Whoa, what did i do to kick the beehive with both of you ;-; I didn't say there isn't any reason to buy a V2, Banshee (which i forgot existed tbh. So that was my fault), or even a Voodoo 1. I was suggesting to op that I personally wouldn't recommend buying one of those if you want a "it just works" …

Cuttoon wrote on 2022-04-12, 16:39: FioGermi wrote on 2022-04-12, 15:20: super old 1996/1997 build OK, I'll just assume I did not read that and carry on. I'm 23 and call everything old. I call myself super old. I don't wanna be old. At this point i'm just projecting ;-;

However one thing confuses me, maybe someone will explain, I heard it's possible to have 800x600 resolution with V1 but this required V1 6/8MB RAM, did such cards exist or modded? Yeah that sounds about right. Some high end 6/8mb V1 cards did indeed exist. Miro Highscore 3D (6mb) and Skywell …

Don't touch a Voodoo 4/5 unless you like selling your kidney on the blackmarket 🤣. Prices on those are too silly to be practical. V3 of any kind is where its at for 3DFX. I'd argue Voodoo 1 is too, but that is only if your doing a super old 1996/1997 build. Anything later can be done with a V3.

WaveFront...isn't that the same chip on the original Aztech Waverider 32? That midi sounded like a diet Gravis Ultrasound to my ears. Try it with Doom/Doom2, some of the instruments are exactly the same as GUS. So did they license that from Gravis?

Voodoos have become quite the fetish, yes. It has been discussed at length: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=86887 My original V3 I bought in 2000 died eventually but I got one from a friend who discarded his desktop and at a time when "I'll buy you a beer some time" was a perfectly …

I try to give other collectors really really good deals on spares of my collection. I'll even throw extra stuff in completely free too. I love seeing retro gear go to loving homes! :) On Ebay though, i just ......kind of assume most people are resellers tbh. So i price to match. Cheap enough that …

Did you assemble the V3 machine? Don't quite get why people talk about the slot P2 and P3 that much. Nice toys. But as a means to an end, I don't like the slots - too fickle, too much trouble, not easy to get quiet cooling. P4s still smell of "electric room heating" to me. S370 was clean, simple, …

I have just come to peace with the fact that this hobby just isn't going to get any cheaper, and probably will price most people out eventually. Such is the cycle of life with anything gaming and retro. Especially with all that COVID bonus money people got a wee bit back. Tons of people want to get …

I don't think iv run into a dead CPU yet. I've killed CPUs with my own stupidity before, but never one that just decided to quit on its own 😜 A CPU is usually the last point of failure i worry about. They seem pretty tough. Motherboards/RAM on the other hand....

Hi all! :D I found a Voodoo 3 2000 locally from a recycling centre and it seems to be functioning fine. Playing Descent 2 3DFX for a few hours was a blast! But i only have a Pentium 90 right now so the frame rate wasn't the greatest. I figure this card probably deserves a special build of its own …

It genuinely surprises me how some of these components are even still alive in 2022. Especially some of the later stuff like 3DFX cards when most 90s computer cases had bad or non existent airflow to keep things cool. You had OEMs building Pentium machines with dinky passive heatsinks. Maybe only …