Is this video card worth US $2,425?

3Dfx Voodoo 5 6000 AGP 128MB Video Graphics Card RARE ! - eBay (item 300438358211 end time Jul-11-10 11:00:40 PDT)

Voodoo 5 6000 was the last and the fastest consumer video card made by 3Dfx before they were belly up in 2000. The card was never actually sold by the company. 3Dfx went bankrupt before they had the chance to sell it. But some of the cards shown up at eBay not long after 3Dfx demise. The cards were sold at a range between 600 to 1000 dollars. Now they shown up again but I didn't expect the price would shoot up like that. I though after the novelty has worn off and after 10 years, in which even my lowly Mobility Radeon 3470 would beat Voodoo 5 6000 easily, people would lost interest in this card. To the contrary, the price actually went up far beyond when it was released 10 years ago.

 

Laptop cards get expensive when they're older. Some people are just that willing to put some serious cash into repairing a laptop rather than replacing it with a newer/better one, and they need the 8800m GTX or whatever to do that.

But for a desktop card? That's just a collector's item, as far as I can tell.

 

Wow!!! Like the card itself is bigger than my mobo!!! We've come a long way in 10 years huh?

 

Hmm, I have two 3Dfx 12MB cards and see they're going for over $100 each on eBay. Maybe I should just sell them. But yeah, only reason I can see is for collectors. I can see a 3Dfx card for some old Glide games though since that was the API before DirectX and OpenGL dominated the market.

I kept mine for a few flight simulators. Problem is I don't have any Win9x harware any more. All I'd need is a Pentium 2 800 with PCI video card and I'd be good to go

 

I wouldn't mind having something like that, actually. A real collector's item.

 

I wonder how that compares with modern cards in numerical values.

 

You mean in terms of performance? It doesn't.

 

It was a pretty fast card at the time of its release. The performance is between GeForce 2 Ultra and GeForce 3.

 

You know I think I might have one of those sitting in my closet, minus a heatsink that fell off because there didn't seem to be any thermal paste on it at all.

I have a Dual P2 machine, both processors run at 400MHz along with some DDR SD-RAM, wanna send me some of the flight sims?

 

IMO , this antique is better not being bought... for the same price , ur better off getting a new laptop... really unless u have money to blow , this isn't worth it.