3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP

Pros: A good card to finish the line with
Cons: No more good PCI fitting cards

Is it true that the 3Dfx range for the PCI slot is coming to an end?
I really hope not. NVIDIA bought out the company and have really just killed it off to give itself a bigger market share.
I do know that a lot of older machines are going to...

Pros: Better than onboard video
Cons: hard to find, conflicts with onboard video.

First of all I am reviewing the PCI version of the voodoo 5500 Video card. Couldnt find the catagory for it so I'm reviewing it here. My Hp pavilion contains the Voodoo 5500 video card, and I must say it is much better than that crappy onboard video card...

Pros: Nice Open GL, Decent frame rates, owns in half life
Cons: Newest games not optimised for it

I recently picked up a voodoo 5 from a buddy for 75 bucks, and I have been pretty happy with it thus far. With the proper updates this card runs pretty smooth, and there is one advantage it has over the geforce line, that being games based on the half...

Pros: Fast Frame Rates - Great Rendering
Cons: Doesn't like to run in Direct 3D

I build computers and have used a lot of different cards. I have to say I don't have a lot of bad to say about this card. In fact everything in my opinion has been good. I haven't had a problem yet except for one thing. This card does not like Direct...

Pros: nice FSAA and good graphics
Cons: 3DFX is gone

I got this card when it just came out. Got it for a good deal on eBay. I have the AGP 64 MB of RAM version. I admit it is a little big and was kinda "squished" to install it, but it fit in my mini-tower to say the least. it wasn't hard to install and...

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: 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...

Pros: Good speed,FSAA,compatibility with all games,64Mb memory,minimum performance hit at higher resolutions
Cons: Faster cards available,future support questionable,FSAA too slow on higher resolutions,no T&L

I had a Creative Geforce2 MX on my computer and eventhough
it offerred blazing speed at a resolution of 640x480,it still lost a lot as I upped the resolution.Unfortunately,I
pay a lot of attention to eye candy,and as most of you probably know...

Pros: good graphics, fast processor, good buy
Cons: outdone by other cards

For the price... yes. For the graphics... not really. 3dfx really screwed up with this one. We thought buying a top of the line product from a huge name would be good for us. We play many multi-player games such as Half-Life and Quake III on our PC. This...

Pros: Very fast, large memory, graphic quality
Cons: A bit expensive, requires separate power

I've been with Voodoo technologies for years, and 5500 is a major improvement. With its dual chips, and 64Mb of memory, it's a strong contender against GeForce, and I personally consider it better.

The speed of 3D games is impressive, and it...

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: Full screen anti-aliasing, Price, Reliability
Cons: 3Dfx sold to Nvidia

Yes, it's true, 3dfx has sold all rights, chips and patents to Nvidia. So What does this mean? Well, the product will remain out there but all support, updated drivers, and tech support is up to 3Dfx, a defunct company. Should that stop you from...

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: very stunning graphics
Cons: overheats and is too large

Ok first off,I own a Geforce 2 MX graphics card,now ive tried the voodoo 3 and ive also seen the voodoo 5 in action.First off i would highly recommend the Geforce 2 MX because by far it is the best graphics card ive ever used or seen! im going to give...

Pros: Awesome performance, Easy Control Panel Functions
Cons: $300.00 <--- Worth it to online gamers

There was a time that before I would purchase a piece of software I would look on the side of the box at the system requirements, shake my head and put it back on the shelf. Now that I have added a 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP card to my system those days are...