The 3DFX Voodoo4 4500
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I remember I had dreams about the Voodoo 5 6000 when I was a kid.. walking into a toystore, and seeing boxes of voodoo 5 6000's stacked on top of eachother... but it never happend.. Voodoo FTW!
I remember the anandtech review of this card. when I saw that every other card was beating this I knew it was all over for 3dfx. Even the Voodoo5 5500 couldn't stop the Geforce or even the Radeon. Really sad since I was a huge Voodoo fan. I wish their dumb CEO had not spent almost 140 million buying STB and burning the company down
Yea that killed it. Overnight, every graphics card manufacturer became enemy of 3dfx.
True, but you know the funny part? As processor speed steeped up above 1GHz... that first generation of T&L GF256 / GF2 / GF2MX became obsolete quickly as they were not strong enough. Gary Tarolli of 3dfx observed some weakness on nvidia first T&L implementation.
I must add that on 3DMark2001 a GF2MX paired with an Intel Pentium II@450 was as useless as with AMD K62@450... Guess what? Putting a Pentium III 450 bumped the score a lot, suspicious dependence on SSE extensions... you fishy futuremark, lol.
My experience with a Kyro2 64Mb ( Prophet4500XT ) showed me that. Never selling that card... this one equiped on a KT333 board with an AMD XP3000+ performs like a champion. Try it when possible ^^
@@rawlynn2112 wish the Kyro III had come out in 2002. another huge loss for the dedicated gpu market
@@tHeWasTeDYouTh Don't tell me, I followed closely that STG5500 possible gpu, guess that ST had to reestructure itself and graphics were their less profitable division.
PowerVR found were its technology fits most, mobile. And their latest "Rogue" gpus pack quite a punch. But I still believe their approach is good for a "green" discrete gpu.
As a side note: There was a Prophet4800( Kyro2@200Mhz ) that sold a small number of units. Has anyone seen it?
@@rawlynn2112 Aww I had a Prophet 4500XT paired with an 1800+ Athlon (Palomino?). I volt modded it for higher OC and eventually burned it up. Such a great card. I replaced it with a 128MB Radeon 9700 Pro
There is actually a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP 4x Edition, hard to find but it can be found with some patience and deep pockets!
Seen them posted on eBay a few times but there is one catch, when in a 1.5v slot only one gpu worked and there was no way to get sli working. When these 1.5v keyed 5500s were on ebay they were selling for around $150-200 so it has been a while.
@@MrKillswitch88 I didn't know that :)
now that price is for the regular V5. I'm happy I have one and don't think I'll ever sell it.
Registrazioni Duemillaottonove I have the PCI Voodoo 5 5500, my brother bought it back in the day for his Aptiva that didn't have AGP :-)
@@noth606 PCI versions are pretty rare because they weren't manufactured in quantity. Though, I'd never want one because the performance penalty is pretty steep. The only thing they're good for is like you said, PCI only boards and early Power Macintosh G3 systems with no AGP slot.
@@registrazioniduemillaotton6030 regular voodoo 5 now is like 300!
I waited to see the early reviews of the Voodoo4 cards, but was disappointed in the performance, so I splashed out and bought a Guillemot 3D Prophet II GTS 64MB card instead. At the time it was actually cheaper and had better performance. The Voodoo cards were priced at a premium level, and the GF2 had been out for a few months already, so I managed to pick up mine on a discount. At the time when I upgraded the video card, I was running a celery 400, which definitely didn't keep up! Pretty much straight away I upgraded to a PIII 1000EB, which I also got on sale since it had been out for a few months by then as well. Coupling the GF2 with a 19" Trinitron, my friends were practically drooling over that rig at LAN parties! We usually played at my mate's place, and he lived on the top floor of his apartment building, so they definitely weren't jealous of me having to carry up that big heavy monitor up all those flights of stairs!
I use this card with a Pentium 3 Tualatin 900mhz, 512 mb RAM and a Turtle Beach Montego II. Killer machine for Retro PC gaming !
My first pc upgrade was a Voodoo 3 back in "99. I played Quake 2 with my friend over dial-up. I remembered how amazed I was when I first fired up the game after the install. Good old days.
Damn I feel old. I remember waiting in line with my dad at a computer store for the midnight release of Windows 95!
Lol. Good times.
@@kevintsangmsc true
👍👍👍 I have an old Diamond Monster Voodoo2 8 Mb, I ❤️ the 3DFX cards! Nice video!
i have two of them
Phil´s Computer Lab new episode, Friday and 3DFX...what else can we ask for?
Free beer?
@@holgerwikingsen713 Haha, true!
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at laaaast, video of top kind! the best of your channel Phil, thanks for content worth attention, you know we love 3Dfx
More to come!
Yes my son.. That was how a "GPU" looked like back in the day when daddy was young. It could do basically the same thing as the 2 kg tripple-fan monster spaceheater you have in your PC. Just a lot slower and less powerfull.
Graphics innovation from 1980 to 2000: WUAU - Nice !!
Graphics innovation from 2000 to 2020: So many settings - Let me see... I switch that on and it slows down the FPS (can't really see the difference) But I wan't that setting on. I need More POWER!! :)
yeah, but the games were fun back then. and the replay value is still valid even today. there is no current game that has anywhere near the same replay value.
The main difference is from 2004 onwards I could actually use my computer as a secondary heating unit, and it started making a dent on the electric bill haha
Ah, I remember hearing about the Voodoo 4 and 5, back when I was in college in 2000. I never actually got a 3DFX voodoo 4 4500, until back at 2012. I bought a used one that came with the box and original packaging for only $35, back then. I also bought a Voodoo 5 5500 shortly after, but only used it for about an hour until I changed it out. Unfortunately, I lost that card and many of my other belongings to a fire. When I put together my Pentium 3 600 MHz machine late last year, I slapped the Voodoo 4 in there, and I got performance similar to an overcharged Voodoo 3. In 3dMark 2000, I got an average score of 2900. But when I changed the processor to a Pentium 3 800 MHz, I got a score of 3200. I also had a Dell Dimension 4550 PC, with a Pentium 4 2.0GHz processor, and with the Voodoo 4, I had a 3DMark2000 score of around 3500. I heard the Voodoo 4 4500 is not as good for older games like the Voodoo 3, but my old games always ran great with my Voodoo 4 card. A couple of weeks ago, I bought a Voodoo 5 5500 and swapped my Voodoo 4 for the voodoo 5. The Voodoo 5 is an excellent card for older titles. It is much like the Voodoo 4, but significantly more powerful than the Voodoo 4 and can do 32 bit more better. In fact, with the Voodoo 5 5500, my PC benched from 3200 to 4200 on 3DMark 2000. I have found the Voodoo 4 to be a bit unusual, because the VSA-100 chipset the Voodoo 4 has was designed specifically to work in parallel with one or more of it's kind. I think 3DFX wanted to release a budget graphics card with their newest chipset on it. That would be my best guess as for the Voodoo 4's existence. The Voodoo 4 4500 is really just a slightly more powerful Voodoo 3, with official 32 bit color support and a few new features over the Voodoo 3. The Voodoo 4 card is not a bad card, and is great for old glide games, but that's about it.
This big problem of 3dfx it's was not to sell his chip to 3e party makers .
A real stupid from 3dfx to do.
And other problems the 3dfx voodoo 3 cards we'll try to find them it's was really low in stores .
So people go for a Nvidia in that time.
Since the chip set was designed to work in parallel with another set is it possible to run Two Voodoo cards together? I also saw room for additional memory chips. Can more memory be added onto the board? Plenty of Old systems around to salvage parts from. I like using old hardware and max out it's performance. Giving new life to old equipment that most will send to a trash pile. I would think someone tried to make a better system for cheap once the new systems came out on the high-end. A lot of old hardware is being 'Rediscovered' in old storage units and homes where much of what some people had was left behind. A Retro Game Computer can definitely have better performance than was normal at that time, for a much lower cost.
@@robrocksea I would be surprised if you could not, as 3DFX were always about the SLI.
Never had the pleasure of owning a 3dfx card, but I've always been fascinated by how smooth gameplay looks on optimized games.
glide looks way better and smoother
it does. when he was looking at the floor, glide was at 60+ fps and d3d was at around 45
Beauty of CRT or high refresh LCD, its gonna look smoother based on framerate, refresh rate and animation interpolation etc. Glide was more mature but DirectX was low level and ubiquitous across cards, so it's later developments got much better and replaced most. Vulkan is superior to all of them really, tho thats debateable especially with DX12s newest implementation possibly - really depends on the game or whatever it's trying to do
Yes the colors always looked warmer at least, and you can see this in the side by sides here.
@@vcolinc yeah definitely the most easy to see difference is in the color
I love your videos! It's so nice to just crack open a cold one, kick back in my chair, and watch you geek out for 20 mins!
Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks, Phil. These retro videos are great. During lockdown, I used this video as inspiration to upgrade my Windows 98 Dell Optiplex machine with the bizarre L-shaped 3DFx Voodoo4 4500 card, in this gaming rig's 1.5V AGP slot. I paired it with a 1.4GHz P4, a 256GB SD card solution for storage, and a Soundblaster Audigy 2 Platinum. I also have that same Diamond MX300 Aureal Vortex2 to compare EAX with A3D, and a Riva TNT2 to swap and compare performance. I want to put this combination here through its paces, though. Fun projects.
I am proud owner of couple of 3DFX cards. I keep them nice, clean, dry :)
Thanks for this video, love to see the old stuff.
A Phil video about a Voodoo!? It's just like the good old days!
Now there's a card I'll never own. :) You know I love your videos about graphics cards, and this is no exception!
PixelPipes mate, you need to start recording on regular basis again ;). I'm happy that you are back!
@@Cpt_Wolf I just posted a video!
@@PixelPipes You talking about your fresh video on Fraps 99 software?
Well I already have seen it, and already commented in comment section as well. When I see yours or Phil's video, I just simply click and watch.
Can't help myself. I'm a simple man with simple retro needs Nathan ;).
I still have a VooDoo 5 5500 in the box. I used a sweet Voodoo 2 & 3 back in the day and loved them.
Im always happy for 3dfx videos :3
Great video as always Phil! This is a board I still (luckily) have. Not installed at the moment, but working on a new build for it. Thank you!
This motherboard and CPU was my very first own PC back in the days of Windows XP. So nice to see it again!
Great video thank you...I used to have 2 Voodo 2 cards in SLI and enjoyed most of my time with those cards.
Got this card in 2001 when 3Dfx was already dead. Play games with this card from 2001 and 2002 was painful. My cousin had GeForce2 MX which was much more faster. But I still have this card, and it is very nice as alternative for Voodoo 2, or Banshee. It has different render in Tomb Raider 1996, more like PowerVR. Later I found out that Banshee and Voodoo 3 have tha same render, when Voodoo 2 have render which looks like Voodoo graphics
Yeah the GF 2 MX was faster than the Voodoo 4500 in most games by 20-40% but in the glide games the Voodoo 4500 was just as fast or even faster.
I worked at PC World in the UK from late 1999 to late 2000. Used to get lots of customer returns and damaged boxes in the crate bin at the back of the warehouse. Usually they went back to base but sometimes the managers would let the employees buy items, especially if they were lacking accessories or the boxes were totally ripped. I bought a LOT of graphics cards back then, usually to sell on to my friends or to build PC's with which I'd then advertise in the local classifieds. I still have a few VooDoo 4's, only a single VooDoo 3 and a pair of VooDoo 2's which I actually use in an SLI Pentium III rig.
I remember when VooDoo cards started to get owned by other chipsets and we ended up having a difficult time selling 3Dfx cards after that. Many got sent back to base. I had the opportunity to buy a lot of them, wish I had! Ah well.
Great video, Phil! Currently playing through Descent 3 on my Voodoo5 5500 AGP, Glide API, and my Pentium III-S 1.4GHz system. Runs extremely smooth and looks fantastic.
Very informative video, as always! The Voodoo 4 4500 AGP works in my AMD Athlon Slot A T-Bird 1 GHz machine. :)
Nice! We don't see to many Slot A machines... Most go for the Pentium III.
I like the Intel and AMD Slot CPUs, they look so beautiful. For PIII Katmai, I use a V3 3000 and for the Coppermine 1Ghz Slot 1, I use V2 12MB in SLI.
@@philscomputerlab I forgot to ask: Maybe you can make a video about the AMD Slot A platform in the future? 🙂
@@3DfxAslinger yea maybe...
So thankful I was lucky to find a Voodoo 2 just laying around inside an old basement PC. The 3dfx cards are getting so pricey.
I found a Voodoo 3 for 35 dollars. But yeah they are getting stupid pricey. I think the voodoo 2's have reached their msrp or something. Voodoo 4 and 5 have already surpassed that. Voodoo 1's oddly enough havent moved too far up in price though.
I miss mine
I remember clearly when there was this USA seller, he had hundreds of V3 3500 cards for low price. It was like 7 years ago? I got a few cards and glad I did. At the time though, people would say that 30 dollars is too much for such a "useless" card LOL
@@philscomputerlab Yeah, but honestly I'm happy I got mine for 35 despite the missing capacitor. Somehow it still works like a charm. I do wanna replace that capacitor eventually though.
@@jackedup447 Nice price. I picked up a Voodoo 3 3000 for about $30 a few years ago. I also recently picked up a great lot of some old PC parts for about $35 that included a 12mb Voodoo2, Celeron 300A, K6-2 233, Ultra SCSI card and some random memory. Very nice!
A alternative universe where 3dfx are still alive and well would have been nice
If that deal to supply the Dreamcast with Voodoo graphics hadn't fallen through, we might still have the two titans - SEGA and 3DFX alive.
Best retro hardware channel
i wish they had released that 4 chip monster....what a beast!..excellent video Phil..love your content..
An interesting fact about 3DFX is that they were originally going to make the graphics for the Sega Dreamcast. I do wonder what GPU would it of been based on and how it would of affected the performance of the Dreamcast. Shame the deal fell through, would of been interesting for sure :)
Including it could've played a part in 3dfx's survival
@@ornim1 Probably would have. If they had gotten the Sega deal, they would have had the money to bring Rampage to market. The problem is that 3dfx just didn't execute product cycles well, and even if Rampage had been a hit, they'd have been late to market with the next product and the crisis would have just been delayed a year or two.
i bought the 3dfx voodoo 3 2000 pci back in 99 for $99 at walmart, it was one heck of an upgrade over the S3 Virge DX that was in my system at the time.
Ah, the S3 Virge... slow and buggy. When games did work on it properly, running at 320x240 actually is somewhat decent. If only it wasn't severely lacking in blending modes...
@@nitrax8629 the S3 was actually pretty decent in DOS with the VESA driver
@@madmax2069 Yep, was more referring to the 3D capabilities though.
@@nitrax8629 yeah I know
3dfx should have released overclocked versions of the V4 4500 and 5500 with 183 mhz and name them 4600 and 5600 or even with 200 mhz. Sadly they never did, even if that would have been very easy to do and would have helped 3dfx to better compete with the GF 2 MX and GTS.
i could be wrong, but i think there is a small number of people modding faster ram onto the older cards for more performance.
Should've just made the 4500/5500 run at 183mhz or higher right out of the gates.
@@AdmiralHorror yes it would have been much better for 3dfx to sell overclocked versions at 183 mhz or even 200 mhz and just name them Voodoo 4600 and 5600 to better compete against Nvidia. They sold their VSA chips at only 166 mhz when they sold even the Voodoo 3 at 183 mhz a year before.
They tried - but VSA-100 was clocked at 166mhz cause it was the only stable&safe combination at the time.
They planned to update architecture with Daytona - VSA-100 but cloacked on 200 mhz, produced at
180 nm microns at with full DDR support to regain lost performance. But sadly it was already too late.
@@TurboMMaster most V5 5500 and V4 4500 with 6ns memory overclock to 180 -190 mhz, so I dont think it would have been a problem to release 183 mhz versions. If necessary in a smaller amount / number.
I had a Voodoo 4 4500 Mac Edition (PCI w/DVI interface, otherwise the same), Voodoo 2 1000 (x2), Voodoo 3 3500 TV, and Voodoo 5 5500 - complete in box. Sold them on ebay for ~$35 - $50 CAD each in 2004 - 2005 as I dumped old hardware because no one wanted slow outdated cards at the time. Even worse, my in box soundcards including a Gravis Ultrasound MAX and Aureal SQ2500 sold for almost nothing.
i would trade probably half of my whole collection of hardware to get an AGP 4500 with dvi.
Thank You, I always appreciate Voodoo stuff. I have a "Mechwarrior 2 Mercs" PC with CRT monitor. I was lucky enough to got Sidewinder Precision Pro with the box, all manuals and driver cd (all I missed was a seal). I bought Voodoo card for it and apparently seller could not tell the difference between Voodoo 1 and 2, so I have a latter. I brought it to a local BattleTech mini convention and it was great. We even had a little tournament with kills per minute. Performance is still not the best and the card is not capable of rendering urban areas with highest details, but I like to have exactly the same experience as most of the players in 1998. The hardest thing was not actually find the card itself and good drivers. The hardest part was finding a cd with Titanium Edition of the game with 3dfx card support.
This brings back memories.I had a voodoo Banshee.I had a amd card as well but changed it cause on the older hardware when ever a game got released you had to install a new driver.Glad were past that stage.You won't believe even new techies doesn't know about the extra features on gigabyte boards.
Hehe for some reason CTRL+F1 is not well documented.
Last time I saw a Voodoo card was when my friend was showing me Grim Fandango in the 90s.
I seem to recall reading that the VSA-100 was actually supposed to be the succesor to the hardware in the Voodoo 2 but development fell way behind so 3DFX kinda did a hurry job on the Voodoo 3 hardware in as basically it was a Banshee with an extra TMU and higher clock speeds
Pretty much. You can think of it either as a clocked up Banshee with a second TMU or an improved Voodoo 2 with 2D support. The feature set didn't improve at all. The Voodoo 3 was fast, but other than that it was badly behind the times. The other graphics accelerator vendors were making products with much larger feature sets and general computing power had improved to the point where game developers really wanted to start using them. Just months after the Voodoo 3 was released, id launched Quake III - with 32 bit color, textures up to 512*512, and stencil shadows. The Voodoo 3 didn't support any of this. 3dfx killed itself with the Voodoo 3.
That's why they should spend 140 millions on hiring new engineers instead of buying STB and shifting they entire strategy LOL.
Nice to see these older cards tested on an overkill system, easy to see what the GPU is really capable of :)
The good old 3dfx cards. Truth be told i still have my voodoo banshee from anubis which i bought new when it was just released, the card was actually shipped with bad vram causing pink screen artifacts unless you underclocked the vram. Didn´t impact the performance much and the card served me well for quite some time, first in my main rig and later in my 2nd rig (mainly for diablo2) after i upgraded to a tnt2 ultra in my main.
Its a bid sad the company sort of died as more competition nowadays would be really good.
Back in the day, used to have the Voodoo 5 5500. It was a really beautiful card and made every other viddy card look crummy in comparison. Got full use of that card, and then sold it for a song after Xp and better hardware became available. But it sure did look sweet in games.
The card needs to be retired to the Smithsonian, unless you still have a bunch of Win 98 games and build a retro rig. I recently built a Win 98 machine using a Nvidia 8X AGP for almost no cost for playing Doom/others. But Win 98 is such a disaster OS, even with the latest unofficial service pack, although it did help out a lot.
Thanks Phil . . .
lovely card ! would love to get my hands on one of these ;)
The UNISOUND video brought me to your channel and I must say I'm giving serious thought to doing some retro computing with what old hardware I still have. So much so, I had to make a video discussing the UNISOUND, your channel, and your MS-DOS starter pack. I don't think I still have EISA hardware around, but definitely some early gen P-4.
Nice one, Still love my Voodoo4 4500 and Voodoo5 5500.
What I have: Voodoo 1, Voodoo 2, Banshee, Voodoo 3 3000, Voodoo 4 4500, Voodoo 5 5500. I always look for the next Voodoo in my Collection :) Thanks Phil for the Video!
I had an V4 exactly like this a few years ago, but the glide compatibility is not great for old dos games, so i sold it. Nowadays i have a Diamond Monster 3D (V1 4mb) and a Voodoo 3 PCI 16mb. The V3 is the best all arounder for early W98 and other dos glide games.
I had a voodoo 3 2000 pci loved this vga!
Yea it's a very versatile card!
@@philscomputerlab my friends lined up to play on my pc kkkk I'm from Brazil and it was all very expensive at the time (unfortunately it still is) ...
It would have made more sense for this review to compare the V4 4500 to its main rival the GF 2 MX, with some benchamrks.
Don't forget, VSA-100 also has 2048x2048 texture support over the Voodoo3's 256x256!
Holy cow! I used that Sempron processor from 2003 to 2012. IIRC I also used a Kyro II GPU that was very good.
I'm always into the thin client videos and what they're capable of.
Just as I'm working on my Voodoo 3000 this comes up :)
I know it is Friday when I see a PhilsComputerLab video in my notifications.
cool retro card, never had a chance to try one of these out. My voodoo collection is 2, 3 pci, and 5
I remember buying my first PNY TNT2 3D card, I was thrilled by the graphic performance of the card. I was using the Rage 3D before that so it was a big upgrade in performance. I never got a chance to get a real Voodoo card back then. Plus they were a little pricey.
Nice video!
Speaking of the Voodoo 4500 PCI edition. Saying it's rare and costs more is an understatement. Finally found one for my collection, in the box, and it set me back €550.
I've seen a couple of modded 4500s pop up on ebay over the years where the vram has been upgraded then there was one card where the owner had added dvi port, upgraded the vram, and replaced the gpu with a slightly newer version that clocked higher for all in all was around 20-40% faster than a stock card.
Amazing what the community is capable off! DVI output would be nice, I could use that...
@@kyles8524 I have one that was modded with 64 mb and dvi output, and the last revision -320 chip for 200mhz overclock. It's great
@@Queso305 you should put up some pictures on a image share im curious cause I want to see it. You should also sell it lol cause you could probably get 600 dollars for it or maybe even more
@@kyles8524 not going to sell it. It's tucked away in storage for now but I'll try to put a pic up for you
@@kyles8524 There are some very skilled 3Dfx modders. I own a modded V5 5500 running 128MB ram and the new revision 320 chips :)
I'll still be sticking with my viper V550 (or hybrid TNT2 Vanta/M64) and SLI Voodoo2. The screen I run my 98 machine with is only 1024x768 anyway (though the screen is native 85Hz).
Wait till ampere or ohm architecture, then will be time to upgrade, now it's too early
I had a matrox Mystic and a Voodoo 2 back then.
Awesome card! This one I skipped back than.
The 90s: “Lets call our new line of 3D-cards: VOODOO!”
The 20X0s: ”How does the RX 480 sound? Didn’t Nvidia kinda name one of their cards that before, tho? Who cares...”
Both companies re-use their numbers though. I had the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro in the early 2000s and a few years later Nvidia released their own Geforce 9800 cards.
There is zero creativity in the marketing departments of those companies. GeForce has been in use for 21 years, Radeon for 20. Nvidia recycled the SLI trademark from 3dfx, and then "GeForce FX" was contrived to be reminiscent of 3dfx. AMD reused ATI's old "Fury" name. Reusing the numbers is just one aspect of plagiarizing tired old names.
Where is the difference? 3DFX came up with a Brand Name once and used it for all their cards from then on, also not very creative. You should compare the Voodoo Brand Name to the Radeon Brand Name and not the Modell number.
That's a really shitty comparison. Radeon's the name of the line, RX 480 is a model number. That's like calling "4 4500" an uncreative name.
@@MKRENB The next 3dfx generation of cards, which never saw the light of day, were going to be called "Spectre," not Voodoo.
Great video.
7:10 nice never knew you could have jumpers that you do not need pliers for! Handy grab tab thingy!
I love these older card videos hahha
Excellent and timely I have a 4500 I recently was wanting to put into a build. I have 2 mother boards with a slotted processor 3 possible CPU's I need to identify. Or I could pair it with some faster around 2 ghz Athalon boards.
I had a 4 4500. Liked it! Glide that was schmick!
But it had to make space for a geforce after a year.
Great video as always Phil. That 7K 3dmark99 score is very interesting. My Voodoo 3 2000 PCI (@185Mhz) gets 7K paired with a 1.2Ghz Tualatin. ;)
That's V3 3500 clocks, so yea, faster than stock V4 for sure :)
Yay finally Phil ! I thought back when you did more retro videos that you would use the Voodoo 5 5500 in single cheap mode to emulate the 4500 but I'm glad I was wrong ! Nice video as always :D
I'm waiting in several years when you'll do a review of the Voodoo5 6000 :P just kidding it's too expansive but I think we all dream of it :D
Did you ever see videos of the 3DFX Voodoo 5 9000? That is one crazy PC card. It literally has 32 VSA-100 chipsets and needs 4 molex connectors. I have heard of the Voodoo 5 6000, and I read it could easily overtake the Geforce 2 Ultra, but the price would not have been worth it.
@@HelghastMerc Yeah I did, it was uploaded for April's Fool IIRC lol
@@HelghastMerc I'm sad to destroy your dreams my friend, but that V5 9k card is fake, a very nice made "replica". Read description next time ;).
Those are insanely rare and fragile - certain motherboards can cause them to blow the bridge chip on the card, rendering it useless.
I still got a bunch of 3dfx cards, I was thinking of making a retro machine out of the voodoo 4 4500 I have. I would use my voodoo 5 5500 but the agp port wont fit on the mother board cause its made for older agp slots and it wont fit unlike the voodoo 4 with its 3 sections split out will fit any agp slot.If anyone is unaware they made quantum 3d aalchemy systems with either 8 all the way up to 64 vsa-100 chips
3dfx + Aureal Vortex = Awesome 2000 combo
Yea, both companies that got killed off my larger enemies...
I used an Nvidia Geforce 2 GTS and a glide wrapper in those times. The Voodoo 1,2,3 were good cards, but by the time Geforce 2 came out, it was over for 3DFX.
Still got my Voodoo 5 5500 going strong!
Great Video
Can't get enough of SLi.
I like how he says "more detail" at 16:16.
I run my modern 5700xt Ryzen 5 3600 system like a time machine a lot of the time lol. Doom 2, just finished the first FEAR, Quake 1&2, Morrowind etc. Doom 2 on Vulkan runs great. Gotta love low-level APIs lol. Ive never been a "it has to look like blurry crap like it did when i was a kid" type person.
V2 vs Banshee vs TNT1, V4 4500 vs GF 2 MX and V5 5500 vs GF 256 DDR / GF 2 GTS would be really nice to see :)
Thank you for this great review Phil ! That card was quite unpopular back then, it was good and capable but it came too late... Competition was fierce, Nvidia had a full range of cards, and Geforce2 MX gave it a hard time with agressive prices and better overall performances. Voodoo 4 had shitty drivers back then, and except his FSAA & glide, hadn't much to offer. (Difference is huge with custom newer drivers, for example, serious sam was barely playable with early drivers, but very nice at 30fps with later mid-2000 drivers.) Had a couple of voodoo 4 back in 2001, bought for 30$ each if i remember well, a bargain ! I sold one of these two years ago, after 17 years of good services. (About 200$ on ebay, don't know if it's more expansive now.) Don't know where my second voodoo 4 is, hope to find it one day in my parent's home old stuff. Great memories with these cards nonetheless.
Thanks for the perspective, very interesting!
Serious Sam works great even with a Voodoo 3 with medium details at 1024x768 at 30-60 fps on a fast CPU. Just look at my videos, see the Serious Sam video.
@@3dfxvoodoocards6 I had a Voodoo 3 3000 in 2000, before i got the Voodoo 4. Loved it :) Sure, it may run Serious Sam smoothly with a faster CPU and updated drivers. But I was talking about the 2001 drivers and CPU experience.
I have a stack of Win 98 3D games. I always wondered what I should to do with them. I didn't know anyone was still interested in the older games.
Phil delivers once again! I love that you used the socket 754 platform for the video. It's interesting to me how the voodoo 5 5500 is 3.3v 2x only but the 4 4500 is 1.5v 4x. Also nice trick with the capture card driver! Looking forward to the next video!! Cheers!👍
I do wonder why the V4 ended up being the only card with 1.5V compatibility. I received feedback the V4 was the last card to be released, so maybe it was just because of that. The final Voodoo card coming out of the factory and that's why it had the newer AGP interface.
@@philscomputerlab Yeah, maybe it was because it was the latest to come out.
Glide produces more detailed graphics, more life like colors and smooth performance of voodoo card
I have collected most of the 3dfx graphics cards that were made. Not from every brand, but mostly one variation of every GPU; from the Voodoo 1, all the way to the Voodoo5. I once saw a Voodoo 5 6000 go on sale on ebay. This was in 2002. It was selling for almost $1,000 bucks... even back then. I was very surprised to see how much Voodoo cards are going for these days. I collected all my cards just because I really missed 3dfx. I had no idea they would be gaining value like this! I am surprised, to say the least. I do need to collect a Voodoo 4 4500 though. That's the one I dont have. I think I need to get the Voodoo3 1000 as well. Any of you guys have the Voodoo Velocity cards??
You need to do a Pentium 3 Slot 1 vs Socket 370 video. 440BX vs i815 or something lol
I'd like to see a Tualatin on Slot 1 + Slotket (and how far can you go with such a solution). I used to own a Celeron @566 MHz on a Abit BE6-II BX440 motherboard and I wonder how I could have upgraded it. Watching Phil's content makes me truly sorry for not having preserved my very first PC.
If Aureal and 3dfx make it to Windows XP , I sure we will have more retro build todays
I just saw a Voodoo 4 4500 on Ebay that was sold back in February. 34 bids winning bid-$1048.00. Has to be the highest priced Voodoo ever. Wow! It was original sealed never opened box which probably helped drive the bid war. And it was a PCI card.
I have a voodoo 3 3000 on old Asus P5A board with a K6 2 @550 Mhz and 768 mb ram. I bought the voodoo 3 at least 15 years ago at computer recycle store for maybe $16 dollars.
FYI the drivers have 'Force 32bit colour' in Glide, and it works 100% for every game. I took screenshots in Unreal with the option on/off and it 100% works. Careful with 'tweaked' drivers, as they break this option. Also - the 3dfx Windows 2000 drivers are excellent!
Back when cards had cool names.
I had one years back :)
i like when he say "beautiful look game"
very cool... new sub here
You should do review of Intel 740. Still amazed that noone did it. Intel graphics are coming (hopefully), so i think its about time to show people why i740 wasn't succesfull.
Also can be compared to Riva128, which you tested already as these were on market at same time. Ofc Voodoo 1 can be option too.
I have a Jaton i740 AGP card stuffed in a Super Socket 7 machine I built back in the day. It really wasn't anything special and Intel's drivers at the time were pretty lousy. I had to support pre-built machines that came with them. OEMs LOVED i740 cards because they were cheap. Its also why that SS7 has one.... I needed a cheap video card :P
Yep i know that they are nothing extra, but noticed that interest in them rising lately and someone should warn them :-)
Thats why i was suprised that no one did i740 review on youtube. Intel is big company, they should get a lot of viewers with that.....and i need some video under article about i740 on my pages :-)
I never saw the voodoo 4 . Friends had the the voodoo 3 and later the 5 but they were pricey even at the computer shows I frequented at the time compared to the TNT 2 and early GeForce family.
I'm glad I picked the right one even not knowing what the heck I was doing. (: Still haven't picked the setup to accompany it tho. ):
I STILL have mine!
Thank you for the Awesome information. Will be keeping my eye out for a Voodoo 4 4500 for a Rockin retro 98 beast lol. So Phil, with Matrox GPU's would you recommend? Thank you in advance for your response. 👍
That card was badass bacon the late 90s as it was very fast. NVIDIA bought the rights to it and improved the technology.I remember Rendition Verte it's closest competitor. I once own a Matrox Mystique and it too was fast but the features were plain. People mock it calling it Matrox Mistake.