LTT Autographed Voodoo 5 5500 In A Modern PC! What The Jank Could Possibly Go Wrong !?

What happens when you throw a 3DFx Voodoo 5 5500 into a modern PC!? Well, jank of course!
I took one of the all-time legendary GPUs and pair it with all modern components to see how well it works on newer systems. Yeah, that most certainly didn't go too well!
Want to see some of my janky shenanigans in person!? I'm planning on bringing a different Voodoo 5 5500 based PC to PDXLAN Fall 2024 for attendees to try out, and you can join the awesome action there too: www.lanreg.org...

[@CraftComputing]

I live for jank, and I think a Voodoo 5500 on a Ryzen 3900X and WIndows 7 qualifies.

[@circuitrewind]

Jank is love. Jank is life! And even more jank will be making its way to PDXLAN later this year ;)

[@elmestguzman3038]

“It almost works” “I can almost use this” loving the jank!!!

[@circuitrewind]

True natural reaction! Several of the tests in this video was my first time testing certain things LOL

[@krumothyy]

oh man, i have been waiting in excitement for this one

[@circuitrewind]

Yeah, I've been waiting in excitement to get this one edited and published! I always have fun toying with weird hardware combinations :D

[@Terminal423]

13:15 Windows Protp: Ctrl+Shift+Esc will open task manager immediately, without the need for any mousing or menus.
Additionally, in this instance using WinKey+R to bring up a run prompt and running "taskkill /im unreal* /f" would be a more reliable method given the massive amount of stutter (had your keyboard not ALSO been a jankfest at the time).
Source: years of experience with similar scenarios due to all manners of tech shenanigans, personal and professional. It's saved me a lot of time trying to fight a system in this kind of state and I hope it helps you in the future :)

[@circuitrewind]

Thanks for all the suggestions! Yeah, the keyboard most certainly was still jank in the video! I didn't cover it here, but I was still using the Famicom Keyboard that I showed off in a previous video. Why? Because it was still sitting on the desk, and I was too lazy to move it and find something else!

[@Terminal423]

@@circuitrewind I identify with the lazy factor so much. And also, it's a cool keyboard so why change it out if it mostly works?

[@KingKrouch]

It would be really interesting to try booting Linux and passing through the GPU and a PCI soundcard (that has drivers) to a Windows 98 virtual machine. With the price of period accurate hardware going up, and with 86box having performance issues with higher system specs (not to mention no direct display passthrough option for a CRT), it would be really interesting to see how virtualization fares. I've thought about doing that kind of project, because running a Win98 or XP virtual machine on a relatively modern setup is snappier than hardware of that era even without graphics acceleration.