Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16 MB

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Voodoo3 2000 PCI 16 MB

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Is it good ? I want to replace my S3 Trio 64 V2 2 MB with something real. I'm using Win98, are drivers (and the card itself) stable ? Chipset on my motherboard is SiS 5597
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It is great:-)

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nk wrote:Is it good ? I want to replace my S3 Trio 64 V2 2 MB with something real. I'm using Win98, are drivers (and the card itself) stable ? Chipset on my motherboard is SiS 5597
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Post by georgep1 »

Yes, that should be a good card for the system you have. Obviously you are not going to be playing any high end games with that system and that card, but you should be able to play a lot of games that were made before, and some into the year 2000. And it's a much better card than the one you currently have. The Voodoos also generally have good 2D quality.
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Post by Wiggy »

I bought one for a mate (actually turned out to be a 3000) for his Packard Bell Celeron 700 (66fsb). Runs Unreal Tournament and HalfLife in OpenGL well enough.

Check out http://www.voodoofiles.com

You can always overclock it a bit as well. But a Geforce 2 MX would be a better choice if available
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Post by Super_Relay »

yeah i had a pci voodoo 3 2000 for ages on both a k62-450 and a k63+ 575

it will be waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than the s3 trio

you should expect to be able to run ut1, quake 1, 2 and 3 halflife (mabey with some tweaking now as the texture quality and etc have been altered in patches since the original version) mechwarrior 3, several of the need for speed games (number 3 comes to mind)

plus it has a not very horrible vesa implementation so you can play a lot of emulators for old classic stuff (snes, some mame stuff, megadrive/genesis) with less hastle. well at least i could i had a s3 virge before i had the voodoo 3 and well if i ever have to run sdd503a.exe or s3vbe.exe again it will be too soon :p
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Post by punkrawker82 »

I had a Voodoo 3 2000 16Mb AGP card in my S7 system 3 to 4 years ago...right now its in a PII 266. But it was great. I never had any trouble running HL or UT. I always used the official drivers, but if you try the various kinds on voodoo files they might offer better performance :)

They're good cards :D , and many feel 3Dfx was the company that started the 3D video card revolution. Its too bad they couldn't compete with Nvidia and aren't a third contender in the video card industry today... :cry:
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Post by DasMan2 »

I would say a Voodoo 3 is a fine basic card now for cheap, still has drivers being supportive of many different OS'es , should you really need some video graphic display power you would be best getting a GF2 Ultra or Pro or even a GF3 series card to get the next jump up on frame rates.

ATI wise a good cheap utility card is of the Radeon 7200 -7500 series ,the PCI models are good for the older M.B.'s . and are generally better over all on frames and quality than a Voodoo 3/4 .

I have owned all these cards and the better newer cards are indeed better but more cash ....getting GF3 Ti 200-500 for under $50 US is still decent for your return ,but a Voodoo 3 at $10 -$20 is still value for the bucks. 8)
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