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:
- PIII 550E @ 825Mhz
- Abit VT6X4 Motherboard
- Enlight 7237 Case With 300 Watts PS
- 128 Megs
Corsair PC-133 SDRAM
- Pioneer 16X DVD ROM
- Maxtor 40 GIG 7200 RPM HD
- Aureal Vortex SQ2500 PCI Sound Card
- Smarfast PCI NIC
- Windows 98 SE
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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