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Post by plaster on May 30, 2021 15:23:52 GMT -5
I was playing Doom Eternal and it literally caught fire. I've been forced to use my old hardware due to all the scalping going on with anything silicon.  |
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Post by Coolverine on May 30, 2021 16:51:50 GMT -5
I remember you. I used to be known as Mole. That is sad to hear.  I have 2 Voodoo 5's, one of them half-works and the other completely doesn't work. As far as I can tell, 1 has a bad primary chip while the other has a bad secondary chip. I've been looking for someone who may be able to fix it by taking the good secondary chip from 1 and putting it on the other. It would probably be expensive but it's still something I'm considering. |
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Post by ForRealTho on May 30, 2021 22:34:19 GMT -5
I got rid of all my old videocards I wish I would have kept them. |
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Post by Cop on May 31, 2021 12:03:31 GMT -5
I'm sure my V5 would still work, if I had a mobo I could plug it into. Don't think the videocard I'm currently using is that much better, lol. But it'll have to do because it looks like I screwed myself by not having upgraded sooner. Now I actually want a new PC and now they've become ridiculously expensive because of the shortages. Guess I don't miss gaming that much. The PS Vita will have to serve me another year...
I'm certainly not planning to throw the cash at it my colleague just did. He bought a new desktop, no peripherals, just the case and he paid €3700 ($4500) for it. That's insane. I think all the computers I've owned up to this point add up to that amount, lol...
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Post by ForRealTho on May 31, 2021 18:49:37 GMT -5
I'm certainly not planning to throw the cash at it my colleague just did. He bought a new desktop, no peripherals, just the case and he paid €3700 ($4500) for it. That's insane. I think all the computers I've owned up to this point add up to that amount, lol... $4500 is completely nuts for a desktop, I am into laptops and even my laptop was only $2300. For $4500 better have some crazy specs. |
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Post by Babel-17 on Jun 2, 2021 2:25:33 GMT -5
I gave my Voodoo 5 to a friend at work who played a lot of Counter-Strike. Afaik it had a really good run with him, though IIRC he eventually had to replace a capacitor. And then he gamed some more on it.  |
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Post by Emig5m on Jun 7, 2021 17:59:53 GMT -5
Thank God it died. The V5 was a POS that ran slower than my V3 in some games...like wtf... Before anyone tries to argue, just think what company is still in business and thriving and which one isn't.
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Post by Coolverine on Jun 7, 2021 19:33:41 GMT -5
True, the Voodoo 5 was not as fast as others around that time but it was still the first to do hardware anti-aliasing. I'll never forget the first time I turned it on, it was amazing. Even 2x FSAA was enough, 4x caused too big of a framerate hit.
They say their next videocard (Rampage) was going to be able to compete, had some kind of co-processor for T&L. Unfortunately they were out of money by that point.
The funny thing is, I think some of Nvidia's newer RTX videocards do have some kind of co-processor for raytracing, kinda like what 3dfx was going for with Rampage.
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