3dfx Voodoo3 3000

Advantages Was such an awesome card for its time
Disadvantages is no longer an awesome card

...i remember back to when i had my voodoo 3 3000. it was an awesome card, one of the best. it was quick and boasted a huge 16mb of memory ;-) overall its support was really good, with most games having a special 3dfx mode for the 3dfx range of cards, giving most games a signifcant speed boost and improved graphics. My voodoo 3 3000 also boasted a modded heatsync and fan, allowing me to overclock mine to speeds well beyond the factory settings, meaning i could get even more power out of the beast, much to the envy of my friends. but however, it came to my attention that cards cannot run at these kinds of speed all the time and it came the time when it gave up, and was replaced by a much never and up to date nvidia card. now 3dfx have been taken over by nvidia. but i still remember the days when the voodoo cards were all the rave. ahhh... Read review

Advantages Ease of fitting, Support, Power.
Disadvantages Manuals conflicting, Not so great these days.

...I was given this piece of hardware as a gift not last Christmas but the Christmas before, and the power I am getting with it is still impressive. It may be one of the aging original 16 megabyte (standard is at least 32 megabyte on board the card), but peformance is still fairly decent. The support for this card is as good as to be expected, after all 3dfx were the market leaders (until NVIDIA recently bought them)and so there are patches for the hardware's software including it's tools available from lots of internet sites and even on demo discs from PC magazines. Compared to other cards on the market NOW such as the Raedeon and The Voodoo 5 and 6, obviously this is older technology, and so it does not perform such miraculous graphical feats as T&L or 4 times AGP. To someone who wants ultra high end spec graphics on a home... Read review

Advantages Cheap, and fast enough
Disadvantages none

...i bought a 3dfx voodoo 3 3000, last week, after getting absolutely diabolical performance out of my old S3 Trio 3D card. i bought this card, as ive used it before and its performance is amazing. it runs very high resolutions, with very high frame rates. as voodoo 4 & 5 now exist, you might as well get one of these, as they are now very cheap, and highly suitable for all but the highest end of uses. one of the greatest advantages of any voodoo card, is that it is genuine 3dfx. which means that it can run 3dfx enhanced games, which often look better than there direct-3d counterparts. also, this makes it amazingly compatible. you wont go wrong with this card. other cards may be technically faster, but you dont need them to be that fast. the voodoo3's performance is breathtaking enough. oh yeah, its got TV-OUT too... Read review