3DFX...

[Cirrocco]

A few months back, I splurged and bought a Voodoo5 5500 agp. the card set me back a good $450. I guess I didn't do my homework before I bought the card, cause it turns out that it's drivers (only 2 to choose from at the time- v1.00.00, and v1.01.00beta) didn't agree with my mainboard (epoxMVP3G2). My machine thought the card was PCI-33 and my graphics were exactly the same as my old voodoo3 2000!.
So I emailed 3dfx, and Epox my problem. Epox got back to me in 3 days, 3dfx STILL hasn't gotten back to me! Oh well, not that I care now, cause I traded it in for a Gefore256.

Y0u 7h1nk 7h@7 y0u c@n fr0n7 wh3n r3v31@710n c0m35?

 

[Guest]

Yeap and plus they went out from this business. I am sorry man, but 3DFX screwed up. Enjoy your Geforce now. 😎

 

[Cirrocco]

Thx, I AM enjoying my GeForce.
but the crazy thing is, my old voodoo3 was an awesome card, very reliable, with an excellent price, and when i felt like endulging in a 450dollar card, i got screwed, thinking that it would have the same degree of awesomeness, and excellence...I THOUGHT WRONG!!!
#%&$@! 3dfx
long live GeForce!

Y0u 7h1nk 7h@7 y0u c@n fr0n7 wh3n r3v31@710n c0m35?

 

[Guest]

😎

 

[Guest]

Very impressed with my Geforce as well - very rapid performance, and for the $150 I paid for it in Germany...

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Do unto others before they do unto you...

 

[Guest]

wow geforce forever and ever and ever !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey man i dont know .. i just think i do !!

 

[berkeljm]

Considering that you can buy the Voodoo 5 5500 (AGP) for $220.00 now I would say you got screwed. Sorry about that. On a diffent note.....I bought a Hercules Prophet II MX (which is faster than the voodoo 5 5500) and I couldn't get it to work on my Soyo Mobo until I flashed the bios with the most recent update. After that, it worked great!! If there is a bios update for your Mobo then I would try that. Also check on Voodoo's Web sight for the required bios settings for that card. Voodoo cards are very tempermental when you do the install. Hope that helps.

 

[Guest]

Sorry to hear about that. I got screwed buying a Savage 4 32mb, the drivers are the probably the worst in the graphics card industry. I'm still using a Voodoo II, it doesn't really bother me cause I'm still using a 15" monitor anyway.

 

[Guest]

alas i miss 3dfx dearly...even if my v3 2k needs so many added fans to keep it cool that if i did over night downloads the noise kept me up 😛

(did you know that you are allowed to add a 486 fan to the heatsink of a voodoo3 without invalidating the warrenty? I think they even RECOMMENDED that upgrade.)

Your nice new PC might be faster then my 286, but my 286 makes a better door stop 😛

 

[scarecrow]

I miss my 3dfx also.....

I love you Sarge....