Quote:The sticker on the Bios Chip raises more question than the Pic solves *ugh*
The Velocity 100 and the V3-1000 were one and the same, logically a V3-2000 = Velocity 200.
Quote:So if the Velocity 200 was a Voodoo3 2000, where would be the difference ?
Maybe 2nd TMU still disabled by the Bios and Drivers ?
There are some differences in the bios but perfomance differences are nil and the 2nd TMU is active.
I think they killed the Velocity 200 after seeing what happened in the market with the Velocity 100.
Everyone and their brother was buying one for peanuts (heck I purchased one for $39 retail) and enabling the second TMU via the registry hack. A number of people at 3dfx stated that the Velocity 100 badly canabilized their V3-2000 sales at a time when they could ill afford it.
The last thing they needed to do was add another part that would drive down their profit margins even more.
It's been noted that the Voodoo 3 sales while brisk were done at some point with razor thin margins so 3dfx could brag about the boards being number 1 sellers.