banshee vs rage pro

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which one would be better for an amd k6/2 500 older system for a tiny bit of 3d gaming and old dos gaming doom quake hexen maybe heretic shadow warriro duke 3d, unreal tournament and unreal 1, maybe blood and some sin...old school shooters basically, some dos some windows, but ill be running win98se

either a voodoo banshee agp 16mb

or a ati rage turbo pro 2x 8mb.

i think the banshee is agp 1x so the ati would be better there.

but then the banshee does 3dfx mode and glide which some games would run better with

is there a site that compares video cards or i can google for reviews

well thats all, 24 rocked tonite, beer rocked, and hittin the sack ill check this @ work in the morning
 
Just add an aftermarket heatsink/fan if you can. Those Banshees run HOT.

(I have a 16MB one sitting on my desk at home to prove it, if you're interested, I'll trade it for any random useful piece of hardware you have).

The AGP speed at that level doesn't really matter. However, driver support is long gone. A really cheapie AGP card like a Geforce2MX (or a Geforce2 or even Geforce256) would beat either of those cards and have stable drivers. The Banshee was the first successful 2D/3D integrated chip 3dfx had but it didn't come close to a set of Voodoo2 cards in SLI (not sure it matched up to the Voodoo2 even).

The Rage Pro wasn't made for 3D gaming. It does partial DVD playback acceleration, and it does 2D reasonably, but that's pretty much it.
 
Banshee for the WIn ! That was a pretty nice card in the day.
 
LoneWolf said:
However, driver support is long gone.
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This site seems to have the most up-to-date drivers.

Their SSFT drivers for Voodoo 3/4/5 is actually developed RIGHT NOW, being in beta as it is. You've got to appreciate that much dedication ;)
 
I still remember getting my Voodoo 3 3000 and being in awe at how Unreal ran with it. Man, I was in pure Glide heaven. Then later on I got a job with 3Dfx as part of their "Voodoo Crew" and they gave me so many cards and things. I still have a bunch of Voodoo 5 5500s here. The Voodoo 5 will always be special.
 
that had to be awesome workin with 3dfx and whatnot....just wow

i remember seeing two voodoo2's in sli running unreal in glide...with 5.1 surround sound, man that was amazing

yup, my banshee has a 486 fan quite superglued to it, that thing isnt comming off


the banshees have a special love for me. my first 3dcard, got an agp version, i was so damned amazed at how quake 2 and half life and unreal ran on it, i went out and got another banshee, but BB didnt have any more agp ones, so i got a pci banshee...heh good times with them cards

and i know they run hot, after we overclocked one put a fan on it, and ran it in a q2 torture demo overnite the backside of the card heated up so bad the paper sticker on it was melted off and had a kinda burn imprint in a circle around the core....good stuff huh?
 
man, what an oldschool thread here.
i used to have a banshee from back in the day for my old amd system. it was my first video card and i played the hell outta doom and quake with it. i dont even think it ever died on me. i just upgraded eventually. what a freakin card. even after they stopped supporting the card, it kept rocking through the games.


hmm, maybe i should pull out that card and put it on ebay...
 
the banshee would be good for unreal, which looked unbelievable in glide, but otherwise the banshee really sucked. i think it was the first or one of the first 2d/3d cards you could get, had tons of issues. the rage pro is kind of generic, but i had one in my first dell in 97-98 and was able to play most of those games with my p2-350 and 64mb of ram. see if you can get your hands on a bitboys oy 3dglaze. its an older card, but can play any game, has built in physics engine, watercooling, power supply, and can be used to run games on a computer that isnt connected to it.
 
josboh said:
man, what an oldschool thread here.
i used to have a banshee from back in the day for my old amd system. it was my first video card and i played the hell outta doom and quake with it. i dont even think it ever died on me. i just upgraded eventually. what a freakin card. even after they stopped supporting the card, it kept rocking through the games.


hmm, maybe i should pull out that card and put it on ebay...
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Voodoo 3 PCI - 16MB of RAM and played HL1 @ 60FPS @ 1024x768 with a AMD K6-350Mhz, fuck yes :D.
 
vanilla_guerilla see if you can get your hands on a bitboys oy 3dglaze. its an older card, but can play any game, has built in physics engine, watercooling, power supply, and can be used to run games on a computer that isnt connected to it.
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thats a joke of course right.....im a lil baked n all, but LOL
 
Banshee all the way!

I have one sitting in an old computer at home (it was mine before I got my current rig, its now in my brother's possesion). That ran all the Glide games so well... Unreal Tournament was very, very nice at 1024x768 res (HUGE!), Need for Speed: High Stakes was another that ran like a treat. It was awesome! Ahh, those were the days :D
 
Out of all the cool things I got from 3Dfx, the best was my email address. Having @3dfx.com was the best thing in the world!

I still remember getting the mails from workers hearing the 'rumors' about the Nvidia buyout - then it happened right before Christmas. Man, I was crushed.
 
How about a blast from the past? Here's a screenshot of the old 3dfx Gamers forums!

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I should take a pic of my Voodoo 3 3000 PCI in old Pentium 200mhz with MMX and 64 (?) mb EDO RAM!

Ran HL 1 with that PC and Voodoo 2 8mb card for awhile. Got better framerates with DX 6 than with DX 7! I coulda kicked myself for upgrading to DX 7 when it lowered framrates.

Those were the days!
 
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