erek
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That is quite the asking price. Guess boxes are worth about triple what the cards themselves go for now.
V3-2000 PCI, ~$100 (wtf!)
Yeah, I grab up any 3dfx cards I see for super cheap. Pretty sure I will never need to buy anymore ever again.. but there is always the "investment" angle as well. Buy cheap, save for a while, and then cash in when the prices go even higher.
Market will go south once those of a certain age move onto other things. Question is like anything else when is the peak?
Market will go south once those of a certain age move onto other things. Question is like anything else when is the peak?
Ehhh... I've been watching the market for a couple years now. Even if the prices dropped by 50%, I would still be able to make money on the cards I bought.
I only buy them when I get them really, really cheap.
Same thing goes for other types of retro/vintage hardware. The prices keep going up and up and up.
Most of the 3dfx cards I have I will probably keep anyway. But there are a ton of other pieces of hardware that I will be thinning out very soon.
I get a lot of stuff in large lots and have way too much to ever begin to use.
And as far as people moving on.. sure, there are some, but there are also those younger people that are getting into retro gaming at what seems like a quicker pace then those moving on to other things.
Ehhh... I've been watching the market for a couple years now. Even if the prices dropped by 50%, I would still be able to make money on the cards I bought.
And as far as people moving on.. sure, there are some, but there are also those younger people that are getting into retro gaming at what seems like a quicker pace then those moving on to other things.
Been watching the 60's-70'smuscle market for decades, peak has been hit and is rolling off now. Sure there are younger people that like musclecars but the numbers who can afford them are relativity small as are those interested.
A lot of young people just have no interest in cars or even driving.
The ghosts of the people that bought Tulips in the 1600s are looking at the people buying these cards now thinking 'what are you stupid? a tulip, you plant that shit, it grows. dumbass'
The extremely old stuff (hard drives that you need to store on a pallet), are really only sellable to museums or an extremely rare targeted buyer who collects it. They're too big for the average home user, they require too much maintenance, too much power, and having a complete working system to use it in would take up the space of an average size bedroom. Not worth it to 99.9% of potential buyers.I knew a guy with like a 100,000 SQ ft warehouse that was stuffed with tens of thousands of 80s and 90s parts, 70s computer parts, early parts. I distinctly remember some huge, 200LB (look like) hard drives.
I wonder how much of that crap is worth crazy money like some of this shit
AGP or PCI?Ive got a 3dfx 5 5500 for sale not sure how much to ask highest bidder wins !!!!!!!!!!
AGP or PCI?
Is Oscar on [H] or OCN? Some of his gear reminds me of other pics I had seen on some forum.
If he can build this it makes me wonder about the inverse, a pcix to agp adapter? Or, better yet, a PCIe v1 x2 or x4 to agp adapter.
Is Oscar on [H] or OCN? Some of his gear reminds me of other pics I had seen on some forum.
If he can build this it makes me wonder about the inverse, a pcix to agp adapter? Or, better yet, a PCIe v1 x2 or x4 to agp adapter.
I know there are AGP to PCI adapters. I bought one a while ago.
The only downside is that they are not good for mounting in a case because they are riser cards. They will work ok IF you have a low profile card or have a case that is wide enough to fit the extra height from the riser.
As for the other adapters... well, it would be possible IF there are bridge chips available to do the conversion.
Way back in the day, there was a PCI-E to AGP adapter that was supposed to be released but either it was only released in very small quantities or it was never released. And it only worked with certain cards.
https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/a-bridge-not-too-far-agp-to-pci-express-2736592
AMD and Nvidia both had PCI-E to AGP bridge chips for their specific cards that were ported back to AGP.
The PCI-E <-> PCI boards are super simple to do because they all use the same exact bridge chip that can do the conversion either way.