A Blast from the past

Look what I dug out of of one of my old pcs :D

http://www.jsihardware.com/users/ryan/5500.jpg

Still works as well :D, not benched it though.

i'm guessing its a voodoo 5500? the pictures dead here tho :(

fixed :D

heh, they really are huuge bastards arent they? about a foot long.. crazy stuff :) shame its worth next to nothing these days :(

Not to fused about its value, just like having a working peice of graphics history :D

Bet that cost a fair few £££ when new.

Got it cheap second hand a while back :D

And people mocked 3DFX back then for needing a Molex connector on the card :rolleyes:

I had one of those!

It used to run MOHAA quite nicely.

Sold mine on Ebay for quite a bit more than I paid for it 2 years ago

What did you get for it?

I had a 3dfx card, don't know what one it was i'd forgotten but it had 3 GPU's i cut one off and it's now on my keyring as a piece of graphic card history.

I had one also, amazing piece of equipment for its time. Its a shame they went to the wall as the Voodoo 6000/6500 would have been one hell of a card. Its also a shame they got bought up by Nvidia and then totally raped! :(

I remember when I had the Voodoo 2 in SLI config, 24MB of memory, running Quake 2 in 1024 x 768 was sweet. Sold them both for £30 each, was a fraction of what I paid, was about £150 each I think!

I remember PCWorld sold the MAC PCI version of the 5500 at a knockdown £50 ( whilst card was still worth around £130) and then people finding they could flash them to work in a PC

What do you mean "still" works? I'm still using the nvidia equivilent from the time!

I really want a Orchid Righteous 3DFX Voodoo I card again, this was the first ever 3D card that I ever paid for.

£175 it cost me, I couldn't wait until I could get it home and install it.

I stared in awe when I first booted my pc up again :D:D:D:D:D

Those were the days....