3dfx Voodoo5 5500 AGP

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...