The 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500 is a fairly easy card to install. The only problem you may have is the card may not fit your case. This thing is very long! The V5 came within 3 inches of hitting my hard drive. To test the V5, I installed into my reference test computer which has the following:
The first benchmark I ran was 3D Mark 2000:
While the score of 4,206 is not bad, it's worlds behind the 6,392 score I got with the 64 Meg Hercules 3D Prophet II in the same system. Mind you that the Hercules card does cost up to $150 more than the Voodoo 5 5500. It should be noted that a 32 Meg GeForce2 can do the same 3D Mark score as the 64 meg unit so it doesn't look very good for 3dfx. However, 3D Mark 2000 is just a benchmark. We don't play benchmarks, we play games. Let's see how it does with my favorite 3D game.
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