In 2000 or 2001 I had a Pentium III 900mhz, 512mb ram, and Voodoo 3 2000. A year or so later I upgraded to a PNY Geforce4 Ti 4200. Had a Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick was real fun with Hellbender and Fury 3. Love looking at these old systems takes me back.
Great system! I had something similar, a p3 600 which I ran with through a few voodoos, even though it wasn't nearly as powerful as I needed it to be for the voodoo 5. I naver had a GF Ti back in the day, went to the ATI route, chaper cards and easier to find down here. The Sidewinder is such a great line of products, I miss that.
How did I overlook this video til now?! I really love seeing builds where expensive, historical graphics cards like this are used...just to play games and enjoy it. I like your point about the slower CPU not stressing the card as much and extending its life. Not something I thought of before.
Thanks, buddy. I'm glad you enjoyed this. Lately I get into long arguments with myself about putting these video cards to real use. But for now, it's being used almost daily. I might substitute it for something easier to acquire and save the voodoos to use in specific reviews.
Voodoo powah! Great build, and video. I have a soft spot for more period accurate builds as of late. This fits that exactly. Great time capsule to really enjoy those late 90s and early 2000 games.
Thank you my friend. I'm thinking of trying faster CPUs, you're going to hear about it for sure 😂. I think this build will have a definite spot in the collection, instead of being part of the great diffusion of parts that is my lab. Have a great week! 👍
Cold winter day, cup of coffee, and some retro action, perfect ! Nice build, and very nice monitor, retro build without CRT is just not right. Its funny how everyone is searching that first PC case that they had, im also im search of one but not quit to find one Kingpin life of crime and SOF 1 and maybe even SOF 2 should run nice on that machine. Great games really need to reply them on good CRT.
I'm happy to be with you for it, thanks for watching! CRT does make things look so much better. I tried with the 4x3 LCD but it's definitely not the same thing. Kingpin I haven't tried, but I did play sof back in the day.
@@SUCRA Thanks for pinup. Yeah good crt, trinitron or flatron can't beat that Kingpin is really something else, Q2 engine but with gangsters and ghetto environments
Very nice system. The P3 600 mhz would have been way too slow for the V5 5500. The P3 800 mhz is ok, but even so with a Tualatin 1400 mhz the V5 5500 would get almost 2x more FPS in 1024x768 in newer CPU dependent games like: Deus Ex, Undying, Serios Sam, Max Payne, Rune, Medal of Honor, Warcraft 3, UT 2003 and many others.
Ghost Recon and Rogue Spear were my main games back in the day toghether with Jane's Fleet Command. Unfortunately for me i can not remember what PC configuration i had in those days, from around 2000 to 2006. But thanks for bringin some of those memories from those days.
I really like the build... except for the extra fan hanging on twist ties. Sorry to take issue with that but I'm a stickler for making these things "look nice." I'd recommend a "PCI slot cooler" but then again I took mine to the extreme with a clear acrylic housing for the Voodoo 5, integrating an 80mm fan upgrade. I've also fabricated mounts for extra fans in the past using little aluminum sheets/strips from the local hardware store, and those turned out really nice too. I really like making custom bits like that though.
Hey! Thanks for the comment. Well I can see why you don't like it, I don't like it either haha. I don't have an option for it right now. I'm looking for a bracket, that holds the fan in the proper place. Have a great day Angie.
I had a voodoo 4 4500 PCI that my mom got me for Christmas but I gave it away years later and I regret it so much! I still have the box though so that's something. See I had moved onto the GeForce 4 and was no longer using my Voodoo 4 so it was just sitting in a drawer collecting dust. My aunt's computer had a dead video card so I put in her machine to get her back going and that was the last time I ever saw it again. Time passed and who knows where it is today. Either thrown away or sold. O well...
Sorry to hear that Ryan, but don't beat yourself up about it, we all got stories like that. Besides, you did a good thing by fixing your loved one's computer.
The 600 MHZ PIII is ok, if you use the Full-Scene Antialiasing (2x or 4x) option of the V5 5500. Fillrate Limiting, so a for example a 1 GHZ PIII would not make much difference with FSAA, maybe only more in Unreal Engine based games.
great build! i can 100% relate to rebuilding a pc from the past. i have a PIII 450 with voodoo 3 that reproduces the machine i used in middle school, it served me for 2 years until i built a new PC in high school [first time doing it myself] in summer 2001 that was an Athlon XP 1700 w/ a Geforce 3 Ti200... a machine i also recreated recently although with a slightly better CPU like you did.
This is why despite my love for retro hardware I'm not eager to spend some money on it - sure, building your pc is fun - especially from retro parts. But I would propably be too scared to play on it anyway - especially since I have no experience with replacing smaller elements. So I imagine loosing something like Voodoo 5 would have been quite painful.
Yeah, it changed a bit from a few years ago. All these parts were affordable a while ago. But oh well, you can still do cheap builds. Every now and then I do one around here. Have a good week!
awesome build! i also have a piii voodoo 5 system to play older combat sims on. jane's combat simulations (wwii fighters, f-18, 688 hunter killer), red baron 3d, and mechwarrior 4 are among my favorites. mechwarrior is especially fun to play with the microsoft sidewinder force feedback 2!
What a gorgeous build! I loved the video from start to finish. I personally opted to give my V5 as much power as possible and ended up using stuff from a couple of years later hehe! Although the "main" components are between 2002 and 2003, I kept Windows 2000 as the OS and installed a bunch of games that use Glide to get the most out of it. Here's the list of components: MB: DFI AD73 Pro (VIA KT266A & Universal AGP) CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (AXDA2400DKV3C, 2.0Ghz) RAM: 3x 512MB 266Mhz DDR Video: 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350) HDD: Maxtor DiamondMax 160GB (STM3160215A) Case: G3 Black PSU: Thermaltake 450W TT-450NL1NH-1
That's a great build and I see your point! I might upgrade the CPU a bit, I don't plan on going very far though. There will be other computers built to fill in the gap for the next generation so I'm ok with that. Thanks for watching, have a great week!
Great video, thanks for sharing! Sim City 3000 and the original The Sims were the best games I had back then, and also LucasArts games, like Jedi Knight, Outlaws, Monkey Island, and so on. Great times with my P3 750. The CD drives from this period were like jet engines, I remember the noise of my 52x drive😅
Great video - gotta love the Voodoo 5 5500! That's amazing with the Windows 98 CD exploding like that, I've never had it happen to me but have heard of similar stories before. I'm assuming these old discs get brittle over time. A great DOS utility is "CDBQ" which can force lower speeds via IDE commands sent to the drive. I like to use it on any retro builds with fast CD drives to keep the noise levels down. I also use "Nero Drive Speed" in Windows 98 for similar effect.
Thanks, Mike! Those are good suggestions to keep the drive speed lower. I was thinking of doing that, in fact if the drive hadn't failed completely I would've gone that route for sure. Thanks for watching my friend, have a great week!
I'd go with a faster cpu & use some sort of fps limiter too compromise between the two in most games, or run with vsync enabled like you did with Clive Barkers Undying & ghost recon i think, maybe it was enabled already in the drivers if you didn't specifically change it, which in that case you'd want a faster cpu too simply keep that fps cap more stable in general, the average temperature will be fine still. Also just too reduce temperatures a bit more quietly, mount a 1000 rpm 120mm fan standing up in there with some double sided tape pointed at the cards blowing air towards the rear io if you leave that open or from the side blowing against the motherboard. When it comes too the powersupply, before the Pentium 4 & newer socket 462 motherboards introduced the eps12v 4 pin plug. Majority of the power was most commonly from 5v & 3.3v with stuff like harddrives, floppy drives, cd, dvd readers & burners that took advantage of 12v more then the motherboard connected components did. Some 12v power ofc could come from the 12v pins on the 24 pin but that made for long pcb traces & a vrm that was sometimes not that efficient & quite noisy filtration unless placed very close too it. Was playing Carmageddon splat pack earlier today at 1280x960 using the steam release of the Carmageddon Max Pack, need too tweak some things too get it running smoothly but it's getting there. Still some fps drops here & there on some tracks that I've played so far. But fairly stable with shadows off on all cars & everything on highest settings otherwise, might drop scenery view distance a step just too see if it stays more stable at 50 - 60 fps. Nglide in the game folder with vsync turned off, gamma 0.9 & 1280x960 is what i run with an external fps limit, some have better luck with it being smooth keeping that vsync on if you want too try with the gog release of carmageddon max pack. LOTS of games I'd run on a pc like that natively in windows 98 - windows xp. Motoracer 1&2, Midtown Madness 1&2, Monster truck madness 1&2, (Quake 2 & expansions.), Mafia 1, Colin Mcrae 1&2, Sega rally 1&2, (Half-life 1 + expansions & some mods maybe like poke646, POV, AOM DC.) Psygnosis Monster Trucks/Thunder Truck Rally (Has speed issues without vsync & with too fast hardware.) Carmageddon TDR 2000 (tends too crash on modern hardware quite a bit unless you get settings just right on compatibility.) Carmageddon 1 + splat pack & Carmageddon 2 Tomb raider 1 through 3, Driver 1 (Simply for the cheats.) Rayman 1,2, Max Payne. (Max payne was for a short while used as a benchmark for how demanding it can get in some places before Far Cry 1 released.) Aliens vs Predator from around 1999 - 2000 (Seriously missing out if you haven't checked this game out. Got Marine, Predator & Alien single player campaigns.) Unreal Gold & Unreal Tournament. Forsaken, Tactical Ops Assault On Terror (Basically Counter Strike in the Unreal engine with bots.) Excessive speed, Micro Machines V3, Panzer Dragoon. Got more but think this comment is gigantic enough lol. Not many of these games that cant be patched too run on a newer pc with the help of nglide, dgvoodoo, dgvoodoo2 etc...
Really nice video and setup !. I had one computer really close to this back in 2001. Motherboard had the same chipset I guess, but with a p3 866, 128mb ram, hdd 20gb but a diamond viper 2 s3 video card which was not really good but it was something else back then .
The Voodoo 5 really makes this a special system for me as I've never seen one in person, let alone owned one. I had a PC around this time, which I believe had a TNT card in it. As a result I have a lot of love for games from this era, but I've never played most of the ones you've shown here so that was cool to see. Black & White is one of those games I've partially played a number of times but could never keep going with. And while I absolutely love driving games, I'm terrible at rally games! Thanks for the video - shame about that partial case you bought. 🤣
Thanks for watching, man! Yeah this video card is really special to me too. I remember the day I got it, the PC I had it in, everything. It wasn't the best. A couple of years into it and there wasn't support and many games wouldn't run for lack of t&l. But I thought it was so special making use of sli. Have a great weekend! 👍
Great build!! Sad that so many parts were missing in the first case you got. And well, the destroyed CD 💿 is insane. Never heard of that something like that can happen. Well, I think I will just use my double speed drive in future 😅. Cheers from Austria 🇦🇹, Peter
Thanks, man! I'm glad you enjoyed it, I hope to play many games on it and maybe use it for other reviews. Yeah,h hah 😆, be careful with the ultrafast CD drives. Have a great week in Austria!
Hmmmm I am thinking of building the childhood rig we got back in 98'. I remember the slot 1 pentium 3 500 and the Asus V3400 TNT, and I have a case that looks like the one it had later on, but I will be damned If I remember what motherboard it had, and although I do remember we had an SB Live! I do not remember which variant.
Voodoo5 builds are always very cool. It's hard to justify it on a performance level given that Geforces are more powerful and plentiful, but if you like retro hardware you'd understand it's not just about performance.
That sounds about right. It's more of a quirk than anything. But I like my voodoos. I have another system in mind that will probably use a GeForce, a bit more powerful though.
I use these PCI fan brackets from ebay in some of my builds to keep the soundcards cool and any air bleeding over makes its way into the GPU, can attatch up to 3 if needed. capacitors are going to suffer with more heat so the cooler they are..the longer i can avoid having to diagnose a failing cap and replace the whole lot...Flagship Soundblaster cards when to town with them for filtering.
As for games recommendation, WarCraft III, if you haven't played it already. A nice story and gameplay, a long one. For modern, Zero Dawn Horizon (Steam/GoG) and Resident Evil 2 Remake - a true masterpiece, exceeded my expectations, after more than 20 years.
Hah, yeah, I did hear about it before as well, but it was the first time it actually happened to me. I wonder what it did to the CD-ROM drive. I should probably investigate further.
nice build, that audio card looks cute and saves space too. what flying game was that? have you tried JetFighter II: Advanced Tactical Fighter by velocity?
In 2000 or 2001 I had a Pentium III 900mhz, 512mb ram, and Voodoo 3 2000. A year or so later I upgraded to a PNY Geforce4 Ti 4200. Had a Microsoft Sidewinder Joystick was real fun with Hellbender and Fury 3. Love looking at these old systems takes me back.
Great system! I had something similar, a p3 600 which I ran with through a few voodoos, even though it wasn't nearly as powerful as I needed it to be for the voodoo 5. I naver had a GF Ti back in the day, went to the ATI route, chaper cards and easier to find down here. The Sidewinder is such a great line of products, I miss that.
How did I overlook this video til now?! I really love seeing builds where expensive, historical graphics cards like this are used...just to play games and enjoy it. I like your point about the slower CPU not stressing the card as much and extending its life. Not something I thought of before.
Thanks, buddy. I'm glad you enjoyed this. Lately I get into long arguments with myself about putting these video cards to real use. But for now, it's being used almost daily. I might substitute it for something easier to acquire and save the voodoos to use in specific reviews.
when I heard 60 speed cdrom I was thinking boom and haha it happened. 48x /52x is the maximum speed I consider safe :)
Hey Bart! Yep, you guessed right 😂 the thought crossed my mind, but I never thought it would happen to me 😅
Voodoo powah! Great build, and video. I have a soft spot for more period accurate builds as of late. This fits that exactly. Great time capsule to really enjoy those late 90s and early 2000 games.
Thank you my friend. I'm thinking of trying faster CPUs, you're going to hear about it for sure 😂. I think this build will have a definite spot in the collection, instead of being part of the great diffusion of parts that is my lab. Have a great week! 👍
Cold winter day, cup of coffee, and some retro action, perfect !
Nice build, and very nice monitor, retro build without CRT is just not right.
Its funny how everyone is searching that first PC case that they had, im also im search of one but not quit to find one
Kingpin life of crime and SOF 1 and maybe even SOF 2 should run nice on that machine.
Great games really need to reply them on good CRT.
I'm happy to be with you for it, thanks for watching! CRT does make things look so much better. I tried with the 4x3 LCD but it's definitely not the same thing. Kingpin I haven't tried, but I did play sof back in the day.
@@SUCRA
Thanks for pinup.
Yeah good crt, trinitron or flatron can't beat that
Kingpin is really something else, Q2 engine but with gangsters and ghetto environments
Very nice system. The P3 600 mhz would have been way too slow for the V5 5500. The P3 800 mhz is ok, but even so with a Tualatin 1400 mhz the V5 5500 would get almost 2x more FPS in 1024x768 in newer CPU dependent games like: Deus Ex, Undying, Serios Sam, Max Payne, Rune, Medal of Honor, Warcraft 3, UT 2003 and many others.
Hey, thanks, I'm aware. 👍
these p3 mainboards still look sleek I loved them so much back in the day and still.
Agreed, with all the PCI ports. They don't give us many add-on card possibilities today.
Ghost Recon and Rogue Spear were my main games back in the day toghether with Jane's Fleet Command. Unfortunately for me i can not remember what PC configuration i had in those days, from around 2000 to 2006. But thanks for bringin some of those memories from those days.
Hey, my pleasure. I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks for the comment.
I really like the build... except for the extra fan hanging on twist ties. Sorry to take issue with that but I'm a stickler for making these things "look nice." I'd recommend a "PCI slot cooler" but then again I took mine to the extreme with a clear acrylic housing for the Voodoo 5, integrating an 80mm fan upgrade. I've also fabricated mounts for extra fans in the past using little aluminum sheets/strips from the local hardware store, and those turned out really nice too. I really like making custom bits like that though.
Hey! Thanks for the comment. Well I can see why you don't like it, I don't like it either haha. I don't have an option for it right now. I'm looking for a bracket, that holds the fan in the proper place. Have a great day Angie.
Cool build, kinda similar to mine, I have a V4500 wit ha PIII 900mhz.
Awesome! I've done some experimenting with the voodoo 4. I like it! It's another rarity today.
I had a voodoo 4 4500 PCI that my mom got me for Christmas but I gave it away years later and I regret it so much! I still have the box though so that's something. See I had moved onto the GeForce 4 and was no longer using my Voodoo 4 so it was just sitting in a drawer collecting dust. My aunt's computer had a dead video card so I put in her machine to get her back going and that was the last time I ever saw it again. Time passed and who knows where it is today. Either thrown away or sold. O well...
Sorry to hear that Ryan, but don't beat yourself up about it, we all got stories like that. Besides, you did a good thing by fixing your loved one's computer.
Solid system! Plus, it makes you happy, so it makes me happy too.
Haha Thanks buddy!
Nice review, I loved the games you picked!
Thanks, buddy. Well you got good taste!
The 600 MHZ PIII is ok, if you use the Full-Scene Antialiasing (2x or 4x) option of the V5 5500. Fillrate Limiting, so a for example a 1 GHZ PIII would not make much difference with FSAA, maybe only more in Unreal Engine based games.
Nice. I think I`m set on experimenting with upgradeing this a bit if the motherboard takes it.
great build! i can 100% relate to rebuilding a pc from the past. i have a PIII 450 with voodoo 3 that reproduces the machine i used in middle school, it served me for 2 years until i built a new PC in high school [first time doing it myself] in summer 2001 that was an Athlon XP 1700 w/ a Geforce 3 Ti200... a machine i also recreated recently although with a slightly better CPU like you did.
Thanks! That seccond PC sounds cool too. I have something of that performance level planned as well! Thanks for the comment!
This is why despite my love for retro hardware I'm not eager to spend some money on it - sure, building your pc is fun - especially from retro parts. But I would propably be too scared to play on it anyway - especially since I have no experience with replacing smaller elements. So I imagine loosing something like Voodoo 5 would have been quite painful.
Yeah, it changed a bit from a few years ago. All these parts were affordable a while ago. But oh well, you can still do cheap builds. Every now and then I do one around here. Have a good week!
Appreciate sharing your moments of fun. The case part was extraordinary hilarious.
Thanks for watching! Yeah, sharing is the best part!
hell yea. magic people voodoo people!!
voodoo magic
awesome build! i also have a piii voodoo 5 system to play older combat sims on. jane's combat simulations (wwii fighters, f-18, 688 hunter killer), red baron 3d, and mechwarrior 4 are among my favorites. mechwarrior is especially fun to play with the microsoft sidewinder force feedback 2!
Sweet build! I want to try one of those sidewinders. I've never owned one. I remover the original Red Baron, I played a bit of that.
What a gorgeous build! I loved the video from start to finish. I personally opted to give my V5 as much power as possible and ended up using stuff from a couple of years later hehe! Although the "main" components are between 2002 and 2003, I kept Windows 2000 as the OS and installed a bunch of games that use Glide to get the most out of it. Here's the list of components:
MB: DFI AD73 Pro (VIA KT266A & Universal AGP)
CPU: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ (AXDA2400DKV3C, 2.0Ghz)
RAM: 3x 512MB 266Mhz DDR
Video: 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
Sound: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS (SB0350)
HDD: Maxtor DiamondMax 160GB (STM3160215A)
Case: G3 Black
PSU: Thermaltake 450W TT-450NL1NH-1
That's a great build and I see your point! I might upgrade the CPU a bit, I don't plan on going very far though. There will be other computers built to fill in the gap for the next generation so I'm ok with that. Thanks for watching, have a great week!
I do love me some Sim City! I wish they didn't just completely ruin it. Thanks EA!
Indeed. We need a proper re-release of Sim City 2000. Something like Sim City 2000 - II. lol.
AGP! ..tried once(Socket A(462) and GeForce3 Ti500 - NOT going back - even for RETRO!
^Still have my AMD Thunderbird 1400MHz CPU though 😲
It's a nice era imo
Running a 950 mhz Athlon and a Voodoo 5 5500 in my Windows 98 machine. I've had the 5500 since new, still works, still love it!
Great CPU target there! Lovely system.
Great video, thanks for sharing! Sim City 3000 and the original The Sims were the best games I had back then, and also LucasArts games, like Jedi Knight, Outlaws, Monkey Island, and so on. Great times with my P3 750. The CD drives from this period were like jet engines, I remember the noise of my 52x drive😅
My pleasure, I'm glad you enjoyed it buddy. All great classics there!
I remember desperately wanting the Voodoo video card. I figured Voodoo would be king for ages but the brand didn't last long.
Same feeling I had after owning a v2 and v3. I though that surely the way to go was v5!
Wow, I've never seen a disc shattered inside a drive like that! That IS FAST lol
It was crazy, a first for me as well
Great video - gotta love the Voodoo 5 5500! That's amazing with the Windows 98 CD exploding like that, I've never had it happen to me but have heard of similar stories before. I'm assuming these old discs get brittle over time. A great DOS utility is "CDBQ" which can force lower speeds via IDE commands sent to the drive. I like to use it on any retro builds with fast CD drives to keep the noise levels down. I also use "Nero Drive Speed" in Windows 98 for similar effect.
Thanks, Mike! Those are good suggestions to keep the drive speed lower. I was thinking of doing that, in fact if the drive hadn't failed completely I would've gone that route for sure. Thanks for watching my friend, have a great week!
I remember those drives destroying cd's back in the day I think some even got recalled. Nice setup.
Thanks Patrick! Really? They deserve a recall haha.
As I already told you in the past SUCRA, I never have Voodoo GPU, so I am always enjoying happy when I see them with their performance 🙂
And it makes me glad to provide it, Niko. Thanks for watching
I'd go with a faster cpu & use some sort of fps limiter too compromise between the two in most games, or run with vsync enabled like you did with Clive Barkers Undying & ghost recon i think, maybe it was enabled already in the drivers if you didn't specifically change it, which in that case you'd want a faster cpu too simply keep that fps cap more stable in general, the average temperature will be fine still.
Also just too reduce temperatures a bit more quietly, mount a 1000 rpm 120mm fan standing up in there with some double sided tape pointed at the cards blowing air towards the rear io if you leave that open or from the side blowing against the motherboard.
When it comes too the powersupply, before the Pentium 4 & newer socket 462 motherboards introduced the eps12v 4 pin plug.
Majority of the power was most commonly from 5v & 3.3v with stuff like harddrives, floppy drives, cd, dvd readers & burners that took advantage of 12v more then the motherboard connected components did.
Some 12v power ofc could come from the 12v pins on the 24 pin but that made for long pcb traces & a vrm that was sometimes not that efficient & quite noisy filtration unless placed very close too it.
Was playing Carmageddon splat pack earlier today at 1280x960 using the steam release of the Carmageddon Max Pack, need too tweak some things too get it running smoothly but it's getting there.
Still some fps drops here & there on some tracks that I've played so far.
But fairly stable with shadows off on all cars & everything on highest settings otherwise, might drop scenery view distance a step just too see if it stays more stable at 50 - 60 fps.
Nglide in the game folder with vsync turned off, gamma 0.9 & 1280x960 is what i run with an external fps limit, some have better luck with it being smooth keeping that vsync on if you want too try with the gog release of carmageddon max pack.
LOTS of games I'd run on a pc like that natively in windows 98 - windows xp.
Motoracer 1&2, Midtown Madness 1&2, Monster truck madness 1&2, (Quake 2 & expansions.), Mafia 1, Colin Mcrae 1&2, Sega rally 1&2, (Half-life 1 + expansions & some mods maybe like poke646, POV, AOM DC.)
Psygnosis Monster Trucks/Thunder Truck Rally (Has speed issues without vsync & with too fast hardware.)
Carmageddon TDR 2000 (tends too crash on modern hardware quite a bit unless you get settings just right on compatibility.)
Carmageddon 1 + splat pack & Carmageddon 2
Tomb raider 1 through 3, Driver 1 (Simply for the cheats.) Rayman 1,2, Max Payne.
(Max payne was for a short while used as a benchmark for how demanding it can get in some places before Far Cry 1 released.)
Aliens vs Predator from around 1999 - 2000 (Seriously missing out if you haven't checked this game out. Got Marine, Predator & Alien single player campaigns.)
Unreal Gold & Unreal Tournament.
Forsaken, Tactical Ops Assault On Terror (Basically Counter Strike in the Unreal engine with bots.) Excessive speed, Micro Machines V3, Panzer Dragoon.
Got more but think this comment is gigantic enough lol.
Not many of these games that cant be patched too run on a newer pc with the help of nglide, dgvoodoo, dgvoodoo2 etc...
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Nice build ! I would love to have a v5500 system
Thanks, man!
Really nice video and setup !. I had one computer really close to this back in 2001. Motherboard had the same chipset I guess, but with a p3 866, 128mb ram, hdd 20gb but a diamond viper 2 s3 video card which was not really good but it was something else back then .
Thanks, Boca. Close configuration on that PC indeed!
Muito bom ver um vídeo de velharias de pc, com essa qualidade, feito por um brasileiro, espero ser assim quando crescer! +1 fiel escrito!
Valeu Matheus, obrigado! Abraço!
The Voodoo 5 really makes this a special system for me as I've never seen one in person, let alone owned one. I had a PC around this time, which I believe had a TNT card in it. As a result I have a lot of love for games from this era, but I've never played most of the ones you've shown here so that was cool to see. Black & White is one of those games I've partially played a number of times but could never keep going with. And while I absolutely love driving games, I'm terrible at rally games! Thanks for the video - shame about that partial case you bought. 🤣
Thanks for watching, man! Yeah this video card is really special to me too. I remember the day I got it, the PC I had it in, everything. It wasn't the best. A couple of years into it and there wasn't support and many games wouldn't run for lack of t&l. But I thought it was so special making use of sli. Have a great weekend! 👍
Great build!! Sad that so many parts were missing in the first case you got. And well, the destroyed CD 💿 is insane. Never heard of that something like that can happen. Well, I think I will just use my double speed drive in future 😅. Cheers from Austria 🇦🇹, Peter
Thanks, man! I'm glad you enjoyed it, I hope to play many games on it and maybe use it for other reviews. Yeah,h hah 😆, be careful with the ultrafast CD drives. Have a great week in Austria!
Hmmmm I am thinking of building the childhood rig we got back in 98'. I remember the slot 1 pentium 3 500 and the Asus V3400 TNT, and I have a case that looks like the one it had later on, but I will be damned If I remember what motherboard it had, and although I do remember we had an SB Live! I do not remember which variant.
Hey go for it. Doesn't matter that you get the exact parts, what matters is that you feel you can use that childhood PC again and have fun with it.
Voodoo5 builds are always very cool. It's hard to justify it on a performance level given that Geforces are more powerful and plentiful, but if you like retro hardware you'd understand it's not just about performance.
That sounds about right. It's more of a quirk than anything. But I like my voodoos. I have another system in mind that will probably use a GeForce, a bit more powerful though.
I use these PCI fan brackets from ebay in some of my builds to keep the soundcards cool and any air bleeding over makes its way into the GPU, can attatch up to 3 if needed. capacitors are going to suffer with more heat so the cooler they are..the longer i can avoid having to diagnose a failing cap and replace the whole lot...Flagship Soundblaster cards when to town with them for filtering.
Oh yeah, it's handy. I'll get one whenever I find one.
The P3 800 mhz was the fastest CPU released in 1999.
I had plenty good times with the P3! They're great cpus.
Great Vids Mate..I'm heavily into retro gaming, as my 1st PC was a 286 with 4mb and a 5 1/4 in paper floppy lol
Thanks, Tez! 4 MBs of ram is not too shabby for a 286, my 486 had the same amount! Ram was so expensive!
As for games recommendation, WarCraft III, if you haven't played it already.
A nice story and gameplay, a long one.
For modern, Zero Dawn Horizon (Steam/GoG) and Resident Evil 2 Remake - a true masterpiece, exceeded my expectations, after more than 20 years.
Thanks for the suggestions. I've played all but RE2. Love them all!
Discs have shattered on me too just like that, some people still don't believe it's possible! My drive didn't work afterwards either.
Hah, yeah, I did hear about it before as well, but it was the first time it actually happened to me. I wonder what it did to the CD-ROM drive. I should probably investigate further.
1999 in Germany 699DM! I had one of this card!
Fun times!
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Onde vc comprou a voodoo?
Vlw, ML, anos atrás.
Those were the days I enjoyed gaming. No taste in modern games man.
Yeah I know what you mean, find it harder and harder to enjoy modern games.
Tur4x can support up to 2gb of ram, what a legend.
Indeed, I think it's great
nice build, that audio card looks cute and saves space too. what flying game was that? have you tried JetFighter II: Advanced Tactical Fighter by velocity?
Hey, thanks! That was f16 from a dual pack with mig 29 as well. Haven't tried jetfighter, I'll take a look!
Hello there ! Nice video.. Where did you get the clone vortex 2 soundcard ?
How's it going, hello! Just online. If you're looking for something, I suggest getting on your local e-shops daily until it comes up. It's what I do.
You should see how fast the voodoo 5 runs cube game on max settings
Cool! What's cube game?
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for the voodoo5 I recommend epox 8kha+ man this is the best mobo you can get !
Epox had such legendary motherboards! Unfortunately retro specifics are hard to find. I'll keep an eye open though. Thanks!