16MB 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee GPU from 1998: Quantum3D Raven

At one point I misspoke and said it had a 100 hertz clock. Obviously meant 100 megahertz, heh. Also! Since recording this video, installer music has made a return with Flight Simulator 2020. I now regret requesting more installer music.

I was the lone tester for this card in the Quantum3D demo room (I was an intern with no office) I was testing our frame rates against other offerings on the market. I remember the day my boss came in and said we got rush for the pack out. It was a big deal because we needed something to make up for the lack luster performance. I think I remember it was offered to q3d because the quality wasn’t retail ready. I was an artist turned engineer and I did the art for the spinning logo in the display properties dialog. Great memories, Thanks for posting this and jarring these memories loose!

That satisfying feeling when windows 98 finds the drivers, mmmmm.

This was the first GPU I ever had. Bought it for my Dell Dimension that had a 350Mhz Pentium II. Then I got Half-Life. Aah magical times.

We do still have installation music. I listened to it for an hour installing FS2020!

car phases through the ground, flips over twice and explodes "The physics are a little wonky". Minor understatement.

10:40 Glad to know that there are other people in the world who makes their cursor dance to the music. XD

gotta love the synchronisation you have achieved with the CRT refresh rate

2:30 Please do a video on that card. When you have the time to do it.

the rush series doesn't get NEARLY enough love on youtube. still one of my fave racing series of all time - i really wish whoever the hell has the rights to this series these days would bring it back.

San Francisco Rush 1 and 2, nice memories playing N64. Love this late 90's hardware videos, keep up the good work. Greetings from Spain. :)

LGR: "installation music. Why don't we do it anymore?" CODEX: "hold my beer"

The way that these older GPUs look really goes to show just how much more powerful our modern day cards are. Nowadays you'll grab an mid-range card and you'll still have a huge heatsink and fan most of the time. Most 90s GPUs only has a small heatsink over the main chip itself, no thermal pads or anything, maybe a small fan or two for particularly powerful cards, like the Voodoo5 5500.

I thought I recognized that install music! Mate of mine had a Yamaha DJX keyboard. That's one of the demonstration tracks!

LGR: "installation music. Why don't we do it anymore?" so we can watch LGR videos while waiting for install to finish

Been waiting for another one of these video card videos! Love your content LGR, keep up the good work!

Only 16mb running this smooth... damn thats some eye candy right there

Oh, man, RUSH! I remember the arcade even had a clutch. It absolutely blew my mind.

Oh man, my first 3D video card. lol. love it. I remember that heat sink.

Love all your 3DFX Voodoo videos!!! I had voodoo 1,2 and 3 (AGP and PCI) back in the days.