Nice little build you got there, as for buying 3DFX cards you might have to settle with a Voodoo 2 unless you are willing to pay a lot for a V3 pci ($50 min these days). Check amazon time to time as there can be deals to be had there.

Thanks.

Surprisingly, the Voodoo 2 prices weren't that much cheaper than the Voodoo 3 prices when I looked, so I figured I may as well go with the card that gives me better baseline performance. Even if it means my ATI Rage Pro gets disabled via the motherboard jumper 😀.

I'll check Amazon, but usually 3rd party sellers there are worse than eBay, especially the smaller subset actually willing to sell to Canada.

Nice machine, though I personally would've tried to use the older (beige) case. Beige cases just give me a fuzzy warm feeling when building a retro-machine xD

If you don't care about Glide you can broaden your searches for the likes of a TnT2 (non M64) or even something slightly newer like a GeForce 2/4 MX, if only because it will be easier and cheaper to find while having great DOS compatibility. That being said I have a Voodoo3 and like it - it looks nice enough (though not as nice as my Matrox G550) at 1080p, so its a nice choice if you can find one at an acceptable price.

Oh, and for future reference - use WD40 when removing stickers. You'll be able to easily rub of that residue with it.

It's too bad that 'never obsolete' sticker is torn on that poor sucker 🙁

zerker wrote:

Thanks.

Surprisingly, the Voodoo 2 prices weren't that much cheaper than the Voodoo 3 prices when I looked, so I figured I may as well go with the card that gives me better baseline performance. Even if it means my ATI Rage Pro gets disabled via the motherboard jumper 😀.

I'll check Amazon, but usually 3rd party sellers there are worse than eBay, especially the smaller subset actually willing to sell to Canada.

Ouch those exchange rates, just keep looking and eventually you will get lucky if all else you might have to bight the bullet so they say. Five or six years ago 3DFX cards used to be really cheap including legends like the 5500 for less than $20 usd shipped but those days are long gone. 😢

Prices spiked several times because of a few Voodoo 5 6000 hitting the market and making the news, I remember one selling on eBay for 3500 euros after that the prices for everything else exploded almost overnight 😲 Now there are people trying to sell Voodoo 2s for crazy prices like $80 a pop and the 5500 is going up for almost $200 at times (like wtf). I remember getting V3 AGPs for like $10 a pop now they're $25 and going up. If you see a V3 pci and just so long it is not like $100 or something stupid like that just buy it never know how much the resellers are going to try to rip people off in the future.

Seen a Voodoo Banshee sell for like $15-30 on bid only for the idiot who bought it to put it up back on the market for $90 a day or two later 😠

alexanrs wrote:

Nice machine, though I personally would've tried to use the older (beige) case. Beige cases just give me a fuzzy warm feeling when building a retro-machine xD

I would agree, but I actually had more reasons to replace the case than just the stickers:

1. It needed a new power supply and the case only fit half-height supplies
2. The floppy drive was stuck behind the case insert and was missing an eject button. I would need to jury rig a replacement button, because even normal floppy drives would not have the button stick out the front of that oversized insert. Flathead screwdriver worked when I needed it, but it wasn't ideal.
3. The original CD-Rom drive actually had a rounded front to match the curvature of the case. But it needed to be replaced, and a flat front looked out of place.

leileilol wrote:

It's too bad that 'never obsolete' sticker is torn on that poor sucker 🙁

That's actually my fault. It was on when I got it; I tried removing that one first.

alexanrs wrote:

If you don't care about Glide you can broaden your searches ...

I kinda was hoping for Glide compatibility 😀. Thanks for the suggestions though.