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Voodoo 4500 - by Powercolor?

AnitaPeterson

AnitaPeterson

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Hi,

As I was checking out the deals on the net, I stumbled across this card:

Voodoo 4

and of course I couldn't believe that someone has taken over the initiative to keep Voodoo alive.

I wonder how good this card really is.

This is on a Canadian site, but there's apparently a U.S. equivalent, too... just go to the main page for the address.
 
I only have one experience with PowerColor, and it is a bad one.

A while ago, I bought their "EvilKing 3" (read: Voodoo3) 3000. It crashed after a while every time I tried to run certain games (but other worked perfectly). I returned it for replacement, and the new card did the exact same thing. The second time, I managed to persuade the store to give me my money back. There must have been some incompatibility with - what? - the only thing that should matter should be the MB, which was (and is 🙂 an Abit KT7. I forgot to mention that other Voodoo3 cards (multiple) work fine with my setup without any corrections made.

So, for ME, the bottom line is, stay away from PowerColor and their Voodoo series cards. But if there is anyone with the exact opposite experience/opinion, I would be most curious to hear it!
 
Hmmm...curious. I was having problems with a Powercolor Geforce2 64mb GTS card, on an Abit KT7-RAID board.

Except in my situation, every time I installed drivers I'd blue screen 🙂
 
that's really interesting. i never knew that anyone else besides 3dfx made 3dfx cards.
 
"and of course I couldn't believe that someone has taken over the initiative to keep Voodoo alive."

They didn't - this was released before 3dfx bit the dust, as 3dfx were trying to get cheaper outlets in the Taiwanese markets (similar to what ATI is doing now, but not quite as widespread); its likely that PowerColor are just still trying to work though old stock.

I doubt PowerColor produces any of their own drivers either, relying on the reference drivers by the chip manufacturer - seeing as 3dfx is dead and NVIDIA certainly ain't touching 3dfx driver support with a 10 foot pole support for this card will go the way of the rest of 3dfx's.
 
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