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Aaron
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I see an AGP one on Pricewatch for just over $100...
Lol, that's a bit silly IMO. The Voodoo 5 6000 are rarity items and frequently sell on ebay for upwards of $700. There were very few of these boards every made....Yeah, I know all that. What I plan on doing is seeing if my parents will be willing to pay for it for Christmas, LOL, if I find one at a good enough price during that time.
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Of course, that prompts the next question: V5 5500 or a working V5 6000?The answer to that is an easy one as well: I'd get the 6k, as long as it was one that actually works.
Taken from http://www.kaillera.com/When you are going across the world though, you start to run into the speed of light problem.
Say I'm in New York, and I want to play a server in Tokyo. That's 6760 miles. The speed of light is 186,000 miles a second. In ideal conditions, your signal has to go from your computer to the server, and back. Say that this travels at the speed of light (it does not - it is slower due to overhead, A/D conversions, electricity travels a bit slower than the speed of light, etc.)
So, we have to go 6760 miles there, and 6760 miles back. That's 13520 miles. At the speed of light, there and back it takes 72.688 ms (((13520 miles) / 186000 miles/sec) * 1000ms/sec). So, at best you can have a 72 ms ping. And that's using grossly bad estimates. (Not taking into account time lost by routing hops, A/D conversion, network overhead, latency, etc.)
You really can't defeat the speed of light.
Disney is on my list for the floowing reasons.