3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP

Pros: Blazing fast performance, Best anti-aliasing available
Cons: Outperformed by Geforce 2, Generates lots of heat

It's amazing just how much Voodoo 5 misinformation is out there. First there's the plethora of "fake reviews" here at Epinions, many of which were posted before the V5 was even released, all of them making outrageous claims as to its...

Pros: 32bit, 2 vsa-100 chips, 64mb ram, Crisp,clear, and beautifully rendered graphics
Cons: A little bit of a large board, requires external power

Finally after waiting and waiting for what seemed to be an eternity, my very own Voodoo5 5500 Agp arrived at more door early Friday morning. 3DFX has shipped there newest installment of their bloodlines to the general public and is available for the...

Pros: FSAA, only card to have it.
Cons: Bit expensive, nothing else really stands out

The voodoo 5 5500 an eagerly awaited card my many gamers accross the world, so is it any good? well benchmarks show that it certainly has potential in the speed market with its multiple processor layout, but does it have the same features as before or...

Pros: 64 megs of ram, real-time anti-aliasing, lots of effects like blur and soft shadows.
Cons: Doesn't support Windows 2000.

The Voodoo 5 5500 AGP is the next stage in 3d graphics! It can handle Half-Life at resolutions such as 1600x1200 and get frame rates up in the 30's! It's just downright incredible! Here are some of the technical specs:

*64 megs of ram - for...

Pros: Outstanding picture quality--good performance for the visual quality it delivers
Cons: Nowhere near the FPS performance of a GeForce...

Voodoo5. Ahhh. While still using a Quantum3d Obsidian200sb (and a 100sb prior to that), I have to say that I've definitely enjoyed the cream of the crop when it comes to 3Dfx accelerators. <sigh> After the lengthy wait and enduring countless...

Pros: Great price
Cons: HUGE card, may not fit inside case

There's an amazing amount of bad press of the Voodoo5 around. Most of it I actually believed until I actually bought one.

Now, taking a little side trip, why would I buy a card I thought to be utter cr@p until a month ago?

It's very...

Pros: Excellent
Cons: Is about the same as the nVidia

I recently was looking into a new computer and I had it all set out. 45gb hard drive, 12x4x32x CD-RW, 48x CD-ROM Drive, Asus A7V Motherboard, Soundblaster Live!, 128mb of memory. a 14gb tape drive, a 900mhz AMD Athlon, and an nVidia GeForce 2 GTS. The...

Pros: Good benchmarks with Direct 3D games, FSAA looked pretty good on old games, cheaper than GeForce 2 based cards.
Cons: 64 Megs card is really two 32 Megs separate cards put together, questionable T-buffer feature, SDR memory slows it down, too big card.

3dfx’s days of glory are definitively passed and gone. The days when game-maker companies would pay thousands for the license to use the infamous “Glide mode” are in the memory of just a few.

And I’m one of those few. I remember having to...

Pros: beautifull graphics and stable
Cons: no drivers for win2k yet!!!!!

Well no card could ever get 600 frames per second but it got your attention right?.....good, I will first start off with the juice, what you have all been waiting for. The big question, How is the Voodoo 5 5500? Well, I won't lie, it doesn't crush,...

Pros: Nice image quality. Great Anti-Aliasing support.
Cons: Not the fastest horse in the stable.

Basic Overview
3DFX has always been a "biggy" of the high-end market, more often then not thrashing all other graphics cards with ease. As of late, they have been trying to push there own ideas, not listening to what the consumers have been...

Pros: Wide range of games. Fast, Great image quality.
Cons: Slow 2d, no windowed OpenGL, runs HOT

By now most of us know that 3DFX has left the video retail market. After losing the graphics card wars to Nvidia, 3DFX's flagship, the 6000 never made it out. What their plans are now remains to be seen. Some say they will produce OEM products, video...

Pros: Easy installation, nice options, games look beautiful.
Cons: Rather large card (length wise). Anti-aliasing isn't what I expected it to be.

Oh why, oh why, did they have to go out of business?!?!?!

My story is rather simple. I was using an old TNT2 PCI video card in my system, and I wanted to free up a PCI port and hook myself up with an AGP graphics card. I've heard good things...

Pros: Great performance
Cons: Pricey, and takes up alot of space

Its Voodoo coming back strong against Geforce and Nvidia with their latest and most powerful (well for another 2 months until the voodoo 6 ships)card yet. The Voodoo5 5500 has a duel ship set, and in my opinion outperformes any other cards on the market...

Pros: 64 Mb of memory, reasonable technology
Cons: theres much quicker cards at a lower price

This is 3dfx's latest release into the video card market. All eyes were on this card because it was crutial ro 3dfx that it was the tops because of the already high number of lost sales that the Voodoo 3 range lost to Nvidia's GeForce 256 range....

Pros: Great performance, great for the slightly older Mac
Cons: 3dfx are no longer around

There are a couple of things you should know about this review before you go on. Essentially the card I am reviewing is the PCI version of the Voodoo5 5500 family and secondly the card I am reviewing is for the Macintosh and not the PC, just figured it...

Pros: Superior FSAA, Cinematic effects, Macintosh version available when shipping
Cons: Slower than Geforce 2 in most common resolutions

Times have been rough for 3dfx lately. This is the company that essentially started the 3d Accelerator market with its' revolutionary Voodoo Graphics board. (Please, the Virge by S3 was not an accelerator). The success of the original Voodoo Graphics...

Pros: Fast Frame Rates - Great Rendering
Cons: Doesn't like to run in Direct 3D

I build computers and have used a lot of different cards. I have to say I don't have a lot of bad to say about this card. In fact everything in my opinion has been good. I haven't had a problem yet except for one thing. This card does not like Direct...

Pros: 64 megs of RAM, 667 million frames/second, full screen anti aliasing.
Cons: cost over $200, you have to have a AGP port.

Welcome to the next stage in gaming. The Voodoo 5 5500 AGP is the paramount in video graphics.

With the Voodoo 5 5500 AGP, you get the newest accelerator card from "3DFX," the #1 name in gaming.

If you have recently...

Pros: Extremely Powerful, Very Sharp
Cons: Expensive

As previously noted by several reviews, the new Quad 3D Card is coming out soon. The average price in Canadian dollars of this V5500 card is around $400.00. The card right below it is running close to $200.00. Unless you're doing some CRAZY things with...

Pros: A good card to finish the line with
Cons: No more good PCI fitting cards

Is it true that the 3Dfx range for the PCI slot is coming to an end?
I really hope not. NVIDIA bought out the company and have really just killed it off to give itself a bigger market share.
I do know that a lot of older machines are going to...

Pros: Fast card, makes older games look better
Cons: Cost is rather high still

When I needed to replace my video card that died (ATI Rage Fury Pro), I was looking for a fast card that support AGP 4X as well as had 64 Megs Ram, would be fast, and compatible with most games. I looked at the DDR cards and this card and this card won...

Pros: FSAA in hardware, relatively cheap
Cons: needs power connector, very long

Finally a new product from 3dfx has come out. Costing around $260 it isn't a cheap graphics card but nothing top of the line is these days. The V5 5500 is 2 VSA-100 chips in one. Almost like SLI except in one card instead of 2. Each VSA-100 chip runs at...

Pros: Satisfactory 3d performance, has some worthy features
Cons: Lame compared to GTS, FSAA at 4X is near unplayable

I've been a 3dfx fan, but coupled with the not-very successful Voodoo 3 series, I must say that nVidia takes the crown again as the performance leader (sad to say) with the Geforce 2 GTS and Ultra...

The 5500 comes with 2 VSA-100 (Voodoo...

Pros: Image quality
Cons: Requires power-input, needs fast CPU

I purchased the V5 5500 card, a month after it was released to the public. And to say the least, overall I was unimpressed with it's performance.

So the good points are that, the FSAA (Full-Scene Anti-aliasing) and cinematic FX are second to...

Pros: Awesome performance, Easy Control Panel Functions
Cons: $300.00 <--- Worth it to online gamers

There was a time that before I would purchase a piece of software I would look on the side of the box at the system requirements, shake my head and put it back on the shelf. Now that I have added a 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 AGP card to my system those days are...

Pros: 32bit, 2 VSA-100 chips, 64Mb on-board RAM
Cons: External Power Supply

I finally had time and money to upgrade my video card, and ooh, I hit the mother load! I opened the box (rather large) and installed my nice-big-Voodoo5 with no problem. You need to have another power cord attached to the Voodoo5 card itself, but that's...

Pros: Unsurpassed speed, seamless 3D imaging, more than enough power.
Cons: A little pricy, hard to install if you've never seen the inside of a computer.

There's no easy way to put this, the Voodoo5 kicks large portions of @$$. With dual VSA-100 chips running at 166mhz it offers both great image quality and unimaginable speed. The board uses Full-Scene Anti-Aliasing which smoothes out jagged 3D images,...

Pros: Nice Open GL, Decent frame rates, owns in half life
Cons: Newest games not optimised for it

I recently picked up a voodoo 5 from a buddy for 75 bucks, and I have been pretty happy with it thus far. With the proper updates this card runs pretty smooth, and there is one advantage it has over the geforce line, that being games based on the half...

Pros: Better than onboard video
Cons: hard to find, conflicts with onboard video.

First of all I am reviewing the PCI version of the voodoo 5500 Video card. Couldnt find the catagory for it so I'm reviewing it here. My Hp pavilion contains the Voodoo 5500 video card, and I must say it is much better than that crappy onboard video card...

Pros: Very fast, large memory, graphic quality
Cons: A bit expensive, requires separate power

I've been with Voodoo technologies for years, and 5500 is a major improvement. With its dual chips, and 64Mb of memory, it's a strong contender against GeForce, and I personally consider it better.

The speed of 3D games is impressive, and it...

Pros: 64MB Video RAM, It's just awesome
Cons: What?!?!

I bought a new computer recently and the first thing I had done before I even took it home was have a 3Dfx VooDoo 5 video card installed. All I can say is I am overwhelmed.

I had the 3Dfx VooDoo 3 for the longest time and I thought it was the...

Pros: Good speed,FSAA,compatibility with all games,64Mb memory,minimum performance hit at higher resolutions
Cons: Faster cards available,future support questionable,FSAA too slow on higher resolutions,no T&L

I had a Creative Geforce2 MX on my computer and eventhough
it offerred blazing speed at a resolution of 640x480,it still lost a lot as I upped the resolution.Unfortunately,I
pay a lot of attention to eye candy,and as most of you probably know...

Pros: New card with a lot of new features.
Cons: More processor dependant, impolite drivers.

First of all, I would like to say that there are a lot of fake reviews
of that card around the net, most of them saying that is a trash card. But the Voodoo 5 5500 is NOT a bad card.
Maybe there is a lack of details in the card, and the drivers...

Pros: Awesome Visual Quality
Cons: Expensive

If you like to have intercourse with gorgeous models, then you will love this video card! It is fabulous!

I used to have a Creative Labs Annihilator 2 in my computer before I tried the Voodoo 5. Seriously, I must say that although the...

Pros: FSAA Better than GeForce2 GTS
Cons: 4 Chips vs nVidia's 1 Chip and still loses in FPS Battle!

This product is just a so so product. I'm sure 3dfx is insanely mad @ nVidia. 4 Chips? vs. nVidia's 1 Chip? Yeap 3dfx has gone mad. Tests and benchmarks show that the VooDoo5's fps marks are a few, around 5-7 at most below any of the GeForce2 GTS...

Pros: Very fast, great resolution
Cons: a bit expensive

I love this card. There is nothing wrong with it. I have been use to a two megabyte card in the past, but when i got my new system installed with this card... Whoa! I can now attain 120 frames per second without the slightest straining of my system....

Pros: Fast, beautiful graphics.
Cons: Price.

My last video card purchase was an STB Velocity 4400, which has an nVidia Riva TNT chip. It was a great card for a long time, but with newer games and my new motherboard/processor combo (Athlon 800MHz on a FIC AZ-11), I felt as though more graphics...

Pros: good graphics, fast processor, good buy
Cons: outdone by other cards

For the price... yes. For the graphics... not really. 3dfx really screwed up with this one. We thought buying a top of the line product from a huge name would be good for us. We play many multi-player games such as Half-Life and Quake III on our PC. This...

Pros: powerfull and very fast.
Cons: The price of the newer cars are too much

The voodoo5 5500 agp card is a truly amazing card. This card has the ower to push so many videogames at incredible frame rates that you would think twice about the playstation 2. The graphical card in today's computers are so amazing that when you think...

Pros: ROCKS!
Cons: Doesn't seem to work with GEM monitors

All in all I really like the 5, but it will not work with GEM monitors without some color banding. I have swapped several monitors and this is only and issue with GEM for some reason. Other than that the card ROCKS.

It works exceptionally...

Pros: very stunning graphics
Cons: overheats and is too large

Ok first off,I own a Geforce 2 MX graphics card,now ive tried the voodoo 3 and ive also seen the voodoo 5 in action.First off i would highly recommend the Geforce 2 MX because by far it is the best graphics card ive ever used or seen! im going to give...

Pros: Awesome frame rate from your games
Cons: price and no T&L

This product is a highly anticipated graphics card from the top named 3dfx. The voodoo5 5500 is a card with monster high fill rate and 64 megs of ram. The specs are awesome but it does lack the hardware T&L that nvidia has boasted with its geforce....

Pros: Power great graphics
Cons: price

This card is the best card around at the moment and i think will keep being the best for a long time. if you have a bit of extra money and want to have extremely good graphics buy the 3dfx voodoo 5 5500. This card will amaze you no more bad graphics,...

Pros: nice FSAA and good graphics
Cons: 3DFX is gone

I got this card when it just came out. Got it for a good deal on eBay. I have the AGP 64 MB of RAM version. I admit it is a little big and was kinda "squished" to install it, but it fit in my mini-tower to say the least. it wasn't hard to install and...

Pros: Full screen anti-aliasing, Price, Reliability
Cons: 3Dfx sold to Nvidia

Yes, it's true, 3dfx has sold all rights, chips and patents to Nvidia. So What does this mean? Well, the product will remain out there but all support, updated drivers, and tech support is up to 3Dfx, a defunct company. Should that stop you from...

Pros: Works with every single program
Cons: not all games look better with it

The voodoo 5 5500 is an enhanced version of the voodoo 3 3000. It has two of the same chips made for the voodoo 3 3000 so it can draw graphics at 64 bits. I bought it because I was a previously owner of the voodoo 3 3000 and I wanted some upgrading in my...