Voodoo5 6000 vs. GF2 Ultra's Results

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The development of Voodoo5 6000 had gone through several observable changes.On the first demo sample (Fig. 1), collocations of 4 VSA-100 chips were found entirely different comparing to that of the original design (Fig. 2). In November 2000, 3dfx display the final version on which the Intel PCI-to-PCI bridge chip that had been on there before is replaced by a HINT PCI-to-PCI bridge chip (Fig. 1).
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From the above results, it can be know that Voodoo5 6000 is no over +5% faster than GeForce2 Ultra, while it has been show that there will be at least a +25% performance lead of NV20 over GeForce2 Ultra in the NV20 preview. So it should be more smarter to wait for a just coming NV20 than rush out to bid that Quantum 3D Voodoo5 6000 PC (if it was there) at eBay.

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[scarecrow]

Dude,
where have you been? 3dfx went out of business. As far as I know the 6000 never went into production.

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[Grizely1]

Yeah, 3Dfx no longer exists (well they won't in a few months, anyways.) 3Dfx sold all the V6000s to military training centers to use in flight simulators or something.

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[JoeHead]

Your right guys but I did see something about someone putting some out. Maybe up for auction soon.

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[Grizely1]

what's the point? It won't even fit in your case! (have you seen the pics? It's like 1.5' long!

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[Grizely1]

Hmm I wonder what would happen if nVidia used SLI to put 4 NV20 chips on 1 card? Holy crap! That would probably be like $2k though!

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[scarecrow]

The 6000 would have been awsome exept for having to use the external power supply. It definetly would not have been for someone with a mini case. They were large cards but I don't think they were 1.5' long (if recall correctly).

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[Grizely1]

I saw a pic of one, it was almost longer that the guy was wide that was holding it.

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[scarecrow]

Than that must have been a gag photo. They were only a couple of inches longer than a 5500 was. Trust me. I've seen plenty of them.
Unless the guy your talking about was a midget. LOL.

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[Grizely1]

I'm curious to know where you saw the pic.



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[scarecrow]

I was a sys admin there before they went under. Don't get me wrong though, the card was rather big.

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[Grizely1]

in the pic that i saw the thing was twice as long as the 5500.

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[Grizely1]

there was a guy holding it. its not like i would think its an actual size pic. it all depdns on your resolution too. trust me, that [-peep-] was [-peep-] huge.

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[Tempus]

Even the 5500 didn't fit in some cases, never mind the 6000...

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[Grizely1]

the 5500 had two VS1 chips or whatever, the 6000 had four!

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