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Nice to see you took my V3 3333 suggestion! :)

Excellent work! Very impressive that it can handle those frequencies at less than default core voltage and 166MHz SDRAM 👍

That macro-lens captures pretty spectacular level of details.

Another excellent video! Nice demo of the 𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱 to compare the temperatures.

I've recently rescued a Voodoo3 3000 from certain death, repaired and recapped it then modded it with 200mhz memory(much like vswitchzero) and then added a heatsink and fan, it works flawlessly at 193mhz now, obviously limited by the core now but really happy with that result, thanks very much for your content and maybe I'll consider a volt mod next, would absolutely love the 𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱 camera for future repairs and mods it looks excellent, thanks again. 👍

Those thermal cameras are amazing! 🤩🔥

Really interesting video, I'm glad there is someone out there who puts the effort into this.

Thank you for all the excellent content. You have assisted me in successfully repairing two Voodoo 5500-cards; one PCI and one AGP. Currently, I’m investigating an Amiga accelerator that does not boot. It has 12 GAL-chips; each responsible for a specific task. My theory is that the GAL responsible for taking the CPU out of initial reset-mode is not doing it’s job. But it is getting power and signals?! The chips and CPU are all confirmed working separately. So confusing… but XINFRAREDX TO THE RESCUE! 🤓

I’m curious to see if there is a modern equivalent to that voltage regulator like a switching regulator maybe that could improve results. Anyway to reduce voltage going to the memory chips to reduce heat and improve stability or over volt them and add some cooling. This is a fun series to follow and watch.

starting with minute 9:03 you'll see a crack on a via trace, left side at 45 degrees up of the 130 ohm resistor

Watching your and vswitchzero's videos makes me want to get a Voodoo 3! It sucks that they have gone up in price.

Pretty cool stuff! I've always been lucky with retro hardware however. I was given a PC years ago that contained a Voodoo 3000 AGP card. Never really thought I'd use it. Had it sitting in a corner since 2006. But after trying out some old 3DFX games, I decided to do a cooling mod to the card. I didn't have to voltage mod or tinker with the card, just set 183MHz in the OC tool, and it ran flawlessly. Max Payne, UT, Streets of SimCity 3DFX, 3D Mark 99, 00, 01. I put a video of the extensive aluminium bodge job on my profile. 😂

I wonder if that linear regulator could be replaced with modern switching equivalent.

Nice use of macro functionality of 𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱 camera :-)

the 𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱 camera with usb-C would make my custom cooling assemblys much easier and more accurate :)

I feel like the final frequency and voltage really makes this the ultimate card. Not only is it running faster than it was from the factory but also with a lower voltage so it will likely last longer too.

Nice ❤ I have a few 3x series cards.

Definitely put heatsinks on those RAM chips!

My days of overclocking are long over, I even damaged one of my video cards running it at the maximum overclock for a long time. It was a GF 8800 GT that I had modified with a big Zalman heatsink and RAM heatsinks, and it ran fine for a few years. Then one day I noticed it artefacting in games, and over the course of a week it started getting worse and crashing. Eventually I saw artefacts on the desktop, so I restored the default settings and that helped, but didn't stop the artefacting and crashes in games. In the end I had reduced the speed well below the stock settings, but eventually it was crashing from the desktop too. At that point I decided it was time for a new card anyway, so I bought a GF GTX 570 which had much better performance. As for the giveaway, as fun as a thermal camera looks, I don't have much use for it, so I'll leave it for someone who might get some productive use from it. But if I did need one, it would be for a specific project, and I could easily afford it with a few days of overtime pay.

Xinfraredx, awesome camera. I would love one

Hey BuB! Is it possible to modify the memory timings for the Voodoo's memory controller? I'd be interested in seeing if tighter memory timings allow for a significant performance increace. Keep up the good work man!

Try adding extra decoupling by each memory chip and by the core. See if that reduces artifacting at high overclock.

nice efforts!

I want a Voodoo3 4000! - Find a golden sample chip and replace the memory with the best you can and give it a giant heatsink and fan to see how far it will go :)

It won't be a complete Voodoo 3 3333 until you add passive coolers to the memory chips and active cooling to the GPU, otherwise it' just a janky setup 🙂

Do you think you will go further and add some RAM heatsinks and maybe mount a small fan?

let us know what fps gain before and after quake and unreal engine based games !

Based on how the artifacts with 183 Mhz look I'd guess the 3DFX GPU becomes unstable. With unstable VRAM I'd assume there would be corrupted textures or bad single pixels. Will try my luck in the giveaway.

got a p2 233mhz with a voodoo 3 and 128 MB ram and it plays ut99 at dreamcast frame rates at 640x480 but with 16 bit color depth instead of 24 obviously, using win 95

if you have a pwm power driver would that help stability of the card

What if you swapped out the VRAM for faster and add heatsinks?

Xinfraredx is a cool name ❤

Coming up next, how much will it oc with LN2? :D

175mhz is enough for everyone (c)

xinfraredx Great video

Nice video, I thought the giveaway was for the "new" voodoo3 3333 ahahaha. Anyway, ¿You couldn't change the name for the rest of the utilities to show as a v3-3333? i.e in Everest

I am unable to finish 3dmark 2000/2001se on similiar system. 2000hangs up on helicopter test and 2001se wont start due to some kernel dll error, but the gpu works perfectly in many 3DFX games. I am using latest drivers but Windows ME.

Thanks it is awesome to see manufacturers involved in this hobby and thanks @bitsundbolts for your non stop contributions!

I wonder what kind of speed and stability you could achieve with active water cooling, might make a good video.

Does anyone know a person that can troubleshoot and repair a V5 5500?

Voodoo 4 on a black pcb arcade game gauntlet dark legacy

most artifacting is actually heat degradation of data in memory. but the voltage is also shared across the board... so increasing the voltage increases that voltages to memory... so it only gets worse if you dont address the issue

Do you per chance know if there is any PCI Voodoo 3 (or maybe 4, I'm sure definitely not 5) that has a TV-out? I'd love a dedicated 9x gaming PC connected to my consumer CRT TV, but AGP/PCIe are not an option.

My voodoo has 2 of them on it

I recently bought a voodoo5 agp it is working fine, but I noticed a noise in the image that is more evident during the 98 loading screen or low resolutions. Would it be good to do a full recap? My fear is to continue using it to play some games and damage the board.

Couldn’t it be that the memory is too slow for 183 mhz ?

𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱

I think you're worrying a little too much about temps. Under 50 degrees is perfectly fine and not very hot at all. You could likely allow them to get to 70-80 degrees without any worry of them failing. Running the card at temps ~50 degrees is perfectly safe and will not decrease the life expectancy of the card at all. General rule I follow is if it's not hot enough to burn your fingers, then it's not hot enough to damage the chip.

all my voodoo 3 are sadly only agp

𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱 ❤👍

why online tools? it should be in your spine

𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱 i really like retro gpus and i can use your infrared cam on my fx5200 ;⁠)

I just wish they had managed to produce a Geforce4Ti performance-level before they went out. Quite sad to be bought by Envildia. Recently I bought R7900XT, was thinking to sell a sealed/boxed Voodoo3 2K PCI to offset cost but managed to hold on for now :)

Enjoyed the series with this PCI Voodoo 3 2000. It brought back a lot of memories from one of my friends setups. I believe it was paired with a P2-333MHZ. Thanks! 𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱

𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱. ❤

Is it 𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱 or Xinfaredx ? I have wanted a thermal camera, but it's always been a nice to have over I need this right now, so it's never ended up on any of my shopping lists.

Excelente video... thks a lot. 𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱

𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱 appears in your comment! This is actually really cool to see these old cards getting love

Can I pls have this Voodoo PCI card? I will pair it with my P1 System with Batman's Revenge motherboard. 𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱

Cool video. I could use a 𝐗𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐱 cam for many things.