The FIRST EVER SLI Gaming Setup - 3DFX VooDoo II
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7:50 That "reflection" is actually done by copying the "reflected" objects upside down under the floor, and then making the floor plane semitransparent. Neat trick!
Before anyone thinks this is a replacement for Raytracing
no its not, it pulls performance harder than RT ever would given you use actual silicon for dedicated RT hardware.
It just works 😜👍
@@Hyperus
Its realtime. Why would you compare realtime graphics to raytracing?
@@moahammad1mohammad Did you live under a rock for the last year??
Did you for real miss the whole launch of the RTX cards??
Raytracing is NOT bound to being not realtime, has never been that way, it is simply a way to render
@@Hyperus
Preformance wise rasterization is leaps and bounds above raytracing. Preformance wise raytracing is NEVER viable for video gaming.
The floppy sound. The sound of my childhood.
And dial-up sound. Whew!
sounds of a 5¼" floppy drive was a lot chunkier on my old 8bit Atari PC days in the 80s and early 90s. I didn't get a 3½" floppy till i was in DOS and windows on mah bitchn' 286 playing Wolfenstine 3D.
Some of us are old enough to remember games coming on cassette tapes! 3 inch floppy drivers were noisier from memory, but nothing beats the sound of a dial-up modem. Or the frustration of your parents picking up the phone during the 5th attempt to get a connection!
HUGSaLOT Valkyrie I had an “amazing” (as printed on the box) 40mb hard drive in my 286 lol. The screen was almost in colour as well
for me it's the sound of my dad's shitty hp
5:24 that was beautiful. Brought a tear to my eye. Oh for the days when you could hear computers thinking.
Kyle Witter the floppy sound and the bios checksum sound is really amazing
It’s the reason I’m putting a small spinning hard drive in my gaming rig. I just like the sound they make. The older the better.
I'm still going to miss the days of filling up all your PCI slots rather than just some absurdly inefficient monstrosity of a 450w GPU cooler honestly
Now we have lifeless SSDs
5:19 That sound of it whirring to life with all the sounds those old PC's make will always make me feel nostalgic 😋
Dang... that floppy drive grind and the beep... sooo many memories! Yeah I'm old too Linus.
They left out the dial-up modem sound. Pretty sure I could still tell the different speeds from the tones, maybe not, its been a while.
i cried !
for a long time it felt weird when floppy seek was disabled by default in bios.. i always turned it back on. :)
I remember thinking the reflection on the bridge in Unreal was the coolest thing I ever saw in a video game
Same. Blew me away when i first fired up the game. And how the rest of the game looked and played was as mind blowing as Doom and Quake.
I enjoyed the purple(I think it was purple) room a little further into the demo.
Glquake had reflections in mirrors as well.
Unreal was jaw dropping. Needed beefy computer with a 3dFX card but it was worth it. It was a first person shooter that you would spend more time looking at the scenery and skybox than the enemies.
Haha now we have reflection inception (albeit in it's infancy) thanks to real time ray tracing. Can't wait for a few gens and we're looking back on turing as we look back on voodoo cards.
That kind of reflective surface in 1999 is absolutely absurd. Amazing.
nvidia its selling it these days named ray-tracing :D
Deus Ex came out the next year with some of the same reflective surfaces. Not that I could seem them with my old crappy video card. Blew my mind when I finally got a better card and overclocked it. It is still my all time favorite games.
1998, actually.
Two years later, using Unreal engine, hence the same effect.
IneptOrange half life got something to say in 1998
I used to own an Obsidian2 X-24, or a Voodoo2 SLI on one card!
One thing to note about the SLI scaling factor is that the SLI setup was less about doubling your frames in 800x600, and more about adding 1024x768 support while still retaining your full frame rate!
That is sick
9:25
The one thing I learnt this video:
Tech support was better back in the day with support that actually knew tech.
It was actual tech people, getting very good salary for their job. Now it's some random call center in India where they follow a 2-page long troubleshooting manual they can't even read properly..
That start up sequence genuinely out a smile on my face
Michael B That speaker though. Oof, the nostalgia.
Only thing it was missing was the dial-up modem sounds.
that floppy sound was orgasm indulcing.
Indeed
I guess this is what “the christmas morning smell”. I can understand now...
Me in 2019:
SLI has existed for 20 years and received many changes to reach its currents state...
current state of sli :D E A D
@@sirdetmist3204 in what case RTX 2080 Ti is not ebough?!?
Gewel ✔ deep learning programming. To be fair SLi works great for that stuff. I’m talking professional level 4way sli for 2080Tis
@@BasedAsher i think there's something called nvlink
MaelstromExceptions sli will still win in benchmarks but in games it's loosing support cuz of cards like the 2080 ti
Or any 20 series card
It's too difficult to get the sli support in to the game
And also in most cases 1 card is enough
For DEVS it's not worth it
@@GewelReal when you want 144 or 240 fps at high resolutions, and max detail. Most affordable single card solutions cannot keep over 144fps in a lot of games at resolutions above 1440p.
My first build used an 8mb Matrox Millenium II 2d card and the original 4mb Voodoo card. About 6 months later I bought a pair of Voodoo IIs and I was gaming on the most powerful rig at the time. It was an awesome feeling!
ooooh the sound of that PC starting.... the memories!
I remember my buddy's dad had a duel XEON CPU setup with two 500mhz cpus, 96mb edo ram, and dual Voodoo 2s! Blew my young mind....
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Holy shit that's nuts
Andrew Quinn My mind blew when I woke up to a Geforce 4 mx440 as present for doing well in my finals. Was an upgrade from my Riva TNT2
I had one of those
*dual
Dude this is so well explained, brings nostalgia af
Still own (almost) all commercially available 3dfx cards and doing "retro sessions" from time to time :D Got the Voodoo 1 back in 1997 (Diamond Monster 3D and then RealVision Flash 3D for my other PC), then Voodoo 2 in 1998 (Creative Labs Voodoo2), then Voodoo3 in 1999. and Voodoo5 in 2000. (skipped Voodoo4 as it was basically a Voodoo5 with one GPU and half the memory). Those were the days I remember as "golden days" of gaming for me. :)
This guy gets it
I remember going to the Doom Tournaments at our local collage way back in the day, so many computers all lined up, custom builds you could walk around and look at, one dude even had water cooling back then it was so weird to see all homemade parts Everyone was excited to play but they where having issues connecting the LAN , people was playing Magic The Gathering while waiting or playing other video games.. I was playing Jazz Jackrabbit while waiting to play Doom LAN. Ah the memories
And sharing porn collections?
Jazz Jackrabbit 2 still has Online modes thanks to community patches.
5:20 ahhh eargasm!
i haven't heard this sound in loooong time.
daaaamn true as hell
I felt like Argos from The Odyssey my ears perked up my tail wagged and then I died
Yes ! That sound exactly like my old PC from 2000. I couldn't find the same powering on sound on all youtube.
Dddsasul I get to hear that sound every time my Gran needs help with her computer. We tried to get her an
IPad, but it just confused her, so once every month or two I get to hear that old boot sound and that dial time of dial-up connection.
5:20 that sound was amazing. Oh, the feels. Computers are so much more incredible now but I got so much more joy from them back then.
Man, that floppy seek sound, instant flashback. I heard a modem and "You've Got Mail!" all in a row. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
I used to own 3DFX VooDoo card back in the day.
Britec09 me too, and when they went under after the voodoo 2, i was sad
Voodoo2 with a Trident VGA card, on a AMD K6-2 450 here. Quake 2 LAN gamers dream!
Mine is still kicking around. I also had the first GeForce, albeit the DDR memory version.
I also had one. I also had a Voodoo 2 that I bought for N64 emulation which I still own.
The last card I got of this range was a 3DFX VooDoo 5 5500 pci, they was starting to move away from pci to agp, they did do a 3DFX VooDoo 5 5500 agp version but my motherboard did not support it lol
I remember bragging about how my Voodoo3 got hot enough to legally cook meat.
Brian Rich how can you illegally cook meat
joshua lotion stealing meat
*literally
Brian Rich I remember reading about people talking about how they could cook eggs on there voodoo cards 😉😂😂
Now she's legal
I had two Diamond Voodoo II cards. It was so incredible for the time. I only dropped that configuration when the Geforce 2 came out. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
I truly loved this video, Linus you're great, thanks! It bringed back memories of my second PC with win 98 and voodoo2 card, dropped a tear!
I can't just waste money on something so utterly lacking in valid use case atm, but I really want to get an old PC and save it from becoming a sleeper build or landfilled or some other My Little Toaster tier fate and be an actual period correct PC for playing games from back then. The only problem is going to be finding period correct monitors. I loved win98. Win11 is atrocious I had my first experience the other day and it reminded me of interacting with win8 for the first time.
Dat floppy seek nnnnngggghh! Makes me all happy inside.
I never understood what ASMR people meant by the weird tingle they felt, until I heard that sound again. Hot damn.
Vally123 happy and warm inside
lol same.. the 1996 floppy drives are even louder and better
Back when you could fit all your special stuff on one floppy disk and still have room to take it to a friend's house and put something on it they wanted to share with you. I can still remember downloading my first voice chat application, the only limitation was the shitty dial up connection.
It is made even better by the old school HDD spin-up sound.
When Unreal came out , I started playing on software render . Then I read the manual and in the last page was an advertisement on voodoo cards . Went to my local pc store asked about it and they were like , "yeah we have that here you go" . Cant remember the brand , but it was a small yellow box with voodoo dolls on it . Installed it and started up Unreal and I was SHOCKED!!! I have never been so amazed from a video card upgrade since. I guess we got spoiled down the road .
There were 3 moments like that in my life:
1.st Prince of persia 1.
2.nd Voodoo upgrade.
3. Crysis 1.
Im waiting for my 4rth moment. (But to be honest, Unreal Engine 4 can do that in around 1 day of work for a small scene).
You are kidding? Nothing can beat the "call" of a 56K modem trying to connect.
Broadband ruined it.
He was not the devil, He was practice (Batman Begins).
Thanasis Anagnopoulos unreal on a voodoo 2 was, at the time, the most amazing gaming experience ever! Unreal gfx still hold up to new games on lower res. I was playing it the other day for nostalgia.
we dont get that kinda of diffrence anymore just more FPS.
Thank you so much for this video. I had this set up.... and it was awesome.
The Voodoo was always the prettiest rendering classic. My Nividia TNT Stb and Ati couldnt compare to the smooth quality of video. Linus picked up on the water reflections. Amazing! Unreal doesnt have those reflections on my modern Evga card now😕
You better be using a ball mouse
I don't think Linus is a masochist
Specifically, a Microsoft Intellimouse.
LynxAdvert ps/2 or serial only.
Honeywell Ball less two wheel design. best ever
I was a 9 year old Internetcafe counterstrike 1.6 fucker with ps/2 ballmouses,. They tryd to ban me because i had reaction of doom. I just made several spaces infront of my name and they was unable to kick/ban me xD
I still have my two Voodoo 2 12MB cards and they still work.
Feels good.
Holy flippin IRQ conflicts,
look at all those cards!
Just reading "IRQ conflict" triggers my early 00s pc building ptsd
@@mathewhex7045 you had it easy. Win2000 and XP had 256 IRQs, Dos, and Windows 3.0 and 3.1 only had 16. Try running 2 modems and 2- Voodoo 2 cards together with that and a printer in Win98. Before the Video cards had support in Win2000 I had to make due with Win98 and those headaches. I started back in the mid 80's. Back before IDE hard drive when MFM and RLL drives had to be manually configured as well as the controller cards that ran them. Actually, I kinda miss those days.
That is how it was, you needed and used all your pci slots. Only thing here that you could take out was the modem as there were good external ones screaming along at 56k! I still remember this guy I had to play doom and quake online: www.allhdd.com/networking/modem/56k/usrobotics-usr3453c-nrfs/?src=ggl&gclid=CjwKCAjw1cX0BRBmEiwAy9tKHpV3keX_128NaJeh-p2vEyI10Dbhxonpz8PvzbWQAwMMkeHQUpxs5RoCa0sQAvD_BwE
The biggest issue with that setup is getting all the VGA passthrough cables in the correct order, it was a pure nightmare! I had that same setup but also had an MPEG2 decoder card for my DVD drive, which made the whole thing even worse.
It's not so bad. There's a total of 4 IRQs shared across all PCI slots, rigidly assigned one to every slot each by mainboard design, not reassignable, and one of them was always shared with a bunch of onboard devices already on the mainboard, or in case of 5 PCI slots like here, two of them. Windows 95 OSR2 i think could already deal with IRQ sharing quite well, and 98 did for sure. Unfortunately, PCI IRQ sharing needs proper handling in the drivers, and not all drivers for all hardware were initially well-designed in this regard, but if one of the drivers fails to load, you just reshuffle the cards in the slots and it'll be alright. By about 2000, it all shook out and PCI device drivers averse to IRQ sharing became increasingly a non-issue. I also think they put together this computer pretty OK, the PCI Ethernet card, the AGP GPU, and the modem share IRQs, and they'll all be alright with that, and the potentially more finicky Voodoo IIs and Vortex soundcard get their own. I don't know who at the studio was old and clued-in enough to know that you shouldn't stick either of these directly under the AGP socket, but i applaud their (potentially accidental) foresight.
ISA IRQs are always tough, because each ISA card might have several IRQs that it needs, and all slots get access to all IRQs, and no IRQ sharing exists. But ISA IRQs are separate, and this computer has zero ISA cards, and only one ISA socket. I actually think this computer could stand to lose its modem, with the Ethernet card being shuffled in its place, and then you could add an ISA soundcard for more soundcard goodness. I don't think you can have too many soundcards, i had... EWS64, AWE32, GUS ACE, a little Waveblaster of some persuasion and an SB Live all working together at one point. Now that... that's not easy. If you're wondering why the modem needs to go, well, the ISA socket is free, but its bracket is occupied by the Ethernet card. Because PCI and ISA have opposite component sides.
A potential source of driver conflicts here - unrelated to PCI IRQ - would be that the "2D" video card is not 2D at all, can you see the heatsink? I have a sinking feeling that it's a Rage 128 Pro... oooooh boy. Never in the history of hardware has there been anything more aptly named than the Rage series.
I had the 2 VooDoo2 in SLI setup. I remember being so excited in the video card settings where it showed: SLI: DETECTED!!!!!!
I'm still gaming on a Texas Instruments TI-83
Tomanista I'm also still gaming on my TI-84 plus CE-T.
I've got a TI-83 port of Final Fantasy 1 I used to play back in the day, lol.
shit I'm still on a dollar store calculator
Tomanista For godsakes man, at least upgrade to a TI-99 or Commodore 64.
used to play snake and drug wars on the ti-83
That some high quality tech support.
loved it
Boy, looking at my beloved Voodoo2 from 2022. So much joy it brought me. I realize now I never did bring out her true potential pairing her with a Pentium 166Mhz, but man, she was a warrior.
I had the voodoo5 5500 back in the day, my first video card, made a WORLD of difference
I had 2 diamond voodoo II 12mb 's when one of my mates had just bought a Riva tnt. I tell you what, 3dfx were miles ahead of their time. I also had a voodoo3 and voodoo 5 5500 too and that was a monster! First single board multi gpu solution! Nostalgia!!!
Alex Nicholas
I still got that 5500, sealed and waiting for a buyer 🤗
yesterday I found my 90's Creative 3D Blaster Banshee VGA 16MB (SDRAM) PCI BUS ,, haha no fans ,still works like a champ!! :') ... memories
I used my Voodoo Banshee even on my later Pentium3 650MHz because I broke the VGA slot, so I had to revert back to PCI graphics cards :D
Oh wow. I'd totally forgotten that those guys had tried throwing their hat into the 3D accelerator card market!
I had that too!
I actually had a Voodoo Banshee catch on fire with smoke, and flames on me one night about 3am while online in a Lycos chat room(if anyone remembers them I'll be surprised), I had to yank the power cord from the back of my machine, and needless to say I was one sad kid with no decent 3D card in my Windows 98 machine because the internal graphics on my eMachines at the time had a total of 1MB of video ram, lucky for me my mother had pity on me because I had worked so hard at my after school job to buy, and upgrade that little eMachines that a week later after she got paid we went to Comp USA where she bought me a 32MB Nvidia Riva TNT2 PCI card, and it was happy days again. :-)
Installed my banshee. loaded mdk and was mind blown. I also loved the insane jealousy of my playstation owning fans. PC vs console....... times haven't changed much lol.
Got 5 SLI rigs here, along with 5 more individual Voodoo2 systems. Wonderful piece of technology, and a highly nostalgic one!
I had an ISDN connection so I was able to ditch the modem for the Nic card. but that setup is what I achieved in 1998. So glorious. Thanks for the Memories.
That floppy noise is 😍
Voodoo2 actually used higher than 16-bits internally. That makes Voodoo2 16-bit image quality somewhere between 16-bit and 32-bit on the competitors' cards. This was when 32-bit still had too much of a performance cost for many games, so actually 3Dfx was focusing on how to get more image quality without losing too much performance. Glide also supported a lot more features (at playable speeds) than OpenGL and DirectX. The assertion that 3Dfx was focused purely on performance at the cost of features/quality is completely wrong.
This gaming setup brings back so many great memories, especially being able to see through water using glide in quake teamfortress and being a sniper... *fun*
When I was about 6 or 7 this was what I wanted for Christmas. In a weird way, this video fulfills that old childhood wish. Thanks!
Anybody remember the 1 year long PC dust collecting Experiment Luke was running?
Hmm good question, maybe it's a ratnest at this point, or totally forgotten, let's ask Linus?!
Its still running
Nvm the video was launched 8th december but i really hope the project didnt get abandoned for some reason but with all the wood cutting and stuff they did this year those pcs must be dead
Hasn’t been a year yet
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Thx for the throwback ;D
My Creative Voodoo 2 12MB was my baby ... gawd I loved this card!
I had those babies back then :) As I remember it nobody was talking about FPS in those days, it was all about getting higher resolution. So the big thing about SLI was that you got 1048*768 with the same or even a little better performance. That was the highest resolution for most CRT monitors at the time, so you were maxed out.
I had a voodoo 2 16mb card paired with a Cyrix m300, you're really bringing back the UT and Tribes nostalgia!!
@9:48 Linus Sex Tips : "Look at dat SMOOTH ASS BUTTER"
Autocorrect:
@9:48 Linus Tech Tips : "Look at that, SMOOTH IS BETTER"
Tech Phase ass butter is delicious
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Hmm so it's like butter for smooti ass , aaa very nice .
I prefer some PEE & NUT BUTTER
This is a quality video. I love stuff like this from you.
5:20 Never forget this sound!
That hum - whir - buzz - click start up noise was beautiful haha I had to rewind and listen again just for all of the memories 🤗
MO-MO-MO-MO-MO-MONSTER KILL.. kill 💀
Still play this every other day and on Glide too :D, its buggy as shit but holy crap is smooth and fast, looks great especially with a GTX980 at HD res.
KILLING SPREE!!
RAMPAGE!!
Head hunter!
Rocket scientist!
ULTRA KILL!!!
LUDICROUS KILL!
H HH H H HOLY SHIT......HOLY SHIT!!
GOD LIKE!
Something like this anyways haha :D
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GODLIKE
Unreal Tournament is the shit. UT99>>All other UT's
*Reminds me of PhilsComputerLab and LGR...*
Don't forget The 8-bit Guy
Taldren hes not into things like this
+Memer_Rick True... 8bitguy is not in PC stuff... He's in Mac's and commodores...
He does everything. He has a video on a 8088XT PC within the last month.
i legit hoped that clint would have been on the line for 1800 get help
I had a 3dfx voodoo many moons ago... these cards kicked arse in the 90s
i remember all this too well, especialy the hell after you installed drivers in the correct order where you had to play the "which jumper on the motherboard or hdd is lying about not working". And then you had to make sure the different hardware didnt conflict on channels or irq. It was a puzzle from hell. But on the upside you really had a reason to have a nice case for your hardware as you had to open it frequently !
Diamond Rio wasn't the first MP3 player - that glorious distinction goes to SaeHan's MPMan player. Which had a whopping 16MB of memory.
+False Hope Back then songs had less crisp audio quality, which resulted to smaller file size.
+syndencity resulted in*
memory != storage
False Hope No... I encoded my songs each
fluffy yes, but I think he's referring to widely available.
I had 2 x 3DFX Voodoo 2 SLI (12mb and 8mb card (yes it would take different memory sizes with no issues for the SLI)) to play Quake2 at the time to run at 85fps so i could perform all the jumps with vsync off :) my monitor was a CRT at the time which would only do 85hz @ 1027*768 - I had a Pentium 200mmx for CPU and (if i good remember) 96mb edo ram to be able to play neogeo roms at the time :D for internet i was using a US Robotics 56kflex (which would only connect at 33.6kbps... we were in 1998 :D
those were the days!!!!! the SLI cable looked like an IDE cable from a floppy drive. :P
I still remember the settings... on the game i would have to input in the console: cl_maxfps 90 - this would allow me to perform the jumps :D Any real Quake2 player will tell you :P
Sounds like I was a bit behind you time wise :-) I had a pair of Canopus Pure 3D LXII 12 meg cards with a P2 266. 20inch Sony CRT that Silicon Graphics were running back then. It was a fun time back then, always something interesting around the next corner.
Dual Happauge Voodoo II 12mbs in SLI on a dual P-II 350 OC'd to 400 here. 100+ fps @ 1024x768 in the crusher 2 demo
"my monitor was a CRT at the time"
well yeah lol
Back in 1998 my family had...a Pentium 166MHz with no graphics card because we were broke xD Still got to play the greats like Diablo, Quake, Starcraft, etc. I remember looking at ads in PC Gamer for the Voodoo 2 and wishing that we could get one :P
@@NonsensicalSpudz I think I was still using a CRT at the beginning of the 2010s, and it still looked "fine" to me. Mostly because I didn't actually start seriously getting back into gaming until like 2012 with XCOM EU, as there wasn't much compelling on PC with the whole godforsaken consolization era. Even the few games worth playing from that time are basically console ports, like Dead Space and Singularity. So it wasn't like you were going to notice much seriously wrong with it then regardless, because early LCD panels was a bit barbaric and low res anyway.
I had that exact Voodoo II SLI setup and only sold it recently, with a tear in my eye.
trip back to memory lane for me, this is basically my childhood in a nutchell :D loving the vid
I still have my Voodoo 5 5500 pci :-), Asus P3V4X, pentium 800Eb and 1.5Gb of corsair PC133 memory and she still works, man I loved that graphics card
i had a 16gb 3dfx voodoo banshee card and playing need for speed porsche edition and nfs 2 with glide turned on was absolute wonderful to look at.
16GB Voodoo Banshee?!?! Dayum how did you have so much VRAM on one of those?!
I think he meant 16mb 😅
Oh god the nostalgia.... Those sounds when PC's turned on... Gave me chills
The reflection on the bridge is the coolest thing i have ever seen!
I really really like the "new" staff. :)
Maxine, James and the crazy shirtless russian, you are awesome.
Ivan ?
I had the 3DFX VooDoo 1 card back in the dark age's, it was amazing at the time.
This makes me feel so old. 1999 doesn't seem that long ago to me, I was 15 and loved playing Unreal Tournament. But, that was 21 year ago!
Love this blast from the past thank u linus =)
ohhh that unreal tournament ohhh the golden days mmmmmm
Yea that brings a lot of memories
"Golden" you nailed it, those were indeed golden days for me as well.
Its not golden, its still the current UT and people play it a lot online, way more than 2k4, UT3 or even the new UT4 all put together.
9:52 look at that old-school SLI bridge!
Yeah and its upside down
Ribbon cables: the original SLI bridge.
Yeah it's really stressing those pins because of it too
Imagine if 3DFX was still around. Also, I was born in 2000, and those startup sounds made me have a nostalgia trip.
That floppy sound brought SO much memories :-O So concentrated and so unexpected that I almost cried
Love this!!! The voodoo 2 was the first 3d accelerator I ever bought
From what I can remember from win98.. were white cases, gray software interfaces, beeping sounds when the computer and dial-up modems start, and Red Alert 2..
Yup all that, except I was playing Dune 2000 at the time (never played any C&C)
Best RTS ever !!
I spent so many hours playing Dune 2000. It was my favourite game for a long time. Still got the box, manual, and game CD too.
Flight Simulator 98 for me
Ultimate IX! But before the end of the decade was C&C Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 1/2, Starcraft, Dr Brain, everything SCUMM and the one that ended the era for a lot of Voodoo 3's: Sin. I remember the articles complaining how Sin was killing computers left and right but it wasn't the game's fault, slap a decent heatsink on and the problem never occurred. That's why my Voodoo 3 still works, glued a crappy heatsink out of a VCR onto the chipset.
hI had two of these in SLI overclocked - had to point a 4 inch fan at them with the side off to keep em cool... but oh boy the performance boost. Happy memories !
I had 2 of these in the day. I will still stand by the Aureal Vortex being the best 3D POS audio ever made ever!
Calm down its only been 6,205 days since the 24th of october 1999. It wasn't TTHHAATT long ago
Zazno Productions Does that include leap years?
Fun fact, you can legally have sex with someone born in 1999! Hows that for feeling old?
MrCorrectify I can concur. I was born in 1999 and I can now vote as well as have sex with just about anyone I want.
I think this video is a little late-
1998...... OCD intensifies......
This is UNREAL.
I think you mean this is "literally real".
9:36 and you believe than RGB LED doesn't affect the FPS?
Ahh, the good old days. Thank for the trip down nostalgia lane Linus, you rocked it.
I'm a simple man. I see 3Dfx in the title, I like.
Thejebe same here! The voodoo 2 1000 was my first card. Then wnr to voodoo3 and finally voodoo5. Still have all with the original boxes, drivers, manuals.
I was working for HP back then. One of my colleagues managed to get one of the rare Voodoo5 6000 sample cards that had a BIOS on it. We spent nights in the office tryng to get it to run. Never managed tho. I think he sold it and some time later one guy actually managed to get one of those sample cards to run. There is an article on it.
thats complicated xd
Unreal Tournament on my 450mhz Celeron and a Voodoo 3 2000 was my childhood!
This brings back big time memories. Quake II and Unreal with my 3DFX SLI and Overclocked CPU.
i love the startup sound. this good old things
I have a boxed VooDoo II card never opened, prized possession
I still have my voodoo II cards in SLI on an old school rig, still have my voodoo 3000, and even a voodoo 5500 right before the demise of 3dfx. They were stupid to buy a fab, making there own cards and cutting all the 3rd party vendors out... It was there demise.
Nvidea might want that off you, ask them if they will swap it for a couple of the latest titans. worst they could say is NO.
darthdmun I would never give up my piece of pc gaming history
Respect to you for that then :)
Ahhhhh makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. I still have a similar P.C. stashed for use with my RS232 audio devices should the ever need a service :-)
Good old Covox :D
haha same, but for SCSI / audio Sampler loading
I must've refurbished at Least 100 of these machines in the computer store I work for when i was in high school. Great machines.
I've still got both of my Voodoo2 cards! Now you've got me wanting to piece together an old machine with them, ala LGR .
Linus, you forgot one the key players in the 3D accelerator space at that time. Matrox. Their long forgotten now, but they wanted a piece of that gaming pie back then too.
S3 also created the industry standard S3TC back in the day, which was implemented into Direct X and OpenGL till this day. Its patent just expired a few days ago.
vaxick for gaming they were not even in the picture. That said, my 2d card with my diamond monster 3d was a Matrox Millennium with I believe 8MB of WRAM. They were the best for 2d quality at the time.
I remembering enabling S3TC in OpenGL in UT on my GeForce 2 MX 400 64MB... it was like unlocking the frame rate! I eventually switched to a Voodoo 5 5500 after they became dirt cheap (bought an new one for $35 or something like that), less FPS, but it was a way smoother experience.
BlackSmokeDMax Mattox was great back then for 2d, I had that card running with my Voodoo 2 in 1999. I had sworn off diamond cards by that time due to too many issues with their cards and crap drivers. The first diamond card I had was on my 386 dx 40 rig, and despite working with several of their cards over the years they never seemed to get it together as well as the others.
For gaming, nah. But hold my drink while go back in time to edit video on my Matrox DigiSuite.
Cant wait to run pacman with my Dual GTX 1080 Ti 😩👌🏻😩👌🏻😩👌🏻😩👌🏻😩👌🏻
5 fps tho RIP
Minesweeper wouldn't even work
“Funny”
My quad-SLI 1080 Ti on my i9-7980xe can only run Minesweeper on 10fps
Not even SLI wooooow. Low budget build or whaaaat????
As a kid I had a Packard Bell for a while. My uncle taught me how to build PC's so we ended up with a gateway tower running a Pentium 3 at 500mhz, 16GB HDD, 512mb RAM, and a Voodoo 3. At the time it was the cutting edge and I could run anything at 1024x768. I loved that thing, dual DVD drives and all. Windows 98, ME, and XP all ran awesome on her and only a few years ago did I get rid of it. This brings back memories....
It's strange how '16GB' used for the HDD here is now used for describing RAM, and the 512MB RAM mentioned here has become SSD storage. Damn! The numbers just got switched in twenty years.
I always wanted them to let us use 3way SLI and have each card run it’s own screen and then use something like G-Sync to lock them together in timing. One could only wish
I used to have a pair of Voodoo 2 in SLI with S3 Trio 3D as the master back in 1999 and playing Quake III Arena with that.
how to get max performance?
let max do your settings
man that phone thump back on the hook at 9:42 is awesome.
Man those were the times. I actually had 2 VooDoo II. It was super expensive but the first one I bought broke very quickly and while I was eligible to get it replaced for free because it was a warranty issue the store wouldn't give me a straight replacement but said it needed to send it in. Since a LAN party was coming up I actually bit the bullet and bought a second one right away. Once the first one got back I was the proud owner of an SLI system and man did it kick ass. Playing Descent II in 1024 resolution was just mind blowing at the time. It was a stupid amount of money (though considering what high end GPUs go for these days it wasn't even that much) but they lasted me for quite some time and I sure had a lot of fun with them.
I still play UT 99 on my modern PC and it works flawlessly. It looks really great too sometimes even better than some modern gaming titles.
DAT BOOT UP!!!!!!!
This is almost exactly doubles one of my first PCs. Graphics cards and cpus were all over the place at the time, so my PC jumped in specs almost every 2 weeks.
I eventually got a Voodoo Banshee as it was a 3D and 2D card. The main reason for jumping from dual Voodoo 2's to a single banshee was, as you stated, the artifcats seen in Quake 2 and it saved a whole 2 slots over my previous setup. As for Glide... holy shit it was beautiful compared to everything else. The intro to Unreal Tournament shows it off well... oooh shiny etc.
Seeing 3Dmark 2000 again brings back such memories. Opening the window in December, and putting a box fan on the side of my case trying to get a higher score.