News The 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 Sold for $15,000 at Auction

[Admin]

A piece of graphics card history, the 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000, eventually sold for $15,000. That's a lot of money for a card that now trails even mediocre integrated graphics solutions in terms of features and performance.

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[Deleted member 14196]

I just can’t imagine caring about something that much. I hate collecting things that require storage

all I need are my memories of the voodoo and those are plenty and that’s good enough

I’m sure the new owner is chuffed

 

[Dr3ams]

Never owned a 3dfx card. I think around the time this card was on the market I was using a Matrox Mystique 220. It came bundled with a few games...can't remember which ones though.

 

[gg83]

My first gpu was a 3dfx back in 1997/1998. Had a Dell pc and added a gpu to it. Quake looked amazing at the time.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

My first gpu was a 3dfx back in 1997/1998. Had a Dell pc and added a gpu to it. Quake looked amazing at the time.

I did the same, but I bought the pentim pro. Ooooohhhhhh lol

many hours of playing Mech warrior two with the 3DFX patch and quake and lots of other network games. We used to stay after work go out to eat and then come back and play all night.

 

[Neilbob]

My first gpu was a 3dfx back in 1997/1998. Had a Dell pc and added a gpu to it. Quake looked amazing at the time.

That moment when you saw Unreal for the first time.

GL Quake looked great too though - after turning off those silly orange blobs around rockets.

 

[Vanderlindemedia]

This card was notorious for actually being able to run games at 8X FSAA compared to the 4X which was common on other cards, and usually had a large performance penalty.

If i'm correct these cards also ran at 16Bit vs 32Bit over the competition, which gave it an advantage but less "colorfull" colors.

Those VSA where capable of running up to 32 chips all together.

3DFX was kind of stupid by retracting the option for AIB's to create their own versions, and start selling their own cards only. Just like Nvidia is doing now with AIB's > More money for them.

 

[mrv_co]

I still have my 3DFX cards stored away... a Voodoo2 and a Voodoo Rush. RIP The Good Ol Days.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

My first gpu was a 3dfx back in 1997/1998. Had a Dell pc and added a gpu to it. Quake looked amazing at the time.

My first 3D card was a Rendition because IIRC they were the first to release before 3Dfx. I bought it to play Quake. I later bought a Voodoo 3Dfx a few years later because I was into flight sims that used Glide and OpenGL

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

Ah, some good old memories looking at some of the posts.

The 3dFX 3 3000 PCI was my first accelerator/gpu, after which I moved the a Geforce 256 agp on my next system. With hardware T+L, games really looked more than they before. Stunning (for circa 1999/2000)

 

[Friesiansam]

Although I had worked in laptop servicing and component testing before then, I got my first PC in 2009, with a GPU of unknown identity, because I can't remember. It was rubbish so I soon upgraded to a Voodoo3 3000, with performance that was quite the revelation, hugely faster. So, 3dfx got me started on PC gaming.

 

[palladin9479]

I just can’t imagine caring about something that much. I hate collecting things that require storage

all I need are my memories of the voodoo and those are plenty and that’s good enough

I’m sure the new owner is chuffed

There is a massive community that is into retro PC's and retro gaming. The mid to late 90's is a unique era in that we are still unable to accurately emulate the graphics hardware of that time and much of the experience is in getting the whole thing up and running. Right now I'm currently on a project to build a late 90's rig that features the following specs running Windows 98SE.

Asus P5A motherboard
AMD K6-2+/500
128MB SDR PC100 memory
Nvidia TNT2 AGP graphics card
Yamaha PCI Audio card
RTL 100Mbps PCI Network card.

The disk was the most annoying part, had to use an IDE to SATA converter block to get a 120GB Samsung 840 SSD recognizable as an IDE hard disk to install the OS on as Windows 98 doesn't like SCSI stuff due to it's DOS heritage.