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PROTOTYPE 3DFX VOODOO 5 5500

Rev A0 silkscreened looks real, and matches the back side. The "Not for Resale" stickers look legitimate in the correct locations. However, I do see a cap/resistor or two on the back side that are chipped off, probably from improper storage. The engineering sample V5 5500's usually had bugs that caused system lockups, and I see no manual wire wrap traces like a few other V5 5500's to make hardware corrections. This also isn't a rare one worth more than $200 IMO.. the rare one to look for is the Rev A0 4699. (true VSA-100) The second most valuable would be the Rev A1 0900. If I had to guess, the one in the Ebay listing doesn't work, or works poorly with system hangs while running games.
 
Rev A0 silkscreened looks real, and matches the back side. The "Not for Resale" stickers look legitimate in the correct locations. However, I do see a cap/resistor or two on the back side that are chipped off, probably from improper storage. The engineering sample V5 5500's usually had bugs that caused system lockups, and I see no manual wire wrap traces like a few other V5 5500's to make hardware corrections. This also isn't a rare one worth more than $200 IMO.. the rare one to look for is the Rev A0 4699. (true VSA-100) The second most valuable would be the Rev A1 0900. If I had to guess, the one in the Ebay listing doesn't work, or works poorly with system hangs while running games.
Good catch I was on mobile when I looked at that photos and I did not see the wire fixes so I thought it was a fake.
 
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