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3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP

3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Wow! Amazing card..
Review: ...The most favourite(among a mountain of features) is theFSAA. Its looks amazing.. I had a chance to compare the GeForce2 2xand 3dfx 2x, and (although close) the 3dfx had the edge.. Enable 4x FSAA on your 3dfx (and NO things DONT crawl) and you`ll have the most amazing quality and vidrant graphics available. The 4x FSAA is fast, counter-strike is 50+ fps at 800x600 4x FSAA. Get this card, its SO easy to install, use and make all your new and EXISTING games look amazing..

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Haven't had a single problem yet! Wonderful card
Review: I am sick and tired of stupid marketing words like FPS, mtexels/sec, fill rate, and mip-mapping.

It's all junk and worthless.

I bought this card because the GeForce cards are very picky about motherboards and voltage settings. I don't know about you, but I don't have the time nor the inclination to change my voltage settings or AGP aperture size.

The V5 installed in 1 minute and it hasn't crashed on me once since I started using it.

I play Unreal Tournament all the time now with all the details maxed out and it never slows down.

Get this card if you are sick and tired of computer add-ons not working and spending time on msg boards looking for answers to ridiculous questions.

The card is easy to install, stable, and will run any game you have smoothly.

That's it, it's just that simple.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best card I have ever owned!
Review: I just recently bought the G-Force 2 card because everyone has been hyping it. After plugging that one into my computer and finding that it didn't work on any of my games I returned it and just recently bought a Voodoo 5 to replace it. WOW! It works with EVERY game with I have first time, and the 4 sample AA is spectacular. This is the best card on the market and more than worth the money! I will never play Tomb Raider 4 on any other card but this!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Not as good as i thought...
Review: I picked up my card on the very first day of the release. I removed my old drivers from my OS (delete the old files, not just uninstall it) and put in the V5 55oo. Well...I had a nVidia TNT2 Ultra card before and i hoped for some serious improvements. But i was wrong. The card gave me some improvement in games and the so called "fsaa" feature is nice, but overall i was very disappointed, because in high resolutions it is not fast enough on my PIII600 and the fsaa feature makes the picture very blurry. I brought my card back and own a nVidia Geforce GTS card now and i have to say that this was the right step to do. Please, dear customers, before you order that card, make sure that you like blurry pictures in games, make sure that your processor is fast enough (650mhz and above), otherwise you'll be very very sorry!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Full Scene Anti Aliasing has to be seen to be appreciated!
Review: I just got my Voodoo5, and after reading dozens of reviews that talked about the wonder of FSAA. Now that I see it with _all_ my games, I can't believe it! It is the best thing since 3D graphics card. This card is well worth the money, at [much] less than a GeForce GTS, and much better FSAA I think it is the most bang for the buck out there!

Besides I like buying from an established company, there are two many no-name producers of the GeForce to deserve my hard earned dollars. I want a company that will be around 3 years from now, and from where I am standing that company is 3dFX, I know people who still have their original Voodoos and Voodoo2s and are quite happy with them.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: 3DFX! The king of Video Accelerators
Review: Ok, if you haven't heard of the latest voodoo 5 cards, where have you been! The deal is this, lately i have been wanting a better video card than the one i have now wich is a V3 3000 AGP card. It works pretty good and everything but i want better performance on my games. This card and the Voodoo 5 6k will be 3DfX's assasins for the Geforce and Geforce 2 Cards. At first i wasn't sure if i should switch to the Geforce 2 but after i saw a lot of reviews and opinions i knew 3dfx was the one to go with. A recent challenge that happened was that they faced a PC with an athlon 700 mhz processor with a 3dfx V5 5500 AGP against another one with a Geforce 2. They weren't labeled or anything and they asked people wich one looked better (i think they were testing the cards Anti aliasing) Without knowing most of them chose the computer with the voodoo 5! It looked better and was faster. And another thing, the Geforce had 4x FSAA (better quality of course) and the Voodoo 5 had 2x and it still looked better than the geforce at 4x! Guess the geforce's AA isn't compared to 3dfx's huh? Oh and something else, the voodoo 5 even cost less than the geforce 2 (about 50 bucks less) Well i'm happy because i should be getting my voodoo 5 any day now and i'm gonna love it! If you want the best thing out there go for the voodoo 5 6k (if you have the money) but if you can't afford it go for the 5500 ... it's a great buy!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS!
Review: Do not buy this video card! Even though numbers sound impressive, they are not all what they seem to be. That 64mb of memory, can't go wrong there right. Wrong, that 64mb of memory gets chewed up faster than the 4 VSA-100 chips can swallow. Therefore that 64mb of memory becomes more like 24mb! And the Voodoo5 5500 inablility to produce per pixel shading or vertex skinning is astonishing. For it what gives you this graphics accelerater is not worth it's price. Don't buy this card. Buy yourself a nVidia GeForce2 GTS they cost the same price. Also the GeForce2 GTS has an on board GPU(which the Voodoo5 5500 does not) and does not need to reley on the system CPU to render light. Even though the Voodoo5 5500 is a decent card is not worth what 3dfx charges for it. Sure the box looks cool, but isn't what's inside that counts!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT
Review: This product will soon be out of date ... 3Dfx is for sure(from a source at 3Dfx) is coming out with a better card that is not even called Voodoo!The name of the product has not been disclosed yet , but I trully asure u that this product will blow every competion away. Making all other Video cards obsolete within a few years. So please , for your own sanity ans checkbook. DO NOT PURCHASE THIS VIDEO CARD. In a few months your pacience will be rewarded with a truly monstrous achievement on 3Dfx's behave. The Frankenstein of video cards.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Voodoo5 series cards are the best available
Review: You can get the Voodoo5 5500 now which is cheaper than the nVidia offerings. The 5500 offers better image quality and is faster at high resolutions.

You can wait and get the Voodoo5 6000 which is way faster than anything else and has super image quality while running at 4xFSAA. This puppy is going to cost twice as much as the 5500.

Unless you are a speed freak, go for the Voodoo5 5500. It is the best bang for the buck 3D accelerator today.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: IGNORE THE PREVIOUS WARNING
Review: It's disappointing to see 27 (at the time of this writing) potential buyers heeding the advice of Exodus above! The card Exodus refers to is the Voodoo5 6000 card which is, in fact, NOT shrouded in mystery as Exodus claims. Information is available from many sources on the Web as well as 3dfx.com's own site. Briefly, the 6000 is a quad processor card w/128Mb RAM, fill rate as quoted above. The price point for the 6000 will be twice that of the 5500, thus putting it out of reach for all but rally hard-core gamers. The 5500 is a leading-edge card that will satisfy most of us for some time. Thus, I hope all those who are considering taking Exodus' advice change their minds. The "new" card he is referring to is one must of us are NOT willing to spend $600.00 for!


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