Well, in a somewhat embarrassing and slightly comical turn of events, I'm now getting rid of most of my tiny 3Dfx collection.  Yes, this comes only two days after I decided to expand that collection... so sue me.  Things change.



Anyway, I'd like to sell the modded V5 5500 PCI that I was showing off a couple of months ago.

It's a Mac edition card reflashed to the PC BIOS (V1.18, DVI Output Enabled), and works perfectly except that I can't seem to get the supposedly enabled DVI output to work with my LCD monitor (HP L2335).  It may be a configuration problem, or the DVI port simply may not work.  I don't know which.  The standard VGA output is completely functional, though.

The cooling mods:

Zalman blue-anodized aluminum RAMsinks on all of the RAM (attached with Arctic Silver thermal epoxy -- they're permanent)

Vantec Iceberq copper chipset coolers on the VSA-100 chips (Arctic Silver Ceramique at the interface)


There are high-res pictures of the card and the RAMsinks in this thread, but of course the Zalman passive coolers have been replaced by the Vantec Iceberq active coolers.

Unfortunately my digital camera is being RMA'd for a busted focus mechanism, so I can't take new pictures of the card for a few weeks at least... 

I'm selling the card only -- there is no box, no driver CD, etc.

I'd like to get $75 CAD + shipping for this unit (the heatsinkage alone is worth over $50).  Please make all offers or inquiries in this thread so that responses are visible to all and feedback can be given in the event of a sale.

Honestly said, I would. But that shipping cost is going to be at least 100$ more for sending the card to Balkans The price is OK: if no one buys it from here, try the ebay. Your V5 is PCI and it may hit a much higher price than 50 cad $.

Why dont you put a reserve price of $50 on the item? or you can list it as a buy it now or list it with a starting price of $50.....

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That's rather hard to belive. Fedex insurance usually costs over 80 US $ for over seas shipping. I had some bad experience when I tried to buy without insurance... Wouldn't want to try that again, so I'm out. Sorry...

Anyway I still think you should try the ebay; there are still a bunch of us 3dfx geeks around the world. At least someone will want to test the old king with an Athlon 64 X2, or use it as a secondary display

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I've been collecting 3Dfx hardware from some time now and I live in the balkans (very northeren but nvm), and I can guarantee you there is no country that you can't get registered shipping for 1 card below 20US$
Also true is what u said... it could be quite expensive too, upto astronomic prices, but if the seller takes some time and truly evaluates all options it could get quite low, still keeping the quality of the service on an acceptable level.

(in this specific case, the vantecs make that 1 card weight like 3 of them :S but still 80$ is far too exagerated, I'd say worst case scenario 25C$)

I can confirm that,shipping a full retail voodoo5 from US to EU was only 15$.just make sure to use normal USPS airmail and you are good to go.

As I mentioned before, you can pay from some 4$ of an ubercrappy shipping upto 100$+ for some highly overrated & exagerated shipping, its all about how informed (or unimformed) the seller is.
And belive me, companies are the most uninfirmed and the less willing to check for other shipping options. (since they think they don't gain form it, but thats not our problem if we can get the stuff elswhere)

When dealing with private persons even if totally uninformed u can still ask them politely to check for other options, and mostly they will. (unless if they are total a$$es)

Anyway... better checking by urself then inquiring some company. Nowadays more or less all postal companies have good webpages with loads of info easily accessible.
Combine that with babelfish.alatavista.com and u win, no matter what country u dealing with.

Well, not really...  I discarded the original coolers (one fan was toast and the other was getting bad, and the heatsinks are junk on their own).

So you'd have to put new coolers on it anyway, and I don't know what you'd find for a better price.