If you are looking for a pretty good video card without having to spend a lot of money, your search has ended. This video card retails for about 100.00 and is well worth it. I have used this video card for almost a year now and have not had a single problem with it. The card made it through any game that I played with the greatest of ease. The user menus are easy to understand and manipulate. This card also has an over clocking feature which is handy.

Other features include: Digital video port, voodoo3 chip with 350mhz ramdac, tv/s-video connector, 16mb sdram, agp bus connector, patented single pass single cycle multi texturing, dual 32 bit texture rendering pipeline, alpha blending, single pass single cycle bump mapping, single pass single cycle trilinear mip-mapping, gourad shading, programmable fog tables, sub pixel and sub texel correction, dvd hardware assist, and a 128 bit 2d accelerator.

The technical support at 3dfx was pretty decent too. They told me where I could go to get a good benchmark for my system's video. I wasn't on hold for extended amounts of time. Whenever I wanted to I could always go to 3dfx's website and download an updated driver.

The only thing that I would be leary of is the fact that 3dfx was bought out by nvidia. Who knows what this could mean for technical support or future drivers for the voodoo cards.

Here are some of the test results that my voodoo card received.

CPU AMD Athlon 650MHz

3D Accelerator Voodoo3 AGP

Chipset 3dfx Voodoo3 2000/3000

Resolution 1024x768 16 bit

Z-Buffer Depth 16-bit

Frame Buffer Triple

Refresh Rate V Sync.Off

CPU Optimization AMD Athlon(tm)

3DMark Result 2858 3D marks

CPU Speed 188 CPU 3D marks

Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail 59.35 FPS

Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail 40.04 FPS

Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail 17.32 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail 58.67 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail 39.50 FPS

Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail 23.30 FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 162.19 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 319.15 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 Light) 3,445 KTriangles/s

High Polygon Count (4 Lights) 2,874 KTriangles/s

High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 2,316 KTriangles/s

8MB Texture Rendering Speed 139.83 FPS

16MB Texture Rendering Speed 137.19 FPS

32MB Texture Rendering Speed 112.09 FPS

64MB Texture Rendering Speed 19.79 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 3-pass) 97.91 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 2-pass) 132.57 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss, 1-pass) Not Supported

Bump Mapping (Environment) Not Supported

Overall this is a great card for the dollar.




Recommended: Yes

Amount Paid (US$): 150.00