Hmmmm....Video Riser card....

_CreeD_

http://www.hardocp.com/articles/3dfx/Voodoo5%206000%20Pg3.html

Admit it, it may be too big, too much of a sledghammer approach...But ya want one...

SantaHoe

Holy sh!t, what an ulgy@ssed, noisey, piece 'o crap.
Why does it need 4 fans ffs?
Gick!

How about some speccs?

SickBoy

The reason it needs four fans is beacuse there is 4 VooDoo5 chips on it. Thats how 3Dfx are playing it this time around.

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Jimmy...

Kali

i think id rather an ATI radeon than go with a 3dfx card.

Gerry

Its just not as fast as a geforce at most resolutions , never mind a geforce2, despite 3dfx's best efforts. Because of its complexity, its also too expensive.

_CreeD_

The Beta-V5500 isn't matching a Geforce, but this baby will have TWICE it's power.
And more power and memory bandwidth than the Geforce GTS. (On multitexture games the GTS drops to 800 Mpix (Pretty damn cool in its own right) but the V6000 stays at around 1.3/1.4 Gpix. If you want AntiAliasing it is the only this-gen card that will do a decent job at High Res.

The Radeon won't be out til the end of the year though. The V6000 is due in about 2 months realistically, and that nice looking Geforce GTS will be in the shops in a few weeks.
To wait , or not to wait.....


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Jak

Geforce 2 Isn't out and no more than the V5 6000 ... nobody knows for sure what hidden issues either final version cards might have when released. In any case they will both be ridiculously priced .. the V5 6000 (more so) being exactly twice the price of the V5 5500.

I've ordered the Voodoo 5 5500 because in all the reviews I've seen (testing on the version which is out in 4 days), it has proved better than the current standard of Ge Force cards (btw- There are a few different types of GF remember)

I'll be running games at 1024x768 and on a 19" screen and that should deliver better performance than any current Geforce.

As for Price ... 266 Irish.


In any case, It's all overkill at this stage .. so i can't see myself being dissapointed with the results.

Lump

Who gives a **** what it looks like, its inside the computer.

John

-=Raven=-

V5500 is a big mistake by 3dfx. Right its in beta yes....but look at performance...and before anyone starts saying its only a beta..listen.

Its almost complete : and with a May 25th release for the AGP (late june pci) its on the way. 32-bit colour is nice, and it has a decent fill rate at high res. But like, its not even as good as G-Force atm. Last years perfmormance now? I think not.

As for Voodoo4 LOL, if Voodoo5 has this type of performance I'd rather not see a low end Voodoo4 tbh. The thing v5 has going for it is this ; the mac market. That'll keep it afloat.

Against Radeon and NV15 , there is no hope. We can all talk about v6 and the scalability of all the gpu's there..but the cost of that wont be nice, especially as its being aimed at the highest end.

But this is only my opinion. Things could go alright for them...but I doubt it.
Remember when 3dfx were kings?....seems like ages ago now, oh wait it was

-=Raven=-

Eh....G-Force2 , u know about it, so i wont go into spec. Ummm....but does anyone know how much it'll cost?

I mean the performance is hardly noticable.
5,6 frames at most (Quake3) - apart from q3quaver demo...which is lot (15-20)

At least with the TnT and TNT2/Ultra there was a big difference..this is crap.
Maybe performance might be more noticable on lower end pcs? Maybe not

Just thought I'd say something

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Kali

the 64mb GF gives exact same performance as a 32mb GF with 16bit textures at resolutions up to and including 1024X768 and a slight increase at 32bit textures.

the addition of extra chips and memory is not the answer to extra speed, rather a rethink of how graphics cards work is needed, GF was a step in the right direction.

very very interesting article on arstechnica about why the PCs graphic and multimedia capabilities are stunted and compares it to the architecture employed in the PS2 which is the way forward in this area...
heavyweight reading but well worth the effort:
http://www.arstechnica.com/cpu/2q00/ps2/ps2vspc-1.html

Sonic

geforce 2 in 4 days from elsa , £299 after conversion 32 mb ddr


/me gets out the bank card

sam

On multitexture games the GTS drops to 800 Mpix

emm in multitextured games (most fps games) the gts has a texture fillrate of 1600million per second

Hecate

http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardware/articles/nvidia_geforce2_gts_guide/

Hecate

even better:
http://www.hardocp.com/articles/3dfx/Voodoo5%206000%20PgA.html

_CreeD_

Nope....The GTS has 4 single pixel, double texture unit pipelines. At 200mhz, thats 1600MegaTexels and 800MegaPixels (Presuming 2 textures). The V6000 has true 1.3GPix/GTex performance.