3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 Downgrade!?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Computers featured in this Episode
Dell XPS T450
800 Mhz Pentium 3 Processor
Intel 440 BX Chipset
256 Megs of Ram
Voodoo 3 3500
Aureal Vortex 2
Gateway ATX Peformance 1000
1 Ghz Pentium 3 Processor
Intel 815 Chipset
512 Megs of Ram
Geforce FX 5700LE/Voodoo 3 3500
Aureal Vortex 2
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Karl Casey - Dark Synthwave Collection Vol. 2 - 07 Infernal Sky
Karl Casey - Dark Synthwave Collection Vol. 2 - 08 Truth Police
Karl Casey - Dark Synthwave Collection Vol. 2 - 09 Night Dweller
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i also have a voodoo 3 3000 paired with a p3 800 and i was thinking whether a 1 ghz upgrade would be worth it or not. This video does a lot to help me decide whether it's worth it or not. Thank you!
Heck yeah, thanks! Also congrats on your build!
I know I'm getting old when the retro gaming PCs are way faster than the PC I used to play Quakeworld during my university studies.
Nice! Do you remember the specs?
The faster CPU will help in newer games that need more power. In older games released before the year 2000 the difference will be minimal because the P3 800 is more then enough.
That's a really subjective argument when the benchmarks show major improvements, and all the quake engine games benefit from FPS due to the bunny hop physics being tied to FPS. 800mhz is "enough", but a 1ghz CPU user could beat you in Quake. Not that skill isn't a factor, as I once modded a Pentium 1 with a voodoo 2 to take to lan parties and won getting around 30 FPS using forced low settings and glide. Some games won't even run on a Pentium 1 because of CPU instructions, but glide bypasses the CPU checks. At the time I think I had heavily modified Windows 95 to the version 3 with feature parity of 98, so it was the fastest you could make a Pentium 1, since 95 used less resources, and I filled all the RAM slots. I don't think it was even using sdram, but it played games fine using glide. A bigger problem with retro gaming today is CRTs are mostly all burned out, so you need a LCD, and thus NEED more FPS than a CRT to enjoy gaming.
Interesting
Grandpa! voodoo doodoo, let it die, rip 3dfx.
Haha too many friendships forged with 3dfx. So many lan parties in the garage running on nothing but mountain dew and red Barron pizza. I can't forget.
@@ctrlzretro but you still bad at games? lol
My Voodoo 3500 is paired with 700Mhz PIII. If that isnt fast enough I'd use my Geforce 2 machine. I dont wish to push the Voodoo 3 to its limits.
Yeah you don't get much more by going to 1Ghz. I think 600-800 with a voodoo 3 is a great machine. I find windows 98 is so hard to build for, you almost need 3 machines to cover everything but it's fun.
@ctrlzretro Yes, that's true if you want to be able to play every game. You can make one machine that can play most games but there would be compromises.
IIRC that T450 can take a 1ghz PIII if you flash it with an Intel BIOS.
I think you're correct. Hopefully one day I'll find one so I can put it to the test. Also the 440BX chipset is a little faster from what I've heard so I'd like to test that also.