loves old graphics cards :)

ucanmandaa · Oct 31, 2009

Am I the only one out there who loves old gfx cards? specially cards from now gone companies?

I am currently building a new home for my Voodoo 5 5500 pci with dvi....

TheLaughingMan · Oct 31, 2009

Yes, yes you are. You are very, very alone. More money should not be spent toward using such old, weak, inefficient hardware. It should be torn apart and recycled in to new silicon or cool jewelry like the necklaces with P2 chips embedded into them.

Lionheart · Oct 31, 2009

TheLaughingMan said:
Yes, yes you are. You are very, very alone. More money should not be spent toward using such old, weak, inefficient hardware. It should be torn apart and recycled in to new silicon or cool jewelry like the necklaces with P2 chips embedded into them.

HAHAHAHAHA so true lmao!!!! :roll:

ucanmandaa · Oct 31, 2009

you are sooo cruel

Lionheart · Oct 31, 2009

lol yeah he is!

TheLaughingMan · Oct 31, 2009

It is ok to love the old GPU's, but it is that 16 year old hentai girls are hot kinda love. Where we all secretly want to say "I do too. Its ok, they aren't real people." Then when you say it out loud, everyone just looks at you funny. :shadedshu :eek:

pantherx12 · Oct 31, 2009

Ha ha and I thought I was kicking it old school with my 3800 cards!

MN12BIRD · Oct 31, 2009

I have a pair of Voodoo II's man I think they are like 16Megs each lol.

Lionheart · Oct 31, 2009

Is my All In Wonder Radeon 7500 64mb video card old enough!!! LOL

ucanmandaa · Oct 31, 2009

12mbs each they should

I will post from that machine as soon as possible... it should be up and running next week

ucanmandaa · Oct 31, 2009

I think anything pre-DX9 should be ok... any cards that lack T&L can be classified as really old

Jeffredo · Oct 31, 2009

ucanmandaa said:
Am I the only one out there who loves old gfx cards? specially cards from now gone companies?

I am currently building a new home for my Voodoo 5 5500 pci with dvi....

I have a Voodoo5 5500 PCI in a 2000 era Dell. I'll never get rid of it, if all I do is fire it up a couple times a year to play Diablo II. Nothing beats Glide for that game! :laugh:

mrhuggles · Oct 31, 2009

i would love to get ahold of a PCI voodoo3 or voodoo2, or even one of the later ones, they were alot of fun

twicksisted · Oct 31, 2009

i got an old riva TNT2 32mb card in the cupboard somewhere... if you like i can take a few pics for you guys to jack off to

Disparia · Oct 31, 2009

Get the most out of those GLide games:

Bo$$ · Oct 31, 2009

Jizzler said:
Get the most out of those GLide games:

http://www.theburnerishot.com/photo/AAlchemy8164.jpg

http://www.theburnerishot.com/photo/AAlchemy8164_2.jpg

http://www.theburnerishot.com/photo/Quantum3D-Mercury.jpg

wow dual ethernet ports :twitch:

wahdangun · Oct 31, 2009

Jizzler said:
Get the most out of those GLide games:

http://www.theburnerishot.com/photo/AAlchemy8164.jpg

http://www.theburnerishot.com/photo/AAlchemy8164_2.jpg

http://www.theburnerishot.com/photo/Quantum3D-Mercury.jpg

WTF is that it's really wicked, even AMD or NVDIA can't do like that.

multi GPU paradise FTW

punani · Oct 31, 2009

I remember my old voodoo 2 12mb gave colours and round shapes to my quake 2.. good times

! also remember carmageddon 2 became more fluent with it.. wonder where my old "beast" is collecting dust these days..

ucanmandaa · Oct 31, 2009

I remember moving my harddisk and removing my floppy drive to be able to fit my Voodoo 5 inside my case...

those quantum3d cards are huge

Disparia · Oct 31, 2009

Bo$$ said:
wow dual ethernet ports

For extra-low latency fragging :rockout:

wahdangun said:
WTF is that it's really wicked, even AMD or NVDIA can't do like that.

multi GPU paradise FTW

From Wikipedia: "One of the design goals for the VSA-100 was scalability. The name of the chip is an abbreviation for "Voodoo Scalable Architecture." By using one or more VSA-100 chips on a board, the various market segments for graphics cards are satisfied with just a single graphics chip design. Theoretically, anywhere from 1 to 32 VSA-100 GPUs could be run in parallel on a single graphics card, and the fillrate of the card would increase proportionally. On cards with more than one VSA-100, the chips are linked using 3dfx's Scan-Line Interleave (SLI) technology. A major drawback to this method of performance scaling is that various parts of hardware are needlessly duplicated on the cards and board complexity increases with each additional processor."

Wasn't cost effective at the time (among other problems) to provide more than 2 VSA-100 chips on a consumer-level video card. But that's not a big problem in the "never have enough performance", "money is no object" 3D modeling and simulation market. The AAlchemy had each of it's eight VSA-100 chips outfitted with 64MB instead of 32MB, to help in scaling and overall performance.

On another note, I need to pull out my old boot magazines. I remember one of their extreme machines featuring a Matrox Millenium (2D), a Voodoo (GLide), and another card which I can't remember that supported a competing 3D API which I also don't remember right now... What I do remember is that it was solely for the 3 or 4 games that used it, lol.

pantherx12 · Oct 31, 2009

I have a 32mb Dual monitor card

PCI rather then PCI-e.

Came out of a dell, its made my a company beginning with M,I can't quite remember the brand.

skylamer · Oct 31, 2009

i remember riva tnt 2

in(o*r) my 1st computer

p III @ 800 mhz and 128ram it was realllly expensive here maybe the most power pc

KainXS · Oct 31, 2009

U2k still isn't here yet O.O

3Dfx Voodoo 5500 FTW

ucanmandaa · Oct 31, 2009

3dfx vsa-100 strategy was similar to the ati's current one in my opinion: make a cheap small chip (vsa-100, rv770) then add more according to the targeted market.
Voodoo 4 = 4850
Voodoo 5 5500 = 4870
Voodoo 5 6000 = 4870 x2

too bad it was too late for them...

xBruce88x · Nov 3, 2009

I think the 32mb dual vga card was made by Matrox.

I have a couple VooDoo IIs still. 12mb each. I'm actually going to be putting them back into my pc. I had them in an old Dell Dimension with a Celeron 400 (oc to 533 lol) and it ran UT 2k at 100+fps.

I have an AsRock 4CoreDual-VSTA. It has about 4 pci slots, one agp 8x slot, and one pci-e 16 (locked at 4x) slot. when i first got the board i had my pent d 915 at stock (stock cooler suck in summer time with no A/C in the house), 1Gb ddr400, radeon 9600XT, 2x voodooII, winxp/2k dual boot. I later upgraded to a geforce 8600gt in the pci-e, added an ati all in wonder 7500 in the agp, and still had the 3dfx wonders in there. oh, and 2gb ram and overclocked to 3.2ghz. (winter time lol)

But now i plan on adding my 3dfx cards back to the mix of things. i just got a 500gb hard drive so i can use the 160 for win2k (with maybe linux on it too) for 3dfx. I still have a lot of the duke nukem games, decent 1,2, and 3, orig half life, etc.

technically 3dfx sorta lives on... nvidia bought them out if i remember correctly. so maybe there's a little 3dfx influence still in nVida

System Name	quaddamage // black pearl // black magic
Processor	Q6600 @ 3.47ghz // 1090T @ 4.0 GHZ/2800NB // P!!!-S 1.4 @ 1.5
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System Name	quaddamage // black pearl // black magic
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Motherboard	Rampage Formula // CH4 Formula // TUSL2-C
Cooling	TRUE 120 // TRUE 120 Black // Stock
Memory	4GB Flex ][ 1150 // 8GB OCZ Black Edition 1600 // 512MB Kingston PC133 @ 143
Video Card(s)	4850 1GB Crossfire // Asus 5870 Crossfire // 3dfx Voodoo 5 with DVI
Storage	3x 320 7.10 Seagate // Vertex 2 + 500GB 7.12 Seagate RAID 0 // 80GB Seagate
Display(s)	Dell U2410
Case	HAF 932 // HAF X // Cheapo Case :D
Power Supply	TX650 // HX850 // OCZ 400w

System Name	Boomer Master Race
Processor	AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 4.2Ghz - 5Ghz CPU
Motherboard	MSI B650I Edge Wifi ITX Motherboard
Cooling	CM 280mm AIO + 2x 120mm fans
Memory	G.Skill Trident Z5 Neo 32GB 6000MHz
Video Card(s)	ASUS TUF RX 7800 XT 16GB OC
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Case	Cooler Master NR200P Max TG ITX Case
Audio Device(s)	Built In Realtek Digital Audio HD
Power Supply	CoolerMaster V850 SFX Gold 850W PSU
Mouse	Logitech G203 Lightsync
Keyboard	Atrix RGB Slim Keyboard
VR HMD	( ◔ ʖ̯ ◔ )
Software	Windows 10 Home 64bit
Benchmark Scores	Don't do them anymore.

loves old graphics cards :)

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ucanmandaa

Lionheart

TheLaughingMan

pantherx12

MN12BIRD

Lionheart

ucanmandaa

ucanmandaa

Jeffredo

mrhuggles

twicksisted

Disparia

Bo$$

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ucanmandaa

Disparia

pantherx12

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KainXS

ucanmandaa

xBruce88x

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