So its a box queen now then? Shame. Not easy to even get older motherboards as capacitors on them can be dodgy, and on the card itself over time. I know there was an odd adapter that was knocking about years ago that made agp compatible with pci so might be something it would work with, i remember a guy in the x3dfx forums using one though cant recall if it was for a 5500 or 6000.
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Voodoo 5 6000 remade
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So its a box queen now then? Shame. Not easy to even get older motherboards as capacitors on them can be dodgy, and on the card itself over time. I know there was an odd adapter that was knocking about years ago that made agp compatible with pci so might be something it would work with, i remember a guy in the x3dfx forums using one though cant recall if it was for a 5500 or 6000.
My first ever upgrade in 2000-ish saw me going from my self built 1998-ish AMD K6-2 450mhz CPU with the original Voodoo 3D PCI card (no idea what my 2D card was) to a Intel Slot 1 800mhz CPU with a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP and I remember being blown away at the HUGE jump in performance to all my old 3DFX games.
Sadly my 5500 AGP died quite quickly (<3 months) and 3DFX had gone under by then so I ended up getting a Matrox G400 instead, an absolutely terrible card in comparison!
Sadly my 5500 AGP died quite quickly (<3 months) and 3DFX had gone under by then so I ended up getting a Matrox G400 instead, an absolutely terrible card in comparison!
My favourite series of artwork on any GPU packaging.
Oh yes! I've got a few still. They're my preciouses.
Still factory sealed
Plus the big bad, and it's box.
I didn't realise they made a 5800.
You had a 6000, nice.
They didn't, some of those boxes are reproductions and some didn't exist at all.
I didn't realise they made a 5800.
You had a 6000, nice.
The only reproduction box is the 6000 based on photos from an old press sample; and the 5000 based on old adverts in magazines.
The 5800 was only a planned prototype, and the 6000 never had a comercial box.
Everything else in the photos are originals, with original cards inside. Some still factory sealed. I have open ones of them also.
Pal I know makes the 5800 cards, essentially modded 5500's, that have 128MB, and two Rev320 chips that run at 200Mhz over the stock 166mhz.
I created the boxes for it, and the 6000, and now 5000 for my pals that own the V5 5000 prototypes.