This was sad to read another Voodoo5 6000 died after being in the wrong hands:

I wonder why he didn't even TRY it with a normal card, such as a usual 5500 AGP, before? He would have found out it was bad for a VSA100 card without destroying a rare prototype.

My suggestion: Let's stay serious and reasonable. Let's not insult him, but tell him the facts about what he is doing (or makes someone else doing) to rare hardware - and explain him how rare that hardware is. MAYBE - yes, I'm serious - MAYBE he'll start to THINK by his own. As a matter of fact, there is no other way to save the cards he bought (and those he is still trying to buy!) from death.

Let's convince him. Believe in it: it IS possible. It MUST BE. It HAS to be.

I told him several times that it makes no sense to go for such an extreme cooling solutions. The step from the big aluminum heatsink to the watercooling solution only brought 4MHz. Everybody could see that the limiting factor isn't/wasn't the heat, but something else (VSA100 VCore or analog SLI or ...).

Plastik 70 is a great isolation but it is permanent and only removable in very difficult ways. There are enough other solutions on the market that provide the same isolation but are very easy to remove.

So now you've got a broken card an even can't repair/test it because of the Plastik 70...

It's a shame what has happened to this card. He should better consider in selling some cards instead of destroying them!
There are a lot of people who want to have a V5 6000, including me

I hope this is the end of his extreme mods, i think everything what is not reversible should not be done to such a card.

Zitat von Daywhite_81

It's a shame what has happened to this card. He should better consider in selling some cards instead of destroying them!
There are a lot of people who want to have a V5 6000, including me

I hope this is the end of his extreme mods, i think everything what is not reversible should not be done to such a card.

Yeah, thats wright! So many people would wish to have just one V5 6000 and he's doing such stupid unrespectful "experiments"....

What a dipshit...

...ouh, what a clever dick. Incredible.

- Backfire -

I remember the times when my dead v56k was one of a few...but now it is one of many.

Good work...

So, how many cards has he killed already?!

And dont forget, there are many more ways he could come up with killing another card he hasnt gone already.

For example VapoChill or even liquid nitrogen.

Im really sorry but after what i've seen from this wretched and helpless f*cktard, im absolutely positive he will
come up with something new and possibly even more extreme and destructive.

Please excuse my VERY harsh words (even in german i wouldnt come up with such terms but i've whitnessed his
senseless crap long enough to know that he's just free from any brains!

Dimwhitted soa...

Cya, Mäxl

Dying was the best option for this card. Better dead as overclocked like hell. But he has 10 cards more to kill. Yes, bro, keep on the good work! Overclock the the cards, you have 70 cards more to kill!

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Sterben war die beste Möglichkeit für die Karte. Besser tot als übermäßig übertaktet oder zermoddet. Aber er hat ja noch 10 Karten zu schrotten. Mach nur weiter so! Übertakte die Karten, es sind noch 70 da für dich.

What a waste. Can't really understand the need to modify historical pieces of hardware like that. I mean, if it dies, you're out hundreds, even a few thousand dollars.

Zitat von SK1

I wonder why he didn't even TRY it with a normal card, such as a usual 5500 AGP, before? He would have found out it was bad for a VSA100 card without destroying a rare prototype.

My suggestion: Let's stay serious and reasonable. Let's not insult him, but tell him the facts about what he is doing (or makes someone else doing) to rare hardware - and explain him how rare that hardware is. MAYBE - yes, I'm serious - MAYBE he'll start to THINK by his own. As a matter of fact, there is no other way to save the cards he bought (and those he is still trying to buy!) from death.

Let's convince him. Believe in it: it IS possible. It MUST BE. It HAS to be.

I completely agree with you, how can I not be?
But unfortunately these right words are worth nothing.
He got so many v56k that a rare prototype became a common card.
These are his toys and He is gonna play with them like a kid.

Zitat von Daywhite_81

It's a shame what has happened to this card. He should better consider in selling some cards instead of destroying them!
There are a lot of people who want to have a V5 6000, including me

Give him more than 3000 euros and you can have ONE of his cards, 'cause that is the medium price he paid for every v56k he owns.

The card is working again, thanks to a little bit of my help.

At least the card didn't get "damaged" on technical side...

I hope it was a shock and a lesson after all!

good to hear, better this one is still available for this torture. So he might not get the idea to do the same with another V56k.

was was wrong with it?

Zitat von Daywhite_81

was was wrong with it?

The AGP contacts were covered with a film or some kind of salt from the play-do and the play-do could've caused a short, it covered some blank pins of the card.