Buying a new video card but...

[Culex]

I was wondering if you guys knew if a motherboard that is compaditable with the VooDoo 5 can also use a GeForce 4 Ti/MX/FX. Also, I heard the VooDoo 5 is the equivilent of a Geforce 4 TI 4400(or whatever it is), is this true?

 

[DiebytheSword]

Not really, Voodoo 5 is powerful, but the new GeForces kill it easily. There was a Voodoo5 that had 4 GPUs and a ton of memory for the time, but only a handful are around today, and sell for thousands.

As for what you can run, if you have an AGP 1.0 port, the best you can hope for is a TNT2 Ultra, or the Voodoo you have atm. You need AGP 2.0 or 3.0 for the newer cards. Any 8x AGP card might not work in an older 2.0 slot.

 

[lostsoul]

yea Cucumba is right i will rather get a ge-force 4 or wateva BUT if my motherboard accepts voodoo i would rather get that it would run better because of the motherboard configuration

 

[imported_Pemalite]

ok, the Voodoo 5 6000 AGP card with 64mb of ddr ram,was actually faster than the Geforce 4 TI 4200 and Allmost matched but not quite nearing the TI4600. there was only about 100 of these cards ever made and only a 3rd of them are in working order, and if you do find one they will sell for about 3 thousand dollars (Australian) oh yeah its image quality pounded the geforce series into the ground... but 3dfx are dead baught out by NVIDIA (who at the moment seems to be doing a 3dfx job...) you see the voodoo 5 has about 2 - 4 VSA100 cores, working in tandem, the chips are capable of having 32 of them working in tandemn and supports up to 3gb of DDR ram. (I know my voodoo cards) and if just 4 of these little chips are doing their job... only one could imagine if the full 32 were used. the cards main features are as follows: x8 FSAA, 128-bit 2D/3D video acceleration, full T-buffer, hardware 2x/4x Anti-Aliasing, FXT1 and Direct X texture compression, 32-bit color rendering & textures, and a 2048x2048 max resolution, 8-bit stencil buffer, Motion blur, Depth of field, Soft reflections, Soft shadows, and Trilinear mip-map filtering.

 

[Cookster]

Voodoo 5 is not as fast as ti4200.

Where'd you get your stats? I have the voodoo 5. The only way it would be the same speed is if you turned on high graphics for ti4200 with anti aliasing while making the minimal settings for the voodoo.

The voodoo runs about 100 dollars for some reason... I don't know why, but that card is useless from what I've used. My TNT2 about the same smoothness that the voodoo did.

*edit*

Right right right. read the whole thread Cookster! he said 6000...
That I have no expertise on.

 

[[MOD]Vegito]

g-force 4 FX sucks g-force ti-4200 is better then an fx

 

[Culex]

Right, so is there any program that can check which mother board I have or how many slots I have, or do I have to open it up?

 

[imported_Pemalite]

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Voodoo 5 is not as fast as ti4200.

Where'd you get your stats? I have the voodoo 5. The only way it would be the same speed is if you turned on high graphics for ti4200 with anti aliasing while making the minimal settings for the voodoo.

The voodoo runs about 100 dollars for some reason... I don't know why, but that card is useless from what I've used. My TNT2 about the same smoothness that the voodoo did.

*edit*

Right right right. read the whole thread Cookster! he said 6000...
That I have no expertise on.
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What? You Deny my expertise? , lol and btw the voodoo 5 5500 was beaten by the TNT2 in some tests but it also out performed the Geforce 2 ultra and Geforce GTS in 1 TEST! (cant remember but it was one of madonions ) and I do realise how crap that card was at the time... hmmm maybe Matrox might give the competition a run for ther money after the amazing release of the parhelia 512... only time will tell... or better yet... 3dfx come back... (like thats going to happen, lol)
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ok... you have voodoo 5? well you can throw in any card atm... if you have an AGP 2x or better... (which you more than likely do) Just go grab one, if it doesnt work, well return it and sit with what you have at the moment!

 

[DiebytheSword]

Woah, careful slugger . . . AGP 3 spec cards won't even fit in the slot, in addition, the 3.3 volt cards can fry in the slot and board out (not to mention the card). Go get a card that is AGP 2 compliant. Unfortunately for you, this means you are probably at the high end. Your other option is a PCI card . . . but they can perform worse than a AGP even with higher core frequencies.

 

[X-iT_W0uN|)]

I have the Radeon 9700 and it rocks I'f I where you I would get me one off them :devsmile:

 

[Culex]

Yes, thanks for telling me nothing, seeing how I don't even know if its compadible with my motherboard. Thanks a million.

 

[X-iT_W0uN|)]

Check in your Mobo's manual if it support AGP x2 or AGP x4 or AGP x8 then it should work fine:laff:

 

[[MOD]Vegito]

its offcial the drivers that the FX run with cuase texture corruption and the card sucks without them

 

[imported_Pemalite]

yeah, lol the FX card was a complete and utter flop, NVIDIAS 2nd flop actually (NV1 was incompatable with the direct-x standard at the time, which was before 3dfx stormed onto the scene) and the FX card has a tendancy to over heatand cook itself in a 3D screen saver... I guess I will be sticking with my Banshee for awhile, and see what the ATI-NVIDIA war turns out with their next bunch of chips... and dude, you have a Voodoo 5, correct? then you will have quite a good chance of upgrading to the geforce 4... Just try it and read what I have stated above^_^

 

[[MOD]Vegito]

yea my dad gave my mom his video card yes she plays cs and got a new one well he say FX SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[X-iT_W0uN|)]

[MOD]Vegito's right FX does suck i'f you want to get the best and get a RADEON 9600 it cost about $400O_O

 

[imported_Pemalite]

well it comes down to personal choice. the Radeon 9000 is a cheapo car performing between the MX and TI based cards, the 9200 is the next one up, but in my opinion if you want something cheap 9000 is it, if you want price/performance go the 9500pro for performance the 9700pro is it

 

[Culex]

Radeon 9600 is not $400 if you shop around, cearch for Radeon 9600 here, and you will find it for about $143!

But cmon people, this isn't your "OMG TEH INTEL GRAPHIX CONTROLAR ROXXOR MEH BOXXORZZZ!!!1111"

 

[Wangster]

n0000!!! dont listen to all of them!! just wait a lil time, they are making a G-force 5 right this instance! i suggest wait and get the best when out ! or if your motherboard and processor cant handle it, just stick 2 what the others say...

 

[Shin Goku]

a voodoo 5 6000 was only up to par with a geforce 2 pro, or ultra, a 5500 was up to par with a GeForce DDR, but below a GeForce 2 GTS and Voodoo 5 5500 can support up to AGP 4x. but i suggest you getting like a gf4 Ti4200, but if you're really serious into image quality, the gf4 ti4400 or higher is best, ti4200's speed if overclocked can match up to ti4400 easily, but if you use anti-aliasing or anistrophy, it will slow down, but a ti4400 will not slow down as easily. btw check out the geforce fx 5600 or 5600 ultra also, they're as good or better than the gf4 ti4400 and a little bit cheaper. the 5600 has more features than the ti4400, i wouldn't recommend the 5200 it still uses dx8.1.

go to www.pricewatch.com they got a list of different prices from cheapest to most expensive in their categories listed from different stores, make sure to read the descriptions at the right so you know what you're getting. just check it out, and you'll figure it out.