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Testing the FIRST EVER SLI Gaming Setup - 3DFX Voodoo II

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Fond memories of my first GPU - the 3DFX Banshee! 

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This is actually a really good video. Loved it as well as the, (for once) PG rated humor bits. It is quite hard to believe the gadget I'm typing this on vastly outstrips such old setups. It is also quite remarkable how much more user friendly PC gaming has become as well. Even games like Doom that support Vulkan and OpenGL let you choose the API freely in game as opposed to monkeying with .dlls.

 

And even now, I still think that Unreal demo looks pretty good too...

 

Keep up the great work.

My eyes see the past…

My camera lens sees the present…

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Imagine what amazing competition nVidia would have if Voodoo still existed.

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My dong is very extended.

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RGB actually increases FPS! :o

 

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11 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

RGB actually increases FPS! :o

 

This is actually the case. The wide spectrum of THz wavelengths actually speeds up the chips when the photons cause the transistors to become excited. This will not work on modern video cards however, as the giant coolers attenuate the RGB wavelengths.

 

Of course, this is all a fabrication...

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7 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

I can't believe you missed Starsiege: Tribes!

Actually was going to hop onto one of the few existing servers to see how well I do on the speed tunnel run in Glide...later ; )

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One of my first jobs in tech was working in QA at Diamond Multimedia testing 3DfX Monster cards. I think I may have one or two of them still NIB. Bringing back memories...

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I still have voodoo 2's in SLI and a Voodoo 5 5500. My Voodoo 2's are in SLI in a small form factor computer. They was a small scene of custom drivers for these video cards which would add advanced capabilities from 3dfxzone. Should Linus use those to benchmark?

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Pentium D/4 was a very good heater because of its thermal throttling issues. 

There is more that meets the eye
I see the soul that is inside

 

 

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“HEAD SHOT”....

 

also so why I almost needed a 6th year in high school.

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Around this time I think I had a ATI Rage Pro integrated mobo graphics with 2MB? memory and then I upgraded to a Nvidia RIVA TNT2 16MB that I overclocked.  I still have this card and the entire desktop it went in.  I ran with this card until 2007 when I got a laptop with an Nvidia 7150M, which I still use to run Windows XP.

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I still have my voodoo 3 3500 :D.  And a rage pro (but no-one admits to owning those :P).

Grammar and spelling is not indicative of intelligence/knowledge.  Not having the same opinion does not always mean lack of understanding.  

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That floppy boot noise did get me a bit nostalgic...

 

 

Getting a text message is so much better now.

 

 

I'm an IT Guy, so the driver issues also caused me to nostalgia. Ahh, back when computers were a bit less... refined :D

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Loved the video. Way back when I was a lad, I had the aforementioned 2 x Voodoo II with a custom fan mount. Ahh nostalgia pron.

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Not a bad frame rate. But maybe that Intel is bottle necking the cards. I got quit a few more fps with a few STB cards. My old spare windows 98 gaming rig back in the day. Ive kept it running for almost two decades. It used to have a obsidian x24 card in it and lemmie tell ya you get a chance to play with one of those you wont be disappointed those are really spanking fast. If you ever get one hit me up I got a set of patched drivers to make them work on Amd Tbrids. Amd Athlon 1200 Socket A, 512mb PC150, 1tb of Raided 500gig Ide harddrives "dont ask me how I got windows 98 to use all of it. I did it 15 years ago". Nvidia Geforce 2 Ti 

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