Where's the V5 6000?

All you guys dumping on 3dfx just haven't seen real FSAA in action. If you did, you would do an about-face.

I wouldn't even trade my V5-5500 for that fancy new 5ns GeForce2 that Tom Pabst had because it still wouldn't look as good as the V5.

And the V5-5500 is still fast enough to play Q3 and anything else I care to throw at it at very respectable framerates and without having to tweak it to death. Deus Ex comes to mind...

I'm gonna swap up to a V5-6000 when it finally comes out just because I want that fire-breathing buffed-out videocard! (it helps that I have a buyer ready for the 5500 too!) ;)

It's rough being a pimp...

hehe

penif in mouf ..

OMFG! Steve fixed that little _ bug!

Where are you O'Doyle? LMAO

The freakin Irish will be coming out of the woodwork now.

*was damn lucky with his mobo selection

They should rename the VSA-100 to the VNSSA.

Voodoo not-so-scalable architecture. They have yet to scale their scalable architecture at all. Even the Voodoo 4 is DOA. I'm thinking they're going to completely skip the Voodoo 4. Just look at the GF2 MX. Would you release what is essentially a TNT2 Ultra to complete with a GF2 MX? Especially when your TNT2 Ultra will retail for $30 more. I'd have shit my pants if I were 3dfx when the first reviews of the MX appeared. The $100-150 value market is a cash cow. Or at least more of one than the $250+ market, and WAY above the minute low profit (if you make a dime, period) $600 market.

Getting four chips to work in harmony and do it all fast has to be a bitch. They just don't have the engineering time to blow on getting it all working when they're not going to make a dime selling maybe 800-1000 units. The 6000 has always been a trophy product. It's not supposed to make them money. It's supposed to let them hold the "we've got a bigger cock" award until the NV20 comes out.

Now suddenly 3dfx realizes that they have to worry more about staying afloat than waving their spear around. They can't eat the losses associated with producing the 6000 (aka loss-leader-trophy-product-o-matic).

Alas, it would've been a great card for those who could afford it. It ain't gunna see the light of day. In fact, I'm almost betting that 3dfx is going belly up real soon.

What I'm saying is that when 3dfx bought that OEM, they fell behind. Their R@D obviously languished.

The 'Rampage' is still going to be based on the VD1 archatecture (just from the rumors I've been reading)
GEZUZ H. KEYRIST thats bad.

Can ANYONE tell me where the voodoo4 is?

100th woohoo.....(not realy but hey someone got to post it)

excellent.......

stupid old threads...

cookie??

cookie?

The sad fact is that after the success of the VD2 and the boatloads of cash 3dfx made, the management made a 'Titanic' (hopefully not that bad) blunder. Instead of focusing on product development and good ol' R@D, they decided to enter the OEM market. Buying up (hell, forgot the name of that board manufc) and spending money on TV ads! Result? A vd3 that was late and was not at good as nVidia's TnT2 chip. (although it was damn close) But competition had caught up, and gone were the days of cash cow chips. 3dfx was *cough... rumored... cough* to be selling the VD3 chips at BELOW cost. Instead of learning their lesson, they continued the high cost ad campain and decided to 'ride out the storm' until the VD4(5). Problem is, when a company falls behind the tech curve, its damn hard to catch up. Just to let 3dfx know, the product pipeline goes like this.

R@D to Patents (copyrights) to Alpha Silicon to Product.

When the first step of this equation is behind your compeditors, you have already lost the race BEFORE it has begun. Only time will tell is 3dfx survives, and their purchase of 'Gigapixel' can once again revive the R@D to revive the company.

Can annyone reccomend a good 7200 ATA/66 hard drive under $350 or so? Waiting for my asus/900 Thunderchicken to come in the mail and I realized I have no ATA/66 hard drive to use on the new ATA/66 bus.....

The reason you're not seeing V4's or V5 6000's is because 3dfx is having component shortages and thus low chip yields. Low chip yields mean they have to maximize every chip they can produce. And that means everything is going into the 5500 right now.

How much money does 3dfx have? They have been in the red.....and buying up companies.....how do you do that?

I don't think Rampage is at all dependent on V5 shipments. That thing has been under development for 2-3 years now. 3dfx has screwed up a lot lately, I'm not sure they'll be able to pull it off this time. I really hope they do though, I like them as a company. That, and competition is good.

about a month ago 3dfx said 7/15 for the voodoo 5 6000

it's in writing, right here http://www.shugashack.com/pic.x/hardware/062100_3dfxe3pp_10.jpg

I dont care
3dfx are dead to me


harsh but true at the moment

Why even keep this posted?

Rosewood has it. Forget about it

At least 3dfx is on top of their game in softball (From HardOCP):

3dfx played nVidia last night on Field 1 at Twin Creeks softball complex in San Jose and it wasn't pretty. The final score was 24 to 8. In the bottom of the 4th inning (nVidia was the home team), the score was 17 to 2! nVidia was never ahead because 3dfx scored early and often. 3dfx averaged four to five runs per inning and had two home runs. 3dfx's pitcher even threw a no-swing strikeout (i.e., she went down looking in two pitches). And if that wasn't enough, 3dfx turned a 6-3-5 double play (i.e., from shortstop to first base to third base) to end the game.

The umpire called the game after the end of the 5th inning under the "Mercy" rule: If a team, after five complete innings, is ahead by at least 10 runs, the game will be over.

3dfx is losing money to nvidia

the Voodoo6 is already well baked

they dont want to release it so that they might sell some 5500's first

Hmmm, 3dfx isn't delivering, and NV20 better be really damn fast if i'm going to ignore Nvidia's latest PR bullshit...

Remember the 3500?

Looks like 3dfx best have a great next-gen card if they want to EVER have the fastest card out. the NV20 looks like it should kick ass with 200 MHz DDR + the occlusion engine.

3dfx stock is nice and cheap now - i'd love them to release an ASSSSSSSSSSSS mf'n chip 3 weeks after I buy 10000 shares for 20c each >:)

Heh Zapp0...

December .....................................

I'm more curious about where the fuck the Voodoo4 is. I mean seriously, did 3dfx learn counting from Capcom or something?

Am I the only one asking where the voodoo4 is?
Wait, lemme check, 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 5 ... 6 ... 7
oh, nevermind, my mistake.