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

CaptainRAVE said:
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.
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Was that the one that was a slot rather than a socket? You cut off the corner plastic cover the CPU cover and then fitted a GFD (Gold Finger Device) and a heatsink the size of a house brick? :)

I often wonder what happened to all the old hardware that I bought years ago.
 
Purgatory said:
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.
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Much of your post resonates with me but in the context of an end user I don't think it matters hugely what brings new features, whether it's new hardware, software or whatever. New APIs weren't necessary a good thing in all aspects, let's not forget these were often proprietary themselves e.g. Glide (I'm a glide fanboy, but I don't think it necessary helped having this scenario where developers needed to cater for multiple APIs rather than unified under e.g. D3D/OGL). So as a gamer I don't really care if it's proprietary software or new hardware&API combination, the end result is what matters.
 
When I saw the subject title, my basic brain thought for a moment that 3DFX were making a comeback with the Voodoo 5 6000 set to rival the NVIDIA 4080 :D

Then I remembered that 3DFX were acquired by NVIDIA themselves. Still, would be nice if one of these days NVIDIA gave a nostalgic nod to 3DFX and Voodoo, maybe a "Titan 3DFX" - kinda like Intel did with the i7-8086k.
 
Mysterae_ said:
Was that the one that was a slot rather than a socket? You cut off the corner plastic cover the CPU cover and then fitted a GFD (Gold Finger Device) and a heatsink the size of a house brick? :)

I often wonder what happened to all the old hardware that I bought years ago.
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No, the Athlon was socketed. You're thinking of the Slot 1 Pentiums..
 
heatonpkmassive said:
No, the Athlon was socketed. You're thinking of the Slot 1 Pentiums..
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AMD Athlon Slot A, it's how I first discovered OCUK back in the day. They used to sell them pre-overclocked for your convenience (iirc I bought a 550mhz overclocked to 750mhz).

Still got 2x Creative Blaster 12mb Voodoo 2s in the loft, along with a 2000, 3000 and a 5500 (all boxed). I didn't realise they were worth anything. I think I gave my Orchid Righteous away with a system (it's microswitch clicking when you engaged 3D is my main memory of it!).
 
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Yes the earliest athlons were slot, I upgraded my k62-500 to an athlon 750 and thought I was cutting edge ......
 
Mercurial said:
AMD Athlon Slot A, it's how I first discovered OCUK back in the day. They used to sell them pre-overclocked for your convenience (iirc I bought a 550mhz overclocked to 750mhz).
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That's the one! I think the price difference between the 750mhz and the 1Ghz processor was quite substantial, the nice feeling of getting something for nothing, apart from the gold finger device and hacking the plastic cover to fit it.

Anyway, 3Dfx were awesome back in the day, it's a shame they couldn't keep up.
 
Mercurial said:
AMD Athlon Slot A, it's how I first discovered OCUK back in the day. They used to sell them pre-overclocked for your convenience (iirc I bought a 550mhz overclocked to 750mhz).

Still got 2x Creative Blaster 12mb Voodoo 2s in the loft, along with a 2000, 3000 and a 5500 (all boxed). I didn't realise they were worth anything. I think I gave my Orchid Righteous away with a system (it's microswitch clicking when you engaged 3D is my main memory of it!).
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Actually you're right. I slouch corrected. But didn't they have both slot and socket for the Athlon?
 
heatonpkmassive said:
Actually you're right. I slouch corrected. But didn't they have both slot and socket for the Athlon?
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The Slot A's were followed by the Thunderbird chips (from hazy memory) that were socketed which is when things got really interesting, there may have been a period when they both were produced I guess.

Also #CunninghamsLaw ;)
 
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PIPPI said:
I flogged my voodoo 5 5000 for a tidy profit during the pandemic, kinda wish I had kept it now
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How much did you get for it? I have one that was an rma return with shipping info/docunents with it from 3dfx which might bump the price up.
 
Just looked back on my email, I got £240 back in July 2018 for a bare unboxed board

They go for a lot more now

Although I bought it back in the day brand new for £130 after 3dfx went bust , they didn't make many revisions of the drivers for it and if I remember right windows xp only ever had one set of custom made drivers that I had to get from guru3d?

I didn't use it for more than a few months before I bought a much more better at the time geforce3
 
It's a pure nostalgia thing, the voodoo 5 line wasn't very good and was easily outgunned by the geforce 2 ultra
 
Also even though it was advertised as 64mb it wasn't really because each GPU chip had to have its own memory, so it was 2x32mb or whatever
 
And they were poor overclockers

The vesa100 chip I think it was called was clocked at 166mhz

I could only overclock it to 175mhz
 
I have fonder memories of the voodoo3 3000, it was my first 3d card and was such a huge step up from anything I'd played before even on playstation
 
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