Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Wu Yanzu in South China for the delivery of clues! CTOnews.com, February 6 (Xinhua)-- an engineering sample of an unreleased 3dfx graphics card, the Voodoo 5 6000 3700A, has been auctioned for $9500, but one user who has withdrawn from the auction bid $10100 before quitting.

CTOnews.com popular science: 3dfx Interactive, a company specializing in graphics cards, was founded in 1994 and became a monopoly in this field in 1996, until it made a mistake and was acquired by rival NVIDIA for $70 million in cash and 1 million shares on December 25, 2000, and finally declared bankruptcy and closed down in 2002.

The company launched Voodoo5 5500 graphics cards in 2000, but other models that have been developed but never released are Voodoo4 4800, Voodoo5 5000, Voodoo5 6000 and so on.

Voodoo 4 and 5 are VSA-100-based chips, but Voodoo 4 is a single-chip product based on VSA-100, while Voodoo 5 is a multi-chip product. This four-chip Voodoo 5 6000 has never been released, and there are only less than 50 intact engineering samples of Voodoo 5 6000 in the world.

According to the introduction of the seller "gtastuntcrew302":

The graphics card has a maximum game resolution of 1366 x 768, supports DirectX 6 and OpenGL 1.1, is built on 250nm, has a chip size of 112mm2, uses Voodoo scalable architecture, and is equipped with 32 MB video memory with a frequency of 166MHz, a memory bus of 128bit and a bandwidth of only 2.656 GB / s.

This graphics card uses a single slot design, the TDP is 60W, with a VGA connector, 250W power supply is recommended.

It is worth mentioning that this graphics card also has the help of Hank Semenec, a more outstanding engineer at 3dfx Interactive, to achieve better power utilization.

I found that this card is not the Holy Grail to me, and there are other things in my old-fashioned hardware collection that mean more to me and will always mean more to me.

For most 3DFX enthusiasts / collectors, this card is really the ultimate holy grail. That's why I want to pass it on to people who really see it that way and have special feelings about it. I hope to pass this card to those who can take good care of it in the future, and continue the history and significance of this card in the 3D world.

This card was personally modified by the famous 3DFX engineer Hank Semenec to achieve a completely stable 8X FSAA (I personally verified that this card is rock solid at 8X). Unlike many other Voodoo 5 6000 prototypes, this card eliminates most of the errors in the 6000 prototype project in the later stage. Therefore, if you are looking for the ultimate Voodoo 5 6000 experience with ACTUAL REAL PROTOTYPE, then this graphics card is your best choice!

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