I know someone that might be able to repair it Jacob
He is also a member of this forum, you seek Löschzwerg

I was wanting to build a retro gaming rig with from old parts and using a 3DFX Voodoo but don't know where to purchase

Well what type of Voodoo do you seek, the old retro Voodoo Graphics 3D add-on or Vodooo2 SLI 3D add-on, or more of the 2D/3D solution, like the Voodoo Rush, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3, Voodoo4 or Vodooo5? Voodoo5 is the one I use
 
Voodoo5 works fine with Win 98SE, 2K, XP x86 & x64, and 7 x86 &x64 also seem to work, although they are not really advised for normal 3dfx usage rofl 
The OS I use is Win2K Pro + SP4, it's robust, it is less CPU intensive than any XP Pro config and it's all you need for your old games.
 
Ebay is a way :) I can help you find what you need too

Well I want something to play games like Quake 3 Arena and games from like 95-00... As I'm not the most familiar with 3DFX as others and really didn't start into the hobby until 2012 I just turned 20 last week I just like old games and would like a retro rig so what do you think would be good?

The lifespan of my scroll wheel is now 20% shorter, but it was worth it, epic post. I bet they could make it into a 2 hour TV special almost :)

BF3PRO
Well I want something to play games like Quake 3 Arena and games from like 95-00... As I'm not the most familiar with 3DFX as others and really didn't start into the hobby until 2012 I just turned 20 last week I just like old games and would like a retro rig so what do you think would be good?

Oh Voodoo5 5500 AGP is the way for you hehe
 
A good setup would be:
 
AMD AthlonXP 2700+ 2167Mhz Thoroughbred-B
2x1GB PC-3200 Kingston Hyper-X
EPoX EP-8K3A+ / EP-8K5A2+ / ASUS A7V333-R
3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP 64MB
Auzentech X-Fi Prelude 7.1 or anything else XoFi or Audigy based.
500 Watt PSU
1x 320GB PATA-133 HDD or 2 in RAID 0 all up to you
 
OS of choice for me is Win2KPro +SP4
Although WinXP Pro + SP3 also goes very well, it uses more system ram it is slower in games and 2K pro when it comes to a 3dfx setup such as this, even that the diff is like 5% to 8%.
Drivers? the latest from Amigamerlin & SFFT are very good.
 
Drivers I use are AmigaMerlin 3.1 R11 for the V5 5500 AGP system
http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/amigamerlin-winxp-31_r11.zip
 
For the 5500 PCI's I use SFFT Alpha 41 Modified by ps47.
http://www.3dfx.cz/download/sfftalpha41_custom.rar

Install your Voodoo3 4 or 5 handmatically via Device manager then install this version of 3dfx Tools for your Control Panel:
http://www.falconfly.de/downloads/3dfxtools-v261110.zip
 

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The lifespan of my scroll wheel is now 20% shorter, but it was worth it, epic post. I bet they could make it into a 2 hour TV special almost :)

Thanks for your kind reply, it was well worth working 7 hours on all of it And  it does not only do me greatness, but my friends at x-3dfx as well and hereby I thank everyone for their kind replies

EVGA_JacobF
I have a 5500 PCI, don't think its working unfortunately though. Many, many years ago I attempted to take off the heatsink/fan by putting in freezer safe bag, I believe it didn't survive. Still have it though.

Hi Jacob, want me to take a look at it?
 
Most problems are power supply (bad caps), missing SMD components or bad memory.

This post was well worth the time to read. Thank you for putting in such detail and time.

James_L
This post was well worth the time to read. Thank you for putting in such detail and time.

Many thanks for your kind reply and yeah no worries, I always wanted to do this, just didn't know where to start rofl, as there is so much to tell, which is why I divided it in to three posts

I hope the mods will forgive me for replying to a thread that's about half a year old by now.. I know 'necro'ing' threads is sort of frowned on, but this one is just.. unique and sort of special.
 
I too sat down last night and read almost this entire post in entirety and even watched the discussion video. Thank you for posting this, for years I had always wanted to know about the history of 3DFX and the later voodoo boards. Back when I was younger.. I don't remember the exact era, right about when the voodoo2 was sold new, Creative Labs had a local gaming event at my local mall here in Dallas, Texas. They had about 100 PC's set up in the center of the mall running QUAKE and it was all networked and most of them could join the game together and they all ran Voodoo's. Up until then I had only seen the graphics from like Playstation 1, and DOS Software/pixel modes and didn't even know any of that was possible.
 
I went and spent all day (as long as they would let me) playing games there.. and then I went and got a summer job and saved up all my money just to buy a voodoo2 and a AMD K6-II/500 machine to play QUAKE on. And from there it's snowballed in to always having a job to support my addiction to have a powerful PC gaming computer.
 
I later had a Voodoo3, back when they were sold new, but by then I went with nvidia near the end and never got to experience the Voodoo4, or the Voodoo5.. or even know anything about the later models and what came to be.. or why 3DFX failed. So thanks for sharing all of this. I did want to ask, you mentioned some of the Anti-Aliasing modes looking good on the later voodoo series. Do some of the older games really look unique when run on voodoo hardware, compared to like, later model faster ATI/NVIDIA AGP cards? (I mean like the X1900 XTX, and the Geforce 4 TI 4600 series cards, etc.) And I'm not sure if I read all of your posts right.. will the dual-chip Voodoo5 AGP cards actually run full-screen super-sampled AA modes at playable frame rates? Or is that something only the 4-chipped 6000 series cards could handle?
 
If so, I may have to try and acquire a used voodoo5 AGP card and set up an older machine some day just to see what the games look like.