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 4x with Voodoo 5 5500 |  1.0
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by Storm Media
from CA | Mar 6, 2003 |
THE GOOD:
The Good is .. its 10 times better then the ATi rage 128 pro i had "was only 2x AGP"THE BAD:
Windows XP and the Voodoo 5500 .. have hissy fits .. for example .. the Voodoo 5 5500 can do 2x or 4x AGP.. in Windows XP .. i cant get the 4 x .. even if its setup that way in the BIOS.. is there away around it ? not yet to be found.. SUMMARY:
Windows XP user's.. i dont suggest running .. a Voodoo 5 5500 Videocard at all .. that and its long so i had to move my HDD's around alittle bit |
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| VooDoo |  5.0
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by STuDXuk
from , , | Jul 28, 2002 |
THE GOOD:
very impresive
wicked performance look ability and qualityTHE BAD:
they are too expensive ... thats the only reason i why cant give it a perfect 5 SUMMARY:
these are my comments...
i love voodoo graphic cards, ive had a voodoo 2 and 3 and never once had problems with neither , in fact i still have the voodoo 3 , if voodoo could only some how budget there prices to make them cheaper voodoo would be top in sales
voodoo rulez |
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| The Last of it's kind next to the unavailable 6000 |  4.2
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by  CleavesF
| Mar 17, 2002 |
THE GOOD:
Its Old school Voodoo. Glide123. Direct3D. OpenGL. FSAA. Dual VSA-100 chips running in SLI. 64 RAM. THE BAD:
Card is very long. Driver support today comes from third party. Not fully DirectX 8 compatible (C&C: Renegade graphic bug). SUMMARY:
Works like a charm. If you have old game that were optimized for voodoo, they work perfectly.
Now the only problem with this card is with new games. With DirectX 8, the drivers aren't certified by Microsoft and you get graphics problems. Most of them are minor like in Medal of Honor and only the menu is messed up. But the game itself looks fine. Which is great. Now some games like Renegade really is crap. The game too is screwed.
Main reason is that game companies don't want to make a patch for Voodoo, which doesn't exactly make sense hense this card is still widely used.
The 5500 runs up to par with the GeForce 2 GTS (actually just under, unless it's glide).
The third party drivers are very well made. I had no problems so far. But if you can, spend your money on a GeForce because it seems to be the standard of today's world.
The only reason you should pick this card up is for older games that do fully support Voodoo.
It's very sad to see this dynasty to be over. They were the pioneers of 3D gaming.
Long live 3dFx in our gaming days... |
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| An Unfair Fight: Voodoo5 5500 vs Inno3D Tornado Geforce2MX400 |  2.0
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by Cristi
from , , | Jul 26, 2001 |
A few days ago I was wandering on the “www” paths when my eyes stopped on a post saying “Not to be missed: Voodoo5 5500 on sale”. There was a link to the following review:
http://www.dailyradar.com/features/game_feature_page_554_1.html
As you can see for yourself (if you are not too lazy) there is no benchmark to make a clear idea about what this monster can do. Yes, I’ve read some reviews concerning one of our competitors but I decided that this video card deserves a chance. So, here I am, calling the owner and telling him: “I’ll exchange my MX400 + 256 ram for your Voodoo...Are you interested?” “I need the money man (110$) but let me think about this!”
He didn’t need much time to come to a decision and after an hour or so, he an a friend of him are at my door holding a huge box with two green evil eyes printed on it. Oh yes, it is so bigggg...
Next thing I heard was “Oh, man, what is it?...” Yep, they were staring at my two 80 mm PSU fans blowing directly on my Athlon processor. “Intel owners, I guess?” and they confirmed “Pentium 3 all the way!” “We never saw a AMD processor till now!”
Now is time to present the test bed:
850 AMD Athlon (thunderbird core) processor (128 L1 cache and 256 L2 cache)
Soltek SL75KAV (chipset VIA KT133A) motherboard running at 100*2 FSB
512 memory (128 + 256 PQI PC133 and 128 Kingston PC133 – thanks one of my best friends)
15 Gigs “don’t care about the speed” Maxtor HDD
Flyvideo TV tuner, 56k PCI Motorola modem – useless stuff denying FSB overclocking
Acorp socket A cooler (5200 rot/min), aluminum heatsink
One PCI exhaust fan
Two intake/exhaust generic 80 mm fans
Two generic 80 mm fans blowing cool air on the processor
Usually no front cover
Generic 230 PSU – no problems with that at all
Inno3D Tornado Geforce2 MX400 (200/183 – default, 220/220 overclocked)
Voodoo 5 5500 (2*166/166 default, no overclocking possible)
Windows 98 SE
DirectX 8a
Detonator 649 and 1290 for Geforce card
Latest 3dfx drivers
Back in business.
Leaving the MX thing in computer my visitors installed Quake3 Arena v1.1 (OpenGL) ignoring the Q3A same version a previously had cause they didn’t trust it :-). timedemo 1, demo demo001 and the show began.
1024*768*16= 94,2 FPS
“Wow”, they said, “this video card is already ours. We need to see no more, we will take it, now put the Voodoo to see for yourself what it can do!”
From now on, I’ll display the results obtained by the Voodoo5 5500 and compare these with the results of my Inno3D GF2 MX400.
I installed the Voodoo5 (no problems here) and gave it a run through Q3A (OpenGL):
V5 5500:
1024*768*16= 96,5 FPS
1600*1200*16= 50,1 FPS
MX400:
1024*768*16= 94,2 FPS
1600*1200*16= 42.1 FPS
At 1600*1200*16 the V5 5500 wins the round by a consistent 8 FPS. No more resolution tried.
Unreal Tournament 2 (Glide, OpenGL, D3D):
I didn’t have a real benchmark here, but the things became very clear. Voodoo5 5500 is the incontestable winner, running almost every resolution above 100 FPS while my MX never hit 85 FPS having an average of 45-50 FPS while playing. I should mention that UT2 refused to work in D3D with the Voodoo5 5500 and I suspect that Glide is better than D3D while playing UT2.
Did you ever heard of Viper Racing? It is an OpenGL game and it has a short benchmark. So I used it.
Voodoo5 5500 1024*768*32 max quality settings= 60 FPS
MX400 same settings= 50.1 FPS
Again we have a winner in the “person” of Vodoo5 5500. But don’t lose interest, the good days of Voodoo are just about to end.
3DMark2000 1024*768*16 – default (D3D)
Vooodoo5 5500 = 3525 (220 processor mark)
Inno3D GF2 MX400 (220/220) = 5829 (478 processor mark)
Inno3D GF2 MX400 (200/183) = 5325 (466 processor mark)
For those of you that don’t believe it just go to:
http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare.shtml?1872321
And if you are believers :-) read on:
Your 3DMark2000 Results in Detail
Project Name My Project
CPU AMD Athlon(tm) Processor 850 Mhz
3D Accelerator NVIDIA GeForce2 MX/MX 400
Graphics Chipset NVIDIA GeForce2 MX
Resolution 1024x768 16bit
Z-Buffer Depth 16bit
Frame Buffer Triple
CPU Optimization D3D Hardware T&L
3DMark Result 5829 3D marks
CPU Speed 477 CPU 3D marks
Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail 114.2 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail 85.5 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail 45.2 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail 125.6 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail 72.0 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail 43.1 FPS
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 407.3 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 799.9 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 9750.9 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (4 Lights) 8466.4 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 5888.2 KTriangles/s
8MB Texture Rendering Speed 295.1 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed 272.0 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed 176.2 FPS
64MB Texture Rendering Speed 90.5 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss 3-pass) 318.9 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss 2-pass) 260.3 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss 1-pass) 197.7 FPS
Bump Mapping (Environment) N/A FPS
Published Yes
Compare URL
» http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare.shtml?1872321
I put the Voodoo on max quality settings (“fast”in fact) and tried the famous image quality of 3dfx. Disappointing to say the least. I detected 3 anomalies in 2 minutes. The green point on the left gun of the helicopter didn’t appear, a cliff behind a tree didn’t show either and the Voodoo card didn’t care to display the (useless) black point near the metallic structure next to the tent. The 32-bit image suffered from the same shortcomings.
Yes, in case you are wondering, the MX400 image is just OK (quality settings).
Here, GF2 MX400 just crushed the Voodoo, no doubts about it.
3DMark 2001 1024*768*32 – default (D3D)
Voodoo5 5500= 1520
Geforce2 MX400 (200/183) = 2515
I don’t like 4 FPS is high detail mode...do you? Cause this is what Voodoo did and it is hard to swallow. Next!
Performance Test v3.3 (D3D)
Here I run the video 2D and 3D sections setting the resolution to 1024*768*32. I’ll let you see the 3D “Many Words” result and assure you that the 2D tests weren’t much different either.
Voodoo5 5500= 302 FPS
Inno3D GF2 MX400 (200/183)= 522 FPS
It seams that Voodoo5 5500 can’t handle the D3D tests but here comes the final blow. The widely OpenGL used test within MDK2.
MDK2 1600*1200*32 no T&L (OpenGL)
Vodoo5 5500= 22 FPS
Geforce2 MX400= 33 FPS
I’m sorry, I should have tested the Voodoo5 5500 more extensive, using all the resolutions from 640*480*16 all the way up to 1600*1200*32 including more games and benchmarks but the time didn’t allowed this. My stunned visitors, seeing to where this is going, asked me: “Did you want the bloody Voodoo?” “No, the deal is off” “You make a big mistake, all these benchmarks are biased ...etc.. etc..” “Well, it could be, but I’m spending like 50 percent of my computer time benchmarking...etc...etc”.
And they went away and so did the monster.
I’m interested in your opinions, flames and such. You can tell me about your experiences with Voodoo5 5500 and/or Geforce2 MX400, you can send me links that strengthen or weaken my opinion...well you figure it out.
And in so doing you can use my e-mail address:
cristi_dimofte@yahoo.com
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| SSgt | 5.0
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| WHY? |  4.0
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by Brad
| Jan 7, 2001 |
THE GOOD:
Good but there are betterTHE BAD:
NVIDIA ate 3Dfx, GeForce2 GTS PRO is same price and better SUMMARY:
Buy a GeForce2 GTS Pro the company is still alive and the GeForce2 GTS PRO is very tweakable. |
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| why ask for a better video card? | 5.0
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by Erwin Collazo
from Texas | Aug 3, 2000 |
| this video card is the best damn Voodoo ever!! i play games on my Athlon 1Ghz, Aureal 2500 Sound card and a 30GB HD along with the new Voodoo 5500 AGP using the 4x and man oh man this jad got to be the best card on the market! |
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| The V5500, best darn card on the market | 5.0
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by  ak47
from San Diego, California, United States | Jul 21, 2000 |
| I have recently purchased a voodoo5 5500 and let me tell you it is worth the money! I run high requirement games like Unreal Tournament and Soldier of Fortune and I have no lag whatsoever. It allows smooth game play, faster loading (takes up less ram), and the 64mb graphics ram is bloody fast. get it!! |
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