The Most Legendary Video Card
by iHugMedia · in General Discussion · 02/10/2006 (12:32 am) · 10 replies
I've been reading up on video cards (going to upgrade soon) and it made me think of the old days, playing Half life with the curtains close on a 15" CRT on a Pentium 2, the fear of Unreal at midnight. Video cards in these days felt like more than a new tyre for your Car, more like 'This is it - NOTHING will EVER be cooler than this - it will change gaming forever!'.
What IYHO, is the most legenday, praised video card of all time.
My vote goes for the Andemantium of Video Cards - The 3DFX Voodoo5, so powerful it needed an external power supply, produced in less that 100 units, The card 3DFX made at the end, when they said 'Fuck It, We're going Bankrupt, Let it all loose!' so rare and scarce I only ever saw it in pictures.
What video cards did you admire?
What IYHO, is the most legenday, praised video card of all time.
My vote goes for the Andemantium of Video Cards - The 3DFX Voodoo5, so powerful it needed an external power supply, produced in less that 100 units, The card 3DFX made at the end, when they said 'Fuck It, We're going Bankrupt, Let it all loose!' so rare and scarce I only ever saw it in pictures.
What video cards did you admire?
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#2
02/10/2006 (12:46 am)
Heh, yeah, i strutted all over town when i got a Voodoo2.. 
#3
02/10/2006 (1:02 am)
I'm partial to the voodoo1 myself, it was the first time you actually got decent 3d acceleration! (and the stopid salesman were trying to push some damn voodoo rush on me!? no way! glquake, voodoo1 and a matrox millenium 2. The best combination ever!) 
#4
this is my story
02/10/2006 (7:27 am)
You mean the voodoo5 6000 as external power supply with the 4 (vsa 100) chip onborad and not the voodoo 5 because i had before the voodoo 5500 with (2 vsa 100) and you need to plug on the power supply inside the computer (30 watts the card need to run) but the voodoo 6 still in use in the big flight simulator machine (they use i think if i remember 6 or 10 of this card in each computer) because i was a big fan of 3dfx and you know the geforce fx take the technologie of the 3dfx to make this card ( because at this time before 3dfx died they was suppose to make another card with the same spec of the geforce fx but at this time it was to expensive to make)this is my story
#5
02/10/2006 (10:29 am)
I have to agree, "voodoo" is the legendary card. i remember first seeing 3d accel in GL QUAKE (using a voodoo 1 i think), and thinking how impossibly awesome the graphics looked.
#6
I'll agree Voodoo 1 should be the winner because it introduced the piggyback programmable GPU.
But as far as the revolution of GPU tool power. The 6800 is the emotion tool that it still just being tapped.
02/10/2006 (2:40 pm)
The 6800 was the biggest thing so far. Why you ask? The ablity to do real time HDR lighting and 225 million transistors. As far as a tool it was a revolution that was underplayed by people like ATI because developers have not yet caught up to the full potential of Shader Model 3.0.I'll agree Voodoo 1 should be the winner because it introduced the piggyback programmable GPU.
But as far as the revolution of GPU tool power. The 6800 is the emotion tool that it still just being tapped.
#7
02/10/2006 (4:57 pm)
My 9600XT can do realtime HDR, SM2.0 is the minimum requirement for that in most modern games.
#8
02/11/2006 (3:21 pm)
I am talking about Nvidia's True HDR implementation. Sorry if I didn't make that clear. The 6800 is a far superior GPU to a 9600 in all due respect.
#9
02/11/2006 (3:59 pm)
True HDR can't be utilised on a video card, thats Pseudo-HDR. For True HDR you need an HDR monitor from BrightSide Technology. 
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