An outstanding build. 

very nice!

Gold Leader

Delirious
very nice!

Hey thanks man, I hope you been doing well as the rest of the EVGA team, good to see you guys keeping the forums alive

it's not what it used to be around here.

That RX 6800 is a really good looking card .
Awesome machine, all the goodies 
 
Too The Moon !
 
 

Pardon me, Gold Leader .  I know very little about AMD cards, so I did a little reading on that model ( RX 6800 XT ) .  Very nice card indeed .
In 6 years I'm betting on hologram generators ;)
 
Too The Moon !
 
 

Nice upgrade! I had to stop using a stubby case like that last year. I had the Thermaltake Mozart TX case that I couldn't deal with anymore for the same reason you mentioned..cabling.
 
How on earth have you gone over 800 video cards?

Flybye
Nice upgrade! I had to stop using a stubby case like that last year. I had the Thermaltake Mozart TX case that I couldn't deal with anymore for the same reason you mentioned..cabling.
 
How on earth have you gone over 800 video cards?

I used to buy even thing that came out also collected a ton of them, here my gallery of all my best cards roughly 180+ cards pictured as my best cards go cards pictured still, I collected cards since 1996, but theyw ere all dated from 1988 to current, as I have started again, some addictions are too hard to let go of.
https://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/index.php/3dfx_collectors/collector_goldleader/prevgas

Yea seen a lot used a lot  collected a lot, all gone those are mainly due to depressions or meeting the wrong people that are basically there for the money and not the hardware,  about 10 years after 2011, I started again as where I am now.
it's impossible to literally replacing everything but most here at EVGA seen what I posted over the years.

Since 2013 I have become owner of the official x-3dfx community we are still quite active  , people posting new 3dfxrebuiilds day in day out yea our goal is to keep 3dfx alive, and at a time I will share my retro builds here as well.
And also sharing the passions for all graphics cards not just 3dfx, ATi/AMD NVIDIA or  Matrox but all, moire variety that way!

cotter32
 Gold Leader;
I spent some time looking at your gallery .  It's pretty darn nice .  Good idea to take pictures of them .
Myself, I've only had seven video cards over the years, my two earliest computers had integrated graphics .
I had: Asus GeForce 8600GT Silent, Nvidia GTX 560ti, PNY GTX 1050, EVGA GTX 1060, EVGA GTX 1080,
EVGA RTX 3080 XC3 Ultra, and EVGA RTX 3090 FTW3 Ultra .  Still have them all except the ASUS Silent .
It burned up on me :(   Last time I ever bought a passively cooled vid. card .  I still use the last three .
I also have a small computer museum; starting with my second hand Commodore 128 :)   Six machines .
 
P.S. my 3090FTW3 is Nvidia SLI ready, so maybe SLI will make a comeback with computer enthusiasts 
 

Too The Moon !

There are plenty of games that support SLI if using it for them just enable max FSAA & AF + Super Sampling to make the cards run are more optimal speeds and so they are not to fast, Super sampled Rotated Grid FSAA is the 3dfx method it's the most taxing for your hardware but for all the SLI Supported games this is the best way to run them for the best image quality settings but also slowing down the super fast cards you are using, the same goes for CrossFireX setups  use Max FSAA & AF  if you want to get the most out of the new gen cards if playing games that have either CFX or SLI support.

As Quad SLI goes my best experience was with the 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700 the card I bought from ex-3dfx engineer sir Hank Semenec, which is this beauty:

3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700 + Late Voodoo Volts
With Internal Power Hookup by Gary Donovan & PCI Rework by ex-3dfx Engineer Sir Hank Semenec




Here the used test system at the time from 2005 to around 2009 for the Voodoo5 6000:

Sveta 2002

AthlonXP 2700+ @ 2167Mhz, 256KB L2  Cache.
EPoX EP-8K3A+, VIA Apollo KT333 Chipset
3x 512MB PC3200 CL2 Kingston Hyper X @ PC2700
3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700 + Internal Power Hookup by Gary Donovan & PCI Rework by ex-3dfx Engineer Sir Hank Semenec
Creative SB Audigy 2 Platinum with the latest Win2K/XP drivers.
Seagate Barracuda V 120GB 7200 rpm Main HDD
Western Digital Caviar SE 250GB 7200 rpm game disk
Intel Pro 100S Server Adapter
NEC 5 Port USB 2.0 PCI Card

AmigaMerlin 31. R 11 for Win2K Pro/XP Pro for all round purpose workloads.
SFFT Alpha 41 modified by ps47 & myself for Descent 1&2 + DXX Rebirth 0.58.1, this driver added OpenGL ES 1.2 Support which was needed to get DXX-Rebirth 0.58.1 working.
Latest WHQL 3dfx Tools for Win2K/XP
Windows 2000 Professional USA + Service Pack 4 + Roll Up 1 for Service Pack 4
Direct9.0c August 2007.


 


Somethings are hard to forget left alone hard to replace, just a tip of mine never sell anything of what is to you a great value, because at times money cant replace such things, money is a common item a Voodoo5 6000 in  that perspective is not, especially the 100% Voodoo5 6000 + Voodoo Volts set I got from Hank himself, also why I am trying to rebuild somethings I had, even though I know clearly that most things won't ever return, the photo's in my gallery are all the evidence I have from those golden days.
Always missing the good old days, hard to replace.

The Voodoo5 6000 was ans still is the holy grail of all 3dfx graphics cards , all that despite being an Engineering Sample only as well, 3dfx Quad SLI on a single PCB, was quite something for year 2000, playing with that card was a fantastic experience, the card I use now is a pc flashed 3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh 64MB Rev.A1 2900, the DVI-D also works it's been through a good 9r reworks to get it working again, basically it's a prototype again due to some parts you will never come across on any other V5 out there stand alone.
Backfire's Repairs & Reworks:

01. Renewed Ceramic SMD's on the rear
02. 6ns Hynix VRAM renewal for the main VSA-100 Graphics Chip
03. Renewed Heatsinks & Fans for the VSA's topside
04. Renewed Power Supply Controller Chips
05. Fixed the IC U510 Chip's pins
06. Replaced 4x TSOP-86
07. 6ns Hynix VRAM renewal for the slave VSA-100 Graphics Chip

SWZSSR's friend's Recap & Modifications:

01. Full Polymer Recap
02. Burnt Copper Heatsinks for the VSA's rear side

Here the card:

3dfx Voodoo5 5500 PCI Macintosh 64MB Rev.A1 2900




But hey as production V5 boards go it won' get much better than this V5 PCI mac, I did put some good coin in to it to get it as it is now, but it runs like a dream, as if it was a new card, even it's almost 23 years old it's self, yea all worth it.