Reply 1 of 10, by PhilsComputerLab
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Reply 2 of 10, by Stojke
Reply 3 of 10, by Putas
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Voodoo3 at 125 MHz.
Reply 4 of 10, by nforce4max
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One of the TMU is turned off by a registry setting beyond that it is basically a marked down V3 2k, very good deal when they are sold dirt cheap.
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Reply 5 of 10, by Stojke
Reply 6 of 10, by gerwin
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Does it have a heatsink attached?
I run my voodoo-3s at a modded 100..125 MHz, and install a heatsink at least 'voodoo 3 3000' sized.
Just so I don't burn my hands on these things 🤣
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Reply 7 of 10, by Stojke
Reply 8 of 10, by Skyscraper
I will soon post some results from my Voodoo 3 2000 benching and overclocking. Im away from home a couple of days but should be home tomorrow evening.
One thing I can say now, my vanilla pci Voodoo 3 2000 clocks like a champ, I expected to get it up to at least the speed of a Voodoo 3 3000 (166MHz) but the card clocked much much higher without any trouble at all. PowerStrip lets me clock the card to max 190 MHz and at that speed it can run games or loop benchmarks for hours.
But as gerwin suggested add better cooling, my Voodoo 3 2000 was running really hot at stock speed (143MHz) without a fan, now with a fan it still runs somewhat hot but overclocked...
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Reply 9 of 10, by NitroX infinity
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There are 2 different versions of the Voodoo3 1000; one clocked at 143MHz with 8MiB memory and a 125MHz one with 16MiB memory.
Reply 10 of 10, by sliderider
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wrote:One of the TMU is turned off by a registry setting beyond that it is basically a marked down V3 2k, very good deal when they are sold dirt cheap.
That's the 8mb Bonesteel version with the TMU turned off. The 16mb card is just underclocked.
And turning on the second TMU doesn't do a whole lot on those. The 8mb memory is the real bottleneck.