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<p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="3">Daytona (VSA-101) 2000</font></p>
<p><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Successor to the VSA-100 chips with a die
shrink, cooler operation, higher clock speed and DDR support! Drivers for
Daytona boards can be found on the <a href="downloads.htm">downloads page</a>
(same driver as VSA-100)</font></p>
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<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="daytona/day_agp.jpg" width="600" height="416"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Daytona AGP with 32MB DDR
ram & TV out, perfect function!</font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><img border="0" src="daytona/day_pair.jpg" width="600" height="619"></font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Top card is prototype 4200 VSA-101 board number two
(dated 34-00) with 32 megs of DDR ram, it is so early it doesn't even have a 3dfx logo on the VSA-100 chip!
Notice the lack of heatsink? The chip runs so cool at 143 mhz that none is
required. </font></p>
<p><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Bottom card is a 4200 series VSA-101 rev.
A1 board with 16 meg DDR ram that *we are told* was sold to
IBM for use in Unix servers (and the bios even indicates IBM as sub-vender) Sources indicate that these were prototype cards
modified for production sale, card is dated 45th week, 2000. </font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="daytona/day_revision_a0.jpg" width="500" height="345"></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Another 4200 16MB DDR card
and this one is pure prototype- Notice the lack of heatsinks on the main chip
dated 3100 (last week of JULY 2000) and voltage regulator (which is soldered,
not screwed in place like production), the PCB is darker shade of green, A12
markings in handwritten ink and most notable to the trained eye is that with the
exception of the PCI edge connector all the contacts on the circuit board are
silver and not gold! Compare the unused voltage regulator pad at the top right
of the cards, the top is gold but the bottom card is not. This is very common on
pre-production & prototype 3dfx cards. On the back side the production date precedes
the upper card by three weeks and there is one area of the circuit board that
has been hand reworked.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="daytona/day_revision_a0_rear.jpg" width="550" height="379"></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Rear view of the revision A0
board- It has fewer decals and silkscreen information then the A1 boards plus
the circuit paths are noticeably different! Both boards carry blank spots on the
back for more ram... hmm... Makes me want to add a few pieces in the rear and
upgrade the front at the same time and have an overclocking party =-)</font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="daytona/day_3900_pci.jpg" width="600" height="323"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">This PCI board (dated 39-00)
has left the collection and is being worked on to perhaps restore function. Unfortunately
the PCB was very warped.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><img border="0" src="daytona/day_win_32mb.jpg" width="600" height="648"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">This Daytona showed up on
Ebay for sale by an ex-3dfx engineer, it is the only Daytona board with this PCB
intended for Windows with 32 megs of ram. </font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Note the dual regulators
with heatsinks and lack of DVI connector along with the back of the board being
populated by ram chips.</font></p>
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<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><img border="0" src="daytona/day_bios_screenshot.jpg" width="507" height="157"></font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Boot screen from 32 meg
board.</font></p>
<p align="center"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><img border="0" src="daytona/day_properties.jpg" width="437" height="469"></font></p>
<p align="left"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">The VSA-101 based cards were due for January
2001 release to general public but 3dfx went under before then. </font></p>
<p align="center"><font size="2" face="Comic Sans MS"><img border="0" src="daytona/day_testing.jpg" width="564" height="429"></font></p>
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<p align="center"><a href="../3dfx.1.html" target="_top"><font face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><img border="0" src="logos/white_v6k_logo.jpg" alt="Click the V5-6000 to enter site through main page." width="125" height="44"></font></a></p>
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