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voodoo 3000 pci

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thevampirelord66

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Hey i was fixing my friends PC today, just the usually removal of 80 virii and about 400 spywares and he asked me if thes video card hsi friend gave him would be an upgrade. Well he pulled out a brand new voodoo 3000 PCI never been used. I told him about the whole 3dFX thing and hes liek " im not much of a collector u can have it for fixin the PC.

SO here i am with a brand new voo doo 3000 PCI with all original documents and drivers and such. What do you guys think i should do with it? im thinking save it or use it for my second monitor? But then again a never been used one is fucking rare as hell.
 
Dude! I would keep it in the box as a collector's item. My roomate works at a bank and she found a brand new HP 10Base-T enterprise switch still sealed in the box.
 
Lord of Shadows said:
I thought the voodoo 6000s were considered rare, looking on ebay there seems to be no shortage of 3000s
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yeha but they are all used, the box isnt even opened on mine.
 
Even a rare product is only valuable if people truly want it. I mean, Napoleon Bonaparte's turds are probably rare, but I doubt you'd find they fetched value at auction if someone came up with them.

The Voodoo 5 6000 cards are rare because they are a multi-GPU card that never got released to the public. There were a number of prototypes, and a few preproduction samples; the number of cards made is probably under 200 in the world. It was also their last top-end card, with 128MB of RAM, and reputed to compete with everything on the market at the time. People either buy them for display, or to actually fool around with them since so few have seen them up close.
By contrast, the Voodoo 3 3000 was produced for sale in both PCI in AGP flavors, and was widely available at the time. It came far earlier in history, and was fastest for a short while, but became obsolete quickly, doing only 16-bit rendering while the nVidia Riva TNT2 did 32-bit, and was limited to 256x256 textures while the TNT2 could do 2048x2048 (note: Quake 3 used 512x512 textures, which really hurt performance with this card and required patched drivers to help). The TNT2 Ultra was released in short order, for the first time beating 3dfx at their own game. It was a symbol of why 3dfx failed as a compay; they stopped innovating, and merged with STB at the same time, which killed all their business deals with other brands that had made products based on their chips.

Sorry to burst your bubble. This is an item that isn't likely to hold value, IMHO, moreso as it is PCI bus, so few will have a system they'd stick it in to play with, except as a second monitor solution. Even then, its DirectX and OpenGL support is limited by today's standards. An ATI Radeon 7000 PCI or Geforce 4MX can be had pretty cheaply, and would perform better at the same task.
 
yeah, allright then i guess it goes to the second monitor liek i originally planned. Unless i cna ge tmy 6800nu to run them both well.
 
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