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First post, by Captain NA

Posted on 2018-04-01, 09:43

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3dfx Voodoo5 9000 - 32 Way SLI Monster

Some of you might remember 3dfx wich who ruled the graphics card industry back in the late 90's. Their latest chip the VSA100 had a max spec of 32 way SLI, thoe such setup have never ben seen, well not until now!
The Voodoo5 9000 have 32 VSA100 chips clocked at 166mhz stacked together in greatest 3dfx style to be able to compete against Nvidias Geforce2 Ultra. The cards cooling is so perfectly dimensioned that it even makes a GeForce FX 5800 Ultra cry!
The mastepiece supports the state of the art Glide3 and can screw your image up with all the alphabet's diffrent kinda buffers and blurs.
Because of gobal warming concerns where this card never released to the public and this is the only replica not yet locked up at area 51.

Let me present you - The Voodoo5 9000

Here is a video:

https://youtu.be/_3iHV0NvLPI

Just fooling around.

Reply 1 of 49, by derSammler

Posted on 2018-04-01, 09:48

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Very funny... do we really need such fakes?

Reply 2 of 49, by brostenen

Posted on 2018-04-01, 09:56

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Well... I guess conspiracy theorists, now come in the flavour of vintage hardware enthutiasts as well.

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Reply 3 of 49, by TOBOR

Posted on 2018-04-01, 10:04

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But can it run Crysis?

If the truth hurts, tough shit.

Reply 4 of 49, by F2bnp

Posted on 2018-04-01, 10:17

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Hahahaha

Reply 5 of 49, by Munx

Posted on 2018-04-01, 10:34

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And it still has an SLI connector...planning on hooking up 2 of these maybe? 😁

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Reply 6 of 49, by Baoran

Posted on 2018-04-01, 11:45

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Somehow those 4 power connectors look too big compared to the rest of the card....

Reply 7 of 49, by Thermalwrong

Posted on 2018-04-01, 12:01

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Excellent work getting Crysis to work with the Voodoo5, I liked that it still shows the 3DFX logo when opening too 😁

This a really good demonstration of the amazing VSA100 chip(s) 😀

Reply 8 of 49, by Artex

Posted on 2018-04-01, 13:25

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Saw this on x3dfx! Love your work man - especially the BitchinFast 3D 2000!

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Reply 9 of 49, by PC Hoarder Patrol

Posted on 2018-04-01, 13:30

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Have a similar setup, but liquid-cooled 😀

Reply 10 of 49, by IAmJefferson

Posted on 2018-04-01, 14:13

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This one enormous piece of video card was built from the existing Voodoo5 cards that he still have in his possession. He also programmed the drivers (and the BIOS) for that card using data and technical information that could be found in the Interwebz.

Reply 11 of 49, by JetSetWilly

Posted on 2018-04-01, 14:46

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TOBOR wrote:
But can it run Crysis?

Nope.

You need a four way SLI of them to run it in slow detail, unfortunately.

Reply 12 of 49, by cyclone3d

Posted on 2018-04-01, 15:08

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I love how you have to have 4 AGP slots for the 4-way Voodoo 5-6000 setup. 🤣

I almost fell out of my chair when you powered it up and the wind tunnel sound came on and the paper started moving from the wind.

Great vid!

How much for 4 of those suckers and a motherboard with 4 AGP slots?

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Reply 13 of 49, by The Serpent Rider

Posted on 2018-04-01, 17:28

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Next time we need the legendary multichip hairdryer FX 5800.

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Reply 14 of 49, by comp1demon

Posted on 2018-04-01, 17:35

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SWEET - I worked for 3dfx back in the day.. I had a Prototype of the card (6000 i think) but it never worked. It was for just showing off. So cool to see this.

Reply 15 of 49, by blurks

Posted on 2018-04-01, 18:03

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I admire the level of dedication and "craftmanship" that went into this april fools' joke. Nice job man.

derSammler wrote:
Very funny... do we really need such fakes?

You sir have real issues.

Reply 16 of 49, by meljor

Posted on 2018-04-01, 19:33

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A-MA-ZING effort! Again...

Had a lot of fun with the video, thank you very much, amazing job.

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Reply 17 of 49, by gdjacobs

Posted on 2018-04-01, 21:18

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Behind the scenes video? I'd love to see how this thing is constructed. It looks like it could be a real card, if 3dfx plied their engineers with meth. 😁

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Reply 18 of 49, by SaxxonPike

Posted on 2018-04-02, 04:57

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This is my favorite prank of 2018.

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Reply 19 of 49, by Errius

Posted on 2018-04-02, 05:27

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This is brilliant

Is this too much voodoo?

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