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

[heatonpkmassive]

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

Yeah, I was thinking about that 1ghz Thunderbird chip. But the earlier ones were indeed slotted, those were times when an upgrade was far more noticeable than nowadays.

 

[Gerard]

I had the 1.33ghz thunderbird along with a thermoengine cooler (aka the core crusher). Palpitations putting that thing on, you had to use a screwdriver in the slot of one side of the bracket to mount it, seen plenty of people chipping/cracking their cores when mounting that thing.

 

[Gerard]

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

Voodoo 3 2k pci was my first proper 3d card, before that it was like a 4 or 8mb ati rage chip integrated into the mobo.

 

[ED209]

Just checked the link and its up to $12,500 US dollars!

 

[Gerard]

Just checked the link and its up to $12,500 US dollars!

Cha ching!

 

[heatonpkmassive]

I had the 1.33ghz thunderbird along with a thermoengine cooler (aka the core crusher). Palpitations putting that thing on, you had to use a screwdriver in the slot of one side of the bracket to mount it, seen plenty of people chipping/cracking their cores when mounting that thing.

Yeah, the only reason I had the 1ghz Thunderbird because I crushed the die on the Duron 800

 

[Gerard]

Yeah, the only reason I had the 1ghz Thunderbird because I crushed the die on the Duron 800

Had a duron 700 in another build as well! Great little cpus for the time.

 

[heatonpkmassive]

Had a duron 700 in another build as well! Great little cpus for the time.

I had a 650 Duron, upgraded to the 800, crushed that and then got the 1Ghz Athlon

 

[zola25]

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 think that was partly due to the memory speed being linked 1:1 with GPU speed as the Voodoo cards only ever used SDR RAM. Overclocking the GPU also overclocked the memory.

Do miss the Voodoo 1, 2 and 3 days, felt like epic upgrades.

 

[Gerard]

I think that was partly due to the memory speed being linked 1:1 with GPU speed as the Voodoo cards only ever used SDR RAM. Overclocking the GPU also overclocked the memory.

Do miss the Voodoo 1, 2 and 3 days, felt like epic upgrades.

Mostly due to 3d cards being in their infancy, and the fabrication process being easier since the chips were comparatively large vs what they are today. We were part of the dawn of the 3d gaming age!

 

[jrodga2k5]

I wish I still had my Voodoo 5 5500 lying around...those were the days.

 

[PIPPI]

3dfx kind of lived on in the form of sli technology

 

[Gerard]

3dfx kind of lived on in the form of sli technology

Sort of, 3dfx version wasn't the same as what amd and nvidia had but the initials at least stayed the same, Scan Line Interleave to Scalable Link Interface.

 

[ED209]

Cha ching!

Indeed, seller will not be complaining if the buyer acually pays for it!

 

[Iron Man]

Wish I kept my one!

 

[Gerard]

Wish I kept my one!

Still got my rma replacement with the box and documentation it came with. Might be worth a few quid i suppose.

 

[Iron Man]

Still got my rma replacement with the box and documentation it came with. Might be worth a few quid i suppose.

Might be worth a punt!

 

[Gerard]

Might be worth a punt!

Indeed, been in my cupboard for 22 years now, only used it for a short time when i received it so presumably still working.

 

[Iron Man]

Indeed, been in my cupboard for 22 years now, only used it for a short time when i received it so presumably still working.

I remember getting this as a boy and it was pretty amazing to game on. I’m sure there are some nostalgic people who would try to get it work on a retro system.

 

[Trick]

It's a pure nostalgia thing, the voodoo 5 line wasn't very good and was easily outgunned by the geforce 2 ultra

This is true. I’ve got a GeForce256 DDR in the same PIII as my pci Voodoo 5 5500. They trade blows in most stuff (V faster in Unreal, GF256 faster in Quake3) but generally the 255 seems faster. A GeForce 2 GTS or Ultra would be a clear and easy winner. I believe the Ultra is faster than a 6000 as well.