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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #165 - 02.05.05 at 19:03:38 How can I foresee a board I have never seen before Stuff does pop up time to time like the IBM 4200 and the Voodoo Volts test board but I think just about everything there is to see has been seen by now.. But I'm always open for a surprise.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #166 - 02.05.05 at 19:48:24 yeah me too Gary heh we all are right people !
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #167 - 04.05.05 at 21:35:13 Brand new boxed Voodoo Volts from an ex-3dfx employee.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #168 - 05.05.05 at 00:39:55 omg !!! this must be like a supprise very exclusive Gary well done mate and uhm you're always full of suprises
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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #169 - 06.05.05 at 20:49:47 yea he finds thing i never knew existed
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Chosen_One Senior Member Offline Keeper of the BIOS-files... Posts: 499 Germany Gender:	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #170 - 06.05.05 at 21:22:00 and he finds things he never heard of like the ventana50...
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Re: Luck of the Irish?
Reply #171 - 06.05.05 at 22:06:39

The hardest part is a name- As someone once stated, once you know the name of the needle in the haystack it becomes much easier to find.

There are several references to the Quantum3D Rush Ventana on the 'net, but without knowing the name chances are you would not find them or if you did what the reference is.

I do know there is a Ventana Banshee... but have not found a board as of yet.

Research is everything.

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Reply #172 - 20.05.05 at 13:21:27

Just sharing some pictures of the Graphite unit obtained on Ebay-

Overhead shot of the system showing Micro-ATX board with P3-733, Voodoo 3-3000, 128MB of ram and D-Link network card.

Front shot showing all the panel connections, if you notice there is no power switch! Typical arcade configuration is that the system powers up when the cord is plugged in, I have the system configured in the bios to power up when plugged in or the keyboard is touched.

Yes, I do go all out setting the system up, a customized Win98SE bootup screen =)

And a custom desktop too.

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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #173 - 20.05.05 at 13:48:45 very nice pictures gary,
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VDX Ex Member	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #174 - 21.05.05 at 00:19:49 nice job gary, is that a standard v3 in there or a q3d v3?
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #175 - 21.05.05 at 00:25:30 well yes that is a Voodoo3 3000 AGP but without the TV-Out
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Reply #176 - 21.05.05 at 01:25:05

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nice job gary, is that a standard v3 in there or a q3d v3?

That is a $64 dollar question.

Well it is a V3-3000 but has no TV-Out, the bios states 1.0.01 SD which is a normal bios but the card runs VERY cool. While running a Quake3 demo loop the card peaked at 109F which is very low for V3 at 166 mhz.

The card might be a sample with a thicker PCB, hence the lower core temp. The seller indicated the unit was a test box for the first Artic Thunder machines which is certainly possible considering the serial number ends with 0001.

A friend at Quantum3D is looking into the serial number for me.

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VDX Ex Member	Re: Luck of the Irish? Reply #177 - 21.05.05 at 05:35:36 Omg Gary, you got the vx model right, lol 8 video card options, from that file it seems you got the best model optons wise, and if you just coulda had a power outage that day lol
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Reply #178 - 21.05.05 at 13:31:36

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if you just coulda had a power outage that day lol Roll Eyes

Server class power conditioner & battery backup with extra batteries wired in for full four hours of emergency time.

I live by Murphys law and do everything possible within reason to avoid him kicking me in the shins.

Actually there were other options that might have been desirable (a 5500 would have been very cool and how about rackmount ears?) but I was really looking for one in Arctic Thunder configuration and that's what was found so I'm very happy.

Everytime you see an Arctic Thunder game just think one of these units is tucked in the guts. As the machines get older, beat up and start to come out of service some should be showing up on Ebay.

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Re: Luck of the Irish?
Reply #179 - 21.05.05 at 16:39:04

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The card might be a sample with a thicker PCB, hence the lower core temp. The seller indicated the unit was a test box for the first Artic Thunder machines which is certainly possible considering the serial number ends with 00001.

A friend at Quantum3D is looking into the serial number for me.

Whoa, whoa and even more WHOA! Shocked

Kudos Gary! 8)

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