The FIRST EVER SLI Gaming Setup - 3DFX VooDoo II

[@GoatOfTheWoods]

7:50 That "reflection" is actually done by copying the "reflected" objects upside down under the floor, and then making the floor plane semitransparent. Neat trick!

[@Hyperus]

Before anyone thinks this is a replacement for Raytracing no its not, it pulls performance harder than RT ever would given you use actual silicon for dedicated RT hardware.

[@kvshgaming]

It just works 😜👍

[@moahammad1mohammad]

@@Hyperus Its realtime. Why would you compare realtime graphics to raytracing?

[@Hyperus]

@@moahammad1mohammad Did you live under a rock for the last year?? Did you for real miss the whole launch of the RTX cards?? Raytracing is NOT bound to being not realtime, has never been that way, it is simply a way to render

[@moahammad1mohammad]

@@Hyperus Preformance wise rasterization is leaps and bounds above raytracing. Preformance wise raytracing is NEVER viable for video gaming.

[@kylewitter2806]

5:24 that was beautiful. Brought a tear to my eye. Oh for the days when you could hear computers thinking.

[@singchris]

Kyle Witter the floppy sound and the bios checksum sound is really amazing

[@skraegorn7317]

It’s the reason I’m putting a small spinning hard drive in my gaming rig. I just like the sound they make. The older the better.

[@pandemicneetbux2110]

I'm still going to miss the days of filling up all your PCI slots rather than just some absurdly inefficient monstrosity of a 450w GPU cooler honestly

[@DiabloXL69]

Now we have lifeless SSDs

[@Watte461]

The floppy sound. The sound of my childhood.

[@dreadlock17]

And dial-up sound. Whew!

[@MsHUGSaLOT]

sounds of a 5¼" floppy drive was a lot chunkier on my old 8bit Atari PC days in the 80s and early 90s. I didn't get a 3½" floppy till i was in DOS and windows on mah bitchn' 286 playing Wolfenstine 3D.

[@tarbyonlineful]

Some of us are old enough to remember games coming on cassette tapes! 3 inch floppy drivers were noisier from memory, but nothing beats the sound of a dial-up modem. Or the frustration of your parents picking up the phone during the 5th attempt to get a connection!

[@tarbyonlineful]

HUGSaLOT Valkyrie I had an “amazing” (as printed on the box) 40mb hard drive in my 286 lol. The screen was almost in colour as well

[@squaller9254]

for me it's the sound of my dad's shitty hp

[@Fiddlesticks86]

5:19 That sound of it whirring to life with all the sounds those old PC's make will always make me feel nostalgic 😋

[@Froosteyy]

That floppy noise is 😍

[@kuriaspaul]

9:25 The one thing I learnt this video: Tech support was better back in the day with support that actually knew tech.

[@Mic_Glow]

It was actual tech people, getting very good salary for their job. Now it's some random call center in India where they follow a 2-page long troubleshooting manual they can't even read properly..

[@MichaelB5522]

That start up sequence genuinely out a smile on my face

[@deadpants182]

Michael B That speaker though. Oof, the nostalgia.

[@sparkplug1018]

Only thing it was missing was the dial-up modem sounds.

[@DumbSloth87]

that floppy sound was orgasm indulcing.

[@Mr.SheriffGames]

Indeed

[@nmnoz]

I guess this is what “the christmas morning smell”. I can understand now...

[@IneptOrange]

That kind of reflective surface in 1999 is absolutely absurd. Amazing.

[@0JohnDoe00]

nvidia its selling it these days named ray-tracing :D

[@jad43701]

Deus Ex came out the next year with some of the same reflective surfaces. Not that I could seem them with my old crappy video card. Blew my mind when I finally got a better card and overclocked it. It is still my all time favorite games.

[@feiticeirafatale561]

1998, actually.

[@feiticeirafatale561]

Two years later, using Unreal engine, hence the same effect.

[@mi3night339]

IneptOrange half life got something to say in 1998

[@salicyl3350]

ooooh the sound of that PC starting.... the memories!

[@timkline162]

I remember thinking the reflection on the bridge in Unreal was the coolest thing I ever saw in a video game

[@JoriDiculous]

Same. Blew me away when i first fired up the game. And how the rest of the game looked and played was as mind blowing as Doom and Quake.

[@sparkyenergia]

I enjoyed the purple(I think it was purple) room a little further into the demo.

[@grzegorzcywicki8730]

Glquake had reflections in mirrors as well.

[@curtisbme]

Unreal was jaw dropping. Needed beefy computer with a 3dFX card but it was worth it. It was a first person shooter that you would spend more time looking at the scenery and skybox than the enemies.

[@cdurkinz]

Haha now we have reflection inception (albeit in it's infancy) thanks to real time ray tracing. Can't wait for a few gens and we're looking back on turing as we look back on voodoo cards.

[@ZacherYT]

Dang... that floppy drive grind and the beep... sooo many memories! Yeah I'm old too Linus.

[@sparkplug1018]

They left out the dial-up modem sound. Pretty sure I could still tell the different speeds from the tones, maybe not, its been a while.

[@aelaos]

i cried !

[@emperorSbraz]

for a long time it felt weird when floppy seek was disabled by default in bios.. i always turned it back on. :)

[@ElysaraCh]

I used to own an Obsidian2 X-24, or a Voodoo2 SLI on one card! One thing to note about the SLI scaling factor is that the SLI setup was less about doubling your frames in 800x600, and more about adding 1024x768 support while still retaining your full frame rate!

[@MayankLongiany]

That is sick

[@EcchiBANZAII-desu]

I still have my two Voodoo 2 12MB cards and they still work. Feels good.

[@thanasisanagnopoulos9265]

When Unreal came out , I started playing on software render . Then I read the manual and in the last page was an advertisement on voodoo cards . Went to my local pc store asked about it and they were like , "yeah we have that here you go" . Cant remember the brand , but it was a small yellow box with voodoo dolls on it . Installed it and started up Unreal and I was SHOCKED!!! I have never been so amazed from a video card upgrade since. I guess we got spoiled down the road .

[@lrmcatspaw1]

There were 3 moments like that in my life: 1.st Prince of persia 1. 2.nd Voodoo upgrade. 3. Crysis 1. Im waiting for my 4rth moment. (But to be honest, Unreal Engine 4 can do that in around 1 day of work for a small scene).

[@lrmcatspaw1]

You are kidding? Nothing can beat the "call" of a 56K modem trying to connect. Broadband ruined it.

[@lrmcatspaw1]

He was not the devil, He was practice (Batman Begins).

[@terryfuldsgaming7995]

Thanasis Anagnopoulos unreal on a voodoo 2 was, at the time, the most amazing gaming experience ever! Unreal gfx still hold up to new games on lower res. I was playing it the other day for nostalgia.

[@Manadono]

realistic hair rendering

[@Britec09]

I used to own 3DFX VooDoo card back in the day.

[@drhone1982]

Britec09 me too, and when they went under after the voodoo 2, i was sad

[@erikdouglass4153]

Voodoo2 with a Trident VGA card, on a AMD K6-2 450 here. Quake 2 LAN gamers dream!

[@alexatkin]

Mine is still kicking around. I also had the first GeForce, albeit the DDR memory version.

[@derfahnder88]

I also had one. I also had a Voodoo 2 that I bought for N64 emulation which I still own.

[@Britec09]

The last card I got of this range was a 3DFX VooDoo 5 5500 pci, they was starting to move away from pci to agp, they did do a 3DFX VooDoo 5 5500 agp version but my motherboard did not support it lol

[@VivyX2]

Me in 2019: SLI has existed for 20 years and received many changes to reach its currents state... current state of sli :D E A D

[@GewelReal]

@@sirdetmist3204 in what case RTX 2080 Ti is not ebough?!?

[@BasedAsher]

Gewel ✔ deep learning programming. To be fair SLi works great for that stuff. I’m talking professional level 4way sli for 2080Tis

[@motomeistere4496]

@@BasedAsher i think there's something called nvlink

[@VivyX2]

MaelstromExceptions sli will still win in benchmarks but in games it's loosing support cuz of cards like the 2080 ti Or any 20 series card It's too difficult to get the sli support in to the game And also in most cases 1 card is enough For DEVS it's not worth it

[@dennisperry8579]

@@GewelReal when you want 144 or 240 fps at high resolutions, and max detail. Most affordable single card solutions cannot keep over 144fps in a lot of games at resolutions above 1440p.

[@RonnieTheFish]

I remember going to the Doom Tournaments at our local collage way back in the day, so many computers all lined up, custom builds you could walk around and look at, one dude even had water cooling back then it was so weird to see all homemade parts Everyone was excited to play but they where having issues connecting the LAN , people was playing Magic The Gathering while waiting or playing other video games.. I was playing Jazz Jackrabbit while waiting to play Doom LAN. Ah the memories

[@Burn377]

And sharing porn collections?

[@RiasatSalminSami]

Jazz Jackrabbit 2 still has Online modes thanks to community patches.

[@acquinn86]

I remember my buddy's dad had a duel XEON CPU setup with two 500mhz cpus, 96mb edo ram, and dual Voodoo 2s! Blew my young mind....

[@moriart13]

о.0

[@bradleyhove4177]

Holy shit that's nuts

[@LovelyCenturibear]

Andrew Quinn My mind blew when I woke up to a Geforce 4 mx440 as present for doing well in my finals. Was an upgrade from my Riva TNT2

[@gustavo765rs]

I had one of those

[@mycosys]

*dual

[@Dddsasul]

5:20 ahhh eargasm!

[@Abu_Shawarib]

i haven't heard this sound in loooong time.

[@kingjakewolf5348]

daaaamn true as hell

[@highlander723]

I felt like Argos from The Odyssey my ears perked up my tail wagged and then I died

[@MrBiky]

Yes ! That sound exactly like my old PC from 2000. I couldn't find the same powering on sound on all youtube.

[@josephafitch]

Dddsasul I get to hear that sound every time my Gran needs help with her computer. We tried to get her an IPad, but it just confused her, so once every month or two I get to hear that old boot sound and that dial time of dial-up connection.

[@72twist]

My first build used an 8mb Matrox Millenium II 2d card and the original 4mb Voodoo card. About 6 months later I bought a pair of Voodoo IIs and I was gaming on the most powerful rig at the time. It was an awesome feeling!

[@andrewyoo3706]

This is UNREAL.

[@Fanaz10]

I think you mean this is "literally real".

[@xpgx1]

Thx for the throwback ;D My Creative Voodoo 2 12MB was my baby ... gawd I loved this card!

[@evanboone5452]

9:52 look at that old-school SLI bridge!

[@TheAdatto]

Yeah and its upside down

[@Astfgl]

Ribbon cables: the original SLI bridge.

[@evanboone5452]

Yeah it's really stressing those pins because of it too

[@EC-ol8nz]

The Voodoo was always the prettiest rendering classic. My Nividia TNT Stb and Ati couldnt compare to the smooth quality of video. Linus picked up on the water reflections. Amazing! Unreal doesnt have those reflections on my modern Evga card now😕

[@C22Acolyte]

Dat floppy seek nnnnngggghh! Makes me all happy inside.

[@Mike_Hogsheart]

I never understood what ASMR people meant by the weird tingle they felt, until I heard that sound again. Hot damn.

[@aishwaryagaidhane]

Vally123 happy and warm inside

[@jousboxx9532]

lol same.. the 1996 floppy drives are even louder and better

[@TheUniversalEyes]

Back when you could fit all your special stuff on one floppy disk and still have room to take it to a friend's house and put something on it they wanted to share with you. I can still remember downloading my first voice chat application, the only limitation was the shitty dial up connection.

[@C22Acolyte]

It is made even better by the old school HDD spin-up sound.

[@mathewwitty5858]

ohhh that unreal tournament ohhh the golden days mmmmmm

[@loel2010]

Yea that brings a lot of memories

[@TinchoX]

"Golden" you nailed it, those were indeed golden days for me as well.

[@3800S1]

Its not golden, its still the current UT and people play it a lot online, way more than 2k4, UT3 or even the new UT4 all put together.

[@AlexN-Astro]

I had 2 diamond voodoo II 12mb 's when one of my mates had just bought a Riva tnt. I tell you what, 3dfx were miles ahead of their time. I also had a voodoo3 and voodoo 5 5500 too and that was a monster! First single board multi gpu solution! Nostalgia!!!

[@DuneRunnerEnterprises]

Alex Nicholas I still got that 5500, sealed and waiting for a buyer 🤗

[@tittledieselperformancellc]

As a kid I had a Packard Bell for a while. My uncle taught me how to build PC's so we ended up with a gateway tower running a Pentium 3 at 500mhz, 16GB HDD, 512mb RAM, and a Voodoo 3. At the time it was the cutting edge and I could run anything at 1024x768. I loved that thing, dual DVD drives and all. Windows 98, ME, and XP all ran awesome on her and only a few years ago did I get rid of it. This brings back memories....

[@MayankLongiany]

It's strange how '16GB' used for the HDD here is now used for describing RAM, and the 512MB RAM mentioned here has become SSD storage. Damn! The numbers just got switched in twenty years.

[@pikerdm7466]

This is a quality video. I love stuff like this from you.

[@Tomanista]

That some high quality tech support.

[@LovelyAlanna]

loved it

[@Tomanista]

I'm still gaming on a Texas Instruments TI-83

[@YK-xw4nj]

Tomanista I'm also still gaming on my TI-84 plus CE-T.

[@DeathBringer769]

I've got a TI-83 port of Final Fantasy 1 I used to play back in the day, lol.

[@squaller9254]

shit I'm still on a dollar store calculator

[@JGreen-le8xx]

Tomanista For godsakes man, at least upgrade to a TI-99 or Commodore 64.

[@tannerclark7775]

used to play snake and drug wars on the ti-83

[@relaxxxrrr]

Holy flippin IRQ conflicts, look at all those cards!

[@mathewhex7045]

Just reading "IRQ conflict" triggers my early 00s pc building ptsd

[@batsonelectronics]

@@mathewhex7045 you had it easy. Win2000 and XP had 256 IRQs, Dos, and Windows 3.0 and 3.1 only had 16. Try running 2 modems and 2- Voodoo 2 cards together with that and a printer in Win98. Before the Video cards had support in Win2000 I had to make due with Win98 and those headaches. I started back in the mid 80's. Back before IDE hard drive when MFM and RLL drives had to be manually configured as well as the controller cards that ran them. Actually, I kinda miss those days.

[@curtisbme]

That is how it was, you needed and used all your pci slots. Only thing here that you could take out was the modem as there were good external ones screaming along at 56k! I still remember this guy I had to play doom and quake online: www.allhdd.com/networking/modem/56k/usrobotics-usr3453c-nrfs/?src=ggl&gclid=CjwKCAjw1cX0BRBmEiwAy9tKHpV3keX_128NaJeh-p2vEyI10Dbhxonpz8PvzbWQAwMMkeHQUpxs5RoCa0sQAvD_BwE

[@foulplay99]

The biggest issue with that setup is getting all the VGA passthrough cables in the correct order, it was a pure nightmare! I had that same setup but also had an MPEG2 decoder card for my DVD drive, which made the whole thing even worse.

[@SianaGearz]

It's not so bad. There's a total of 4 IRQs shared across all PCI slots, rigidly assigned one to every slot each by mainboard design, not reassignable, and one of them was always shared with a bunch of onboard devices already on the mainboard, or in case of 5 PCI slots like here, two of them. Windows 95 OSR2 i think could already deal with IRQ sharing quite well, and 98 did for sure. Unfortunately, PCI IRQ sharing needs proper handling in the drivers, and not all drivers for all hardware were initially well-designed in this regard, but if one of the drivers fails to load, you just reshuffle the cards in the slots and it'll be alright. By about 2000, it all shook out and PCI device drivers averse to IRQ sharing became increasingly a non-issue. I also think they put together this computer pretty OK, the PCI Ethernet card, the AGP GPU, and the modem share IRQs, and they'll all be alright with that, and the potentially more finicky Voodoo IIs and Vortex soundcard get their own. I don't know who at the studio was old and clued-in enough to know that you shouldn't stick either of these directly under the AGP socket, but i applaud their (potentially accidental) foresight. ISA IRQs are always tough, because each ISA card might have several IRQs that it needs, and all slots get access to all IRQs, and no IRQ sharing exists. But ISA IRQs are separate, and this computer has zero ISA cards, and only one ISA socket. I actually think this computer could stand to lose its modem, with the Ethernet card being shuffled in its place, and then you could add an ISA soundcard for more soundcard goodness. I don't think you can have too many soundcards, i had... EWS64, AWE32, GUS ACE, a little Waveblaster of some persuasion and an SB Live all working together at one point. Now that... that's not easy. If you're wondering why the modem needs to go, well, the ISA socket is free, but its bracket is occupied by the Ethernet card. Because PCI and ISA have opposite component sides. A potential source of driver conflicts here - unrelated to PCI IRQ - would be that the "2D" video card is not 2D at all, can you see the heatsink? I have a sinking feeling that it's a Rage 128 Pro... oooooh boy. Never in the history of hardware has there been anything more aptly named than the Rage series.

[@ZeeBri]

You better be using a ball mouse

[@Sereiya]

I don't think Linus is a masochist

[@Okusar]

Specifically, a Microsoft Intellimouse.

[@ceirwan]

LynxAdvert ps/2 or serial only.

[@intothevortex7825]

Honeywell Ball less two wheel design. best ever

[@PflanzenChirurg]

I was a 9 year old Internetcafe counterstrike 1.6 fucker with ps/2 ballmouses,. They tryd to ban me because i had reaction of doom. I just made several spaces infront of my name and they was unable to kick/ban me xD

[@DKL997]

Voodoo2 actually used higher than 16-bits internally. That makes Voodoo2 16-bit image quality somewhere between 16-bit and 32-bit on the competitors' cards. This was when 32-bit still had too much of a performance cost for many games, so actually 3Dfx was focusing on how to get more image quality without losing too much performance. Glide also supported a lot more features (at playable speeds) than OpenGL and DirectX. The assertion that 3Dfx was focused purely on performance at the cost of features/quality is completely wrong.

[@taches]

Anybody remember the 1 year long PC dust collecting Experiment Luke was running?

[@Sechs0rBecks]

Hmm good question, maybe it's a ratnest at this point, or totally forgotten, let's ask Linus?!

[@Quethonable]

Its still running

[@taches]

Nvm the video was launched 8th december but i really hope the project didnt get abandoned for some reason but with all the wood cutting and stuff they did this year those pcs must be dead

[@Jacob_Mango]

Hasn’t been a year yet

[@BrianAnim]

facebook.com/LinusTech/photos/a.588057911290658.1073741825.343018322461286/1451586854937755/?type=3

[@RandomlyDrumming]

Still own (almost) all commercially available 3dfx cards and doing "retro sessions" from time to time :D Got the Voodoo 1 back in 1997 (Diamond Monster 3D and then RealVision Flash 3D for my other PC), then Voodoo 2 in 1998 (Creative Labs Voodoo2), then Voodoo3 in 1999. and Voodoo5 in 2000. (skipped Voodoo4 as it was basically a Voodoo5 with one GPU and half the memory). Those were the days I remember as "golden days" of gaming for me. :)

[@pandemicneetbux2110]

This guy gets it

[@Quake210]

I remember bragging about how my Voodoo3 got hot enough to legally cook meat.

[@JoshuaLotion]

Brian Rich how can you illegally cook meat

[@gio3k]

joshua lotion stealing meat

[@shadowfoam3491]

*literally

[@lasarith2]

Brian Rich I remember reading about people talking about how they could cook eggs on there voodoo cards 😉😂😂

[@fillup912]

Now she's legal

[@gunnarsandberg1]

yesterday I found my 90's Creative 3D Blaster Banshee VGA 16MB (SDRAM) PCI BUS ,, haha no fans ,still works like a champ!! :') ... memories

[@tiavor]

I used my Voodoo Banshee even on my later Pentium3 650MHz because I broke the VGA slot, so I had to revert back to PCI graphics cards :D

[@dowskivisionmagicaloracle8593]

Oh wow. I'd totally forgotten that those guys had tried throwing their hat into the 3D accelerator card market!

[@JarosawTabor]

I had that too!

[@CommodoreFan64]

I actually had a Voodoo Banshee catch on fire with smoke, and flames on me one night about 3am while online in a Lycos chat room(if anyone remembers them I'll be surprised), I had to yank the power cord from the back of my machine, and needless to say I was one sad kid with no decent 3D card in my Windows 98 machine because the internal graphics on my eMachines at the time had a total of 1MB of video ram, lucky for me my mother had pity on me because I had worked so hard at my after school job to buy, and upgrade that little eMachines that a week later after she got paid we went to Comp USA where she bought me a 32MB Nvidia Riva TNT2 PCI card, and it was happy days again. :-)

[@tojarin2584]

Installed my banshee. loaded mdk and was mind blown. I also loved the insane jealousy of my playstation owning fans. PC vs console....... times haven't changed much lol.

[@TiagoFernandes81]

I had 2 x 3DFX Voodoo 2 SLI (12mb and 8mb card (yes it would take different memory sizes with no issues for the SLI)) to play Quake2 at the time to run at 85fps so i could perform all the jumps with vsync off :) my monitor was a CRT at the time which would only do 85hz @ 1027*768 - I had a Pentium 200mmx for CPU and (if i good remember) 96mb edo ram to be able to play neogeo roms at the time :D for internet i was using a US Robotics 56kflex (which would only connect at 33.6kbps... we were in 1998 :D those were the days!!!!! the SLI cable looked like an IDE cable from a floppy drive. :P I still remember the settings... on the game i would have to input in the console: cl_maxfps 90 - this would allow me to perform the jumps :D Any real Quake2 player will tell you :P

[@candycabngfl]

Sounds like I was a bit behind you time wise :-) I had a pair of Canopus Pure 3D LXII 12 meg cards with a P2 266. 20inch Sony CRT that Silicon Graphics were running back then. It was a fun time back then, always something interesting around the next corner.

[@jfaristide]

Dual Happauge Voodoo II 12mbs in SLI on a dual P-II 350 OC'd to 400 here. 100+ fps @ 1024x768 in the crusher 2 demo

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

"my monitor was a CRT at the time" well yeah lol

[@FamousWolfe]

Back in 1998 my family had...a Pentium 166MHz with no graphics card because we were broke xD Still got to play the greats like Diablo, Quake, Starcraft, etc. I remember looking at ads in PC Gamer for the Voodoo 2 and wishing that we could get one :P

[@pandemicneetbux2110]

@@NonsensicalSpudz I think I was still using a CRT at the beginning of the 2010s, and it still looked "fine" to me. Mostly because I didn't actually start seriously getting back into gaming until like 2012 with XCOM EU, as there wasn't much compelling on PC with the whole godforsaken consolization era. Even the few games worth playing from that time are basically console ports, like Dead Space and Singularity. So it wasn't like you were going to notice much seriously wrong with it then regardless, because early LCD panels was a bit barbaric and low res anyway.

[@clouds5]

I had those babies back then :) As I remember it nobody was talking about FPS in those days, it was all about getting higher resolution. So the big thing about SLI was that you got 1048*768 with the same or even a little better performance. That was the highest resolution for most CRT monitors at the time, so you were maxed out.

[@MikeWille]

Love this!!! The voodoo 2 was the first 3d accelerator I ever bought

[@Techphase]

@9:48 Linus Sex Tips : "Look at dat SMOOTH ASS BUTTER"

[@oferkrupka]

Autocorrect: @9:48 Linus Tech Tips : "Look at that, SMOOTH IS BETTER"

[@Wowthatsfail]

Tech Phase ass butter is delicious

[@devildoody]

twineer.com/1zB0

[@ZanderLexx]

Hmm so it's like butter for smooti ass , aaa very nice .

[@mikejohnstonbob935]

I prefer some PEE & NUT BUTTER

[@T4b10]

I really really like the "new" staff. :) Maxine, James and the crazy shirtless russian, you are awesome.

[@Kriae]

Ivan ?

[@TrueDiox]

Boy, looking at my beloved Voodoo2 from 2022. So much joy it brought me. I realize now I never did bring out her true potential pairing her with a Pentium 166Mhz, but man, she was a warrior.

[@ez4pz]

Best. Tech support. *EVER.*

[@ahja9408]

Peter Nelson agreed more like porn corporation

[@noaimnoskillnokill3947]

Karol Milly Still better love story than twilight

[@SiimKuusik]

MO-MO-MO-MO-MO-MONSTER KILL.. kill 💀

[@3800S1]

Still play this every other day and on Glide too :D, its buggy as shit but holy crap is smooth and fast, looks great especially with a GTX980 at HD res.

[@afrog2666]

KILLING SPREE!!

[@3800S1]

RAMPAGE!! Head hunter! Rocket scientist! ULTRA KILL!!! LUDICROUS KILL! H HH H H HOLY SHIT......HOLY SHIT!! GOD LIKE! Something like this anyways haha :D kzbin.info/www/bejne/pIKodH2omJh7jMk

[@MisantropoFilantropo]

GODLIKE

[@iz723]

Unreal Tournament is the shit. UT99>>All other UT's

[@callitagain]

Wow, this brings back memories. I still remember firing up quake for the first time with gl enabled on my voodoo2 and my mind was blown.

[@marcelomunoz84]

My too, the first time I run quake 1 and 2 ... and ned for speed I could not believe it.

[@Pingolinou]

i can join this club. When i turned on quake 2 on my voodoo 2........my god. it was magic. I felt like a billion dollars.

[@u1richh]

Imagine if 3DFX was still around. Also, I was born in 2000, and those startup sounds made me have a nostalgia trip.

[@gizmogeek47]

i had a 16gb 3dfx voodoo banshee card and playing need for speed porsche edition and nfs 2 with glide turned on was absolute wonderful to look at.

[@RWL2012]

16GB Voodoo Banshee?!?! Dayum how did you have so much VRAM on one of those?!

[@haveyouseenthisboi8997]

I think he meant 16mb 😅

[@dadarioguri7114]

From what I can remember from win98.. were white cases, gray software interfaces, beeping sounds when the computer and dial-up modems start, and Red Alert 2..

[@Malus1531]

Yup all that, except I was playing Dune 2000 at the time (never played any C&C)

[@capidano6248]

Best RTS ever !!

[@IxianMace]

I spent so many hours playing Dune 2000. It was my favourite game for a long time. Still got the box, manual, and game CD too.

[@yolsclassics6347]

Flight Simulator 98 for me

[@eideticex]

Ultimate IX! But before the end of the decade was C&C Tiberian Sun, Red Alert 1/2, Starcraft, Dr Brain, everything SCUMM and the one that ended the era for a lot of Voodoo 3's: Sin. I remember the articles complaining how Sin was killing computers left and right but it wasn't the game's fault, slap a decent heatsink on and the problem never occurred. That's why my Voodoo 3 still works, glued a crappy heatsink out of a VCR onto the chipset.

[@shreyaskul]

*Reminds me of PhilsComputerLab and LGR...*

[@TaldrenDR]

Don't forget The 8-bit Guy

[@yourick1953]

Taldren hes not into things like this

[@shreyaskul]

+Memer_Rick True... 8bitguy is not in PC stuff... He's in Mac's and commodores...

[@TaldrenDR]

He does everything. He has a video on a 8088XT PC within the last month.

[@blank.e5plus]

i legit hoped that clint would have been on the line for 1800 get help

[@matthiasbraun8001]

The reflection on the bridge is the coolest thing i have ever seen!

[@Thejebe]

I'm a simple man. I see 3Dfx in the title, I like.

[@nando03012009]

Thejebe same here! The voodoo 2 1000 was my first card. Then wnr to voodoo3 and finally voodoo5. Still have all with the original boxes, drivers, manuals.

[@ColdieHU]

I was working for HP back then. One of my colleagues managed to get one of the rare Voodoo5 6000 sample cards that had a BIOS on it. We spent nights in the office tryng to get it to run. Never managed tho. I think he sold it and some time later one guy actually managed to get one of those sample cards to run. There is an article on it.

[@furball_vixie]

thats complicated xd

[@fluffycritter]

Diamond Rio wasn't the first MP3 player - that glorious distinction goes to SaeHan's MPMan player. Which had a whopping 16MB of memory.

[@dakilegokiller]

+False Hope Back then songs had less crisp audio quality, which resulted to smaller file size.

[@dakilegokiller]

+syndencity resulted in*

[@Malus1531]

memory != storage

[@marksmithcollins]

False Hope No... I encoded my songs each

[@robertt9342]

fluffy yes, but I think he's referring to widely available.

[@Chris-eh3du]

FINALLY something that resembles my current build!

[@triponthemoon233]

5:20 Never forget this sound!

[@burntoutelectronics]

Calm down its only been 6,205 days since the 24th of october 1999. It wasn't TTHHAATT long ago

[@CatnamedMittens]

Zazno Productions Does that include leap years?

[@MrCorrectify]

Fun fact, you can legally have sex with someone born in 1999! Hows that for feeling old?

[@levistrauss5378]

MrCorrectify I can concur. I was born in 1999 and I can now vote as well as have sex with just about anyone I want.

[@hellfrost333]

I think this video is a little late-

[@universecosmosleader]

1998...... OCD intensifies......

[@dakiller]

Unreal Tournament on my 450mhz Celeron and a Voodoo 3 2000 was my childhood!

[@conansmith6254]

I still have my Voodoo 5 5500 pci :-), Asus P3V4X, pentium 800Eb and 1.5Gb of corsair PC133 memory and she still works, man I loved that graphics card

[@TheSilent333]

I had two Diamond Voodoo II cards. It was so incredible for the time. I only dropped that configuration when the Geforce 2 came out. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

[@CaptainsWorkspace]

Voodoo2 wasn't the first SLI card, it was the Quantum3D version of the original Voodoo Graphics SB100. Also 3dfx didnt lack of features, in fact their Glide invented almost all features, that years later came to DirectX. Also 3dfx in 1998 not supporting 16bit color, wasnt bad for a 3d accelerator. Other cards running 3D in 32bit mode had relatively bad performance. But very happy somebody wanna ligthen up the good old days, i'm collecting 3dfx cards, and even have the legendary Quantum3D Mercury system, used for flight simulation in the US military. That is a 8 way Voodoo2 SLI setup doing 4x rotated FSAA in hardware.

[@gtastuntcrew302]

Psh even I have a Mercury brick.. Come on Captain everyone has one of those.. ;) ;)

[@stevietech]

I used to love the heavy "CLICK" as the 3d card took over your output :)

[@GGigabiteM]

Only one or two OEMs did this with a mechanical relay, I don't remember which. The majority of Voodoo2 cards were based on 3dfx's reference design which did everything electronically and made no noises when switching.

[@NathanOakley1980]

Ahhhhh makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. I still have a similar P.C. stashed for use with my RS232 audio devices should the ever need a service :-)

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Good old Covox :D

[@ksukhia]

haha same, but for SCSI / audio Sampler loading

[@keithcarter74]

I had the 2 VooDoo2 in SLI setup. I remember being so excited in the video card settings where it showed: SLI: DETECTED!!!!!!

[@vaxick]

Linus, you forgot one the key players in the 3D accelerator space at that time. Matrox. Their long forgotten now, but they wanted a piece of that gaming pie back then too.

[@tenyuhuang]

S3 also created the industry standard S3TC back in the day, which was implemented into Direct X and OpenGL till this day. Its patent just expired a few days ago.

[@BlackSmokeDMax]

vaxick for gaming they were not even in the picture. That said, my 2d card with my diamond monster 3d was a Matrox Millennium with I believe 8MB of WRAM. They were the best for 2d quality at the time.

[@TheXev]

I remembering enabling S3TC in OpenGL in UT on my GeForce 2 MX 400 64MB... it was like unlocking the frame rate! I eventually switched to a Voodoo 5 5500 after they became dirt cheap (bought an new one for $35 or something like that), less FPS, but it was a way smoother experience.

[@gtbarsi1103]

BlackSmokeDMax Mattox was great back then for 2d, I had that card running with my Voodoo 2 in 1999. I had sworn off diamond cards by that time due to too many issues with their cards and crap drivers. The first diamond card I had was on my 386 dx 40 rig, and despite working with several of their cards over the years they never seemed to get it together as well as the others.

[@randomindex]

For gaming, nah. But hold my drink while go back in time to edit video on my Matrox DigiSuite.

[@leetymcleet6490]

As a 31 y/0 gamer, I approve this video :) BUT, Linus, cold cathode tubes were all the rage back then, not those gay LED's :p The cathode tubes even kept everything extra warm :P

[@adamdickinson6576]

Hey Linus you might actually have something here picking up older computers and doing a rare old benchmarks from the day because the hardware is cheap and you can make a bunch of videos really at low cost I think the idea is very cool I'm going to stay tuned for more of the videos in the series

[@xan1242]

PhilsComputerLab

[@beefyisrare3423]

Adam Dickinson search up random gaming in hd

[@PCftvv]

If youve owned these monsters back then, you couldnt be any prouder. So was I and Im falling apart by seeing the wallpaper at 7:05. Nostalgia kicks in hard and today, it seems as a legit Trademark of the cards at the time. And boy werent these cards impressively great! What I dont understand looking back, how they worked so well if they used so much slower PCI slot, while primary card such as riva or S3 with 1 or 2MB vram were occupying much faster AGP (accelerated graphics port); more over, most interesting in this tech was the white vga extension cable these 3DFx cards came along with in a box, which, from one end needed to be plugged into AGP display card, then into one of the two VGA ports Voodoo 2 and only then you plugged the monitor into the out port of the voodoo's vga. Set it up and god damn prepped for hella good times. If I could travel back in time never fast traveling to current times, I would! Todays PCs arent really as exciting as they were back then. Even LCD panels on laptops and later on desktops, were a huge thing to dream about. Nowadays, not even a small ass kid knows the feeling how difficult to afford it could ever been. They just jam their xbox on 4k cheap panels with sound you could only get on sound blaster equipment back then lol Definitively thank the evolution from 80s and 90s for what we got today. Most of us dont even know that if not for laser printers, PCB world would be in utopia, and expensive as shit to achieve the schematics as the printers can.

[@coffeecolic5799]

I had the 3DFX VooDoo 1 card back in the dark age's, it was amazing at the time.

[@quickhandcam8596]

5:20 That sound... I fell in love with that sound at the age of 7

[@wallflips]

I truly loved this video, Linus you're great, thanks! It bringed back memories of my second PC with win 98 and voodoo2 card, dropped a tear!

[@pandemicneetbux2110]

I can't just waste money on something so utterly lacking in valid use case atm, but I really want to get an old PC and save it from becoming a sleeper build or landfilled or some other My Little Toaster tier fate and be an actual period correct PC for playing games from back then. The only problem is going to be finding period correct monitors. I loved win98. Win11 is atrocious I had my first experience the other day and it reminded me of interacting with win8 for the first time.

[@resignator]

My very last voodoo card purchase was the 3500 tv/agp. It had a built in tv tuner/recorder, remote, hookups for component and s-video in/out, and other nifty features. Loved that card so much. If I remember correct, I was also rocking an overclocked KT133 (running at 333mhz from 133mhz stock!) at the time. Imagine being able to overclock a Ryzen by 3 fold on a stock CPU cooler. They dont make hardware like that anymore. You kids dont know what you missed. Get off my lawn!

[@only1ydk]

I have a boxed VooDoo II card never opened, prized possession

[@thudtheace]

I still have my voodoo II cards in SLI on an old school rig, still have my voodoo 3000, and even a voodoo 5500 right before the demise of 3dfx. They were stupid to buy a fab, making there own cards and cutting all the 3rd party vendors out... It was there demise.

[@darthdmun]

Nvidea might want that off you, ask them if they will swap it for a couple of the latest titans. worst they could say is NO.

[@only1ydk]

darthdmun I would never give up my piece of pc gaming history

[@darthdmun]

Respect to you for that then :)

[@blech71]

I always wanted them to let us use 3way SLI and have each card run it’s own screen and then use something like G-Sync to lock them together in timing. One could only wish

[@NeenanJones]

50% of comments: Great video, I have fantastic memories 1% of comments: RGB doesn't fit the system 49% of comments: I wanna see Max in a porno pls no and stop max abuse

[@thebigmoosy9706]

Your face is abuse.

[@CheffBryan]

So was your mom, birthing such an abomination.

[@garrettluluquisin5666]

Havent seen the max comments, rgb doesnt belong, and ok. You forgot the other 0.1% of the dude generalizing comments and bitching about them.

[@garrettluluquisin5666]

Nvm just seen the max comment jesus fuck horny people need to watch actual porn instead of fantasizing bout some girl on a youtube channel

[@alexanderharris6746]

Garrett Luluquisin it looks natural thats why

[@alexfoxleigh9443]

5:20 that sound was amazing. Oh, the feels. Computers are so much more incredible now but I got so much more joy from them back then.

[@djsmileyoflasvegas]

Computers back in the days had so many dam jumpers

[@turgsh01]

Max is such a bad-ass.

[@thebigmoosy9706]

Whats with the Max poop all the time? How about a foot rub or something?

[@Warhawk76]

She is a bad ass, and beautiful. Pretty girls who are tech lovers are kinda rare....

[@pgplaysvidya]

thirsty.

[@Fanaz10]

Mad Max?

[@fluphybunny930]

wow you guys are seriously creepy!

[@jiry]

DAT BOOT UP!!!!!!!

[@geeteebloke1979]

I had a 3dfx voodoo many moons ago... these cards kicked arse in the 90s

[@otilane]

Wonder why an old hardware video has less views than a current ones. 12yr olds can't appreciate the awesomeness of 2x voodoo 2-s.

[@berys76]

Im 13 and i had one voodo on a core 2 duo and it was bottleneck fiesta

[@haydenw8691]

I had a Voodoo on both a Celeron 300a (overclocked to 450) and a Pentium III at 450 as well.

[@timcorellnielsen5885]

otilane actualle i'm 12 years

[@RaithSienar]

Linus ain't LGR, he doesn't have that audience.

[@dmsov]

I’m 3 years old and my 486 DX2 was a real bottleneck

[@cityfox7995]

9:00 - I call BS. Online gaming AND using the phone? Please !

[@drifttwo]

no shit its fake

[@SpeedDaemon3]

DSL microfilter. I remember the pain of figuring out how they work as I had 4 landline phones in the house...

[@VarishtGhedia]

I still play UT 99 on my modern PC and it works flawlessly. It looks really great too sometimes even better than some modern gaming titles.

[@danielharrison9453]

I had the voodoo5 5500 back in the day, my first video card, made a WORLD of difference

[@LordOfNihil]

i started with a monster 3d (voodoo 1). i think my favorite games were the dos games that were capable of using the 3d hardware. i liked how fast descent 2 ran under dos, ran smooth as silk. later i upgraded to a banshee and it was kind of meh, it had bugs and didn't work on half of my games that had worked previously. the voodoo3 was pretty good though, which i kept for years and didn't replace it until about the geforce 4 came out.

[@pandemicneetbux2110]

This is making me wonder, Linus did a video somewhat recently on CRT, so the question is, did games really look that bad as I see them now, or am I remembering them looking better from CRT? Because they did look kinda bad to me even then, but I think the high fidelity may actually make something look worse for a change. I didn't play a whole lot of console and most of those console games already looked like blocky pixelated ultra-low cartoons to me, so maybe I'd see the difference between LCD/LED and CRT much more clearly with a high end PC game rather than some low end hardware console, because I think unlike the consoles 90s PC games were actually meant to look nice. Descent was one of those where it was the graphics that was advertised. Thief was another, where the environments looked weirdly better than the models by my memory, at least on a regular CRT.

[@LordOfNihil]

@@pandemicneetbux2110 early lcd screens were really crappy. so i kept at least once crt, only switched when 1080 became the new standard. anyway it was a 20" monitor that could push 1600x1200@75hz. games like descent were beautiful on it. eventually lcd monitors got good, offered more resolution and larger screens. you got to also remember that graphics were designed for whatever technology had the bigger market share at the time. so games made for vga or tv screens just looked better on that format. on games with low resolution textures on fixed palettes, the natural fuzzing that happened with a crt hid what would be an atrocity on any other format. using really high quality textures on a crt on the other hand kind of loses something in translation.

[@UNSTOPABLE40XBOX]

I wonder if Linus will ever talk about the Bitchin' fast! 3D 2000 graphics card

[@qumefox]

Gotta have that LMNOPRAM

[@ChesterRico]

The Voodoo3 was a great card. That one was actually faster than dual Voodoo2s, and it could do 32-bit color.

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

32-bit, or 24-bit?

[@Choice777]

man that phone thump back on the hook at 9:42 is awesome.

[@tessjdt]

Unreal is; technology standpoint, one of the best looking games of all time. :)

[@thomasgerhard1702]

how to get max performance? let max do your settings

[@leduanreina]

That cpu (Coppermine@700) is way above and beyond what was actually available at the time, that year the fastest pentium 3 was a Katmai @500 MHz, my own machine at that time had a Katmai 450 MHz, and I ran it with a Nvidia TNT made by Diamond Multimedia, way better than those Voodoos, year 1999

[@callitagain]

You're right, I had a Pentium II 266 (Slot 1) with BX66 mobo with my voodoo2 card. Coppermine time was probably TNT2/Voodoo3

[@KARAOTI23]

Yeah but in 1999 Voodoo3's came out and dominated again, for a while, until the geforce256 came out...

[@3dfxvoodoocards6]

Leduan Reina Voodoo 2 was released in february 1998. The TNT1 came out in september 1998, Pentium 3 Katmai only in february 1999. And by the way the TNT1 was weaker than a single Voodoo 2 and also had compatibility issues with many games. Voodoo 2 SLI is comparable to a TNT2, much more powerfull than the TNT1 and also has much better compatibility than the TN1.

[@eideticex]

Pretty sure I was using a slotted P3 @ 800MHz for the Voodoo 2 era. Factory rating on that P3 was 600MHz I think but I always played with the jumpers to pull a good overclock before I even knew what overclocking was. To me it was just fine tuning the system like going out and turning the fuel/air mix dials on a carburetor to tune the fuel mix.

[@An9eL_C]

Yep I was running a Deschutes core Pentium II 400 with the Voodoo 2 and an All in Wonder ATI tuner card... The good old days... After a Geforce 256...

[@sl3966]

Man, that floppy seek sound, instant flashback. I heard a modem and "You've Got Mail!" all in a row. Thanks for the nostalgia trip!

[@WolfSilverLone]

u didn't use NFS3/NFS4 for gameplay on glide.. Most people never seen NSF on glide and have zero idea what they have been missing

[@RAA12586]

I still have a the glide wrapper drivers on my laptop for NFS2 SE. I always loved 3DFX titles as a kid.

[@solarstrike33]

Hell, most folks don't really know about the pre-Underground NFS titles in general.

[@hamz33]

Don't forget about NFS2. It too supported Glide (at least NFS2SE did) and the difference to software rendering was night and day. Raindrops, bees splattering on the windshield. such great memories

[@mrburns366]

that era of NFS was the BEST! I the NFS2 SE is my favorite of them all

[@thecchrist777cc6]

Cant wait to run pacman with my Dual GTX 1080 Ti 😩👌🏻😩👌🏻😩👌🏻😩👌🏻😩👌🏻

[@meemo4556]

5 fps tho RIP

[@alyxburke]

Minesweeper wouldn't even work

[@laszlopeterbalazs8040]

“Funny”

[@alithemn]

My quad-SLI 1080 Ti on my i9-7980xe can only run Minesweeper on 10fps

[@robinsodergran]

Not even SLI wooooow. Low budget build or whaaaat????

[@indexoverflow]

Conflicted if I should 'Like' a video that reminds me I'm getting old ...

[@throwback74]

That hum - whir - buzz - click start up noise was beautiful haha I had to rewind and listen again just for all of the memories 🤗

[@loicjeannin6233]

How could you forget Matrox in that cards list ?!

[@TheExileFox]

He also ignores the Voodoo v5 6000 which was the actual last version

[@Raptor3388]

The Voodoo 5 6000 was never sold though, they only made some prototypes. The Rampage was the last one, it was in developement when the company went down.

[@cjhawk67]

They sold a few thousand of the V5 6000 in prototype form as a latch ditch effort to save the company even though it was already to late.

[@Astfgl]

Also PowerVR. The Kyro II was bad-ass... in theory.

[@novemberbreed4669]

What about S3? It was.. Savage :D

[@bradchadster7365]

Holy cow that's better than my titan XP SLI setup 😢😢🙃😂

[@smitherino137]

said no-one ever.

[@Sereiya]

I always watched the main menu idle demo with Glide in NFS2 SE, wanting to have that. But my dad thought an Nvidia Vanta 16 would be more than enough. (T__T) Then bought a Voodoo 5 5500 in 2011 to pair with a P4 and 256mb of RAM to finally get what I wanted as a kid. Even enjoyed all the Win98 bluescreens after taking out a CD too early this time. So beautiful.

[@PPedroFernandes]

Oh god the nostalgia.... Those sounds when PC's turned on... Gave me chills