3dfx's Visit to AnandTech - Voodoo4/5 in Action

Although the board 3dfx demonstrated for us was a Voodoo5 5500 AGP (dual VSA-100, 64MB RAM), they allowed us to get a picture of a Voodoo5 5000 PCI so that you all could at least see what the boards will end up looking like.

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The Voodoo5 5000 PCI is a full length PCI card, and according to 3dfx, the Voodoo5 AGP cards should be about 3/4 length AGP cards, so they won’t be quite as long as the professional Oxygen GVX1 solutions from 3DLabs.

If you are planning on going with a PCI Voodoo5, then you may want to make sure that your motherboard is capable of accepting a full length PCI card.  We do list the number of PCI slots capable of accepting full length cards in all of our motherboard reviews, so in the unlikely event that you have a few full length PCI cards, you can always consult our motherboard reviews to see if a particular board will be all right. 

The Voodoo5 5000 PCI board featured a 4-pin power connector for the board, which was a decision made in order to remain on the safe side since the board was apparently borderline in terms of being able to get all of its power off of the PCI bus.  The main problem 3dfx wanted to avoid was the possibility of a motherboard manufacturer skimping on their motherboard, resulting in not enough power being supplied to the power hungry Voodoo5.