Voodoo 3 - Do that Voodoo that you Do
Written: Jul 02 '00
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Product Rating:
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Pros: Great Gamers Card
Cons: Not enough to even bother listing
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| Destinys-Child's Full Review: 3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 |
If you need to kick up your game play or supercharge your PCs overall performance this is the video card for you.
The Specs (courtesy of 3dfx.com) are as follows
General Features
-128-bit 2D, 3D and video accelerator
-Voodoo3 graphics processor
-16MB high-speed SDRAM
-AGP 2x
-MPEG-1, 2 playback
-350 MHz RAMDAC
-166 Megapixels/second
-333 Megatexels per second peak fill rate
-7 Million Polygons per second peak processing
-2.66 GB per second peak bandwidth
-Patented Single-pass multi-texturing
Other Features
-Supports resolutions up to 2046x1536
-DVD Hardware Assist
-Supports DirectX, Glide and OpenGL
-Alpha-Blending
-Single Pass, Single Cycle Bump Mapping
-Single Pass, Single Cycle Trilinear MIP-Mapping
-Programmable Fog Tables
-Sub-Pixel and Sub-Texel Correction
-Gouraud Shading
Overall
What does this translate to?
This translates to superb game play and great resolution and color definition.
I don’t play many games but the games I have played have run smoothly and beautifully when I added this card to my system.
Now one thing you need to know is adding a better video card to your system may improve your system a lot or very little depending on what hardware you have already. For the best graphics possible than you need to have a good monitor, lots of RAM (at least 64-128 megs), and a decent processor speed (300-400mhz).
If you don’t have a decent monitor than a great video card won’t help you that much. If you do have the RAM or your processor speed isn’t that fast then you won’t have the speed to back up your new card.
So please don’t go into a store expecting to turn your PC into a game machine just by adding a card.
The reason I bring up “gaming” so much is because this card is mainly a gamer’s delight. Don’t get me wrong it does office work great as well but not as well as some other cards on the market that are actually cheaper.
There are other cards on the market like the GeForce, ATI Rage Fury which offer double the RAM (32 or even 64 instead of Voodoo’s 16), but the cards are actually slower than the voodoo card. They have slower Framerates and a slower Randac. So don’t be fooled by more RAM.
Price
The card is priced pretty reasonably at around $120-150.00 (although I have seen it cheaper in some places and even some with rebates.
And now with the Voodoo 5 out the prices on the Voodoo 3 should drop dramatically.
If you are a gamer who suffers from stuttering games or games that barely run. Then check out this card it could solve a lot of you problems and have you blowing away the bad guys in no time.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 129.00
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