Opening a NEW Voodoo 3 3500 TV AGP Graphics Card

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  • @LGRBlerbs
    @LGRBlerbs  4 роки тому +1678

    Since I've already gotten messages saying unsealing old stuff is just an _awful_ thing to do, here's some context. This is the only 3500 TV I've found complete in box under $300 after years of looking. Being sealed was a nice bonus but it was never gonna stay that way, that's not how I do things :)
    The whole reason I bought this was to open it up, thoroughly enjoy it, document the experience, and eventually give it the LGR treatment by sharing some fun videos with the world! I've never had an interest in paying good money for old hardware and software only to keep it locked in a cellophane prison forever.

    • @joshreiman
      @joshreiman 4 роки тому +113

      As you should! It filled me with joy to watch this unboxing. Back in the day I had to settle for the 3000 since I really couldn't afford the 3500 TV, that and I already had a WinTV card in my machine at the time for capture and TV tuner goodness. What's really neat is that you got this card from 15 miles away from where I live lol. Keep up the good work man, this video made my day. Cheers!

    • @realnikb
      @realnikb 4 роки тому +64

      Honestly part of the charm of blerbs and your main channel is seeing old cards and hardware from my childhood that I owned or wanted and seeing it used!
      Getting old hardware like this and using it... or at least seeing you do that is like being a kid at Christmas again!
      Keep doing what you love.

    • @solsticeprojekt1937
      @solsticeprojekt1937 4 роки тому +85

      There's no need to defend yourself against Haters. This is great! Btw, when this has a TV-in, doesn't that mean you can plug a c64 or Amiga into this card?

    • @helldog3105
      @helldog3105 4 роки тому +74

      What's the point of buying a video card if you aren't going to use it? I understand some collectors like to keep their stuff sealed, but I collect to use, not to just sit on a shelf, and as such I would have opened this card as well. I however already have one of these, and a couple other Voodoo 3 cards, so I'm already set. I hope you enjoy it. It's a bit of a fascinating card. Now I'm off to find a Voodoo 4 card.

    • @steveholland1163
      @steveholland1163 4 роки тому +3

      i didnt have a issue with it i was just curious

  • @thriftjunkgaming1670
    @thriftjunkgaming1670 4 роки тому +72

    "I haven't seen one of these in at least 20 years"
    Me in 20 years when I finally get a 3090

  • @joelandjake
    @joelandjake 4 роки тому +891

    Techtubers: *"RTX 3080 Benchmarks are here! Embargo is lifted!"*
    LGR: *"Voodoo 3 3500 is here! My soul is lifted!"*

    • @Brianreese83
      @Brianreese83 4 роки тому +19

      much more entertaining content over here. and no being let down someone lied and said the voodoo 3 isnt as powerful as they said it was originally.

    • @Raguleader
      @Raguleader 4 роки тому +6

      @Cheesy_Burrito322 it's a video hose lol

    • @blakecasimir
      @blakecasimir 4 роки тому +2

      I'm so glad I'm not the only one that thought this 😁

    • @SlocumJoe7740
      @SlocumJoe7740 4 роки тому +15

      LGR also smelled the Card, it's something we are missing from other UA-camrs.

    • @Cinkodacs
      @Cinkodacs 4 роки тому +1

      @@SlocumJoe7740 If I remember right Jayztwocents was smelling the box when he opened it, if that counts for something.

  • @trptmbalmer
    @trptmbalmer 4 роки тому +57

    I had one of these in college. I *LOVED* it. The AV pod that came with it got used to provide video in from my Dreamcast so I could play it on my monitor. I ran my cable box into the TV antenna input and used my computer as an all-in-one media center before all-in-one media centers were a thing. It was a perfect thing for a college student with a decent enough PC.

    • @almostkinda
      @almostkinda 4 роки тому +3

      Sound like a fantastic product!!

    • @DFX2KX
      @DFX2KX 4 роки тому +1

      I imagine it was as convenient to use as my old Avermedia TV tuner was before it keeled. nice to be able to pick up local stations without having to fight garbage local station streaming sites, but you still get the local news...

    • @TattiePeeler
      @TattiePeeler 4 роки тому +2

      Exact same thing here, PlayStation plugged into an ATi All in Wonder. So convenient at the time. Everything on one monitor.

    • @DoubleMonoLR
      @DoubleMonoLR Рік тому

      Would've been even better to get a VGA adaptor for the Dreamcast though, Dreamcast games looked fantastic over VGA on a CRT monitor.

    • @trptmbalmer
      @trptmbalmer Рік тому

      @@DoubleMonoLR I was aware of the VGA adapter, but at the time it was too expensive to add in with everything else I had bought at the time. I was using the S-Vid output from the Dreamcast into the V3500, and it was still gorgeous. Better than anything I had ever had previously.

  • @Typo205
    @Typo205 4 роки тому +143

    Clint is like my therapy. His voice and vids calm the hell outta me. Even if I don't know 70% of what he's talking about, Im learning over time and connecting dots and learning lore and its all so relaxing. Whenever Im having a hard day or just need relaxing entertainment, Clint always seems to know.
    Thanks, LGR

    • @TheSykoRC
      @TheSykoRC 4 роки тому +10

      I totally agree. Today was... pretty tough.
      Edit: typos

    • @patrickmcnamee8766
      @patrickmcnamee8766 4 роки тому +10

      @@TheSykoRC Sorry you had a rough day. I hope it gets better.

    • @ahandsomefridge
      @ahandsomefridge 4 роки тому +8

      That's the sole reason I watch YT videos anyway: to ease the mind :) Of course, it helps a lot more when it's done by someone with unbridled passion for retro tech and gaming, a ton of knowledge and presentation skills, a pleasant and friendly attitude and a sweet Duke voice to boot.

    • @Judge-V
      @Judge-V 4 роки тому +1

      @@TheSykoRC just power it through man, it will get better!

    • @almostkinda
      @almostkinda 4 роки тому

      Same. Know absolutely nothing about pre 2010 computer parts. But still on the edge of my seat every video. It's like watching your dad open something from childhood. You get to enjoy it by seeing how happy they are.

  • @TheInfinitySystem
    @TheInfinitySystem 4 роки тому +73

    "Should send it to Epic, see what they do."
    This is why we love you, LGR.

    • @brokensprog
      @brokensprog 4 роки тому +18

      I seriously hope he sends it off, if they did literally anything in response it would be a hoot.

    • @LibraDeer
      @LibraDeer 4 роки тому +8

      @@brokensprog It's Epic today, they put that franchise in the grave

    • @grindycore3438
      @grindycore3438 4 роки тому +5

      ​@@LibraDeer I bet they will give him a copy of the game,it's free publicity.

  • @seoulpurpose
    @seoulpurpose 4 роки тому +127

    This card was the first thing I ever purchased on eBay, over 20 years ago. I used it for years, and captured hundreds of hours of footage through the composite cables to edit together a skate video that just reeks of early aughts and VHS 'aesthetic'. Such fond memories.

    • @seoulpurpose
      @seoulpurpose 4 роки тому +3

      @@vola-2899 I mostly bought it because my Voodoo 1 was really struggling with the latest demos from PC Gamer discs. But the first games it really shone with for me were Deus Ex and Porsche Unleashed

    • @warrax111
      @warrax111 4 роки тому

      @@vola-2899 nope, for half-life , voodoo2 was completly enough. this card was bought to play later '99 games, and in 1024x768. voodoo2 had to be SLId to get 1024x768.
      anyway, this was not card worth to buy. voodoo3 3000 was way to go, it could be overclocked to 3500 level.
      but best card to buy, was 3dfx velocity . it could be unlocked to vooodoo3 2000 performance level., but was much cheaper. This was way to go in '99 for better perf/cost ratio.

    • @warrax111
      @warrax111 4 роки тому

      @@vola-2899 btw interesting fact: if you bought 3dfx velocity in that era, and didnt sell it after next upgrade, you would basically didnt lose so much money as it's price went up in last decade. :) And for that time, you could let it inside retro computer based on PII or PIII, for win98 retro gaming pc, so it was even useful all that time.
      Those cards can go up to 100$ on ebay. All 3dfx cards were legendary by it's durability. I have voodoo3 3000 to this day, serving 20 years in retro computer.

    • @Penoatle
      @Penoatle 4 роки тому

      What music did you use for said aesthetics?
      I am guessing anything off Hybrid Theory.

    • @jedimindtrix2142
      @jedimindtrix2142 4 роки тому

      @@warrax111 I got a VooDoo 3 for HL1...wait...maybe it was the 2. Damn. Lol.

  • @talideon
    @talideon 4 роки тому +48

    That slip that read "Déclaration de Conformité CE" is actually to do with the European Union (or more correctly at the time, the European Community), and refers to the "Council Directive 92/31/EEC of 28 April 1992 amending Directive 89/336/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electromagnetic compatibility". So it's like the European equivalent of those FCC notices.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 4 роки тому +5

      was gonna say this if you hadn't :D saw CE and immediately knew it was the Communité European (especially with the EEC after)

  • @c3pu333
    @c3pu333 4 роки тому +204

    My youtube feed today:
    RTX 3080
    RTX 3080
    RTX 3080
    RTX 3080
    RTX 3080
    RTX 3080
    Boring!
    ...
    Voodoo 3 3500
    Frack yea gimme some of that!

    • @DEFkon001
      @DEFkon001 4 роки тому +4

      When you bought a Voodoo you got Unreal + Unreal Tournament ( I think I got a MechWarrior game with my Voodoo 2 )
      When you "bought" an RTX 3080 you got: Apologies, frustration, and hype ( or ripped off ).
      Maybe they should offer free copies of Cyberpunk 2077 & MS Flight Sim 2020 to stay competitive with the Voodoo's :P

    • @camotech1314
      @camotech1314 3 роки тому

      Stop watching 3080 videos then lul.
      PS. I bought a 6600XT coz everything else costs a leg and a kidney right now.

    • @c3pu333
      @c3pu333 3 роки тому

      @@camotech1314 never said i was watching them ;)

  • @QCJSiteB
    @QCJSiteB 4 роки тому +18

    I'm glad you opened it. Leaving things sealed is lame and defeats the point of things.

  • @OnlineWithRyanB
    @OnlineWithRyanB 4 роки тому +61

    The color scheme of the pod looks like it would go perfectly with the hot wheels pc. I'm so happy you get to experience nostalgia opening old new products for a living. That's the dream!

    • @Karmy.
      @Karmy. 4 роки тому

      He should totally install this silly thing in the Hot Wheels PC!

  • @m10199
    @m10199 4 роки тому +12

    Never commented on a youtube video before - making an exception to say this really brings back memories of the year 2000 and persuading my parents to spend £150 on exactly this video card. Unlocked a whole world of games, especially Glide-based - UT99, Deus Ex etc. Good times!
    Edit - the thing in French is for the EU.

  • @feieralarm
    @feieralarm 4 роки тому +175

    Nice to see the thick cable. That meas they actually cared about crosstalk and signal integrity.

    • @pistool1
      @pistool1 4 роки тому +7

      Those were the days of innocence with RivaTNT 16MB, later upgraded to RivaTNT2 32MB VRAM :D

    • @bdwilcox
      @bdwilcox 4 роки тому +34

      There's a historical reason for the overkill. With the Voodoo1 and Voodoo2, you had to use a pass-through cable to your 2D video card and people constantly complained that it degraded their image quality. 3DFX flatly denied it caused signal degradation and showed comparisons between the consumer cable and a laboratory quality cable, but they got blamed anyway. With the 3500, they went overboard with the shielding to deflect any blame that their cable was degrading the signal. In other words, "you want it, ya' got it...in spades."

    • @Christopher-N
      @Christopher-N 4 роки тому +2

      (faux Bavarian accent) And he can compare it to his pinkies-this is not a sissy girly cable.

    • @chuckthompson1459
      @chuckthompson1459 4 роки тому

      They make a wonderful thing called a P&D adapter that allows you to not have to use this silly thing. They're only a few bucks.

  • @mattb154
    @mattb154 4 роки тому +76

    When Clint said "no sense wasting time, it's been sitting there for 21 years", that hit different.
    Has it really been this long? Where'd the time go?
    I didn't realise it at the time, but the Winamp era was a golden age of wonder and possibility for personal computing.

    • @Penoatle
      @Penoatle 4 роки тому +19

      I still use WinAmp to play MP3s.

    • @adamrkimber
      @adamrkimber 4 роки тому +3

      @@Penoatle Me too! 😊

    • @Ongomar
      @Ongomar 3 роки тому +3

      It really whips the llama’s ass!

  • @mrmorot
    @mrmorot 4 роки тому +159

    You should ABSOLUTELY send the coupon to Epic! Then do another video when they reply!

  • @scienquist
    @scienquist 4 роки тому +3

    Why is it so satisfying watching you open stuff? It must be the attention to detail. It feels like such a complete experience. I actually enjoy watching you open up stuff more than opening it myself.

  • @forestine_
    @forestine_ 4 роки тому +18

    Nothing on the box could have prepared me for the sheer chonkiness of The Pod™

  • @weaseal
    @weaseal 4 роки тому +5

    I love how you treat these bits of hardware with the exact same reverence as I would, were I in the position to collect such awesome bits of history. Don't fret the folks saying you shouldn't open these things, it's a crime to deny them their purpose after so many years!

  • @feieralarm
    @feieralarm 4 роки тому +25

    The French side was the declaration of conformity for the European Economic Area. It's just says that it passed the requirements to legally have a CE marking.

  • @KyleRuggles
    @KyleRuggles 4 роки тому +11

    OMG I miss these days! My first 3d accelerator was the Matrox Mystique! then got the 3dfx Banshee! 3dfx and 2d combined!, then upped to an ATI radeon 7200.. That feeling... knowing there were so many different 3d cards.
    Rendition Verite, PowerVR, Matrox, 3dFX, S3 Virge, we had so many options back then.
    Good times.

  • @drrenhoek
    @drrenhoek 4 роки тому +16

    Love this card. Still, have it sitting in my closet. Made full use of the tuner, removing the need for a TV in my room back in the day.

  • @LonSeidman
    @LonSeidman 4 роки тому +187

    I'm ok with you unsealing things. In fact I'm more than ok I love watching these. You are the tech version of Steve1989 who does the MRE's! This thing looks uber cool, the breakout box reminds me of the one that came with my Matrox realtime video editing card I used around that time period.

    • @jamezxh
      @jamezxh 4 роки тому

      lets not forget the fat Hercules game Theater XP Breakout box

    • @Gohan1138
      @Gohan1138 4 роки тому +18

      im going to put my comment onto a tray, nice

    • @DonaldMohrMusic
      @DonaldMohrMusic 4 роки тому +1

      It's awesome that I see you here. I love your channel.

    • @elitezararus286
      @elitezararus286 4 роки тому +4

      Nice Hiss

    • @antondzajajurca7797
      @antondzajajurca7797 4 роки тому +2

      All right! :)

  • @alextirrellRI
    @alextirrellRI 4 роки тому +57

    Me: Is he going to smell it? Is he going to smell it?
    LGR: [Smells it]

    • @fraggit
      @fraggit 4 роки тому +4

      When he first opened it, I'm saying, smell it, smell it, mother of god, tell me how it smells.

    • @Choom2077
      @Choom2077 4 роки тому

      @@fraggit I have that problem too. I smell everything I buy. GPUs, CPUs, toys. You name it, I smell it.

    • @LadislavAlexa
      @LadislavAlexa 4 роки тому

      9:33 Oh yeeeeaaah! That's goood! :D

  • @pedrofelck
    @pedrofelck 4 роки тому

    I get why some people may like to keep sealed boxes, but I love this thing LGR do, he documents the unboxing that can be the only one on UA-cam, specially in this resolution and quality. This is a way better way of keeping the legacy of old pieces of tech than just keeping it sealed in a personal museum.

  • @IanThatMetalBassist
    @IanThatMetalBassist 4 роки тому +31

    That "DVI" port is a VESA Enhanced Video Connector by the looks of it. I have an old ATI card that uses the same connection.

    • @juanignacioaschura9437
      @juanignacioaschura9437 4 роки тому +8

      VESA Plug & Display, actually. Quite similar to the EVC.

    • @ville_syrjala
      @ville_syrjala 4 роки тому +9

      IIRC EVC and P&D share the same physical connector. EVC carried more analog signals, P&D replaced those with TMDS. I have some old Matrox cards/addons with P&D, which can be hooked up to DVI/HDMI with a simple passive adapter. Can't immediately spot an external TMDS transmitter chip on this Voodoo3 board so not sure it's P&D. Or does the Voodoo3 have a builtin TMDS transmitter?

    • @LGRBlerbs
      @LGRBlerbs  4 роки тому +14

      Nice, thanks for the info! First time hearing about it, that's awesome.

    • @megadog_
      @megadog_ 4 роки тому +4

      The pin out is identical to P&D but the dimensions of the plug are slightly different. I recently pulled my old 3500 out from my parents’ storage, but I couldn’t find the pod. So I bought an analog P&D to VGA adapter, used some pliers to get the plug to fit, and it works perfectly.

    • @Psythik
      @Psythik 4 роки тому +2

      @@LGRBlerbs Plug a DVI monitor into this GPU and report back with what happens. I want to know *SO* badly!

  • @SLeePYG727860
    @SLeePYG727860 2 роки тому

    It was a pleasure experiencing this with you. Wanted one of these so bad when I was like 9. Thank you.

  • @JPR3D
    @JPR3D 4 роки тому +9

    Man, I miss browsing electronics stores' computer sections and seeing all the graphics cards on the shelves, especially with how ExTrEmE they went with the box art. It was like a gallery of 90's awesome.
    "Does your graphics card have an FM radio? I think not!" - I had to pause the video to stop laughing

    • @digiowl9599
      @digiowl9599 4 роки тому +1

      I miss them stores, full stop. Now it is all Amazon, Newegg and similar, because actually stocking "specialist" products is expensive for B&M stores.

  • @DarKnightKilla13
    @DarKnightKilla13 4 роки тому

    Just want to say, I have had so much fun over the past few weeks/months going over both the Blerbs and regular LGR videos. It rekindled my fire for everything I have that is ancient in my basement that I need to fix up, including an old Tandy 1992 Windows 3.1 PC, and the first PC I ever had, an IBM Aptiva Multimedia PC from 1993-94ish also running Windows 3.1 and OS/2. I might've stated that before, sorry if so... but it just really gets my gears grinding to figure it out. I love old tech, and this brings back so many memories as does many of your videos. Keep doing you, keep it up, and thank you so much.

  • @2packs4sure
    @2packs4sure 4 роки тому +6

    My first computer's graphics card,, I picked it specifically for the tv tuner feature and used it often.

  • @xCube187
    @xCube187 4 роки тому

    Putting this video out today at the end of NDA for the RTX 3080 deserves you a golden medal and a place in the hall of fame of UA-cam :D .

  • @DarthTella
    @DarthTella 4 роки тому +6

    *Every tech company in the late 90's early 00's:* We must make even more brightly coloured chunky plastic things! Everyone loves those! They'll never go out of style!

  • @speedus98
    @speedus98 4 роки тому

    Nice unboxing, took me back quite a few years. Glad to see that you have it unboxed, now get that beast in a PC and cant wait to see what you do with it.

  • @Darxide23
    @Darxide23 4 роки тому +5

    I remember lusting after the Voodoo line for a while. The Voodoo 3 3000 was the first one I bought. I had just turned 18 and had a fairly high paying job doing tech support in a call center. $10.50 an hour in 1999 was a lot of money for an 18 year old and my very first paycheck went to that Voodoo 3 and an 80GB Quantum Fireball hard drive that I bought from a Fry's Electronics. Getting home and starting up Quake 2 in Glide mode for the very first time was an out of body experience.

    • @scottdavio3716
      @scottdavio3716 4 роки тому +1

      Oh the memories! The frame rates you could get in Quake 2 with a Voodoo 3-3000 were great - and if you had a low latency connection like a cable modem back then game play was as smooth as butter. The one supposed drawback back then was that the Voodoo 3 used 16 bit color values while NVIDIA was rendering in 32 bit although at around half the frame rate the Voodoo 3. There were many late night arguments over this silly issue.

    • @Darxide23
      @Darxide23 4 роки тому

      @@scottdavio3716 16 bit vs 24/32 bit color depth is kind of a silly issue before the ubiquity of HD textures and displays. In the late 90s/early 00s even the most hardcore videophiles would be hard-pressed to tell the difference on era appropriate games and displays. It was there, but really insignificant. Of course this all changed a few short years later in the mid to late 00s, but that's neither here nor there.
      But I preferred spending my time racking up frags in Chaos Deathmatch or some other wacky Quake 2 mod.

  • @Vaskomyr
    @Vaskomyr 4 роки тому

    Everyone dropping 3080 benchmarks, Clint "hold my beer, 3dfx 3500!" Nib. Can't wait for the follow up always love seeing the old new stock stuff, makes me wanna build a rig for older games that just don't play nice with the new hardware, or at all in some cases. Keep'em coming Clint!

  • @Ultranist
    @Ultranist 4 роки тому +48

    everyone else rtx 3080
    LGR: old ass hardware 😆

    • @jayhill2193
      @jayhill2193 4 роки тому +5

      does the 3080 have FM radio support? I don't think so, this is obviously far superior ;P

    • @DKJones96
      @DKJones96 4 роки тому +1

      I still play UT99 almost daily on a Voodoo 3 2000. It's an on-board Voodoo with 8MB of video ram, casual overclock to 166 making it like a 3000. Even still plays online servers as long as they don't hate Windows 98.

    • @MrZeljko88
      @MrZeljko88 4 роки тому

      @@DKJones96 I play UT daily one A titan x.

  • @Z1M0Z1M
    @Z1M0Z1M 4 роки тому

    That brings back memories. I was the computer sales manager at The Office Depot back in 1999 and when this came in I had hid one of them to I could buy after my shift. Sold out in one day where I worked. Awesome card plus having TV through my Sony Trinitron Flat CRT was cool too. Thanks for the flash back.

  • @faydetoblack
    @faydetoblack 4 роки тому +7

    "SNIFF! Aw yeah that's good!" That was perfect.

  • @teejay818
    @teejay818 3 роки тому

    Omg, until I saw that thicc blue cable, I had forgotten that I totally owned this card in college! I was working at a computer store at the time, and used my paychecks to buy a couple parts at a time to build my dream game machine :)
    Because of my love of this card, I remained a holdout on switching to 32-bit graphics cards for probably too long lol.
    I totally watched cable on the TV tuner too! My computer monitor was the only TV in my dorm’s bedroom!
    Thanks for taking me down memory lane.

  • @omeysalvi
    @omeysalvi 4 роки тому +61

    Everybody else: Here is the RTX 3080
    LGR: This video card from when I was in middle school

    • @James_Yorkshire
      @James_Yorkshire 4 роки тому +1

      Was just about to post the same thing so LGR!

  • @PatrickTorsell
    @PatrickTorsell 4 роки тому

    The Voodoo3 3500 TV was my first serious video card. It was an eBay purchase, and sadly didn't come with the pod/dongle. I spent weeks sourcing a P&D to VGA adapter just to get it up and running. I did eventually find a pod to get all of the I/O functionality. Wow. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

  • @Argooh
    @Argooh 4 роки тому +36

    Send that Unreal voucher... (Palpatines voice) Do it.

    • @uglify1325
      @uglify1325 3 роки тому

      Who the hell is palpatines-

  • @jonnygg6594
    @jonnygg6594 4 роки тому

    Thanks for opening it and showing us whats inside LGR! You didn't have to but you did! Thanks.

  • @locust76
    @locust76 4 роки тому +8

    I was curious, because I don't really ever see "X Triangles/Sec" advertised as a spec for GPUs anymore, I kind of thought maybe the number had become so high that it was irrelevant. Boy was I right. I found an article talking about Nvidia's Mesh Shading technique new to Turing GPUs. The RTX 2080 can render 17 _billion_ triangles per second for a performance increase vs the Voodoo3 3500 of 2,125x

    • @glytchd
      @glytchd 4 роки тому

      Thx for that info-bit! I was just wondering about that.. My goodness. I recall being amazed by how much Vid cards had jumped in just 4 years. ty 3dFX for our modern era of PC gaming.
      I dont think ppl these even understand what Triangles mean. 8 Million was brilliant.
      I've still got my Voodoo3 3000 PCI card from Bestbuy in a system with an Evergreen Processor! Pentium MMX 233 running at 300mhz Cool clean & Stable!

  • @norcalrallyx
    @norcalrallyx 4 роки тому +1

    I swear I've seen that Voodoo man every year since 1998, but he was haunting my dreams. The glorious graphics card isle at Fry's Electronics filled with Voodoo 2's and 3's had an impact on me as well!

  • @Mico605
    @Mico605 4 роки тому +6

    Back in the day we had TV and FM radio in our GPUs, now we have raytracing in quake 2 and minecraft on our GPUs

    • @Chaos89P
      @Chaos89P 4 роки тому

      FM tuners needs to return to inside computers. I know they're in smartphones, but still.

  • @seedmurda666
    @seedmurda666 3 роки тому +1

    As soon as I saw how you were cutting the cellophane... I already knew what you were doing. That shit made me laugh soo hard 🤣 I thought I was the only one who did that...

  • @iHawke
    @iHawke 4 роки тому +43

    tech channels on youtube: GTX 3080
    LGR Blerbs: Voodoo 3

    • @jayhill2193
      @jayhill2193 4 роки тому +6

      Nvidia fanboys would scrutinize you for calling the 3000 series "GTX" lol

    • @wich1
      @wich1 4 роки тому

      JayHill nvidia fanboy :p

  • @dreamscape9295
    @dreamscape9295 4 роки тому

    This is a really calming video, the sounds of the box and the contents really set me at ease in a way

  • @Blutwind
    @Blutwind 4 роки тому +79

    LGR cuts open a sealed box of anything
    Wierd collector dudes: Angry noises
    Me: Happy noises

  • @jaredtomblin3312
    @jaredtomblin3312 Рік тому +1

    Thank you for sharing, Mr. Clint. Boxes are made to be opened. If I put something into a box with no intention to open it again, I would call it a coffin.

  • @primitivepatterns
    @primitivepatterns 4 роки тому +3

    every youtube tech influencer i've seen today: alright today we are lucky enough to be unboxing an RTX 3080
    LGR: alright today we are lucky enough to be unboxing a Voodoo 3 3500 TV AGP graphics card

  • @Tr00st
    @Tr00st 4 роки тому +2

    This brought back some lovely memories. We had one of these back when I was a kid - the massive cable-wart-thing made it one of the most unique peripherals I've ever used. Never really got all of the functions running at the time, but it was still a decent enough graphics card with some fun toys to play with.

  • @j.m.74
    @j.m.74 4 роки тому +6

    LGR: "It's from Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, wherever that is."
    Me, thinking to myself... It's about 11 miles North of Minneapolis.

  • @Saltbreather
    @Saltbreather 4 роки тому

    That unboxing was straight up GPU ASMR. Definitely soothing as I sit here with a 3080 shaped hole in my heart.

  • @EDVandreas
    @EDVandreas 4 роки тому +10

    I bought this card on release and paid a fortune for it. But I loved the card escpecially the TV-Tuner.

    • @patrickmcnamee8766
      @patrickmcnamee8766 4 роки тому +2

      This card was the first time I was able to watch TV on my PC. It was in an absurdly small window, but it worked.

  • @NotMorganFreeman.
    @NotMorganFreeman. 4 роки тому

    Funny, I used to get so excited over new voodoo cards, and nowadays I'm like, yeah ok 2080, 3080 whatever. This takes me back. Great vid.

  • @Dream0Asylum
    @Dream0Asylum 4 роки тому +4

    The second graphics card I ever bought, it replaced a voodoo 2 that I bought to run cutting edge 3d games like Star Trek Armada and Vampire the Masquerade: Redemption. Man, seems like yesterday. The TV tuner I used to record stuff I was missing in primetime working the late shift. If I recorded more than 1hr, the audio desync would be so bad it'd be like watching a dubbed film.

  • @dwareb
    @dwareb 4 роки тому +2

    I had one of these. It was probably my favorite video card I ever owned. It was reliable, and actually remained fairly quick for a long time. Plus the ability to record clips off of broadcast television was pretty darn cool in 1999.

    • @secundus6457
      @secundus6457 Рік тому

      "It was probably my favorite video card I ever owned" - no wonder, it's a legend.

  • @edsiefker1301
    @edsiefker1301 4 роки тому +57

    Dude, that's 1337.

  • @OMGrant
    @OMGrant 4 роки тому

    WOW! I won this card at a big lan party when I was 13... I'm now 34 :)
    Thanks for unboxing this. Brought back memories :)

  • @darthv72
    @darthv72 4 роки тому +7

    Takes a big ole drag off the new card smell.... "Ohhh that's good"

  • @lanewin
    @lanewin 4 роки тому

    Oh my god this brings back a boatload of nostalgia! My dad got one of these as a thank you from a hardware supplier he bought computers and other gear from for work but he could never get it to work right in our home computer. About six years later I dug this out of a cabinet because I REALLY wanted a TV in my room but I didn't have money to actually buy a TV. What I did have, though, was this card, a mothballed Pentium II rig, and Sony Trinitron 500PS that had been collecting dust in the garage.
    I spent a week tracking down working drivers for this and the grab bag of hardware in that box to run in Windows 98. The end result was the most stupidly over-engineered cable TV setup ever and it was AWESOME. It's been something like fourteen years since I put that monstrosity together and it remains my favorite PC project ever.

    • @kennysboat4432
      @kennysboat4432 4 роки тому

      thats a really cool story. do you still have it?

    • @lanewin
      @lanewin 4 роки тому

      @@kennysboat4432 Oh man I wish I did. A few years after I built that thing Happauge introduced TV tuner solutions, then DVD players with coax-in and HDMI out showed up on the marketplace. I recycled that computer without, sadly, a second thought. With retrotech like this, you sadly don't realize how special the hardware was until years and years after the fact.

    • @kennysboat4432
      @kennysboat4432 4 роки тому

      @@lanewin yep! people recycle things and dont even think about the consequences. lol. us collectors would be happy to take stuff off their hands.

  • @troytakesphotos
    @troytakesphotos 4 роки тому +3

    Me: When is he going to smell it?
    LGR @9:32: “I can smell it too. (sniffs)”
    Me: And there it is.

  • @patrickmcnamee8766
    @patrickmcnamee8766 4 роки тому

    The Voodoo 3 3500 was the very first GPU I bought. I used to refer to that hefty blue dongle as my "Home Defense Mace". Not only was it huge n' heavy, it was on a 6' cable! Boy did this video kick me square in the nostalgia! Thank you.

  • @AlexiBexi
    @AlexiBexi 4 роки тому +39

    unsealing things is completely fine. don't see a problem. these things are going to be complete useless in the near future anyway, unless you REALLY need to have old technology for some reason. so why keeping is unused all the time? love your vids!

    • @chinchy111
      @chinchy111 4 роки тому +7

      They are already completely useless

    • @TheGauges420
      @TheGauges420 4 роки тому +8

      The purpose of sealed is literally to accrue value over time. If it had been opened all this time, would it (generally) be worth anything? Not usually. Some rare cases of opened items being worth just as much as sealed, but not many. Pretty sure collectors want to purchase something with the comfort of KNOWING it's never been used, whereas with something opened, if the person SAYS it's never been used, it just cant be proven.

    • @DoubleMonoLR
      @DoubleMonoLR Рік тому

      @@TheGauges420 It would definitely be worth something, but yeah, not as much.

    • @fadjeb8254
      @fadjeb8254 9 місяців тому

      Hey Alexi hab dich hier jetzt nicht erwartet 😄

  • @elbagofcarp
    @elbagofcarp 4 роки тому

    I still remember on back of one of the voodo card boxes it had this quote i will never forget. Feel the visual waves of happiness flow over you.

  • @digiowl9599
    @digiowl9599 4 роки тому +11

    That cable reminds me of SCART ones in terms of girth.

    • @kaitlyn__L
      @kaitlyn__L 4 роки тому +1

      none of my shitty scarts growing up had such a thick one :D

  • @bgtubber
    @bgtubber 4 роки тому

    I love the enthusiasm! I had a Voodoo 3 myself (2000 AGP). It was my first 3D accelerator and it was a night and day difference when playing games. I had so much fun with it.

  • @GregCoonrod
    @GregCoonrod 4 роки тому +14

    Please show us what that MPEG2 input was used for. I've never seen something like that.

    • @atari2600b
      @atari2600b 4 роки тому +9

      He's already done a video or MPEG cards. Tldr you could get 60 frames on a DVD or an FMV using nothing but a 486DX

    • @lfla0179
      @lfla0179 4 роки тому

      That DVD player with the MPEG 2 output... can be recorded by this card...? Har har matey...?

    • @tekvax01
      @tekvax01 4 роки тому +1

      You can insert raw the MPEG datastream directly into the cards front end, no need for decoding, all the MPEG translation is done in a hardware ASIC instead of with software running on a CPU... orders of magnitude faster!

    • @atari2600b
      @atari2600b 4 роки тому

      Again, lgr did a video on exactly this. It makes fmv CD-ROMs look like dvd's because of the consistant frame rate.

  • @spooksy1982
    @spooksy1982 Рік тому

    Love the passion! Never thought people were into these really old pc’s. I remember owning similar hardware back in the day. Was gutted when 3dfx went bump.

  • @lfla0179
    @lfla0179 4 роки тому +17

    That's the CHONKIEST cable I have ever seen meant to connect to a graphics card. Holy circuit breakers, batman!

  • @nate1988
    @nate1988 3 роки тому

    Oh man, those boxes are still the best. I remember seeing those all the time and geeking out, only to realize I couldn't afford it quite yet. Love your videos man, thanks for sharing the experience.

  • @przemekkobel4874
    @przemekkobel4874 4 роки тому +3

    Heh, Still have my Voodoo5 somewhere. I also had V3, V2 solo and SLI with doubled texture memory on each board, as well as the first one (Voodoo Graphics?). IIRC this TV variant supposed to have some kind of next-gen tuner chip that replaced big chunk of analog circuits in that tin box.

    • @adreanmarantz2103
      @adreanmarantz2103 4 роки тому

      I still have my Orchid Righteous 3D w/ box in the attic somewhere, I was blown away by Mechwarrior2 (the music still kicks ass) and Tomb Raider on it. later I also owned a Banshee and a Voodoo 5500.

  • @Ra-zor
    @Ra-zor 4 роки тому +1

    Brings back memories of buying one of those new back in the day! Superb cards. Was also my introduction in to the world of Unreal, still picking my jaw off the ground now! lol

  • @JordosTechShack
    @JordosTechShack 4 роки тому +3

    The ATI All-in-wonders were nicer, especially cable management wise with the input breakout dongle/box

    • @33lex55
      @33lex55 4 роки тому

      ...and a whopping 128 MB's!!!

  • @gh0stp1rate
    @gh0stp1rate 4 роки тому

    I recently dug out my BFG 6800 Ultra OC AGP card from my old Dell Dimension desktop and gave it a good cleaning after over a decade of it just sitting collecting dust in my garage. It was the very first PC component I've ever purchased and is what made me the enthusiasts I am today!

  • @FenrirTheGray
    @FenrirTheGray 4 роки тому +5

    Oh my god, it's the *_NEW_* 3000 series card!

  • @phreakwars
    @phreakwars 2 роки тому

    OMG, I LOVE that card!! When I did my first gaming machine upgrade back in the day, I couldn't decide between the 3000 or the 3500 AGP. Went with the 3500, LOVED IT for the TV tuner. Had it hooked up to cable and my VCR, was SWEET!

  • @SuperHandyman100
    @SuperHandyman100 4 роки тому +3

    Everyone: reviews the 30s series
    LGR: yo wanna see a card from the 90s

  • @XMCRacing
    @XMCRacing 4 роки тому +2

    That is some extreme nostalgia there! This was my first ever hardware purchase. Pretty much got me into PC building. Quake 2 blew my mind with different colored lighting effects after install. Wonder how things would have been like if NVIDIA did not buy out 3DFX.

  • @joshreiman
    @joshreiman 4 роки тому +6

    "somewhere in Minnesota"
    lol it's like 15 miles from me

  • @neddreadmaynard
    @neddreadmaynard 4 роки тому

    Clint, when you took that deep breath into the card I swear to you my brain triggered the smell of new electronics in my nose. Damn that's some good smellavision!

  • @andrewgibson8794
    @andrewgibson8794 4 роки тому +3

    Never felt this uncomfortable listening in to a man getting to know his card intimately

  • @idimidodjimi6760
    @idimidodjimi6760 4 роки тому +1

    I had exactly the same card Voodoo 3 3500 TV VIVO graphics - and i LOVED IT !
    It would be great if it came after my SLI setup of 2 Voodoo 2 cards i had before it.
    But no, sad story i've sold of my components to a friend, planing to upgrade to a new PC, war broke out , and in the middle of things i've lost my wallet with bunch of cash that was supposed to go towards new pc. I've begged my father for a loan so i can rebuild my pc , and bough the cheapest crap graphic with Intel 740 chip just to get by for some time - man that card had bugs all over the place.
    Voodoo 3 3500 was something special to me back then , as i've earned it with hard work just to get back to something descent.
    Unfortunately i moved in the rented apartment as a student at the time which didn't had external aerial so i had to use a shoddy room antenna , and it totally ruined my experience of watching TV.
    But yes that cable with a pod was chunky af , but it had to be cause it supposed to negate interference between signals of both sides coming trough it , you had AV in and Out you could use at the same time.
    Sadly i sold of mine in like 2003 and that was the sad end of my 3dfx ownership .

  • @JonathanS89
    @JonathanS89 4 роки тому

    I love how you open stuff, very delicate. And wow I haven't seen one of these since i was a kid. How time flies

  • @candycabngfl
    @candycabngfl 4 роки тому

    The Voodoo era was pretty amazing. Someday I will dig out the 2 Canopus Pure 3D LX2 cards I used to run in SLI and build an old Win98 machine. Great stuff man ! Thanks for the video.

  • @ChairmanMeow1
    @ChairmanMeow1 3 роки тому

    Loved the artwork on all the old voodoo cards. They really caught your eye, and you knew what card it was by the color of the box if you were really nerdy

  • @kamanski
    @kamanski 4 роки тому +2

    9:33 Been a lot of Clint smelling new old stock ASMR lately. Always makes me smile.

  • @Loofrewop
    @Loofrewop 4 роки тому

    Every time I see an unboxing of a Graphics Card unit like that, specially Voodoo, it reminds me how badly I wanted one
    It always makes me think how happy I would be to get one of these and to be opening it brand new, back then..
    I still remember how happy I was when I've managed to get a Voodoo 3, it wasn't already the best one around, but it was far superior to what I had and definitely was able to get the job done for a while.

  • @tofuguru941
    @tofuguru941 2 роки тому

    LGR,
    I share your sentiments of actually OPENING and USING old hardware!!!
    ROCK ON DUDE!!!!!

  • @hawaiianryan1890
    @hawaiianryan1890 4 роки тому

    Thanks for taking me back with your video. I had this exact card, new at the time. I remember the box and the way it was packed. I wish I would have transferred all our home VHS recordings, but I think I mostly played games on it. I remember later wondering what to do with the monstrous cable assembly after upgrading to a newer GPU.

  • @jameschamplin1742
    @jameschamplin1742 4 роки тому

    I'm totally okay with you opening this. You make money from these videos, which lets you keep finding and buying these pieces which you love to show us. Also... it lets you then take this special piece and put it into a computer and show us what it could do.
    I, personally, have a Voodoo 3 3000 that I flashed for Macintosh. I wish I could show it off and compare it but I don't have anything to compare it to, and don't know the right games that work on classic Mac OS with GLide to really show off what the card can do in a period-correct system (I'll be testing it on a Power Mac 6500/250 and a G4/450). I'd love to be able to share the kinds of things you share. Long story short, keep rocking and rolling, Clint!

  • @stridermt2k
    @stridermt2k 4 роки тому

    I built surveillance vehicles in the 90s and 2000s and that new electronics smell never NEVER got old!

  • @itsgruz
    @itsgruz 4 роки тому

    Had gotten so far into the video, I was getting worried you weren't going to smell it. Pulled through tho! 👏

  • @BGold_Animation
    @BGold_Animation 4 роки тому

    OMG i had that card! oh the memories! it was the first 3D acceleration card we had and it had the TV thing i used to record stuff off the tv.
    it was an amazing card that enabled a whole new world of 3D games. i think i upgraded from that to a geforce card when GTA 3 came out on PC.
    Thank you for the trip down memory lane :)
    love from Israel

  • @johncate9541
    @johncate9541 3 роки тому +1

    I ran one of those in a K6 rig for years after it came out. FIC-VA-503+ motherboard, K6-III+ 450@560, and a Voodoo3 3500 that I mounted a fan on and ran at 202 MHz. I had that machine running all the way up to about 2010 for playing old games. Sold the Voodoo and wish I hadn't.

  • @bghoody5665
    @bghoody5665 4 роки тому

    I admire that LGR is still able to get so excited over this old stuff.

  • @psionski
    @psionski 4 роки тому

    Rest of the world: RTX 3080 review
    LGR: Voodoo 3 3500 review
    That's why I love this channel :D

  • @IRWPD
    @IRWPD 4 роки тому

    Happy to see you made a follow up video from the eThrifts.

  • @angryace4017
    @angryace4017 4 роки тому

    Brings back memories. I was a 3dfx man back in the day. I had voodoo 2 x2 in SLI, Voodoo 3 3000 and Voodoo 5 5500. I kept them all and their packaging but they got misplaced over the years. I do have one more place to check when I can get back to CA. I hope they are there!