Voodoo2 with 110mhz

[skinnie]

does anyone has one of those to sell?how much are you asking for it?

[ArchAngelCD]

I have 4 Diamond Monster 3D II cards.
My 2 Revision B cards have 125MHz memory and my 2 Revision E, more current cards, have only 100MHz memory chips on it.

[perer]

O my God, You have V2 cards with 125mhz ram!!!!!!!!!
ArchAngelCD these cards are extremely rare, I have never heared of a regular card with ram that fast, the only thing that used 125mhz and contained a V2 chip, was the Mercury that I know of. Well do you cool these cards well??? Can you overclock these cards to let's say 120+?? And is the PCB exactly the same as a normal V2?

It is very strange that a revision B card has 125mhz ram. Perhaps there wasn't any slower ram at the moment. I will add this offcourse in My archive.

[skinnie]

I want oooooneee!!!:(

[ArchAngelCD]

Originally posted by perer

O my God, You have V2 cards with 125mhz ram!!!!!!!!!
ArchAngelCD these cards are extremely rare, I have never heared of a regular card with ram that fast, the only thing that used 125mhz and contained a V2 chip, was the Mercury that I know of. Well do you cool these cards well??? Can you overclock these cards to let's say 120+?? And is the PCB exactly the same as a normal V2?

It is very strange that a revision B card has 125mhz ram. Perhaps there wasn't any slower ram at the moment. I will add this offcourse in My archive.

They are normal Diamond Monster cards and look exactly like all other Monster cards I've seen including the others I have. I have the 2 Revision B cards in my system and the other 2 in my Glide only system. I have never OC'd the B cards but I have OC's the E cards with cooling. I have gotten them up to 108MHz without a problem. I didn't know the cards with 125MHz memory were rare but I was a little surprised to see memory that fast on a Voodoo2 card.

[ArchAngelCD]

Here are some pics of the Diamond Monster Voodoo2 cards. You can see both Revisions look the same. The top one is the Revision B card in the first 2 pics. You can see the 125MHz on the memory chips of the bottom 2 pics.

[perer]

The reason you can't get them any higher than 108mhz is because you the card also has the slower 100mhz ram. What a strange combination to use different brands and speeds, But he it works .

[ArchAngelCD]

Originally posted by perer

The reason you can't get them any higher than 108mhz is because you the card also has the slower 100mhz ram. What a strange combination to use different brands and speeds, But he it works .

I guess you didn't read my post carefully. I said I have 2 of each card. I didn't bother to put all 4 in the pictures because that would make the pictures too large and there is no reason to show all 4 anyway. I put 1 of each in the top 2 pictures to answer the question of weather or not the 125MHz memory card was the same as the 100MHz memory card. Pay attention so you don't sound foolish next time.

[perer]

But what is wrong with what I sad ?
I only talked about the fact that the card can't get any higher than 108mhz. And that is due to unfortunate fact that not all the ram on the cards can get to 125mhz. And I find it strange that the cards don't have the same ram or brand. Especially because it is a Diamond, they used to build good cards (this looks like a mess to me, I don't mean the card is broken etc. but it looks kinda strange).

[ArchAngelCD]

I'm not using different speed memory cards together in SLI. Both cards are the same in each system. One system is running the 2 100MHz memory cards and the other is running the 125MHz memory cards. They are not different in each system.

[perer]

I meant that the speeds are different ON the card itself not the combination of cards in SLI. A well, the fact remains you have a very rare card, because I've never seen anything like it.  Maybe there will be like 50 or so cards with this memory (pure speculation), but where they are I dunno.

[ArchAngelCD]

Are they really that rare? You keep saying my card is rare. You should say my cards are rare since I have 2 with 125HMz memory...

[perer]

Even one card with 125mhz is rare, since you have 2 the are even more rare (because of SLI).

[ArchAngelCD]

I bought 1 of the revision B cards for $275 at a computer show in 1998. A few weeks later I found out I can do 1024X768 if I bought another 1 and set them up running SLI so I went to another show and bought a second card for $250. About 6 months later I saw the Voodoo2 cards at the show for $80 each so I bought 2 more for another system I was building for my son. I didn't realize the memory was different speeds on the cards especially since all 4 cards were Diamond Monster 3D II cards. I guess I got very lucky the second card I bought was still a revision B card that had 125MHz memory so the 2 were a perfect match for SLI. I think I'll keep at lease 2 of the cards until they stop working in that dedicated Glide system. No reason to sell them since I would probably get less than $40 for a set of Voodoo2 SLI cards. Even the last 2 I bought cost me $160 not to mention the $525 I spent on the first 2. I'm just glad I only spent $199 on my Voodoo5 5500 since we lost support from 3Dfx soon after I bought the cards.

I still have a few Voodoo cards even though I sold a lot of them.
(I still have)
The 4 Diamond Voodoo2 12Mb cards we have been talking about
1 Voodoo1 6MB card (rare too since most Voodoo Graphics cards were 4Mb)
1 Voodoo3 3000 16Mb AGP
1 Voodoo5 5500 64Mb AGP

I sold all the others off a while ago privately and on Ebay.
(SOLD)
2 Voodoo2 Black Magic 8Mb cards
1 Voodoo3 1000 AGP
1 Voodoo3 2000 PCI
1 Voodoo3 3500 AGP
1 Voodoo TV 100
1 Voodoo5 5500 AGP

[TeronL]

I dont see reason of such fast memory on Vodoo 2 boards. The overlocking limit for all Voodoo 2 chips is only 105-110 mhz. So if you even have such fast memory your chips wont be able to work on that clock. After all there is not a lot of Voodoo chips that overclock even up to 105 mhz.

But I have a rare A-Trend Voodoo 2 12mb that overlocks perfect up to 110 mhz, but memory is 25 ns.

P.S. And dont forget that some memory vendors were marking their 110 mhz memory as 100 mhz. Like now it do Hynix (Huyndai).