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Voodoo 3 3000 - big bucks performance???

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First post, by buckeye

Posted on 2017-02-01, 19:11

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I guess this question has been posed several times, just not relative to my situation. Is there any advantage performance-wise to getting a voodoo when I already got a Hercules 3D Prophet AGP with 64MB? Games like Quake 2-3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein and etc. in Win98SE run well and look good. Maybe it's a matter of "period correctness" to spend that much money on one? Have to admit though, the hobby's addictive nature has me tempted to buy one time and again!

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Reply 1 of 1, by firage

Posted on 2017-02-01, 20:11

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With 3dfx you get access to the Glide side of things; those 1997-1998 titles are still quite relevant for that class of CPU. Not worth it at all for later D3D and OpenGL stuff. The Kyro II/GeForce2 you have has much more performance potential, though fair bit unrealized paired with the 450MHz PIII.

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