Shortly before 3Dfx went bankrupt for good and sold the remnants of the company to NVIDIA, the company was working on the development of the next generation of its famous Voodoo cards. These were supposed to be the fifth generation card of the groundbreaking video cards, or in full name 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000. Some prototypes of the card found their way to reviewers and testers, and one of them was recently auctioned on eBay (eBay) for no less than 15,000 dollar.
The sale attracted no less than 65 bids, and some of them were very close to the price at which the card was eventually auctioned, with the seller describing the card as one in excellent condition, and he claims that he even checked it to make sure that it was indeed a card from the later stages of the test, that is, a prototype that is close to running , 3700A edition to be exact.
Voodoo 5 6000 is equipped with four VSA-1000 processors, manufactured in 250nm lithography, double the number of VSA-100 processors incorporated in the previous generation Voodoo 5 5500. This particular card has a clock speed of 166 MHz and has 128 megabytes of working memory.
The particular prototype sold, which is said to have been tuned by the renowned 3Dfx engineer Henk Zemanekfully working and he even tested it to see that it works at 1024×768 pixels resolution with 8X FSAA in full stability.
There is only one problem for the seller: if he does not have a very old motherboard, he cannot really use a card that requires an AGP interface and an external power connection – an interface that, as I recall, was completely abandoned in favor of PCIe.