´t dangerous but I buy this card for 10 dollars and is for testing. I like the opengl colours, 3dfx give me remembers of my first 3d accelerator card. v3 3000 on year 2000 :).
know i use nvidia for playing, but 3dfx not forgotten :P
I would strongly advise to improve the cooling system of the card.
( Put a fan on that heatshink ).
Mine V3 2000 has 5.5ns, and shows artifacts already at 166MHz, with a cooler !
he has an amd k6-2's one :)