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My very own Voodoo5 5500 PCI card
29.06.09 at 20:19:11
 
I have had 7 of these beasties now,I'm not really a retro gamer,apart from Zeus and Unreal tournament,the 2 old games I still play as often as possible Smiley,they both play perfectly on my Quad core,Vista Ultimate 64 bit machine,so,there is absolutely no need for me to get a V5 5500,but,and I mean a HUGE but,I am now strangely drawn to these behemoths,they hold a fascination for me,I've not long ago sold one on ebay,but,I've just gone and bought another one,I'm gonna keep this baby and see what this Glide thing is all about,I just thought I'd share this with you
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Reply #1 - 29.06.09 at 22:10:15
 
I had the luck that I found one in a box of 50 videocards I bought for 35 euros.

It is sitting nicely in a rig that consists of an opteron 146 @ 2.75Ghz, 2 x 512MB DDR550 @ 2.5-3-3-7-1T, the 5500 PCI and 2 160GB SATA drives in raid 0.

All of this is running win2k and she is very fast, for a 5500 that is. Smiley

I'll post some benches soon Smiley
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Reply #2 - 30.06.09 at 00:35:56
 
ultima wrote on 29.06.09 at 22:10:15:
I had the luck that I found one in a box of 50 videocards I bought for 35 euros.

It is sitting nicely in a rig that consists of an opteron 146 @ 2.75Ghz, 2 x 512MB DDR550 @ 2.5-3-3-7-1T, the 5500 PCI and 2 160GB SATA drives in raid 0.

All of this is running win2k and she is very fast, for a 5500 that is. Smiley

I'll post some benches soon Smiley
Seriously, Ultima,Nitrox,Falconfly etc etc,I have had a serious look at these babies,I must admit,I am defo curious,I've bought and sold the V5 5500's for peanuts,I now realise what they are actually worth,as they say over here,boll*cks to that,I'm keeping it,if anyone wants my new found V5 5500 PCI card,go and do one,it's mine Tongue
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Reply #3 - 30.06.09 at 09:35:22
 
it is not the 5500 that is so special, it is more the PCI version that is worth something.
The AGP version can be had for peanuts, cause ya can't put it on every possible motherboard, the PCI can be put in any rig that has a PCI slot, so........
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Reply #4 - 01.07.09 at 19:18:10
 
ultima wrote on 30.06.09 at 09:35:22:
it is not the 5500 that is so special, it is more the PCI version that is worth something.
The AGP version can be had for peanuts, cause ya can't put it on every possible motherboard, the PCI can be put in any rig that has a PCI slot, so........
I got him today  Cheesy,I've put it in an old P3 1ghz machine I have lying about,seems to be working fine,just gonna get the drivers installed and take it from there Grin,its the PCI version as well,I got it for peanuts off ebay Grin
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Reply #5 - 01.07.09 at 19:23:04
 
Can someone help me out with this one
I have put the v5 5500 in,works perfect,in the control panel/display settings it only registers as having 32MB,I have installed the Amigamerlin drivers and its now says 64MB,why is that Huh
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Leveller wrote on 01.07.09 at 19:23:04:
Can someone help me out with this one
I have put the v5 5500 in,works perfect,in the control panel/display settings it only registers as having 32MB,I have installed the Amigamerlin drivers and its now says 64MB,why is that Huh


She has 32MB for one GPU. So, two GPU, 2x32MB  Cheesy
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Reply #7 - 02.07.09 at 19:21:18
 
eloooos wrote on 01.07.09 at 22:22:09:
Leveller wrote on 01.07.09 at 19:23:04:
Can someone help me out with this one
I have put the v5 5500 in,works perfect,in the control panel/display settings it only registers as having 32MB,I have installed the Amigamerlin drivers and its now says 64MB,why is that Huh


She has 32MB for one GPU. So, two GPU, 2x32MB  Cheesy
I understand that,but,thats not what I really meant Tongue ,what I meant was,why when I fit the V5 and winXP loads its generic driver,it only registers as having 32MB,but,when I load the updated AmigaMerlin drivers it says 64MB Wink
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Reply #8 - 02.07.09 at 19:25:26
 
That's just because AmigaMerlin knows, what people want to read in their driver menue!  Grin
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Reply #9 - 10.07.09 at 01:52:25
 
I've actually decided,I'm gonna put it back on ebay Undecided
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Reply #10 - 10.07.09 at 13:25:10
 
Just because the generic XP driver only reports 32MB ?
That behaviour is normal, that simple driver only sees 1 VSA-100 and therefore only 32MB.
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Reply #11 - 10.07.09 at 17:42:57
 
Rolo01 wrote on 10.07.09 at 13:25:10:
Just because the generic XP driver only reports 32MB ?
That behaviour is normal, that simple driver only sees 1 VSA-100 and therefore only 32MB.
Cheers Rolo,that has just answered my question Smiley
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