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[Evilsizer]

Legendary 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 Gets Modern Revamp In Amazing Reverse Engineering Effort

While 3dfx was able to push the Voodoo 5 5000 and Voodoo 5 5500 out the door, the Voodoo 6 6000 was never officially released.

hothardware.com

OMG, i still want one !

 

[Nebulous]

Yeah! I want one too!

 

[Evilsizer]

the black PCB with copper heatsinks! then the fact he actually did back plates for the heatsinks. might be a bit overkill for that, but if your going to do it. DO IT RIGHT!

 

[Woomack]

I remember when we were hunting for Voodoo 5 6000, when it was actually cheap. Every single card on auctions was broken. Now I see that all these old cards (not even anything as unique as Voodoo 5) cost a lot. On local auctions, there is one Voodoo 5 5500 for $1k.
I remember there was something like ATI Fury Maxx x4 or something with 4 GPUs. Now I can't even find it on the web, and the regular Maxx is 2-GPU.

 

[BugFreak]

Wow that is an annoying website but neat article. My last Voodoo was a 3, after that I switched to ATI for a while. I don't remember the external power supply but I would like to see that on modern cards if possible. Much less psu cable mess and cleaner look overall.

 

[WrkBoot]

Yeah...that is really cool. I had a Voodoo 3<-- I think. I still have it. Back in the day, I put it in my dad's computer.

 

[Evilsizer]

ironic how people called that a big card back in the day, now look at todays cards

 

[Voodoo Rufus]

Yeah, that's a pretty sexy custom PCB. Bummer about the PCI interface but I see why he did it.

Post magically merged: Oct 25, 2022

the black PCB with copper heatsinks! then the fact he actually did back plates for the heatsinks. might be a bit overkill for that, but if your going to do it. DO IT RIGHT!

@#$% yeah. Engineering improvements!

 

[Evilsizer]

Yeah, that's a pretty sexy custom PCB. Bummer about the PCI interface but I see why he did it.

Post magically merged: Oct 25, 2022

@#$% yeah. Engineering improvements!

well the VSA is a PCI native so he would have to use a middle man as 3DFX did for AGP. i can not find the one off posts any more, one guy got a MAC labeled 5500. Swapped the bios to a PC version, i know sounds odd right? seems something in the bios for the MAC would not allow the PCI card to run in a regular pc back in the day. any way, the card on PCI buss actually had better performance then AGP due to the middle man translating to AGP from PCI.

 

[Voodoo Rufus]

You saying that the Voodoo 4/5 weren't native AGP cards? I know there were PCI and AGP versions of the same cards, like the Voodoo 3.

 

[Evilsizer]

If i remember correctly the V3's as well were native PCI and they used PCI to AGP controllers. yes, i do know for sure the VSA-100 chips on the V4/V5 are native PCI chips. that is why the card is PCI, he would have had to design it and then find the PCI to AGP controller chip for the board.

 

[Evilsizer]

crap man, i just looked at prices for 3dfx hw on ebay. HOLY CRAP! i had some partially functioning V5 5500, makes me wish i had kept them. at the time i got rid of them, i did not know you could get VSA-100 chips. otherwise i would have looked for someone that could have replaced the chips.

 

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[EarthDog]

It plays Crysis!