I have just acquired a video card that is near and dear to my heart.  The Voodoo 5 6000!  3dfx is the company that first got me really into video games and they paved the way for modern graphics cards.  This has FOUR GPU's on it and was the company who invented SLI technology.  
 
At the time of production, standard PC power supplies only had around 200W, and this card took about 50W of it, so they were going to come shipped with a separate power supply to help power the card.
 
Here is the beast:

The card you are looking at is one of approximately 150 cards that were manufactured, and of those 150 only 30 are thought to be still functional... and one is sitting right in front of me.  Don't hate
 
Here is where I will begin this thread:

A CAD model of the card.  Things to cool in black, and things to avoid in red, and the very limited holes in the board. 
 
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*update* block is finished 2 April 2012.

Subscribed, and waiting to see what you come up with. Should prove challenging for you and interesting for us.

Can you post any pics of the original heatsinks? I'm a little curious of what they looked like under those cute little fans.

NVM, I finally found a pic online. Not much too them really.

Ya. Sorry you can't post links and all that. Its a new member thing due to spammers. This should be a cool build. I wish that somebody could make a quad gpu card now. That would be pretty sweet.

Gratuitous

cool project nate! I recomend a custom backplate to help keep the thing from flexing in the middle with not so many holes.

sssshhhhhh.... your gonna give everything away too early

trevormacro

@zophar :

Little heatsinks + coolers on original Voodoo5 6000 because the card was built in year 2000.

the age has nothing to do with the heat out put
 
can't wait to see how this turns out

G-code for the copper portion is completed.  Getting close to actually cutting some copper.  Still a few days off.

ALLLLLL by hand.  I JUST finished writing the G-code for the copper plate (literally a few minutes ago).  I WISH i had a CAM program.  Just trying to figure out how to use the cutter comp (G41). 
 
I have been writing the code by hand with the actual offset of the bit of my choosing, but I want to figure out the cutter comp so that I can simply change the bit diameter to invoke a finish pass by making the bit diameter a bit smaller. 

with a CAM program, or by hand?

Pimpin'

That would be swell.  Id still charge you double for not letting me borrow your dewar and making me buy a bigger one  ;)
 
btw, where you been?  Feel like its been over a year since you been around these parts?

Here is a basic prototype of the copper board that will touch all the chips.

 
A few minor improvements to a few lines of code and it will be ready to cut.

crazyg0od33

how long is that card?  loks huge haha

 
I think 315 mm :)

Can't wait to see how this comes out! Very exciting project!