3DFX Voodoo Card Guide, Voodoo 1,2,3,4,5 Banshee Rush
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3DFX Voodoo Card Guide, Voodoo 1,2,3,4,5 Banshee Rush
In this video I will tell you about the Voodoo1, Voodoo2, Voodoo2 SLI, Voodoo3, Voodoo 4 4500, Voodoo5 5500 & 9000. And what system you need for each card and some info about the cards. So after watching this video you know what you can look for for your era of gaming.
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3DFX was like magic. I experienced Tomb Raider and NFS 2 SE as my first titles with 3D accelerated graphics with it.
Perfect end-of-year video 🥰
quake 1 and carmageddon on a 4m voodoo1 on a p1 166mmx, i wish i still had it....
This is excellent for people new to 3dfx/retro gaming and don't know which hardware to pair the cards with. Nice!
I have Voodoo 2 and Voodoo 3 3000, i enjoy playing Carmageddon and other older games with glide.
1st 3d accelerator ever: Diamond Monster 3D (so amazing)
Recently switched from my trusted Diamond Stealth III S540 (S3 Savage4 Pro+) and Orchid Righteous 3D combo, to an Elsa Victory II (Voodoo Banshee). The performance of the Banshee is really awesome, I like this card. Has 16 MB of memory also.
Thanks for your endless content Victor. Merry Christmas and happy new year :)
Those early days of 3d gaming was SO EXCITING. I still have my 12mb Voodoo2 SLI combo. Keep it in a retro Win98se box these days for old school gaming.
I had a voodoo2 ... Quake blew my mind at the time. That was was got me hooked.... then a voodoo3. Next was the Gforce256 and then a TNT2 ultra...several ATI cards.... several more Nvidia cards.. that is how I got addicted to computer parts.
GeForce came after the tnt2 ultra 😛
Last PC I built was with a Voodoo 3dfx. Decided to build a new PC this week and bought a Radeon 6750XT. Jesus! It's HUGE!!
Never forget Forsaken the first time on a 3D accelerator
I actually have one of those 8mb Voodoo 2 cards in my MMX 233 computer. Works great.
The first 3D card we had when I was a kid was an ATI Rage Pro, but he first "real" 3D card was a Voodoo 2 12 MB. I still have the card and it currently resides in a P233MMX system used for occasional retro gaming.
Tomb Raider, Mechwarrior 2, Quake 2, Resident Evil, and Jedi Knight were my first 3d accelerated games that I can remember.
Great games 🤩
3DFX is the reason why I turned into retro PC gaming almost 10 years ago. I never had a 3D capable graphics card when I was a kid but now I have 4 3dfx cards (plus one non-working V1). A Diamond Monster 3D in a Pentium MMX 200 system running Windows 95, a Gainward Dragon 3000 and a Creative 3D Blaster II in SLI in a slot1 440LX system with a Celeron 533MHz, running Windows 98se and I also had a Pentium III 800MHz system with a Voodoo 3 2000 PCI but the motherboard died on me. That system was running Windows ME and was the first retro PC I owned. I definitely need to build a new home for that V3!
Lachen! Leuke video! ;) Heb dit jaar mn collectie verkocht. Had een Voodoo 1 met 4 mb en een SLI voodoo II setje met 12mb waarvan 1tje nog helemaal compleet met doos en boekjes en games. Veel geld voor gehad.
Yes i still remember the first moment i got my voodoo2 working on my celeron 333 pc. It was Need for Speed II SE and man that made one hell of a difference
Yep my retro P.III 1000MHz Has a Geforce FX 5900 AGP with 2x Voodoo 2s next to it, gives great options on what games to run and glide support.
ywnbaw
Yes good combination of hardware
Merry Christmas Victor
Thanks!
The first game I played in 3dfx was Subculture. Jaw dropping.
GTA (the first one) looked amazing too.
I lol'd when you recommended P3 for V5 5500 as i have my V5 5500 in a P4 Vaio 2.0 Ghz system
I still have my 2 diamond 12mb voodoo 2 cards all boxed up in my spare room. I'll at some point build a retro pc with them running. Still also have my pentuim 2 333mhz that overclocks to 600mhz . My first 3d card was an orchid righteous 3dfx 4mb. It was mind blowing to see it for the first time.
Hey nicely done Victor :) my first 3dfx card was a Diamond Multimedia MOnster 3D PCI-4MB which I had alongside my Diamond Multimedia Stealth 2000 Pro 2MB (without the vram expansion lol)
System was an Intel Pentium 120Mhz with 16MB Edo Ram, I later changed that to 48MB 2x 16+ x2x 8MB and after that to 4x 32MB EDo, when I went to the Pentium 200 MMX I went for 1x 128MB PC-66 SDRAM yea these were very exciting times first game I played with 3Dfx was Unreal I think and Descent 2 with the 3Dfx patch this was in 1996.
I miss my Voodoo Banshee. It was the only Voodoo I had but it was a pretty decent card.
I remember purchasing a Geforce 2 GTS 32MB over the Voodoo 5 because it had S-video in and higher performance, but I wanted that Voodoo 5 so damn bad. I knew it was going to be a collector's card. No one cares about my Asus Geforce2 GTS Deluxe, but people love those Voodoo 5's. My dad told me he still has all of my Slot A Athlons (750, 850 I think, 900 mhz and a 1Ghz) and it would be cool to build a good Retro PC with a voodoo card. He says he has my Geforce 2 GTS and I found my Radeon All in One 6800 or something like that.
My first 3D card ever was - with a Pentium 133 - the Miro Crystal VRX back then, The Rendition Verité Chip with just 4MB was quite impressive. But then, like half a year later i got my first Diamond Monster 3D and was overwhelmed once more! i upgraded my CPU to a 200Mhz MMX later on and it was quite a nice gaming machine. Actually planning to setup a machine with both, cards in where the Rendition takes the job as 2D card and its possible to compare both on the fly just by selecting the renderer in certain applications.
I never explored the early 3D cards like that
Need for Speed 3 on a Riva 128 (Asus V3000). Even thought it was only like 20-25FPS it was still amazing compared to everything else before it, not to mention it could run at 800x600. Never had a 3dfx card until a few years back, now I have a Voodoo 1, Banshee and Voodoo 3. Really nice cards!
The first game I bought that required 3d acceleration was Starfleet Command(around 97 or 98). I think I bought an ATI Rage 128 but either way, the fluidity of it was just amazing. I remember thinking wow, how did I not know these cards existed? I had been so used to running whatever generic trident card I had in my PCs and getting acceleration blew my mind. 🙂
My first hardware 3D experience: Need For Speed III on the infamous ATI Rage Fury Maxx - and actually the Maxx, for all its faults, did extremely well with NFS 3 and 4! And yes, it was like magic! I knew going into it that hardware acceleration would make it FASTER but I didn't understand until I saw it that it would also LOOK DIFFERENT, with effects that just weren't present in the software-rendered versions of my games. It was all very cool!!
I ran a 5500 PCI for a while (replacing it with a Geforce 3 Ti200), and i remember getting it and my friends and I seeing that it needed an additional power supply connector. Blew our minds that this card must be a real beast if it needed that. Pretty sure that I ran it with a P3 733MHz CPU, no idea what RAM I was running at the time though, more than likely upgraded from the 128 MB that system originally came with.
Friend of mine back in the day had twin voodoo 2 cards and on the mother board twin Pentium 200's over clocked to 250 mhz for a total of 500. Playing system shock 2
I’ve got a Voodoo 4 4500 AGP running inside of an Asus P5A-b, with an AMD K6-III 400MHz. I’m looking for a CPU that’s a bit faster, but this looks to be near the sweet spot of what the Voodoo 3 should’ve been.
As for the Voodoo Rush, that was my first 3D graphics card in my Pentium 166 (non-MMX). I was totally astonished by the Tomb Raider graphics, which flew of my screen back then! I had (still have) the Helios 3D Voodoo Rush with 6MB.
Great video, Victor!
I use an Banshee AGP on the same board with a K6-III+ at 600Mhz and score like 3.985 in 3DMark99max. With a single Voodoo 2 or in SLI i score less. Also with a V3. And a V4 is totally overkill there - even with 600mhz.
Or just keep it in and just enjoy the older games 😀
@@CosmoRiderDE 32-bits color depth is a feature that was available at the competition around the time of the V3. The V3 lacked this feature though.
Of course it’s overkill. The CPU is heavily bottlenecking the GPU. Though I can’t think of a better place for this mid range voodoo card. Anything faster needs a V5 in my opinion, because that’ll unleash the real voodoo potential.
I’ll be buying myself a set of those AMD K6-2+ 570MHz CPU’s off of eBay in the near future. It’ll unlock some more potential for this platform. It’ll make that build fly in quite a few games. Exactly the performance I need it to have. :)
Holy smokes reading the comments on this video is a who's who of retro machines youtubers!
My earliest memories of 3d acceleration are with a Voodoo 3 2000 pci my brother installed in his Pentium 200. The machine was only a couple of years old so no way could he afford to replace the whole machine but he could put a low end Voodoo card inside! One of the Test Drive games was one of the first I games I remember finding the 3dfx specific settings and my eyeballs about popped out of my head the first time I saw it! Of course I also played Quake I and Quake II. Quake II stressed the system however and kinda sucked to play. Crazy how a nearly top of the line system was pretty much obsolete for gaming within two years...
The same story with the Voodoo 5. As someone who bought a used one for like $50 in 2002 I can attest for how new games already simply didn't support that 5500 less then three years after release! You could buy any 3dfx card dirt cheap at the time because they were straight up useless by 2004.
Yes if we only knew the popularity of the 3DFX cards now in 2002 😅
My first 3d card was a Matrox M3D PowerVR. The only game I can remember being impressive with that was Ultimate Race Pro. I don't remember playing Quake with that. I had changed it for a voodoo 2 by the time Quake 2 came out
The Banshee was my virst video card i bought myself, i used it with a AMD K6.
By the way there is a 1.5v version of the 5500 that won't work in SLI in newer boards so still 3.3v for SLI, anyway the 4500 is a popular option for moders for extra vram and once in a blue moon DVI. Fun fact someone did a custom Voodoo 1 a few years ago that does SLI and it sold for a nice chunk of change on eBay.
I had the Voodoo 1 as well (in a Pentium 120 MHz) and one day 3D did not work anymore. I went back to the shop, they send the Voodoo 1 back and after a couple of weeks I got a new card back. But this was a Voodoo 2 with 12 MB. For "free".
Put the card into the computer and still: 3D mode did not work.
I then found out that my sound card had a defect which let to the Direct 3D driver to fail. I switched the sound card for a cheap card and everything worked.
I have the Voodoo 2 still today.
I needed this video thanks. I have a monster voodoo1 with Pentium 166 MMX, a Monster voodoo2 8MB with a Pentium 3 800 mhz, 2 Creative 3D Blasters in SLI with a Pentium 3 650, a Voodoo3 2000 with a Pentium 3 533. I'm getting a Banshee from Germany which I will use in a build with another Pentium 3 800. I know I could distribute the hardware better but I built this collection slowly with old hardware I had and cards I salvaged or bought over time. I made some videos on my Italian channel just to give you an idea. Now thanks to your video I have clearer ideas on how to redistribute my beloved 3dfx in an optimal way. Signed up👍
What you have now is already nice configs!
In anything faster than Pentium III you should be going with at least a GeForce3 Ti200. That card is in an Athlon-Duron built that I put together months ago. I even went with a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.
A hack if you find a cheap 3500 w/o the medusa cable: the pinout (but not the form factor) is identical to an EVC (aka VESA P&D) connector. You can still buy the adaptors fairly cheaply. Buy one cut off the metal shielding (so the pins are exposed) plug it in, secure it well with the screws and forget about it. There's supposed to be dell OEM versions out there that don't require modding, so that might be an option. Or just wait for the cable to pop up, it can be as cheap as 30 bucks. I was planning to mate mine to a voodoo 1 so a compact VGA out solution was more ideal for me
Sempron 2800+ paired with an Inno3D FX 5700 (correct memory and core clocks) and SLI 12MB Voodoo 2 (Diamond Monster 3DII and STB Black Bagic, fastvoodoo drivers with the overclock disabled) as well as an ESS Solo-1E gives an extremely good DOS and Windows 98 gaming machine. Fantastic compatibility and the games which have texture issues on the FX are capable of running well on the Voodoo2. No point on spending more on a more powerful AGP card as the CPU is the limiting factor first when playing XP era games.
I had a Voodoo2 8MB version back in the day 🙂
I had Voodoo 1, 2, 2SLI, and Voodoo 5. Voodoo 2 SLI runs like a devil!
I scored a Voodoo 5 5500 today!
Quake 2!!!! Looked so dam good
glad to know I'm not the only person who still dislikes pentium 4 after all these years
What happened to the Pentium Pro? They run the Voodoo 1 and 2 and sli very well! I've tried it and they work very well!
There were so many interesting 3dfx cards, one of them for example the Quantum Obsidian X-24 Voodoo 2 SLI which had 2 Voodoo 2s on a single board. The V5 6000 was a crazy design, too bad it was never released and mass-produced.
Acording to a magazine, a special model of the Obsidian X-24 managed to add a VGA processor to the Voodoo 2 SLI chipsets, but I could not confirm.
Ah, the mythical Voodoo 5 9000 🤣
I own 2 broken voodoo1s, voodoo 3 agp and an diamond fushion banshee agp. and an voodoo rush. Monster fushion runs perfect on my amd k6-2 500 on a asus p5a-b . my voodoo 3 is waiting for a new project or owner. hope to find an other voodoo2 of voodoo1 for my pentium 1 and cyrix projects.
Please do a video with the weird voodoo cards with 4-8 chips VSA please
i bought the Unreal game and i had only a S3 TRIO 64 v2 2mb in software mode and i rushed next day to computer store to get one voodoo 2 to play smothly Unreal lol
Haha yes good choice
My Gigabyte i440BX board only supports up to an 8X clock multiplier, so my 700MHz Coppermine Celeron is effectively only running at 528MHz despite CPU-Z showing it at 700MHz.
Voodoos are all big money now.
But still can be found for cheap sometimes. But not easy to get for cheap if you want it now
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3dfx monster 4mb voodo 1 and quake 640x480 epic
first experience was Need for Speed II SE with a Voodoo 2 (8mb)
Whats the name of the cable I need to connect a Voodoo 1 ? Please, thank you
Would a voodoo 1 work in a Pentium 90 class systems or is it to slow for it. Just because of the 640x480 resolution. I think a single voodoo 2 works much better on a higher pentium class system.
Becaust mostly it should run in 800 x 600 resolution.
Pentium 90 and voodoo1 works great.
Does the steel parts on your Voodoo cards get rusts? How do i stop it from happening?
No rust on them. I store them inside the house not in a shed
Hoe kom ik met jou in contact want ik denk dat ik hardware heb waar jij vrolijk van wordt.
Nice
The Voodoo 1 could go up to 800x600.
Tomb Raider, and it was weaky squeaky integrated graphics on a pentium 4. circa 1998 or so?
Pentium 4 is 2001/2002 😅
Ahh I see I got my years mixed up, makes sense though, even back then I didn't play brand new games. 🤣🤣
Is it true that the Voodoo Banshee could be part of a SLI setup?
What kind of accent is that?
Weird...his hand and arm looks bigger than his head...maybe he should lay off the wide angle lens for this sort of video? 😅
Is there a way in Windows where I can see how much VRAM my Voodoo 2 has?
Update: Found the ebay sale back, mine is indeed the 8MB varient. Diamond 22150105 Monster 3D II PCI 8MB 3Dfx Voodoo 2
I've always just counted the chips
Unreal - was amazing in SLI at 1024x768
NeedforSpeedIISE & GTA2 @ 3Dfx Voodoo2 12MB from Creative :)
I played alot of NFS3 on my voodoo2 🥰