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Old Skool cards

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R8DERHED5150

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So I was digging around some boxes of old PC parts I have, and I ran accoss some video cards that I've collected over the years. I have some way older than this that most have totally forgotten about, but I will pull that box out next time. The "Pure 3D" card is one I am not sure of. I am guessing its a Voodoo1. Then there is the Black Voodoo2 and 2 other Voodoo2's, Another Voodoo1 and a Voodoo5 64 meg AGP. I thought it would be something to chuckle at. Just think back when this stuff was the shizznit. Oh the glory days.....
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Yeah what do you think, should I wire all these fuggers up at once??? Wouldn't that be cool.

BTW, anyone know what later generation card that Voodoo5 5500 would even come close too? I found a little article and thought it was funny reading the launch price on that thing 4 years ago. $299

I think I might even have a Voodoo5 6000 4vpu, 128mb in one of the other boxes if I remember right. The launch price on that was like $599 or somewhere around there.
 
I'm pretty sure you can get them all in a pc, and that theoreticly you should be able to choose between the vooodoo 5, sli voodoo 2, and voodoo 1 while playing games(though the pass through cables will certainly degrade quality. Stick it in an old p2 and get in on some old school gaming :).
 
Hmm, I can get my hands on a PII Zeon. Now I never heard of or seen one till the other day. Some kind of Dell 410 server that has all scsi on it. That would be fun. Oh, even a PIII Zeon. One of those there too.
 
I miss 3Dfx ;( I'm still running a voodoo3 in this machine. Its a shame 3dfx couldn't hang in there, one bad line and they go bye bye :O Shows you how competitive the graphics market has become. Hell, imagine if ATI or Nvidia had a bomb like the voodoo5, wonder what would happen to them.
 
botreaper10 said:
Nvidia did...the nv30 series.
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What nVidia didn't have, but 3dfx did, was the worst management ever.
 
Ah, the good old day of DOS and video cards with NO cooling whatsoever on them. It's nice to be able to see the chips that are rendering your eye candy. You know what, I think I'll go take my VGA Silencer off of my 9800 Pro and look at the chip while it's running. :p
 
i just gave away my old TNT2 Ultra, she was my first bought video card. i paid $220 for tha bitch new, i felt bad letting her go :(
 
Lookin at all these oldschool cards Makes you really blowout at how we can even say a 5200FX is shit :p {OK I KNOW IM PUSHIN IT A BIT THERE}but dam have video cards come alooooooonnnnng way in 4 and a half years :eek:
 
i remember the voodooo 5 6000, 3dfx's last attempt at brute force performance. that thing could hold its own with a geforce3. of coarse it was 2x as big, had 3 more processors, used a whole lot more power, than the geforce3.
 
This reminds me of last summer I was putting an old school PC together with my old VooDoo5, too bad my house burned down in the Cedar Fire and took with it all my old cool stuff :(
 
i remember when i was buying my tnt2 some choad at a computer show was trying to convince me into buying some savage card saying that it was ALOT better than the tnt2u
 
Elledan said:
What nVidia didn't have, but 3dfx did, was the worst management ever.
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The other thing nVidia didn't have, but 3dfx did, was an empty bank account. 3dfx bet the company on the success of Voodoo 5, and lost. They had some pretty cool stuff in R&D too... it'd be nice to have a strong 3rd competitor in the market to really mix things up. The only company that even looks to be making an effort is XGI, but I can't look their way with any expectation.
 
Man, I remember my old Riva TNT2. Two pixel pipelines, 125 MHz clockspeed, 32MB RAM...

Those were the days.
 
DanK said:
The only company that even looks to be making an effort is XGI, but I can't look their way with any expectation.
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I expect VIA's GPU division to come up with a decent videocard for gaming long before XGI releases something that even resembles a videocard.
 
The image seems to be dead so I can't see unforunately. I think the Pure3D may be Canopus which was not 3Dfx.

Is the black Voodoo Quantum 3D? I really wanted that one back in the day.
 
Spare-Flair said:
The image seems to be dead so I can't see unforunately. I think the Pure3D may be Canopus which was not 3Dfx.

Is the black Voodoo Quantum 3D? I really wanted that one back in the day.
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STB Black Magic actually. I know cause I still have one.
 
Hahah i just got a visiontek geforce 2 ti from gamespot. It was 20 dollars lol i just had to get it for some reason though.
 
I still have a Voodoo3 2000 in one of my machines (not a gaming machine, of course)...And an 8MB Voodoo2 lying around somewhere.
 
icthus13 said:
Man, I remember my old Riva TNT2. Two pixel pipelines, 125 MHz clockspeed, 32MB RAM...

Those were the days.
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Hahaha, its not that funny when you find BOTH of your ti4600's burning out and all you have left is a TNT2 to use. Im saving for a 6800GT anyhow.......
 
R8DERHED5150 said:
BTW, anyone know what later generation card that Voodoo5 5500 would even come close too? I found a little article and thought it was funny reading the launch price on that thing 4 years ago. $299

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Absolutely right on the price. I remember the V5 5500 was released in Austin on a Monday and I tracked one down by that evening and plunked down $300 for it. Good times.

HL+V5+Aureal 8830= heaven back then.
 
That Canopus card was badass. I bought the power pack from Canopus when the Pure 3D First came out. It was a bundle with a 4MB Rendetion Verite and the 3DFX card.

The Pure 3D completly pwned all when it came out , all of the original Voodoo cards only had 4MB of memory and were based on reference designs. The Pure 3D diffrentiated itself because it came with a whopping 6MB OF RAM!!!! I beleive with most of the original Voodoo cards you could only run 640X480 but the Pure 3D could handle 800X600 :eek: .

Still after all of these years I dont think there has , or ever will be for that matter a company as lengendary as 3DFX. They pretty much defined the whole video accelerator world as we know it today.

Good Times

Zachary
 
icthus13 said:
Man, I remember my old Riva TNT2. Two pixel pipelines, 125 MHz clockspeed, 32MB RAM...

Those were the days.
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Me too, I still use mine... :( Stupid piece o' crap eMachine... Almost got enough saved for a new system though :cool:
 
i have some old ATI rage card... dont know about its working condition but i may sell it as some collection thing if the values high.. if not, i ll keep it and frame it :D
 
Does anybody know where this card ranks back in the day? I was like 10 when those were big, and wasn't in to computers.

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thats from an old PII dell tower, ive seen lots of those

i found my Diamond Viper 770 the other day :cool:

my VooDoo 3 3000 still runs in my file server... plays QIII :D
 
Ha! I had one of those Monster 1D upgrades! It's an add on card that you have to use in conjunction with an existing 1D card.

I added it to my 2mb Trident 1D card to give me a combined total of (a whopping) 4mb. It would sorta' even play Half Life!
 
TekieB said:
Does anybody know where this card ranks back in the day? I was like 10 when those were big, and wasn't in to computers.

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i have a diamond viper v330 that looks identical to that, mines an 8mb 1x agp card if i remember correctly
 
I yet have a bad ass Sis 6326 which has barely direct 3d support and no opengl support
 
TekieB said:
Does anybody know where this card ranks back in the day? I was like 10 when those were big, and wasn't in to computers.

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Heh, a Riva 128. Haven't seen one of those in a while :)

This would have been a budget gaming card back when it was released. It wasn't very impressive. It wasn't until the TNT2 that nVidia really started to play a role in the videocard market.
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aces170 said:
I yet have a bad ass Sis 6326 which has barely direct 3d support and no opengl support
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They're nice for CLI-only terminals, though :p
 
acascianelli said:
i have a diamond viper v330 that looks identical to that, mines an 8mb 1x agp card if i remember correctly
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They were fast and had shitty image quality.
 
SpitFire said:
I miss 3Dfx ;( I'm still running a voodoo3 in this machine. Its a shame 3dfx couldn't hang in there, one bad line and they go bye bye :O Shows you how competitive the graphics market has become. Hell, imagine if ATI or Nvidia had a bomb like the voodoo5, wonder what would happen to them.
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They never developed better chips, just modded the same one over and over and resorted to sticking 2 and 4 of em on a single card..... it was time for em to go. I have 2xV2's in my parts bin. wonder how they do with a OC'ed 2500+.... hum... :D
 
I got an old voodoo 2 Black Magic as well in my closet, not even sure if it works anymore :p

This machine has the voodoo 3 3000 (my old messanger,RSS, Internet browsing box),and it will probably be in service for a couple more years god willing.

I too miss the 3dfx days :( It would have been interesting to have 3 players in the video card mix.
 
lopoetve said:
STB Black Magic actually. I know cause I still have one.
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Yeah its STB. I noticed alot of the PIII Gateway 4200's came with STB Riva 128's and TNT's. I thnink they might have even come with STB TNT2's.

Oh, guess they were in the dell GX1's too like that one TekieB showed us.
 
Elledan said:
Heh, a Riva 128. Haven't seen one of those in a while :)

This would have been a budget gaming card back when it was released. It wasn't very impressive. It wasn't until the TNT2 that nVidia really started to play a role in the videocard market.
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Only til RIVA128/TNT series that newbies actually paid attention to nVIDIA.

nVIDIA played their role from the very beginning with one of the first 2 real 3D cards in '94 - '95 and still do now. There were 3 accelerators then, Diamond Stealth64 - S3 Virge, Diamond Stealth Edge3D - NV1, Creative labs 3D - Glint300SX..

Most 3D newbies bought "S3 Virge accelerator".

Carmack was introduced to nVIDIA with their first 3D accelerator.
 
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