Buying a Voodoo 6000 ?

[Mod]

Would you buy a Voodoo 6000 ( notice that there are just 50 available in the world, so if you buy one now, you can sell it in some years as a very expensive collector item ) ? :D


You can buy this voodoo here and test it ! :

http://shop.lookanswer.com/view_product.jsp?id=vc_001&groupid=6

A higher resolution shot is here :

http://www.tweakers.net/nieuws/18972

PS. : Will it run Doom 3 anyhow ? If so, how do you think it will be its performance ?

[The Baron]

No.

What's the point? It won't become expensive, it'll be forgotten... heh

[thcdru2k]

nah..unless someone makes some drivers for it, doom 3 ain't gonna run. no support and such. if it even does, i doubt it be any faster than a gf2 ultra.

[pelly]

Plus, you'd want to make sure the external power supply is also included...Otherwise, you'd be SOL....

:D

[Mod]

Originally posted by =SSC=The Baron
No.

What's the point? It won't become expensive, it'll be forgotten... heh

You didn't look the price at the link ... :) . It's $600,00 .

[sbp]

hehe always funny when some Voodoo Zombie buys some antique card by some dead company http://sbp777.homestead.com/files/embarassedlaugh.gif

[-=DVS=-]

Well its only good for collector now its useless , it woun't run new games with PS/VS , as thcdru2k sayd there is no driver support, hehe it would be fun to get one and travel to the past :D

[-=DVS=-]

hmm interesting i just noticed there are drivers in http://www.x3dfx.com/ for Windows 2000 and Windows Xp and they marked as x3dfx drivers ( by ex programers of 3dfx :rolleyes: ) hehe i wonder how good they are maybe they would run new games afterall :p

[sbp]

There were no official or unofficial Windows XP drivers released by 3dfx or by the x-3dfx driver programmers. The last official Win2k drivers released by 3dfx were 1.04.00. After that the x-3dfx programmers released drivers. Everything beyond that are mismashed drivers floating around out there. btw the c in x3dfx-c stands for community.

For anyone to buy a videocard with no tech support or warranty of any type is not wise. Add to that these mix and match hacked drivers.

And yes, 3dfx cards are increasingly having problems running the latest games.

[PsychoSy]

I wouldn't mind having a Voodoo 4 or 5 hooked to a KVM switch just for some of my old games that look and play alot better in Glide than any other API. Then again, if someone with some time to spare at Nvidia would write a Glide Wrapper, I wouldn't have to have a Voodoo.

MK4, Deus Ex, Unreal, Unreal Tournament...they all look ass-tastic and are prone to crashing and DTDs (dropping-to-desktop) in anything other than good old fashioned Glide. That's not opinion...that's fact. :p :D

[Mod]

There are people VERY happy with their voodoo ( I think they are those guys who insist in doing video editing with amiga 2000 and a video toster ( well, at least I know SOME , :eek: )) .

I am not telling a lie, take a look here : (there are LOTS of people :eek: )

http://pub43.ezboard.com/bx3dfx .

Take a look around ! You'll be surprised ! :eek: :)

on NV30:

http://pub43.ezboard.com/fx3dfxfrm10.showMessage?topicID=1638.topic

[legion88]

I won't buy a V5 6000 not knowing if it would fit in my case.

[StealthHawk]

Originally posted by Mod
You didn't look the price at the link ... :) . It's $600,00 .

that was the planned MSRP. so the prices hasn't actually increased any.

edit: and why isn't there a "No, it sucks" option :p

[Feanor]

No, I wouldn't buy it to put in my computer. Drivers, running newer games, people have mentioned some of it already. Nor would I recomend someone buy a product from a now non-existent company, where there would be no upgrade path for their current or future operating systems. It little matters whether we're talking video cards, sound cards, or any other piece of hardware, from any company. Without continual driver support, one could find themselves SOL.

I found myself in that boat with the scanner I once had when the company hadn't released win2k drivers for the model a year after it came out. By then I figured they wouldn't and bought a new one. Needless to say, at least I got a few years out of it, which for $150 was OK. But $600 (if that is current) for no support from day one, nor is there a company to give drivers) nah...

If I was the Smithsonian or some kind of museum, I might get one (along with other older cards), just to present a history of the graphics card from the days of the Voodoo Graphics and others from that era to the present. I wouldn't buy it as an individual for use however. Course if I was a museum giving an exhibit, I'd also get an 8088, 286, etc, along with various itterations of Cyrix and Winchip, and perhaps even the i4000 to give the history. It doesn't mean one would go buying them all for actual use today however.

[LORD-eX-Bu]

I've seen some of these Voodoo 6000 cards go for over 2 or 3 thousand dollars. I'd never do it, haven't spent more than $160 on a video card yet, and don't plan to anytime soon.;)

[A-KO]

Well in theory, the Voodoo5 could not run Doom 3 but not because it doesn't have DX8 support, but because it lacks hardware T&L.

This is really the only feature needed for Doom 3..heh..

[Mod]

Some people managed to make Doom 3 playable in Voodoo 5500. There's a guy in that forum that showed the pics. It ran at 15-20 fps, don't know the CPU.

There's a thread in which they found a kind of voodoo 6 (2x2 VSA instead of 1X4 VSA) sold by $16,000.00 .

It's a a great collector item. I would surely buy one if I had a lot of money. And they are getting more and more expensive.