After some successful repairs, I’m all energized and ready to face my nemesis – the train wreck 3Dfx Voodoo 2. After a failed attempt to repair this badly damaged Creative CT6670 over two years ago, I’m ready to apply what I’ve learned since then to finally get it fixed. Will I be able to get this train back on the tracks? Or will I be defeated yet again?

My previous repair video on the Diamond Monster 3D II with lots of information on troubleshooting and debugging tools:

A helpful Vogons thread with 3Dfx Voodoo 2 schematic diagrams:

My original blog post on the failed repair attempt from back in 2020:

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Today I’ll be attempting to repair two 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 cards! Both are experiencing artifacting and lockups in 3D games due to defective SDRAM memory chips. Join me as I hunt down the defective chips and not only repair these cards, but enhance them with better SDRAM, a full recap, updated BIOS and more!

Geekenspiel’s website:

My previous Voodoo 3 repairathon video:

Info on Voodoo 3 capacitor replacement:

Compatible Winbond memory (W9816G6JH-5) datasheet:

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The male ran across several plants and I wondered why it's in a hurry - until this female left its leafy burrow. Alas - it seems, she wasn't impressed by the male.

Bonus: Cuckoo in the background

The original 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics accelerator completely transformed the world of 3D gaming, but by late 1997 the competition was beginning to heat up. How do you improve on such a legendary card? You double down on EVERYTHING. The Voodoo 2 improves upon the original in pretty much every way and even allows two cards to work together in SLI for truly next-level 3D performance.

The 3Dfx Voodoo Graphics Accelerator:

Matrox G100 Repair:

Phil’s SLI CPU Scaling Project PDF:

Serdashop SLI Bridges:

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The closing audio track is an original called “Prelude to Space” by Bertrand Guégan. You can find more of his work here: https://soundcloud.com/bertrandguegan

What's riskier than buying a defective 3dfx card? Probably buying three of them! Join me as I attempt to repair three Voodoo 3 3000 cards that I bought as-is on eBay. All three cost about as much a single working one. Did I make a good investment, or am I in way over my head this time?

Voodoo 3 VBIOS files:

3dfx Flashing Tools:

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For #GPUJune2 this year, I'm taking a look at a very special card - the 3dfx Voodoo graphics accelerator. Released back in late 1996, it completely transformed the world of PC gaming and was a very significant card for me personally. From the moment I first experienced GLQuake back in 1997, I absolutely had to have one. For this video, I built a test platform almost identical to what I had back in 1997 and have a look at the very popular Diamond Monster 3D! I explore some 3dfx tech demos and play some of my favorite glide games from back in the day as well.

Special thanks to Nathan from @PixelPipes for organizing this great celebration of 3D acceleration history! Be sure to check out the official GPUJune2 playlist for many other great videos from some amazing YouTubers!

The official GPUJune2 playlist:

All #GPUJune2 tagged videos:

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Back in 1995, Intel released a very special upgrade processor for owners of 486 systems. Despite having a very different architecture and external data bus, the Pentium Overdrive was able to drop right into an existing 486 system and provide next-gen performance. Was it a worth-while upgrade? Or was this heavily modified Pentium processor held back by the aging 486 platform?

In today’s video I’ll be restoring a badly neglected 83MHz Pentium Overdrive and will try to answer that very question.

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As mentioned, the closing track is an original called “Prelude to Space” by Bertrand Guégan. You can find more of his work here:

As we love Smažený sýr, we tried to make it at home. And we believe we succeeded! Comment below on how you think we did it? Any tips are welcome, too!

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I never owned a Gravis Ultrasound back in the day, but always wanted to get one to explore the very different and interesting sound experience they provide. Unfortunately, they've become ridiculously expensive over the years, so I could never bring myself to buy one. So rather than shelling out a huge amount of money, I bought a broken one instead! Will I be able to repair it? Or was buying this defective card a big mistake?

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Music track is "Evergreen" by Georgrapher.

Watch as I create FishBall, the world's premiere fish-based sport for FishFest. A week long fish based game jam. https://possiblyaxolotl.itch.io/fishball

Why has it been so long? Mainly physics class. I've been working on this off and on over the last few months but I'm finally done. I also made this video in DaVinci Resolve which led to some problems and is why this video is 24fps instead of 30 or 60 like usual and I also switched to Linux which has problems running DaVinci (they claim it's supported, it isn't.) Regardless, I'm here now and I have finished the fish video :3

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