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you're forgetting a few countries like Germany, The Netherlands, Luxembourg and France anyway The European Union is do'n very well indeed, the most interesting card from www.yjfy.com ; was that Voodoo3 2000 AGP with SGRAM prototype, it's like my Compaq USA V31K card, but then it is cooled by a V32K cool blok.

he called it a Velocity 200, but I see it as a V32K AGP with SGRAM, if you look carefully on the bios chip it says V3 2000  



here a link: http://www.yjfy.com/images/oldhard/video/Velocity200.jpg to a sharper and larger image to that wierd Voodoo3 2000 proto,
but the problem is, that his site so slow, you can't hardly get in.

So I have a new theorie, it sounds like This:

evryone that owns a Velocity 200 , I aleays read V3 1000 on the Bios chip, and on this wierd one I read V3 2000 on it's bios chip, I think that the Velocity 200 is a mere hoax, i haven't seen no proof of one yet.

It is always a V3 1000 or a V3 2000 like the one from China.  on the Velocity 100 card it doesn't read V3 1000 on it's bios chip it reads this:

2.15.06

and that's it.

So if the Velocity 200 exsists, where can I see the proof of one?

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Incorrect, I own four, five if you include a Velocity 100.

BTW- A Velocity is a Voodoo 3 with one TMU disabled, a rose by any other name is still a rose.

I think 3dfx planned on releasing a Velocity 200 but either they figured out it was unwanted in the oem market where even 2/4 MB cards were still common or the price point was just too low to make a profit.

If I remember correct 3dfx was selling V3's in record numbers but that was due to the firesale prices with small profit margins.

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What does that have to do in regards to if it is a V3 or not?

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I own one, and have seen others. Yes the card pictured above is clocked at 3000 speeds with a small heatsink! I was told that the sample cards use a thicker pcb which pulls heat away from the graphics chip. Production cards use a big heatsink and thinner pcb since metal is cheaper then pcb layers!

Why they were not sold in large numbers? Cost I would imagine, the SDRAM design was proven and compact. The SGRAM design uses more PCB which adds to the cost.

Actually I have seen 183 mhz AGP SGRAM Voodoo 3's as well, now if only I can lay hands on one =)



3dfx could have sold a 16MB SGRAM AGP card with ease since the PCB already was designed and used on Compaq 125 mhz V3.

Anyways I was aiming at this one, sorry for the big pic, look carefully at it's Bios chip indication and you'll see it's a V3 2000 wierd huh and this one is Not For Resale too, must be an early Voodoo3 2000 AGP SGRAM Prototype.:



So should I see my Compaq V31K as a Vel200 or not ?

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The Velocity 100/200 were to a degree marketed as retail items with some OEM sales perhaps, the Compaq and Gateway V3-1000 were OEM sales only.

Uhm, at the risk of being proven wrong again;

the only V3 1000 cards are those of Compaq and Gateway which run at 125MHz.

Velocity's run at 143MHz.

The Voodoo 3 series is a very confusing one

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Velocity 100- 143 mhz, 1 TMU, 8 MB

V3-1000 Gateway- 143 mhz, 1 TMU, 8 MB

V3-1000 Compaq- 125 mhz, 2 TMU, 16 MB

The Gateway V3-1000 and Velocity 100 are identical cards except for the bios decal and name on boot up.

The Compaq V3-1000 is unique.