Forum newbie    Any fellow users regularly using their 6000 cards for vintage gaming?

Finally got around to building my v5 6000 rig after 2yrs of procrastinating. Basically just gathered up a bunch of old parts laying around for this: Intel mobo, P3-850, 256MB, Win98SE. This video card is schweeet! Just now starting to appreciate the raw power of this thing, as compared to 1998-2001 stuff back then.... about on par with a GF2 Ultra i'd say.

Loaded up Quake2, Q3, Need for Speed 2 SE, NFS3 so far. All the benchmark demos work, even on Q3 at 1600x1200 with FSAA x8 turned on---- only 7fps    Playing these games has brought back goood ole memories of my first LAN parties.. sniff, sniff. Amazing how fast 10yrs comes and goes.

Anyway, just wanted to reminisce a little here, and find out who among you have a working 6000 also. My card is a 3700 series with the brick power supply. Everything is in original shape with no modded internal power connectors, PCI rework, etc. I actually feel damn lucky now to have one of these things. Paid $700 for it on ebay couple years ago. Anyone have a rough idea what they fetch nowadays?

if you want one complete with a Voodoo Volts external PSU it can get past the 1400 US dollar mark with insurance, tax & custom taxes

My model is the Rev.A 3700 with a Rev.A 0030 Voodoo Volts

but yeah a loos card is about 800 to 1000 USD

I plan to build one just like Rolo01's machine for my 3700 w/rework. I may or may not get the "M" CPU (I would like to though ) I'm looking for the motherboard now. Some Joker on ebay is selling memory and lists it for that board so I can't do the auto search w/email reply

@ Paulpsomaidis

I didn't say to use the Voodoo Volts

I only stated if you want a complete set it would cost well over 1200 a 1400 US Dollars since a 6K without a VoodooVolts isn't complete imho.

But even I use the internal hookup when using it to test some games and so on, the Voodoo Volts is just for the 3dfx collection it's self, since it is an original part of the Voodoo 5 6000 it's self.

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Single pin is much cheaper then a 4 pin, man I'd hate to see the bidding on a 4 pin unit.

That could get real ugly.

I also agree with the above. That's why I sold my V Volts. The brick was fully functional but I wouldn't trust it with my V6K.

Dang it!

It's so unfair to folks like me who don't have a V5 6000 - then there's so many other people with more than one!

Grumble, grumble...sniff...

Hang in there Paul.. I'm sure you'll get one someday. You may have to break a couple of piggy banks though