Ok, so i have till friday to decide on some ram which is 5ns, everything else is the same so its just a speed choice, not really all that cheap but its 80 pieces at 300.00 which is cheap ive been told for this part, the only thing is its refurb with a 30 warranty, its all ive been able to find that anyone will sell to me, any idea's? im really thinking about it because my search has gotten me nothing else, thing is refurb, hmm, it seems like ill be taking a chance but what other choice is there. has anyone else found anyone that will sell to us at all?

Yes gamma, i want to get a 6000 but im content with a 5500 with 5ns ram, of course it looks like i can get the ram but who will put it on is another question, ive had 2 5500's running stable at 190 and 195 and for testing on mad onion 2001se i had one at 200 with the 6ns, im guessing 210 maybe 220 with 5ns, ive been forever getting a 3dfx case mod together and my parts are rolling in and id like more than off the shelf for the 3dfx card,i was hoping that 5000 4x card i got would be it but it didnt seem to care for 4x,  now there was a rework link here before but i couldnt access cause my provider is blocked so im thinking there is some place i could go, do you know of anyone and what do you think about this whole thing as working?, the ram is identical except for faster

There is no reason for RAM to jump like that. I would continue your search. He can't be the only game in town (globally speaking).

Uhm, a little advice on that Geforce memory thing;

The VSA-100 has a 128bit memorybus which is used by 4 chips. That means each chip has 32bit available.

A 32MB Geforce would need to have a 64bit bus and only 2 memorychips. A 64MB Geforce would need to have a 128bit bus and only 4 chips. And a 128MB Geforce would need a 256bit bus and 8 chips, but this one doesn't exist

Uhm, that's DDR-SDRAM Obi