Creative Labs "Voodoo2" PCI Video Card

[w3luv]

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[KE7UBR]

Hello, I noticed your video card for sale. That card is about 10 years old, and has almost no value to it. I was not sure if you were aware of that. You can buy a modern low end video card for around that price. The PCI slot that that card runs in is about 3 generations old. The newest standard is the PCI-Express 2.0 standard. Here are a ton listed here.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010380048%201069609641%204025&bop=And&Order=PRICE

[k4avl]

If it's new it may have some value for the right person. I have several computers, and my 1998 one (which has run almost 24/7 for almost 10 years) has one of these (I think mine is a Voodoo 3 2000)
Anyway, it still works and is in daily use, and if someone out there runs Linux, these cards were the first to have GL support (3d graphics rendering), though they may not be fast they can run Tuxracer, etc.
So on a box old enough to not have an AGP slot (let alone a PCI express slot), they are reliable.

[w3luv]

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[KE7UBR]

I was stating a fact not an opinion. I was just not sure if you knew how old that card was. I just would not want to see someone buy such and old card when they can buy a modern PCI slot card for the same price that has 10 times the power. Here are the specs for your card.

http://www.dealtime.com/xPF-Creative-Labs-3D-Blaster-Voodoo2-20157445

[w3luv]

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[ka5row]

:D I hope you get your money for your card I had one 10 years ago and it ran fine. Many hams use older computers for logging, call lookup and SSTV so it would do fine for that. Good luck

[w3luv]

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[KC7YPJ]

the only problem I can see with the voodoo2 is finding drivers that work.
anything released after nvidia bought them out will cut the performance in half,
nvidia shelved the 3dfx chipset and took over a year to release anything even remotely close to equal or better in performance.
in the meantime they neutered all of the 3dfx chipset drivers (cutting performance by %50 or more) to bolster claims that the new nvidia crap was better (wich arguably took 2 years).

your best bet is the germans, they loved 3dfx chipsets and had drivers for most 3dfx chipsets that were dx9c stable, no clue where to find them for a voodoo2, it took me months to hunt down the dx9c drivers for my voodoo banshee and v5-5500 (both of wich are still in use today).

a little trivia, the release of sli video cards by nvidia a few years ago that they touted as totally new and revolutionary was in fact a rather poor implementation of the original 3dxf sli tech that they shelved all those years earlier. company called quantum3d made a monster duel voodoo2 gpu single card sli agp board a decade ago.

[w3luv]

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