Reply 22120 of 27649, by Radical Vision
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Tetrium wrote on 2022-07-05, 11:49:Radical Vision wrote on 2022-07-03, 10:48:When think about it is really dumb from 3Dfx to have made Voodoo IV having universal AGP slot, and yet the Voodoo V does not have wtf is wrong with these ppl.... Sure where i will use Voodoo V card is some mobo with universal AGP slot, but maybe was going to better if they made both 4 and 5 with universal, or non...
From what I remember, it had something to do with the Voodoo 5 5500 (and Voodoo 5 6000) having multiple GPUs which made it more difficult to make work on AGP or something and Voodoo 4 4500 having just a single GPU which made AGP compatibility simpler or something like that. It wouldn't have affected sales at the time and 3DFX was already working on Rampage which iirc would have had universal AGP compatibility.
And it wasn't "really dumb" and "wtf is wrong with these ppl" as AGP 4x was still fairly new and AGP 8x slots didn't exist at the time.
Guess that makes sense, when having more chips to be harder to make them work, while single chip will work no matter what.. Seems PCI FTW after all, as most AGP voodoo cards does not benefit at all from the AGP bus anyway. So using PCI wont be much of a problem anyway.
Sadly we never got to see the 3Dfx Specter cards, there are only 2 working ones in existance, the engineers did made them right before the company to close doors... I forgot what performance levels the Specter card had, but if i remember correctly it was not impressive.. It was going to be if they did launch the Rampage architecture back in 1999 as it was originally intended, but they decided to milk with the Banshee and some other crap instead..
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Well replaced this rusted AF metal part of the Voodoo III, now is like brand new...
(no 3Dfx equipment was harmed during that procedure) Now this is one happy Voodoo card...
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