most Voodoo5 6000's are used as collectors items, and yes I keep mine neatly in display with the other Velocity 100, 200, Voodoo5 5000 AGP and 5500 AGP cards in my IKEA Glass Top Table as a Memorial to 3dfx and those cards are seen as favourite designs from 3dfx Interactive it's self and it creates a very nice Cliche to my room's Display and soon the new Home

There are some people that use thier Voodoo5 6000's but that is for them to decide, I would never do that for long term use since it's still a Prototype and Prototypes can fail like production cards have a much lesser chance for failure.

I only used mine in some games like X-Wing Alliance, Quake3, Call of Duty United Offensive, Descent3 and StarWars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy and Red Alert2.

just to see what it could do in 3D as 2D games and it performed quite well after that I took care of it and put it in the 3dfx Memorial IKEA Glass Top Table.
the difference is that productions cards are easy and cheap to get with prototypes it's the otherway around expensive and hard to get

But everyone has thier own thing with thier cards ofcourse

I use mine when I have the time.

I kind of find it hard to believe that 6000's just stop functioning for no reason. Anytime i've seen non-functional 6000 for sale, the owner ALWAYS said that he bought it that way, or bought it thinking it was functional because the seller said so. I have never seen a post like: "Oh, I was playing Quake3 on my 6000 and it just stopped working  " Allthough the card is very "fragile", i don't think it burns out that easily. Oschar even benchmarked his 6000 with 68Mhz AGP frequency and it is still very much alive. As a conclusion: i think hint chip burnout is caused by massive FSB tunning (in order to det the max. out of a 6k), and extended use problems are rare, and can be avoided by removing one of the diodes. BUT I respect very much peoples decision not to use their 6k every day.
Regards. Alpar

The Voodoo5 6000 I held in my hands also had a few Diodes burned out (was already repaired).

IMHO the V5-6k is indeed most sensitive to 'spontaneous combustion' simply due to its complex prototype nature.
The list of confirmed good (and bad) Motherboards doesn't exist for no reason

Powering her up to take her out for a spin is therefor always very dangerous, you never know which of its hundreds of small parts fails next... even after months of apparently stable operations.

Do you know how to use punctuation, Obi?. Pausing while typing doesn't count as a full-stop, we can't read your mind.

Thanks for the answers. I really had to know. I heard that there are people who are afraid to use their >1000$ cards; afraid that the cards might "die". If u ask me, a card that is no longer used is already "dead". That's why I still use both of my voodoo 2's and a voodoo 5 5500 and will continue to use them until there is no more PCI/AGP MB's.

I also have one legendary card from ATI, dating from 1989 (ATI VGA Wonder 512kb), a card that maches V5 5.5k in size and complexity and is in a working condition; but it's dead. It's ISA and there is no MB to plug it in.

So, if you do not use your V5 6k's now, you may never get a chance to use them again. That's was my point

@ elfuego

sorry that is nonsens a card is dead when not functioning aka defect, my cards are plenty well allive, I'm not wealthy enough to obtain another, don't be so typical please or just don't curse at least see it that way.

I still use a 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI 64MB Rev.A1 2900

A. It is safer against Defection
B. If it defects it is cheaper to replace
C. It's easier to obtain also.

@ ALT-F13

yeaps getting a spare 6000 is something to be left alone, unless if you are that rich it won't matter lol.

Off Topic:

X1900XTX in CrossFire will out perform Quad SLI 7900GX2 with ease, the 96 Pixel Shader Processors are not even being fully potentially uused in 3D apps, as that the 7900 GX2 cards have only 24 Pipes with each pipe only 1 Pixel shader Processor per pipe, the X1900XTX has 16 Pipes with each pipe haveing 3 Pixel shader Processors per pipe so the ATi card shall benefit morely in future Applications it will be like a Super Laser from a DeathStar in comparrision 2 X1900XTX cards shall outperform QuadSLI 7900 with ease especially with MAX FSAA and AF.

On-Topic:

but anyways to get back to the point the Voodoo5 6000 is something hard to reobtain.