3dfx Voodoo Banshee Review

[@MamasBasementEnt]

I like the variety of the videos you put up, but I always get especially fired up when I see a video on Windows 95/98 era hardware.

[@axelblaine1675]

instablaster

[@tehrobotjesus]

Yes! More vintage reviews!

[@darak2]

"Here is the power supply, which was provided by the manufacturer for free, and by the way, don't buy it, buy something better instead" XD

[@retropcscotland4645]

hahahaha

[@martijn208]

yes, i was thinking that too. but i think that for projects like this it's fine. those computers draw so little power that as long as it has a 80 plus certification it' s fine. if he just said that it would not sounds as stupid.

[@tassadar1977]

Least he's not selling out!

[@excess.subiefl0w]

@@martijn208 from what I remember these old systems pull more power from the 5.5V rail and not 12V rail, many modern power supplies have a low amperage 5.5V rail

[@martijn208]

@@excess.subiefl0w true, so you need to get some PSU's from 2010 i think. i have one from around that time and it has a decent amp on 5.5V

[@mrgtmodernretrogamingtech6891]

Again... I saw P3 Slot Type, SD RAM, AGP Video Card, PCI And ISA in a Green Motherboard... Have my Like and Love!!!

[@ching-chenhuang8119]

For a short period I thought the motherboard was Asus P2B-F.....

[@epicbacongaming2k117]

That Clive Barker game running at 800x600 is pretty damn impressive considering the hardware.

[@djarcforceable]

I had one of these when they were hot. What a great card it was back in the day.

[@djarcforceable]

And since I got a like from you Phil, thanks for the great videos. This old nostalgia stuff is hitting me right in the feelz. Great stuff man. Really enjoying the content since I found your channel and subbed.

[@czdot]

I was rocking a 486 until 2002, I could only dream about this. 🙂

[@CosmoRiderDE]

And i thought i was late with my socket 7 i still used in 2001... hehe

[@holgerwikingsen713]

I had my 486 until 2000, not knowing there were other cpus. To me they were all just computers and i thought everyone had this very same computer (sporting a 486). When my bubble burst, 1Ghz Pentium 3 was out already. Imagine my shock. I felt like a caveman.

[@PaintsAreOp]

I was rocking 100Mhz Pentium until 2001, then upgrading to some 400Mhz Celeron. For some time I had more ram on my GPU (Geforce 4 TI 4400) than my system :D

[@jessed0308]

​@@PaintsAreOp the gf4 ti an amazing car for its day

[@PaintsAreOp]

​@@jessed0308 If only it had dx9 support... 😞

[@NightMotorcyclist]

256MB of SDR RAM was considered monstrous back in the days of the Banshee. Most systems of the time shipped with 64MB, some still with 32MB and 128MB was kinda high end. I don't really miss the days where we needed separate video cards for different functions, it just made everything too cluttered and made an already expensive PC even more so, especially if you add an MPEG 2 card.

[@jessed0308]

amen brother

[@krz8888888]

First card I bought with my own money! Paired it with a p166mmx, didn't know any better, still had a blast!

[@jessed0308]

that was huge back in the day

[@sebastian_hakansson78]

Ahh what nostalgia! I had a Banshee2 (I think) in my first computer in 2000.. But I ran a AMD K6-2@233mhz (??) then i believe. Cool to see the old hardware today, thing have changed a lot since then! My first HDD had less mb/gb than a gpu today.. Always fun to mod and upgrade hardware, this i how it began for me. Keep those good old nostalgic reviews and test up!

[@UndyingGhost]

Thumbs up for Clive Barkers Undying benchmark.

[@kidShibuya]

First 3d GPU I ever owned. Loved that card...

[@3DfxAslinger]

Very nice review, as always! I had no Banshee card in 1998, because I was the owner of a Voodoo 2 12MB at this time, but a friend of mine had a Creative 3D Blaster Banshee PCI in his Pentium MMX 166 system. The Banshee is a nice card for a AMD K6-II/III, or a slower Pentium II.

[@vacanza11]

hi there :) my first 3d card was a bashee on a K62-450 cpu, then upgraded to a voodoo3-2000 and to K62-533. Pentium 2 450 has plenty horsepower for these videocards and they were sronger for games than amd k6s family :) anyway i could play every game in the late 90' early 2000. But i remember these cards were not perfectly campatible (or not at all) for games released for the first generation of 3d fx voodoo cards

[@hkoizumi3134]

Cyrix 686 233Mhz, 32MB RAM, Voodoo Banshee, and Yamaha OPL3-SA. This was my very first gaming rig I have built. I was so damn proud of it.

[@sadakotube]

I used this back in the day. It was great for its time

[@zackrose6019]

It always makes me smile when I see ram modules that are made in my hometown.

[@valentine_puppy]

What would be the Ultimate Beach house Vacation or as you lot say it Holiday take with you to a house gaming all night MS-Dos or Windows 9X computer. Either a built in screen or portable screen. That would be a cool thing to try out.

[@AndrewAHayes]

I still remember going to the computer store to buy this accelerator card, I was buzzing about it, I bought a new game also to go with it, the Star Wars rogue squadron, very fond memories

[@raketman101]

I still remember what the store looked like, they asked me if I was sure I needed a PCI version, because AGP was becoming standard, but my MB with a P90 was not up to that, still the best upgrade and buy I ever made.

[@mitch075fr]

One of the best things about Unreal is that, with patch 2.26, it supported all major 3D graphics APIs of the time : Glide (since release), OpenGL and Direct3D. It also included a software renderer. I remember tinkering with my Celeron 300A@450, my RivaTnT 16 Mb and the Detonator drivers a LOT so as to make stuff like the castle flyby (intro) and the rocket escape (outro) as fluid as possible. I had a few 3dfx cards, but I must admit that as fast as they were, the comfort brought by 24-/32-bit color as opposed to the dithering found on 16-bit cards like the Voodoo really did help. So did a 32-bit Z-buffer, with all the depht artifacts you'd get on a Voodoo compared with the crisp intersecting polygons of other cards.

[@marksminis]

I was Sr. Test Tech at 3DFX when we put out the Banshee. The fallout at the chip level was appalling. Then at final test, 3% would fail outright. Very high return rate. I was expecting very unhappy reviews. Glad to see it made some people happy back in the day. We shipped that thing and were crossing our fingers "omg what have we done" LOL

[@danielszalok8540]

Our first 3D card was an S3 Trio3D in 1999, but as it was horrible, we quickly wanted to buy a real 3D card. As we were on a budget, my father chose an S3 Savage3D (he really liked the name and it was cheap), but it was faulty and didn't work at all. My father said "f*ck it", went back to the PC shop, gave back the faulty Savage3D, asked the guy what kind of 3D cards exist, picked the Banshee from the list (he LOVED the name, that was the main driver :D), and it was a fantastic choice. Even during 1999 and 2000, the years when hardware became obsolete two times a year, it really served us well. The only drawback was that all "modern" 2D games froze immediately when we started them with the Banshee (I guess it was faulty as well or there was some kind of driver issue), so if we got bored of Quake 3 or Motorhead and wanted to play with Heroes of Might and Magic 3 or Sim City 3000, we had to replace the Banshee with the Trio3D. And we didn't complain! Good old times, good old Banshee! :)

[@ugzz]

You're the first creator i've seen cover some of the oddities that i actually had back in the day, this is awesome!

[@hartsickdisciple]

My first 3d accelerator was a Banshee. I bought it with birthday money when I was 13. It turned the family PC with it's Pentium 233 MMX into a gamer. This combination did a good job with Jedi Knight, Motoracer, NFS 3, Half-life, Wing Commander Prophecy, Freespace, NBA Live 99, Unreal, etc....

[@lemagreengreen]

Never actually saw a Banshee in the wild back then, I remember people always said it wasn't that great and everyone I knew just went for the 12MB Voodoo2 (or two of them). Good to finally see a real world review :)

[@BudgetBuildsOfficial]

Saw one of these locally for a decent price but never thought it was worth picking up. Now seeing the price they're going for here, and the performance actually being somewhat okay I wish I'd investigated it a bit more. Cheers for the great video on it.

[@philscomputerlab]

Yea anything 3dfx is now worth top dollar.

[@TurboMMaster]

Voodoo Banshee was kinda... controversial. While a very good card on it's own, it wasn't stricte upregade from Voodoo 2, and in card that was relased 8 months after Voodoo 2. People just uderstand that Voodoo Banshee was relased with OEM market in mind, and they tried to keep price as low as possible. People at this time already expected next generation stuff, or at least noticable improvement over 33fx previous architecture. Also Voodoo 3 was already in development, so Voodoo Banshee was designed with relatively short lifespan in mind. But if you wanted to both buy Voodoo 2 and improve your 2D card or wanted to buy new PC with Glide support, it was indeed decent option.

[@darak2]

I actually upgraded a Voodoo 1 setup to a Banshee, back in the day. The quality loss from the passthrough cable was actually pretty serious, especially if your VGA didn't have a very high quality DAC, to the point where high resolution Windows was noticeably blurry. At some point I remember just swapping the cable from one card to another when I wanted to play a game.

[@nitrax8629]

Personally I've found the cable you use to pass the signal through also matters - Poorly shielded / overly long cables will decrease image quality significantly.

[@Felix-ve9hs]

this GPU is just 25 days younger than me and it still works

[@tenshi7angel]

That would be 2 things that still work. :)

[@ParadoxdesignsOrg]

This was my very first 3d card back in the day. and wow, did it ever kick some ass!

[@fullmetaljacket7]

I had a Creative 3d Blaster voodoo banshee back in the day. Loved it! So many good memories... It was my first proper 3d accelerator. Before that I had a Diamond Stealth 2 s220.

[@jimmothy79]

Creative 3D Blaster Banshee was my first 3D card as well, was great

[@KixPanganiban]

jimmothy79 Same here. I remember getting the C3D Blaster Banshee to play Slave Zero back in the day

[@jaa273]

i had that banshee too

[@CYON4D]

3dfx will always remain special for me.

[@kennyj4366]

I couldn't stop smiling. All of those games were like state of the art at the time, all the time tweaking and pushing our systems to get just a little bit more lol. Thank you so much for the memories. 👍👍🙂

[@kyles8524]

if anyone is curious the voodoo banshee is a voodoo 2 without having a secondary 2d card and is actually a little slower

[@captainharris8980]

I had a Voodoo Banshee before I switched to an Orchid Righteous Voodoo2. The Banshee was one of the best cards I ever bought for 1990's gaming until the ATI series came out.

[@ukwan]

I had a 3DFX Voodoo Banshee also had a Power VR2 around the same time.. followed by a Riva TNT, GeForce 2 MX200 then GeForce 2 GTS.. Great era of PC Gaming.

[@TheCgOrion]

I loved my Banshee when I got it. It was the beginning of my GPU journey. From there I went to a VooDoo 3, and then another VooDoo 3 with an S-video out, which I played on my 27" Sony Trinitron. Those were the days. If you're looking for a motherboard, don't count out the slot Athlon CPU's. They can be overclocked, if you don't mind SMD soldering. Got my 600Mhz to 750Mhz, which was a monster price difference at the time.

[@davidreagan7156]

Awesome video! I enjoy playing around with vintage Windows 9x era hardware and its fun to see these items brought back to life and shared with others via your channel. BTW, for those of us who built our early IT careers on Novell Netware, its especially cool to see a 'Novell Yes' logo on the motherboard! :)

[@armorgeddon]

So I guess you'll know the game Netwars :-)

[@davidreagan7156]

@@armorgeddon absolutely... :)

[@billysgeo]

can we have that batch file that auto-installs Win98??? Thanks

[@newlinedetails]

Watching these brings me back to my unreal tournament days. So many good memories

[@jessed0308]

same

[@billthecat2410]

Brings back memory. I used the voodoo cards for a while. I think I had a Tsing 2d card at that time that was very fast with windows. Had a Sound Blaster audio card and was using AMD cpus also. One game I really liked that worked really well with the 3DFX cards was Indipendance War. A pretty good space game. As I remember you actually needed the 3DFX cards to play that game. Later they came out with I-War2 EOC which is still a really good space game even to today. That game would run on anything pretty much. But those were fun days at the early times of computers. A lot more places to buy stuff and you had to really know the computers back then. IRQ's were fun to assign if you wanted stuff to work. What a pain that was plus memory managers config. sys files and autoexec.bat files to make... Aw, what a time...

[@LeSmokinCola]

Would be interested to see a comparison between the Banshee and the older Voodoo Rush based cards.

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

The Banshee is 3x faster than the Voodoo Rush

[@jabezhane]

I had one back in the day. Worked fine.

[@C4nn15]

You should look for Free space 2, pretty game and massive spaceships. Worked great on my Voodoo 3

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

Freespece 2 was great

[@-Gadget-]

Freelancer was one of my favourites. Actually played it a while back just for nostalgia sake 😂😂😂

[@Heazytoohot]

As soneone thats newer to owning a pc, learning about old gpus is so crazy. i didnt even know as a kid pc gaming was a thing aside from childrens cd based games haha. very cool!

[@gattigatozza]

Ah, Voodoo

[@mr.transistor2823]

When I watch such videos I feeĺ 20 years younger. And thanks for your clear English, I am practicing it following you.

[@gremfive4246]

Another excellent video!!! I never had a Banshee I had its much slower older brother the Voodoo Rush, in fact I still have it. I found it downstairs next to the Voodoo 3 3000 that replaced it back in the day.

[@TheAndrewDET]

In retrospect the Banshee seems like a great match for super socket 7 ultimate DOS build. Personally I had one paired with a P3-450 and after about 6 months of use I moved to a M64 TNT2. At the time it just felt like such a junk card that was obsolete at release.

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

The TNT2 M64 is very similar in performance to the Banshee

[@joeyjoe7155]

I loved that card , i ran Return Fire 2 game using this card., i had this card a long time. Awsome Card

[@clintinterface]

voodoo banshee was my first 3d card.... a giant leap from a 4mb vga videocard :D

[@shadowsniper86]

Same!

[@markfrombriz]

@@shadowsniper86 also same

[@raketman101]

Same, I bought one put it in my P90 OC to 100Mhz, and later pushed it in my Celeron 633, later I switched it out for a Geforce 2, Great Times

[@mikeyjnz]

Does anyone know what the jumper block and female ribbon cable connection header was for, I can't find any info on them

[@AllboroLCD]

I got my Banshee around its release date in PCI flavor for my P233 rig, It played anything I threw at it! I only upgraded in early 2000 because I came across a new Boxless OEM Voodoo 3 3000 for $35 when the computer fair was in town.

[@matthewplehn4271]

I had forgot about Undying by my favorite Author....ill have to check out GOG for it..Glad you included it..and nice shot at the PSU company...made me laugh for the first time today

[@philscomputerlab]

Yea I use the GOG version actually!

[@shythornfallen9174]

3rd card I ever bought, my first two where VideoLogic Apocalypse 3D PowerVR & VideoLogic Apocalypse 3Dx PowerVR. I loved my P166mmx machine, I overclocked it to 200Mhz!!

[@supermario8416]

You forgot to say that the Banshee was the first 3dfx card with 22-bit filter. It run by default with 22-bit in 800x600 and lower and if selected manually from the driver at higher resolutions. You can see the difference between 16-bit and 22-bit from example in Quake 2 or Unreal (and many other games) on dark textures.

[@10p6]

Interesting Video. I had a Banshee back in 1998 with a Pentium 200 MMX. Now back then the Banshee made a massive difference in graphics over software, making games like Quake, Half Life and others very playable. One cool thing back then was some games played better on the Banshee with the higher clock as many games did not use the second texture unit that the Voodoo 2 could use. Maybe you can do a follow up video on what many back then would have use the Banshee on, a Pentium 200 or 233 MMX, and show the massive difference between software rendering and the might of the Banshee.

[@ccmaitin]

incoming used to be the game I used to go to I got to get that joint again

[@IgoByaGo]

This was my first graphics card for my first build (my dad had some ATI Rage cards and Diamond Matrox cards too).

[@pegcity4eva]

I wish i still had mine. I never thought to keep my old computer stuff

[@officermalloy4201]

I select the Banshee in PCem and it works by far better than the other choices like VooDoo 3000 or Voodoo2. Thanks for the Banshee review.

[@John-np2bf]

This brought back more memories. Thanks Phil! The first PC I built back when I was about 16-17 I had a Pentium II 266 MHz and a Diamond Fire GL 1000 pro. It was a decent card but Half-Life came out and it didn't support the game so I got a Banshee and Half Life went on to be my favorite game of all time. That and Counter-Strike because I was really good it. Those were the days. 10 GB hard drive was big! 20 G was HUGE. lol

[@philscomputerlab]

Yea Half-Life is such a great game for the time!

[@NiGhtPiSH]

Great video, and also congrats on being featured in Linus' latest video. :) Cheers!

[@005AGIMA]

Thanks for giving the banshee some love. A creative 3d blaster banshee was my first decent 3d card and it was night and day.

[@TurboMMaster]

There is a reason why Voodoo Banshe was what it was. 3DFX wanted to expand to both OEM Market and low-end customers, where expensive add-on cards are not exactly desirable option. Voodoo Banshe was relatively cheap stand-alone video card with excellent 2D and video performance - so it was exactly what they wanted at a time. It was also easy to update in case they need another filler product (they did - Voodoo 3 was basically Voodoo Banshee with higher clock speed and additional texturing unit).

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

What about the ALL IN WONDER ATI/AMD RADEON Graphics card as you can have a RF Video out,The P2B-B motherboard should work also but you need the AMD Version of that chip but you do get a adapter called a slotkit adapter.

[@ray_sattler]

I still have the Diamond Monster Fusion Voodoo Banshee 16MB i bought back in the day for my Celeron 300A overclocked to 450Mhz in its original packaging. Sadly i dont know where the manual and driver cd (or floppy disk? ) are...

[@dikranpoladian4724]

Never had the pleasure of a banshee but rocked my Voodoo2 SLI with memory overclocked at 110mhz for a long time. Loved games in GLIDE, they looked so nice.

[@MrREDSTAR20]

Got to love old pc hardware to see how far we came from 😊

[@Choralone422]

I had a 3dfx Voodoo Banshee back when it was first released. It was paired with a AMD K6 200 mhz overclocked to 225 mhz (3x75 instead of 3x66.) I kept the card when I later upgraded to an Intel Celeron 300A OC'd to 464 mhz (4.5x103.) The card did not like games that used the Quake II or later game engines since they used multi-texturing heavily but other games like Need For Speed 2 & 3 ran beautifully on it! Plus as Phil mentioned the DOS gaming performance (along with Windows 2D) was outstanding on it! I later replaced the Banshee with a 3dfx Velocity 100 card (for really cheap) which itself was a cut down Voodoo 3 2000 card.

[@magnapeccatrix]

I always liked Incoming wonder if I can play it on Windows 10 again with higher resolution if possible.

[@TheTechMan5270]

I have a Creative version of Voodoo Banshee for PCI but after 10 years from the date of purchase it stopped posting to me 2 months ago and the computers can't see it after plugging it in. I don't know what the problem is

[@CosmoRiderDE]

Wait which game is this at 13:00?

[@mstcrow5429]

Had it. Loved it. My first 3d card. Fond memories of HL and TFC on it. PCI.

[@shadowsniper86]

MY CHILDHOOD! Nostalgia is real. 33K modem at 350 ping. Mom: "get off the internet, I need to call!"

[@Dios67]

In 98 I was running Diamond Viper 330 and 2x12 Meg Voodoo cards in SLI. I had dual Pentium 333 CPU's. I think I was using Seagate Barracuda SCSI hard drives.

[@philscomputerlab]

Very nice system! I don't know many that had SLI back in the day.

[@Dios67]

@@philscomputerlab My first 3D accelerator was a Hercules Stingray 128 Voodoo Rush 8meg (The Canopus 6meg was rated better). I ended up with about 3 or 4 pairs of the 12 meg cards before going to a single card solution. Then (2000 on) it was Radeons; 9500-9800 Pro, then Nvidia 7800 GT's and SLI again. The 2nd 333 CPU (on a ASUS P2B) went to waste as Win 98 didn't recognize it. NT would though.

[@marcello4258]

my first 3d acc. card. I ordered the V3 2000 in the time around when Half Life came out (I guess) and there was, like today, a shortage on microchip supply (I believe it was due to earthquakes which destroyed fabrics?!) anyway i got the banshee because I finally had my k6/2 64mb ram and the V3 was still to arrive like as a borrowed card for the time.

[@retropcscotland4645]

RIP 3DFX you were swallowed up by the GREEN machine.

[@metalmusic1401]

And now it's very possible AMD will swallow the green machine

[@Ronaldopopkings]

@@metalmusic1401 They allready bought ATI thu. Who is doing very well lately selling chips to both new Xbox and Playstation.

[@smbu]

Well they definitely didn't help themselves out by buying STB and bringing everything in house and in the process leaving all of their board partners out to dry. A lot of them just went over to make Nvidia cards. Also the delay of cards like the Voodoo5 5500 (and the 6000) really hurt them as well. Instead of competing with the original Geforce 256, which is did well against, it had to compete with the GF2 GTS, which was generally faster overall and competitive price-wise.

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

@@smbu Got one for sale, BTW

[@LiLBitsDK]

sadly 3DFX killed themself when they decided to be the own manufacturer of cards and flip off all the AIB partners... that's one of the biggest reasons they died + a failing card/chip

[@billeke]

My first Videocard! Althought It was the Maxi gamer Phoenix Version by Guillemot.

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

ATARI VEGAS arcade board used the Voodoo Banshee as its gpu!!! never knew that. Gauntlet Legends , Road Burners and War : Final Assault run on that board

[@CTFC-GERMANY]

great as allways!!! thank you!

[@Wsmith247]

I ran 2x Voodoo2s and a Banshee as the 2D back in the day.

[@dantheman1998]

At the time the Voodoo Banshee was an ok card that worked with glide but for similar money you could get a Riva TNT which out preformed it in every way

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

The TNT was ~20% more expensive than the Banshee, it was overall NOT faster than the Banshee, its game campatibility was way worse than that of the Banshee.

[@MrPicaso72]

Wow! The Banshee was the first accelerator I ever had. I had the one made by Creative Labs. Good memories.

[@niyablake]

I remember lots of games did not run right with the banshee when I tried to use the glide api unless the game stated it worked with the banshee

[@pierregrobbelaar9116]

Man i am old.I had a voodo banshee voodoo 2 and voodoo 3 if i can remember correct.Didn't voodoo go up to voodoo 5?pretty sure it did if so then most def i would like to see how they are compared to the older voodoo cards.

[@armorgeddon]

Yes, Voodoo5 5500 was the top model that went on sale. There also was a V5 6000 with four VSA-100 chips that only made it to the public in form of engineering samples after the demise of 3dfx.

[@willproctor7301]

I really loved playing clive barkers undying, never finished it or undying 2 either. Thank you for a great vid I'm going back in :)

[@Alienoverload]

I remember having this in the first computer my older brother gave me to tinker with. It had this, dual slotted Pentium 2 233mhz MMX, ,512 mb of ram and a 30gb scsi drive.

[@adamz1988]

It was my 1st GPU borrowed from my cousin in 1997/8, loved hl1 on it

[@totem168]

Wohoo banshee, one of the famous card in my circle back in the day. Thank you this review bring back the memories, like you have to bring your own cpu just for LAN party and compare the video card or vga card in our terms.

[@constantinshaman3362]

had this beast and loved it

[@mieawi553]

Hi, can you help me with something, I have a numbers of old motherboard which run pentium 4 and below but non of them are working, I've tried to set it up putting all component needed, the motherboard fan is spinning but not boot to bios and no signal on screen at all, what should I do?...and how can I know that all of them are die? Thank you in advanve 😊

[@manya3084a]

Was my first graphics card. Paired with a cyrix CPU...fun times.

[@callindocorleone5435]

Fantastic review, back in the days my banshee was Asus 16 mb, and as I remember it was very nice in all games and very compatible with glide dis games unlike v2, and I really remember very good memories with the card playing Shadowman, thanks for your review.

[@vgjhlgjhfuyfjhfjkhgyghj]

I know ide cables are necessary here. But man , I don't miss those!😄 Cool video Phil. Xx

[@elzabbul]

Great video :) Idea for another one - punching above weight. 90's were a period of time when you basically had to update your rig each year to play new games. Try to get a P5 MMX CPU, overclock it up to 266/300, combine with 64 MB of RAM and Voodoo 2 or Banshee and try to run "newer" games. I played hell a lot of Q3 Arena on my P166@200 MMX/32 MB/Voodoo Rush. Of course with bots and on very low framerates :)

[@mstcrow5429]

P55C. P5 first 60 and 66MHz Pentiums released in 1993.

[@elzabbul]

@@mstcrow5429 Ah, ofc - I tend to forget about that. Thanks!

[@Dr.Dawson]

I have the same CPU, GPU and sound card about to go into a system. nice timing! and great EP too!

[@1967KID]

Wow 1996 when I started building computers good old day's.

[@qbertguy]

I salvaged a Banshee from an old Gateway gp6-400, I have built it into an Abit Slot 1 board with a pentium 3 500

[@prolekzkurios]

My Agp Banshee still works after More Than 20 Years..

[@dreammfyre]

800x600 still feels high-res to me lol.

[@ArtisChronicles]

Occasionally I like running things windowed @ 640 x 480. Haven't done that in a while though.

[@ruxandy]

I myself really like the PCI Banshee for ‘powerful’ socket 7 Pentium MMX 233 builds, especially on boards that support FSB overclocking. With some luck you can still buy it for $40 - $50, unlike the PCI Voodoo 3 which usually sells for well above $100 or even $150). For slower Pentium MMX builds, the original Voodoo is the way to go :) Great video, Phil! I wish you would get back to reviewing these cool retro parts, I’m getting a bit tired of the Chinese motherboards :))

[@lopwidth7343]

Road rash, motocross madness, monster truck madness 2, duke3d, need for speed, gta, unreal and tournament, quake 2, soldier of fortune, half-life, are win98 classics for me