It might seem stupid, but I would like to know what are your favorite cards, ideally a top of them.

For me it's like this:
1. Voodoo2
Best 3dfx card ever made. It was a very powerful card and you could run 2 of them in SLI. In SLI configuration it remained king of 3D even after TNT appeared and in a lot of games it was faster even than TNT2.

2. Voodoo Graphics
The first 3dfx card. No card could match it for quite a long time, Riva128 was slighty faster in some games, but the image quality of Riva128 was poor.

3. Voodoo3
V3 3500 was very nice, it was a powerful card, it had TV Tuner, what more could anyone wish. Hmmm, maybe 32 bit support in 3D and 32 MB. V3 2000 wasn't bad either, it was very cheap for it's speed.

4. Voodoo4/5
I'm sorry to say it, but V4 4500 and V5 5500 weren't what 3dfx fans expected. V4 4500 was quite slow for it's time, V5500 was ok, but it was too expensive. If only V5 6000 could make it at time... And if they could make it run at 200 MHz it would been a hit, maybe 3dfx woundn't go bankrupt, who knows.

5. Voodoo Banshee
Banshee was an "ok" card, but personally I think that 3dfx could made it much better. Diamond version runs at 125 MHz and it's a really sweet card, but most cards run at a default of 100 MHz and in games that use multitexturing they are behind V2 (a much older card).

6. Voodoo Rush
Worst card 3dfx made. I like a lot how it look (it's big, it has a lot of chips), but the performance it's not ok at all, it's 10% bellow V1 (and that's an older card).

RaverX wrote on 26.11.11 at 16:05:52:


Hello RaverX,

My Voodoo5 6000 Gold Second Edition run @201 MHz

I would like to add, that beginning with Voodoo3 times, NVidia began implementing all those benchmark cheats and visual quality hacks.

While that made NVidia win benchmarks even with inferior hardware, it came at a high price tag for NVidia owners.

I owned a GeForce2 MX myself, and its acclaimed T&L performance was so absymal low, turning OFF Hardware T&L actually TRIPLED its performance (AMD AthlonXP). Rendering 32bit shattered any performance it had left, going 16bit yielded poor quality on top of already performance-hacked rendering.
This was symptomatic for NVidias PR- and Driver policy these days.

I'll call the GeForce2 GTS a winner over the V5 only for one reason : VRAM bandwidth. It was the first time NVidia realized what 3dfx had done already, and it payed off. If it wasn't for those hacked drivers&cheats (the GTS would have faired well enough without them, the DX7 T&L was used in only few games anyway outside 3D Mark 2001)...

It really wasn't until the GeForce3 that NVidia clearly made it fair top.
(and actually real Games that started using DX7 T&L, which was quickly deemed to unflexible by game developers, setting the scene for DX8)

@RaverX :

V5 6000 Gold SE modded with EtronTech "EM638325TS-3.5"
3.5ns 128bit 86pin sdram's

EM638325TS-3.5 /285 mhz (Sdram on my Voodoo5 6000 Gold Second Edition)

Sdram's History :

EM638325TS-3.5 /285 mhz
EM638325TS-4 /250 mhz
EM638325TS-5 /200 mhz
EM638325TS-5.5 /183 mhz
EM638325TS-6 /166 mhz
EM638325TS-7 /143 mhz
EM638325TS-8 /125 mhz

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The revision 3700 A comes with VSA-100 rev. 355-0026-320.
The 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 rev.3700 A supports speeds up to 220MHz Max !
Impossible to could hit 250 MHz.

Thank you

trevormacro wrote on 27.11.11 at 13:02:01:


"Impossible" and "never" are 2 words that should not be in the dictionary. With enough skill you can do *anything*

If V5 6000 would not be a rare card and I could afford a few I could make it run at 250 MHz. I repeat: it all depends on your skill. Of course that if all you do it slap a big heatsink on it you cannot expect magic. If you make a good voltmod and you have proper cooling (LN2) and you know some other tricks that I won't mention here then 250 is easy.

Back to topic please