Vooodoo 3 vs GeForce FX5500 | PCI BATTLE
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- In a recent video I demonstrated my retro PC. I was searching for a new graphics card that could extend the game compatibility life span of this rig.
I am dual booting Win98 and WinXp. Although I am happy with my voodoo3 card for DOS gaming and WIN98 gaming, I was looking for a new card to use for XP gaming. My motherboard only has PCI slots (no AGP) so I am limited to PCI cards only. I purchased a GeForce FX5500 hoping it would provide what I needed and this video shows the results of how it shapes up next to my voodoo 3 card.
My rig tested:
Pentium III 1GHZ
512mb RAM
Voodoo3 2000 PCI
Sound Blaster Live
Viewsonic G225F 21 inch CRT
another 64 bit noob
Why not try the 5500 under 98 as well?
The Voodoo 3 will also run Vice City very well on a Tualatin Pentium 3, better than a single core Acer netbook. Which I think is quite impressive.
The problem is that it will only run on a Pentium 3 without crashing.
fx5200/5500 64bit is still pretty good at win98 era games and can also do nglide with a stronger CPU (over 2 ghz). Don't expect winXP era games to work flawless.
FX 5500 was my first graphics card ever paired with a Pentium 4. I played CS Source, Half-Life 2 and World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade on that machine. It was truly a brutal time lol. I hated being limited to a regular PCI slot on our family Dell sooooo much.
Videos like this are always fun. I tried to play morrowind on a TNT 2 32MB card back in the day. I bought it with a pre-built machine in 2001. I had no idea what I was doing. It came with only 128mb of Rambus Ram. It sucked at early 2000s games but wasn't bad for late 90s stuff. I ended up just buying an xbox and ps2 to play games with.
Like! The Voodoo 3 was an excellent card for PCI motherboards.
i recently got an radeon x300 PCIE graphics card working on a similar motherboard like yours using an PCI to PCI Express adapter. although the adapter wouldn't work with some x600 variants, all of my x300 gpu's worked for both windows 98 se and windows XP without any issues.
the speed surpassed both my radeon 9250 pci and geforce 6200 pci in terms of performance in games that use the lithtech and early unreal engines. being able to play serious sam with butter smooth frame rate using the direct3d renderer in game at a resolution of 800x600 is really nice for a graphics card using the PCI bus.
I alweys loved FX series cards especially FX 5700 and FX 5900/5950 cards.I own several Fx 5900 Ultra, but unfortunately nowadays it is almost impossible to find an FX 5700 Ultra card.
I built a cracked Windows XP machine with two Radeon HD 4870s and a Phenom II X4, and a Windows 98 machine with a voodoo 3.. Next is an Athlon XP with the radeon 7500 I already have, I think, and then a 486 :3
I remember my brother had a matrox g450 and it was a amazing! and I had a oldie Riva TNT, the hardware back then had to last generations.
If you're looking for a new rig with AGP I recommend the Slot A/Socket A platform! interesting era when AMD were killing it and had the first 1GHz CPU on the market. I know finding working Slot A board/Slot A Athlon might be tricky though.
I'm just settling on 3 years forward, 6 years back and having a spare machine in the middle for LAN gaming :3
I has the same motherboard back then. I believe it has 8mb trident 9880 blade 3d gpu. After 4mb s3 it felt like a power house.
Received a quadro fx 3000g for $50 today. Its based on a fx 5900 ultra. But the radeon cards do directx 9 better.
Can you review a vga with tv encoder?
FX 5500's 64 bit bus makes it sluggish as the 5200. Both cards were slaughtered by the ATI counterparts at the time, if I remember it well.
My first PC (2002) was an Atlhon XP 2000+, a Soyo Waterdragon mobo and 2x256Mb DDR 333mhz ram paired with a GeForce 2 MX 400 64mb. It ran cool enough for me to slightly overclock it and raise its memory bandwidth. I ran intensive 2003 games like vice city, jedi knight academy and black hawk down next to 60 fps, always at 800x600. Few games did well in 1024x768 without setting everything to low, like Counter Strike.
Strangely enough my PIII 800 paired with 16mb Riva TNT 2 ran Morrowind just fine although 32mb video memory was required. But if I remember correctly, it started to run after I added 128mb SYSTEM RAM for total 256mb. Before that game crashed if you tried to exit starting boat.
FX series is good for retro gaming because it has good compatibility (you can install force ware 50 I think) and you are able to run even DX9 games, but performance was terrible, only FX5900 was good, but it was hot like hell even with good cooler. To use some 6600 non GT (you can find them for cheap) is always better if you can, but you are limited to newer drivers and with force ware 70+ you have already problem with some 90s games. Recently I realized that ATI cards had better compatibility with old games, with some X1650 you can still play AvP1 without problem and you have superior performance and you can install unofficial Omega drivers which don't bother you with net framework and such things like official drivers, so I really recommend some Radeon x series or (if you find one) Radeon 9800 for the best compatibility/performance. But ofcourse, find something for PCI slot will be hard, it will be much easier to change that MB.
BTW, games like Morrowind were designed for future HW, you need some proper 3 GHz Pentium 4 and GF6600GT to play it.
You must be thinking of Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion for those specs
@@alwaysobsolete
Id tech 3 and 4 games with a lot of labor could be optimized in the editor to save a not insignificant amount of video memory and bandwidth. It may make the next notch in resolution viable depending on how strong the front end is and assuming memory was the bottleneck to begin with.
The FX 5500, especially the 64 bit version, is a very weak card for XP. It’s just an overclocked FX 5200, which was a gimped budget card. For retro gaming, it’s better better for Windows 98 (fully supported by drivers and is compatible with older games that use features like table fog). The only use I found for either card is if you really need a low profile card for Windows 98.
In my main Windows 98 rig, I have a FX 5900XT. It may be a bit overkill for the era, but it let’s me play Quake 3 at 1080p.
Was the FX 128 or 64 bit?
I'm currently in the process of building a cheap and strong windows XP machine, but I'm torn between using 2x HD 6770 in crossfire or using a single HD 7770. The HD 7770 would be much more power efficient, but crossfire just seems a lot more fun hahaha.
As for the rest of the system I'm using a GA-Z68AP-D3 (rev. 1.0) (socket 1155) with an i5 3550 (Both the i5 2500k and i5 3570k I had died on me, so I went with a non-k CPU).
and 2x2GB ddr3 elixir ram (with the gold heatsink, just looked nice).
Storage + Case + PSU is whatever I have handy, I frequently change out parts.
Which GPU setup should I use?
Probably upgrade to a single 7850 or better.
I think in 2023, it doesn't matter what is more power efficient, just do what is more fun. 😀
@@Pidalin Alrighty, I'll use my paid of HD 6770 hahaha
otherwise I'll just put in my GTX 980
I'm a little bit curious about that slot at the top, I thought it was AGP but I guess it isn't?
I believe it is a CNR slot
Or AMR
@@alwaysobsolete Yep, looks like an AMR slot
does it run Cod 1 or 2? :X :X
Will try soon
I had fx 5200 64bit that was the best worst gpu ever I had
😂😂
That worst than tnt riva 😂😂