Ebay 2004 - 2005 Auction?

    Hello,


    I am looking for details of an Ebay auction in 2004 or 2005 for a non-functioning Voodoo 5 6000. Ebay and PayPal do not have any records of it. Does VoodooAlert have an archive of old Ebay auctions that I can search through? The seller mailed me the Voodoo 5 6000 card from San Jose, California.


    When I bought the "junk" Voodoo 5 6000 on Ebay in 2004 or 2005, I installed it in my Iwill DVD266-R dual Tualatin motherboard to see if it would function. The card generated a VGA signal that looked like a garbled Bios. I never tried to power it up after that. I kept the Voodoo 5 6000 as a Totem for the memory of 3DFX.


    This is my Voodoo 5 5500 card. I bought it in the summer of 2000 before I returned to college. I performed a continuity test using a multimeter set to diode mode. There is no continuity between the two outer Molex pins and the two center pins. The center pins have no resistance between them. I think this card is still functional. I do not want to power it up before replacing the capacitors.


    I am a young member of Generation X and I grew up playing on Ataris, Nintendo, SNES, Sega Genesis, and the N64. I became a huge PC gamer in the mid-1990s and fell in love with First Person shooters such as Quake GL, Quake II, Quake III (open GL), and Half-Life.


    Counter Strike 1.6 nearly caused me to fail out of college when I was studying to become an engineer. My favorite CS 1.6 maps were CS_rats and CS_mouse. I want to build a retro gaming rig and experience the magic of the Glide API again. I own a Voodoo 2, Voodoo 3 3000, Voodoo 3 3500, a Voodoo 5 5500, and a Voodoo 5 6000 (non-working card from an Ebay auction in 2004 or 2005).


    The demise of 3DFX hit me hard. It was a soul crushing experience and I have since made my peace with Nvidia. My small collection of 3DFX shares became worthless and I became a Nvidia customer.

    I have not yet located my Voodoo 3 3500 or the Voodoo 5 6000. I am 99% confident that they are together in a bin of old PC equipment. This is why I want to search old Ebay auctions.


    This motherboard was the host for the Voodoo 5 5500 and it served me well for many years.


    If I find the Voodoo 5 6000 card, I would like to have the card refurbished into a working card if possible.

    Check this out:

    Thread

    Backfire's V4, V5 5500 und V5 6000 Reparaturen und deren Ursachen

    Moin.

    In diesem Jahr haben mich mehr defekte V5 5500 Karten zur Reparatur erreicht als jemals zuvor. Nicht alle waren zu reparieren, aber der größte Teil ist wieder in Betrieb.

    Insbesondere Voodoo Graphics und Voodoo 5 5500.

    Die Voodoo 1 lassen sich in den meisten Fällen nicht reparieren, weil dort zumeist die Chips selbst defekt gehen. Was sich in den meisten Fällen mit Kältespray lokalisieren lässt.


    Die Voodoo 5 5500 hingegen zeigen zumeist Defekte im Power Supply oder den Memorys.

    Bei den Voodoo…
    Backfire
    July 3, 2020 at 3:16 PM

    here is everything about what you need to do with the V5 5500. replacing the caps is not enough.


    If you have Pictures of the V5 6000 that would help.

    You can check this thread:

    Thread

    Voodoo5 6000 Rev. A 3700: Liste mit Seriennummern

    This list tries to collect all the known Voodoo5 6000 Rev. A 3700 prototypes, identified by the serial number on the backsite of the card.

    Since only the 3700A has the white decal with the s/n on it, all the other revisions are not part of this list. It is nearly impossible to identify the cards, since there no unique attribute.

    Besides the proof, that these cards exist or existed, I try you collect as much information, especially the history of the card, as possible. A perfect track record…
    Chosen_One
    January 18, 2019 at 10:19 PM

    And maybe you can dig into your old E-Mails?

    Or you could dig into the forum. There may be some infos if that card was sold...

    Thanks. I will dig in and see if I can find any information about it. I have checked with Ebay, Paypal, and my old Yahoo email. I can't find anything about it because the auction was over 20 years ago.


    I will dig through the forums to see if there is a a scraped copy of my Ebay feedback from 2004 to 2005. The Ebay buyer account name was "thenuttyneutron".

    Edited once, last by mongothepawn (September 23, 2026 at 11:49 AM).

    Quote from Chosen_One

    Which S/N does your v56k have?

    I do not know. I am searching for the card. I bought it in between October 2004 and October 2005 from an Ebay auction. I have searched PayPal and Ebay records but the records no longer exist. It was send from San Jose, California.


    The card was sold on an Ebay auction as a non-functioning card. This is true because I tried using it in my Iwill motherboard. It generated a VGA signal that looked like a garbled or corrupted BIOS when I received the card. I have not powered it up since then. I kept the card as a Totem to 3DFX. If I can find it, I want to have it restored to functional status if possible. It made a VGA signal so I think it can be salvaged with new capacitors and the HINT bridge.



    My Ebay account name was either "thenuttyneutron" or "goodhumor-man". These are the oldest emails from Ebay that I could find in my gmail account.

    Quote from Chosen_One

    Was the v56k maybe send from San Diego, not San Jose?

    Was the price about US$ 711?

    Ended the auction at the end of the year (November-ish)?

    November 2004 would be the right time frame. I highly doubt that I spent $711 on it. I was still poor at this time and would not begin my career until July 2005 in a different state.


    That $711 would be a reasonable price for me after July 2005 when I had a decent income and money.


    I am still searching for the card. I never threw my computer parts away. I have however moved five times in the last 21 years.


    I am still looking for my Voodoo 3 3500. I ran that card for many years before the Voodoo 5 5500 that I bought from an online retailer during a summer break. I am thinking the 3500 and 6000 are together.




    I recall filling a dispute over the card delivery. The apartment office signed for the card but never notified me about it. It sat in their office for several weeks before I was notified.



    I think this is a Voodoo 3 3000 but I don't know why the heatsink is not on it.

    Update. I received the Ebay report yesterday. There is no record of anything from 2004 to 2005. I have suspended my search for now. I am 100% certain that was not thrown away. I either have it somewhere in a bin or it was lost during a move. I don't recall what the purchase price was but it was not much. I highly doubt that I spent more than $100 on it at the time because I was working part time while looking for a full time job. I had very little left over after paying my bills which included student loans.


    I am also missing my original P90 computer that I bought at a Ross avenue computer sale in Dallas when I was in high school. I am missing my Voodoo 3 3500 and some ISA cards as well. They were either lost or hiding somewhere.


    I am interested in getting a bunch of this stuff rebuilt with new capacitors. I still have my Windows 2000 Professional disc. I am going to go back to my old methods of how I built gaming rigs with very low CPU overhead.


    I intend to use my Adaptec 2940U2 controller to run some SCSI to IDE CF adapters for SSD like performance. I will disable all IDE or ATA ports on the motherboard. I should in theory be able to get insane write and read speeds that will saturate the SCSI bus without any CPU overhead penalty. I still have my original SCSI DVD drives as well for installing old games.


    I want to use an old Aureal Vortex 2 sound card and an Intel ethernet card. I have some Realtek garbage that will likely never be used again. The Aureal has the MIDI port that my M$ Sidewinder needs so I can play Free Space 2 or Mech Warrior. I will also have to buy a set of PIII cpus because I pulled the originals and gave them to a coworker about 15 years ago. I recall using Win 98 drivers for the Vortex 2 working in the Win 2k OS.


    I looked at these Aureal card prices recently and saw that they now command a decent price. I remember seeing these cards liquidated at bargain basement prices everywhere you looked 25 years ago.