A Brief History: 3DFX's Budget Alternative to their Voodoo 2 Graphics Card | 3DFX VOODOO BANSHEE

[@hartsickdisciple]

An I/O Magic Voodoo Banshee PCI was the first PC hardware upgrade I ever installed. It turned our family's Compaq Presario, with it's Pentium 233 MMX into a gaming machine. I was 13 at the time, and it took a lot of coaxing to get my dad to let me open up the tower to install it.

[@ByteSizeThoughts]

I remember puting in a TNT2 Ultra into the family computer when I was 16 or so. I was sweating bullets! :D

[@chriseaton2730]

A Diamond Multimedia Voodoo Banshee was the first component I ever installed into a computer (an HP Pentium II 266Mhz). It was a must to play 3D games.

[@ByteSizeThoughts]

No one forgets their first graphics card. Makes me wonder if in 20 years time people will be just as misty eyed about an RTX 3090 :D (To be honest I would shed a tear if I had one, or at least my wallet would be crying)

[@ScanLinesAU]

That's one awesome looking Banshee, with it's blue PCB! It would be interesting to see the difference between this and a Voodoo 2 in some games.

[@mangan700]

Had a voodoo 2 in my first pc I got from dad with windows 98 and a 200 mhz cpu dont know which one. Had like 150 mb storage on that one hehe. With a floopy disk reader and an optical drive for cds or pc disks.

[@ByteSizeThoughts]

My first graphics card I bought was an Nvidia in '99 so I missed out on 3DFX at the time, they are cool to play with now (though the prices have gone up like crazy)

[@melaninfuture]

Yesssssss. It’s all coming back. This was the card I could afford. lol.

[@ByteSizeThoughts]

A 3dfx is better than no 3dfx :)

[@Shishkebarbarian]

first of your videos i watch and this is really great. i enjoy your tone and pace and overall positive yet grounded presentation. kudos! I hope to see more of your content soon. PS: my first 3dfx card was a voodoo3 upon release but i know have a Banshee in my collection and am wondering in what setting to use it best at (vs Voodoo 2's and 3's) - will probably use it in a P1 200MMX. Cheers!

[@ByteSizeThoughts]

Thanks for commenting - I have my banshee currently set up with my P3 500. Its ok but its compatibility doesn't seem as high compared to the voodoo 1 and 2. And its performance lags behind the geforce 2 GTS that I had in before, but its still kinda cool to see the 3dfx logo pop up when I start up Quake GL :D

[@roblyc632]

@@ByteSizeThoughts Yeah, I remember when I had an S3 with an 8mb voodoo 2 daughter board. That combination had smoother performance in glide than the 16mb standalone Banshee I bought later on! I was somewhat underwhelmed at the time and wondered why I changed. I also had the blue Gigabyte pcb.

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

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[@ByteSizeThoughts]

That guy has some insane hardware collection, I enjoy his vids a lot!

[@PROSTO4Tabal]

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[@SeñorDossierOficial]

Hey happy 2021

[@ByteSizeThoughts]

Happy New Year to you too good sir!

[@MW-do6cl]

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