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Post by ForRealTho on Feb 20, 2021 1:13:37 GMT -5
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Post by Coolverine on Feb 20, 2021 2:12:53 GMT -5
I saw something about that on Facebook. I think it's awesome.
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Post by Cop on Feb 20, 2021 12:02:04 GMT -5
As cool as the whole endeavour may be, surely by now it has been surpassed performance-wise by even a modest on-board video chip, no?
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Post by Coolverine on Feb 20, 2021 15:05:25 GMT -5
I guess it's more for nostalgia than anything. I still have a Voodoo 5 5500 but it doesn't work anymore.  I'd definitely build a retro PC with it if it still worked. |
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Post by ForRealTho on Feb 20, 2021 23:50:24 GMT -5
As cool as the whole endeavour may be, surely by now it has been surpassed performance-wise by even a modest on-board video chip, no? Yes it would be really good for year 1999-2000 games but would rapidly drop off after that and be unable to run something as old as Doom 3 as it had no shaders which is how all modern rendering is done. |
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Post by Emig5m on Jun 7, 2021 18:03:04 GMT -5
I guess it's more for nostalgia than anything. I still have a Voodoo 5 5500 but it doesn't work anymore. I'd definitely build a retro PC with it if it still worked. Fix it. Could be as simple as a cold solder joint... |
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Post by Emig5m on Jun 7, 2021 18:03:57 GMT -5
As cool as the whole endeavour may be, surely by now it has been surpassed performance-wise by even a modest on-board video chip, no? Yes it would be really good for year 1999-2000 games but would rapidly drop off after that and be unable to run something as old as Doom 3 as it had no shaders which is how all modern rendering is done. On a sunny day just put it under a tree for shaders.  |
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Post by Coolverine on Jun 7, 2021 18:35:15 GMT -5
I guess it's more for nostalgia than anything. I still have a Voodoo 5 5500 but it doesn't work anymore. I'd definitely build a retro PC with it if it still worked. Fix it. Could be as simple as a cold solder joint... I actually have 2 of them. One has physical damage on the primary chip, the 2nd one I'm not too sure what's wrong with it. I do know on that one, it works in single-chip mode, which makes it effectively function as a Voodoo 4 4500. |
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I'd definitely build a retro PC with it if it still worked.
