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Message started by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 30.06.06 at 15:37:03

Title: an exellent 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 E3 Review found :P
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 30.06.06 at 15:37:03
While I was surf'n the web I came across this great preview of the Voodoo5 6000 Rev.A1 1500 card which was reviewed by Maximum3D of E3 2000 :)

3dfx Voodoo5 6000 Preview E3 Special

here the pics which i never have seen before especially the size they are and at the angles they were taken:

http://www.maximum3d.com/images/e3/v5th.jpg http://www.maximum3d.com/images/e3/v54th.jpg http://www.maximum3d.com/images/e3/v52th.jpg http://www.maximum3d.com/images/e3/v55th.jpg http://www.maximum3d.com/images/e3/v53th.jpg

This preview showed images of a Rev.A1 1500 model being tested in a working condition, this may seem to be a rare thing , from which is known that there are not many Rev.A1 1500's with Intel chips known that are in operation condition :)

We weren't allowed to see the framerate counters at the end of the demo001 loop, but I would estimate it to be about 25-30, based on the way I have seen the demo run in the past.

which actually was 51 fps on our Rev.A2 2600's, Rev.A3 3400's and Rev.A 3700's, so basically the card would opperate @ cores/mem 100mhz like Gary's Rev.A1 1500 does, which would declare the slow framerate :)

I thought it was nice to show this thing I came across, it really charged up my 3dfx Spirit !!!  ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: an exellent 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 E3 Review found
Post by paulpsomiadis on 01.07.06 at 00:14:45
Nice review @Obi-Wan, but  did you  notice... ;)

The jammy swines had TWO V5 6000 Rev.A1 1500 at E3. :o

How do I know? ???

The guy is HOLDING the first card whilst the screen in the background is running at 2048x1536x16...this is the resolution that they were runing the demo on the V5 6000. :o

Makes you mad to think that  they had two of these rare cards just  'sitting there' as  'show pieces'...grr! >:(

Ah well, cest la vie! LOL! ;D

Title: Re: an exellent 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 E3 Review found
Post by Obi-Wan_Kenobi on 01.07.06 at 00:45:44
yeah did have something mind there as well hehe man must of been amazing just by see'n one of those babies back that the, my first real impression of the Voodoo5 6000 was when my card came fly'n in after Gary shipped it to me I was damn impressed by all the effort pushed in to that thing just to make it opperational!

The Voodoo5 6000 shall allways be a masterpiece in Graphics Accelerator enginering, since the Voodoo5 6000 I have never seen a Quad SLI board from other venders 3dfx/Quantum3D were the only ones that could manage such a difficult concept, that's one of main things that still amazes me every time I look at it..

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