An enthusiast who simply goes by "Anthony" has created the next best thing to purchasing an actual Voodoo 5 6000: he built one himself using readily available VSA-100 graphics processors. VSA-100 chips can still be purchased in bulk, and a single VSA-100 will set you back just under $20. You need four VSA-100 chips to recreate the Voodoo 5 6000, and that's exactly what Anthony did with his impressive remake. He reverse engineered an actual Voodoo 5 6000 to produce his design, and the final result is what you see in the embedded images.
He created his own custom PCB with more modern components to house the VSA-100 chips along with the sixteen 8MB 166MHz SDRAM modules. This meant that the Voodoo 5 6000 had an incredible -- at the time -- 128MB of graphics memory (32MB for each VSA-100 chip). There's also an internal 4-pin Molex connector to deliver power to the board, which means there's no need for the external power brick of the original. According to Anthony, his recreation performs exactly like an authentic Voodoo 5 6000, warts and all.
... I'd love to see new retro cards like this that I could buy for a fraction of the cost of the rare original hardware.
