3dfx as an old friend has reunited my soul.

So here the name of it and the official specs of course

Firefox

AMD AthlonXP 2700+ Thoroughbred-B @ 2167Mhz , 333Mhz, 256KB L2
EPoX EP-8K3A+ VIA Apollo KT333 Chipset
3x 512MB PC-3200 Kingston HyperX @ PC-2700
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI 64MB Rev.A1 2900** 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB Rev.A 2300 is planned
Creative Labs Sound Blaster Audigy2 Platinum
Intel Pro 100 S Destop Adapter
2x 80GB Seagate Barracuda V 7200rpm ATA 100 HDD"s
1x LG 16x/40x DVD/CD Combo Rom Player
1x NEC 3.5" FDD drive
1x NEC 5 ported USB 2.0 PCI card
1x Self Modded Hangar Bay with a Lockheed F-19 Stealth Fighter model from 1987
Enermaxx MODU82+ 525 Watt PSU
LianLi-PC60 PLuSII + Window Kit
CompaQ S710 17" CRT
HP KU-0316 Office Keyboard
Logitech Optical Mouse Man Wheel.
2x 80mmx80mmx25mm Antec Tri Cool Blue / Green / Red tri-color led case fans 1 in ceiling other in rear
1x 80mmx80mmx25mm Antec Tri Cool Green led case fan in front
2x 30cm Sharkoon Blue CCFL lamps 1 in ceiling other on the case floor
2x 30cm Sharkoon Yellow CCFL lamps 1 in the front side panel the other in the rear side panel

WinXP Pro UK + SP3
SFFT ALPHA 41
DX9.0c

Here's a vid of my AthlonP 2700+ 3dfx system in action and his name is Firefox Bue Leader is the bigger one the Dual OpteronDP 2380 C2 @ night film was taken around 04:20AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCAKkjlQ7g0

This vid was taken at about 04:20 AM , then the CCFL's give the best effects, bass was kinda overdone, more vids to come and pics of course, 3dfx is back peoople and this time it will only remain here, getting this system back was not easy but it was damn worth it though

Okay here some pics shall we, I have made some modifications this time

the system from the side view:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3724…fx+Retro+PC.JPG]

rear side of 5500 PCI:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/37232-2/5500+PCI+closeup.JPG]

top side of 5500 PCI with the fans at full speed:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/37236-2/5500+PCI+in+action_.JPG]

The Lockheed F-19 Stealth Fighter Model from 1987 in it's Hangar Bay!
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3725…+right+side.JPG]

[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3724…r+face+view.JPG]
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3724…r+left+side.JPG]

The Qantas B744 Wunala Dreaming with the ambient light effects from the Antec TriCool Red - Green - Blue ledded fan which sits in the roof, it can also be seen from the Hangar Bay.
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3723…nental+B739.JPG][/url]

side view of the B744 , see the dust on it's landing gear or is that snow?
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3726…led+effects.JPG]

rear belly shot of the B744 also lighted up!
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3725…lly+closeup.JPG]

I thank you greatly for your support with me over the years And yes my 3dfx feeling as fully regained it's strength and yes now 3dfx mean Life to me as it does to all of us, this project was greatfun to do and I traded my Dual OpteronDP 285 E6 system for this one, then I started modding it.

I traded adamn fast system for this, it's the spirit of 3dfx that drives us I guess, that keeps our minds focussed on that behalf I guess hehe.

The thing is that the EPoX EP-8K3A+ is very rare nowdays and as Hank Semenec & gary Donovan advised me bck when i had the 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700, they said try and get the EPoX EP-8K3A+ it's the best motherboard and one of very few that supports all HiNT revision Voodoo5 6000's stable, Hank said that this 8K3A+ oard keept the HiNT HB1-SE66 cool, TM30 alsoonce told me this

This was along time ago but so many 3dfx memories have been popping up it's all comming to me like a massive wave of 3dfx flashbacks heh!

Zitat von Turrican

yeah, it's a nice system.
i also had a epox 8k3a+ back in the days. it was my first ddr powered board.

Hey that's just awesome man still have it? or did you once sell her

edit:

Oh thnx for the pn Turrican it works fine now hehe,

oh yeah I know that one with the later South Bridge chip of the 8K3A+ this also prevented it from working with fewer rev.A2 2600's and Rev.A1 1500's heh, odd though, some 2600 users don't have issues and others do, it seems that the 8K3A series are still the safest rided. when I had the 8K5A2+ Red alert 2 a simpe 2D game crashed eafter very tiem I built abarracks this was with the 5500 AGPa s the 6000 AGP as the 5000AGP which I had back then.

these 3 cards ran fine with the EPox EP-8K3A+ and the 5000AGP and 5500 AGP ran this game stable with the ASUS A7V333-R , very strnage why a 6000 never would boot in that ASUS board as where a 5000 AGP or 5500 AGP did work, I never tried it though thanks for for you guys telling what board was safe back then and which ones were not, this saved me from testing my V6K in such a board as the A7V333-R heh

Thanks for your kind replies everyone!

That real Firefox is cute!!

And yeah bout that fan it's an 80mmx80mmx25mm fan from Enermax I believe the cooler is from Thermaltake from their famous Volcano series, it's 100% copper, I bought it off ebay.co.uk some very long time ago, heh just can't recall it's name rofl

As for the state of the system, yeah happy that her son did not change it, saved me alot of time and worries as well, it's deadstable I have to admit.

Well as my 3dfx dream continues I just bought this handy device:

The Kurouto Shikou Change AGP2PCI Rev.A 0248 Convertor Card Year 2002, Week 48
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/37289-1/AGP2PCI+a.jpg

http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/37293-1/AGP2PCI+b.jpg

Great thanks to SATKABEL for letting me buy this gem from him!

See this AGP2PCI device as a gateway to greater possibilities, because without it you are always limited to a certain type of mainboard and a bottlenecked CPU and with this device; such limitations can be made to endless, by giving you access to anything you want it to function in motherboard wise as long we still have PCI and PCI-X of course hehe.

Zitat von SK1

First rear - shot of the AGP2PCI?
A pretty cool device, I think!

thanx man!
Well many thanx to SATKABEL that made me those shots, when she arrives I'll take massive 7.2 mega pixel shots and also play around with the macro shot mode hehe for some AGP2PCI art?

Zitat von Turrican

that's a nice adapter for sure

Yeah you bet anyways it's always good te be prepared for all situations right

Well what does make me remind from the Kurouto Shikou Change AGP2PCI Convertor Card is that a mate of ps47 did work on AGP5 convertor card, which would make it easier for most people to get such a device.

He went under the nickname Ren, here's the first prototype of the AGP5 he made:
[Blockierte Grafik: http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/37318-2/AGP5+prototype+a.jpg]

here are some later revisions of this AGP5 card the two above it were still being made as they do not have the AGP connector attached to them yet as some other chips
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/37312-2/AGP5+cards.jpg

Sadly this project was put to a hault because it would of cost ren alot more time and money to debug these cards, which made him drop the entire project for good.

A shame really, it would have been a good sullotion and alternative of the Kurouto Shikou Change AGP2PCI Convertor Card we all know today.

The Kurouto Shikou Change AGP2PCI Rev.A 0248 Convertor Card arrived so here some never seen before high-res pics of it

Kurouto Shikou Change AGP2PCI Rev.A 0248 Convertor Card top:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3736…or+Card+top.JPG

Kurouto Shikou Change AGP2PCI Rev.A 0248 Convertor Card rear:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3736…r+Card+rear.JPG

Kurouto Shikou Change AGP2PCI Rev.A 0248 Convertor Card headshot:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3735…rd+headshot.JPG

AGP2PCI PCI connector and Jumpers:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3734…and+Jumpers.JPG

AGP2PCI top angled:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/37348-1/AGP2PCI+top+angled.JPG

AGP2PCI Molex & AGP connectors:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3734…+connectors.JPG

AGP2PCI's AGP slot:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/37351-1/AGP2PCI_s+AGP+slot.JPG

AGP2PCI's PCI slot and AGP mountage pins:
http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/d/3735…untage+pins.JPG

Well this was my first ever photo shoot out of this card, I hope you all like the pics, now I wait for a 5500 AGP that might be comming my way for further investigations on how this AGP2PCI really does it's magic! So stay tuned comrades of VA!