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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #30 - 14.11.12 at 11:51:34 it's an empty screen Geri, something went wrong??
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #31 - 14.11.12 at 13:09:14 Actually, it doesn't display AT ALL in my browsers (Firefox & I.E) @Geri - what are we supposed to be seeing in your post?
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akula65 Full Member Offline Don't Feed the Trolls Posts: 155 Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #32 - 16.11.12 at 00:36:38 This is apparently what Geri wants you to see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU5Zi69QPQs
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #33 - 16.11.12 at 07:35:23 that looks very cool imo, nice to see the pretty big difference between 3DFX and the other competitors at that time.
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #34 - 16.11.12 at 20:56:46 Very good comparison video! (remember though folks - all these comaprison vids are not "apples for apples". To do that you'd have to capture direct from the frame buffer of each card) Here's another two good ones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ev6HmOvvVQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycGwXYmwNKg
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Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX
Reply #35 - 17.11.12 at 01:26:02

paulpsomiadis wrote on 16.11.12 at 20:56:46:

Very good comparison video! Cool

(remember though folks - all these comaprison vids are not "apples for apples". To do that you'd have to capture direct from the frame buffer of each card)

I am the one who made the comparison video of POD. Just wanted to add that the game is run on actual hardware and captured through the VGA signal. It's the closest way to the real thing you can get at the current moment. Unfortunately Youtube bitrates aren't the best even in HD and it only runs at 30fps. All my videos are captured & rendered in 60.000kb/sec and in 60fps, so if Youtube upgrades their player in the future it will be easy to up the quality.

My latest video is of Mechwarrior 2. PowerVR beating 3DFX here though Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWzWdwj9NvU&feature=g-high-u

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My 3D Acceleration Comparison episodes on Youtube.

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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #36 - 17.11.12 at 15:49:51 Hmph...figures it's Youtube and their dodgey video player that borks your captures...
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Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX
Reply #37 - 27.06.13 at 08:09:12

well, after quite some time I fired up my a7m266-d rig again, but for some reason it has never been stable with the XP-M3000+

when I looked at cpu support, the XP-M line is nowhere to be found and the board identifies it as an athlon at a certain Ghz.

So I went to look again and found a set of MP2400+, based on T-bred B core, real MP's, not modded XP's and the cost me 17 euros incl shipping.
Will probably have them before the weekend and slap on a fan on the northbridge cooler and overclock them a bit.

the board has no support for Barton cores either, I guess I was looking at the wrong manual all the time Sad

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3DFX Playrig:

Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows2000 SP4

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Narmounet Junior Member Offline I Love YaBB 2! Posts: 85 France / Blois Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #38 - 28.06.13 at 08:56:46 According to asus website, this board support the Athlon MP2800 which is based on a barton core with the latest beta bios I also found a website where somebody tweak the bios to support the XP-M 3000+ : maybe, it'll works for you ! http://www.allquests.com/question/1161895/ASUS-A7M266-D-Unofficial-BIOS-Update-R...
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #39 - 28.06.13 at 09:28:26 thanks a million for that link Narmounet, I will give this a try this weekend, and if it doesn't work, I can still use the MP2400+'s will keep you posted.
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #40 - 30.06.13 at 18:23:04 haven't flashed the bios yet, but system is purring away nicely with 2 MP2400+'s @ 2200Mhz current bios is 1010 btw
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ultima God Member Offline Always searching Posts: 876 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #41 - 09.07.13 at 13:12:08 well I finally found a 2nd XP-M3000+.........I'm so happy And I got my hands on a 5500 MAC edition, with near mint box, tho I could care less about the box Can't wait to get it up and running
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Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX
Reply #42 - 11.07.13 at 14:02:23

I will be flashing my 5500 MAC card tonight to PC edition, put it on a 66Mhz pci slot and let her rip through 3DMark2000.

I feel as if my 3DFX rig has finally reached it's final stage, specs being:

Asus A7M266-D
Dual Athlon XP-M 3000+ @ 2.2Ghz
2 x 1GB PC2100 2-2-2-5-1T
3DFX Voodoo5 5500 PCI MAC edition flashed to pc
WD 120GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows 98SE / Windows2000 SP4

This is how I will keep it, no further upgrades needed / possible aside from an SSD perhaps or another dual XP board that supports higher fsb/ram speeds

**update**

I will receive the other 3000+ coming thursday or friday

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3DFX Playrig:

Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows2000 SP4

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Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX
Reply #43 - 15.07.13 at 08:29:29

I flashed my 5500 yesterday, 1st try it hung in the middle of the flashing process, but 2nd round it was done in a jiffy.
powered down, took out my G550 and set the bios to PCI display 1st, works like a charm.

Gonna do a fresh install of windows today, have to do 98SE again as well, so.....

what drivers would be best for a 5500 MAC flashed to pc?? Amigamerlin? gonna be using 98SE/2000Pro, no XP

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3DFX Playrig:

Aerocool Strike-X Air
SuperMicro H8DAE
Dual Opteron 280 @ 2.4Ghz (4 cores)
4 x 1GB PC3200
3DFX Voodoo5 5500MAC PCI
WD 160GB ATA100/133
Diamond MonsterSound MX300
Windows2000 SP4

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m14radu God Member Offline Take your chance ! Posts: 555 Timisoara, Romania Gender:	Re: Going retro gaming with 3DFX Reply #44 - 15.07.13 at 16:14:53 I use the last official 3dfx drivers, and have no problems !
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