Voodoo 5 6000 preview

[NFS4]

http://www.eurogamer.net/content/p_v56000

 

[Czar]

One of the very few samples of Voodoo5 6000.

http://www.eurogamer.net/screenshot.php3?name=/pics/previews/v56000/v5603b.jpg

Look at that size, hardly anyone will be able to fit this into their case. Most people have a harddrive rack at the end of their AGP slot and any overclocker who cares about cooling will not want that card because it will allmost completely stop the flow from the bottom of the case to the top

 

[NFS4]

<< To show the sheer power of the card, 3dfx set up Quake 3 Arena running at 1600x1200 with 32 bit colour, maximum texture detail and trilinear filtering - all the bells and whistles. The game was also running with four sample anti-aliasing enabled, meaning that the card was effectively rendering four times as much information and then combining it to create the final image.

The result was, as you can imagine, a rather jittery game with severe slowdowns during large battles, but the fact that it was playable at all with that kind of gratuitous graphical detail was impressive. Reducing the resolution to a more sensible 1024x768 made the game silky smooth, although sadly 3dfx wouldn't allow us to run a timedemo, and had strategically placed a sticker over the top right corner of the monitor so that we couldn't see the game's frame rate counter. Spoilsports. >>


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[Mem]

At £500 I would rather spend my money elsewhere.

 

[NFS4]

$600 =

(2) AMD Duron 750's
(1) Dual AMD770 DDR motherboard
(1) 256MB DDR SDRAM Module

+ some change left over

 

[Hardware]

Such loosers vsa-100 has no trilinear filtering!

 

[Mikewarrior2]

If this guy had another hard drive, he wouldn't be able to use hte card. It goes straight into the HD Brackets.

Judging by its length compared to the keybaord, it looks like the board will be roughly 14 inches long

Mike

 

[MaxFPS]

I could care less about performance and the other bells and whistles of the V5 6K. I don't think I'd EVER put a video card of that length in my case. The sh!t is just TOO damn big!

I do want this mouse though
http://www.eurogamer.net/screenshot.php3?name=/pics/previews/v56000/v5602b.jpg

 

[Czar]

There is only one good thing about the Voodoo5 6000, we can now finaly see a retail graphics card that fills up the space the boxed cards come in.

 

[Sohcan]

<< Such loosers vsa-100 has no trilinear filtering! >>

Wow, that was pretty random.

 

[MaxFPS]

Thanks for the heads up sharekeeper

 

[SCUBA]

le mem est exact je signifient que 600$ est beaucoup

 

[Mikewarrior2]

that mouse should be on sale for $29.95 at crapusa this week, if i remember right...


Mike

 

[MaxFPS]

<< Even NVIDIA's recently announced GeForce 2 Ultra (itself expected to cost about $500) is unlikely to offer the sheer grunt of the Voodoo 5 6000, although it will probably come close >>



Who cares???:| At least the GF2 Ultra isn't the size of the Shaq's feet (probably even bigger at that)! Anyone know the size of Shaq's feet?

Too bad this is only a preview. I really would've liked to have seen some GF2 Ultra vs V5 6K benchmarks.

 

[MaxFPS]

Mikewarrior2,
I think it is on sale because I was there yesterday and not a single one was on the shelf. I've been there the past two weeks the workers there say they sell out fairly quick.

 

[NFS4]

Shaq wears a size 22

 

[Howard]

The friggin case is a minitower

 

[Mikewarrior2]

Actually, its a Superpower Mid-Tower(can't tell specific model cause i can't see hte front bezel).

And what's wrong with them using a mid-tower. The average person has a midtower or less(since Crapaq's and Most other OEM's have even less space for expansion). One of the only exceptions is dell, who uses Palo-Alto Cases.



Mike

 

[GQ]

&quot;it does provide great image quality and the fastest frame rates on the planet.&quot; WOOOOOOW!!!!!

I think we all know which one we would pick if we had the money.

GQ

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

I'm still curious what the &quot;surpise&quot; will be.

183mhz core/memory clock?

VIVO?

Die shrink? (althouth the .18um is supposed to have a 64-bit memory bus, DDR ram will offset the bus width)

 

[Pocatello]

I rather spend that much money on a nice 19 in monitor, but if you are buying a V5 6000, you probably already have a nice monitor

 

[SCUBA]

hahahahahaahahahahahha
i guss so unless u steal the card

 

[Pocatello]

Wow, it's the John Holmes of a videocard! Do you have to buy insurance if you buy this thing?

 

[JellyBaby]

Hmmm 50w external power supply. Better put that sucker on a separate breaker channel to prevent blowing a circuit everytime you run a game.

 

[Michael]

Sigh.

I've seen the V5 6K in person. If your case is to ATX spec, it will fit. It would fit in my case if I wanted to buy one (I don't).

The transformer is no different that the million other transformers that are plugged in all the time (like to power your sub-woofer). It will not blow circuits.

For a small group of people, the V5 6K will be a good purchase. If you're not interested in it, why crap all over it.

I think that most of the people who have posted before have posted time and again the NVIDIA is all they would consider. Fine, so why the hell do you care how big the V5 6K is? Do you need to crap on the card to get $$$ from NVIDIA or something?

I own both NVIDIA and 3dfx stock, so I like both companies and both are needed (along with ATi and Matrox) to keep competition going as strongly as possible in the graphics area.

If you're not going to buy it and if you've never even seen the card, leave it alone.

Michael