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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile!
16.11.06 at 01:54:08

Yes my friends after gett'n this one!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120052112893#ebayphotohosting

for a nice bargain my Voodoo5 6000 system shall be rebuilt again and I am willing to test new drivers with it, new games as old ones

Man so happy I found this board the EPoX EP-8K5A2+ Cheesy

w00t!

I will keep you all updated on this one!

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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile! Reply #1 - 16.11.06 at 05:24:09 Will you be testing SFFT drivers @Obi_wan? ???
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile!
Reply #2 - 16.11.06 at 12:56:27

yes I am willing to test everything what goes around and comes around Wink

Bring it on!

Man I sold my Leadtek GeForce 6800 AGP 128MB for 50 bucks to my dat to get this board , call that a comeback from the DarkSide or what! Grin

from nvidia to 3dfx that's the way it's meant to be played w00t!

here my system setup

AMD AthlonXP 2700+ Thoroughbred-B @ 2167Mhz, 333Mhz FSB & 256KB L2 Cache
1x 512MB PC 2700 Samsung Original upgrade to 3x 1GB PC 2700 Samsung Original
EPoX EP-8K5A2+ VIA Apollo KT333 Chipset, Universal AGP x4 backwards compliant to AGP x2 & AGP x1 with true 3.3 Volt support.
http://www.svethardware.cz/sh/media.nsf/0c97cd6cabb1398ec1256cc50082f4bf/385588c...

3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700

8) The Master Of All Voodoo 8)

Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! 5.1.
Seagate Barracuda III 30GB 7200 rpm HDD, large enough
to test games on

Dual Boot:
Windows 98SE NL+ Unofficial Service Pack 2.03
Windows 2000 Professional USA + Service Pack4
DirectX 9.0C
AmigaMerlin 3.1 R11 & SFFT 40 and up

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GAI YaBB Newbies Offline 3Dfx Collector Posts: 35 Budapest, Hungary Gender:	Re: The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile! Reply #3 - 16.11.06 at 17:39:27 Would not be better a Pentium 4 based motherboard like ABIT SA7? http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/motherboard/motherboard_detail.php?pMODEL_NAME=SA... Yeah, SiS chipset SUX, but Pentium 4 ROX
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile!
Reply #4 - 16.11.06 at 17:52:05

well not entirely :')

the AMD AThlonXP 2700+ beat's a Pentium4 3.06Ghz in most cases with 3dfx based apps.

the EPoX EP-8K5A2+/3+ and 8K3A+ series are the best Voodoo5 6000 boards out there.

There are other AMD boards for the Voodoo5 6000 but not many and as for Pentium4, that's ano go, in most cases the AThlonXP setyups are much faster and more stable.

for Voodoo5 6000 setups the AthlonXP CPU's are the best all round, period, Pentium4 sux in this case Roll Eyes

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile!
Reply #5 - 21.11.06 at 16:02:40

The system has been built, the EP-8K5A2+ has been flashed with the latest bios for AthlonXP 2700+ and up support

And Windows 2000 Professional is running perfectly on the Voodoo 5 5500 AGP, when the installation has been completed the 6000 AGP will take place and get ready to run some games.

I have chosen to use Windows 2000 Professionalonly since that the most newest drivers are NT based only and Win2K Pro is also much more reliable that 98SE qua stabillity.

The Driver I will be using mainly will be AmigaMerlin 3.1 R11. but the drivers from SFFT shall get thier place as well

So here it is finally installed with a 5500 AGP though, I rather check if that works out first before installing a 6K and no problems at all.

Don't worry everyone the EPoX EP-8K5A2+ is a 200% safe Voodoo 5 6000 AGP board

Well here it is with the Voodoo 5 6000 AGP 128MB Rev.A 3700, I have been running it all day with no hessitations what ever so that's the heads up my 3dfx friends 8)
as you can see the FSAA x2, 4 and 8 settings are sellectable now

Now for some game testing I ran Unreal Tournament @ 1600 x 1200 x16 in Glide with no FSAA, FSAA x2 and even it was playable @ a staggering setting of FSAA x4! I was like Crikey!!! Far Out! okay the avrarage speed was around the 33 Frames per Second, but still impressive for such an old piece of equipment which never reached the retail market, I was very impressed by it's insane amount of 3D rendering power, espeacially for it's time.

More screen shots of that later tonight, now that's the maximal settings and capabillities of a 6000 Wink

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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile!
Reply #6 - 22.11.06 at 21:11:46

Well now I have tested these 2 games with the nice FSAA x8 and LOD Bias -2 settings with AmigaMerlin 3.1 R11

Monster Truck Madness 2 @ Reso 640 x 480 x16 in 3dfx Glide API:

Unreal Tournament Game Of The Year Edition 1999 @ Reso 1024 x 768 x16 in 3dfx Glide API:

Soon more to come

As prommised

Unreal: Return To Na Pali @ Reso 1024 x 768 x16 in 3dfx Glide API + FSAA x8 LOD Bias -2:

Next Game in testing will be StarWars: Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, one of my big favours

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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile! Reply #7 - 23.11.06 at 02:34:52 No surprise - the UT guy lost his head over the V6000... LOL!
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi Ex Member	Re: The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile! Reply #8 - 23.11.06 at 13:10:46 Quote: No surprise - the UT guy lost his head over the V6000... LOL! it was like he never knew what even hit him hahah, but the FSAA x8 really makes the games shine
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edmundoab God Member Offline Settling down back in Malaysia Posts: 651 Shah Alam, MALAYSIA Gender:	Re: The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile! Reply #9 - 23.11.06 at 17:00:42 Awesome graphics mate! woohoo
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elfuego Senior Member Offline Searching for V5 6k... Posts: 420 Aachen, Deutschland Gender:	Re: The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile! Reply #10 - 23.11.06 at 23:00:27 Hey Obi, what happened to the fear that the card is going to fail and that it's going to burn down? I salute you, now that you activated the beast! I would also like to try it out sometime... Take a good care of it and enjoy the ride 8)
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Obi-Wan_Kenobi

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Re: The V6K of The Force Returns from the Exile!
Reply #11 - 23.11.06 at 23:01:47

yeah thanx Edmund & elfuego 8) got more here with UT 1999 again but then @ insane settings with 3dfx Glide API & AmigaMerlin 3.1 R11

1280 x 1024 x 16 FSAA x8 LOD Bias -2 x

1600 x 1200 x 16 FSAA x4 LOD Bias -2x

@ elfuego

well that was because it was too dangerous to run it on the ASUS A7V333-R Wink

if you put a 6K on that board the chance you will fry it is 100%, now that I have an EPoX EP-8K5A2+ It's a 200% safe board for the Voodoo 5 6000 AGP cards

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