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jdsony
December 17th, 2003, 00:57
Check this out on ebay...this is (or was) quite an amazing piece of hardware.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2773621518&category=40157
Trotterwatch
December 17th, 2003, 01:05
The user Flash owns one of these, and I'm pretty certain Tagrineth does too :) Edit: (seems like this is a different one... teach me to read the link properly in future)
Matata
December 17th, 2003, 01:13
Holy ..... 4 Coolers?!?!?!?!
That lilŽbaby must be of the size of a chihuahua!
Knuckles
December 17th, 2003, 01:20
shit, it is still using the extrenal power supply!!! damn, this thing is more rare than the V5 6k itself!
blizz
December 17th, 2003, 01:21
I remember this card, one turned up on ebay shortly after 3dfx went belly up

it's a nice historical item of "what might have been"
Reznor007
December 17th, 2003, 06:56
It's not the ultimate Voodoo though.

Quantum3D made a system using 32 VSA-100 chips(yeah, 8x what this is) with 2GB of video memory. A damn monster. Not even Radeon 9800XT has the fillrate that thing did. Of course, it consumes so much power I don't know how many power supplies you would need.

EDIT-That is raw fillrate though. A 9800XT would beat it in real performance.
AlphaWolf
December 17th, 2003, 07:04
shit, it is still using the extrenal power supply!!! damn, this thing is more rare than the V5 6k itself!

The external power supply on the V6 wasn't really necessary...it was just a marketing gimmick to give you the illusion that the card was *powerful*.
Doomulation
December 17th, 2003, 08:26
Holy cow...current bid is $500! Who'd pay so much for that card?! That's far too much for any gfx card.
DuDe
December 17th, 2003, 17:59
Because no one really buys that card to actually use it. It's a collectors thing.
Hexidecimal
December 17th, 2003, 18:52
If I payed 500 dollars for a graphics card, youd better believe I was going to use it.
Clements
December 17th, 2003, 19:19
That would be the ultimate graphics card for N64 emulation! With so much Voodoo power, it probably wouldn't slow down very much in the motion blur/framebuffer effects of the Glide64 plugin (which all nVidia/Ati owners are insanely jealous of I'll bet!)
DuDe
December 17th, 2003, 20:06
Hah, price is at 1100 bucks at the moment. Friggin' amazing.
Hexidecimal
December 17th, 2003, 20:33
It's nice that the guy selling this is giving the proceeds to charity and not keeping it himself, it's a good way to raise funds selling something that rare.
Matata
December 17th, 2003, 20:37
Hah, price is at 1100 bucks at the moment. Friggin' amazing.

bah!, IŽll rather buy a new PC for that money!
linemu
December 17th, 2003, 21:45
Man.... using GLIDE64 that thing would ROCK! I had a voodoo 3 but it broke.
Tagrineth
December 18th, 2003, 04:58
The user Flash owns one of these, and I'm pretty certain Tagrineth does too :) Edit: (seems like this is a different one... teach me to read the link properly in future)

Heh, I have no $$$ so no 6k for me :P
james.miller
December 19th, 2003, 19:32
the guy is a total pratt. it's been discussed over at overclockers.com forums. look at the pictures, and you'll notice the nice static-charged carpet he has the motherboard and graphics card laying on.


What a stupid fool:rolleyes: