3dfx Archive - Which card to choose?

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Which card to choose?
07.02.06 at 13:57:07

Hi there!

I'm going to build myself a new computer to play older games on.
I thougt of running Win ME on a 633MHz Celeron, with as much RAM I can find and get to work.

There are several cards left, collecting dust:
a GeForce 2 GTS (TI?)
a GeForce 2 MX 400
a Voodoo 5 5500
a Voodoo 2
a Riva TNT
a Voodoo

In personal, I have a faible for the Voodoo 5. The question is, should I better use the GF2 GTS (or even the GF2 MX, if the GTS doesn't work) instead of my V5, in addition with the V2?

And which drivers are the best choice for each of the Voodoo cards?

Tia

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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Which card to choose? Reply #1 - 07.02.06 at 14:48:49 Uhm, the V5 and Geforce's, are they AGP or PCI? If the V5 is PCI and the Geforce 2 GTS is AGP then I'd use that combo.
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: Which card to choose? Reply #2 - 07.02.06 at 15:02:00 Voodoo5 5500 ofcourse!!
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Mac Rat Guest	Re: Which card to choose? Reply #3 - 07.02.06 at 15:12:38 Quote: Uhm, the V5 and Geforce's, are they AGP or PCI? The V5, GFs and TNT are AGP. Mac Rat
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Which card to choose? Reply #4 - 07.02.06 at 16:05:12 Then go for the V5. It might not have the same performance on that system as a Geforce 2 GTS but you get Glide capability, superior 2D quality and FSAA in return.
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sanford YaBB Newbies Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 21	Re: Which card to choose? Reply #5 - 07.02.06 at 18:38:46 Consider also GeForce 2 GTS + Voodoo 2 (in SLI is much better) and play everything you want...
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Which card to choose? Reply #6 - 07.02.06 at 19:36:55 I wouldn't recommend that. A Voodoo 2 can only do a maximum resolution of 800x600 (1024x768 in SLI) and has no FSAA. The V5 can do higher resolutions, larger textures, etc.
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Chosen_One Senior Member Offline Keeper of the BIOS-files... Posts: 499 Germany Gender:	Re: Which card to choose? Reply #7 - 07.02.06 at 20:44:02 playing older games? let me think...FalconFly - The 3dfx Archive... use the v5....
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: Which card to choose? Reply #8 - 08.02.06 at 03:45:15 There are really only 2 choices here: Quote: Consider also GeForce 2 GTS + Voodoo 2 (in SLI is much better) and play everything you want... Or... Quote: use the v5....
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Re: Which card to choose?
Reply #9 - 08.02.06 at 05:41:49

If this is being setup as a "older" games box, then go with the V5. I mean anything that you might need more juice to play on, realistically you'd end up using your main box anyway so I'd go with the V5. I've got an older machine setup with a PIII 877 or something like that with my V5 and have all my DOS/ Glide based games like like Descent I-II-III, Shadow Warrior, Duke Nukem, Need for Speed HS, Microsoft WWII Combat Flight Sim and some other games that won't work under XP (like Star Wars Rogue Squadron) Everything else though gets played on my XP and AMD/ATI box. Personally, just think the V5 is the way to go.

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IG88 Full Member Offline Posts: 209 Australia Gender:	Re: Which card to choose? Reply #10 - 10.02.06 at 12:14:31 definately v5 with the last official drivers run all the old games from blood to quake 3 i run a p3 800 256ram ,with either a v3000pro ,v4500 pci or v5500 they all do the job 98se official drivers give compatibility over 3rd party
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plank YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 13 Queensland, Australia Gender:	Re: Which card to choose? Reply #11 - 26.02.06 at 03:32:14 Wah, i've been fretting over getting a pair of Voodoo2's for compatibility and now you tell me that a V5 is better?. Are there any games it won't work with? For example, POD won't recognize a Voodoo2 during installation. Would it recognize a V5?
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Which card to choose? Reply #12 - 26.02.06 at 13:29:37 POD works fine on a V5.
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