Back from the Dead: 3dfx's Unreleased Voodoo5 6000 Quad-GPU Card

lotta people hated teh sequal trilogy the fawning over vader in ahsoka is ridiculous he is a horrible actor

does dg voodoo have that option yet?

What a throwback

So cool. Before my time of warcraft 3 frozen throne mini-games, but I remember the early 2000's fondly with my pentium 4 with an intel single core cpu.

Please do more 3dfx. Linus has plenty of videos out for it, but I can only trust you guys now.

At the time I had the voodoo 3 3000, voodoo 4 4500 and voodoo 5 5500. next card was geforce 2 ti which blew the voodoo 5 5500 away.

SO, where are the few original 6000 cards that were manufactured in 2000?

Were they destroyed during the bankruptcy?

Fantastic work! This stuff may only be of interest to a small group of strange persons, but I’m one of those persons. Rocked a voodoo card until my first nvidia in 2000, and then a Radeon 9700, etc.

Am I the only one who thinks the face on the box looks like Henry Cavill?

My first card I bought by myself in store with money of my dead was a Voodoo 3 2000. I loved this card.

For a couple years, Voodoo was THE BOMB. Gateway computers was putting them in very good prebuilts.

What are you guys wasting money on🙄 aka. the rich Burke flaunting show ,for the just because.......Steve you guys are truly nuts🤣

Oh wow 3dfx voodoo card. This brings back memories. I had a voodoo card (I can't remember the model) back in the late 90's. I remember it being a solid performer.

Great video, brings back memories of my Matrox Milenium and Original 3DFX Voodoo card playing Quake
This enabled transparent water and no more hiding in it, great times Glide-ing about

I remember patching DOOM 3 to move T&L to software, and resizing the textures, just as a gimmick to get it to work on my SLI'd Voodoo2s. I got about 45 FPS!

This is such great content guys, seriously. Having lived it as a poors consumer, this is like watching the History channel

yall should isolate a part of your network or simply make a second network so you could go online with these older systems without compromising yourself

Woooo, nice done. Thank you!

No DVI video out?

Less bar graphs more footage of actual video of the games playing.

This takes me back, but not to my time with 3dfx, I never had such a card. But to the time with my Elsa Erazor 3 LT, that was a great graphics card, with shutter glasses for 3D.

Powervr GL quake blew me away! Still gaming, but not enjoying new boring games. You thought that was hard? You should try setting your IRQ to avoid conflicts, setting you heads, sectors and cylinder count on your hard drive in the bios (on the sticker of the harddrive) with master slave jumpers on IDE cables that weren't always apparent., setting your comports and getting the lpt ports to works. That agp slot was a blessing, but agp didn't necessarily give you an edge over pci 33mhz. Instead video cards stopped using pci because agp/pci versions didn't really give you a noticeable advantage.

The Voodoo2 1000 was revolutionary! SLI for 24MB of video ram!!

This goes fuckin hard

wow I thought I was the only person who had a AGP computer actually still functional.

3dfx master race! Thank you for making this! Totally missed it on my feed!!

I had 2 T600's I remember running a heavily customized windows XP on it with a custom UI and I u[graded it to an Nvidia 5200. It came with a dell Sony Trinitron monitor. It played Half Life 2 extremely well and it looked great on the Trinitron. One had a Katamai CPU and the other a Coppermine. I had maxed out the ram I think it was somewhere between 1-2 gb LOL I squeezed every last bit of performance I could from that system.

Back in the late 90s I had a 21" HP CRT. That was huge for back then

Pentium 3 crap is going to sky rocket in value. Thousands of p3 machines are scrapped every day scrap yards dont know what they have and just smash it all. Eventually xp machines may be worth somthing because enthusists view it as garbage that will never be worth anything. Believe me eveything that was super popular eventually becomes worth somthing especially if they were in shorter supply.

Now the new generations can grow to hate Glide, just as we all did back in the day

Sad to see this is just a limited run of reconstructions, not a resurrection of having a second GPU brand not owned by a CPU company. Being stuck with just Nvidia and the stuff from AMD, Intel, ARM and Qualcomm is such a loss compared to the many chips available in the 1990s .

The EVGA FTW3 ULTRA 4090 Ti should be on his list to recreate... KEKW i hope fr tho :)

Wow, this video took me back to the 90's and made me think of things like Vesa Local Bus on i486. I started IT in 1991 and it was a good time for graphical era to take off.

A story of "every wrong decision"...

Young gamers won't remember 3DFX or the bloody great GPUs they made.

It is philosophically valuable to ponder the odd situation of progressive technology downsizing vs. the fact that graphics cards have gotten bigger and bigger.
We could assume this is a reflection of the deepening entrapment into the entertainment hamsterwheel to keep us distracted, our main reliance on the visual sense for perception and the power this has in an agenda of propagandizing towards technology worship.

amd was so deceiving with athlon + cpus naming scheme I mean actual cpu core clocks

Millennial goes pfff.

For me, I am old. Your intro ran shivers down my spine you wouldn't believe.

It is a shame 3DFX went bust, would have been nice to see how far they could have went.

buying such a highend voodoo back then was so insane, I asked my dad if we could get one for xmas while on vacation and couldn't shut up about it, it's pros & cons and whatnot and he almost beat the shit out of me when I told him the price. My parents were rich at the end of the 90s but grew up poor behind the Iron Curtain, so spending so much money on some pc part was absolutely preposterous and I received my first reality check... ;D You could literally buy an old used car for that money, like a Fiat or Ford.

Aah, great thinking about core memories and nostalgia. Thanks for the video, guys...

I believe that the reason we interested in 3dfx card beside nostalgia is that their business decisions left us with nvidia as the mass market manufacturer of gpu. And we suffered for decays as consumers.

I had a banshee, had voodoo's 2 in SLI, tried some S3 metal crap and went to the Riva TNT, then a Voodoo 3 3000 and so TNT 2 . Most of these running on a celeron 300A overclocked to pentium II perf chart.😁
By the way, MSI was not in the big league at the time as they had only pretty lame motherboards. The real performance players wer Abit, DFI , Fic, Epox, Asus, Chaintech, Soyo ( it seems they are back ), Transcend.

My first GPU was an ATI Radeon 7000 64MB SDR PCI. This was before programmable shaders. My next card would be on the much faster AGP 4x interface.

Awesome video! Thank you for the trip down memory lane, including seeing some old MaximumPC stuff. Incidentally, they just switched to digital only. :( THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING A DINOSAUUUUUUR!! Lol.

Typ Minecraft with it!

Lmao it's not like these cards "worked well" back in the day either. I was pretty young back then, but in the DOS/early 3D era it was always a constant struggle to get hardware and games operating correctly and trying to diagnose why things aren't working properly. I dont think it was really until the Geforce4/later P4/XP era where you could just start expecting things to mostly work by default.

That being said, a Voodoo3 is still a great choice for a vintage build as it's one of the smaller cards and doesn't need a passthrough, and has very decent compatibility - plus of course glide game support.

I actually had an Intel 740 card back in the day. That thing was an absolute nightmare to get working in a stable capacity.

yes it neve happened because i had one on order was in phone contact with 3DFX or voodoo , I still have the original 3dfx card( the first commercial video dedicated graphics card), along with the voodoo 2 ( i had 2 x voodoo) 2 cars running in since with the adapter cord., 5500 and was looking forward to the 6600 hundred not 6000,
I even have a 600 dollar physics card and had to wait 8 weeks to get it only to find out all it did was use more power.