What the F*CK is wrong with me? I think I just bought a V5.

digitalwanderer · Mar 18, 2003, 05:10 PM

Yup, saw it on [H] for $48us shipped and just had this 'gotta try a piece of history!' kind of rush going and the next thing I knew I'd posted that I wanted it.

Anyone know anything about this semi-mystical, (well, at least to me) card? What should I be expecting?

(BTW-This is NOT an upgrade, I'm gonna be adding it in to me father's rigs repair bill since I got such an excellent deal on a complete system for him and it still needs a viddy card....but I think he'll be getting the son's GF2 MX400...

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***Zardon*** · Mar 18, 2003, 05:20 PM

you just bought a piece of gaming history there, very cool indeed.

~~craig588~~ · Mar 18, 2003, 05:23 PM

v5 6000 or v5 5500? I love my v5 6000, its still capable with most of todays games too, 128MB ram, 4 183mhz chips, 1.4 gigapixel fill rate.

digitalwanderer · Mar 18, 2003, 06:32 PM

I don't know, it doesn't say. All it gives is "-3dfx Voodoo5 AGP (like new with PERFECT BOX) >> $48 shipped. ", which was enough to trigger me alarm bells and get me all crazy.

What's the difference?

peroni · Mar 18, 2003, 06:36 PM

Are you gonna use omega drivers with that?

NaumoJR · Mar 18, 2003, 06:49 PM

Next time you want to blow $50 give it to me

sorry I couldn't hold that one in hehe

~~craig588~~ · Mar 18, 2003, 06:59 PM

Well, the v5 5500 has 2 procs and only 64 megs of ram.

NaumoJR · Mar 18, 2003, 07:05 PM

Don't you have to provide an extra power source to it too?

I remember reading that you had to plug those things into the wall too.

digitalwanderer · Mar 18, 2003, 07:20 PM

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Originally posted by craig588
Well, the v5 5500 has 2 procs and only 64 megs of ram.

ONLY?!?! What's the 6000 got? (Did I mention this was just a weird impulse buy from hell?

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(BTW-I ain't giving the money away, I'm getting a bit-o-history!

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EDITED BITS: Put "rolleye" instead of "rolleyes", went back and changed. (Does anyone else hand code all their formatting since they added the quick reply box?

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~~craig588~~ · Mar 18, 2003, 07:44 PM

as I said in the previous post, the 6000 has 4 procs @ 183 mhz, 128 megs of ram, 1.4 gigapixel, I think the 5500 has its chips at 166 too

digitalwanderer · Mar 18, 2003, 08:31 PM

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Originally posted by craig588
as I said in the previous post, the 6000 has 4 procs @ 183 mhz, 128 megs of ram, 1.4 gigapixel, I think the 5500 has its chips at 166 too

Doh! Sorry, that slipped past me.

WarGun · Mar 18, 2003, 11:11 PM

V5 well its a piece of history for sure, nice to look at but not much good for newer games..no hardware T&L and such..if ya have some older flight sims or games that are glide only, cant be beat

i have F16-MultiroleFighter from Nova Logic and Mig29 Fulcrum... these games are awesome on the V5

digitalwanderer · Mar 19, 2003, 12:36 AM

Yes, it's only the 5500...but I don't think I'm gonna be finding a V5 6000 for under $50us. (I finally went and did me homework.

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Actually, it should be fun to see what this thing actually will do in games on Bubbles. All the reviews I were looking at were back when the PIII800 was top dog. (So I know how it'll perform in Blue pretty well.

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I look forward to it's 4xAA, 'sposed to be sweet. And the guy I'm getting it from has offered to burn me some demos to play with.

Besides, I'm still a hardcore SoF nut at heart...I hear it plays a pretty mean game of that along with me other fave UT.

One BIG thing I'm sort of really curious about now is if it even runs GTA3 or not...

I'm getting it, it's been confirmed. Now it's just a matter of paying for it and getting it shipped and such.

Oblivious · Mar 20, 2003, 07:56 PM

AFAIK a tnt2 will run GTA3, a V5 should "in theory" be able to run it. But i have one word for you: Drivers. 3dfx has been gone since 2000 and that means there aren't any drivers for xp, or only 3rd party stuff. I've always had problems with that.

~~craig588~~ · Mar 20, 2003, 08:04 PM

heres a site for you 3dhq (best 3rd party drivers)

~~DriveEuro~~ · Mar 20, 2003, 09:00 PM

a tnt2 prolly runs it like a slide show. That's gotta be hard on the eyes.

Vampyromaniac · Mar 20, 2003, 11:11 PM

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Originally posted by Oblivious
there aren't any drivers for xp

xp?

digitalwanderer · Mar 20, 2003, 11:15 PM

Uhm...I've already found some XP drivers I think...

Louie6666 · Mar 21, 2003, 05:01 AM

drivers are floating about did couple of rebuilds for peeps managed to find working drivers for xp went as low as v3..was surprised at 2d & playback quaility using them...2d put my gf2 to shame

can't remember where I got drivers did the google thing & downloaded as many as i could find and tested em..burned em off for friend..wish i had kept em myself now..got killed in last clearout of my drivers directory

Oblivious · Mar 21, 2003, 08:04 AM

*shrugs* looks like i was way off on that one. I've been using voodoofiles.com for my drivers.

~~WyreTheWolf~~ · Mar 21, 2003, 09:45 PM

Best drivers for the 5500 under XP

http://www.windowsxp-drivers.com/drivers/48/48591.htm

Hope that helps.