3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP

Pros: Blazing fast performance, Best anti-aliasing available
Cons: Outperformed by Geforce 2, Generates lots of heat

It's amazing just how much Voodoo 5 misinformation is out there. First there's the plethora of "fake reviews" here at Epinions, many of which were posted before the V5 was even released, all of them making outrageous claims as to its...

Pros: 32bit, 2 vsa-100 chips, 64mb ram, Crisp,clear, and beautifully rendered graphics
Cons: A little bit of a large board, requires external power

Finally after waiting and waiting for what seemed to be an eternity, my very own Voodoo5 5500 Agp arrived at more door early Friday morning. 3DFX has shipped there newest installment of their bloodlines to the general public and is available for the...

Pros: FSAA, only card to have it.
Cons: Bit expensive, nothing else really stands out

The voodoo 5 5500 an eagerly awaited card my many gamers accross the world, so is it any good? well benchmarks show that it certainly has potential in the speed market with its multiple processor layout, but does it have the same features as before or...

Pros: 64 megs of ram, real-time anti-aliasing, lots of effects like blur and soft shadows.
Cons: Doesn't support Windows 2000.

The Voodoo 5 5500 AGP is the next stage in 3d graphics! It can handle Half-Life at resolutions such as 1600x1200 and get frame rates up in the 30's! It's just downright incredible! Here are some of the technical specs:

*64 megs of ram - for...

Pros: Outstanding picture quality--good performance for the visual quality it delivers
Cons: Nowhere near the FPS performance of a GeForce...

Voodoo5. Ahhh. While still using a Quantum3d Obsidian200sb (and a 100sb prior to that), I have to say that I've definitely enjoyed the cream of the crop when it comes to 3Dfx accelerators. <sigh> After the lengthy wait and enduring countless...

Pros: Great price
Cons: HUGE card, may not fit inside case

There's an amazing amount of bad press of the Voodoo5 around. Most of it I actually believed until I actually bought one.

Now, taking a little side trip, why would I buy a card I thought to be utter cr@p until a month ago?

It's very...

Pros: Excellent
Cons: Is about the same as the nVidia

I recently was looking into a new computer and I had it all set out. 45gb hard drive, 12x4x32x CD-RW, 48x CD-ROM Drive, Asus A7V Motherboard, Soundblaster Live!, 128mb of memory. a 14gb tape drive, a 900mhz AMD Athlon, and an nVidia GeForce 2 GTS. The...

Pros: Good benchmarks with Direct 3D games, FSAA looked pretty good on old games, cheaper than GeForce 2 based cards.
Cons: 64 Megs card is really two 32 Megs separate cards put together, questionable T-buffer feature, SDR memory slows it down, too big card.

3dfx’s days of glory are definitively passed and gone. The days when game-maker companies would pay thousands for the license to use the infamous “Glide mode” are in the memory of just a few.

And I’m one of those few. I remember having to...

Pros: beautifull graphics and stable
Cons: no drivers for win2k yet!!!!!

Well no card could ever get 600 frames per second but it got your attention right?.....good, I will first start off with the juice, what you have all been waiting for. The big question, How is the Voodoo 5 5500? Well, I won't lie, it doesn't crush,...

Pros: Nice image quality. Great Anti-Aliasing support.
Cons: Not the fastest horse in the stable.

Basic Overview
3DFX has always been a "biggy" of the high-end market, more often then not thrashing all other graphics cards with ease. As of late, they have been trying to push there own ideas, not listening to what the consumers have been...

Pros: Wide range of games. Fast, Great image quality.
Cons: Slow 2d, no windowed OpenGL, runs HOT

By now most of us know that 3DFX has left the video retail market. After losing the graphics card wars to Nvidia, 3DFX's flagship, the 6000 never made it out. What their plans are now remains to be seen. Some say they will produce OEM products, video...

Pros: Easy installation, nice options, games look beautiful.
Cons: Rather large card (length wise). Anti-aliasing isn't what I expected it to be.

Oh why, oh why, did they have to go out of business?!?!?!

My story is rather simple. I was using an old TNT2 PCI video card in my system, and I wanted to free up a PCI port and hook myself up with an AGP graphics card. I've heard good things...

Pros: Great performance
Cons: Pricey, and takes up alot of space

Its Voodoo coming back strong against Geforce and Nvidia with their latest and most powerful (well for another 2 months until the voodoo 6 ships)card yet. The Voodoo5 5500 has a duel ship set, and in my opinion outperformes any other cards on the market...

Pros: 64 Mb of memory, reasonable technology
Cons: theres much quicker cards at a lower price

This is 3dfx's latest release into the video card market. All eyes were on this card because it was crutial ro 3dfx that it was the tops because of the already high number of lost sales that the Voodoo 3 range lost to Nvidia's GeForce 256 range....

Pros: Great performance, great for the slightly older Mac
Cons: 3dfx are no longer around

There are a couple of things you should know about this review before you go on. Essentially the card I am reviewing is the PCI version of the Voodoo5 5500 family and secondly the card I am reviewing is for the Macintosh and not the PC, just figured it...