The FIRST EVER SLI Gaming Setup - 3DFX VooDoo II 

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.

It just works 😜👍

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

@@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

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

And dial-up sound. Whew!

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.

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

Now we have lifeless SSDs

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.

i cried !

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

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.

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

Glquake had reflections in mirrors as well.

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.

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.

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

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.

1998, actually.

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

IneptOrange half life got something to say in 1998

That is sick

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..

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

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

@@BasedAsher i think there's something called nvlink

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

@@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.

Michael B That speaker though. Oof, the nostalgia.

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

that floppy sound was orgasm indulcing.

Indeed

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

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Holy shit that's nuts

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

I had one of those

*dual

This guy gets it

And sharing porn collections?

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

i haven't heard this sound in loooong time.

daaaamn true as hell

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Brian Rich how can you illegally cook meat

joshua lotion stealing meat

*literally

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

Now she's legal

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

@@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.

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

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.

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.

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

Vally123 happy and warm inside

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

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.

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

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).

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

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

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.

we dont get that kinda of diffrence anymore just more FPS.

I don't think Linus is a masochist

Specifically, a Microsoft Intellimouse.

LynxAdvert ps/2 or serial only.

Honeywell Ball less two wheel design. best ever

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

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

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

shit I'm still on a dollar store calculator

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

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

loved it

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

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

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

I had that too!

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. :-)

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.

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

Its still running

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

Hasn’t been a year yet

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

Tech Phase ass butter is delicious

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

I prefer some PEE & NUT BUTTER

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.

KILLING SPREE!!

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nQECJrc3HVg.html

GODLIKE

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

Don't forget The 8-bit Guy

Taldren hes not into things like this

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

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

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

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

+syndencity resulted in*

memory != storage

False Hope No... I encoded my songs each

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

Ivan ?

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.

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

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

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

@@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.

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

I think he meant 16mb 😅

Yea that brings a lot of memories

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

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.

Yeah and its upside down

Ribbon cables: the original SLI bridge.

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

Zazno Productions Does that include leap years?

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

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.

I think this video is a little late-

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

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

Best RTS ever !!

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.

Flight Simulator 98 for me

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.

I think you mean this is "literally real".

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.

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.

thats complicated xd

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.

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.

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

Respect to you for that then :)

5 fps tho RIP

Minesweeper wouldn't even work

“Funny”

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

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

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.

Good old Covox :D

haha same, but for SCSI / audio Sampler loading

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.

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.

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.

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.

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