Popping heatsinks off 3dfx V5-6000

[DrMR2002]

Even if it was a dead board was still worth alot of money, those cards had engineering tag that came with the card when they did the testing, they were never released to the public due to 3DFX sold their technology to quantum3d and pretty much force them to close their doors as they ran out of funding for there bigger project.

[gamewizard]

@DrMR2002

3dfx didn't sell their technology to Quantum3d, they OWNED Quantum3D. They sold their technology to nVidia when their creditors threatened to force them into bankruptcy.

[Dorisequador]

I did that toi my Voodoo5 5500 and then i couldn't find new better heat sinks that fit,... whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa "crying"

[F2bnp]

Nvidia didn't kill 3Dfx. 3Dfx killed themselves by making a lot of bad choices, such as self publishing their cards.

[PsilocybinDream]

their isnt a pci to agp converter, the bus speeds would be really messed up

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

There is a small Hint chip that acts as a switch between the gpus and the agp bus like the n200 on a GTX295 and so on.

[toinze69]

sell this card to me please

[oc5nsli341nforce4]

How rare are the fans with the 3dfx logos on them?

[maxheadroom1987]

I love your website gsdonovan. Easily the best 3DFX resource out there, along with Falconfly. You say that the CPU botttlenecks the card although I think its the AGP/PCI interface of the card. Just my two cents though! Keep up the good site and videos.

[gsdonovan]

Once the textures are loaded, the interface really doesn't matter. Other people have obtained better benchmark numbers by running P4's with AGP to PCI converters!

[maxheadroom1987]

oh yeah, now you say that it is a bit ovbious *doh* :P

[Coolbri1191]

wait a minute..... AGP to PCI converter?! :0 where can i get one?!??!!! i desperately need one because i got a motherboard off of ebay for my Voodoo 5500 agp, and the agp slot is not slotted for it correctly.. :[[

[rctuner92]

Watching this Video is a Torture for everyone who knows that card! Also if you didn't damage the god of hardware, that's really a weird thing to see...

[gsdonovan]

1) It's a dead board with no repair possible.

2) I needed them for a good V5-6000

3) Nope, this is a 100% safe wasy to remove them without damaging board or heatsinks.

[23FiXeR23]

blasphemy!

[gsdonovan]

1) It's a dead board with no repair possible.

2) I needed them for a good V5-6000

3) Nope, this is a 100% safe wasy to remove them without damaging board or heatsinks.

[pietrora]

mammy :`(

[37474748]

man i want that voodoo!

[diadevlin]

The Heatsinks will get scratches... If I want to buy a 6000, i will look at it....

[worthalter]

thanks for making and sharing this video.

[soldersucker]

What was the point in popping them off? You just ruined a legedary card....

[gsdonovan]

1) It's a dead board with no repair possible.

2) I needed them for a good V5-6000

3) Nope, this is a 100% safe wasy to remove them without damaging board or heatsinks.

[soldersucker]

lol. You just said the board didnt work so why would it matter how you pop them off. Point is that video card was probably good and you ruined a legendary video card. Shame....

[gsdonovan]

If the head troubleshooter from 3dfx states the board is unrepairable, you can take that to the bank.

[CentaXBerlin2]

Damn why didn't you destroy 2 5500 or 4 4500?

None would miss them cause there are enough... But a 6000 is still legendary... even if it's broken!

[gsdonovan]

1) It's a dead board with no repair possible.

2) I needed them for a good V5-6000

3) Nope, this is a 100% safe wasy to remove them without damaging board or heatsinks.

[CentaXBerlin2]

yeah ok... you needed it for a good 6000... -.-

But I don't understand why you let the broken 6000 like it is and may take two 5500?

An when you say, it's a safe way, the 5500 had survived, too :>

A voodoo 6000 is a legend... but only, with heatsinks etc.

[gsdonovan]

A5-6000 is legend with or without heatsinks, in this case the person I sold it too for a very reasonable price didn't want them.

[jarheadts]

cool

[swaaye]

Voodoo5 could barely compete with GeForce 256. And, because V5 was so late, it was actually up against GeForce 2 GTS and there was no contest there at all really. The AA was interesting, but it was really not fast enough for it.

[Nodieus27]

unfortunatly they never got the chance to release the card. I got a voodoo 3 then a 5500 back then a month aftet i bought my 5500 the company got bought out. Still sour about that, reminds me of vanguard mmo how they got bought out by sony, bad management (but so much potential) its a shame, but at least nvidia got their engineers, and we have great nvidia cards today!

[Zw33k3rb0y]

Lol, I loved how the people down at 3Dfx thought. I got it. 1 VPU isn't enough, 2 VPU's still isn't enough, let's put 4 VPU's on a card! Too bad it never sold =( , I'd love to get my hands on one of the VD5 6000's.

[christpunchers]

nice

[madmanxp]

Bad management killed the whole company.

[SEAKINGZ]

Nvidia and Microsoft killed 3DFX.

Most of the VSA-100's functions were not implemented in DirectX, and T&L (which was the main Nvidia commercial argument) wasn't support by this GPU.

VSA-100 isn't very powerful, but it can produce very high quality image that the old GF2 and GF3 can't do.

[paisa666]

3dFx was great...but im agree with madmanxp

Bad desicions were made, and the working cycle killed the company, i m mean, while nVidia toke 6 months for new products 3dFx escheme were new products each year

:(

But i have to say, this Voodoo 5 6000 was a freaking monster, no other can match this product

[lmandozal]

Not entirely Nvidia's fault. Bad management was at the center of the problems. They got a new CEO, he went and bought STB, and then pushed back the work of the Rampage card infavor of the crappy Banshee card.

[Wiesshund]

@SEAKINGZ

This post is old but it still bears mentioning, that niether MS nor nVidia killed 3dfx.

What killed 3dfx is they ran out of time and money. They had hoped the 6000 could be a bandaid to stop the bleeding until they could finish engineering thier real next-gen card (which was much more advanced than the 6000) but saddly the clock ran out.

I still have my 3dfx stock though, maybe one day....

[gamewizard]

@Wiesshund

The 6000 would never have been a competitive product. It would have cost too much money to produce with 4 GPU's and a power brick. Rampage might have been competitive if they could have gotten all that circuitry onto a single chip, but not as it was planned. The top card would have had 2 GPU's and a separate T&L chip. The cards they were banking on for the future just would have cost too much money and nVidia would have had even faster, cheaper cards by the time they came out.

[gamewizard]

@SEAKINGZ

The reasons for 3dfx demise are well documented. They made bad acquisitions that did nothing for their bottom line, they had a long development cycle and kept getting sidetracked from their flagship product to make less capable cards. nVidia put pressure on them with their cards but that was all and MS had nothing to do with it. DX never supported proprietary API's from any 3D chip maker. That was the reason DX was created in the first place, to create a unified code base for games. 

[wintch]

This is a more powerfull card 3Dfx was made in all the story of the company...1 minute of silence please :(

[OrionTheory]

No one can understand a word you just typed.