News Legendary Voodoo4 GPU modded into laptop, benchmarks work with Windows XP

[Admin]

The Dell Precision M4800 modded with a 25-year-old Voodoo4 GPU is capable of playing retro titles in Windows XP, to an extent.

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[palladin9479]

Now that is some dedication to retro.

 

[Sluggotg]

I loved my Voodoo cards. I bought a Voodoo 1 when they came out. I decided to overclock it so I crudely attached heatsinks on the card and gave it a shot. Stock is 50mhz and you can go all the way to 63mhz. I set it at 63 and left it there, zero issues. When the Voodoo2 came out, it's stock speed was 100mhz. I tried 110mhz.. no dice.. all the way down to 103mhz and it was stable. I just set it back to 100. Same thing with the second one I bought for my SLI setup. Seeing my games running on the Voodoo1 was one of those rare times when I was blown away, (like when I first saw an Amiga in action). It was sad they went under.

 

[Krieger-San]

Now that is some dedication to retro.

Especially considering they're playing with a system that has a hardware whitelist. This is pretty much a nail in the coffin of a project unless you know how to modify BIOS code. Not impossible, but it's not easy and has super high risk of hardware damage.

 

[KryptonQuark]

Retro legend reborn !!