If I see in the news that someone decided to reopen 3Dfx, I will know it's you Oscar! I never even imagined in my wildest dreams, that someone would ever have even half the things you've got! I cannot believe my eyes every time I see a new post from you and always say to myself, there is nothing more that could possibly surprise me anymore, but you always prove me wrong 

I am not surprised that I will be surprised... 

Simply amazing work Oscar, congratulations.

I think he means how many are out there in the wild, as in, how many are know to still exist and are in peoples collections/hands.

Talking about wild. This topic gets better everyday!! Thanks very much for sharing.

bucksavage wrote on 26.02.15 at 02:48:14:


I would also like to know the answers to both.
Quote from Wikipedia - "Approximately 1000+ test cards were produced".

While wikipedia has some accurate informations about 3dfx, there are also some false informations, so...

Then there's the other "question": how many cards survived and are now in the hands of collector's?

osckhar wrote on 26.02.15 at 12:57:25:


not to be judging any1 ofcourse....but that number of 50 could be a lot higher if some people didn't hog a lot of 6000's

I mean, some people have more then 10 6000's......and no intention of selling any of them, that leaves the rest of use chanceless unfortunately

Well... before I also was a bit envious about other people having rare 3Dfx cards. Cards that I could only dream of. And to be honest I don't know Oscar very well... but looking at his thread I understand how dedicated was he. How much money and time were spent, how many compromises were made (and I am sure they are a lot), just to get a single rare card. I just can imagine what his collection truly means to him. And that's when I begin to realize that he is the true collector... not like many of us - just hobbyists... Not many were thoughtful enough to contact specific people, not many were ready to spend their last nickle instead of buying something else... Thinking all about this and what Oscar actually is, I slowly started to admire him and the envy was slowly changing into joy. Joy of him having this rare cards. And yes - he deserves it and I am truly glad that he is the one to have all those jewels. I am willing to help with all I can or even only share his joy and happy moments of every single step, no matter if it's a new card, or something else like the Rampage drivers. So these are my 5 cents. Sorry for the offtopic...

Keep 'em coming Oscar! Well done man! 

Hello,

I come back again- too much busy here. 

I cant describe with words what I feel collecting such rares cards and owning them.  I started back year 2002-03 and 13 years later I still collecting them and feeling something special for my cards. I have sold, sell and will sell some of them since sadly I am not rich and money always is needed but even so is very hard for me to sell them even the spare cards I have. In my case I own 10 6ks or more but each sample I own is very special or at least It is for me, normally they are in virgin stated, from reviews,  with e-tags and different revisions or reworks. Yes, I dont use them often but sometimes is nice to play with my old pc with an Intel 6k 1500 A1 and test them and see how it works.  It is part of 3D history. I love them but I know and understand people is not agree that same person can own so 6ks since it means other people cant have chance to own them even with money.

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It is turn for V5-5500 family. Since I have a lot of V5-5500 pre-production samples I will try to do it fast since if not it will be very bored.

#DAY 33
V5-5500 AGP
DATE CODE 0900 - A1
NFR STICKERS
HOLES FOR DUAL VGA
GREEN DARK PCB
EACH SAMPLE WITH DIFFERENT U6K REWORK.


DIFFERENT U6 REWORKS
In the labs engineers focus his work in such part.





Note- if anyone owns V5-5500 0900 and in chip U6 has other type of rework just post pictures.

- Oscar.