Voodoo 5 6000 (anyone got $6k spare?)

[Gerard]

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Voodoo 5 6000 going currently for $5500 on the bay. Near sure this is the highest price I've ever seen one of these at, seen 2000 and 3000 in the past but this is a good bit above those.

 

[Mysterae_]

That's nuts. Make me wonder how much the Voodoo 3 I have in the loft is worth. Can't remember if it's the 2000 or 3000 version.

Is this like this or the next generation's version of the Antiques Roadshow .

 

[kar]

Hmm I have a voodoo 5….

 

[drakulton]

Isn't some guy making new voodoo cards with the original chips?

 

[Gerard]

Isn't some guy making new voodoo cards with the original chips?

Yup, random Russian guy https://www.tomshardware.com/news/3dfx-voodoo-5-6000-comes-back-to-life-better-than-ever

 

[~>Dg<~]

i have one of the early voodoo cards not sure which one..its about a foot long. think it was with a pentium 2

 

[Trick]

Hmm I have a voodoo 5….

Same here, got a pci version running in my PIII 933. These cards still seem to fetch the thick end of a 700 or 800 quid on eBay (assuming they actually sell at those prices!). Expensive!

 

[BUDFORCE]

There was a phase where graphics cards used to have some cool art.

I had a Sapphire X1800XT I believe that looked really cool.

I gave it to a mate and I believe it was stil working many years later

 

[CaptainRAVE]

That's nuts. Make me wonder how much the Voodoo 3 I have in the loft is worth. Can't remember if it's the 2000 or 3000 version.

Is this like this or the next generation's version of the Antiques Roadshow .

Its more the point that this was a cutting edge prototype that was never released before they closed shop. I desperately wanted this card, it was meant to be a beast and I was saving hard for it. Nvidia then entered one of their golden periods and released much better cards, partly due to this acquisition I suspect. GeForce 2 was my next card I think. Such a great time in gaming.

 

[Gerard]

Its more the point that this was a cutting edge prototype that was never released before they closed shop. I desperately wanted this card, it was meant to be a beast and I was saving hard for it. Nvidia then entered one of their golden periods and released much better cards, partly due to this acquisition I suspect. GeForce 2 was my next card I think. Such a great time in gaming.

Same here, was looking forward to it and then the news came though months later of nvidia buying the 3dfx assets. Lot of irony in the timing as 3dfx literally hours earlier had got rampage up and running and had been testing it on quake 3.

 

[Mysterae_]

I remember playing Quake on my 3Dfx Orchid Righteous 3D for the first time. Gaming truly changed forever.

 

[Pottsey]

Its more the point that this was a cutting edge prototype that was never released before they closed shop. I desperately wanted this card, it was meant to be a beast and I was saving hard for it. Nvidia then entered one of their golden periods and released much better cards, partly due to this acquisition I suspect. GeForce 2 was my next card I think. Such a great time in gaming.

Wasn't it the 3DFX Rampage that was a cutting edge prototype. The Voodoo 5, 6000 wasn't cutting edge it was just something like two Voodoos 5 stuck together on the same board. Even if the Voodoo 5, 6000 made to to market it would have failed due to being a generation out of date, missing core feature. The Voodoo 5, 6000 had the speed but not the specs. Which was always the problem for 3DFX very fast cards for the time but behind on features and image quality.

 

[Gerard]

Wasn't it the 3DFX Rampage that was a cutting edge prototype. The Voodoo 5, 6000 wasn't cutting edge it was just something like two Voodoos 5 stuck together on the same board. Even if the Voodoo 5, 6000 made to to market it would have failed due to being a generation out of date, missing core feature. The Voodoo 5, 6000 had the speed but not the specs. Which was always the problem for 3DFX very fast cards for the time but behind on features and image quality.

You make the 6000 sound so simple, look at how complex the pcb is, for the year 2000 it was a very complex card. Rampage was the prototype and had they got that up and running especially with the top end version the gpu market would likely be a very different place today.

 

[Pottsey]

You make the 6000 sound so simple, look at how complex the pcb is, for the year 2000 it was a very complex card. Rampage was the prototype and had they got that up and running especially with the top end version the gpu market would likely be a very different place today.

The 6000 was relatively simple for the time. It couldn't do DX8 features, it couldn't do vertex or shaders, it couldn't play games of the day at max settings due to missing hardware support. It had raw speed but little else. It was complicated in that it had double the amount of chips on 1 board but the chips themselves where rather basic for that point in time. As the 6000 was based on for the time old chips it wouldn't even have worked in modern motherboards of the time. It was an odd product that was at top end prices, had top end speeds but could only run in older computers and only play older games. You couldn't stick a 6000 in a modern Pentium 4 motherboard and play a games with T&L/Shaders turned on.

 

[Gerard]

The 6000 was relatively simple for the time. It couldn't do DX8 features, it couldn't do vertex or shaders, it couldn't play games of the day at max settings due to missing hardware support. It had raw speed but little else. It was complicated in that it had double the amount of chips on 1 board but the chips themselves where rather basic for that point in time. As the 6000 was based on for the time old chips it wouldn't even have worked in modern motherboards of the time. It was an odd product that was at top end prices, had top end speeds but could only run in older computers and only play older games. You couldn't stick a 6000 in a modern Pentium 4 motherboard and play a games with T&L/Shaders turned on.

Preaching to the choir, I'm aware of its shortfalls, the gpus themselves were slight upgrades on the Voodoo 3 but nothing major, mostly a clockspeed bump and a few other additions like the T-Buffer. As i mentioned in my post above basically everything after Voodoo 2 was a stopgap product due to management being utterly clueless and letting rampage fall behind as they shifted resources elsewhere.

Had they been able to launch rampage, it was a game changer for the company, especially the Spectre 3000 card which was 2 rampage cores and separate "sage" t&l engine.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

You make the 6000 sound so simple, look at how complex the pcb is, for the year 2000 it was a very complex card. Rampage was the prototype and had they got that up and running especially with the top end version the gpu market would likely be a very different place today.

Indeed, the 6000 was akin to your sli/crossfire with two cards stuck together. For the features it lacked it was supposed to deliver the raw speed that many of us craved. No wonder I jumped on sli/crossfire as soon as those became a reality.

 

[Gerard]

Indeed, the 6000 was akin to your sli/crossfire with two cards stuck together. For the features it lacked it was supposed to deliver the raw speed that many of us craved. No wonder I jumped on sli/crossfire as soon as those became a reality.

Would have loved a 6k card, pottsey talks about Pentium 4 compatibility above but at that point in time gamers were going away from Pentiums due to the amd offerings kicking them square in the plums, and not needing stupidly priced RAMBUS memory.

I remember all the hoopla about 32 bit colour, at the time it was basically a checkbox feature as it introduced a substantial fps hit and the tnt1 (i believe) wasn't even fast enough to run games at high settings with it on. According to an anandtech article at the time the tnt 1 suffered a roughly 50% performance hit with it on, the tnt2 was less (10-25%) but in those days people wanted more performance.

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Would have loved a 6k card, pottsey talks about Pentium 4 compatibility above but at that point in time gamers were going away from Pentiums due to the amd offerings kicking them square in the plums, and not needing stupidly priced RAMBUS memory.

I remember all the hoopla about 32 bit colour, at the time it was basically a checkbox feature as it introduced a substantial fps hit and the tnt1 (i believe) wasn't even fast enough to run games at high settings with it on. According to an anandtech article at the time the tnt 1 suffered a roughly 50% performance hit with it on, the tnt2 was less (10-25%) but in those days people wanted more performance.

Indeed, that was around the time all my mates and I had switched to AMD. I remember buying their 1ghz Athlon chip, that was huge back then.

 

[Gerard]

Indeed, that was around the time all my mates and I had switched to AMD. I remember buying their 1ghz Athlon chip, that was huge back then.

And we had a lot more variety in the gpu market, the cpu war with intel and amd and the bragging rights with the first to get to 1ghz. We didn't know how good we had it.

 

[Purgatory]

And we had a lot more variety in the gpu market, the cpu war with intel and amd and the bragging rights with the first to get to 1ghz. We didn't know how good we had it.

Sadly them days are done now. They were the days when graphics cards, cpus, chipsets, soundcards etc were real fun and the advancements were large jumps not these minor jumps we get these days. Updating back then saw real changes to all parts of the system not just the graphics, these days it's same thing but slightly faster and some proprietary software added to make you update, instead of real hardware advancements and new technologies and new APIs that added new technologies to be used on the hardware.

Stagnation is real and has been for a good few years and seems to be the resolution wars these days and how they sell hardware and soon 8K will be forced on us to be the norm as they did with 4k and really 8k is the last straw to me and only useful in engineering,medical,scientific uses and as consumer monitors is silly to me.. Also only screen I would like for the future update is the ultrawide half 8k screens they are pushing now and after that I really don't see the point of more pixels on such screens and only very large screens will benefit and so large they can't be used comfortably in your home.