Hi ya all
What are your 2 favourite 3dfx cards?
Well Mine is the 3dfx Voodoo5 5000 AGP 32MB Rev.A0 3700
With this one on second place
3dfx Voodoo5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700 + 3dfx Voodoo Volts Rev.A 0030:
Great site Thandor and congrats for gett'n it runn'n too bud
I like this Voodoo2 PCI a lot
Besides the Voodoo2 PCI 6MB the Voodoo3 prototypes are pretty cool as well. I mean this card, this card and this card in particular
Only VooDoo card I ever had was a diamond monster3D or something like that... and it was nice
Nice that 6Meg V2 Thandor, here my updated second 3dfx collection
and this card which is in use
35 cards in total, how large has your collection grown?
Nice collection and good quality retail boxes!
My database currently has 76 cards and one motherboard. Several new cards aren't added yet and I have a lot of duplicate Guillemot Maxi Gamer3D 2 cards which are not added either.
Nice collection and good quality retail boxes!
My database currently has 76 cards and one motherboard. Several new cards aren't added yet and I have a lot of duplicate Guillemot Maxi Gamer3D 2 cards which are not added either.
Nice configuration :Y).
I don't have a specific 3dfx-PC up and running. At the moment I have two i440BX-based systems with Intel Celeron / Pentium II CPU's. A faster 3dfx PC would be an ECS K7S6A with SiS745 chipset. This system is usually equipped with an AMD Athlon XP 1700+ but sometimes it runs with slower CPU's too (for benchmarking purposes for example).
The systems don't have a 'main 3dfx'-card. I just put in the card I'd like to run at that particular moment .
The V5 6000 is still a big step so I'm not going to buy it now. Maybe in the future when my bankaccount likes an 6000, too .
Crosspost from Got. Basicly the card has something magic. Everytime i hold it it makes me wanna stare for hours lol! Hate the fact that i cant plug it in yet because of room-issues in my case. My motherboard only holds 2x PCI slots and basicly the NB/SB cooler (Nforce 550) is merely in the way to place this card normally. I'm figuring something out to put it in someday together with a second card.
Btw if anyone is selling their Sli-set, write me a msg or something I got a Magic3D 12MB 110MHz Card laying around with no brother to help him out
Would like to run 3dmark 2000 again lol. My radeon 7000 scores 2500 on my laptop (X31 Thinkpad from IBM)
I don't have a VoodooII 12MB with 110MHz RAM for sale, sorry. I saw you mailed Gaming247 for his Maxi Gamer3D2 cards . He bought those cards from me in summer of 2004. I had 60 of those cards .
Nice boards! They both work in SLI modus?
the 5000 AGP only works with SLI under 98SE hehe
but the 28 week older 5000 PCI does work under 98SE as Win2K heh no broken SLI under 2K where as the AGP variant does, dunno what explains this though.
5000 PCI Bios Boot, bios 1.00b
here's the info tab of the 5000 PCI under 98SE
here's the info tab of the 5000 PCI under 2000 Pro
For the rest the 5000 PCI has perfect 2D gameplay as movie play not a lockup in sight counts for 98SE as 2K Pro + SP4
with 3D the scene has an odd twist. SLI does work under 98SE as 2K Pro + SP4 even without FSAA as with FSAA x2 and x4 in both Operating Systems, I get perfect image quality with Glide & OpenGL API's no tearing, no banding as no glitches.
under Direct 3D I get some banding but it does not stutter with all 3D modes like I did have with the 5000 AGP.
the thing is after 5 , 7 12 17 as 26 minutes I get a crash. such a random timing a crash occurs and this is both with 98SE as 2K Pro + SP4.
Underclocking the 5000 PCI to 100 Mhz is what Oscar dd but he has a Rev.A0 4899 and these ran 100Mhz in 3D and 143 Mhz in 2D heh , mine is a Rev.A1 0900 so these should handle 143Mhz no probs in 2D as 3D this was the plot behind it, but since my 5000 PCI Rev.A1 0900 has 5 incidental reworks it might explain it's problems, the 3dfx engineer that worked with it was trying to save the card by adding the reworks, but I guess it didn';t save the card to a certain point as the crashes tell, but hey it's acard with an odd history and that what makes it more interesting
here's the info tab of the 5000 AGP
this what happens when trying to install the 5000 AGP under 2K as under XP I get the same issue:
The same happened with my previous 5000 AGP as well, and even by adding that so called 3dfx PCI String in the win2K/XP drivers does not fix the problem, so I think the 5000 AGP's bios only supports 98SE I guess I dunno what else it could be.
This card renders Glide & OpenGL API perfectly with SLI under 98SE and no function under Win 2K Pro, odd thing is my previous 5K AGP did work in single chip under 2K as XP heh.
D3D API it does render okay nop tears , glitches as such but lots of banding and it's like watching dia frames, even in single chip, dual chip no FSAA as FSAA x2 & x4 and the reso didn't matter either, I guess all 5000 AGP's had their issues heh.
and if you'd like to know more about the 5000's go here
http://thandor.net/topic/51
It would be cool if you can find the engineer(s) who worked with these boards .Underclocking the 5000 PCI to 100 Mhz is what Oscar dd but he has a Rev.A0 4899 and these ran 100Mhz in 3D and 143 Mhz in 2D heh , mine is a Rev.A1 0900 so these should handle 143Mhz no probs in 2D as 3D this was the plot behind it, but since my 5000 PCI Rev.A1 0900 has 5 incidental reworks it might explain it's problems, the 3dfx engineer that worked with it was trying to save the card by adding the reworks, but I guess it didn';t save the card to a certain point as the crashes tell, but hey it's acard with an odd history and that what makes it more interesting
yeah but that would be very hard I guess since the AGP has no E-tag heh, too hard to go by I guess
Difficult task indeed but you never know .