3Dfx Voodoo 5 6000 is by many considered the most monstrous retail graphics card ever made and it’s not very hard to understand why. The graphics card pioneers at 3Dfx took the graphics card market by storm when it launched Voodoo; the first 3D graphics accelerator on the market and the last card it made before it was acquired by NVIDIA was its Voodoo 5 series and the flagship Voodoo 5 6000. The 6000 model never entered the market and the reason for this is simply because the card was mighty complicated and expensive to manufacture. Voodoo 5 6000 actually makes NVIDIA’s GeForce 7950 GX2 with its two graphics cards look a bit wimpy. 3Dfx namely equipped Voodoo 5 6000 with no less than 4 graphics circuits and with then impressive 128MB graphics memory.
The result from this was a graphics card as large as its was expensive complicated, which has through the years become a legend among computer enthusiasts. Now one of these rare jewels has appeared at online auction site eBay and the card that is being sold is the card hardware site Sudhian used a few years back in what it claims to be the only complete review of Voodoo 5 6000, ever. Anyhow, it is the author himself that is selling the card and this should prove enough security for those who wants to buy some graphics card history. The auction ends on August 11 and the bid is at the moment up to 610 USD.
The card is not compatible with newer platforms, but the person who finally gets this most likely has no hopes to break any performance records, but now there is at least the possibility to own one of the graphics card history’s best known cards.
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