Reply 40 of 57, by Tetrium
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Peter.Mengel wrote on 2022-03-15, 17:30:I always was thinking the high price tag cames from the part that 3dfx ads some Extras to the games like better visuals. And Glide Wrapper tend to be complicated for some compared to the original cards.
So they sold not as much and were not very loved back in the early 2000s so many were dumbed and ended in trash. Recycled and gone foreever, while nvidia/ati cards were sold with the PC you bought so plenty were saved and still on market.
I can only speak for the market here in The Netherlands.
From what I could gather, it was the cheaper OEM cards that tended to be the most widely used. Think cards like Virge, SiS6326, Trio64 and Trio32, lots of Ati cards, TNT2 M64 and Vanta.
Some other cards that were somewhat common were Diamond Rendition Verité 2100 cards, Voodoo 1 and Voodoo 2 cards, Matrox and TNT1 and TNT2 cards (AGP variants) and Voodoo 3 AGP (both 2000 and 3000) and even TNT2 M64 PCI was not too uncommon here in NL. Later the most common cards were the GF MX cards and to a lesser extend Ati Radeon 9600 and 9200.
Cirrus Logic and the like seemed to be mostly popular during the VLB era, I never seen many of those cards in PCI form while dumpsterdiving.
Voodoo 3 2000 and 3000 (AGP versions) were not too hard to find, it's the PCI versions and the 3500 that took more effort to get for me. Voodoo 5 5500 was always a hard find and Voodoo 4 4500 seemed like it was vaporware.
In NL we have a popular website for anything that has to do with smart electronics, tweakers.net. It's the defacto to-go-to site also for second hand stuff and I got some great deals from there.
Definitely a lot of old PCs got trashed, but I noticed that even then there was a lot of reselling going on but despite this I'm fairly sure a lot of 3DFX stuff (and TNT stuff just as much) got purged into the recycling abyss of no return.