My 3dfx Collection

[rottentreats]

Hello Everyone!

This is obviously ( or not ) my first Thread and Post! I am really excited to be a part of the community and I hope I can contribute in some way shape or form. I collect 3dfx/Quantum3D items. I am sure most of you know what kind of systems were using 3dfx/Quantum3D as the horsepower for the video rendering. (arcade hardware mostly) I started my obsession about 7 months ago and have been getting more and more involved in communites. You can see my collection by clicking on my sig or by visiting the following URL: WEBSITE IS DOWN (please note that the site is not up to date and is missing quite a bit of new hardware that I have yet to put up...busy busy busy)

Not only am I into vintage videocards, I also have a few consoles that I play on regularly. Which includes but is not limited to, NES, SNES, N64, NDS, PS2, and XBOX360. That probably doesn't mean much.. but I thought I would throw out that tid-bit of info anyways :)

So that pretty does it for my little rant. Thanks for having me. :)

[Twimfy]

I can't get your link to work. I'm very interested to see this collection. Although I when I entered the PC gaming seen I started with the TNT2 I get a great nostalgic feeling from 3dfx products, in particular the Voodoo Black magic.

[ASSEMbler]

Nice to see you made it here. We collect more and more interesting people.

Maybe you can answer a question I have been trying to find the answer for.

Back in 1994/5 a pal had this setup with dual ISA video cards that
used daughter boards with 3dfx on them. Orchid number nine something.

All I know is they cost $700 each in 1995 and he had two of them in sli.

[pitsunami]

Very nice collection...:clap:

[rottentreats]

First and foremost thanks for the kind words and the warm welcome(s) :)

@Twimfy - Link should be working :) I also grew up in the TNT2 days, however I hold 3dfx a bit closer to my heart because they do not exist anymore :)

@ASSEMbler - I don't have a clue! Sounds like it would be a pretty cool setup however. I will ask around and maybe I can find some answers. I myself, have never seen an ISA board with anything 3dfx on it, so that would be new to me.

[andoba]

Nunca te acostarás sin saber nada nuevo. O_o

[oldengineer]

Nice collection. I'm a big fan of 3dfx, always was, still use a lot of their top end cards for 'odd' jobs that need 'em.

[rottentreats]

Good to see/hear that 3dfx still lives in hearts amongst these boards...

@ASSEMbler - Here is a response from a friend about the boards your friend might have had -

"There were not ISA voodoo cards. You could get dual voodoo graphics boards back in 1995 and it would have set you back $700-$900 if not more.

Orchid boards were not SLI as far as voodoo graphics go and Number 9 was a company that made it's own non-3dfx chips and boards."

I hope his answer helps out a bit... kind of crude, but it has some info :)

[f2bnp]

Great Collection !
I just got 2 Voodoo 2 cards for my retro Rig.
SLI configuration!!!
Assembler,I think you're referring to Obsidian cards which were Voodoo 1 SLI in 1 card,but in PCI slot.

[DarthCloud]

Wow very great and unusual collection, do you have an Voodoo 5 6000 cart?

Like this:





http://www.x86-secret.com/articles/d...0/v56kgb-6.htm

[rottentreats]

I WISH!!!! :katamari:

The last v5 6000 that went on eBay went for 2.019,99 EURO! (over $3,000 USD) That is a bit out of my league... plus I think that is a bit ridiculous IMO.

Here is the link if anyone is interested :)
http://cgi.ebay.de/Original-3dfx-Voodoo-5-6000-128MB-RevA-3700-VERY-RARE_W0QQitemZ230260194710QQihZ013QQcategoryZ21889 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[DarthCloud]

I WISH!!!! :katamari:

The last v5 6000 that went on eBay went for 2.019,99 EURO! (over $3,000 USD) That is a bit out of my league... plus I think that is a bit ridiculous IMO.

Here is the link if anyone is interested :)
http://cgi.ebay.de/Original-3dfx-Voodoo-5-6000-128MB-RevA-3700-VERY-RARE_W0QQitemZ230260194710QQihZ013QQcategoryZ21889 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Wow I didn't though that it was so expensive.

[babu]

Very cool, remember back in the days when they were "the shit" I think I had a Voodoo 3 3500, worked excellent with Q3 and UltraHLE :)

[ASSEMbler]

I had a riva tnt and man it was such a huge difference.

[madhatter256]

Great collection.

I think it would be great if you create a list of games that exclusively use 3dFX's Glide graphics API. As well as programming documentation for it.

There were some games that looked great on it and ran very well, even on slow PCs (pentium I w/ MMX).

I have an old PC setup with a 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 AGP in it. Use it for old school Win98 gaming. Mainly Thief and level editing for that game.

[alf717]

Wow nice collection. Takes me back to my high school years when I was all over Voodoo products. My first card was the Voodoo 3 3000 PCI. I slapped that baby into my Compaq Presario 5150. I took Half-Life and Unreal for a test drive on that board and was really amazed at how well each game looked. It sure was a huge increase from the standard software rendering modes or horrible 3D rendering that my old onboard ATI Rage LT Pro was pumping out. Never would have thought I'd go to ATI but once Voodoo went under after I had already purchased a Voodoo 4 4500 PCI board, I took up ATI again with the 8500LE models and have been with them since. I'm currently running two 3870's in crossfire mode.

[Jamtex]

I never owned a 3DFX card, had a Matrox M3D (Power VR card) with a S3 Trio64, then a S3 Savage, Matrox Millenium II G200, ATI Rage 128 Pro and a Creative Labs (Nvidia Geforce 256) card then gave up and bought laptops.

[Alchy]

Seeing Quake running on Glide for the first time was a truly breathtaking moment, I can't remember many other gaming experiences that match it in terms of graphical development. The jump from 400x300 software to 640x480 Glide was really night and day. I'll never forget it.

It's been fun to browse your website, thanks.

[ASSEMbler]

Seeing Quake running on Glide for the first time was a truly breathtaking moment, I can't remember many other gaming experiences that match it in terms of graphical development. The jump from 400x300 software to 640x480 Glide was really night and day. I'll never forget it.

It's been fun to browse your website, thanks.

Agree 100% seeing real 3d for the first time was fucking amazing.

[Taemos]

I still have my old Diamond Monster 3D II sitting in a K6-2 box someone gave me. I wish I had a better computer to use it in, though (Compaq - dreadful case design).

The day I get a better-suited computer to put it in is the day I buy another Monster 3D II.