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My claim to fame is that the only Voodoo card I've ever owned was a Voodoo 5 6000. I picked it up in the early 2000s during a pre-closure clearout at my then-e
by tom_ 8y ago
My claim to fame is that the only Voodoo card I've ever owned was a Voodoo 5 6000.
I picked it up in the early 2000s during a pre-closure clearout at my then-employer, a UK video games developer. The sheer size of the thing made me LOL, that and the number of fans and the additional power connector. Then I noticed it was a 3dfx - oh, hey! I could play that Glide-based motorbike game, that I remembered enjoying at a friend's house a few years previously.
The game wasn't as good as I remembered. I threw the card away.
- rasz 8y agoat least you didnt throw away Voodoo5 9000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3iHV0NvLPI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3iHV0NvLPI
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- johnchristopher 8y agoI admit it, I felt for it :).
- rambojazz 8y agoDid this card genuinely exist or is it some kind of joke?
- TorKlingberg 8y agoI almost thought someone has de-soldered 32 Voodoo5 chips of old cards and made an entire new giant card to hold them.
- remlov 8y agoWhen I first saw this he almost had me, but the wind sound track that was dubbed in when he fires up the rig had me laughing!
- gattilorenz 8y agoI picked up my Voodoo 2 in 2005 when I found it in an old computer I was scavenging for pieces with other high school students. I was young, but I immediately recognized it and traced it back to the computer magazines (from 97/98) of my older syster that I used to devour. No other student realized what it was. They were puzzled by the double VGA connector :) I took it home, and installed it in my Athlon XP 2600+ system alongside the ATI 9800 Pro, to finally try the Glide games that I never had the opportunity to play years before... The first time I saw the full-screen 3dfx logo, it felt amazing. Not only I still have it, but I collected more for free over the years, and I'm still amazed that something I would drool over a few years back became trash-worthy. It's either a reminder that good things happen to those who wait... or a memento morì.