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Found me another Voodoo5 5500
08.04.07 at 17:28:24

Hey guys,

I was watching ebay uk for a while, looking to buy another 5500 agp, and the startbid was 15 GBP, which I put up.

Auction ended today, and I won it, for 15GBP. LOL Pretty cheap if ya ask me.

Shipping will be around 10 pounds, so 25 pounds in total for a good working 5500 AGP, which is what?? 40 euros at most. 15 pounds is about 22 euros, so...

As soon as I received it, I'll check it out, post some benchies and let ya know about pcb numbers and such.

See ya

Ultima

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3DFX Playrig:

Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows2000 SP4

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500 Reply #1 - 08.04.07 at 18:04:32 the 5500 is a very common card but it's most valuable when boxed or sealed
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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500 Reply #2 - 08.04.07 at 21:15:51 true, but when i look at ebay.de most of the voodoos are voodoo graphics and voodoo 2... voodoo 4 and 5 become more and more "rare" at ebay.de at least...
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500
Reply #3 - 08.04.07 at 22:14:53

true but on ebay.com the most common ebay site as ebay.com.au as ebay.nl the Voodoo5 is very common, ebay.de isn't the only ebay in the world Wink

It is wise to look on all ebay's to find what you need to seek and there are other ways besides ebay too

here are the 5500's I found on ebay.de

this is missing the C106 Capacitor
http://cgi.ebay.de/ORIGINAL-3DFX-VOODOO-5-5500-AGP-sehr-rar_W0QQitemZ16010172913...

you're right that 5500's are rare on ebay.de but if you look on other ebay's

ebay.com.au [Australian ebay]
5500 AGP mousepad from 3M:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/3DFX-VOODOO-PRECISE-MOUSE-SURFACE-PAD-RARE-VINTAGE_W0QQit...

ebay.com [American ebay]
5500 AGP:
http://cgi.ebay.com/3DFX-Voodoo-5-5500-AGP-VIDEO-CARD_W0QQitemZ140104310678QQihZ...

5500 PCI these would be the rarest 5500's for now:
http://cgi.ebay.com/3dfx-vodoo-5-64mg-Video-Card_W0QQitemZ150108872513QQihZ005QQ...

ebay.co.uk [English ebay]

5500 PCI:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/3dfx-Voodoo5-5500-PCI-64MB-card_W0QQitemZ250102872095QQcat...

that's about it for now hehe but yeah they are getting rare, it would end one day since that there still are new collectors joining the 3dfx race for glory 8)

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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500 Reply #4 - 08.04.07 at 22:47:52 Found this perculier card on ebay.fr: http://cgi.ebay.fr/Carte-graphique-Voodoo-3-2000-PCI-3dfx_W0QQitemZ120105183900Q... he says it's a voodoo3 2000, but looks like it has sgram, anyone know what card that is??
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500
Reply #5 - 08.04.07 at 22:53:24

it's a Voodoo3 2000 PCI with SGRAM from 1999 the ones from year 2000 have an Aluminium coloured heatsink the ones from 1999 have a black one

the SGRAM models have better memory latencies than the older SDRAM models, it's just a remake of the Voodoo3 PCI series. there are 3000 PCI's with SGRAM as well but they behold the same Aluminium coloured heatsinks like their AGP variants.

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Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500
Reply #6 - 08.04.07 at 23:09:33

Thing is, I love 3DFX cards, but I have nothing for still sealed boxes.

In my opinion, to me, they are very expensive to buy, and to keep their value, I don't get to use them......
I'd much rather have either just the card, or with box, which I could put on display, but without the card in it, so.....

For me, it's a great buy, and I'll have an extra card for my collection.

I like to have 2 of every card.

Just takes a while to get there.

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3DFX Playrig:

Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows2000 SP4

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TM30 God Member Offline Posts: 1108 Germany Gender:	Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500 Reply #7 - 08.04.07 at 23:14:42 Obi, keep in mind the high shipping costs from USA to germany... and in general shipping from foreign contries is expensive and not everyone wants to do this...
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500 Reply #8 - 08.04.07 at 23:58:17 Shipping is high from Germany to US Not US to Germany...
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500
Reply #9 - 09.04.07 at 01:23:38

Quote:

Shipping is high from Germany to US

Not US to Germany...

exactly

@TM30

US to the Netherlands is cheap as well, as it does depend on what you'd like to pay for the Postal services ofcourse.
United States Postal Service Express Mail is the way I prefer it alot cheaper than uhm Fed-Ex Roll Eyes

and another thing ultima does not live in Germany Roll Eyes

He's a dutchman like me, there are alot more countries in the European Union than only Germany lol Roll Eyes

But If I would ship some cards to the US it's also alot more expensive than from USA to Europe

Do keep in mind we have to pay Euro's to ship stuff the Americans only have US Dollars which are alot cheaper in curancy than Euro's

1 Euro = 1,32 US Dollars.

@ ultima

btw the UK is also a very good option to look for 5500's otherwise track forum sales plenty of them going on once in a while

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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500 Reply #10 - 09.04.07 at 01:57:27 That's right! Our dollar is weak compared to Euro making it a better deal to buy from the U.S.
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500 Reply #11 - 10.04.07 at 23:24:09 Well, paid the guy tonight for the 5500. he already received it, I just love paypal. He's gonna ship it tommorrow. Will post back with sharp pics ofcourse for pcb stuff.
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500 Reply #12 - 11.04.07 at 05:07:25 Paypal and eBay are a great thing. I have purchased and sold many great voodoo cards over the years. If it weren't for ebay, I would have only owned a Diamond Monster Voodoo Graphics, a Voodoo3 2000 AGP and a Voodoo5 5500 AGP. I don't think I could list all the Voodoo card I have bought off of eBay
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Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500
Reply #13 - 11.04.07 at 07:42:06

I also had another look at my 2 voodoo 2's to find out what brand they are, since they didn't show that too much.

1 I found through the archive, is a Guillemot Maxi Gamer 3D2 12MB.

The other one is of more interest, it is a 3DFX reference board, with mixed ram chips. It has 8 ram chips marked 90Mhz and 4 ram chips marked 100Mhz.

The only thing that looks like a pcb date is the following line: 600-0027-02-B.

But if that's true, then this pcb is from the 27th week of 2000, kinda late for a voodoo2 if ya ask me.

Will post pics

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3DFX Playrig:

Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows2000 SP4

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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Found me another Voodoo5 5500 Reply #14 - 12.04.07 at 10:03:52 Keeping track of a certain PCI Voodoo5 5500, currently I'm highest bidder, but still 3 days remaining, so.... keeping my fingers crossed.
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