With the repairs completed, it's time to begin enhancing these two 3dfx Voodoo 3 1000 cards. Today I install some solid polymer caps, sort out a cooling solution and volt-mod both cards! With a previous best of 153MHz, was I able to take these two to 166MHz and Voodoo 3 3000 performance levels?
Soldering equipment:
Iron: Hakko 888d
Knife Tip: Hakko T18-K
Solder: Chipquik SMD2SW.015 (100g, 60/40)
Flux: MG Chemicals 8341 (10ml)
Wick: MG Chemicals Superwick (425-LF)
Microscope: Tomlov DM501 Pro
Spreadsheet Download:
https://vswitchzero.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/voodoo3-vcore-calc.zip
Voodoo 3 Recapping Process:
https://youtu.be/H2rIfqd_-rg?si=xWeO-FC0eW5-r5rd&t=745
Panasonic OS-CON series capacitors:
https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/panasonic-electronic-components/10SVPS10M/5878869
Wurth Capacitors:
https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/w%C3%BCrth-elektronik/875105240002/5147566
Thermal Tape:
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07Z25F617?
Panasonic 140ohm 0603 Resistor:
https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/panasonic-electronic-components/ERA-3AEB1400V/2026670
EIA-96 Lookup Tool:
https://kiloohm.info/eia96-resistor/14A
V.Control Software:
https://www.3dfxzone.it/koolsmoky/vctrl.html
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00:00 Introduction
01:13 Polymer Capacitor Upgrade
04:55 Cooling Upgrade Overview
06:11 Revisiting the Thermal Balls
08:55 Heatsink Upgrade
12:11 Active Cooling Upgrade
14:28 Overclocking Baseline
15:12 Variable Output Regulator
19:35 Checking the Math!
24:25 The Volt-Mod
26:25 Overclocking Results
28:02 Conclusion