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This review looks at the unreleased 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 video card — except it was hand-made by an enthusiast who specializes in retro hardware resurrections. It’s a quad-GPU monster that competed with the likes of NVIDIA back in the day. This piece looks at the history of 3dfx, spanning the late 90s to early 2000s, and tells the story of the company’s rapid, fiery rise and collapse. Modder Anthony ZXC-64 hand-built these cards using REAL 3dfx GPU silicon with a custom-designed PCB with hand-placed components. The review looks at the GeForce 2 GTS, the Intel i740, and the Voodoo5 6000, which we can use in single-GPU mode to simulate older 3dfx cards. It is a masterful work of art that this technology was able to be salvaged from scrap and restored to a physical, working product. That modders like ZXC-64 can combine hardware, software hacks, and find and patch-up drivers to bring passion projects to life is what makes computer hardware such an amazing hobby. Join us for the ride as we walk through the history of 3dfx and benchmarks with real 3dfx GPUs.
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00:00 – The Unreleased 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000
02:32 – A Rare Beast
04:42 – 3dfx History: Rapid Rise & Demise
13:43 – Building a Voodoo 5 6000 System
20:43 – Test Methodology Notes
22:27 – Benchmarks: Quake, Unreal Tournament, 3DMark
27:36 – 3dfx’s Survival
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If you like retro content, watch our build of an ancient SGI computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_RVnQeWLZI
What a trip down memory lane … my old Athlon XP, Intel i740 agp, Voodoo GPU, Nvidia tnt and tnt2, then GeForce 256 gts …..Abit motherboard, Cyrix 266/333 chipsets …..aaaahh the good old days of gaming and troubleshooting 🥰🤯🥳💪👍
You should have used Windows Me. It would save a lot of trouble.
16:00 You refused to dust it lmao
Gosh I feel old whenever I see these videos and missing my Voodoo 3 3000
A zip drive and a floppy..
Someone was showing off..
Yeah I am a nostalgic fool, but this made my day. Awesome work guys!
I'm going to be evil and assume this just got delayed by a week from its intended release date, I mean when do you get to benchmark driver performance 😀
Jokes aside, the texture test footage is the most interesting bit somehow, I'd assume a modern card, driver and OS would just crash, whereas the old hardware just operates on "sh*t in sh*t out".
Brings back memories of when I first started working in IT with Gibbo now of OCUK.
I remember the p3's that clocked to the hills around then and water cooling them with Tecs. Good times..
I just had to stop the video to watch the Windows 95 Video Guide. I never saw that but amazing how well that was back then.
i have a question how to fix overheating from my geforce rtx 3070 ti
8:57 i love how they left that remark in
I still have the MacOS versions of the Voodoo 2 (for iMac, produced by GameWizard), Voodoo 3 and Voodoo 5 (both installed in PowerMac G4s). Still my absolute favorite company of all times.
As much as I am a fan of Gamers Nexus and Steve: "Anthony" is still citizen of the russian federation. That is the part that did not go through Stephens and his staffs mind.
Why was this not a bullet point in this video?
Why did Steve not tell this as he said: "Anthony is not able to accept payments for these cards right now…"?
Why did Steve not tell the truth that Anthony is citizen of and lives in the russian federation which wages war against ukraine and indirectly NATO, what caused widespread embargos and the boycott against the russian economy and russian citizens?
I don't think Anthony is a fascist, but you shouldn't transfer money to fascist russia, because the state will of course take its share and won't buy daisies for ukraine… And at 1,500 dollars, the state will of course take a small sum, which in turn will be invested in military consumables such as ammunition…
On the other hand: Anthony should have enough money through his business to evacuate, at least temporarily, to a country that is not involved in the war, or at least that is not involved in the fighting as an invader. And that already months ago, because within the male population there has been massive recruitment and transport to the front not just since yesterday.
The dust on the IBM monitor is triggering me.
Imagine someone made a Ray Tracing Expansion Card. 🤯
1980's IBM Enhanced Memory Expansions
90's 3DFX
2004-07 BFG Ageia PhysX
Voodoo… I remember getting rid of one for a Geforce card 256 DDR in 2000. I remember playing nothing but QUAKE 3 Arena on LAN. 640×480 at 100fps – which was pointless because my monitor was 59hz
Would have tought Windows XP would have been much more suitable to use with any of the hardware used here.
Voodoo2 was from the win95/98 era, but since the voodoo3 series WinXP was what you used.
Damn, guys, I have a working Athlon XP system in the next room.
Could literally plug it up and turn it on today.
10:30 The banshee wasn't the first 2d/3d card. It was the previously mentioned voodoo rush.
If you ment the first 2d/3d card made entirely by 3dfx, that would be correct, since the rush was a partnership.
3DFX!! :O HALLOWED be their name…! <3 And may the DEVIL take nVidia! >: ( Pretenders…
Thanks!
I have V5 5500! It's not for sale! It's for my soul! For my memory as a poor kid who loved video games and didn't have money at the time rather than watching others play!
I still have a working PC with Voodoo 5 5500 AGP + a pentium 3 733mhz
Loved my V5 5500 and it was much more stable than my ATi Fury Maxx which was my other dual GPU card of that era. I hung on to it far longer than I should have, eventually letting it go for pennies when I moved to a new PC and a GF4 4800 Ti.
0:56 Nice, they put your Face on the packaging.
I wish you would have put out a call to your subscribers. I have a working AMD Athlon system, AGP, Windows 98SE installed. I also have a Pentium2 400mhz system with a MAtrox 2d card and 2x Voodoo2s in SLI, also Win98SE. I would have been happy do help you out.
One of the problems with testing these old cards is getting a CRT monitor that can handle the refresh rate. I also have a Hitachi Superscan Elite 751. As a now aging, PC hardware enthusiast, I really enjoyed this video, great work!
Dude, this is such a treat! Thanks for doing this.
Aumento de memoria, de 6gb para 12gb em uma rx5600.
https://youtu.be/wMhQGXTsmJM
I owned few voodoo cards, last one was voodoo 3 3000 and I also remembering poor people buying intel i740 "almost" 3d card.
Musams
The Audigy 2 was also a really buggy card (18:25) xD …but damn it sounded good in the Thief games if you managed to get all the driver crap to fully work. (Getting it to output sound was a relatively low hurdle, but getting it to output sound the way it was supposed to work and not just a basic audio output was a driver hurdle! xD)
I can feel the nostalgia starting already…. Still angry with nVidia over what they did to 3dfx!!!
I still have my Creative 3D Blaster Geforce 2 GTS box in my closet, no card or anything inside though sadly. Of the 3dfx cards I only had the original Voodoo 3D accelerator. After that I had RivaTNT, Geforce 2 GTS, Geforce FX 5700, Radeon HD 3850, Radeon HD 6850, Radeon R9 270X, RTX 2070 and now RTX 4070 Ti. This video was a fun look back in time. Damn mid 2010 was like dark ages, no good games worth upgrading GPU for.
I miss Anand… wonder what he's up to these days?
I still have my old Voodoo 2 SLI setup and it's a great way to play Glide games, but I couldn't imagine paying the prices people are charging for Voodoo 5 5500s
Very nice I use my Voodoo 5500 in a PC for retro gaming I have a AMD Athlon Xp 3200+ with 400FSB. I only use W98 SE games that can not run in Windows XP 32bit. Windows 10 64bit is very bad a running games and software from many years ago.
SOUND BLASTER AUDIGY 2!! GodDAMN Creative Labs for wiping out Aureal!!
This is niche as hell, but amazing content. I realise this is less your purview and more LGR's, but I'd love to see more of this type of content!
As someone that had a Trident and then a Markvision "3d" cards, Voodoos were a dream I never fulfilled. Nice to watch this trip to the past!
The real question is when 3dfx would've developed hardware T&L without the STB merger – given how essential that functionality turned out to be. The GeForce 256 remained the minimum requirement for games for about 4 years since its release simply because of its support for that.
I gave away my Orchid Righteous 3D in 1998 and sold my SLI Voodoo 2 Diamond Monster 3D II 12MB and Riva TNT2 Ultra setup for peanuts when the GeForce 256 came out. It's something I still regret to this day.
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