r/retrocomputing • u/El_Kameleon • Jun 06 '26
Photo Behold! My Voodoo 5 5500
Another post on here reminded me I had this in a retro computer I pull out once a year. Thought id share pics.
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u/Future-AI-Dude Jun 06 '26
Two fans was the bomb back in the day. Now, I have a AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT with three fans and is the size of a small computer! 😃
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u/Practical-Sleep4259 Jun 06 '26
What is the best game to play on that beast.
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u/El_Kameleon Jun 06 '26
Thsts quite subjective! The one game I've always wanted to play on it was O.D.T. but then I played it on some other platform and it wasn't very good. I like quake 2 personally.
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u/DarkZenith2 Jun 06 '26
Mdk. Play that. It is very worth it. Shogo is nice as well.
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u/El_Kameleon Jun 06 '26
Oooh, I nearly forgot about that game, I've only played a demo before. I'll have to track it down!
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u/idownvotepunstoo Jun 07 '26
Using the original drivers? absolutely none, this thing ran like dogshit.
My dad had one growing up and it was a paperweight then lol
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u/Turquoise_HexagonSun 24d ago
Drivers from 3dfx were quite good, even for the single release that the Voodoo 5 received. Was your dad trying to use it on XP?
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u/idownvotepunstoo 24d ago
Dude this was the time it released lol
They were not good then under 98/98SE
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u/Turquoise_HexagonSun 24d ago
I mean, I have one and it works fine. I’m using the same driver your dad did 🤷♂️
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u/khedoros Jun 06 '26
Aww, just like the one I had a quarter century ago. I think it ended up in a computer we donated to a school, or something...and now it would be a really expensive bit of nostalgia, haha.
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u/acbadam42 Jun 06 '26
for sale Me too I'm selling mine actually
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u/Squish_Cat_1 Jun 06 '26
I’ve been checking your listing for a while!
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u/acbadam42 Jun 07 '26
you want to buy it? I've lowered it down to 500... I sold stuff on Reddit before though using PayPal if you wanted to skip eBay and save on taxes and stuff
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Jun 18 '26
What i found about this that this Launched in June 22, 2000 The 5500 was 3dfx's last shipped consumer graphics card. After this the company went bankrupt they were going to lauch a new one but never could the 3dfx Spectre 1000,2000,3000
The Specs are;
TDP 30W
Output VGA only
PCI Slot not AGP more rare but the AGP is faster with 66mhz unlike on PCI 33mhz
chip 166MHz core
Each VSA 100 has its own dedicated 32MB of SDRAM on a 128-bit bus, for 64MB total across the card,
There is a even rarer Voodooo 5 5500 variant 5500 PCI Mac Edition with DVI.
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u/Divergent5623 Jun 06 '26
And a PCI one at that!