3dfx voodoo II help.

[wolfiebro]

So id like to get a retro pc and it comes with a (ati radeon 9600) and a (Pentinum III) at 550mhz.
If i get a 3dfx voodoo II will it help? can i run it together with the ati radeon 9600?
and what does the voodoo card do? and what games will it work on?

 

[Barty1884]

The VoodooII is a 3d graphics card/accelerator .... from 1998.
3dfx were gone by 2000, acquired by Nvidia,

Given the VoodooII was 5 years old by the time the Radeon 9600/PRO/SE/XT cards launched, I wouldn't imagine it would bring much to the table at all.

 

[ingtar33]

The first question you need to ask is what motherboard is it? Since the motherboard runs an AGP card, (the ati radeon 9600) we know a few things. first of all the VOODOOII is seriously inferior to the ATI Radeon 9600; I mean the VOODOOII was king of the game in '98, but the ATI Radeon 9600 came out in like 2002. second, the VOODOOII was a PCI card (note, I said PCI not PCIE); which means it was MUCH slower/worse then anything you'd stick in an AGP slot. Finally, you can't xfire/sli an agp to PCI card.

Setting all of that to the side, the ATI GPU is so far beyond the CPU you'll find that PIII to be a bigger issue then the ATI card.

 

[DeadRam]

The 3dfx Voodoo II is a 3D only card. The ATI 9600 is a 2D/3D card and will provide much better performance than the Voodoo II card.

 

[King_V]

Now THERE's a name I haven't heard in a LONG time.

The 3dfx Voodoo cards were 3D accelerators only - they were useless by themselves, as they needed a regular, separate video card to handle 2D stuff.

This was useful back in the early days, when 3D rendering was a relatively new thing for home PCs, we're talking late 90s.

By the time the 9600 Radeon came out, 3Dfx and the Voodoo cards were history.

First, your system has an AGP slot for graphics. 3Dfx was PCI (the old PCI, not PCIe). Second, the 9600's performance by itself would likely far surpass the Voodoo II, which is ancient even compared to that Radeon you have.